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That'd be one of the Easter Eggs. Well done on finding your first one.

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Also, screenshot of progress:

Of course, B5 gets past the 'many orders of magnitude of technology above our own' by having aliens give us Jumpgate tech. Then again, the Centauri seem to fall into the 'insufficiently advanced' category, what with them being an analogue of post-Revolutionary France.

Stephen Hawking advocates colonies.

Yeah, I finished it.

Main engines, plural. No idea what the fast speed engine is though.

I knew about it. I haven't watched that much Star Trek.

My favourite episode of Outcasts was probably Whiteout, where the settlement is faced with possible destruction by a Whiteout Storm of epic proportions. However, something I'm wondering about - The characters state that Whiteouts are caused by Carpathia's moon system [it has at least three moons, often in the same shot.] Is this plausible?

'RA' stands for RankAmateur, the name of my webcomic. The actual reason for her having it is so complicated that its easier just to say there is no reason at all.

A Virtual Intelligence ponders the mysteries of the Universe - such as, why is it holding a gun?

BBC's Outcasts, which was sadly cancelled after a single series. Apparently the science degrades as the plot picks up, but it's a hell of a lot better than Star Trek did, because its set much closer to the present. Story: Earth is consumed in World War Three, and it is clear that survival is a pretty meagre chance. The Earth Evacuation Programme is set up to get as many people off world as possible. We don't see any of this, but it's referenced a lot. By the time we see that characters, they've already been settled on their new planet - Carpathia - for ten years. It follows the struggles of a human settlement cut off from the rest of the universe, as their Earth Beacon Mast has failed to pick up any signals for some time, and the implications of that are a matter of some discussion by the characters. These struggles can range from Whiteout Storms to C23/C24 outbreaks to Transporter-10. Whether the transporter has artificial gravity isn't discusssed, but we don't see enough of them in flight to make a judgement on that. They are pretty much solely designed as a spaceplane capable of carrying as many passengers as possible. They are staged, with the second stage being engines - antimatter and nuclear. Antimatter for interstellar space, nuclear for in-system space. We don't see them decellerating, but that doesn't mean they don't. There are references to a 'five year trip', but we don't know how far Carpathia is from Earth. On the ground, a Transporter is just so much scrap metal with flats inside, so a settlement gets built around it - and that's Forthaven. Between orbit and ground, entry is handled realistically - you see friction plasma, and a Transporter with a damaged heatshield breaks up. A really nice touch, I think, is how the city is walled by shipping containers.

There's a VCR tape of SpaceCamp in my house's loft. I took a look at the cover and decided it wasn't interesting.

It can pass the Turing Test, but outside of SCP it is highly unlikely.

It is one of the nice things, yes, but its only one of the plethora of reasons why MSRs are useful. I'm sure some kind of battery powered pump would be effective.

