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Well, then an Alcubierre shuttle is in order. Sure. But on Venus you have almost pure CO2 without any significant H2O. So, the equilibrium will be anyway between H2CO3 * n CO2 and H2CO3 * m CO2, unless you cover all over the planet with a deep ocean. H2CO3 is itself enough ephemerous substance, either H+HCO3- or H2O * CO2. But it reacts enough well with basic oxides such as stones are.
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They obviously had decided to eliminate any existing biosphere, replacing it with terrestrial lifeforms. Then, in advance of this fleet of intrusion, they must send a vanguard of huge uncrewed eradicator ships, with huge amount of the terrestrial (especially chlorella), and pulverize this biological stuff onto the desired planets.
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1. Asteroids are puny things in comparison with Venus. 2. Better hang up a giant teleport gate under a balloon in the Jupiter's upper atmosphere and equalize pressures, 3. Venus's atmosphere consists of CO2, which is acidic oxide highly soluble in water. Once you deliver hydrogen and begin to create water, this water will immediately devour CO2 and react with it. As a result you will get a boiling ocean of carbonic acid, dissolving the crustal minerals, covering the Venus surface with a skin of carbonates. Once you consume all the atmospheric CO2 with hydrogen, you will get a planet with thin, still CO2 atmosphere, boiling and salty acidic ocean on its subsolar side and an acidic ice cap on its night side. As Venus rotates once per several months, and its clouds will no more reflect the Sun light, the acidic hurricanes will uplift huge amounts of the acidic liquid to the sky, where it will be splitted by the solar UV photons, Released hydrogen and oxygen will dissipate into space, and several centuries later only a thin vomicose layer of carbonates will remind about the vanished atmosphere and the attempt to make an ocean on the burny, lifeless planet...
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[1.0.5] PWB Fuel Balancer v0.1.2 (3rd November 2015)
kerbiloid replied to codepoet's topic in KSP1 Mod Releases
There's also GPOSpeedFuelPump -
"What is bank account?"
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Hypersonic suborbital transport market as SSTO enabler
kerbiloid replied to sevenperforce's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Most of people would pay "1000 pieces of gold + 8 hours", not "10000 pieces of gold and 1 hour". So, such plane won't have "economical class", even :business class". Only "first class". -
What can you do with galaxy sized computers?
kerbiloid replied to RainDreamer's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Yes. Smaller nodes, connected with dial-up (let's be optimistic). All you get as a result - a zillion of hanged nodes awaiting response from other nodes. -
Hypersonic suborbital transport market as SSTO enabler
kerbiloid replied to sevenperforce's topic in Science & Spaceflight
For "99%" airlines such plane means nothing but enormous spend of fuel. So, only small amount of them is really required. And while they are rare (i.e. probably always), their production cost will stay enormously high. So, it's possible that some big and rich air company will use several of them for charter (i.e. irregular) flights or for VIPs. -
Hypersonic suborbital transport market as SSTO enabler
kerbiloid replied to sevenperforce's topic in Science & Spaceflight
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What can you do with galaxy sized computers?
kerbiloid replied to RainDreamer's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Intel galaxies usually don't overheat. While quasars were invented by... Another company. Back to the topic: galaxy is just a chip. The Universe is a computer. It keeps all possible information as a superposition of her quantum states. -
What can you do with galaxy sized computers?
kerbiloid replied to RainDreamer's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Several years ago I was impressed when I'd read an article. A distributed computer network, working fine between several cities, became continental and met problems due to the lightspeed delay between its nodes. Before that article the light speed was a pure astronomical thing for me, not something touchable. Now I can hardly imagine a Global Mind computer ruling the world. There must be at least a tribe of them. -
What can you do with galaxy sized computers?
kerbiloid replied to RainDreamer's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Almost nothing due to the 100000-years lightspeed delay between its memory registers. -
Exactly. While space tourists buy their problems for their own money.
