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It could also be read as "One game with a great community, one failed tech demo".

A long time ago I took a lot of Astrophysics. The part covering the Formation of the Solar System has developed a lot, but the basics are still much the same. A good starting place is this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_and_evolution_of_the_Solar_System The study of collapse of gas and dust clouds is complex, with some simple details. It also links into the evolution of galaxies and their initial state. Many of the clouds pass the requirement to collapse. I learned this as the Jean's Mass, though it's more commonly referred to as the Jean's Instability now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans_instability One trend as a cloud collapses, especially if the cloud has high Astrophysical Metallicity (Elements of greater Atomic Number than Helium), is that the Jean's Mass gets smaller. Thus the cloud can break up into many smaller clouds, leading to several stars forming from the same initial cloud. This also leads to higher average initial masses for Population II and III stars. There's also the impact that supernovae can have to prompt cloud collapses. The cloud spins because for the many possible ways the cloud can collapse, the vast majority of dynamic distributions has the cloud on average spinning. This is also true for galaxy formation, which can lead to the clouds within it to spin as well. After that, when studying a single stellar system, things get complex. This has been studied by more and more complex simulations, most of them trying to determine how our Solar System evolved. I suggest digging through the articles in Wikipedia.

@GeoffonTour, I suggest you read a couple of books by Lee Smolin: Time Rebourn and Einstein's Unfinished Revolution. There's a lot more to this that you may initially appreciate.

I don't think so, Lisias. I remember the forum changeover due to the links all changing. I have quite a few old BTSM links and the mains ones are all after the 2015 change. Here's a Wayback Machine link from its snapshot (only of the first few pages) from 2016 Nov 21. https://web.archive.org/web/20161121234048/http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com:80/index.php?/topic/56101-104better-than-starting-manned-career-mode-redefined-v1002-sep-21st/ It's an IPC link. Some time after that (January?) was when all those topics were just lost.

Depends on which "day" and which "year". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year If you mean mean solar day and Tropical year: > The mean tropical year is approximately 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds, using the modern definition[13] (= 365.24219 d × 86400 s). The length of the tropical year varies a bit over thousands of years because the rate of axial precession is not constant.

@Lisias, @Vanamonde, there was a major forum issue, i think in either late 2015 or in 2016 or 2017. Where very active topics were just lost. I think the top 10 actively discussed mods in KSP Mod Releases all lost their topics. Those that were still under support had to create new topics. I believe why this couldn't be fixed was because of the nature of the lose of topics and the way backups were made, there was no way to selective restore topics. And as the forums had moved on, none of the lost topics were fixed. I remember this because I used to play with Better Than Starting Manned. The author got burned out trying to follow the changes from v1.0 to 1.0.4 and gave up. But there was still sort of a community playing it. But its topic got blown away in that event. And that was that.

Meh. How about you, @Superfluous J?

Thanks for your support, @Lisias. I know enough about physics and computers that it's more often poor coding that overwhelms the hardware. (Some esoteric details of the hardware, especially video, can also be problematic.) I actually expect things to perform better than KSP did, not worse. Because that is reasonably possible. Oh, alright. (You're no fun anymore!) Seeing as KSP 2 was a disaster, I can't see any new owner just reconstituting the exact same team that had that disaster. It's far more likely that they'll do one of the following: Split off and sell KSP complete to someone else. Use the KSP Kerbals to make a new simple game to attempt to make a relatively quick and certain ROI. Hiring someone(s) to do an independent appraisal of KSP, including KSP 2, to gauge what else they can do with it.

The passing of David Lynch hit me hard.

I have a gaming laptop from ~2012 with the NVIDIA 765M chipset. No new drivers for years and 2GB VRAM. My hardware ain't going to be changing for a long while. If a game can't run on that, I just won't buy and play it.

I respect ObsidianAnt. I suggest reading many of the comments on that video, as they have a better view of things. This is former staff of a game publisher. Also, according to many knowledgeable people, KSP 2 was so badly founded, it isn't worth working on. It would be cheaper and easier to start from scratch. Better yet, sell the Kerbal IP back to HarvesteR. KSA is going to be the true successor to KSP.

I'm not quite sure what the issue is. As I'm not sure if it's connected to your previous post. But if you feel you have a true grievance, try to determine what's the best path for your to take to attempt to redress it, even if only in part. That can be hard on you, so it's not a decision to take lightly. Take care, dude.

This almost the complete antithesis of true leadership. Which is learned and practiced and through failure and success and honest appraisal, both by mentors and one self, improves. Though I often wonder what is wanted in corporate apparatchiks isn't true leadership. This is spot on.

Welp, a little effort keeping track of the KSA Discord is showing me more details of a game development than I've ever seen before. I have a great feeling of confidence. I think I will see if things continue being good or become not so good.

Welp, the shear amount of times when I try to load a page from a post and get a 502 error indicates there's a lack of resources for the website. Was in the middle of catching up and this was the first page I could finally get to load. Now if I can just post this reply....

To squeeze The Lord of the Rings into even a generous ~14 hours of the 3 extended cut films (haven't seen them yet meself), there had to be a lot of editting down of the material. I think Peter Jackson made good choices, but also some could have been better. To really dig into this, there's a series of videos still being made by YouTube channel Fact or Fantasy, "Movies vs. Manuscripts", to cover the differences between LotR on the page versus on the screen. He's still working through it, but he's also spread out to cover other works.

