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In Red Mars they crashed an ice asteroid into Mars and it thickened the atmosphere fifty millibars. There was a lot of water vapour released in the impact and the ground in the crater was outgassing as well.
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[quote name='PB666']wouldn't it be great if we could move all climate change deniers to the bikini islands or florida city and just keep them there.[/QUOTE]
My apologies if you were kidding I didn't catch it so I will assume you are serious.
I disagree. It would probably be a human rights violation to make everyone in some particular group move somewhere forever without their permission or consent. It's a forced migration of a lot of people out of little to no goodwill on their part.
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Isn't it just atmospheres in general that slow and buffer temperature gradients?
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In 2006 or so I was at my house and we were watching the Groundhog Day broadcasts because that's the time of year it was and the power went out. The TV went dark and so did the room. It was raining outside, and it was night. This has happened twice or thrice since then, we don't get many thunderstorms big enough to do that.
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Relevant thing [url]http://www.sciencealert.com/our-solar-system-used-to-have-another-gas-giant-planet-but-jupiter-likely-kicked-it-out?utm_source=Article&utm_medium=Website&utm_campaign=InArticleReadMore[/url]
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[quote name='the article'][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Open Sans]The mystery lost planet in question is believed to have had the mass of an ice giant, which means that it was heavier than Saturn and Jupiter, and in the same class as Neptune and Uranus. So how exactly does a lighter planet suddenly kick an ice giant clear out of the Solar System?[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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LANDING
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ojgbRV2.png[/IMG]
Here's a view of the ground out the window of the orbiting TV before undocking.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Eqo1W4M.png[/IMG]
The lander has undocked from the TV.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7AqHXLz.png[/IMG]
I missed a picture of the lander (named Norðri) deorbiting over Minmus, because it was a short burn, but I got this (admittedly bad) picture of the TV in the distance behind it.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/78B56cO.png[/IMG]
Descent. Temperature is around 220 Kelvin.
The crew is a bit worried. There's a 50% chance that the Norðri will crash. This is "not" supported by actual crashes that were reloaded before this landing. :D
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/FgzueJ3.png[/IMG]
This is the Norðri over Minmus, almost down on the ground.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/x7ggjbB.png[/IMG]
Landed!
Surface temperatures are around 211K or -62C. Gravity at 0.042 g. Crew is not to EVA for a while, because Kerbin is going to go below the horizon and they don't have time to do anything outside before transmissions are blocked off. They can't communicate except through the TV, which probably won't pass over them until Kerbin is overhead again anyway. They want to see what happens live. It was possible to land somewhere they could get out immediately, but since Minmus' rotation wasn't accurately known their landing ellipse spanned twelve degrees of latitude and [I]every[/I] degree of longitude. So, yeah, new part will be out later than today. Maybe tomorrow. -
Sorry for the delay, I had 1.0.5. Posting soon.
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Do they need the abandoned section of the ship? I assume anything capable of taking people to a habitable world (or anything large enough to have an abandoned part) will be quite large, large enough to necessarily have been built in orbit. Ships constructed in orbit have pieces, like the ISS. Have them undock the abandoned segment of the ship on both ends of the segment, and jettison it. Then have one of them go outside and supervise the redocking of the separated halves of the rest of the ship (somebody being outside the ship gives you the opportunity for something exciting to happen).
The segment with the bugs will just drift off into space (presumably interstellar, or interplanetary at the least) and never bump into anything artificial again. There's the off chance that it'll fall onto an asteroid. If it isn't completely destroyed on occasion, it won't do anything there. Bacteria and viruses go dormant or die in vacuum.
Can you post the story when you're done? :D
EDIT: Also, heat may be a bad idea, even if it's vacuum where the heat is. Space is cold. Their ship is quite unlikely to be able to make itself cooler than the surrounding environment. It'd be made to heat itself in space. If you take a ship that only heats itself up relative to its surroundings, and you make the surroundings warmer than the interior, the ship might try to heat itself up to stay 290K above the exterior. Higher interior temperature, means higher interior pressure, which if high enough means one of the walls goes [I]pop[/I] and everyone dies. -
So there's this game called EVE Online. It has remarkably asymmetrical spaceships and some of their Earthlike planets are over half the radius of Jupiter. Anyway, the game's universe has over 5000 star systems. They seem realistically enough spread out. I don't understand how they are able to store all that information, for every meter of every planet in 5000 solar systems, plus everything on them and everything in space. It would probably take up tens of terabytes at the very least, or petabytes at the most. Likely, they don't have that kind of capability. What am I missing?
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We're going to surpass our own year soon. Page 2015 is coming.
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Wouldn't this thread be better off in the Science Labs subforum?
