Findthepin1

@Spaceception Actually, I read the first paragraph and thought you were talking about KSP. So I then thought you had mistakenly posted in the Science subforum. XD

This is the Science subforum, lol.

It would, although them having the same name as on the forums, that scenario hasn't happened yet.

This is a message to all the people that have been sending me Skype contact requests since I got into the Real Space Program Skype group. If you don't actually say you're part of RSP, I won't be accepting these things, because if you don't give me a clue that I know you from this project, I have to assume that it is spam and decline. This message is because of the fact that ever since I joined the RSP Skype group, I have received many contact requests, and only one of them had information to back them up. If you are, on the other hand, part of RSP, say so, and I will accept the thing. TL;DR: For the next while, I won't accept Skype contact requests unless I am given proof that the sender is part of the RSP. Not many people I know still use Skype anyway, so I'm not losing much by doing this.

This should be in General KSP discussion or Challenges, I'm not sure which. By the way, the cupola part is good on stations. Oh and if you are using solar panels be very careful not to break them, they're not repairable.

The thread has been moved to the Lounge.

Yes, at the moment we would be better off with more people. What role are you able to do? They're listed on the OP.

Was there supposed to be a craft called Scorpius(something)-02 orbiting Earth with a person in it? I deorbited it because I wanted to see that it worked and a lot of stuff exploded on reentry. The capsule survived and I got it to the sea somewhere east-northeast of Papua New Guinea. Retro pack turned on over the Arafura Sea. Just testing it. After that, gonna reload the folder entirely (revert to how I downloaded it with the mods as a folder) and see how far I can get a seaplane from Canaveral. Anyhow. What are we working on now?

Duna. No fuel left. 1 Kerbal stuck there for 50 years until I HyperEdited him back to Kerbin.

This thing has over 2.5 km/s delta-V. If I recall correctly, it can go from LKO-Mun surface-Kerbin surface. It is capable of surviving Kerbin reentry from Minmus, I've done it many times. That picture is of a slightly modified OAV. On the good version, the one I am giving to you, there are no scientific instruments, the parachutes are on the crew hab, the RTGs are also on the crew hab, the antennas are on the fuel tank, and the fixed ladder extends down to the bottom of the fuselage before becoming the retractable ladder. Other than those things, that is exactly what it looks like. Here is a link to download the craft file for it: https://kerbalx.com/Findthepin1/OAV-Standalone. You're welcome. XD

