Bill Phil

Seriously? That's... disheartening...

Δv Greek keyboard is a good idea.

I was under the impression that the rebellion stole the ships. How they maintained them? Who knows. But by the time the rebellion gained traction I could see them gaining enough support to maintain their fleets.

Yeah. Loved the space battles. I eventually got the Stargate mod and never looked back.

You must be lucky. I had to reformat it and reinstall it every once in a while. I definitely disagree about the best OS in history...

True. But engine plates should be stock.

Man, thermodynamics is always ruining our fun.

Windows 7 seemed really unstable, Windows 8 seemed really unusable, and Windows 10 seems really unfathomable. Still, it works. Only problem I have is finding everything. Personally, I have more problems with other microsoft products...

There won't be an infinite number of humans, but we're still making some big assumptions that make the hypothesis almost irrelevant. Eventually we die off or evolve. And both may very well happen...

It assumes a finite number of total humans distributed over time. Even more so, it isn't really a doomsday hypothesis, just an interesting little thing.

It definitely will be different, but there aren't any known health issues (afaik), and if there were they'd likely be less problematic than free fall.

That's definitely not the actual minimum. Maybe for high quality graphics, but that's not really necessary.

I've got a pretty low performance pc and it can run Portal 2... Maybe something else is amiss?

A reactor is not a bomb. Maybe a potential radiological incident (although we dump far more of the stuff into the atmosphere with coal plants) but definitely not a bomb. Uranium is generally unfit for nuclear weapons and even if they got nuke grade purity that implies a facility that did it. Spent reactors have a lot of junk in the fuel, so they'd need to enrich the uranium. But if they retrieved the spent uranium from the reactors just about everybody would see them do it. And then it's not too hard to deal with. They'd need a centrifuge in orbit, otherwise dealing with them is even easier.

Using task manager was what I was referring to. Or trying to refer to...

You can check your RAM use during play, and I think you can even check RAM used by specific programs. So load up KSP and do something as memory intensive as possible, and see how much RAM is in use. Definitely not the easiest way, but it would confirm if it's 64 or 32 bit.

A larger cooling system, but not necessarily a more complex one. I would argue that having ten small reactors would require a more complex cooling system than a single large reactor. Redundancy can be accomplished with a highly redundant design for the larger reactor or by using 2 not quite as large reactors.

Probably. 50+ years is a long time.

Well, they're not just your tax dollars. Students can also contribute taxes to the government, mostly with sales tax, but also some income taxes. So it's not theft, especially if it's a sanctioned activity. Also... you have little control of how your tax money is spent, and not paying taxes will likely result in you facing consequences.

Night time necessitates batteries or some form of energy storage. Cosine losses could be significant if the panels don't track the Sun and the sheer distance from the Sun adds another layer of problems. Maybe a solar satellite in orbit beaming power down to the base... no night time, short eclipses, and ultra-light mirrors can overcome the distance problem (increasing irradiance on the panels). Then we need a rectenna.

Even so, eventually the plane could lift off. The treadmill, if it goes fast enough, will start to move the air above it, which will cause lift for the plane (increase in airspeed). If this lift gets high enough, the plane takes off.

And I have roughly half of @Dman979... Are we in a laplace resonance?

The Jool system in general.

If the plane isn't moving (if) as a result of the treadmill, eventually the treadmill will speed up the air above it due to friction. Nothing to do with wheel bearings. Friction increases airspeed. Friction is not itself increasing. This whole problem is too ambigious to solve. Each side "knows" the answer but, in truth, the two sides are solving different physics problems, based on individual interpretations.

Sure. But eventually drag between the treadmill and the air increases the air speed with respect to the plane, thus generating lift. The plane might crash eventually, but it takes off.