Green Baron

Of course, you're right. Silly me ...

A human body, lungs empty and no onions eaten, is slightly denser than (pure) water .... so, in certain limits, one can control the uplift. Assuming liquid water, limited onion supply and some sort of gravity that keeps things together ... ... you could most probably not walk on it (if it's not ice) but it'll take longer to sink in and a larger partwould stick out in low gravity.

Ha ! Couldn't reach the shift-mute combination fast enough, it's Thick as a Brick for me right now. btw.: Sailing boat is "Rosinante" :-) Totally off topic, just ignore ....

If you want to get behind it, get a feeling trying base 2. Convert your birthdate to base 2, cookbook recipe, anything. Might be a good idea to buy a basic programming book. The representation of numbers doesn't change the rules to handle them, only the functions that do the operationsif you don't want to convert from one base to another for doing an operation and then convert back. It's as easy as that. To get an idea: a multiplaction/division with the base is a shift operation :-) How long it takes to "understand" ? Depends ... someone with computer science background has advantages. Examples: - coding 26 letters into 7 bit (base 2) characters. Coding decimal (base 10), octal (base 8) or hexadecimal (16) numbers into binaries (2). Coding already coded letters from one standard (codetable) to another (country specific, operating system specific, ...). It's only the representation, an addition remains an addition. For every-day life i'd say that in history and culture there have been different systems, when switching from one to another people had to rethink a shorter or longer while :-)

11 :-) Whether the universe is finite or infinite is, as far as i know, subject of debate, either solution is possible. That's partly a question though ...

From our point we can see as far out as the travel of light permits. The farthest galaxies flee from us with almost speed of light. That's our observable universe. See it that way: it's not the relative speed of the galaxies but the space itself that expands. Travelling to the edge would mean catching up with the expanding universe, which is not possible (speed limit c). To put it very easy (and i'm shure for being corrected soon :-)): a fly on an ever more rapidly expanding balloon still cannot get around because everything "flees" from it with ever greater speed. This is the case from every point in the universe, so there might well be aereas outside of our observable universe with the same views. How big the universe really (concerning possible limits) is and whether it creates itself as it expands is probably a philosophical question ...

What's that collect points for vouchers/rebates on amazon, ebay and paypal ? Inform yourself before being unfriendly !

Hmm, but they do rely on one-man-show modders to enforce the team (no offence, good idea). From what i read further up Squad has decided not to support Kerbalstuff and urged the operator to change the name. The operator decided to cut the service down. They could have decided otherwise, offer an agreement, that would have been no legal problem at all. We can't do anything about it. Maybe the Kerblstuff sequel offers the same service in the future, that would be nice, we'll see. To Squad in all friendlyness: pls. keep in mind that, once players have been to the major bodies, it's the mod's that keep the game interesting. The base game becomes boring after some time, yet another maneuver-node, another docking-thing, another landing on a grey surface doesn't challenge the mind for years. Furthermore, KSP is still somewhat of an indie game and can be played offline without the inteference of any data collection machines and simply be installed in the home directory. Some people playing it might feel like being offended by being urged to use a specific source for the data they install on their systems (i do). Depending on your future plans, besides travelling around the world on fairs or visiting the white house, loosing acceptance among the modders might be a not-that-good idea in the long run. But i think we all know that, don't we ? Peace k

Exactly ! We sawed out, laminated, filed, glued, weighed out, ran the new engines, soldered wires, rods and levers, mixed fuels, arranged RC-components, went on the field and came back with an armful of scrap lamenting. Doing damage wasn't that easy, and it did hurt. Even many of today's models are mostly "RTF" (ready to fly) ... doing damage has become very easy.

