RockoDyne

You just grab the connector on a wench during EVA.

Rope is the bane of video games. There is a reason why rope is usually left as some static, dangling thing to climb on. If you really feel like you have to roleplay, KAS will work well enough. Most people don't care though as EVA fuel isn't that hard to keep track of, and as long as you aren't having too much fun being an idiot, you won't be likely to run out.

And then you end up with idiots who don't follow normal precautions, because they were vaccinated and think they are immune. The US might as well just declare martial law every time someone in china keels over looking funny. Because there aren't about a thousand other variables to people's standards of living that have changed in that time. We've pretty well phased out the need to route smoke through houses in that time. Sucks to be them. We are still dealing with the lowest child mortality rate of anytime in human history. If we are talking about the elderly, most of the time it's just their time and something was bound to happen, otherwise it's typically a case where they ended up sick after a procedure and were too weak to fight it.

The last horrible outbreak in the west was what? Spanish flu a century ago? Unless I've been completely ignorant, I have yet to hear of a virus that desolated middle class america. Sorry, I don't buy the ........ that vaccinating is going to stop the next super virus from being created. I'm sure I'll feel real guilty about my contribution to that virus, although chances are that would probably make me immune to it.

And you would end up killing more people than would probably end up dying from the illness had no one been immunized. Brilliant. Why not just have people guard the border in full hazmat suits and chuck anyone who so much as coughs into an incinerator. There, problem solved at the source. Between sanitation and healthy diets, there is little reason why anyone older than four and younger than eighty should fear getting sick with anything actually dangerous.

The problem is we don't live in a world governed by the scientific method, but a world ruled by governmental and economic power. I like arguing fact before theory. It's why my stance on GMO's isn't that they are a wonder drug for all the worlds problems, but a scam to sell more round up. No, the shortages I'm talking about are actual shortages in the total supply made. And unless there is a congressional hearing, not one pharmaceutical will go to court in the US. Do you really want me to get into how a two thousand page bill, that completely overhauled the student loans program in this country, was actually about more than saying you need to find a health insurance provider or be fined?

And here's another topic that is about the wrong argument. Before I even worry about whether vaccines are good or bad, I worry about whether vaccine manufacturers are good or bad. So when I see mountain of corruption like how vaccine manufacturers can't be sued, how vaccines are pushed into the market with little testing, and how vaccines are paid for by the government (thanks Obama care), I tend to think they might not actually have my best interest at heart. And unless I've been misled, haven't the winters recently where there have actually been shortages of the flu vaccine been some of the mildest.

If they do upgrade, I would expect .26 to be a slow update. Chances are it will probably break more things than it fixes. Bare in mind, I don't expect 5.0 to have the smoothest launch. They have been digging around in the guts of the engine quite a bit, so I wouldn't be surprised if how things get repacked for launch don't end up exploding. They have been taking QA seriously enough though that it could also be pretty stable.

I think we can all agree that it would be a bit of a bummer day regardless of which planet you lived on... assuming kraken physics doesn't keep kerbin from deforming.

At 100,000x time warp, patched conics only has one set of calculations to perform on all vessels on rails. Now for n-body physics to be accurate, how many calculations need to be performed per vessel per frame at 100,000x warp? I'm going to guess and say it will be enough to qualify as a computationally expensive operation.

I was thinking of the previously mentioned meteor bombardment. We can probably find enough matter to get the gravity to 1g. Whether that will be enough on it's own to turn the core into a dynamo might be iffy.

Depends what we mean by terraforming. If by terraforming you mean give it a breathable atmosphere (even if it's bleeding off) at around 1 atm, I doubt any modern tech (even mass produced) would get us anywhere even in a millennium. Where resources come from would be the biggest catch. In theory, some forms of terraforming would require millions of years, as we wait for the planet to cool off after we beef it up with meteor bombardments. The problem with mars is it has a minuscule atmosphere, low gravity, little water, and it doesn't generate it's own magnetic field. Two of those four have fixes that currently only work on a cosmic timescale.

