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I am fascinated by Saturn and all its moons, specifically Enceladus! It looks so awesome I'm actually really excited for the Cassini flyby of Enceladus on the 28th of October, 30 miles from the surface! http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/saturntourdates/

Containers for chemicals are usually labeled with an chemicals hazards identification system. There are several of these, including the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) and the NPFA-704 system (also known as the fire diamond). For the GHS system, the more labels a chemical container has, the more dangerous the chemical that is within. The NFPA uses a different classification system. Their label is composed of four diamonds: a blue one (health hazards), a red one (flammability), a yellow one (chemical reactivity) and a white one (oxidizer / reacts with water / asphyxiant). For a chemical, each diamond has a certain number in (ranging from 0 to 4), indicating how dangerous it is. For example, BLUE 0 poses no health risks, while BLUE 4 can cause death after a very short exposure time. From this logic, we can assume that the most dangerous chemical would have a 4/4/4 W Ox classification: The chemical with the closest rating I can find is tert-butylhydroperoxide, but the problem with this classification system is that it's generally only used for commercially available chemicals. So if you want to go for the really nasty stuff, a lot of the above options are pretty high up there. As a chemist, compounds containing fluorine make me nervous, especially fluorinating agents.

I try to keep my part-count down, since I'm already at minimum performance specs for the game. Once I can upgrade to a PC I will probably throw all part considerations out of the window, but for now I really strive to keep my spacecraft as low on parts as possible.

If you wanna give your kid the best of two universes, you can try the Pixelmon Mod, which brings the Pokemon universe into Minecraft! I really enjoy it; it's like a Pokemon RPG (or MMO, if you go on a server). It is still in development though, so it is not the most stable or bug-free mod. It should be safe to use though. http://pixelmonmod.com/

I used to play like OP, because I feared that by timewarping too much, I would miss out on interesting interplanetary missions. However, I found that my progress after Mun and Minmus started to stagnate, since I kept being stuck with doing lots of the same (rather boring) Kerbin missions. I use timewarp much more often now, although I do still try to use it as efficiently and sparingly as possible. I usually have one big mission (2+ years), two medium missions (1-2 year) and several small missions (1-2 weeks) running neatly together. I have found that my ships in waiting orbit sometimes disappear after excessive timewarping though, so I always frantically back up my savefile before timewarping.

Teebee is awesome, yeah I've got my own mix series that I've put up on Soundcloud, you might like it https://soundcloud.com/faestos/rings-of-saturn-006-moon-three-tethys

Awesome! I'm more into Neurofunk myself I really love Noisia, Phace & Misanthrop, Black Sun Empire... You name it!I listen to basically any genre of electronic music, plus anything that sounds interesting. My main preferences at the moment are ambient, downtempo, techno and drum 'n' bass, but those change all the time. Hardstyle, trance, electro, hardcore, IDM, glitch hop: it's all cool to me

Wow, that looks really cool! +1 for hexagons

Depends, sometimes yttrium and scandium are classified with lanthanum and actinium, sometimes with lutetium and lawrencium. As you go down the periodic system, elements start to become more similar due to their big size.Both similar chemical and physical properties. This site has a nice overview of different properties for the entire periodic table: http://periodictable.com/Properties/A/AbsoluteBoilingPoint.html

Elements often have properties similar to those right above and below them. Examples of these are the alkali metals, halogens and noble gases. Yttrium is right above lutetium, so it kind of behaves like a rare earth element.Orbitals is where it's at! A lot of properties of elements and compounds can be explained by their orbital structure. For example, the molecular orbitals of inorganic compounds determine their colour. The luminescent properties of rare earth elements are determined by their f-orbitals.

That's some really cool stuff! I especially like the UFO!

All rare earth elements are pretty similar due to their orbital structures. This makes them hard to isolate, even while they're not that rare. Fun fact: most rare earth elements were found in Sweden and one village has four elements named after it Rare earths are more interesting for their optical properties than their magnetic properties and they are the basis for most lasers out there. Neodymium and samarium are often used in rare earth magnets. I'm guessing they mostly use Neodymium in NdFeB magnets because they can be made fairly easily and are mostly iron (~75%), a cheap and common material. I looked up the Ho/Yt magnets (this article, right?) and it seems that they are made of highly ordered superlattices, which aren't cheap. Like some of the others already mentioned, planetary magnetic fields extends pretty far out into space, but not very intense. A large shell of small, strong magnets simply wouldn't produce the same magnetic field. Cool, what are you working on? I did my bachelor's project on the optical properties of cerium-doped lanthanum phosphate nanoparticles, it was pretty interesting

Interesting. Land around volcanoes is usually very fertile, so it's not a very good Mars analog. Then again, this is an experiment on human isolation and not botany.

