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RedDwarfIV

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  1. Nope. It was hard enough getting this to fly. You know, if the warp nascelles weren\'t raised like that in the series, I would not have been able to get the ship to fly.
  2. So it\'s not nescersarily running off a Large Hadron Collider in each hull. It just has drives that can break up reaction mass in a way that releases energy, without that reaction mass being naturally fissile.
  3. NX-02 Columbia. Of course, Tim Barrett is probably going to build the Fortunate now.
  4. NX-02 Columbia. Of course, Tim Barrett is probably going to build the Fortunate.
  5. Higgs said he didn\'t know any practical applications for the Boson.
  6. It was supposed to emit particles [from what was described as \'broken-up atoms] as reaction mass, and this could cause severe radiation in the engineering section of the hull. It had a cap of 20% lightspeed. Apparently a fusion reactor was used as the engine\'s \'starter motor\'.
  7. In a book I read, Hull Zero Three by Gregory Bear, Ship [AKA Golden Voyager] has for engines a \'Bosonic Drive\' which runs off of water mined from an Oort Cloud moonlet attached to the spacecraft. I haven\'t found any information on the Internet, so i\'m asking here. How would an engine utilise the Higgs Boson? What would a Bosonic Drive even look like?
  8. Thanks for the information you have geen able to provide, even if Acer is unable to. I\'ll look into it.
  9. I\'ll have a \'fizzy drink\' with natural \'colourings\' which I shall put in the \'boot\' of my \'Mum\'\'s car, where it shall likely spill, whereapon I shall put the can into the recycling \'wheelie bin\', and mop up the mess with \'toilet roll\'. American translation: -\'Soda\' -\'Coloring\' -\'Trunk\' -\'Mom\' -\'Dumpster\' -\'Bog roll\' Holy Sanyo DVD recorder and Hi-Fi video cassette recorder on a desk, I\'m British.
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    My desktop is an Acer Aspire M1930, with quad-core processor, 8 GB RAM, and Intel HD Graphics. I was told when I bought the computer that for the price range I was looking at, a quad-core was the best processor I could get - apparently triple-core has problems and isn\'t as fast anyway. I upgraded the system to 8 GB of RAM myself recently. But I still can\'t get much more than 10 FPS on KSP. Do I need better graphics? Does this mean installing a better graphics card? What does a graphics card do? I got the impression they were supposed to send the interface to the monitor/s. Is it a Graphics Processing Unit I need to be looking at? If so, why can\'t I find any mention of GPUs for my desktop on the Internet?
  11. I was working on testing a spaceplane for the Mod Community Base - it has a cart for a forward landing gear, allowing it to traverse Mun without engines. I landed it near Werewolf Station, and drove it towards it. The vessel impacted, knocking over the base, and breaking the spaceplane in half.
  12. I think a large number of Minmus base Kerbals are doing what your avatar is doing.
  13. I like how Contritium and Lanoidus are in the asteroid belt.
  14. He didn\'t have a collaborator on the books. It was just that he had someone to help him with the three laws. Asimov said it was that person who came up with them, and that person said it was Asimov who did most of the thinking up, and that this person was a sounding board for Asimov\'s ideas.
  15. I believe I may have mentioned that company when I proposed the Veto Aerospace Toroidal Ascent Balloon Launch Platform [VATABLP]
  16. He wrote a book called I, Robot, in which he explored the possible malfunctions and logic loops that might be caused by the Three Laws, which he co-wrote with someone who claims that Asimov did all the work. Which is modest of that person. But anyway, it featured a Mercury station robot that was running in circles around a pool of something dangerous, robots that were supposed to be clearing a mine collapse but didn\'t, robots that took over a space station, and robots that were hiding from Dr.Calvin - Yes, she is a character in the book. All because they were following the Three Laws to the letter. Evidently, they are not the perfect circle of protection. The movie was based on the general idea of the book. Asimov didn\'t have any hand in its script.
  17. Likelyhood is he just used pictures he had taken whilst flying around and landing rather than screen captures of actually returning from the Mun.
  18. I\'m sure all efforts are being made to prevent Skynet\'s existence in real life.
  19. Yes, you can enter it. Though presumably, the more contests you have entered it in, the less interesting it will seem, as pointed out by Imandreas. Not that tricky. It has Mechjeb, and it landed on top if the base. Another one I landed nearby wasn\'t so lucky. It happily landed, and I drove it to Werewolf base, but it failed to stop. The base was knocked over to a 45* angle, and the shuttle broke in half. Strangely though, despite looking seriously overbalanced, the forward half could still rove around.
  20. Here\'s to hoping that sucking up the gear will be enough of a \'handbrake\' to stop my shuttle rolling away.
  21. Khyron, can you change my chosen mod to C7 Flight Pack? I\'ll add VA next time, but right now I need C7.
  22. Thanks Excalibur. And yes, Series 4 was my favourite.
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