We're going to venture out into space, to other planets and stuff, for a long time. Like colonies and stuff. Those will all(?) die for a variety of reasons. There will be a few ships that are supposed to be 100% efficient. Those will probably last until the point at which humans on Earth all die out, and maybe some time after, but not forever, as detailed in the next paragraph. You see, everyone on Earth is getting more and more powerful with each new invention. Look at us today. The late 2010s. Compare today to the late 1910s. Compare it to the 1500s. Compare it to the 11500s BC. Everyone has access to more and more physical power as time goes on. That includes those who oppose mainstream human society. Can you imagine, a thousand years from now, a bunch of extremely mainstream-human-society-opposing people (not gonna write the word here because I don't want to end up on some crime watchlist) explode the Moon or something, or change Mars' orbit so that it will hit Earth? You see, even the bad people. I predict that in less than two hundred years, someone is gonna send a large asteroid to hit Earth. They'd be just like today's extremely mainstream-human-society-opposing people possessing "objects of mass wrecking" (again, crime watchlists). And there won't be anything we can do about it. That's why we won't last very long on Earth. There are always the people in space. Nope. Not always. There is almost no life on Earth designed to last centuries or millennia in an enclosed space. Either way, there will be no machines that can maintain a friendly environment for centuries or millennia, you need a planet for that, and given the circumstances, I doubt there would be one. If we send a starship to any other star, it will probably not make the journey without problems, and if it does, it can't seed another planet effectively enough. If you want to make a stable environment for life to survive for geologic timescales, I suspect you need every single living thing from the original environment to be there for a copy of it to be effective. We can't do that. DNA will not last the time it takes to get to another star, even without the obvious pummelling by cosmic rays and such. Back to Earth, even if there are no catastrophic intentional destroyings (yet again, an euphemism because I don't want to end up on crime watchlists), there are problems with overpopulation, and garbage, and food, etc. We keep filling up land with farms, and then eventually, people. If a little land gets covered up by glaciers in a cooling event, this won't stop anything, sea levels will have fallen and more land will be available for farms and eventually people. If a little land is lost to the sea in a warming event, this won't stop anything either, it's worse. There's a whole continent that would've just opened up to farms and eventually people. First, people cover all the available land with farms. They'll proceed to urbanizing it. Then high-rising it. We now face a problem. As more and more farmland on Earth is replaced by cities, there're more and more people and less and less to feed them. There will be riots and revolutions. And they're not going to change a thing. Most people are going to starve to death. The ones who have water and food won't die out. Yet. What's happening to all the garbage? It's being either put underground or into the oceans. Excavating is expensive, so it's probably the latter. The oceans become dead. Nothing can live in them. Not even sea plants or algae. And that is Earth's next problem. Those marine lifeforms produce about 70% of Earth's atmospheric O2. We lose them, we lose about 70% of Earth's atmospheric O2. We can't breathe 6% oxygen. Especially not with so much other stuff in the air, stuff from our garbage, stuff we've emitted with machines, stuff the dead stuff has emitted, etc. In terms of composition, Earth's atmosphere is going to look more like Titan's does today. Lots of nitrogen, some methane and oxygen. As most of us know, methane mixed with oxygen is bad. Like, inside-a-rocket-engine bad. Whatever survived the disappearance of most of the atmospheric O2, the poisoning of the oceans (and therefore the precipitation, and therefore most rivers and lakes and usable water) is not going to survive being burnt to a crisp in the next lightning storm and poof, suddenly the atmosphere's on fire over a quarter of the planet. This will boil water in some of these areas. Making clouds. Generating more thunderstorms. The oceans are gonna be mostly gone eventually because of this. The surface temperature is gonna be like a hundred degrees Celsius. An atmosphere of nitrogen and water vapour, a small bit of oxygen, maybe about as much carbon dioxide, a bit of methane in there. You can only survive if you are an anaerobic deep-sea microbe living in the Arctic Ocean. Things will cool down in the next few million years, but life on Earth will be starting with microbes and is going to have a billion or less years to live because of the Sun. Not enough time to evolve into anything large. TL;DR: Everything you can think of is probably going to have some impact, I don't think our species will get through the next ten thousand years, and life on Earth is very, very, very close to its near-end from which it can never fully recover before it definitely dies.

Nope, the answer is 0. 11-11=0.

Nope. I can't.

Okay.

Mad, what is your role? And no, as far as I know, I can't edit the document, because I haven't actually seen the document and don't know what you're referring to.

I am Recovery, at least for the moment. I'm only here as a substitute for somebody who's away.

How on Earth does that thing not float? XD You're an engineering genius, then.

Him.

So I did this stuff in GIMP or Paintbrush or some other computer app, it varies. Thought I'd put them up somewhere so people can admire them. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, this is a forum thread after all! First one: An illustration of Førstsmil, a candidate for an object to be added into the Alternate Solar System Thread in the Science Labs subforum: Second, we have Anemoi, another candidate object for the same thing (this one wasn't my idea originally, I just illustrated it): Next, we have Paradium, an image created as a joke response after I discovered someone had made an accidental misspelling of the word Palladium. I drew a toucan one day because I was bored. You might recognize this from my old signature. A bunch of maps of Earth (or part of Earth, in one case). Moar stuff from my old forum signature: The Kerbal Solar System (or is it? Vall and Minmus are snowy, the former's fractured like Eeloo, Laythe's nearly iced over and Tylo resembles the old Laythe in this one): Here we have something a bit more familiar: And now let's see what happens to Mars' north polar cap if the planet starts being terraformed... EDIT 9/11/2016: New image! Jool seen from Laythe: Whoever took the time to look through this whole post, thank you. Whoever only looked at some, thank you.

Why is argon's atomic weight higher than potassium's even though argon is a gas and potassium is a solid at STP?

Nope. Planned launch at 2:00pm EST.

We seem to be launching at 2pm EST now. The plan keeps changing.

Okay, great. RoketMan, is someone helping you to set up the stuff?

You're into what?

You need RO, RSS, RealPlume, RealFuels, RealChute, RealHeat, Advanced Jet Engine, Kerbal Joint Reinforcement, and FAR. But there's no time there's 2 minutes to final scrub decision. EDIT: Hold on, we might have an astronaut already. Download all the stuff anyway, because we don't know.