Green Baron

Wow. Yeah, everything mechanic can fail. Funny thing in this case: the engine itself seems to be intact. That case probably wasn't covered by certification procedures. Glad noone was hurt. Looking forward to the accident report. Edit: engine failures are more frequent than one might think, a few every year worldwide, but rarely someone gets hurt. When searching for "uncontained engine failures" i found a case of 1996 where two passengers were killed by parts from a compressor. The cause was material failure after insufficient inspection/maintenance.

Guys, if you try to find out whether the seating is somehow correlated with the engine position in order to protect the passengers from freelance engine parts then the answer is no. Different companies/versions have different seating. And passenger's are seated overlapping when projected from the side. Instead engines are constructed in a way that blades or parts from the fan or compressor are contained within the nacelle when the engine is destroyed.

Brian May announced that the IAU has named an asteroid after Freddy Mercury, who would have had his 70. birthday on the 4th of september. Don't stop him :-)

Welcome to the church community of the "Advent of KSP 1.2" :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcALjMJbAvU See blade off test of an airbus 380 turbofan. You're safe ;-)

I'm guessing, maybe a library is missing, there should be an error message but just to be sure: If you didn't try yet "ldd -v KSP.x86_64" in the ksp-directory. You get a list of dependencies of the program, these are the libraries it needs to run. Look for "not found" or a similar hint. If you cannot scroll up to the messages cause they disappeared out of sight then "ldd -v KSP.x86_64 > filename" to write the output to a file and then "less filename" to view the output.

Power lines in europe have dedicated masts, mostly metal. In USA the cables are frequently nailed to the trees or just wooden poles ... and europe doesn't have hurricanes. Not yet :-)

My thoughts: The problem with this is that initially people went with half baked ideas to the social media before coming to a conclusion in the scientific community. Now it's too late, the aliens are out of the box and the discussion is taking place in forums, magazines and preprint servers. Even if a natural cause was proven people wouldn't stop planting aliens in that system. There is a whole class of dimming stars, are they all dimmed by aliens ?

No error message ... Really no ksp.log ? Guessing (try to unplug a joystick, or find a missing library with ldd -v KSP.x86_64) won't solve it ... let's wait for the cracks ...

Well, in the moment Tabby's star is, which led to the speculation someone might be closing the doors of a dyson sphere. But why should aliens build the fantasies of an earthly science-fiction author ? There are indeed more stars around with a weird twitch in the eye. For EPIC a protoplanetary disc was identified as a probable cause for a 65% dimming. That seems banal, but it could be an explanation for KIC as well.

4GB is okay. I don't know anything about steam. Try starting from a terminal, you will get an error message then. Open a terminal, cd into the ksp directory, enter ./KSP.x86_64 You are likely to get an error message ...

In the other thread on memory consumption someone got little upset as well. So it might be me ... i hope not :-) Tabby's long term dimming (100 years, the cause that led to the thing that someone could be building a dyson-sphere) can be an artifact: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/sifter/equipment-upgrades-fueled-alien-star-hypothesis. Tabby's short(ish) term dimming (stuffing flying around the star) through the Kepler mission is ok. EPIC's short term dimming (stuff flying around the star) is assumed to be caused by a protopl. disc (see my link above). EPIC has such a disc. You say that paper fails a sanity check, i say you're judging too quick if you don't have better information at hand. If you have i'd all be glad to see it. Furthermore the authors of the EPIC paper suggest to apply the protopl. disc thoughts to KIC. KIC might have a disc as well but we may not see it as it could be perfectly edge-on, edit but it could explain the short term dimmings. :-) Edit: Tabby = KIC

He, journalists. "I heard that ...", "Someone (who knows) told me ...", "They should now ....", "It would be a mistake to ....", "What they must not do ...", "It is really time that ..." Cute, isn't it ? I hope they soon find the error and it is not a principal design-flaw.

Oh, by the way, i once tried to run an engine on H2O. Didn't work. After taking on diesel on a sailing boat i left the tank open, then was commanded to clean the deck from the saltwater with a water hose. The tank-opening was flush in the deck and some 30l of water ran into the tank despite of a sign "diesel only" before i realized. The owner was not amused :-)

Pls. let me add a few thoughts on why we don't see intelligent life, all were discussed before. I adopt the hypothesis that a biological evolution elsewhere might follow similar rules as that on earth. I don't want to speculate about behaviour or culture, concepts of colonization or valuating a way of life. Ok so here a few trivial thoughts, - We can't look that far. We would recognize a civilization outside of our solarsystem only in the very closest stars and in the best of conditions like transitioning in front of the star and if it was shouting radiowaves at us. - We might be "early" on a galactic scale. - The state of microbes might be easily achieved given the right circumstances, the following evolution of complex life to intelligent life is disrupted too often and rarely has the chance to develop. - The distances are too far. Speed of light cannot be achieved, so interstellar travel is fiction elsewhere as it is here. Energy "to go" (fusion reactors) for interstellar travel is too limited. There is too much stuff, particles, radiation, macroscopical things for complex biological life to survive a journey. - Civilizations migth be short-lived on a galactic scale, like a few thousand years from first radio-waves to the ends, be it exploitation of the ressources, self-destruction, genetic decay, ... they quickly loose the ability to communicate, maybe as a universal outcome of biological evolution as many organisms prosper until resources are gone. - On a galactic scale, in order to recognize each other, they must have reached a similiar technological level. and finally the fun thing cause it's a game forum: - ... that "better way of life"-thing: the moral gets so advanced that they think everyone else is so far below them that a contact is just a waste of time or even annoying. Ok, impossible :-)