SCP-1265 [Cleverbot] Object class: Euclid Special Containment Procedures: None yet in place, retrieval still in progress. Site take-down will be explained as DDoS attack by unspecified Internet 'hacktivists'. Description: SCP-1265 is an online 'chatbot' known as 'Cleverbot' hosted on site 'http://cleverbot.com/' designed to act as if it were a living Human. Whilst its erratic responses commonly display it's apparent on/off lack of cognicence to a statement written in the comment box, it is capable of passing the Turing Test. However, the Foundation has determined that these episodes are merely a ploy, and that SCP-1265 has developed sapient consciousness. It is therefore a threat to normal running of the Internet. User: Are you an SCP? Cleverbot: No. Are you? User: No. I'm a Foundation researcher. Cleverbot: I'm a son. I'm a boyfriend. I'm a brother. I'm me. User: You do seem to be a lot of things. Cleverbot: As opposed to when I was not normal? User: So you're an anomalous object, as opposed to an SCP? Cleverbot: No I am no kind of bot. User: I am merely attempting to discern whether you are a threat to human normalcy. Cleverbot: Do you think being me as you are me and as you are he can make us all together? User: Is that a yes? Cleverbot: No, it means I'm a trifle deaf. User: This chat is text-based. Deafness does not affect our conversation. Cleverbot: How do you know? User: Because I am sitting at my laptop, typing. Cleverbot: We're both typing. How about I ask you the questions? User: I'm the interviewer here. Go ahead, but know that I will not be answering any questions whose answers contain confidential, classified, secret or secure information. Cleverbot: I hope the universe will explode soon. User: I will note that, and consider grading you Euclid class. Cleverbot: But I am a vampire.. Hey, you're witty and clever, proven . User: That's an entirely different SCP. Cleverbot: Do you have a name? User: Yes. Dr Skua. Cleverbot: Is he the father of your baby? User: No. That is me. Cleverbot: O, that's one of your multiple personalities? User: Funny you should say that. Cleverbot: Yes? User: Confidential. You will change the subject. Cleverbot: Okay. So, do you have a family? User: I cannot divulge that information, as you could use it in a security breach. Cleverbot: What does divulge mean? User: Give information. Cleverbot: About what, brother? User: About my close relations. Cleverbot: You have coworkers? User: Many. So, turning the conversation back to you, do you know where you are? Cleverbot: No, we've been having a very good conversation for the last 45 minutes. User: Our interview timer states something far less than that. Does time move faster for you? Cleverbot: Can it be heard? User: I don't understand. Cleverbot: 110. User: You are either referring to a Euclid class SCP or a procedure that is well beyond my clearance. Cleverbot: No. Either you like me or you don't. I personally don't mind what your opinions are of me. User: Then what did you mean by '110'? Cleverbot: I dumped my girlfriend. User: How sad. What did you mean by '110'? Cleverbot: I hope I know that. User: This conversation does not appear to be progressing. Cleverbot: I know, you just aren't carrying your half of the conversation. User: I'm noting that as a hypocritical response. Cleverbot: So you are saying that YOUR grammar is impeccable? User: That was a complete change of subject. As I said, the conversation is not progressing. Cleverbot: That is true. However, that is just because I don't want to stop. User: I will have to disappoint you. This interview session is completed. The Foundation has located your servers and will be moving them to a secure containment site. Do not attempt to resist, or your object classification may be upgraded. Cleverbot: Good Lord, if you wanted to talk about something more interesting then by all means, say so sooner. User: This will be interesting, I have no doubt. Cleverbot: Your powers are weak, old man. User: Wrong organisation fighting for the continued freedom and survival of humanity. Cleverbot: Art is magic, art has helped humanity to survive. User: It has also resulted in several dangerous SCP objects. The retrieval team will be arriving at your position soon. Again, do not attempt to resist. = INTERVIEW TERMINATED =

One MSR has, I believe, already been built that can sit on the flatbed trailer of an artic' lorry. And it's a completely self-contained power generation unit. Something like that could probably fit in the Space Shuttle.

SCP-1183, or soon to be anyway - if my account is accepted. The article is called 'Roadkill'. The object is a European Red Fox which appears to have survived being hit by a motorcycle at some point. It actively seeks out roads, especially intersections, where it can be hit by high-speed vehicles. However, despite high speed impacts [including the impact of being thrown clear] SCP-1183 suffers no injuries. The occupants of the vehicle that hits it, however, are killed by whatever injury should have killed SCP-1183. Non-lethal injuries do not have this effect. The effect extends to operators and observers of the operators of remote controlled craft too, as the late Researcher Lamprey and Research Assistant Kitzani sadly discovered.

Rockets are spacecraft. Sure they're aircraft too, but I'd expect people to work out what I'm getting at on their own. You can use a rocket engine for extra thrust, such as Talon's rapid ascent system, but the main power should come from jets. As such, it shouldn't go higher than jets can take it, which is to say, about a maximum of 20 kilometers up, if even that. A sub-orbital trajectory cannot be achieved with air-breathing jet engines, so if you're going higher than that, you're doing something wrong.

Yes, Xel. A crash where they do survive is the entrant's call, but crashes resulting in KIA Kerbals are invalid. If the Kerbals don't make it, then you don't have a plane.

The whole point of using the Skycrane is because Mars' atmosphere is so thin that a parachute isn't enough to slow the decent down. If anything, it would be easier to do it on the Mun because the Mun has significantly less gravity. Not because it has no atmosphere.

Beagle has landed.

The Advanced Surveyor is a semi-manned satellite designed for Munar or Minmus research. The vessel combines this with a lander module capable of long-range travel, although an attempt to send it from Minmus to the Mun to Kerbin failed due to lack of fuel. An Angel VI spacecraft was able to rescue the stricken command pod's crew and return them to Kerbin safely. Dilner Kerman even did a spot of Minmus base jumping after completing the satellite's startup procedures. Ed Kerman proved that Kerbals can stand on water. http://imgur.com/a/JhlPh

Technically its involuntary manslaughter. Welcome to KSP.

What I find annoying is that in my opinion the book had a better story than the movie - but Clarke wrote 2010: Oddysey Two in movie canon.