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The upside-down cyclops smiley face on Asteroid ZWO-031 New Kerbin. Fruit of my efforts. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtdXNocm9vbTIwMDZzb3RoZXJ0aGluZ3MxfGd4OjQwYjA0NTQ4ZTk0ODA2ZmY

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtdXNocm9vbTIwMDZzb3RoZXJ0aGluZ3MxfGd4OjM0OTk0MDkwMjQ2MTg4NTc I tested the hardware on-orbit for the Asteroid Long-Term Mission. The test was to determine the engines' functionality in space and the sufficiency of the heat shield for reentry. It helped to test this because I realized I had no way of attaching the habitats to the asteroid, as they would just shoot away when decoupled and they don't have any engines.

We are not doomed. If there were to be a damaging change to the Earth's environment, there are literally dozens of ways to survive it. My favourite is to leave Earth behind. It will heal itself without us being there. It's done this before. There was a time when the oceans were more acidic than current activity on Earth can hope of making them. This directly preceded the Eocene in which the ancestors of large mammals appeared. There was a time when the atmosphere was 10-100 bars of primarily CO2 and the average surface temperature was 230 degrees Celsius. Life appeared in these conditions. We're the smartest life yet known so I'm sure we're not going to stand there and do nothing instead of running away to somewhere safe.

Thank you for that. I agree fully.

1249: Minecraft break

You can't do anything else. HEEEY I have an idea! I wish to be the OP.

Free time badum tshhhh

Arguably one of the most ridiculous things I've heard is that acne and the collapse of gingerbread houses were caused by global warming, and that nobody went to the Moon in the Apollo missions.

The temperature window at Low Point in Hellas is about 9-10 Celsius degrees wide. The air pressure varies seasonally between 1.155 and 1.24 kpa. This is well enough to sustain liquid water. - - - Updated - - - How much water does Gale have?

My iPhone has been acting strange as of late. I received a text from a friend that they had no recollection of sending. Later my iPhone sent the same text to someone else while supposedly turned off. Safari has been crashing randomly since I got the text and the phone is draining more power than it should. The text was as follows: effective. Power Ù„ÙÂÙ„ÙÂصّبÙÂÙ„ÙÂلصّبÙÂررً à ¥£ à ¥£h à ¥£ à ¥£ 冗 I am using an iPhone 5 with iOS 7.1.2 and/or version 11D257. Is this iPhone activity a virus?

Granted, but I went back in time to add "... and have it horribly corrupted!" to the thread's name. I wish for more wishes. (Can I do that?)

Banned for joining the forums after the April 2013 "slight problem".

I got to 5th once or twice. If you see a player labeled "Better than you", chances are it's me.

In KSP, you must summon a sauce-worthy craft, capable of vacuuming its crew out into space, without eating them. At your disposal is a collection of explosives, which must be assembled to create a functional nuke. Each part has its own function and will affect the way a ship flies (or doesn't). So strap yourself in, and get ready to try some Troll Science! The game has different game modes, you can play the Career Mode if you want to expand and manage your own Space Center, taking on missions and researching new snacks. Or you can play Sandbox castle if you're only interested in flying and discovering the Kerbal universe without restrictions. There is even a mid point between these two, Science mode.

KSP good game KSP good KSP KSP good game …I have no idea what I'm doing.

Hubble captured the bright spots in a series of photos of Ceres years ago. For them to still be there means, if they're ice, that the ice is being actively replenished. As LordFerret mentioned, Ceres is too warm for ice, and any on the ground would sublime away fairly quickly. I don't suspect a cryovolcano to be responsible, at least not in the traditional sense of the term. My theory is that a large impact event (the one that caused the crater containing the primary group of spots) created a lot of upwelling in the mantle (which is expected to be mostly ice) and made a "lake" of liquid water extending down to the rocky part of Ceres, and up to a few miles beneath the surface. Much more recently, a small asteroid impacted Ceres above the lake and broke a hole in the crust. Water was released from the hole and froze. This would account for the very reflective surface of the spots, and their position on the globe.

lol I think we should send it somewhere we know the least about.

In this part of the canyon the elevation is about 4600 meters below the datum (according to Google Earth), and I tried to calculate the air pressure at that altitude, which gave me just under 0.91 kpa. Wolfram|Alpha says the boiling temperature of water at this temperature is about 5.445 degrees Celsius. If the water is salty, the melting temperature will be lower, but I'm not sure if this will affect the boiling temperature measurably. Wikipedia (itself sourced from cab.inta-csic.es), says the average high temperature in the warmest month in equatorial Mars is 4 degrees Celsius, which is below the boiling temperature by a relatively large margin (~27% of whole temperature range below boiling temperature). As for the mentioning of the possibility of puddles in Hellas Planitia, the boiling temperature at the lowest altitude (which I usually just refer to as Low Point) is between 8.98 and 10.04 degrees Celsius (varies because of seasonal pressure changes). This is sufficient to support regular water without salt or anything (although given what we've found in the regolith, salt ending up in bodies of water is a near certainty) and since Low Point in particular and Hellas in general is further from the equator, the temperature shouldn't commonly approach the boiling temperature. I would also like to correct an error that I made in the OP. This is a Mars Express image, not HiRise as I mentioned. The post has been updated to account for this.

I recently came across a Mars Express photograph of Valles Marineris filled with fog. Given the canyon's relatively high air pressure, equatorial temperature, and apparent possibility for humidity, is it possible that it can contain transient puddles of water under the right conditions?

Chapter 26

oh ok

1236: you are sitting on a glass floor and you see someone jump out of the previous floor and glide upwards until crashing into you.

The chapter where Jerdous summons the Kraken is oddly similar to a chapter of "The Daedalus Incident". I think we read the same book?

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtdXNocm9vbTIwMDZzb3RoZXJ0aGluZ3MxfGd4OjM5YTEyNmY1ODAwM2NhNmQ 'Nuff said.

Perhaps you would be able to convert the glitch-causing portion of the outpost into a mass-canceling device which would be useful at launch.