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    In fact I based on the real Eros. Fun fact: I discovered the existence of the real Eros because there can't be two bodies with the same name and I wasn't understanding why the editor wasn't accepting the name "Eros". So what you see is actually "Eros2". The brightness is caused by some problem with the screenshots, so all the bodies you've seen so far have a brightness higher than in-game, where it's more reasonable.
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    Venus (and Eros).
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    For this we need the launch of Vulcan, than we can see. I would feel more safe with an engine like the RS-25 that flew for 135 missions with an reliability rate of 99,95% than a new engine under development.
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    Yes they're doing well but their original plan was to flew a manned rocket in 2010. Then 2012. Now is 2016 and the first UNMANNED launch is just happened. Great ambitions but you can't compete with who has decades of experience.
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    "Hi, we're a new company, we never built a rocket before, and we want to propose this engine to you, NASA, the biggest space agency in the world, for your actually more important project, the SLS." .............yes?
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    I'm back too, After I fixed what I have to. I have Venus and Eros ready, I only need details about the surfaces, so let's start with another 9 pages of topic about this.
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    Since you said that you read Seveneves, I assume that the thing I'm going to say are not spoilers. I personally think that the book is quite over optimistic. Do you remember the thing about the Argentine ships threatening Kourou space center and Julia fending them off with napalm and nuclear weapons? I personally believe that the same thing would happen on a global scale.
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    The astonishing special effects and the sexually ambiguous characters made it for me. IGN 10/10 would watch again
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    it is, you have to download it from Curse, not Kerbalstuff http://www.curse.com/ksp-mods/kerbal/232196-asteroid-day#t1:other-downloads Also check the MM patch that I added to the first post.
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    If you have the Asteroid Day mod you can spawn asteroids around all the planets, if you don't have it the asteroids are only around Kerbin and in Dres orbit. The rare gases are in asteroids, in the planets atmospheres, and Xenon is also in water (kerbin, laythe, eve).
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    Yes, I checked and it's a bug, thanks for reporting. No, I'll not add the extraction to the drill because it's unrealistic (it already is with asteroids but whatever). Optionally I added a ModuleManager patch for both of the stock converters.
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    No, actually for the drill you must use an asteroid, there isn't argon or xenon on planets.
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    I know, I but I wanted to use it as intended. Before making this thing I looked at the .cfg files, but I decided that it was funnier to work around the limitation than to break it.
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    I think I found something interesting. If you use KAS winches you can tether the balloons to the ground. You'll say: "But the cable is only 50 meters!". Yes but if you put more winches stacked like this You can make loooong cables and attach the craft to the ground. Actually I arrived at 3 winches for 150m of cable.
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    sudo apt-get install Force
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    Thanks I discovered something new.
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    Ok, it can be done.
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    I made some experiments about missiles in space and that's what I noticed. First thing the HE-KV-1 isn't working. Nor in atmosphere nor in space. For space combat the PAC-3 seems to be the best missile, thanks to its controllable throttle. The other missiles, anti-radar, laser, gps are not able to steer. (in space) Also a strange thing I noticed is that cruise missiles work in vacuum. Is this intended?
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    It's the same thing that I and Freethinker made for capacitors (the model is from Near Future Electric) and that is an idea. The problem is which model to use.
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    I know, but PartTool isn't working for me.
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    I made some climate simulation for Venus. Basically I reduced it's atmosphere to 10 times less than earth(5.1 x 1018 kg =>5.1 x 1017 kg) and this accordingly reduced pressure to 0.0963 atm (a little less than Earth/10). Problem is that humans can't tolerate pressures so low, and I don't know about other life forms. So the only way to have an habitable atmosphere is to increase pressure to around 0.2 atm that would be barely survivable for humans. But this in turn would make the surface temperature to rise from 63,5° to around 74-75°. In the first case you can have lot of water, except on equatorial zones, in the second case you can have small "seas" or very large lakes like the Black Sea OTL.
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    The simulation lasted 150 years more than the date in the images , for a total of approximately 200 years, then the program crashed. I based the simulation an the parameters of the first post, so actually they are the real moon and earth.
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    Yes, I doesn't seems because in this images the camera is fixed on Earth. The orbital parameters are approximated to the third decimal place. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html
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    I made the orbital simulations for Aurora. http://it.tinypic.com/a/5n1wzr/3 Aurora started in a L4 point like said but it did not last long. ( I put it there with the + 60 degrees of mean anomaly as suggested before) The orbit stabilized in a strange resonance where Aurora pass from an higher than moon orbit and then a lower orbit. Those are the final orbital parameters: the inner orbit is 320.000 km , the outer is 460.000 km. the inner orbit is almost perfectly circular, the outer has an eccentricity of 0.06 (same as moon) the longitude of ascension node is 125° (same as moon) (for both orbits) inclination is 5.16° (same as moon) (for both orbits) argument of periapsis varies wildly between orbits, cycling through almost all values same for mean anomaly The mass of the moon has been calculated as 0,0000633x Earth with a density of 3.22 g/cm3 (as you can see from images) I didn't put much water, so the density is probably even lower.
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