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When you need to build a notch in the side of your rocket so it fits round the VAB when you launch it.

Granted. But they're all Sepratrons. I wish sprouts would go extinct.

EA has another meaning...

It suddenly hit me while watching Quetzi's stream why airplane parts are high up in the tech tree. It's because the Kerbals think holding onto a ladder constitutes flying.

I concur on the current form factor. It's a potentially very capable drive, it seems only fair that it be a challenge to use. Using Procedural Fairings lofting my ship into orbit was a doddle, though I admit fixed fairings might pose more of a challenge.

500? I departed from a 300 km Kerbin orbit.

Granted. The oscilloscope burns its traces into your retina. I wish for more lamps. Not magic ones, just regular ones to light the shadows.

To start with I wouldn't buy from Amazon. Better off with an actual telescope retailer who know what they're selling and can give proper support if you need it. Anyway, start with a realistic idea of what to expect. The Moon will look spectacular, it does in just about any scope, but the other planets will look small. "Pea-sized" is the common analogy. That said, a good scope and good eyepiece in good conditions can give a view that's crisp and detailed, and can't be imitated by print or screen. As for deep sky, bear in mind that most things you can see in a scope you can only just see. There'll be a few objects that are easy and that show some detail, but many more that take effort and technique to even see at all. A larger scope will move some things from the second group into the first. And expect a black-and-white view - very few nebulae show colour to the eye. You'd do well to look for sketches, rather than photographs. Cameras can do a lot more with the same size scope, but a sketch shows what the eye can see. Then you need to consider: Your budget, of course. Your portability requirements. Some scopes are bulky or/and heavy. An 8 inch Dobsonian for example will fit in most cars but isn't something you can carry in a backpack. Do you want a computerised "GoTo" scope? They seem great - input what you want to look at in a handset and the scope will point to it and then continue to follow it. But there are drawbacks. The systems need to be aligned first and the process can be confusing. The mounts often can't be used manually so when the batteries run out it's observing session over. The handset might be able to point to ten thousand things but that's no guarantee you can see them. And ultimately they mean spending money on electronics that could be spent on optics or mechanics.

Again, from the Why Not Both department: Jump the Dres canyon and pass close over a spaceplane shooting through it. Timing will be everything.

By tinkering. Try changing things, and when the problem goes away, well you found it! There's really not much else you can do.

IMHO it's better to have compatibility. That way even if the balance is iffy, at least people can combine the mods if they want. Anyway, my first ship with this: Unfortunately the warp drive does not play nice with DRE, and Jeb got squished by g-forces, leaving me with an uncontrollable ship to tear across the system until the bubble collapsed.

Tried out the warp drive mod. Got my 130 ton ship into orbit, filled up the exotic matter, and took her for a spin It did not end well. I ramped up the throttle steadily to the max, but the g-forces caused by the drive combined with DRE to kill Jeb. Then thanks to AntennaRange I had no control over the ship. Then I realised that all along I had been flying not towards Dres as planned but exactly away from it. Then the conventional engines and the battery banks exploded for some reason. In the end the warp bubble inevitably collapsed.

Granted. Someone conventionally bombed the forum games server from orbit I wish I had a machine that generates an anti-explosion field.

If the gas was at sufficient pressure it would support the crust. Of course by that point it would be less a gas and more a supercritical fluid. If it was rich in hydrogen the density would be relatively low.The problem is how does the crust stay on the top when it's denser than the underlying gasmantle? It's never going to be intact, cracks will happen, and they'll allow the gas to come upwards to cover the crust. On Earth the oceanic crust is denser than the underlying mantle, but the crust is made from that very mantle, allowing it to be replenished. I'm not sure this could happen with a reasonable-composition gasmantle.

Granted. The game is reduced to Yet Another Multiplayer FPS, depicting a three-way battle between humans, Kerbals, and generic buglike aliens. While the rockets and orbital mechanics are retained, hardly anyone ever uses them - they take ages to fly and are way too vulnerable to the missile launcher, and the bugs' antigravity ships outclass the rockets anyway when below their 100 km ceiling. Simply joining a game playing Kerbal will invariably get you insulted as a know-nothing n00b, and if you actually do pull off a launch to orbit you're a dirty camping lamer who should come down and fight properly. Edit: Oh gosh darn it I wish I had an indefinitely enlargeable monitor with full control over its size.

Granted. But the resistance keeps killing its soldiers, and ultimately assassinates Zokesia's leader. I wish I had a wider desk. Actually I have one to my left, I wish it was clear though not covered in junk.

Granted. Portal 3's an okay-ish game, but not a patch on the previous titles. I wish it wasn't so late.

Granted. But it's only compatible with Windows Vista. I wish my house didn't get so darn dusty.

Granted. It's in Pakistan and the CIA mistake it for an Al Qaeda safehouse and blow it up. EDIT: Ninja'd, but eh, same corruption I wish monitor settings were less complicated.

I have three legs, you jelly?

Granted. But even though your mods are technically excellent, visually stunning, and exactly what people are asking for, for some reason they just never become popular.

Granted. You bought it off this huge guy who called it "Fluffy" and it has a surfeit of heads. In an unfortunate coincidence you lose all musical ability. I wish my backup would finish already.

We might not like it, but it's done all the time. It's not affordable, nor even desirable, to eliminate risk and preserve life as much as possible. An estimate of the statistical value of a human life is necessary to decide whether a particular safety improvement is worth the cost, whether a risky activity like spaceflight is worth doing at all, and even which treatments can and can't be provided by the state health service. For developed countries the average value is on the order of $10 million. For developing countries it's considerably less - again, something we might not like and something we might want to and certainly can work to change, but it's the current reality.And then there's war, where lives are very much one of the currencies.

I walked 100 metres in 30 seconds. In QWOP. You jelly?

Granted, but it doesn't fit any railway gauge in existence, and the loco can't be regauged. I wish for High Speed 2 to be completed on time, under budget, and perform above expectations.