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Movement in GPU prices might make budget for the i5. You could also consider buying second-hand parts but of course there are risks involved. That said the i3-6300 is no slouch.

Granted, but it backfires. I wish I could sleep in peace.

GRANTED. PREPARE TO BE UPGRADED. I wish the Cybermen would beat the Daleks.

Source? If it's a Twitch ban, I'd hope they get reversed because that's clearly untrue. On the other hand GPS spoofing may well get you banned from Pokemon Go.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdgpu-rx480-linux More recent than I last checked, and it looks like things have improved, especially for the RX 480. But it's still underperforming, lagging behind the GTX 970 on Linux when the RX 480 is typically the stronger card on Windows.

The most recent tests I've seen of AMD cards on Linux show utterly abysmal underwhelming, but better than it used to be, gaming performance. I strongly advise would still rather favour an nVidia card if you have any interest in Linux gaming.

Har har very clever

yes Nerfclasher?

Nah Maybe @vexx32 now?

Try it and see?

Brown dwarfs usually are about the size of Jupiter but several times its mass. Over a range from about 1 to 80 Jupiter masses, for an object made of hydrogen and helium, extra mass just squashes it together more.

Re Science Archives: Start KSP, load save, go directly to archives and they work. If you've been in the VAB or flight or anywhere else they don't work afterwards

To me the detail and variety on the small scale wants improving. That's not an easy thing to do considering the size of KSP planets, but other games now feature exploration of similar sized environments that are a lot richer, for example Elite: Dangerous. Then again without the gameplay to take advantage of such detail, is there much point? And I've thought about this and realised that KSP is not about planetary exploration. It's about spaceflight, about launches and orbits and landing. Surface exploration is an afterthought. Space program management feels like an afterthought. Even aeroplanes were an afterthought and only became central because small Kerbin makes orbital spaceplanes fairly easy. With that in mind, maybe richer and more detailed planets should be a thing for a KSP sequel with a greater emphasis on planetary exploration. Although that starts to feel like a crowded genre. I do still hold the view that I want to see KSP finished and Squad working on something new. Maybe a sequel, maybe something totally different.

Nice. I'd been experimenting with the Juno myself but so far not reaped any rewards. I suspect foamyesque is close to the minimum mass attainable.

You couldn't have been expected to spot it anyway. To my knowledge it's a KSP and Kopernicus 1.1.3 issue. I had no problems running NH 2.0 with KSP 1.1.2 and appropriate Kopernicus.

Yeah, the surface would be plenty shielded by the atmosphere I believe. How Laythe keeps hold of its atmosphere is another matter, but then that's an issue across the Kerbol system because of the low planetary escape speeds. Otherwise, Nova's Laythe sounds awesome.

Yeah, Laythe is very distinctive as it is. But idea: Add new NotIo as Jool's innermost moon. Rearrange NotIo, Laythe, and Vall into the Laplace resonance, and move Tylo further out not in the resonance. That might make the system theoretically stable; currently it's known to not be. It would also make Tylo assists to depart the system easier to work out; currently the orbital resonance makes a nuisance of itself when you want to go home.

It shows how relatively big and close Jool's moons are. Eclipse shadows on Jupiter look tiny in comparison. If the Jovian system was a scaled-up version of the Joolian system, then Io, Europa, and Ganymede would be the size of Venus, Mars, and Earth respectively.

Landing a Kerbal on Duna and returning them safely. I've only ever attempted it in Ironman saves - that is, no reverts or quickloads - and it went wrong each time. More recently, establishing a base on Serran, a world in the New Horizons mod. I've been working steadily towards it but have had repeated delays and setbacks. Some of my own doing, others because of updates or bugs in mods.

This, at least, is a question that many people have attempted to answer. Although often the impact over geological timescales is glossed over. If a previous civilization had developed spaceflight beyond LEO, those spacecraft would still be in orbit somewhere, or landed on the surface of a planet. But would we find them? They'd be small things in the vastness of space, quite possibly dimmer than our telescope surveys detect. If we did spot one, how would we tell it from an asteroid or even a piece of our own space junk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guh7i7tHeZk One of the points ASAPScience raises is that an intelligent civilization is likely to affect the distribution of other species. That doesn't really require a great deal of technological advancement, it can be done in the age of sail. Therefore a 'signature' of a past global terrestrial civilization in the fossil record would be the rapid spread of multiple terrestrial species around the world that previously had been restricted to a certain area. The advantage I feel of looking for such a thing is we don't need to speculate about how long artificial substances might last; instead we're looking at the distribution of natural fossils. However the fossil record might lack the temporal resolution to detect this.

Kerbals can be pretty durable, but don't count on it, it's often down to luck.

Build Fly Dream was better.

0/10 no picture (rate the spacecraft)

Guess granted, but it's to give you a forum warning. I wish Lego was cheaper.

On the topic of water rockets, and any other pressure vessel, the way to safety test it is to fill it almost completely with water then pump it beyond the pressure it will experience in normal use. Compressed air stores lots of energy but compressed water stores very little energy at the same pressure, so if it splits in a test with all water there'll be nothing bad, but if the bottle splits in a flight when it's mostly air it'll go Boom.