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  1. That happening after Squad is bought by a producer of special interest adult entertainment.
  2. Depends on the device in question. I've already installed apps from F-Droid on my Moto G, and I think I can root it if I want and even change the OS to something like CyanogenMod.iDevices, though, are universally locked-down. It is indeed one of the reasons I'm unlikely to ever buy one. Incidentally, I'm been in a similar situation to the OP. My boss came to me asking if I could install WhatsApp on his son's iPod Touch. Several hours of mucking about later, yes it was possible, but in future I think the answer will be "No, it's not compatible."
  3. If there's any part of the space centre you don't like, you know what to do
  4. KSP merged with Minecraft, the game that calls a single enemy a" mob".
  5. Well, that's not the standard definition of "transfinite numbers". Anything that boils to 10x, where x is possibly stupidly large, has a trivially known number of digits - x. /grumblegrumblegrumble Incidentally, SunJumper's was an alternative way of writing the hyperoperation sequence, or superscripted Knuth's up-arrows. Starwhip's code I grant isn't much like mathematical notation. It may or may not terminate, but in any case can never make x larger than the maximum value of a double, which is something around 10308. If arbitrary-precision arithmetic was used it would not terminate and instead be equivalent to writing infinity, and thus banned. /wafflewafflewaffle 10PP, where P is that Poincare recurrence time. (Of the observable Universe, I assume.)
  6. EDIT: On second thoughts, this doesn't explain things after all. Inclination. Most real rockets aren't launched from the equator. A rocket launched from a non-equatorial launchpad on an efficient ascent to Low Earth Orbit can reach orbits with minimum inclination equal to the latitude of the launch site. To then make the plane change to a zero-inclination geostationary orbit using the lowest delta-V, you want to make that plane change at GTO apoapsis and combine it with the GTO-GEO circularisation burn. This in turn means that you want to make your LEO-GTO transfer burn at the AN/DN of your low orbit, and you want to reach GTO apoapsis at the right time to burn into your desired site in GEO. And that's what creates the launch window.
  7. Get into Low Kerbin Orbit. Target the planet you want to get to. Set a manouvre node with a prograde burn for the amount of delta-V you are able and willing to spend. Drag that manouvre node *around* your parking orbit until you see a close approach to your target planet. You may need to fiddle with the camera orientation so you can see Kerbin in the foreground and your close approach markers in the background. Refine that close approach into your proper encounter. If you never see a close approach, it means you're trying to leave at a really bad time, such that it would take more delta-V than you have.
  8. OK wild idea time: KSP 2: Jeb and the Beanstalk Still a space game in the Kerbin system, but with a heavy focus on non-rocket spacelaunch and megastructures. Launch loops, skyhooks, space elevators, and the like. A game that combines the established KSP gameplay with construction elements inspired by bridge-building games. And perhaps some transport strategy elements could be added too, allowing the player to set up regular(ish) cargo and passenger flights that will be flown automatically, a la games like Railroad Tycoon. Manual flying, and for that matter traditional rockets, would still be available to the player and would have the main roles of exploration and flight testing.
  9. We consider girders ideal for lithobraking.
  10. To be honest a definition of a number in a programming language won't be that different to the mathematical or English-language definition of the same number. Oh, and 10^^10^^10.0001
  11. Oooh, that's harsh.Rowling should have killed off Aragorn in the Red Wedding.
  12. Lol. Will you be doing KSP sauce (HP sauce) as well as the ketchup?
  13. Kerbals recoloured red and blue as part of a sponsorship deal in the "Kerbal Space Pepsi" edition.
  14. 1310. Equivalent to 1010..10 with 13 levels. Demonstration of biggerness: Googolplex = 1010100 < 10101010 Googolplexgoogolplex = 101010100 < 1010101010 (Hurray for Wolfram Alpha ) More generally ngoogolplex < n+310 Really illustrates how much MOAR LEVELS in power towers outdoes bigger numbers in those levels.
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    Riddles

    Oh. Of course. All around us this thing is, All our days in our vision, And also in audio to hark, But it is not in this, so what is it?
  16. 101010103 Demonstration it's bigger: 101010103 = 1010101000 100100100100 = 10010010200 = 101010200.3... (the last expression as per Wolfram Alpha)
  17. Which to be honest is the kind of thing I can see the US military investing in. Never mind what it's good for.
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    Riddles

    A sword? Though I don't know where there's one in KSP...
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    Riddles

    And yes, mine was of course a thermometer
  20. cantab

    Riddles

    *gets bored of waiting* Hopefully this one is easy Liquid going up and down, Or a spring twisting around, On a wall or where food goes, To a degree the heat it shows.
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