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Things that NASA never said at a press conference.
kerbiloid replied to FlamedSteak's topic in Forum Games!
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Like the gas in our home water heater... Uranium, deuterium, lithium, beryllium, tungsten are stable. All heil Orion, like always. Mercury is stable, too, and is a propellant for the low-thrust electric engines. Together with the glass atoms. We need a 200 year long life support, and a crew of midwife nuns to calmly spend generations in travel, servicing the ovocyte fridge and raise new crewmembers (later, first colonists) ab ovo. Of course, they may think that the Earth is eliminated (for our sins), so their ark is the only safe and nice place in the universe until they have reached the destination planet and populate it to turn it into a New Earth. Later the colonists will read books and know the truth. They even may be called Bene Gesserit and believe that they can access the memories of their predecesors. (We call it blogs.)
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Cards, numerology, Pythagorean stuff... It's a whole Banenerbe society here.
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Banned by scoop door.
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Let AI rewrite its own source.
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Banned by Scooby Don't.
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They left from Saturn wedding. Waiter! I asked for manioc, and this is just a fewoc.
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Napoleon Ban-Apart.
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When you wonder how a vacuum cleaner is piloting a space fighter.
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One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
kerbiloid replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
Galadriel husband's name was Celeborn. In Elvish it means "Born as Celebrity" -
The next great technology & change?
kerbiloid replied to JoeSchmuckatelli's topic in Science & Spaceflight
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Granted. The stadium keepers are tired of taking you from the football gates, which you are jumping from. I wish for bigfootball championship.
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For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
So... Late XIX century. The archaeologists from various countries (Europe, China, Egypt, Mesopotamia) were talking to each other without understanding each other's language, so they were helping themselves by drawing primitive pictograms with stick on ground. Everyone was impressed and inspired, and the drawings were looking like a cuneiform. When they had returned to home, everyone kept drawing same "writings" in his own manner, with his own materials. Early XX century, The museums of the world are full of the archaeologists' pictorial graphomaniac inscriptions, looking suspiciously similar... "Ancient Mesopotamian" on the clay tablets, "Ancient Egyptian" on the papyrus and stone, "Ancient Chinese" on the rice paper, "Medieval Gothic" on parchment. The "Medieval Gothic" are the most dull, because they are just routine texts, written in a stylish manner. Others are more funny, but they are just funny pictures. So, as these pictures aren't connected to the languages to any degree, the "Ancient Egyptian", "Ancient Mesopotamian", "Ancient Chinese" archaeologists start thinking out funny stories on these funny pictures. The "hieroglyphic writing" is born! The linguists of the Middle East languages also do not lag behind. They suffer from backhurt, that the archaeologists do have this, while they don't. While the Chinese still speak Chinese, and are happy with these pictures and stories, the "Ancient Egyptian" and "Ancient Mesopotamian" are mute, nobody speaks in them. Bingo! They take Coptic (because using Arabian would look too revealing), tune it, and invent the "Ancient Egyptian". Also they say to the Copts that they are former Ancient Egyptians, and that's why they differ from others. The Copts understand it as "They called us Pagans! Go fake yourself, archaeologists, the pyramids aren't ours, you built them yourselves, we saw it! We're good Christians! Go home, mummyfakers, and take your mummies with you!" (And they took). But who cares, what the Copts think? Did you see a Copt to ask if he had seen a pharaoh? So, they are Ancient Egyptians. See, the languages are same! But Mesopotamia... "We have funny cuneiform pictures, we have written funny stories for them, but what's the language?... Bingo! Let's mix Hebrew and Arabian, change some sounds to sound weird, say "Z" and "Tz" in every word, and call it... Akkadian!" "Wait, wait, colleagues! I have constructed a language before you, I call it Sumerian. As it's constructed, it's not like others." "Okay, let your Sumerian be an mystic orphan language of The Elders, who came from nowhere. But it's too lazy to invent another writing, let it use the same cuneiform as in our Akkadian!" Meanwhile, in the "Ancient Egyptian" camp... "Colleagues, don't you think that the 5 000 year long history we declared is too much for writing? Look, our "Ancient Mesopotamian" partners already have screwed their Babylon, Assyria, and Sumeria, and declared them dead long ago. I'm tired of rolling dice even to generate the random pharaoh names. Johnhotep, Bobhotep, Billhotep... Now I just use numbers. Ramesses #7, Thutmose #3 (btw, see a funny joke, it sounds almost like Moses), Ptholemei #17, Cleopatra #13, etc." Late XX century. "Now look to the right, please. You can see an Ancient Egyptian mummy of the pharaoh Jebediah-Ra #4. our museum is proud to keep it, it's a real gem of our collection." -
Banjour!
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Banned because the exit is locked in flight.
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(Just after describing the brave new world in the AI thread, and mentioning the strawberry taste in the stupid questions forum game). An obsolete, mammoth-old reference from late XIX - early XX encyclopaedia, which chemicals are used to emulate "fruit" tastes in drinks for plebeians, and how easy they are produced from primitive synthetic substances. https://ru-wikisource-org.translate.goog/wiki/ЭСБЕ/Эссенции_фруктовые_и_ликерные?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp As google failed to properly translate the fruit/berry names in the tables, here are proper names: Apple . _ Abri- oblique . Ba- nan- naya. Hedgehog . _ Vish- not- vaya. Kryzhov is a nickname . Grape . _ Lemon . _ Melon . Orange blue . Peach . _ Pear . _ Ana- us- naya. Drain . _ Mali- new . Cherry . Currant . _ Earth is nothing . Apple Apricot Banana Blackberry Cherry Gooseberry Grape Lemon Melon (Cantaloupe or so, not watermelon) Orange Peach Pear Pineapple Plum Raspberry Sweet/wild/bird cherry Currant Strawberry That's what you call "strawberry". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_anthranilate Much better than spend real berries, more predictable, perfectly storable. That's what the future food will be in space, like it's been being on Earth for a century. This in turn illustrates how far from reality are all terraformation and outland farming projects. All you need is starch and proteins. No crystal domes with Martian gardens. Only starch and protein algae in vats. And the same substances in the balanced daily ration for the Earth population. *** Upd. Forgot to mention the juice with pulp. (The forum users from Russia have seen that recipe in the Fitness series.) natural juice with pulp = artificial instant juice without pulp (made out of the chemicals described above) + fine toilet paper (i.e. purified food cellulose, exactly what the juice pulp is) + mixer Thus we'll go to starz!
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Ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer back.
kerbiloid replied to ThatKerbal's topic in Forum Games!
Because they had no choice. What do you mean, "how"? Like always, by adding the methyl anthranilate into the drink which you call "strawberry". The only honest part in this caption is "straw", because the straw is used to drink it. *** Why spend berries when yoou can solve chemicals? -
totm dec 2019 Russian Launch and Mission Thread
kerbiloid replied to tater's topic in Science & Spaceflight
As always, they will be considered being "ritual artifacts", and the module containing them (interesting, which one) as an orbital sanctuary of fertility cult. Because archaeologists don't have the word "unknown", they have only "ritual" and "ceremonial". And as the Soviet/Russian modules visually look obviously different, and rather specific, while the Western/Japan ones look like a set of barns, it will be clear that this Segment was used by the station priests, while the barns were populated by peasants. It's a pity that they don't have a bath, like the Skylab one. It would be obviously an empty sarcophagus. -
Banned for drinking glitchwine.
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Barabanned.
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Ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer back.
kerbiloid replied to ThatKerbal's topic in Forum Games!
They forgot to take pills. Why somebody needs lemons to make lemonade?