Well, if you owned any ps2 games, chances are several of them didn't have loading screens. All sony first party developers were mandated at the time to not have loading screens, or rather explicit loading screens. It meant most levels had seamless transitions, although there were also a lot of elevator rides like jak and daxter or in-game vignettes like the planet transitions in ratchet and clank. A load-less game basically requires nothing to load though. There isn't any way around that. Load mitigation and management has to be designed for, but the biggest issue with modern consoles is 8 gigs of pretty takes a long time to get from any drive.

was the first thing I thought of. I would have to think it's a thousand times more efficient. As far as naval passages go, the ocean is a big puddle and there aren't that many boats. Add in radar and radio with half a dozen protocols used to position and ID vessels, there's no real reason you can't reliably find a route.

Or settle in a valley/lowlands. Or build horizontally, not vertically. Unless you are worried about impactors leaving kilometer wide craters, it's not going to be any worse to have most facilities on one site.

The likelihood is that larger installations will be self-sustainable and more fail-safe. It would have redundant systems that provide a much safer margin for failure and more extensive facilities to repair, replace, and expand systems. The irony of mars colonization is that it's not about putting people on mars. It's about putting a system on mars that will then make the colony. Just putting people on mars doesn't accomplish much since they can't do anything. The amount of work someone can do outside a habitat is limited, so most of the work a person can do involves taking care of themselves.

The loss of knowledge I was talking about was the generational loss of knowledge, relating to how much non-relevant information gets passed on to the next generation. After two generations who have only lived in the dark, they will only know electricity as the thing their grandparents told stories about. Hell, them talking about it would probably sound like yoda with the force. A historical example would be western swords. There are zero account of any of the forging processes used for making swords. All that modern swordsmiths have to go on is a rough understanding of the techniques that were uses like fold welding and pattern welding.

Most countries don't burn petroleum for electricity generation. That's true, but just about ever step in the supply chain uses oil in some form. No mine is powered by machines running on pixie dust yet. Even if you switched those machines over to natural gas, those tires have to require at least a drum of oil each to make. The biggest issue is loss of knowledge. All it takes is a couple generations before most to all knowledge required for daily life is lost. If the internet is dead and most people now no longer live remotely close to a library because no one can grow enough in a derelict city, there goes most of modern industry. How far technology backpedals is mostly dependent on what transport remains and what resources are easily accessible.

Those don't necessarily help to push the blood up. Plenty of pilots go without and rely on clenching which actively forces the blood up. The worse they do though is force blood to pool in the stomach rather than the legs.

Well, it wouldn't be impossible to think that their heart or cardio-vascular system in general wouldn't be strong enough to counter gravity. They might not even be capable of standing for any period of time past a few minutes without passing out, never mind them standing up too fast. Most other issues can probably be solved with an ex-skeleton/suit, but if you can't even stand vertically without blood continuously draining from your head, there probably won't be anything that can be done to help.

I think I'm liking the idea of using karbonite in an electrical generator. It would be a pretty good reason to have actual reserves of it on a craft. This kind of needs nertea to balance it out reasonably, since most of it's applications will probably involve NF.

I have to admit, I am partial to orange and brown. I just think it would contrast wonderfully with explosion clouds.

What a bunch of nutjobs. Next thing we'll hear is about intelligent life on duna trying to contact people...

That's definitely half of the issue. The other half is people don't know how to build proper rovers. It's basically the same issue as planes. If a plane can only fly once, it's probably that the CoM is behind the CoL. If a rover constantly tips over, it's probably because it is an obelisk built on a dime size wheel base. It's complaining that their rover isn't an F1 car when it's built and weighs about as much as the massive earth movers uses for mining. I'm not positive that the issue is in friction, specifically in the PhysX sense. If it was, that wouldn't be a hard mod to make since all that would have to be done is tweek the wheel rigidbody or the planet's physics material.

But today is sun day, tomorrow is moon day