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  1. My motherboard cost more than my CPU, d'oh. It wasn't meant to, the plan had been Core i5-6600K and Gigabyte Z170 MX Gaming 5, but the 6600K was out of stock and I was told in November that it wouldn't be back in stock until January So I switched CPU to the cheap i3-6100 as a stop-gap, which has run KSP and Cities: Skylines great, but never reconsidered my motherboard choice. It's also more than my graphics card, because I'm still using the 750 Ti I had in my previous PC. Though I suppose cheap graphics cards aren't so unusual for KSPers. And I don't like this board, the UEFI is a pain in the poophole and I had issues with it losing the settings (though that may have been PEBKAC). I don't think it ever got a look-in on the Skylake locked overclocking heydey either. Of course I couldn't have predicted any of that when I bought it.
  2. 118 is ununoctium. unbiseptium would be ... 127 I think?
  3. ... Tam. The building is a viaduct ...
  4. Old thread, but it shows how KSP mods have been pretty constant. One that's pretty much gone is VOID - it was great, but KER does its job better now. Personally, though, well I just flew an ion ship to Minmus bone stock for the Reddit challenge. So there's no mod I can't do without. But Precise Node comes very close - I would not enjoy planning an interplanetary mission without it. FAR I consider virtually essential for planes, but I can tolerate stock aero for rocket launches.
  5. Oh bloomin heck. And Essex isn't even a city Unless there's another one. Xinghua.
  6. In a non-relativistic model, element 137 would have outer electrons orbiting faster than light. It is I believe not a coincidence that 137 is approximately 1/alpha , the fine structure constant. Of course relativity does applied, and already with the transactinide elements it is thought to have an effect on the chemistry. For example element 118 is in the noble gases group but some predictions are that it is actually quite reactive. A piece of a neutron star would explode due to nuclear forces repelling the neutrons apart, with the sudden removal of gravity that was confiding them. But a lone neutron has a half life of 15 minutes. Compared to most of the transactinide elements humans have synthesised, that's AGES.
  7. (You and I know it better as Bangkok. The long name is ceremonial, but supposedly taught to local schoolchildren.) Kos
  8. Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit
  9. Then there's stuff like muonium and positronium, both of which I believe have been observed forming molecules with both normal elements and themselves. (Short-lived molecules, but detectable nonetheless.) What do we consider them as? Elements in their own right? Exotic isotopes of hydrogen? Something else entirely?
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