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THAT is the thing we are missing as a community: a specific idea/concept/maneuver we can name and attribute to him! "hey, what did you do in KSP today?" - "ah, well, i tried The Scott Manley maneuver... didn't make it" "Meh, No one's ever made the first jump. [/The Matrix quote]" Anyone firm enough in all his videos to come up with a candidate? PS: Scott Manley _did_ make the first jump.

There has been a very good book about that (or at least similar) topic: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman He follows what we know about our world, if suddenly all of humanity is removed. From short term (flooded subways) to long term (what will be the last remaining relics of humanity?). If you are interested in this kind of stuff, this book is highly recommended.

not able to watch this with a straight face at the office... gotta quit after 5min... that hurt

Granted. Here's your mandatory red shirt. Oh, and your username? Totally offensive to any Klingon, ane they know where you live. I wish I knew - for certain, with proof - whether P equals NP. Granted. it did so in 2009. I wish I hadn't just been ninja'ed.

Scale! Think in longer terms. This was not for potential extraterrestials within a few light years distance, those could figure out something is happening here without a map. This was intented to be read thousands, or(*) millions of years in the future. A single encounter with a rogue planet unknown to the recipient, even if it influences Voyager's path by a minute amount, would make it neigh impossible to get a correct location by backtracking. RL is not KSP's simple 2-body physics. You would need to know the location, mass, velocity of every single piece of relevant sized mass along the path. Another factor had earth scientists baffled for decades. The RTG did not uniformly radiate its heat, and influenced The Pioneer probes to a measurable amount over the distance. IIRC 15min arrival time difference over two/three decades? And these decades were spent wondering with full access to the blueprints. What I want to see on the next message-in-a-bottle mission is this: A defined amount of ultra pure Uranium 238. (not 235) A description of how to measure exactly with how much this started. A description of the full decay cascade. With knowledge of the half life (more than a billion years) and some decent measurements one can easily determine the probe's true age... -- (*) Wanderfound is right, my bad.

The moon landing is fake theory again... *sigh* cringeworthy.... not going to rebuke every single point he makes...

Self Destruct Button? The one in the bathroom was already pressed by... you! The others are already disabled. I help Nathaniel looking for weapons. Preferrably something sharp and pointy, will not run out of ammo or jam inconveniently. Who of us has any bio background? Please check the lab. We need to know what we are dealing with.

Granted. You now speak and understand Kerbish(?) and have the opportunity to talk to you crew. They endlessly complain about your ship designs, the lack of a KSC swimming pool, the long boring interplanetary transits, and that time when you forgot the parachutes again. I wish for the legalization of... <checking-forum-rules>... something specific in my country.

Early career: - checked contracts - went to the Mun - planted flag - returned to Kerbin (including rescue mission) ... forgot to accept contract.

Yup, 5thHorseman nailed it. Another classic example: personal space. (not applicable to forum, i know) some people like to get close, others like to stay at arms length. one is an annoying clinger, the other a cold and distant stranger. or sarcasm. personally? i love getting snarky replies, keeps me... i'd love to say 'sharp', but let's just agree on 'less-dull'. what could be a funny throw-away comment to some, can be a devastating slap in the face for others... I repeatingly err on the wrong side of that. (If that totally annoyed/angry/irritated lady from last weekend reads this: i was just trying to lighten up the mood.) PS: perhaps more fitting for forum posts: Some people love discussing ideas, and react positve to any argument against their opinions, often even argument in favour of ideas they themselves do not support, just for sports. others may see counterarguments as personal attack to their person... have a coworker who is the latter.

Yes! Good book. Sadly the last thread dried up

This: https://twitter.com/MichaelH_PhD/status/615731776070250496 cringe worthy screenshot is anonymized by linked tweeter!

Granted. You discover a series of fascinating books, a gripping story, likeable characters, stunning background... then the author kills of every single one of the characters you actually like. I wish to be timetravel to the time Pumapunku was build, and be able to return with the knowledge of who build these and how and why.

Grats!

Granted. You and all of the mosquitos survive. I wish for a Klein bottle full of pennies.

