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totm dec 2019 Russian Launch and Mission Thread
kerbiloid replied to tater's topic in Science & Spaceflight
The relatively normal name has returned, PTKNP. Waiting for Boeing rollback to CST-100. -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_heart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_heart
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FAA is reorganized into the Bananautic Agency.
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It's been eye now. Waiter! I ordered snails. I can see shells, but where are slugs?
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Planckton. The quark-lepton mess, the physical plankton of Planck-length size.
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Ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer back.
kerbiloid replied to ThatKerbal's topic in Forum Games!
This doesn't raise a question. Sauron was nine-fingered. Why do they depict him (his tower) as one-eyed? -
Granted. SLS is fueled with methanol and doesn't fly. I wish for an orbital island.
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Yoursing is cheating.
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totm dec 2019 Russian Launch and Mission Thread
kerbiloid replied to tater's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I would spell it "...guard", but the word filter can be against the full version. (No, seriously, the "A..g..ard" project is for saving the humanity in space. It's guarding our... future. At least, the symbol of it.) Anyway, are they now going to run "Sirius-500"? It's like "Mars-500", i.e. "500 days on Mars", but "500 years to Sirius", a simulated generation ship. -
As the heaviest possible planes are of ~500 t mass, and aren't designed for aerobraking (actually, even for fast turns), and the aerobraking is significant only for the bodies with low average density (space vessels and even warheads are lighter-or-equal than water), the titanium-class vessels can't be too heavy. Tonnes, maybe tens of tonnes. This means thousands of winged or shielded slugs per year.
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Floor 4455: A twin party.
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Banbreviature.
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Ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer back.
kerbiloid replied to ThatKerbal's topic in Forum Games!
Unless you are doing it in vacuum. Are the lunar seas covered with lunar plankton? -
Yes, that's how we hunt the mice for it. Waiter! Well done Saehrimnir steak, please.
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Tornado Alley. The titanium slugs should be made porous and get pulverized on reentry. Then the tornadoes are catching them above the ocean and softly spread along the Tornado Alley, making a blinding-white TiO2 ridge. *** Or The Ring. Throw the TiO2 slugs to LEO to form a planetary ring shining in the sky and slowly aerobraking as an equatorial titanium dust rain. Of course, it requires collector rafts along the equator, but why not.
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About the Moon. While the rare-earth lunar Eldorado is yetr mostly apocryphal, what's really real is the lunar titanium. The Moon has a lot of it. And there is no purpose for the lunar titanium outside of the Earth till the far-future projects like low-solar-orbit light collectors, low-jupiter-orbit charged particle collectors, etc. Thus, the lunar Ti should be mostly delivered to the Earth. To let it make sense, the lunar production of Ti must be at least comparable to its production on the Earth, which is currently ~9.5 mln t of TiO2 per year. So, ~5.5 mln of Ti/year. I.e. 15 000 t / day. As it's hard to deliver anda land 15 000 t/day softly, it should be thrown there, and then fall here. This mean 15 000 t of white-hot metal daily passing through the Earth atmosphere per day. It can solve the problem of the cities illumination, and will make the night sky very spectacular: the mesh of bright dots of tens of thousands of skylink and other LEO sats, crossed with a fiery comet rain of the falling titanium.
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totm dec 2019 Russian Launch and Mission Thread
kerbiloid replied to tater's topic in Science & Spaceflight
(The forum software can't embed the video due to the tricky character in its title.) I have a feeling that it is what the real Russian lunar program is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jYNgoeelGg The ability to intercept the lunar sats will come sooner that successful lunar craft landing. Then it will be equipped with a lunar landing warhead payload. -
What's an RPG, What's a Simulator, and why KSP2 is (or is not) one of them
kerbiloid replied to Lisias's topic in The Lounge
A pool. The Kerbals have a pool next to the Astronaut Spawner. Somebody should clean it, and do secondary missions.- 57 replies
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What's an RPG, What's a Simulator, and why KSP2 is (or is not) one of them
kerbiloid replied to Lisias's topic in The Lounge
So, they are going to add Housewife and Plumber roles for Kerbals... Sooner or later it had to happen.- 57 replies
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