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cubinator

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  1. When life gives you lemons, put them in bleach and see what happens.
  2. Yes, that makes sense. Who would have even the most remote hope of growing a plant in .006 bar anyway?
  3. I did that once, and I was not happy. It was years before I found out about how magical the Alt key really is, though. As stated above, Alt-F5 and Alt-F9 are your friends.
  4. When it makes you happy that "spaghettification" is a physics term.
  5. When life gives you lemons, make a hybrid lemon/orange tree.
  6. You ordered snake souWAIT ITS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD AAAAAAAAAAA Waiter, there's phosphorus in my soup!
  7. Granted, but Carbon-6 is now extremely unstable. I wish for a peck of pickled peppers picked by Peter Piper.
  8. Your genie misheard "pianist", but he also dropped a decimal somewhere... I wish I could convert been ASCII and binary in my head.
  9. Remember when Pluto was still a planet? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
  10. When life gives you lemons, bathe in the juice and then go outside.
  11. Which one? ==== [A Kerbal holds a lit match to a rocket nozzle for a static fire test] *FOOM* [Several frightened medics run to the scene, but he seems to be unharmed] "Am I missing an eyebrow?"
  12. "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence." -Frederick Douglass
  13. If not by tidal forces, then by some other problem involving infinite acceleration.
  14. Not a black hole, because the physics don't disallow a naked singularity. If you fly through it you would experience infinite acceleration without getting pulled in, basically an infinite gravity "assist". Which causes problems for spacecraft trying to get close to it.
  15. Let's just take a moment to consider that you said those two things in the same sentence, in the same context...
  16. I tried to make a vacuum pun, but it sucked. I guess it's ok though, because there's no pressure to make puns like that anyway.
  17. Pfft, that thing is plenty big enough to use as a runway for horizontal landings. If you find yourself going too fast just touch down on the lower end, roll up and off the upper edge, stall to lose speed and fall backwards back onto the dish. Jeb told me it's guaranteed to work, probably.
  18. Disclaimer: This is only my rather limited understanding, which may be wrong in some areas or not give the full picture. Each celestial body in KSP is a surface "shell" with a point-mass in the center. The pull of gravity decreases with distance from that point mass. On Kerbin, it's 1 g at 600 km distance and 0 g at the edge of the SOI. The problem with doing away with the surface is that gravity is actually infinite at the center of the point mass, no matter how small you make it elsewhere, so by flying close to it you could accelerate to "sanic fast" very easily. So the point mass would have to be either so massive you get big delta-V savings from a gravity assist on nothing, or too small to be useful as a place to put spacecraft.
  19. Not pressed. This button has a 51% chance of halving atmospheric CO2 levels, and a 49% chance of doubling it when pressed.
  20. Granted, you get ten billion different engines to wait for in the loading screen. I wish for a cubic meter of carbon dioxide ice.
  21. To what extent will you simulate pressure? Titan's is 1.5 times that of Earth, and Mars's is so tenuous water boils. You could probably make your own CO2 for simulating Mars by burning something with lots of carbon instead of trying to filter out the minuscule proportions in the natural atmosphere.
  22. Now I'm imagining an engineer at the top of a gunpowder rocket, winding up a clockwork space probe...
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