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Design a game where human has advantage over computer
kerbiloid replied to RainDreamer's topic in The Lounge
Fallout. Some computers you can hack, others you can shoot. Colobot/ceebot.- 48 replies
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Then we read articles: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-oven-caused-mystery-signal-plaguing-radio-telescope-for-17-years
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Both atmospheres are similar, by the way: height ~60 km, height scale ~8 km, same density at the sea level. Atmosphere isn't guilty here. Orbital speed is. To orbit the Earth you must collect 8000 m/s (without taxes), to orbit Kerbin - just 2600. As both atmospheres are almost similar, gravity accelerations are exactly similar (9.81 m/s2) when you approach the atmosphere ceiling you already have 2000 m/s, and your speed is almost vertical. So on Earth you need 6000 more and you just continue your smooth ascent without intermediate stops. You finish accelerating at ~100 km with 8000 m/s. All are happy. On Kerbin you need either rotate 90 degrees and make a horizontal burn (which looks bizarre), or shutdown your engine and cosplay a GEO transition orbit, making an apocenter burn.
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How many million dollars do the astronauts pay to fly? How many astronauts are among people which can pay? So, until the fair price of such trip exceeds price of a mountain trip...
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If celebrities mean artists, because they are selling emotions, while a human can't generate emotions endlessly. So, they use different kinds of the emotional stimulation. With predictable results.
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You've answered your own question: because people climb Everest. They don't go there by bus. With a space hostel this looks like they go by bus, they spend a fortnight in RV with closed windows watching the same screensaver. Then they go by bus to home. With 1:70 probability their bus falls from a cliff. Yes, there is already a "hype queue" of people ready to buy a ticket. But yet none of them had his/her vacation in a space hostel IRL.
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When I played Orbiter, the ship started an unstoppable spinning when I used the time warp. I don't play Orbiter anymore, as KSP doesn't have this problem.
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There is even more efficient way. Prof X can force them to pay money without buying things.
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According to wiki, there were ~275 spaceflights and ~555 spacehumans. 18 humans died in 4 flights. I.e. a posteriori when somebody sits down into a spacecraft, he/she plays a roulette with 1:70 chances to die. Looks like kill one tourist during every second bus excursion.
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Oops... OK, then he can gouge the rock with stones. The more rock pieces he gets - the faster he works.
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Mars colonists can keep Magneto tied to a plastic chair and make him to rotate a huge generator producing electricity. Of course, in a standalone building separated from the main base. Instead they from time to time bring to him food and water. Storm can be used as an energy distribution and charging device. Magneto gives electricity, Storm distributes it. Cyclops is a mining tool. He must live in a mine and melt the rock. The more he melts - the more he eats. Toad (or how is called that lizard-like thing with sticky spits) can be used to patch holes in the inflattable modules envelope. From time to time they can let him come in to breathe and sleep for 1-2 hours. Wolverine cuts plastic for new inflattable envelopes and makes holes in the existing ones - just to keep Toad busy. Mistique is on duty. As nobody knows, who is she right now and what she is doing, she is on every duty at once. If something somewhere goes wrong, probably she hasn't done this right. Just because you can't be sure if this is somebody's else neglect. So, it's her problem and care: how to keep all intact.
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The previous space tourists were visiting a real and working space station, living with its own life, a famous and fancy thing. And there were just a few of them. To be one of the chosen ones also doesn't mean nothing, by the way, and this costs money. What can offer a specialized space hotel? - 10 minutes of animal fear (launch). - 1 day of headache and vomit. - 1-2 days of gazing at stars and tornados. And romantic starsets. 20 per day. - A week of callisthenics in comfortless conditions, with limited water to have a shower. And books readng. Or gazing at stars and tornados. - 20 minutes of animal fear (landing). No sunny beach, no swimming, no skiing. No sports. In the best case: a volleyball in "baby with granny are playing a ball" style. No basin or jacuzzi (zero-G, after all). No palms (except "face-" ones), no exotic flora and fauna. No ancient ruins. Poor menu of food and drinks, rehydrated and/or heated. Also the food taste is changed in zero-G. So the best chef on the Earth doesn't know what's the real taste of his masterpiece in the space. I.e. a space fastfood instead of a restaurant. (Btw has ever somebody sacrified himself in the name of Science testing an orbital hangover? When even being abstinent you need a special suit and an exercycle just to keep the blood out of the head). Probably, no [censored]. Zero-G, after all, the third law of Newton, hard to argue. So, what can gain a not-a-nerd from a space hoStel? Not much. Are there enough much nerds ready to pay, let it be hundreds thousands, for two weeks of doing nothing inside an orbital aquarium (not even the REAL space station)? So, the space tourism doesn't look very profitable thing.