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Probably. Thanks. I think Jool should be a "Accidental Venus Analogue". It has 88.4% of Venus' gravity, a very thick atmosphere like Venus' (ignoring color), its diameter is slightly less than Venus', it's ridiculously hot at low altitudes and things are destroyed before hitting solid ground, etc.

Oh I didn't know you could do it that way thx

Oh ok I understand it now also at the end of the post *atmosphere*

I would like to clarify that all I am doing is guessing. So is everyone else here. The planets in KSP with atmospheres can all hold their atmospheres because what matters is the gravity. They're really, really dense. You could theoretically have an object six inches across, with an unrealistic density that gives it about 9.81 meters per second squared gravity. It would be able to hold onto an atmosphere of 1 atm. That atmosphere would be much less massive than Earth's, but still 1 atm, as in Kerbin's scenario. As you say, it could also end up like Mercury. IF Eve's oceans are made of something similar to water, then they would begin to boil somewhere on the planet if its temperature were raised barely two degrees (Eve's maximum temperature is two degrees below the boiling point of water at 5 atm, assuming the Kerbals measure in Kelvin). That is a very risky environment. One particularly hot day at the equator over ocean could set off a runaway greenhouse effect (oceans evaporate, increase air pressure, air traps more heat due to higher mass/density/pressure, increase temperature, more oceans evaporate, etc). I was also assuming Duna was in an ice age because one of the devs once posted that Duna was inspired by something about Mars in an ice age, I regret assuming that now. Either way, the ice has an effect on Duna's albedo. Also, I do not consider myself an anthropogenic climate change denier, I consider myself an anthropogenic climate change skeptic. This is because I am willing to listen to and consider people's opinions on either side of the debate, and when talking about the subject I try to make my points as logically as possible. It is possible that Laythe has CFCs or some other strong greenhouse gas. I do not dispute the existence of greenhouse gases or their effects, it was not a joke.

Just figured out how to rename your own forum threads. I see people naming these threads, then other people telling them the name doesn't fit, and not being able to change it, so I'll tell you here. You are able to rename threads in the forum on Windows by: Hold Ctrl Double click a thread's name (only if you made the thread) Enter the new name Press "Enter" or "Return" or whatever Close the extra tabs that opened Done. I feel like this isn't well-known enough.

I saw a thing a couple years ago. There was a weird spinning cloud. It was about 280-300 arcminutes across at its widest (from my point of view), and circular (not from my point of view which was to the side). It was a cloudy day but the weird cloud had blue sky in it. It moved a distance of its own apparent diameter about once every 4 seconds, and spun about once in 2 seconds. It left a trail of blue sky of its width behind it. This was in northwest New England at about noon. I'm not sure if it qualifies as a UFO because UFOs are by definition flying, and I don't know if neutral buoyancy counts as flying.

Mars gets half of Earth's radiation (ignoring all but distance from the sun) because it is 1.5 times further from the sun and it is on a per surface area basis. Since its gravity is 38% of Earth's, any Earth-like atmosphere it gets would be about 2.7 times higher, so at LEO-like radiation levels, 0.4 atm on Mars would protect you more than 1 atm on Earth. This doesn't take into account that Mars gets half of Earth's radiation, in which case we need only 0.2 atm on Mars to keep radiation levels the same as on Earth at sea level. I think.

Laythe has supergreenhouse gases (maybe CFCs). Duna has no water albeit being closer in to Kerbol, because it's in an ice age and all the ice raises the albedo which lowers the temperature. Eeloo and Vall cannot have an atmosphere similar to Laythe's, to allow water on the surface, because they are too small to hold it there (see the last sentence in the second paragraph of Eeloo's page on the wiki). Minmus cannot be made of ice because I had a colony there and one of the thermometers read 278K, or 5C which water can evaporate at. Kerbin has no magnetic field, because it does not have a molten core. This deficiency of a molten core is evidenced by the seeming lack of plate tectonics there (mountains formed likely from impact craters, continents do not fit together, no volcanoes, no undersea trenches, etc). Laythe's and Vall's orbits around Jool (and Minmus' orbit around Kerbin) are also perfectly circular, meaning no tidal energy can be derived from orbital eccentricity. Tidal forces from other moons in their system will still affect them, and so will the gradual slowing of the day because of tidal locking (only on Minmus). Eve probably formed outside its current orbit, and Kerbin's influence put it where it is today. In a couple of million years Eve's oceans will have evaporated and the pressure and temperature will have gone up there. Also, in a couple million years Moho will be tidally locked to Kerbol, its day is 123 days and its year is 102 days. Vall will become a dwarf planet. So will Bop. Minmus' orbit will become non-circular.