I allready lied when i said you have the last word, so continuing a metadiscussion can't make things worse :-) ? The refresher on evolution wasn't particularly necessary, i studied palaeontology and palaeoanthropology as side subjects to archaeology ... but i appreciate your effort ;-) I take it you're a teacher ? You didn't write it in vain, i read it. In fact i am in conformity with allmost everything. I do not question the underlying principles that you have explained so well, i feel being somewhat shoved into that corner. And i see an inclination towards determinism (attention, belief !) in your post that i'd question when it comes to very complex systems like planetary dynamics or even evolution ... but that's not the point here. I did not say that humans "change the rules of survival" of the underlying principles. Not yet, but first steps are taken to edit the genome and i'd be very surprised if they would not succeed during my lifetime. Yes, natural selection/variation lead us to these abilities and natural selection/variation might take them from us. I never questioned that. Right now we are using the principles of selection and variation in an artificial way to steer the otherwise natural processes to a more or less wanted outcome. And since we do this in most of the niches and with a speed the natural processes could never match this is clearly more than a parasite, algae or insect could do. It is not mere co-evolution, like horses and grass, or ants and bacteria that are the outcome of a natural process that over many generations selected the "favourable ones" over the uncooperative if may say so. And it's not a billion year process of oxygenisation of an atmosphere. It is active interference. Then i wrote so provokingly we are "breaking out" compared to parasites to illustrate that interference. You, @Sigma88 then braught "above nature" and "beyond" into the discussion and i started to become a little defensive. I am, be assured, far from any religious view. You say "The art inside the nature is still nature", i say it's starting to stick out. [humour]Taking the opportunity to recite the evolutionary principles was a good idea ![/humour]. :-) Fermi paradox: you said we must let go of anthropocentric views. That is as true as possible :-). I do not value humans higher than bacteria. But i have difficulties in applying the evolutionary rules obeserved on earth to the rest of the universe without having more data to look at. I am willing to accept probabilities (and do propose them !) that the evolutionary processes here are similar to elsehwere since the elements are most probably the same. But really, without data, that is daring ... Phew ... that takes time ... :-)

That foto is really crazy. The streaks faintly remind of erosional structures (of course impossible), weren't they criss-crossed. Taking a closer look one realizes that this is not from here ...

@Alshain is right, you are rude. Shouting at people trying to help you is not a clever technique. There are more processes on your computer than you can close from the application level. With the information that you have 4GB ram and mods i would say it could well be a memory problem and the stutter be caused by swapping memory between physical ram and virtual ram. That'll take some time to explain and i'm not inclined to invest it.

Sorry, the 100year-dimming is assumed to be artifact (study from 10 of May, equipment upgrade), the several years dimming not. Or am i confusing something ? Pls. poke my nose at it :-) Also, we are just mixing up Tabby's KIC-xxxx and EPIC-xxxx, the latter is the one with 65% dimming and the protoplanetary disc and basis of the yet unpublished paper i linked 4 posts above. The authors suggest to apply the same thoughts on KIC-xxxx ...

If you mean that KIC-star ("Tabby's"), the long term dimming was identified as an artifact. At least that was my last info on it ... don't have the link present right now ... But even if it was so then why would a protoplanetary disc not be able to explain a long term dimming ?

Ok, i'll do it and answer your question: Nope, KSP does dynamically allocate and free memory. Satisfied :-) ? Since the last apple i touched was an apple ][ and it was not in a museum i cannot help you. That computer stuff is just a hobby of mine, on linux, if i *wanted* to find if a culprit is playing fast and loose with my memory, i'd start some monitoring tool like top and watch what happens. That would at least tell me whether a program's hunger for ram is unsatisfiable or a process blocks my cpu. How much ram do you (your pc) have ? Many mods ? Many printer queus, network connections ? Unsatisfied update-processes ? It's not necessarily KSP, any process could potentially block the cpu ...

Memory is released to (and requested from) the kernel, who has the last word over the resources. It has the algorithms for the management. And yeah, in C++ one is strongly encouraged to keep the scope as small as possible :-) Wasn't aware that C#-compiler also makes machine-code, thought of some sort of p-code that has to be interpreted, interesting ... :-)

I do not know about the internals of unity, c# and ksp, but i would assume that memory is allocated each time an object, method or function requests. When ksp is running the memory usage usually varies, mostly not towards lower numbers, so some internals do request memory and free it again, the source of so much anger these days :-) Example: on a scene change from ksp-view to vab the editor might request memory for the representation of all the parts, the graphics system has it's own memory but might also request some for the buffers it uses textures and things. When leaving the vab, that memory is freed again (that's were we usually hold our breath). When enetering vessel view than other objects need memory, like props, the physics engine, etc. So memory usage "breathes" with the objects in use. An fps-drop might have other reasons than memory usage and may even be outside of ksp. On linux i didn't realize any drops even after hours of play.

Dr. Marcus comes to mind :-) Phew, a lot of fantasy in there ... and i fear Gros has problems with large numbers. Oxygenisation from an existing ocean and atmosphere with the prerequisites took 2 billion years. Also, passive flight to other stars with a load of bacteria ? Well, some have time and fantasy :-) Edit: beware of Khan !

No, i'm not saying we're "beyond" it, humans form it. Humans use the natural mechanisms for influence, for breeding new species and influencing existing ones. More than parasites but may well be overcome by parasites. That should be acceptable for you :-)