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Macheate isn't cheating.
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Things that NASA never said at a press conference.
kerbiloid replied to FlamedSteak's topic in Forum Games!
As the new orbital station is called Axiom, everyone should bring an axe. -
Your phone. Take it off, please. Phone! Ring!
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Banned for colored bannoons.
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Somebody had put the tea cup onto the spacebar. Or a kitten was walking on the table.
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If backwards time travel were possible in Sci Fi
kerbiloid replied to farmerben's topic in Science & Spaceflight
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. -
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.
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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.
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Calling 911 to use my portable USB DVD-RW.
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Floor 5084: The dropped eye bouncing up.
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Banned for summoning Prue.
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weZombie are cheating.
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Calling 911 to buy a video DVD when you have removed your DVD-RW years ago.
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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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Things that NASA never said at a press conference.
kerbiloid replied to FlamedSteak's topic in Forum Games!
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Your cut onion, sir. Bartender! Pint o'borane, please. My lovely green fairy.
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I believe, both stranded-in-sky astronauts enjoy their unplanned vacation and overtime salary.
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Banned for IT feeling good.
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Banned for ban a-voiding.
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The famous Soviet/Russian sci-fi writer Kir Bulychyov (known for his Adventures of Alice) had a novel 18 times, where the developed civilisation totally polluted its world, and killed the ecology, but happily discovered the time travels, and evacuated back into the past, where the nature is still alive and fruiting. Though, the then-future "present" stays polluted, so once they have reached the poisoned time, they have to jump back again, to the more distant past. They kept doing it 18 times, until they reached the primordial ocean with invertebrates and algae. (And at this time their representative asked the humans to help with invertebrate cooking or so.) So, we can also use time portals to move our wastes either to the Carboniferous, when the coal deposits were actively forming, and it was anyway warm, or to the far future, when the Earth has already become another Venus, so things can't get worse. Basically, we need 300 mln years to any direction. This raises a question: aren't the coal and oil deposits made of the future human carbon wastes thrown back in time.
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Just open a door to another multiverse instance of the Earth and its universe, and drop all your heat, gas, and water wastes there. Thus, you will be having starwaresque plane-sized interstellar spaceships for the cost of global warming, air pollution, and ocean acidation in their world (but who cares?). Wait... All of that had begun simultaneously with the SW and ST franchises... It can't be... Are we that "another Earth" used for wastes from there?