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kerbiloid

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  1. They are trying to make you think so. Actually, it costs a tonne of fuel before the cargo ship undocking. Are we? O...kay... Next stations must be equipped with ropes, attached to the distant points of the station, and being winded on a drum. On deorbiting, press a button, the electric motor starts rotating the drum, and pulling the ropes. A minute later the station is compressed into a compact metal scrap ball. Also, I still insist that the Life Support System must be renamed into Life Support & Self-Destruction System. Before the station or the interplanetary ship comes into air, the (LS&DS)S must start electrolyzing all water supplies and fill the interior with oxyhydrogen. On heating, it must make sparkles around the interior, and the fuel-air xplosion turns the heavy object into pieces which aerobrake and burn better. They can start bombing the Moon with brass barrels of cyanic acid right now. Cu, Zn, C, N, H - all in one.
  2. Granted. The forum is down, we have additional time to rest. I wish the forum stayed at least as a frozen repository of information.
  3. Hau we can, so we meake it. Eat it, and be happy it doesn't smell ammonia. Ammonite! Ammonia soup, please!
  4. Banned for needing a needle for needling the needed.
  5. As my grandfather from the Northern part of Russia had been decommissioned after WWII in the Southern part of it, where he met and married to my grandmother, I'm strictly against preventing the WWII, as how could my mother be born then? I just wonder, wasn't there another way to let them pair? More peaceful, or so. Why was it necessary to make a whole world war for that?
  6. The problem is how to walk in the modules, attached radially (thus, vertically).
  7. Shenzhou uses androgynous docking system, while the Russian segment is equipped with the extended "hybrid" Soyuzesque one with enforced ring. On the images above, the adaptor itself looks close to the international standard (derived from Buran), while the original Buran has another set of radial structures (more X-like than the clock-like like here, with incompatible places for cable outlets), so the adaptor itself is probably compatible with the Western segment of ISS. But the docking targets on the images look having nothing common with the international standard, but obviously look like the Soviet/Russian approaching and docking systems, including the (laser) thing at the bottom, looking close to the Soyuzesque things on the European cargo ships. So, probably it can mechanically dock to the Western segment, but can approach automatically only to the Russian segment. So, maybe, it can dock in manual mode. This again proves, what an outstanding achievement had been performed by Sandra Bullock when it was really needed, including the fire extinguisher race.
  8. Granted. You get wishdom. I wish for the fleas mass extinction.
  9. Calling 911 for disappearing relevant hardware icons since the internet and virtualization.
  10. Floor 5086: they make the mouse rubber superballs move.
  11. As the new orbital station is called Axiom, everyone should bring an axe.
  12. Your phone. Take it off, please. Phone! Ring!
  13. Somebody had put the tea cup onto the spacebar. Or a kitten was walking on the table.
  14. You could kill any Hitler you wish among the countless other Hitler instances in the multiverse, and stop some WWIIs, while not stopping ten times WWIIs more. (If a single public speaker was indeed valuable himself). Also, without Hitler and WWII the nukes would stay excessive for ones, and unavailable for others, so there would be no nuclear parity, and the WWII could happen in 1950s between other parties. Some could even rule in British Empire. He was a lawyer. The lawyers aren't live beings. They are emanations of a system.
  15. It's a plot for a new Love, Death & Robots episode. 200 years after the KSP-2 team had been dismissed, the Automatic Backup & Upgrade System still keeps trying to solve the bugs, and uploads hotfixes almost every two years. It isn't aware that the ruins on the surface are covered with woods long ago, and that the last computer, matching the KSP-2 system requirements has been gone forty years ago. It even isn't aware of what's the "surface". It just continues its hardworking labor, because many years ago the sysadmin had forgotten to uncheck the "No expiration date" in the Backup&Upgrade scheduler settings. Several forum users, living almost two centuries ago, whose mail accounts were registered on the unofficial test server somewhere in Rocky Mountains, still keep receiving the Steam notifications about the KSP-2 autoupdates, but never respond.
  16. The waste heat is still a problem. Entropy, the heartless she-dawg. Even if make the reactors more efficient, they are anyway made of material materials, which get warmed. So, if place the heat source onboard a space object, the object needs radiators (and their area grows proportionally to the square of size, while the mass (and thus the required power) - to cube). The solid radiators will reach the melting point, the droplet radiators - the boiling/sublimation point, any of them - the thermal ionization point, and this limits the space reactor power with tiny values. If produce a lot of energy on a big massive planet with ocean, like the Earth or to some extent the Mars, the closer the total energy production gets to what the sunlight provides, the more comparable the warming becomes. This limits total energy production with values, incomparable to the total sunlight income. The same about the sunlight orbital concentrators. They would increase waste heat production at the powered body, thus don't differ from local reactors in sense of global heating. So, without any kind of (inter/hyper/extra)dimensional heat sink, like the parallel world or the time machine or the portal to gas giant, and so on, any attempts of local energy production are so limited, that can't radically change the world.
  17. Calling 911 to use my portable USB DVD-RW.
  18. Calling 911 to buy a video DVD when you have removed your DVD-RW years ago.
  19. You know that biplanes have two wings, rather than four. Though, scientifically they have just one wing, splitted into two planes. And no, the "plane" doesn't mean a plane, it means a plane.
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