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Heavier than 1.5-2 t of MMH/NTO, 8 engines and 4 landing legs? And btw: and still an additional chute - as requires NASA. Orion, CST-100, Soyuz, VA TKS are not hesitated with sand. 5 x 5 km accuracy (i.e. within KSC territory) is achievable with nowadays technics, so landing onto a bus stop is unlikely required.

If this were the aim. Afaik, the aim was: reusable rocket, reusable pin-point landing ship (hard to say, why it needs that pin-point rather than a chute and a piece of desert). For example: Gemini was tested with a delta-wing, but never used it. So, an interesting ability, but not a reusable Gemini as was planned.

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- Where have you heard this, Neo? - In school. - And where is school? - In Matrix... - There is no physics, Neo. Only Matrix.

Unplanned Rapid Events. Currently they have a 12-t single use launch vehicle and a cargo capsule. The same was in 1960s.

Excellent! CPU sends commands to the devices, but only commands from a program, not its own, not commands it would prefer.

Especially if they live 1000 years (far future then) and can hardly distinguish their great-great-great-great-grandchildren from their great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren, and every, say, fourth street bypasser is their kinsman.

Elite for ZX Spectrum contains 8+1 procedural galaxies in 42 kbytes. And myriads of ships. Elite Frontier also contains procedural space centers and other surface facilities. In several MBytes. In any case you need to be calculated only what you are looking at. Delayed calculations, run on demand. (Also this would explain the role of "observer".)

As if somebody has a choice. By will or not, Mother Nature is delicate like a rusty guillotine. "Wait"? The biggest rivers are already 90% dismantled for irrigation.

Toy railroads are made for fathers, not for kids....

Not "us", "one" is enough. How do you know that all other people are not a simulation?

Not oposed! In addition! If they build enough huge floatng cities with roofs made of foil, then Venusian albedo increases, atmosphere cools, gases condensate, cities are floating lower and lower and at last - bingo! - former floating cities stay on ground, temperature is low (just 50 C or so in a shade) and they have large amounts of sulfur to grab it in a heap and build a huge sulfuric mountain - Mons Sulfuris.

A day later this amount of water respawns agian and again. Just to be filtered. Infinite "continuous growth" makes no sense. Colonize new planets to get more resources to colonize more planets? Once you reach an Earth capacity (several billions) you anyway stop. Only millenia later you can colonize other planets - but those people shall not, as a constant population will be already usual for them for many generations. The resources recycling eliminates the rest of sense of infinite extraterrestrial expansion. When you recycle 99% of you resources, you can drop your mining indusrty down to 1% of its original values.

Mother Nature will take care about that. The very first terrestrial life being spread in the Universe will be lifeforms from a fastfood closest to the launchpad - where space center workers had their lunch before putting a fairing onto a martian rocket.

On launchpad the rocket has 8 radial boosters. During the ascent, rear view shows only 4 radial boosters and decouplers for them. Why is he sqeezing the joystick before launch? Nerves? Fear? Or he had played KSP too much and tries to pilot the rocket manually? His habitat is probably Harmony-sized, so ~15 t. Counterweight is 2.5 times closer to the rotation axis, so ~40 t. Either they launched a 40 t piece of lead, or this is mega-RTG. As it doesn't shine red, probably lead. The spacesuit looks so manly, with gardbraces. Gardbrace is an essential thing at starship, of course, but better would have wide pelves with a layer of lead.

Should we spread life in: autoclave of Mercury, Venus and Io; cryostat of Mars and all all outer moons and plutos; gas chamber of gas giants ? We definitely should!

I had gotten this bug, too. At my side it's critical to switch "Smooth View" button off, before adding new cylinder (any shape, I guess). (Right side of main toolbar) When the view is usual, edges and faces, no problem. Something with rendering engine. Another problem was with the Wings3d start. It runs but not visible (Windows 64x.) This is solved by running a bat file: Of course, one should replace file path(s) with his/her own.

As every computer with internet. The only difference is the method of electrical signals translation from the outer contour (hardware) into the inner contour (brain). Btw: direct electrical commutation is not a criterion here, because if a "CPU/brain" interface uses optrons, then it sends/receives optical signals, like in "display/eye+brain" scheme.

Without medical personnel and clinical facilities around? Sounds like the pilot episode of "The Walking Dead" when Rick gets out of coma.

Not "beginning to collapse", but "approaching retro-burn point before unrapid planned soft landing". Looks like a "hype rush" for me.

Not just "using technology". Human species cannot live without technologies as without hands, teeth and skin at once. Technologies are not a tool, they are implants allowing humans to exist at all. Without axe, spear, fire a human is less than nothing and will die in several days or in the best case degrade to an ill ape state.

2-10 kilometers.

Inkscape allows to draw lines/arcs/other primitives and then to move points into exact direction by inserting coordinates in a dialog. Also it has guide lines which also can be positioned with exact numbers - and auto-attach mode. And objects grouping allows to make ship parts and copy/paste them.

A haunting and nasty melody causing a hype effect and degrading the public culture. Wait... I know several of them... O, sh...!

Fire, spear, grass and skin clothes, axe, hammer were invented/absorbed by pre-humans when they yet weren't really recognizing themselves. Teeth, hair and other members have been reduced also at that time. So, when a human as a sentient species recognized itself as a person, it already was absolutely dependant on artificial technologies. The human never had a choice in this question. All "back to nature" pretensions are just efforts to be a lo-tech cyborg rather than a hi-tech one. So, a human is a cyborg by definition, and what we have now is just an ongoing system upgrade.