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This contraption is my largest to date. The Dirty Rascal 3 by cantab314, on Flickr It was built for my ISRU Space Program, and is designed to fly out to a Kethane deposit, mine the fuel to fill up those three orange tanks, and carry it back to KSC. VTOLs when empty but is only STOVL operation when full. I flew it to a deposit north of the deserts, but never got round to making the return trip. Whole thing fits in the tier 2 SPH limits as well. As for range, well I've made a few with electric props so they can fly as far as I like. My furthest actual flight on Kerbin was in my science drone from that same save. Make Science Not War 1 by cantab314, on Flickr Over the course of several contracts I flew it north from KSC, then east over the edge of the ice cap (that was tough in a solar plane), then south and back west over the eastern continent, ending up somewhere southeast of Kerbal Korea I think.

I'll add a Mainsail, pointing *upwards* with its bell attached below that decoupler. Because hey, if a giant cannon worked for Jules Verne it will work for us

The tooltips are neat and useful. But they don't make up for the raft of negatives.

I've gone over to the dark side - and started work on a shuttle. Completed a fuselage I'm fairly happy with but have yet to sort out a wing planform. I'm going for an ambitious plan too. A vehicle that can liftoff from Kerbin with an orange tank as payload, travel to Laythe, land that payload on Laythe, then fly spaceplane-style into Laythe orbit (empty of payload), refuel, and return to Kerbin.

I'm assuming impact So I'll add three XL girders in a line on the nose. You'll need to attach them radially and gizmo into place, because the parachute is occupying the top node on the pod.

KSP wouldn't even run on it. It's a D-Wave quantum computer*, KSP requires a classical computer with an x86 processor to run. * There's some debate as to whether the D-Wave machines are actually exploiting quantum effects or not.

Assuming the staging is at the launch pilot's discretion, I advocate dumping the SRBs before taking off.

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Nice. So far I'm 1/3 on entering the major bodies, with a successful Sonnah probe, but my Jool and Titanus efforts burned up. On another note, do you know if Sarin and Sarnus keep their SOIs clear when NH, K+R, and OPM are all installed together? The orbits look worryingly close.

Engines, so it can go places.

Do we have anything that behaves analogously to sight? By that I mean a sense that gives us an idea of some quantity that varies in different directions? If yes, it's likely we could convert the astronomical data into that form for display. For example let's say we have bat-style sonar. Then a "sonar display" could work by listening for the pulse and artificially reproducing the echoesfrom the scene to be displayed. That scene could easily be generated from a camera, for example bright = close sound-reflecting object, dark = distant, not very sound reflecting stuff. Resolution may be an issue, but that could be compensated for by blowing up the image more. If, on the other hand, we have no senses like that whatsoever, then it becomes more difficult.

Twin Boar under the ASAS units, that will make a nice core for us.

I'll put a pair of 2.5m ASAS units under that, to make sure we have enough control

The scenario in the original video, of a loose load falling, still applies. Mechanical failures can also occur, as can errors in the driving software. As for pedestrians, attitudes vary by location. In Britain "jaywalking" isn't a thing, and as a pedestrian I may and do cross the majority of roads where I see fit. As a driver I have to be aware that people do this, which means I should pay attention to what people on the pavement are doing. Now of course if somebody suddenly jumps in front of my car with no warning it's their fault and there's not much that can be done, but it highlights the need for a self-driving car to observe its environment and not over-rely on communicating with other vehicles.

For what it's worth, IPS feels pretty similar to vBulletin and most other forum software really. It's not Discourse, Reddit, the StackExchange network, or *chan, all of which work very differently, and for that we can be thankful.

-100. I win! Oh wait...not that sort of imaginary number Down to -26 then.

So that we *can* use the nuke, I'm going to put 8 sepratrons radially on that adaptor, and gizmo them so their engines fire directly at the ISRU. Hopefully that will let us explosively decouple it.

I'm sure I have a junky Rubik's cube somewhere, remaining in a scrambled state.

Matter and antimatter?

I see MJ as a Swiss Army Knife mod. It does a lot of things passably well, so if you want the ease of just having to install and update one mod it's a good option, but personally given the choice I will use a toolkit not a Swiss army knife. I count its autopiloting under that too, I tried some MechJeb launches and took a swift dislike to them, it doesn't follow the ascent profile I'm accustomed to.

-23. It's going down.

Something to do with Morse code?

2x symmetry cubic octags on the monoprop tank, oriented with the attach node facing out. To each mount a small reaction wheel and a 0.625m battery. It would be terribly embarassing to forget those.

My view is that ethics is essentially a heuristic thing, evolved and shaped for the usual situations of society. Ethical dilemmas frequently postulate unrealistic situations, combined with unrealistic certain knowledge about it. And it may be similar with self-driving cars. Their programming isn't going to be a whole bunch of principles and if-then-else statements worked out by a programmer, it's going to be more of a heuristic approach and the fine details won't actually be *known* to the designed. Neither will they have perfect information, not least because they can never know how another vehicle is going to act. It's even quite plausible that the self-driving vehicle has distinct code paths for emergency reactions, in which maybe it isn't even worth wasting the time to fetch the description of the neighbouring vehicles from memory, it's best to hit the brakes and steer to avoid the nearest object.

I know a major website when I see it. The overwhelming majority use black text, white background. That includes the text-heavy site par excellence, Wikipedia. Maybe some have a little more grey or colour, but usually not by much. So as I see it there are two possibilities: Either the vast majority of major websites are wrong, and yet they somehow keep being major websites with a style that is allegedly hurting most people's eyes, and in all the millions of pounds that's being spent all the time on web and UI design and researching usability this hasn't been realised by the experts, but some vocal forumgoers know the real truth Or black text on a white backdrop is what most readers prefer and are comfortable with, and the people who have difficulty with it are in a distinct minority. A minority that is probably worth catering for with optional styles where practical, and on the forum it should be practical, but defaults are chosen for most people. I know which I consider more plausible. And personally I hate dark-background, light-text themes. At best I have to increase the font size just to be able to read it. At worst, those are the sites that I have to find a way to change the colours on them.