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Ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer back.
kerbiloid replied to ThatKerbal's topic in Forum Games!
None. You can do it right at your place. Why do I want to sleep after lunch? -
Pass by the bar three times, please. A straw berry eye scream, please.
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Jules Verne Cannon Payload To Orbit.... Feasible?
kerbiloid replied to Spacescifi's topic in Science & Spaceflight
An underground vacuum spiral hyperloop, 4 000 km in diameter. Softly accelerates a capsule to 8 km/s in magnetic field, then lets it escape through the tilted escape pipe laying on a 7 km high mountain. -
For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
The point was to avoid direct hit. -
Banned for calling "demo" a GPU test.
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For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
+10! When I was playing Microprose F-117, the "Fuel-Air" was effective only against "Fuel Depots" and "Trails" *** Though it was discussed as an anti-sat weapon in space. The charge releases the air-fuel cloud on approaching to the target and ignites it. The charge misses, but the thin aluminium target gets crushed in the cloud by the overpressure. -
For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Also we should not confuse the combat flamethrowers with the kitchengarden ones These ones are gas-fueled, as they don't need the fuel get sticked to the target. -
For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
It's a petrol can with petrol. The pressure is made either by compressed air in the other balloon, or by several powder charges, So, it isn't more dangerous than a petrol can with attached high-pressure air balloon or a bandolier below. -
My post is absolutely serious. Just in non-academic language. *** The adepts of the warming warning: 1. They ignore the fact that just ~12k years ago (in human history, not in dinosaur time) the kilometer-thick ice shield in the Northern hemisphere melted, the ocean level raised by tens (up to hundred and more) meters, opposed to the current centimeters declared to be catastrophical. And this happened just in several centuries. But as we can see, it didn't cause anything like hurricanes devastating the continents. Just the climate got more comfy. Of course, we miss the hairy elephants and sabretooth cats (actually not so much), but much more developed species feel absolutely happy instead. 2. They ignore the fact that just in several centuries the Vinland lost vineyards, the Greenland lost green, the Holland started skating at home, and then everything turned back. The Dutch winter is now far from subarctic, and the process just returns to the green Greenland and vineyard Vinland, like a thousand years ago. 3. They ignore the ~5600 BC disaster, when the American cold Agassiz Lake dumped a mass of cold water into the Atlantic ocean causing cooling and drought in Eurasia, which killed the Fertile Crescent civilisations and forced the founding of the documentally known ones (Egyptian, Mesopotamian). The effect was significant, but just because of poor agriculture of those times. 4. They bring charts of hardly measurable processes (like how much do the volcanoes exhaust, how much do the forests exhaust and inhale). Of course, this can be measured with some precision, but the cross of error around these points could be wider than the chart itself. Instead they just draw smooth curvy lines perfectly matching each other. While they should be wide bands, making the chart look not so much impressive. 5. They ignore the fact than since XIX/XX (i.e. just in a century) the human population has increased 4 times (from 2 bln to 8 bln), and the funny part is that all of them need food. So, they should either have increased the plowland area 4 times (impossible, but they are trying), or have raised the plowland productivity by 4 times (mostly done since 1913, when Bosch started producing synthetic ammonia from air and water, thanks to Fritz Haber). So, the combination of these two factors still allows to feed the 4 times greater population on the same land, but it's strange to wait that it could be done without burning more and more coal to produce the fertilizers and power the plowland watering. Of course, it's much easier to blame the plastic bags and straws (like if the blamers drink with hands from a river and eat wild berries and mushrooms), than to accept the fact that more people need more energy just to have grown some crops and to deliver it to the population. 6. They ignore the fact that following the mainstream is the most available path for a scientist to get funds for his researches, regardless of his personal scientific point of view. He can find himself the human-caused global warming theory totally idiotic, but he needs money to study a forest, a volcano, a glacier, and the obvious way to get funded is to say "Look! The smoke clouds are rising above our heads causing the oceanic storms, and as a minor part of our struggle we need to study this forest/volcano/glacier". Or an engineer wants to develop some tool to measure the sulfur oxides in air. What should he say? "Look! We need a new tool to measure sulfur oxides because it's cool and I like it!" ? No. If he has a piece of brain, he must say: "Look! We have no air to breathe and urgently need a new tool to measure the sulfic pollution to make the whole world cleaner!" So, the magic of big numbers doesn't work here at all. The fact that 90% of scientists are shouting about the global warming caused by the human industry doesn't mean they actually believe it . Actually, 90% of them don't care. They are just small people doing the job they like or they can. The most important part of any scientist work is to find money for the scientist needs to let him do this work. His article and active position won't change the world, but will provide him and his family with some food and pleasures, and maybe even will be used later by another scientist to disprove his theory and make the world better with an opposite one. Just people tend to overestimate the significance of their personal position in the human history. As Kepler said (quoting from memory), "The astrology is a prodigal daughter of astronomy. But without this daughter the mother would die from starvation."
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One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
kerbiloid replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
They were pretending it's a movie, not a series. -
Jules Verne Cannon Payload To Orbit.... Feasible?
kerbiloid replied to Spacescifi's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Wire is not the best. -
Unbanned for getting unRIPped.
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Banned for forbanreasons.
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One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
kerbiloid replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
Xmas came early this year. -
Banned because lizards need a lizense.
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Thou shalt compile a the thousand of the orphan minimods into a single kilomod.
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One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
kerbiloid replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
Everything is faster than anything from KSP2. Because it exists. -
p and H are for acidity (pH). Bur pH ill
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Banned because he said this in the right-to-left way.
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Banned for still using your weak human technologies for videocards.
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totm aug 2023 What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?
kerbiloid replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
"First snow" Likes: 0 Dislikes: n/a -
Banned because RTX (whatever it is) should be autoadjustable
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For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Just don't combine this with hamsteroids. -
Granted. You start ordering eggs with circular cut. Is wish Kerbals had eggs and chickens. Green are normal, too. Upd. I mean an aviary, not Kerbals themselves.