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Circus left. Clowns stayed. No navigation speedrun. A trip to the Moon by feet.
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Too cold. Forget. Jool Ring Making Initiative
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Still can't understand, what's a purpose of a single Martian sample delivery, except pure failometry. To seriously study the Martian geology, they need locals mining and a cloud of probes. For quick analyzis there are Martian rovers. Just spending efforts on useless aim. Exactly like one more Venusian lander. The Triton expedition should be significant for understanding of the early Solar System (giants) evolution, Kuiper belt, their interaction (how it was captured). It's obviously the highest priority, much higher than anything else. The Uranus probes are also something new, as it was never studied before. But what do they expect from the particular Martian stone? "Wow, there was liquid water on Mars! Wow, it's full of perchlorates! Wow, we still haven't found a life, but they arre hiding somewhere near!" (Same about another photo of the static burnt Venusian rock desert, like if something could change since the last such photo.)
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Ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer back.
kerbiloid replied to ThatKerbal's topic in Forum Games!
First land on Pol land. How did the parents of Jooles Verne know about KSP? -
1/10 Humans know that real life forms are silicone-based. I consume a lot of chemical elements every eat session. Humans just eat.
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Use your spoon to make it orbiting. Food carrier! Why is this spot of fat on the plate looking so familiar?
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Banned for carpet banning.
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For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Actually, jokingly, I had sometimes a feeling that some people did this not once, lol. -
For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
That's why I brought a non-aging person. So, the probability stays same. Say, somebody was born in 1970 (together with Unix), and reaching 60 in 2030 decides to reupload his current, experienced mind into his school age in 1980. So, it's interesting, how many such 50-year cycles can he pass in average before getting a gameover from random external cause (accident, illness, crime, etc.). How many rounds of his biographical optimization. -
For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
A human lifespan is basically limited by the aging mechanism, but also by external causes, like accidents, infections. crimes, and so on. There is a statistics of average mortality rate per every cause, like N cases / (million people * year). So, it probably can be treated as a yearly probability of being killed for every particular cause, and by at least any of them in total. Haven't calculated it yet, but interesting: if take a healthy and not aging person, how many years could he live until probability kills him instead of aging. 200? 500? Or still 150? I.e. does (in average) the aging significatnly shorten the human lifespan, or it's a planned shutdown before inevitable crash a decade later. So, how long would a not aging but vulnerable person set his alarm clock far. Three standard lives? Five? Or maybe less than two? So, if the person reborns in its child body and his childhood epoch with saved current personality and memories, how many lives should it re-live statistically, before a random cause finally kills him in his 14th life, I.e. how many times could he press irl "Return to the launch" before the probabilistic random kill. -
10/10 Only humans use this odd decimal system. Am isn't.
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totm dec 2019 Russian Launch and Mission Thread
kerbiloid replied to tater's topic in Science & Spaceflight
And which mod do they use onboard; MechJeb, kOS, kRPC, TCA, BDArmory Module Rocket, or their own. So short video, so many questions... P.S. It's white. To be invisible in the snow. It's a winter rocket. Satan is gray, like ground. It's a summer rocket. -
Ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer back.
kerbiloid replied to ThatKerbal's topic in Forum Games!
Noone needs rpm archives, so all of them are bad. Only tar.gz install, only hardcore. Does HR mean "head recruiting" or "hire random" ? -
Granted. Done. I wish lithium had at least 20 protons.
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totm dec 2019 Russian Launch and Mission Thread
kerbiloid replied to tater's topic in Science & Spaceflight
It visually differs from Satan very much... -
LOST... Old concepts to project never going off paper
kerbiloid replied to a topic in Science & Spaceflight
https://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one Various retro-futuristic pictures. -
Floor 2826: A tableau "THE NEW PAGE IS ANNOUNCED !"
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"Me mory dump", sir? Where is your mory dump? Bar stander! Stand for your bar!
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The crew is still trying to pronounce /r-p-s-h-p/. The crew gets to the coast by boat.
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For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
A glider, with or without propulsion, like HTV-2 and X-51 test crafts. Is either accelerated by rocket booster (put on top instead of a traditional warhead), or deorbited from LEO. Glides using the lifting body shape and the winglets, helping itself with scramjet (if has it). 1. Flies below anti-ICBM radars, at tens of kilometers, so gets visible later. So, to hit before the command chain of the opponent can react and launch. 2. If used from LEO, can perform a 2 000 km crosswind maneuver to hit an aim far from the platform orbit plane. 3. Glides farther than a conical warhead could with a single-stage booster, can hit aims at IRBM distance, due to lifting force. 4. Can change on command the destination point in flight if the aim is already hit. 5. Can perform turns to hide its real intentions and to make the opponent spend more AA rockets. 6. Can follow a maneuvering target (like an aircraft carrier) on command. 7. Can correct its flight to compensate the weather conditions and other disturbing factors to increase accuracy. 8. By having a great accuracy, needs a low-yield warhead, even maybe conventional or inert. 9. Due to accuracy, lets to hit a weak place of a target to use a single missile instead of a cloud of them. 1. To pass the Bosphor strait legally (they are just "cruisers", not "carriers"). 2. Are a reworked rocket cruiser. So, 2-in-1. 3. Were not to carry goodness to savage tribes, but to hit the goodness carrier (so, just for one fight instead of a long company). -
The merits of Lunar resource mining versus mining on Earth
kerbiloid replied to darthgently's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Why need lunar titanium? To build a fence and a roof. You need something strong but lightweight to put sand bags on top when your module is finally digged in a pit. Micrometeorites, radiation, thermal insulation, anti-flechette sand bags. So, you need the lunar titanium for supporting 3d structures, to put your habitats inside. -
The merits of Lunar resource mining versus mining on Earth
kerbiloid replied to darthgently's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Azerbaijan has oil, not gold. And what is owned by New Venus i even dk. Moonbase Newca Chica. They will build an extremely high Twitter Tower and turn it into a bridge to the Earth with boring ore trains, shuttling there and back again. Look! Somebody has already drilled a lot of holes there to steal the titanium! We'd better hurry. Clay is Al. Sand is Si. Fe is rust making them dirty. Below just 200 km of rocks and ice instead of 2 000 km of rock. That's much better! (Even if the limit of a mountain height/pit depth is just several tens of kilometers, so you can't just dig it out). Two standard railcars of ore? Makes sense. Hundred starships - got a train, *** Annual ore production is 2 billion tonnes. Ten million Starship launches per year is a deal. *** 2 bln t / 3.5 t/m3 ~= 600 mln m3 = a ball 1 km in diameter Yearly the humanity mines a 1 km large asteroid of iron ore. Let's send it to Earth a 11 km/s. -
Ersatz-Klick instead of the locked click.
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Gimme a second, bro Give me a second, sir. I will ask an expert. Hey, Soupender! Here one guy is asking for the verb tenses. Something about future, indefinite, and other gerund. Please, answer him.