Oh, cool song! Haha, no problem.These are some awesome tracks by Jonn Serrie:

Like the others said, there are delta-v maps of the Kerbol system that show you the amount of delta-v needed to transfer from one body to the other, and to circularise your orbit. There are some things to consider though: - Do you want to do fly-bys, or do you want to go into orbit around the bodies? If you are satisfied with just doing fly-bys, you can save a lot of delta-v by using gravity assists to 'slingshot' yourself to your next destination. This requires a lot of planning though. It might also be easier to include Eve in your slingshot maneuvers, since her her strong gravity well may help you to slingshot yourself outwards towards the outer planets. Also, transfer windows between the outer planets suck, they are few and far in between. - If you bring mining gear, you can replenish your fuel at certain locations (the moons and Dres/Eeloo). This would make your craft much more compact.

Haha, those are some pretty cool designs! The Northrop XB-35 reminds me of the plane in Captain America. The Bartini just looks plain (ha!) scary. Do all these designs fly well? Because I can imagine some of them have serious balancing issues.

I saw some crafts and flights and such, but not for Science. Yeah, that's what I thought I think it would be a great way to give you a sense of achievement, and would make Science more important than 'that thing you do to get more parts'.

I guess having Jool as a Xenon-source would make more sense, but this does not solve the perceived Dres problem. I think that modifications to the 'Dresteroids' would be the easiest option to make it more interesting. Like I said, having class D & E asteroids exclusively appearing around Dres instead of near Kerbin.

I visited a minerals museum recently and they had some nice rocks on display, including some cool meteorite fragments. When I took a surface sample of Minmus, this got me thinking: wouldn't it be cool to have a Science Exposition feature in KSP? At the moment, you perform Science experiments on a body or in the atmosphere, you get a report and bring/send it back to Kerbin. The R&D building gives you an overview of your Science reports, but that's about it. You do the experiments purely to unlock parts of the Tech Tree and gain no real sense of achievement. I would love to have part of the R&D building (or a new building) contain an exposition of the experiments you have performed. Kind of like a record of all your Science achievements. This 'Kerbal Space Museum' would contain sections for each planetary body. At the beginning of your game these sections would, naturally, be empty (apart from the general description you see in the Tracking Station maybe). Once you perform a crew report or temperature/pressure/seismic experiment on the surface of the body, the KSM description would expand with the corresponding data on the planet. Did you perform a pressure scan on Laythe? You can now see the pressure table for Laythe's atmosphere in your KSM. Got a temperature scan from Moho? You now have the minimum and maximum temperature listed in your Moho section. Accompanying each section would be a visual display for all surface samples you've taken and physically returned to Kerbin. Did you bring back a sample from Duna's polar caps? You get a cool ice crystal next to the reddish sand and red rock from previous visits to Duna's Midlands and Highlands. See that awesome, purple glowing liquid sample in the Eve section? That's an ocean sample you brought back after your first successful return from Eve! Did you perform an experiment with the Atmospheric Fluid Spectro-Varoiometer in Jool's atmosphere? You get a glass container with swirling green gas in Jool's section. I think that seeing the collection of your Kerbal Space Museum grow as you progress through the game would provide you with a greater sense of achievement than the current recordkeeping in the R&D will ever do. It would also give you a greater incentive to go to planets like Moho, Dres and Eeloo other than 'it's hard' or 'I want to have visited all the bodies' - especially if surface samples from those bodies would contain beautiful crystals.

Yeah, that's true. Caves would make rovers more interested, but there would have to be some interesting stuff see in them. Crystal formations, maybe?

That'd be cool. It would basically require you to have self-sufficient space stations around each planet, for quick rescue missions.

I would much rather have interesting surface activities such (cryo)volcanoes, geysers, lava lakes and (dense) frigid atmospheres than underground structures to be honest.I think Dres would benefit a lot from having an exclusive type of asteroid. For example: while you would encounter class A, B and C frequently around Kerbin, type D and E would be exclusive to Dres. Or, if mining for Xenon would be a future option, having Dres and/or Dresteroids be the only source for mineable Xenon.

If that's so, I wonder what the conversion rate it, considering I got 297,805,305 points from this mission alone

Isn't this poll a bit early? Considering the movie hasn't come out yet, how can you really judge whether Matt Damon is a good choice?

I read the book this weekend, I had a really hard time put it down! I'm looking forward to the movie