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  1. Well, yeah. But I am not entierly sure that some of the insanely huge components of solar sails (for instance) would be impossible. On Earth, big structures are heavy, hard to build, complex. If they are thin and light, they are frail, usually short lived. In space it does not have to work like that, it would not be definitely simple to build and fly a 500m radius sail for a spaceship, but it might be simpler than at fist seems probable. Then again it may have challenges and risks that we do not really yet anticipate.
  2. Well, a lot of space capsules and small launchers are going about the same task in the same way. It makes sense that they look alike in many respects.
  3. Well, the thing with cancer it seems is that many things, high radiation exposure, contact with carcinogens et cetera increase slightly the odds that a given individual will get cancer, but if and when you get it it cannot really be traced to anything in specific. Astronauts will have higher probability to get cancer, but whether a given astronaut's cancer is caused by their time in space is not a clear thing to answer. Yeah. Funny, but there are still people angry at him for that. As lincourtl says, there was a lot that needed doing, and the time consuming jokes on EVA time were not always taken well, especially when they got just so close to the goal but barely not there.
  4. From orbit you cannot see national boundaries.
  5. Same again. All my missions have all, always been manual. My first orbital launch was done without SAS, just me dancing my fingers on the keyboard controls. That was interesting.
  6. 6/10. Interesting vehicle, but rather militaristic.
  7. I am sure many of us have heard of the color of the Universe: FFF8E7. █▉█▉█▉█▉█▉█▉█▉█▉ █▉█▉█▉█▉ (I did not want to write in it because it is really hard to see on white)
  8. If you go fast enough in that atmosphere, you could either get the Mun to pull you into orbit, or escape Kerbin and achieve a Kerbol orbit.
  9. 7/10: Interesting ship. But looks a bit simple (I may also be biased by your TARDIS rating:mad:).
  10. On Triton, the cryovolvanism has, as we currently understand it, absolutely nothing to do with Neptune, and everything to do with the sun. The geysers witnessed on the surface during the Voyager II flyby were all very close to the subsolar point of the moon, and thus probably were caused by that, not by tidal heating. It is entirely conceivable that Pluto could have similar sun driven eruptions. That does not mean that there are not on Triton, and are not on Pluto, tidally driven activities, just that geysers are not so driven. What is more, the Pluto/Charon system is tidally locked into a nearly circular orbit, tides on Pluto are small, and from Charon very very small. This does not mean that the effect was not once large, simply that by now there is not too much going on in the Pluto Charon system with regard to internal tidal heating.
  11. 10/10. I have seen you plenty, a fellow space and ancient history fan.
  12. Puedes usar la posicion del sol y de otros planetas (y de la galaxia), pero brújulas son mas buenas y faciles. Si tenemos un mod que puedes hacer una brújulas, no se. Encontré uno que puede ayudar: aqui. Pero no es completa. Utiliza un segunda version del juego (para un segunda pantalla), donde puedes tener un 'mapa', con sus kerbals sur las planetas.
  13. Pluto is also widely suggested to be related to Triton (as Triton was captured from the same region. Earlier there had been suggestions about Triton and Pluto being a sort of double planet or moon which, after encountering Neptune or another object ended up being a moon and a planet separately, but with more Kuiper belt objects discovered, that seems a bit of an unjustified stretch)which is anything if not really weird. Some of Triton's features (like geysers) are probably related to the Sun interacting with the surface ice, not like Enceladus's tidally driven heat, so we may anticipate the possible existence of those, and other things of course, too.
  14. It also is still very far away. If you look at the full images, Ceres is still a small white bright zone in a large black region. Things will get better.
  15. I have had fun linking quotes from articles and that sort of thing to some early posts. I do not beleive I did #7, but I am pretty sure I got #1 and a few others, and also just some random numbers in the middle.
  16. It depends when you judge by. The first public KSP release was in 2011, the Despicable Me film came out a year earlier. However, the lead developer of the game, Harvestr, had been playing with Kerbals considerably earlier than 2010 (of course, for all I know, the producer of that film was playing with their minions at about the same time).
  17. Judging by the excecution of some projects like this, while that would be possible, but it is a very different question of whether it will work and work well. It might also be the case, that perhaps a photo does not fool it, but a person of close enoguh skin color and face structure could just login easily, or that the owner has to hold it in front of their head twenty seconds while it refuses them.
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