I built a Duna colony pack in LKO. It had a rover and two laboratories and a 16-kerbal Hab. Nothing had parachutes and I had no way of landing it.

it's way too much water aboard the ship. water is heavy. they don't need all of it, they can use a thin layer of titanium or something instead. like they still need water but not nearly as much.

1.0.3 needs a 3.75m docking port and for the 3.75m-2.5m structural adapter to have fuel.

It doesn't mean it exists, it just means it's in the game's code. Like the Magic Boulder around Ike, it's still in the code but it doesn't physically exist anymore.

Ignoring the objects' densities.

Like Vall would be slingshotted out of Jool's SOI and into Kerbol orbit, also Bop would, Eve would become a Venuslike horridly hot place with high pressure from the evaporated oceans, Laythe may gain a ridiculously thick ozone layer due to ionization or whatever from Jool's radiation, etc. What do you think?

Would these things survive better if the pressure were increased? Maybe 0.1-0.2 atm of carbon dioxide, and that should lessen the radiation?

Yes and no. The following is pure speculation. Please don't mistake it for probably scientifically sound theories. I am not responsible for any mistakes I make, the computer is because it's what processed my writing. On the off chance I'm wrong please let me know. Three or four years ago there was a test by the Deutsches Zentrum für Raumfahrt, it involved an advanced MESC (Mars Environmental Simulation Chamber) and a slightly less advanced BOG (Bucket of Germs, would've been more fitting if it were BUG). They built the simulator, added pressure controls, a radiation-creating thing, temperature fluctuations, and all these other bits and bobs, and they turned it on. Then they probably took the whole thing apart and put in the bucket of germs, and rebuilt it, I assume. Lather, rinse, and repeat. Anyway, they left it alone for about a month. When they came back, a lichen and some kind of cyanobacteria had survived and were active. These cyanobacteria and lichens produce oxygen, so even if they are the only things capable of living properly on Mars as it is, they will create conditions (if planted there in masses) suitable for oxygen-requiring plants to survive (IIRC ten millibars of O2 is the requirement for the most Mars-hardy real plants). The low gravity also doesn't seem like a problem to me, if we're talking "pre-plants" like lichens. Real plants, being more complex, may have issues with the gravity. I think (my guess) that lichens or cyanobacteria would only be affected in that they can grow taller and become less dense. Maybe the high radiation will cause mutations, which might tell the plant to become denser and grow lower to the ground, at which point the problem would be solved. I don't think gravity will be significant in organisms with relatively short genomes. Something like a giant sequoia may actually be better, being able to grow taller because of the low gravity.

If they find aliens that will be the premise either to send as many missions as possible or not to send anything at all. Depends how many there are.

If our sun turned into a gas giant all the planets and asteroids (except possible some very eccentric-orbiting rocks at their apoapsis) would be flung out of the system.

is this dead

i found it by mistake i was polar orbiting bop and found this bright dot. i went to it it was the kraken.

Tharsis will always stick right into space. Rockets can launch from there. You do have a point, though. But eventually the Sun will have a good chance of absorbing Earth, and people expect Mars to be safe from that. If we don't spread life to other worlds it's just going to die here, and we're very likely to end up using life as a catalyst in the terraforming.

Early on I think we'll end up with imploded "input" boxes/scanners due to vacuum left by disappearing objects, and objects having been teleported appear at absolute zero with no momentum (although as soon as they appear the laws of physics apply to them and they heat up and fall), so given the risks I don't think humans would teleport until we can transport energy information as well. On the other hand, if we had a way to "copy" an area, we would be able to work around this.

It's the Comethenge.

how do i access my craft files in ksp. i am on a macbook air using osx 10.8.5 and i am using ksp from steam. thx

It would be possible for a few million dollars (USD). Although I'm pretty sure there are laws against human genetic modification.