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Similar, but as I play with New Horizons, I need a craft with approx. 4km/s to go to the Mun and back, which basically requires the Dune Explorer from Scott Manley's videos!

I'm already planning lander designs with these, I cannot wait for the release!

It just needs an Ant engine on the bottom, and you have yourself the kerbal equivalent of a lifeboat for a space station!

Randazzo, I have a feeling he meant the Kopernicus file, not ScanSat.

All Atlas boosters, launch vehicles and missiles used the stage and a half design until the Atlas III launch vehicle in 2000. The article lists things that changed between the SM-65 Atlas and the Atlas LV-3B, anything else probably didn't change.

Tidus has an equatorial ocean, and Serran was meant to (It may well get one in the near future as Ash, if I'm not mistaken, still wants to add a small sea.)

A fully rocket powered SSTO would be ludicrously expensive and wasteful, as the stage would have to be huge to contain enough fuel. That's why rockets stage in real life, they can shed the weight of the extra fuel tanks and swap to more vacuum optimised engines.

And we have good deployment of Kounotori, docking scheduled as planned for Monday.

After that mental image, I shall not be sleeping tonight!

That's why, without re-entry heating, they can survive the impact of falling from orbit on Kerbin, provided they land headfirst!

Tynrael, you had the Kerbals with their helmets off at about 5% atmospheric pressure, that would have been VERY bad for the kerbals!

The other thing to consider is that the sun emits most of its energy in the visible range, with some near IR, so getting energy from other ranges of the EM spectrum isn't very helpful even if it was possible with today's technology.

My personal opinion is that free speech is voided in science, you should only state what you can prove to be true, or that is well known to be true. Free speech is no excuse for pseudoscience or misleading the public (and even if that article was a joke, many of my friends believed it.)

The sodium and chlorine ions disrupt the forming ice crystals, meaning that the water molecules have to be moving more slowly to be incorporated into the structure.

The dust would need to be very finely ground, and if it was released in mid air it would likely disperse before becoming explosive, just having a fairly weak bag rupture on impact might be enough to create an explosive mixture.

I don't know the specifics of the Saturn V, but an Isp of only 200s on stage 2 and 3 seems way too low, as they are hydrolox stages I would expect their Isp to be closer to 380-400.

On an airless body, yes, as you have less gravity drag. However, if your thinking about a launch vehicle, aerodynamics mean that you want a lower TWR, both for stability and structural reasons, and because you will waste fuel going too quickly through the atmosphere.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ I think that's the best representation of Microsoft now now. I'm still on windows 7, and from the looks of it, I shall be staying on 7 for some time to come.

That's the big issue with using a magnetic shield, the EM radiation isn't stopped, and that's the biggest threat to astronauts in space. Earths magnetic field is useful primarily to protect the atmosphere from erosion by the solar wind, the atmosphere is actually a better shield.

Ozone is a very unstable gas, and also highly toxic, so I don't foresee a future of ozone rocketry! Also, I don't understand your point of the hydrogen not requiring an electron, in a normal hydrogen combustion reaction, it doesn't need one.

"Isn't that dangerous?" "Nah, It's where my glowing green complexion comes from!"

If something is floating, it doesn't matter if it weighs 10g or 10 tons, unless it can be affected by the wind, they will move at the same speed in currents.

Another issue is that they would basically have to redesign the Vulcain engine to be vacuum optimised, and alter the upper stage tankage to handle the high G forces a solid booster of that size would create, not to mention the horrible aerodynamics that rocket would have. The LEGO idea can work, as you rightly pointed out, but that example is one that was rightly canned.

Platinum, like Lajoswinkler said, isn't just used because its pretty, its a vital catalyst in industry, several cancer fighting drugs can be created from it, and it is vital in electronics as it has the highest corrosion resistance of any metal, so if someone was hording platinum, governments would force them to release it.

A group of people planted a flag and said "This land is now ours!", but everyone ignored them and no one regards it as being a valid state (although I don't know the logic behind not granting statehood in that case).