Last week, got back into Shortest Trip to Earth, a rogue-like spaceship adventure game. Bit of a steep learning curve. Had played it before in 2019 and 2021, got as far as the 4th Sector (of 10). Got to the 3rd Sector on my first play-through before my ship got blown up. With improved knowledge, started another play-through and doing better.

Just got today a fun little Roguelike Deckbuilder Spaceship Adventure game CosmoPirates. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2466240/CosmoPirates/ I'd watched this stream this morning and I decided I needed to play it meself. Very fun!

Nothing is forever without the appropriate actions. Things need maintenance and support. If it's on a computer, that computer needs some sort of maintenance and support. If it's a library, same thing. Etc. Or it needs to be passed on, copied, as appropriate, to a replacement. Organizations need leadership and recruits. Without leadership it will drift, eventually go off-course. All organizations loose members, either to other concerns or passing away. Recruits are needed to maintain the community.

This is all much more complex than what I think you realise. Not easy to connect the assumption behind each of those formulae. As well, each symbol needs definition. And even to speak of the number of possible states of the entire Universe is lacking something, especially as.... Well, the Universe is now on a large scale flat. Which leads to complexities like given a particular spot, there are places that will never be observable because Expansion means they're beyond the Light Speed Horizon, AKA the Cosmological Horizon. They are parts of the same Universe but no information can ever be received from or sent to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_horizon This is a System that even Classically is well outside of anything considered when Thermodynamics was formulated in the 19th Century. I have no idea how to adjust Thermodynamics to the current Structure of the Universe. Or even if that gives anything useful.

These are complex concepts. It's best to start with the background and definitions, where Wikipedia is good. Chaos is usually used to refer to systems who's development is strongly affected by even small changes in the initial state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos Entropy is a thermodynamic property that is difficult to understand and isn't directly observable, but usually only measurable in its changes. It measures disorder of a system and limits how much energy can be put to useful work. It's also a classical concept and like temperature, it isn't quite there when at the level of subatomic particles who's behaviour is bound by Quantum Theory (which isn't even in a complete version, only incorporates Special Relativity and also Background Dependent). Entropy is very much a product of observing classical systems at scales about the same size as ourselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy The expansion of the Universe is directly observed, it has happened and is happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe What happens in detail to the Universe in the past and up to now can be observed to a degree. How to understand it is rather more complex. Whether it is determinate--I assume you mean predictable--is something that can only be observed over a lot of time, a lot longer than any of our lifetimes.

My background is Canadian Forces Army, not Navy. But the shear craze of needing multiple adaptors for at-sea replenishment of liquids (I remember an old video looking at several then in use) had another NATO standard set up and the ships adapted to it so the need for adaptors is now minimal. I suspect other non-NATO navies may hold to it. Such should be done with at least spacesuits at this time.

A long time ago, I was at a Gun Camp in the Suffield Training Area in a very cold November. No one could leave the main camp or field bivouac without their sleeping bag as if the weather turned and their vehicle broke down, you could die even during the day without it. As for Starliner, well, this better be the Boeing Nadir because to go lower will likely involve more loss of life. That means despite all the testing done on-orbit and on the ground, NASA is not sufficiently confident of Starliner just for the few maneuvers to return and re-enter and land. This means it likely exceeds the previous experiences of similar problems on Dragon. What this has also revealed is the shear stupidity of no interoperability of spacesuits between craft. This needs to be fixed pronto. It should also include the Russians and the Chinese as better to plan for it and not need it than to need it and not plan for it. For the Starliner crew, hopefully they were fitted for SpaceX suits. Or such suits that will fit them for re-entry are sent up. I still remember Soyuz 11 and it would be madness to risk that again. (While thinking of worse case scenarios, I thought of an evil one: Starliner returns okay, but Dragon 9 doesn't. Damn unlikely, but damn....)

I can't quite follow the argument going on between @darthgently and @Exoscientist. Kind of tired now. But certain points.... Don't know its effects with respect to heart disease, but don't knock lemon juice. Getting about 3 US fluid ounces a day of lemon juice is the second thing to do (after drinking enough water to produce 2L of urine a day) to stave off and reverse the development of kidney stones (to get and pass enough Citrate anion in the urine). I avoided needing surgery to take out a large stone by slowly breaking it down with daily consumption of lemon juice. I think Musk had proposals for putting 100 people on Starship, but I don't know if that was one-way or round trip. Doesn't matter, because better evaluations of the craft determined 100 was a crazy crew count and more like 12 was likely. Whether that would work, don't know.

Mercury is a deadly element, sometime affecting slowly or more quickly. Poisoning of the environment from Mercury in volcanic eruptions is a major factor in their impact, especially in the larger forms like Flood Basalts. (At least Flood Basalts are all in the Geologic Past and have a lot of warning signs.) One thing any lab that deals in Metallic Mercury always has is Flowers of Sulphur, ie. powdered Sulphur. After cleaning up a Mercury spill, Sulphur is liberally spread around where the Mercury was. Any Mercury that's in cracks and crevices will react with the Suphur to form a compound. Else the Mercury will vapourize and be breathed in. Deadliness of Mercury increasing I think goes roughly Metallic Mercury (but forms vapour) -> Inorganic Mercury Compounds -> Organic Mercury Compounds. Absorption into the body is needed, but with enough of them around will happen. There are other dangerous materials, but Mercury is a common one that isn't given enough attention by a lot of people.