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kerbiloid

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  1. Just btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_Global_Strike#Background
  2. Dear Lands Hill (thinking positive)
  3. Granted. I wish to unsee this scary shine of the Kerbal eyes in the darkness of space...
  4. And the sulfur scrubbers are the same part of any metallurgical , chemical, or gas refinery plant which extract the carbon oxides, too.
  5. First of all, in a nuke, unlike the chemical, fuel =/= propellant. The fuel is what you burn to get energy (uranium, deuterium, etc), the propellant is what you accelerate to throw back (any substance to be heated or ionized and electromagnetically thrown). Power = Force * velocity The reactor gives you P ~ const. v (the exhaust speed) depends on either the temperature of the propellant or its electromagnetic acceleration. F = P/v. The faster is the exhaust, the lower is the available force, being limited by the reactor power. The temperature of the propellant is limited by the reactor and the engine construction, so the thermal exhaust speed of the propellant is limited by several thousand kelvins, and thus several km/s. The ionization and electromagnetic acceleration is not limited by the temperature so much, and a hundred thousands of km/s is possible. So, you should heat some additional propellant with great atomic mass (say, air or water) by the reactor heat exchanger or/and by the ionized jet to provide high thrust/low ISP on launch. Actually the engine will work on launch as an open cooling system of the reactor. Then use low-thrust/high-ISP ions acceleration in zero-G. The ultimate case of the electromagnetic acceleration is the thermonuclear reactor throwing back ionized alpha-particles, either used as propellant themselves, or heating some propellant to get intermediate ISP. And as any way a rocket-powerful reactor would provide a lot of neutrons which it's impossible to catch (the protection wall would be enormously high, it's usual about 6 m of concrete thick), thus unlikely any one type of reactor but the aneutronic fusion reactor will ever be used in a crewed spacecraft. As this will happen probably by the end of XXI, so the chemicals will stay the only human-rated engines for a century more.
  6. "Sell a new car instead of still normal old one". And still can't see "Experienced aged persons of 70+ are required for hire." (That's about the ratio of the ecological efforts to the expected active lifespan).
  7. https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Р-39_(танк)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru Not the tank itself is Kerbal, but the process of its development.
  8. Has been banned and ban beenned.
  9. Granted. You have incidentally spread the bitter sauce across the kitchen amd have to clean it. The sandwich follows it because you've dropped it when falling on the slippery floor. I wish to good the morning.
  10. So, the caption on it "John Carter was here. J-of-allJs, 1912" was a fake???
  11. And even if the star doesn't have a personal name, there are star catalogs always ready to help you. For example, Alpha Centauri is also known as: So, their common planetary system (if it exists) can be called: Alphacentaurian System HD128620&21ian System HR5459&60ian System CPminus605483ian System GCTP330900ian System LHS50&51ian System (of course, in addition to Tolimanian System, Rigilcentaurian System, and other historical names).
  12. 10/10 You're an ice-cream street vendor. I am a human because actually I got even two possible references.
  13. 10/10 Only humans learn the book from the ancient general more known for the mass execution of the palace concubines after the toy battle, rather than for conquering a half of continent like others. I'm a human because it's my biological nature.
  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheintochter Rheintochter und Rheinbote. When you first time discovered the symmetry button in VAB and can't stop playing with it.
  15. Because he is erroneously thinkning that people can read. How many stars are there on the sky? I mean, on the flat sky background image?
  16. Probably, were trying to make a magnet ramp to check for hidden weapon by pulling up to ceiling, but realized that it's looking like Moon. The levitation device.
  17. The problem with it is in the joints, especially the neck, and in the fact that the skin is an excretory organ, too. But actually this doesn't change anything, as the classic pressure suit provides exactly the mechanical counterpressure by tightening the inner suit layer pneumatically. (Not by the air pressure surrounding the body inside the suit, but by pulling the bands on the pneumopipes inflation.)
  18. Stop playing with food and take the toy blocks out. It's normal, it's aging. Waiter! Where is the mush room here?
  19. The more I know about this landing scheme, the more I ensure that a giant pogo stick would be better choice... No need even to launch it. Just the rocket could land on it with the bottom opening, undock from ground and start jumping. (Also a precursor of a pusher plate scheme.)
  20. I saw that guy! Arms!.. The catching arms. The stupid me didn't recognize the source of idea. And now we can see the name of the first Starship. Absolutely in SpaceX traditions. Upd. And look!
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