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kerbiloid

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  1. FPS? What FPS? It's KSP 1.12, not 1.3.
  2. Seriousness is a cheating camouflage of insecurity.
  3. Gordon Kerman with the portal gun in KSP-2.
  4. Kitties don't need all these rings. They are perfect.
  5. Dodecadice roll from the hill. Myth Roll Hill
  6. Big Ban bans ten! I must start the work again!
  7. Come on! Elon Musk is just an mass show entrepreneur hired by much bigger people to camouflage their battle for money. Also he has an electrocar company, because he needs some personal business.
  8. The steam depends on the b-hurt temperature they cause.
  9. You get (liquided - word filter) out by wiki like many others before you.
  10. Here you go. Waiter! Did you count, how many bottles of Boa Juice that gentlemen has already drunk?
  11. Accusing Pyro in every loss is a cheating.
  12. Granted. He's inside the movie, and like the characters of zombie movies don't know the word "zombie", he forgot the word "thunderbirds". I wish for Thunderbird https://www.thunderbird.net
  13. My vision. Most part of a nuke energy is X-rays. The fireball is just an area of surrounding material which has absorbed this X-ray, thus has been heated and compressed, and starts to expand at ultrasonic speed. It's also opaque for the electromagnetic radiation, so looks like a bright opaque ball. In vacuum there is nothing to absorb the X-rays. So, far from the objects it's a burst of invisible X-rays and quickly disappearing hot gas cloud. If a ship is enough close to the burst, it partially absorbs the X-rays by hull, partially lets them pass through and irradiate the crew and the equipment. If it's more enough close, the X-rays which have been absorbed in the hull, will heat it up and make it white hot and deformed, and heat up the fluids in tanks, or vaporize it and turn into a metal gas cloud, which is expanding like a burst and destroy the whole ship. So, close to a in-vacuuum nuke the ship would just explode, far from it it would get the crew irradiated, the electronics damaged, the glasses probably gotten opaque (because a glass is more sensitive to radiation than a human organism). Close to an airless moon surface, the X-tay flow would be absorbed by the upper layer of ground, making a bright hot spot, and vaporize it, causing an explosion across the area. The evaporated ground gas cloud in vacuum would quickly expand and disappear, covering the area with radioactive dust. The hot spot will be glowing for seconds, cooling from white to maroon, and cool like a glass spot, similar to the the nukes on the Earth. The objects close to the place will be irradiated by the nuke, smashed (but less that in air) by the gas cloud of evaporated ground, heated up by the X-ray absorption and by the hot spot light. Close to the Martian surface it would cause same hot spot like in vacuum, due to thin air. Due to thin air, the X-rays will travel much farther, being absorbed by the thin "air". The same X-ray energy as on Earth will be absorbed by the same "air" mass. And as the same mass occupies by 2..3 orders of magnitude greater volume, the gas pressure will be significantly lower, and probably not enough hot to make fireball be opaque and supersonic, and thus to run a shockwave. So, probably it will look like a transparent glowing spehere, a burst of wind, and a bright gas cloud from the surface, causing a secondary shockwave, stronger than the thin air motion, but much weaker than on the Earth. The said about the radiation stays same. Unlikely a mushroom cloud will appear, as the air is too thin to form a stable toroidal cloud. More probably, a huge toroidal dust cloud will just cover the whole area and dissipate. The Venusian atmospheric pressure should make the classic fireball 4..5 times smaller, but the total energy stays same. As the "air" density is much greater, the same air mass, which can be pushed, occupies much lesser volume. So the shockwave energy will likely dissipate at several times lesser distance. Unlike the ocean of water (which is incompressible), the gas is compressible and viscous, so the shockwave energy will be quickly turning into the energy of gas friction, and heating the "air" up. So, the smaller fireball caused by the X-rays absorption, together with smaller shockwave area, should form a bubble of hot but subsonic air, compressed enough to be glowing and release the total energy as light and partially X-rays. So, the objects at GZ would suffer from high pressure, but as they are Venusian object, they anyway should be enough strong to withstand 90 atm = 9 000 kPa. The best shelter on the Earth () are 300..500 kPa strong. Minuteman silos are 2 000 psi ~= 10 MPa strong. So, it will be ok with the Venusian objects, except with the one being hit directly. The total energy being mostly released as light, will heat up the Venusian surface... Oh wait... Heat up the Venusian surface??? The mushroom cloud will form, but as the air mass will take away its energy much quicker, will be much lower. At the same time, it will be cooling much slower due to hot air around, so probably will turn into several hot clouds lifting up and dissipating. A gas giant.
  14. By locking this thread you will just cause a new such thread. This one is at least familiar.
  15. Its earlier version had single main rotor, like the Rotodyne in the beginning.
  16. [snip] I just remind that the life is a supercomplex set of reactions which require other parts of puzzle to exist for their running. The early Earth had very specific conditions (mostly thanks to its Moon), and nothing even remotely similar can be observed anywhere in the known Universe yet.
  17. Water is one of the most common compounds in the Universe, and it's almost everywhere. Temperature is in range across all habitation zone. Life (in sense of self-reproducing organic structures) needs enormous amounts of chemical reactions united into multistage cycles (tens of stages for every). The universal fuel of all terrestrial organisms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_triphosphate It's more complex that just warm water.
  18. North America was worth looking in sense of gold, because South America was rich of it. Other experts, same evidences. An expert gave an advice to not presume life when it can be explained with no life, especially when there arre no samples anyway.
  19. Have been never delivered, and unlikely will be in a couple of centuries, so is just an optimism without any facts, scientific basis, to support it, just a kind of sympathetic magic. Also, all four are icy, so unlikely T, E, and E samples would show anything older than several million years, while the Martian polar cap will probably hide the samples for centuries. The Earth is a rather unusual planet in almost every sense.
  20. Mars is too small, doesn't have continental platforms, it hydrosphere consisted of shallow lakes and lasted to short to let somebody significant evolve. Venus rotates slowly (so wasn't accelerated and partially melted by impact), doesn't have continental platforms, its gravitational differentiation was lasting calmly until the lifting matter had reached the surface and cause a planet-wide set of eruption, it's covered with tesseras (so, its crust was slowly cooling rather than catastrofically mixed), it has lost oxygen and hydrogen, but keeps a lot of sulfur oxides So it never had a real ocean, just another net of shallow lakes, its water- and carbomate-rich minerals have been completely destroyed, the water has been splitted by UV. and the lightweight gases have completely escaped due to high temperature due to the greenhouse effect. So, none of them had enough time to develop something meaningful, rather than the Earth had. Presuming Mars or Venus be a life donors for the Earth is like accusing two non-infected persons that they have infected the third, infected one.
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