Nuke

because radiation. by all means live on the surface if you want.

so long as you dont mess with the mobo or cpu, and you dont have to mess around with user folders on other dirves, id just ghost over. if there are issues you still have the option of reinstalling.

i saw a two servo solid rocket gimbal design the other day which looks promising: http://hackaday.io/project/1162-Guided-Rocket

x86 refers to the 8086 and its subsequent 32 bit processors. around 10 years ago (give or take a few years) amd and intel decided that 32 bit had some pretty bad limitations and so expanded upon x86 with x86-64 (amd and intel had different names for this tech, but they were somewhat compatible). this was later truncated to x64 by people who dont care about history. today allmost all desktop and mobile x86 chips are 64 bit (including lines like atom which moved over). you can still get x86-32 chips but these are usually for industrial embedded applications. the software side has taken forever to catch up to the hardware. i mostly blame the netbook craze, bytecode languages/virtual machines, and the folks over at ms for continuing to sell 32 bit operating systems dispite the fact that x86-32 consumer processors are no longer being manufactured. ninja'd it really comes down to the size of a memory address not being able to fit in a register. so all your pointer arithmetic would take 2 or more cycles to complete instead of one, and this slows down execution. you not only get more memory, but if you want to do math on larger data types (like doubles and long ints) it takes fewer cycles to do so. things are actually way more complicated than this, when you start considering other instruction extensions, such as avx. so what they call a 64 bit cpu can actually handle much bigger one cycle operations. avx2 can haz 256-bit operations for example.

you could probibly get 120gb with that (which is about the bare minimum you need for a modern os). you are not going to get a top notch brand, but you are likely to see much better performance than a mechanical drive. look at iops performance numbers for both read and write, more is better.

i think i got my scientific instruments mixed up. i think i may have meant spectrograph, but idk, im not a scientist, but i know they have a machine they can point at something and look at its spectra lines. also by thermograph, i mean ir cameras. with sensor technology currently booming id expect to have cameras that can detect and measure wide swaths of the em spectrum. its not technobabble, this stuff exists, even if i dont know what its called.

how do you keep the kerbals from eating it?

what i want is the chuck yeager kerman experience. i mean this kind of stuff was the prelude to the space program. break the sound barrier and flying at the edge of space were important steps for later spaceflight. it would be cool to start the game with no space capable parts and have to pump up your tech doing atmospheric test flights.

im comfortable with the brutality of human existence. its very metal and i like me some metal. i usually look upon the ignorantly blissful with great disgust.

the solution to that problem is to use a solid state capacitor instead. or you absolutely need to use an electrolytic you can seal it in a can with 1 atmo of argon or some other inert gas. this is a solvable problem and the fact that they didnt do this sounds rather fishy. they probibly already sell milspec caps for this kind of application. in which case spend a few bucks on parts.

then you bring up your thermograph and find out that the target is a different shade of black from the background of space. then you might control your emissions to match. thin these things called stars start blinking when an object moves in front of them, you can detect targets by their silhouette. so you might increase the resolution of your active camo, and fake the starts. this might fool the human eye but chances are if point your mass spectrometer at those dots and find out the spectra is all wrong for those stars. there was a whole thing on atomic rockets about stealth in space being a bogus concept.

its a government thing. if nasa spent all its money trying put a giant ball of twine into orbit and only managed to blow it to bits, it would still look less stupid than the rest of the government.

you can do that, but thing is in space, stealth doesn't work.

i wont be happy till its tested in a magnetically shielded vacuum chamber, or space.

age differences like this aren't a big deal. its not even in the creepy zone. i think i have more in common with women a decade older than me than those of the same generation. in this case it seems like she doesn't know what she wants. you may have just been her attempt at trying something different.

ribeye steak, rare. with beans and baked tater (with everything on it) on the side.

i was quite fond of the dc-x vtvl ssto.

just ghost over your windows partiton. then either enlarge it or create a second partition in the remaining space. in theory your computer should boot into the new drive and not notice the difference.

il just get my shotgun. you can also live in a place with horrible weather.

it comes down to the fact that most of these laws were created by observing material objects in space (newton was looking at apples and planets, not weird quantum particles that dont make much sense) and it later turned out that those same laws apply to non-material things as well. conservation of momentum really boils down to conservation of energy. when thinking about rockets it pays to think in terms of momentum, because its a simplified understanding that works in the material universe. were throwing atoms out the tail pipe to make these other atoms go in the other direction, ignoring the energy that those particles that make up those atoms posses. but if conservation of momentum comes as a result of conservation of energy, then you get all kinds of fringe scenarios where energy from an external source, say a nuclear reactor, can be converted to kinetic energy with magic, and conservation of energy is going on, while making conservation of momentum look broke. just because correlation is not causation doesn't mean you cant have a correlation so tight that it looks like causation and because the math worked nobody ever questioned it, at least until nasa checks out a quack machine with positive results. its totally possible that the law can be modified without breaking hundreds of years of scientific progress. its also entirely possible that the law is completely correct and does not need to be re-written, and that us humans are just confused about what it means. either way something to think about. believing in em drive/qdrive/whatever puts me out of my scientific comfort zone, but that doesn't mean its wrong. and no im not on anything, though i may have missed my meds today and im a little sleep deprived.

same damn architecture, different freaking os. if i had either one it would be rooted and installed with linux proper, like i did with my ipod.

makes me wonder if em drive is really just an accidental q thruster. either way you are going to get more thrust by simply throwing the device out the back of your ship.

this looks useful.

i suppose you could bring in hydrogen and just burn it with the released oxygen. this would create that useful stuff called water. unfortunately it would probibly vaporize and make the runaway greenhouse conditions worse.

my brother used to sell those. impressive machine. too bad they rely on guerrilla marketing tactics to sell them. but frankly the vacuum cleaner should not be the most expensive thing in ones house.