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CHAPTER VI: CRATERS ARE ANNOYING So, there were a lot of craters on the way to Jeb. I ran into them and broke things several times, requiring several quickloads. The rover struggled along, but slowly made progress. Next up: Jeb gets his ride.

sound of the hype train accelerating

Moar booster, anyone?

I'm excited for all the new goodies 1.1 has to offer, finally on the horizon!

The Hype Train is boarding? I'm in! 1.1, here we come!

Man, but I hope that launch tower is one part, all those struts would lag really badly.

Because they can't hear you. How can I teach my black hole tricks?

I've experimented with Kopernicus some, but haven't been able to get my rocky worlds working quite right so I dropped it. I also got the KSP planet pack for Space Engine, and that worked well except Minmus which was buggy. There's a lot that can be done with Space Engine, that's for sure!

Wait... I think the giant spinning disks at the top of the original GLaDOS might have been about 25 m...

Bob Kerman

This must be why there are bird sounds in the Space Center but there doesn't seem to be any birds. They are invisible to all but the most etherial cameras.

I think I'm a little late here...but yay! Leap day! We should just add 6 hours to every December 31st...just kidding this works too

I like the new accretion disks in the 0.9.7.4 beta: Reminds me of Interstellar, although none of these have planets remotely near enough to the black hole to be illuminated by the disk in any way.

Then it would be used as a weapon. What if Mars had never been impacted by another protoplanet?

Seriously, I see a ridiculous number of birds in that picture. There is also several spiders, an alligator, a fish, Darth Vader, and a couple of mammals.

Magic Seed

You know you're a nerd when the one word that gets stuck in your head all day is 'peptidoglycan' because bacteria are interesting.

Good idea. Another interesting thing would be to have balloon parts that would allow a probe to float around in Jool for a prolonged period of time, kind of like a lander can stay on a planet for a long time before breaking/becoming obsolete. Of course, a balloon probe probably wouldn't last nearly as long as a planetary lander, but it would be enough to get science from different altitudes.

Wait, the interactions of different lifeforms and processes on Earth resemble those between individual cells...What if Earth itself is alive? We humans could be it's spores, getting ready to travel to some other world and give it life?

Seems reasonable, and I agree. We can't possibly imagine what life will be like in 500 years. My ability to predict things only goes up about 50 years, at most. I know we'll probably go to Mars in this century, but when Venus and Jupiter become viable targets is a complete mystery. But I think we can agree on one thing: It would be interesting to find out!

The Moon and Titan are places I see the most tourism, because of the Moon's low gravity and proximity to Earth (which I assume is still humanity's 'home base' because no other planet is so habitable you don't need a spacesuit) and Titan because flying. Ceres seems like mostly industrial mining would occur there, as well as Ganymede and Callisto. Callisto would likely be the 'hub' for the Jovian system because it has reasonably high gravity and low-ish radiation, and it would be where the first manned missions to Europa's mantle would be launched from. I see little reason for Venus and Mercury colonies other than scientific (a great reason nonetheless) so I'd like to see what other reasons might there be to establish permanent settlements there. I imagine Mars as being the first colonized planet (even though it's so much farther than the Moon ), and I imagine it having at least a few cities whose night lights can be seen from space.

CHAPTER V: ON THE NEAR SIDE OF THE MUN Today I made about 100 km of progress, and it was fairly easy. Now that I think of it, I didn't have to do a single quickload! I drove around a crater and into several others without breaking much, and now I am officially on the Kerbin-facing side of the Mun! I am also within 100 km of Jeb's wreckage so it shows up as a purple marker. That's all for now! Next time I expect to reach Jeb's broken rover with this functional one, and bring him aboard.

I drove some more for my Mun Elca...wait, I should update that thread!

Silicon? It may not exist now, but as more stars die and new stars are born the amount of heavier elements will increase, so in several billion years it may be possible. Then there's always self-replicating nanobots, which are probably possible and they would likely evolve given enough time. Completely off-topic:

Me too. I find all sorts of arthropods fascinating, even though I keep my distance to some. Once, in second grade, an entomologist came to my school and gave a presentation to my class where he showed us various live exotic arthropods, including scorpions, hissing cockroaches, and tarantulas. We were seated on the floor in front of him, and when he took a giant millipede from the box literally every kid screamed and scooted as far back as possible, except me. I stayed right where I was, in the front row. I thought entomology was absolutely fascinating, and if I hadn't already been so inevitably drawn towards space I would want to be an entomologist.