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    How climate change alters regional climate in unpredictable ways

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    [quote name='WedgeAntilles']I already did. It's already known fact that more CO2 isn't going to do jack squat. Earth has [B]already[/B] proved this.

    As I explained more than once already: the Earth would be several degrees colder with no CO2 in its atmosphere. Thirty degrees colder with no greenhouse gases at all. Doubling CO2 from its pre-Industrial levels [B]DID NOT RAISE EARTH'S TEMPERATURE BY ANOTHER SEVERAL DEGREES.[/B] More than doubling all of Earth's greenhouse gases (methane is somewhere around quadruple its "normal" level) [B]DID NOT RAISE EARTH'S TEMPERATURE BY ANOTHER 30 DEGREES.[/B]

    I simply can't simplify it any more simply. Increasing the planet's CO2 from current levels will do next to nothing, because past increases in the planets CO2 have already done next to nothing. Diminishing returns. Fact.[/QUOTE]
    Earth takes a while to react to atmospheric changes. Also, the atmosphere in total is what holds a lot of the heat.

    What did you do in KSP1 today?

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Findthepin1

    I built a 5-kerbal speedboat by mistake. It wasn't even supposed to be a boat. [URL="http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/140619-Forgot-to-fill-the-ore-tanks-and-this-is-what-it-gives-me"]This[/URL] is the thread where I explain what happened here.
    [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8MA1whm.png[/IMG]

    Forgot to fill the ore tanks and this is what it gives me

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Findthepin1

    So. Remember the [URL="http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/139478-Sea-Car-4"]Sea Car 4[/URL]? It was a prototype for my entry into the Deep Diver Challenge. It was unbalanced and sunk. With someone in it. [COLOR=#696969]They're[/COLOR] still [COLOR=#696969]there[/COLOR] in [COLOR=#696969]their[/COLOR] sub :D. Then there was the Sea Car 4B. It was more balanced than the 4, but it explodes every time I use the transfer capsule thing. Thankfully the only person inside the 4b got into the pod connected to the ore tanks before everything else fell off the sub. It was my entry into the challenge.

    Anyway, I built a new one. The Sea Car 5 is a new and improved submarine. It features balanced mass, verified by the SPH's very own centre-of-mass detector. It has eight RTGs. It can theoretically fit 5 kerbals! One condition, though. If you don't fill the ore tanks, it isn't a sub.

    I discovered this by riding it into the water. Then I checked the tanks and voila. Dangit. XD

    [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8MA1whm.png[/IMG]
    It actually goes really fast on the water. Top speed was 40.1m/s, or 144.36 kilometres an hour. Highway speeds, or more.

    I decided to take it to the Island Airbase. Trip took 19 minutes ingame but I had phys warp on for most of the time so for me it was a shorter wait.

    [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/A7RLGg2.png[/IMG]
    Here it is, cruising about 3/8 of the way there.

    [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/gPmicUA.png[/IMG]
    Approaching the island.

    I had to drive up a cliff. Like a 45-degree angle. It got up to 8 or so m/s on the slope. Then it got up onto flattish land and started going 12m/s. I tried to brake and this happened.

    [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/JaLw7Ag.png[/IMG]
    Maybe they can "borrow" some of the old parts in one of the buildings and attach some old, 0.90-year-old, rusted, dented, on-fire rocket engine to their pod and fly back to KSC. Actually, you know what, they won't be able to do that. :D

    How long have you kept a vehicle design?

    in KSP1 Discussion

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    I have a orbiter-lander thing called the Orbital Activity Vehicle. It has 1793.97m/s of delta-v in it and carries 4 kerbals. Its launch vehicle has varied over the times, but the main thing has stayed basically the same since 0.90. I've been using it since [URL="http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/114786-how-do-i-transfer-fuel-between-tanks"]this[/URL] and I last used it for [URL="http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/138221-Boreas-1-Landed-on-Minmus"]this[/URL].

    Dark matter galaxy

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted · Edited by Findthepin1

    ...ALIENS :D

    Lol kidding lol i troled ([I]sic[/I]) you lol

    Seriously, though, it's possible the core is just very large. I simulated a galaxy collision in Universe Sandbox 2 and it left both black holes with nearly no stars orbiting each. The mass of the cores didn't change of course. It could also have formed very massive, or it used to be larger and something sapped the stars of their orbital kinetic energy and they became part of the black hole. Occam's razor, as was said.

    "Clipper" Standarised Flagship Probe Proposal

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    Why not make standardized parts instead of a whole probe? That way you could customize it more. Like if you wanted to send something to land on the Moon, and you wanted to send something to land on Phobos. That's about the same delta-v. However Phobos is much further away. Then the only needed major difference is the needed antenna (Phobos is far, much farther than Moon) and possibly a heat protected core piece (Moon is quite warm on dayside). Possibly other differences. Point is, you could make a bunch of standardized sizes for various parts of spacecraft and later bolt them together based on the mission specs.

    AERION AS2 Business Jet

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    I think it's not worth the effort. It's much cheaper to get a regular jet. This thing, the only benefit is that it's fast. That argument, to make faster things, breaks down eventually. Such as the Internet. If they're smart, people aren't going to pay twice the cost for a 5-millisecond/mb Internet signal if they have a 20-millisecond/mb signal already. It's not worth the cost for an extra 0.015 seconds saved. If the brain can even notice the difference.
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