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There's one valley in Chad where the wind picks up dust with lots of nutrients in it and blows it out across the Atlantic. IIRC that valley supplies a significant amount of the nutrients for the Amazon rain forest.
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I mostly agree with Just Jim.
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Furthest from Earth? Closest to Earth (dry land below sea level)? Coldest external temperature? Warmest? Lightest vehicle? Longest flight? Easy.
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I heard about Project Longshot. From my understanding, it wasn't done because they couldn't launch it. It was to weight 396 metric tons. We would need between 4 and 7 SLS launches (depends whether Block 2) to launch nowadays. If it is built in orbit it could be done. AFAIK the only reason it isn't being done is the space treaty having banned nuclear explosions in space. This treaty was done in a time of Cold War paranoia, when nobody realized that these technologies could be used peacefully and constructively. I think in a couple decades we will have people trying not only to build stuff like Longshot and Orion, but also trying to power bases with reactors or doing large seismic experiments with nuclear seismic things. Why haven't they undone this and tried to peacefully use these concepts? Is it that people aren't interested in space anymore?
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My signature doesn't fit in the signature box. Over time it'll only get bigger. I needed to put it in a thread so that the whole thing can be read. In my signature box, the only thing now is a link to the OP here because the OP is my complete signature. I couldn't find a better way to let the whole thing be accessible. Similar to what Endersmens said.
EDIT: I didn't think to make a blog post. I've never done it before and don't entirely know how to use it.
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Güd idea.
The Kerbal Magazine is now officially Findthepin1 Approved. Take a Findthepin1 Approved Banner. XD
Also, how are we going to distribute the magazine?
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I did the Deep Diver Challenge, after two disqualified tries because I didn't read the rules.
Also, my signature no longer fit inside the actual signature box, so I had to copy and paste the whole thing to a post in the Kerbal Network subforum, said post is accessible in the link in my signature. The post will hold much more stuff than my actual signature did.
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hi guys
What do you mean, apple picking? It's the middle of the night.
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The cable doesn't need to be very wide. Perhaps tens of metres. The width is about how much weight it's pulling around at a time. It's like, water in a kilometre-tall glass has the same bottom pressure as under kilometre-deep seafloor. It doesn't count the influence of whatever's beside it, only above and below.
On a side note, IMO the best place to put a space elevator on Earth is the Andes in Ecuador. On Mars would be Pavonis. Both locations have much thinner air and are smack-dab on the equator.
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The cable doesn't need to be very wide. Perhaps tens of metres. The width is about how much weight it's pulling around at a time. It's like, water in a kilometre-tall glass has the same bottom pressure as under kilometre-deep seafloor. It doesn't count the influence of whatever's beside it, only above and below.
On a side note, IMO the best place to put a space elevator on Earth is the Andes in Ecuador. On Mars would be Pavonis. Both locations have much thinner air and are smack-dab on the equator.
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RTGs sink.
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I have DONE IT! I got into the water in a functional vehicle I built, the Sea Car 4B. It's a derivative of the Sea Car 4, which I just did a Mission Report on, and that's based on the Sea Car 3, which itself is a heavily modified Sea Car 2, the larger version of Sea Car 1. Somehow transferring Bob to the cupola makes the craft shatter. Thankfully, Bob got to the cupola before the pilot compartment shot off like a rocket towards the surface, peaking at 38 meters above sea level before falling again. Along with all the wheels. By the way, RTGs sink.
Here's your pictures.
The rules say we need a picture in the VAB, a picture in the sea, and a picture at the deepest depth. I didn't build it in the VAB, so I took a picture of it in the SPH. Also, the picture in the sea and the picture at the deepest depth are the same individual picture. I only took one underwater. However I video'd the descent so I can get another picture underwater but I don't feel like it because this should be enough to qualify me to have done the challenge.
Also, I had built two other things to try this contest (a rocket submarine and the regular Sea Car 4), but both of them used the debug menu, and I didn't know that that wasn't allowed because I hadn't yet read the rules, so I had to delete their pictures. This submarine didn't use the debug menu or HyperEdit or the other thing or anything resulting from them. I can get more pictures on request, as I said I video'd the event beginning at ocean entry. Also I did EVA from the cupola afterwards and swam Bob up to the pilot compartment on the surface.
Do I qualify? Can I get the signature banner now? XD
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I built a sea car, Sea Car 4. It's my fourth try. It's unbalanced but it can swim, slowly, oriented nearly perpendicular to its course, at maximum thrust. Anything lower than that and this happens.
At least it's recoverable.
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Oy vey that's sad (;-;)
my condolences
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also what kind of cat adopts families - jk lol sorry tried to cheer you up sorry