What a question. 25kg can make considerable damage. So pilots of that should have a sharp eye (better 2). And anything above a certain mass and being able to fly higher than 500ft (150m) above ground shares the same airspace than manned flight (G) in the open field. Your model (or drone as it's called today) is safe as long as you stay below that cause planes (in this case small aircraft, gliders, hang gliders etc.) fly higher of they didn't just take of or are about to land. I've seen paragliders land with a model-glider between the lines .... so a little knowledge of what's going on in the air and an approved keen eye doesn't hurt, literally. :-) k

Yes, TMI was managed just barely, that was luck among bad luck, the margin was small, the supercritical state was close at hand (minutes) and chances were great that a metropolitan region could have become uninhabitable like Chernobyl. The problem is quite evident here: risks are taken too lightly and that's why i say nuclear desasters will happen again. Yep, that's the typical "calm down everything will be just fine" type of "information". There is other "information" which is probably as worthy/worthless as the above: http://naturalsociety.com/6000-increase-cancer-rates-fukushima-site/ http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2211716/fukushimas_cancer_epidemic_the_reality_revealed.html http://enenews.com/times-child-cancers-5000-after-fukushima-disaster A neutral information might be this: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-nuclear-cancer-idUSBRE91R0D420130228 or this: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/fukushima-anniversary/thyroid-cancer-rates-higher-kids-near-fukushima-nuke-plant-study-n440801 I don't have the time for a thorough research right now. It will probably take a few decades until we get a reasonable view on the impacts of Fukushima. See e.g. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0959804994902968 Be it as it may, have a nice morning/day/evening, i quit this discussion :-) ps.: Just to make you guys and gals jealous: i live on an island where i can totally rely on the suns radiation for electricity and hot water. The next nuclear power plant is 1500km away. edit: this is not a political statement, the links do not reflect my personal opinion, they are examples of differing statements, well, except for the science link. My personal opinion is this: I see the risks of nuclear (fission) power outbalamce the benefits by far. Fullstop.

Even if that's true, a single accident will make an area uninhabitable for decades, spoil the whole foodchain and kill thousands. Up to now i know of three such accidents, i'm sure there are more to come and there were and are probably a whole lot of smaller leaks that don't get in the news.

I hope so. I'm absolutely with you. And: digging in does'nt t only not solve the problem, it worsens the problem. The germans put it in a saltdome in northern germany, that's a timebomb. Salt is highly mobile, tends to come up and crack under changing pressure, and of course dissolves in water. In 200 years they will curse their ancestors. Moreover, because noone wants the stuff any more, it's stacked in special containers besides the powerplants. And since nuclear weapons aren't needed any more in great numbers and people are aware of the dangers of transport, those nuclear processing plants have lost their appeal as well.

Yes, without a little glimpse on thesubjectthatshallnotbespokenabout it's difficult. So sue me :-) The Chernobyl-Desaster was the result of pure carelessness (letting the coolant run on it's own inertia), in conjunction with not enough respect to the dangers. Those were no idiots, they knew the design and possible dangers but just ignored them. What if Harrisburg (Three Mile Island) never happened (stuck valve) in conjunction with confused personnel, or Fukushima (wrong design for the geography) in conjunction with carelessness ? The latter keeps on happening by now and will do so for the next decade, probably longer. It's just out of the news. I'd say: If Chernobyl never happened we would be even more careless with fission energy. The human factor (fear, responsibility, *lowers voice* thesubjectthatshallnotbespokenabout) will be the main reasons. Nevertheless it will happen over again, a few hundreds or thousands will die more or less directly (within a year or so), uncounted later on (per accident). No exaggeration. That'll be in the news for month or so, clever people will stand up and claim something, everyone will be more or less shocked for a limited time. Ok, i go and blow up a few nervas on Kerbin :-)

Thanks !

Hello, got a little problem here: the waypoints of the anomalies on the Island Airfield are somewhat offset by roughly 400m horizontally. I'm not sure which mod caused it. I installed the latest versions of Contract Configurator, Anomaly Surveyor and Waypoint Manager. Any hints on how to correct this ? Many thanks ! Edit: i found the positions in the cfg file but somehow i doubt they are wrong cause it had worked before. Could be waypoint manager as well. A hiking Kerbal doesn't trigger the contract at the correct positon, but at the offset. Not the tower, which is up in the air ... 2nd Edit: Desert Pyramids have an offset as well, horizontally and vertically. Other mods that might influence this: Kopernicus, OPM, Scansat, Waypoint Manager

