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Provided, of course, their spacecraft are capable of getting past the drag of water and then the atmosphere... and also provided that their scientists don't all electrocute themselves discovering electricity.

I finished it.

That sounds a lot like the argument made by the scientist in Mars Attacks!. Read Footfall by Larry Niven for an example of why aliens might try to invade - They might just try to damn the impracticalities and do it anyway. We have barely begun exploration of our own home system. Rather than replying immediately, we should use a message as motivation to develop our space technologies base - eventually leading to our having spacecraft capable of piloted interstellar travel [be it manned or robotic. Something more useful than getting a slingshot off a gas giant and going off into deep space on an unplanned tangent. Once we have both the capability of interstellar spaceflight and the means to defend ourselves, THEN we can think about an actual reply. It's at that point that we approach a status that an alien race might find 'civilised' by their definitions. At the moment, aliens could fling rocks at us from space and we'd have virtually no defence. This is not to say that aliens can't be peaceful... but if we give rockets triple redundancy in case of failure before sending them up, then why not our planet?

Can't let you do that, starfox.

Ummm... what happened to the first post?

The Pegasus-Mirage class battlecarrier is designed to be capable of carrying large payloads [such as smaller assault craft or landers] on interplanetary trips, with return capability. Neither of these things have actually been tested yet, however. Currently, it has only been proven to be capable of being assembled in orbit. As-is, the Pegasus-Mirage carries a single Orion-style crew transport vehicle, and minimal capacity for extra payload. A capacity expansion module is being worked on. The as-is spacecraft is assembled in three parts. The command section, which contains the primary control centre and crew habitation for four; the fuel section, which holds the majority of the spacecraft's propellant [though all three sections do contain massive amounts of fuel] and the engine section, where the payload bay and engines are, as well as a secondary control centre. Download http://www.2shared.com/file/uQrVK1zy/PegasusMirage.html

At the moment it can only really do kamikazes with it's orbiter, but here's the Veto Aerospace Pegasus-Mirage-class battlecarrier.

Awesome part designs. As for the robot though... I feel that something more similar to Asimo would look good. He's already diminuitive, and can run, climb over obstacles and is capable of understanding the difference between objects. Obviously Asimo itself is not in KSP style - far too modern looking for KSP's cold war-era aesthetic. Perhaps a Kerbal-shaped Asimo but without most of its plastic shell? I need to find out what an Asimo would look like with its shell removed.

Rule 34. There did not need to be NSFW pictures of races from an RP I'm involved in from Roblox, but they still got drawn. Someone, somewhere would be interested in NSFW KSP pictures. Like you said, it'll happen.

Bones don't corrode. As for satellites, that's a good point. The Apollo landing sites on the Moon won't be going anywhere fast. They'd be noticable too, with those reflective mirrors they set up on them. Kind of sad that it would only be proof of 1969's technology level. Do we have many more recent active probes/rovers on non-atmospheric bodies?

Unless you're making car engines out of gold and silver, there's no way it would last long enough to form a fossil. The only way I can see something like a car becoming archaeological proof is if it were to fall into mud - specifically, the kind of mud that those fossilised footprints were left in. You'd uncover the imprint of the underside of a car. Nothing ferrous [containing iron] would last 64 million years. Hoover Damn would last at most 10,000 years.

From http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace Just thought I'd put this here to add to your statement.

Exactly. And unrealistic how? Because planets have spheres of influences [since the n-body problem is a difficult thing] and there's no reentry heat feature yet? The fact that planets are unrealistically massive for their size due to neccesary space compression? I can't think on one physics problem in KSP that isn't justified in some way. And the rockets are only cartoonish if you deliberately design them cartoonishly. Most of the more serious KSP players don't build the sort of contraptions that we see in KSP's webcomic, It's Hardly Rocket Science*. I get the feeling that whoever the devs of that game are, they haven't played/looked at KSP since 0.15. *(this is not a dig at IHRS. I'm just saying that the rockets in IHRS are drawn the way they are to ellicit humour in the reader. It's fine.)

Oh yeah. The box was more like 25 football fields.

TOPO wasn't doing his job that day, it seems. There's a box the size of a football field [not sure is british or American football] around the ISS which, if objects are going to enter it, means the ISS will be moved to avoid said object. I'm not sure how NASA's tracking facility could have missed a whole shower of objects.

But what about Eeloo? and Dres?

You could mention the various anomalies, and the pyramids, and you could mention the dilapidated KSC 2.

If you want to do it stock, you could always build a construction rover. They have docking ports on so you can move other things with docking ports around. They aren't without their bugs though.

Actually, scientists believe that we will have life extending treatments based on nanorobotics within 30 years. Presumably they would be designed to repair telomeres. From there, you just let the body continue replacing damaged cells. One of the things that causes cell division to start to fail due to faults in their genetic coding is little things called free radicals that bombard the DNA over the years. That may be something else that needs to be addressed, but death from old age is mostly due to organ failure after cells stop dividing when the DNA comes undone when the telemeres reach a point of irreparable damage, having been opened and closed over and over again ever time the cell has divided in the past.

What I have a problem with is the "and not a perfect copy" statement. Mentally downloading a mind onto a computer is making a copy. Here's my solution. In a person's lifetime, every cell in their body will have been replaced with a new one at least once. Is this the same person at the end of their lives as when they started? Yes, because it's a gradual process. Memories get stored on new neurons, old neurons die and wither away. Now, what if you could make synthetic neurons? Ones which could gradually replace biological neurons over the course of years, and would be completely resistant to disease, and when they fail, the solution is just more synthetic neurons? You would end up with the same person, but in a synthetic brain. And a synthetic brain is a lot easier to attach a USB cable to.

If you've read the Genius Ideas thread, you'll know that Laytheshot 4 is the one that I had to move the habitat and communications modules to a side port because I couldn't attach them at the nose after decoupling them. This is what happened when I went down to 19Km above Laythe at 6000 metres per second. http://imgur.com/a/ocjKm

That's pretty nice. Though my version several iterations of KSP back was more true to life. Yours is probably a heck of a lot less laggy, however.

Images not publically available. Hope to see it soon.

They are the explanation for why the Kerbal is Euclid/Keter level instead of Safe. A Kerbal on its own straight from the game would probably be put straight into Safe. After all, stuff only blows up around them because of Kerbin's poor Health And Safety regulations.