LordFerret

I have Mint, also Peppermint, Knoppix, and a few other distros I've played with on live discs. My main boxes are Debian however. Mint is nice, XFCE is great for resurrecting old machines.

I have a personal beef with Intel that goes way back, so I'm biased in that respect. I've found better performance with AMD in some of the applications and projects/tasks I work with; Has nothing to do with playing games, and everything to do with the way data and security are handled. I do not like Windows, I only use it because of business reasons, the people I provide services to use it... although I've been working hard to get them to see the light and move over to Mac at least (which is Linux/Unix-like when it gets down to it). Overall, I think it's just personal choice, both perform well (from what I read), and the performance differences between the two are negligible and not really discernible to the average 'Joe'... IMO. - - - Updated - - - I should note that I do have one Windows machine... this laptop (Win8.1), which pretty much was picked up just for KSP.

I do that with circular orbits setting up for SCANsat.

One more Jool moon to map and I'll have the 'complete collector set'... as soon as the current two finish that is.

Gave up on Intel ages ago... prefer AMD. FX series & Linux.

My 'friend' is an uncle, who worked for IMG/GE on the 13 kilo-gauss magnets used in the first NMRIs... just one of the projects. Also was in and worked for the Navy (an applications hint). Doubt if you wish. Also, GoSlash27, while the BB-61 (Iowa) and BB-62 (New Jersey) are indeed decommissioned, the guns on BB-62 are still operational. I don't know yet if it's to be the summer of 2015 or the summer of 2016, but a 'cleaning charge' (1/4 bag) will be fired from the 16-inchers of BB-62. Don't know the status or schedule for BB-61. The last cleaning charge fired from BB-62 wreaked havoc in nearby Philadelphia, shattering a number of windows. I plan to be there for the next one. I've been aboard BB-62, up close and personal, old salt radio engineers and restoration crew. Fun stuff.

Completely correct. My bad for throwing that in there.

A point I made completely overlooked. As for the power generated, NYC being my example, these devices are used currently on destroyers, battleships, and aircraft carriers. As for the technology being a pipe dream, the transport device in testing I described... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ET3_Global_Alliance http://www.et3.com/ Sound familiar. Go argue it with Elon Musk, he's backing it.

Being I refrain from quicksaving as a matter of principal... the one time I did, and then restored from it, cost me hours of exploration on Mun with my rover crew. I don't use it.

That seems to be a recurring troublesome problem with Wiki. I thought their policy was not to allow such anonymous updates without peer review?

Take all that rep and get a nice plaque... take all that cash and retire!

I'm not about to sit here and argue with you. I've been out in the field, I've seen the stuff. Where have you been? Do a little research on Intermagnetics General and see where they're at today ... that should help remove some of your doubts - not my job. - - - Updated - - - Here, I'll give you head start... http://www.superpower-inc.com/

Did I say "infinite"? I suggest you go back and re-read what I wrote.

...and I know for fact that 4 of the units went to the Soviet Union, as my family member accompanied them during shipment and installation.

Was your question directed to me? If it was... In a torus, indeed at some point you'd face an issue of the device making contact with the walls (centrifugal force). The model I was privy to was (pretty much) a straight-line rail system. The entire shell became magnetic from the field generated, the carriage essentially held in place in the middle of the donut (opposite pole). The linear motors were, more specifically, ion engines, which in the vacuum worked just as they would in space. This was an actual working model. - - - Updated - - - There is nothing conspiracy about this. I have a family member who worked IMG/GE, worked on this project, and happens to be one of the co-designers and developers of those 13 kilo-gauss magnets.

The current evidence supporting a biological process is inconclusive. The current theories and research being done are moving toward proving abiotic production. Explain Titan to me. Are you a patient person?... just wait for it.

Intermagnetics General, a subdivision of General Electric, made the superconductive magnets for the first NMRI machines (13 kilo-gauss magnets). At that time, they also made a device which in essence was a perpetual motion machine, used to generate electric current and magnetic field. Unlike a typical electric motor, with the armateur spinning, this unit had the armateur fixed with the magnetic coils spinning about it in a bath of liquid nitrogen. A 24-volt battery was used to cause the snap-back to get the thing spinning, and as long as there was liquid nitrogen in the bath - it would run... generating current to power itself, and then some. The energy generated by just one of these units was enough to power NYC... 4 of them were sold to the Soviet Union (1980's). The unit, 12 feet long, when placed on a carriage sitting atop an aluminum rail (or rather, an aluminum alloy), enclosed in an aluminum tube evacuated of air, produced a magnetic field enabling the whole assembly to 'float' ... a maglev device. Two small linear generators/motors on either side of the rail, placed directionally, could propel the device to near light-speed. Technology you don't hear about. No, I do not know what application the Soviet Union applied these devices to... nor do I the USA - likely very classified, otherwise it would have been in the news.

This kind of goes back to a statement I made in another thread in these forums which discussed 'decontaminating' space probes... point made. Great article/reference.

I highly doubt that. The world is about to discover that oil is abiotic.

The Kraken is a fictional creature - not real - unless you're referring to the Giant Squid... that's another story.

You should also note these 'features' only apply in a Career mode; They make no difference in Science_sandbox mode.

The ephemeris is available at NASA if you wish to plug it into, say, Celestia. It is a tracked object, so any changes will be published. It will be many years before it visits Earth so closely again. The ephemeris was available before the asteroid even passed, as was the knowledge it had a moon. It is not uncommon for asteroids to have such moons, the asteroid belt is full of them. http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/2004BL86/2004BL86_planning.html

Catastrophic failure at 42km ...

I would disagree with that, somewhat. One of my first space stations got whacked by a cluster of boosters (debris) which were in a highly elliptical orbit around Kerbin (on rails), left over from a Mun mission. It made quite a debris cloud, which I then had to 'search' through to find the science module (MPL-LG-2) containing the crew... and then go rescue them. :/

That name rang a bell. I recall the story now. Thanks.