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5/10 My HDD is a human. It can the same. I need HDD to store movies. If I was a robot, I would keep them in memory.
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Ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer back.
kerbiloid replied to ThatKerbal's topic in Forum Games!
He's hired by Apple. How do the ants coordinate their traffic? -
A Hill Billy comes and occupies the hill. A Hill Billy Hill.
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0/10 It's not is a human, because a human is not it. I want to sleep, because stupid me was sitting till late night without any economic reason.
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One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
kerbiloid replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
A round for the Necromancer Cannon. -
Banned for antihumanism.
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The Upcoming Movies (and Movie Trailers) MegaThread!
kerbiloid replied to StrandedonEarth's topic in The Lounge
Dune (2021) (Spoilers?) -
One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
kerbiloid replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
Every anime is a ripoff of another one. Because there is not so many ways to draw several lines of a static picture, keep it on the screen for a minute, jabbering random senseless nonsense, -
Yes, the bowl is dissolved. Waiter! Please, a coffee without caffeine, a cake without sugar, a cigarette without nicotine, and a bill without numbers.
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Banned for not having the AboutMe clause.
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Ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer back.
kerbiloid replied to ThatKerbal's topic in Forum Games!
It's a pity, it's a pit. What is the adjective to Eve? Evan? Evenean? Evenusian? -
Ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer back.
kerbiloid replied to ThatKerbal's topic in Forum Games!
Because it's nerv-ous. Is the Mohole an underground mountain? -
Granted. You decided to use only the stock examples. I wish there were gravitational anomalies on the Earth, safe and comfy to jump.
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If attach the Ingenuity to the Perseverance with a copper wire, this will not just help to pull back the copter if it's lost, but will also allow to use ingenuity as a hundreds-meter long flying antenna to communicate with Earth directly. Also next time they should try a kite.
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In zero-g a human has spent about 1.5 years. They hope that a small physiotherapeutic centrifuge (4..6 m in diameter inside a pressurized compartment) can expand this up to a Martian flight, i.e. 3 years. The permanent artifical gravity requires the 100..200 m radius of rotation, so is available only on the very large ships, unavailable before the mature thermonuclear epoch. The elastic scheme of artificial gravity (a tether) isn't viable due to the reasons mentioned above. So, the zero-g limits the flight duration with 2+..3- years. *** The radiation. The long-term expedition should withstand the galactic rays (mostly gamma) and the solar wind (mostly protons, also causing the secondary rays in the hull). The ESA Martian project considered ~27 g/cm2 layer density relatively safe (which means that the lifespan of the crew not to get shortened by more than several years). This means that longer trips would need more thick hull and electromagnetic protection, or be significantly shorter by being much faster. Hardly or not available before the mature thermonuclear epoch. *** The orbital stations use the semi-closed life support cycle since early 1970s (Almaz was regenerating the water/oxygen.) For a multi-year trip with greater crew they need more powerful and more closed regeneration system. They can't grow food onboard (except the onions at the windows), so the food amount is limited and requires more advanced preservation technologies, including refrigerators, as sublimated powder is not the best and healthy food, while wet conserves need steel cans. This all means additional mass. The crew needs several kilograms of expendable clothes and towels per humanday. This means either a large store of clothes, or growing cellulose and a weaver/tailor (not Aliens) robomachine. Currently only the first. The humans need a bath, because they would fly longer than 1.5 years. This means that a water regeneration system productivity should be improved by orders of magnitude. The same with janitor needs. The ship will be huge, and most of efforts would be spent on the house-keeping. Actually, the personnel will consist of janitors-bodybuilders with shading out remains of professional knowledge and experience. Because they won't be doing science, piloting, and everything other for years, but their only occupations will be cleaning the floors and cardiovascular and muscle exercises in the gym. This also means a lot of dirty water to regenerate and a lot of dirty clothes to burn and turn into water and carbon. The ISS is flying about twenty years. And its toilets get broken yearly. Not a large problem when you can escape to the closest toilet at 500 km below, but at 0.1 AU from the Earth this will turn the vessel into a craptank. So, the life support system should be not just much more powerful, but also redundant. *** The qualification of the crew specialists will get lower and lower without practical experience, so several years of doing nothing professional will turn them from academicians into technicians and affect the scientific abilities of the expedition. *** So, any crewed flight should be shorter than 3 years in any case. With or without the radiation, gravitation, greenhouse, etc. The Martian expedition is a golden standard for any actual expedition. 8 months to there. 1.5 years there. 8 months from there. 3 years in total. The only thing which can be changed is that the flight distance will be increasing with ISP and thus delta-V. *** Currently even the Mars is hardly accessible by chemical and hardcore nuclear engines/powerplants. With gascore nuclear engines the nearest asteroids in the belt can be visited. The Jupiter and the regular asteroid flights require at least a thermonuclear engine, which is not present, and probably will appear by the late XXI. *** So, the only places accesible until XXII are: Moon, Mars (together with the Ph.D. moons), Venusian orbit, near-Earth asteroids. Nothing unexpected. *** The infinity of the resources make it easier, as we can build a tower from infinite amount of TV sets and toasters, to walk to the Mars by feet.
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Docking, magnets, and docking with magnets
kerbiloid replied to Maria Sirona's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Magnets will help to bring close at proper angles the soft capture rings without scratching petal against petal. -
Granted. It's a video from the KSP-2 beta-testing. You can see the tester faces and hands. I wish the KSP-2 modding tutorial got revealed.
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Now then-you knows what now-you does, and never becomes now-you, changing the current reality. I wish to make debug versions of the reality.
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One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
kerbiloid replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
The mobile phones actualy are not needed, because the first half of my current life I was easily living without them. (No, seriously) -
Ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer back.
kerbiloid replied to ThatKerbal's topic in Forum Games!
A misheard lyrics. Where is the /y/ or /j/ in the "lake"? -
Stupidly can't see this in the Steam client. How much does it cost?