Yes, as far as i see it it's just fiction, each attempt would collapse. Only one point of the cable is stationary (the one 36.000km up), the rest (below) wants to go ahead, parts farther out stay behind. So you either keep it under tension with some sort of engines or with a heavy part farther out, but these would tend to stay behind and so come down rather quickly .... or the weight has to be accelerated all the time. Am not sure wether it's possible to bring that whole thing in some sort of equilibrium ... i see the same problems with these Dysonsphere thingies: as long as we can't trick gravity it's just not possible. Only one orbit is stable, the rest must be kept in it's place. Imagine the weight of the part of such a sphere over the poles of a sun. Naaa ... won't work. A ring world would theoretically be stable. But the slightest disturbance and things go wrong ... Would be happy to be corrected though. k Another thing: the cable/weight/platform/whatever would sweep through all orbits around the equator (except GSO). Thou shalt not have other satellites before me ....

Was glad to hear the rumour that rockets are eventually about to get an overhaul in some sort of 1.2, mods like KW in the past or now SpaceY (great work !) keep me coming back to KSP. Concerning spaceplanes i totally agree with Lord Aurelius; in order to "get things done" i mess with rockets. Only sometimes i do sort of a spaceplane, but my vote is among the rockets. I admit it's a beautiful sight to dock a spaceplane to a huge station, but lag ... f.r.a.m.e.r.a.t.e ...

Man, this mod is powerfull ! Especially the ISP-tweaking is maybe a little bit too cheap ... Nevertheless, nice idea and well done ! k

Hi, in order to stop by an interstellar body for refueling the ship had to decelerate from it's interstellar speed and accelerate again. I'd think that once accelerated to interstellar speed the ship should keep it until arrival ? It costs nothing ... p.s.: one of many approaches to evolution of language (http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150113/ncomms7029/full/ncomms7029.html) (2015). Separation estimates http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7388/full/nature10842.html for Human / chimpanzee-separation (2012). Can't say a word about the future ...

So Alpha Centauri is in rendezvous distance regarding galactic measures. How about star systems 1500ly away ? Assumption: no wormholes, no warpdrive, max speed .999c. If the speed is high enough the ship would probably still travel in a quasi-straight line ? There'd be a correction angle for gravity and travel of destination object, right ? How about relativistic effects ? Time at destination is different from time on board, what kind of correction would apply ? I can imagine there is quite a difference in target position during travel time (3000yrs @ 0.5c as measured on earth). Galactic time ? That means the target moves faster when observed from board of the ship, correct ? Man, that's early 20th century stuff :-) Anyone firm in Relativity ?

Seeing homo sapiens as the sole representant of "human" is a creationists view. Which is ok for me, it's just not what i as a geoscientist and prehistorian have learnt. The other subspecies of homo sapiens is probably homo (sapiens) neanderthalensis and the genetic evidence is not that bad. Again, no offence meant. Your right, there is debate about anthropoligists. Lumpers and splitters create and delete species sometimes on fragments of bones. But, hey, let's get back into space :-) Does anyone know where AC is in it's orbit relative to our system ? Ahead/behind or above/below ? While AC is quite near it's also probably quite uninteresting, having seemingly no planets. How about traveling to a 1400ly distant systems (just because of the distance :-)) ? How would the gravitational field of the galaxy effect the course of a ship traveling 0.1c, 0.5c ? Not easy to get real figures on that or does anyone know about papers/info ...

Hello Bill Phil, i didn't say that. I said humans, which, when used by prehistorians, include all species and subspecies of genus homo. Which exists per definition since 2.6Ma, since the first stone tools because they define humans (which is just a convention). And i did so because further up in the thread someone mentioned that humans are a million years on earth. There are other views on the topic by creationists etc., but that's not "my style". No offence meant to anyone k

Yep, i was surprised that "just fly straight there" is theoretically possible. Reading that galactic escape velocity at our "height" is just about 550km/s (http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1787) would mean that a craft traveling at a speed of 150,000km/s travels practically on a straight line relative to the galactic center. p.s.: Humans are per definition (oldowan stone tools) here since roughly 2.6 million years.

Using Mod-F12 or having to edit the persistent file is cheating, either the kraken or myself. We can discuss whether cheating the kraken is cheating, but cheating myself is cheating. That happens when i realize that i built an inappropriate apparatus for the planned journey or planned an inappropriate journey for the apparatus. I sometimes do cheat, especially when late in a career game and far out there. I must live with it. Which is well possible.