I lay down the controller for a sec. Just ran afoul of turtle shell anyway. *shakes-fist-at-MarioKart-game* We have a tentacle. It's dead. So it can't escape. Test one: It's skin is impenetrable to blunt weapons. A very sharp knife cuts, slowly. Test one : Does anyone have a gun for testing purposes? Test two: It does fortunately not bleed acid or pulpy orange juice. Test three: It does conduct electricity, though mostly on the outside, but reasonably well. Test four: It does not spontanously combust if exposed to sunlight. Test five: I does not burn (unlike some of our kitchen equipment) Test five : Our smoke detectors work as designed. Tests may continue after cleanup... and after I somehow manage to stop the fire alarm... We need to know which weapons work! PS: Addendum to Test one : . o O (Edusaccon => food that shoots back => not food)

Come on guys. This is the "Science Labs". Not the "ban-the-user-above-you game". So, arguments given: Pro: - financially sound plan - <I leave that to someone else, lest I construct strawmen arguments> Con: - very risky, serious repercussions if caught - long range. as stated the system test was done at 1.5km, SpaceX was 20x farther (any experts? how much would a powerful laserbeam diverge?) - very fast flying target (although at that distance the angular movement would be smaller... not good with math. help?) - as Frozen_Heart pointed out: no laser visible in IR footage (*) Anything else? -- (*) PS: ohhhkay. there IS a blip in the footage (02:24/25) just seconds before failure... still not convinced, but do take note.

Hmmm. not explicitly. You could construct something along this: "2.2 Forbidden content - Messages which contain, discuss or link to the following are explicitly forbidden: h) Accusatory comments that lack merit, offer no proof of concept or are of a potentially slanderous nature;" But "proof" is given (two quoted vids, plus connecting hypothesis). Not really without merit, if true. "Slanderous" depends on definition... While I disagree with the posted hypothesis, I - personally, not a mod - approve of this thread.

"[...]range of 1.5 kilometers on April 22, 2013,[...]" - from Lockheed's test "[...]altitude 32 km, speed 1km/s[...]" - from SpaceX 9 video, a few seconds before failure. While I would not categorically rule out a move like that, this would be an impressive improvement of the anti-rocket laser system within just 2 years...

Granted. You now have one free pizza. It has to last for your whole life, you will never get another. @Xannari: Granted. You can do standup comedy. In perfect english. Deep in the middle of rural France. Noone willingly admits to understand you. I wish for a Chicxulub-sized impact event on the moon, somewhere safe enough to not endanger life on earth, yet visible from ground. PS: Holy Sh... . Found while checking the spelling.

According to the dinosaurs, we are living in a post-apocalyptic world!

While I generally agree to your idea, _that_ advice always gets me in trouble. Rephrasing: Most importantly, no matter how you are treated by someone else, treat them the way you yourself would like to be treated - while imagining yourself being in their position with their (instead of your) persona/preferences. That little addendum makes this pretty hard.

Survival... on individual basis? granted, many so called doomsday scenarios allow for the survival of individuals or groups thereof. But a sustainable, stable civilization as we know it now? Without falling back to hunter-gatherer state? e.g. the end of 'Escape from L.A.' a world spanning satellite network blanketing earth in EMPs, destroying all higher level electronic equipment... individually? everyone has a chance to survive. grab your zombie-survival guide, make friends with people hoarding guns, stick close to Bear Grylls, etc. civilization as we know it? not a chance. there is no way earth can sustain a stable population of 7-8billion humans without modern technologies. no way cities of millions can thrive. billions would die, and to the rest of humanity? huddled around campfires in abandoned parking lots, after a day looting the dead concrete woods that had names like Paris, New York, Moscow, or Tokyo. telling stories of the forgotten age when people could fly, and fresh water came running out of the walls. when we could know what happened on the other side of the earth mere seconds later... Whatever event would have caused it, it will be called Doomsday. YES! Mad Science! After all, that's what KSP is all about. Right?

Huge tentacled monsters are known for their ability to fit into the tiniest of spaces... no internal skeleton. I think, Nathaniel is trying to lure us into a false sense of safety. I pin a fine wire mesh over the air vents. Starting with my room, finish when running out of mesh. Start hunting the library for cookbooks - "How to cook squid". Hmm.. Monsters. I start a list in the mess hall. All names of us are listed, each day is marked. When some of us get eaten, we will find out that way... I practice faking Edusaccon's handwriting :-P

Granted. You now owe 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.01 USD to the russian mob. Plus interest. I wish I had an Aspirin