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Yeah, erosion is the most likely cause, especially seeing that the ground seems to be mostly loose gravelly rocks as you describe it. I made pyrite once in a middle school lab, it involved Bunsen burners so I highly doubt the stuff is just growing out of the ground without any volcanic activity. That does being up the question, though, what did happen to make all that pyrite? Your rock field may have some secrets to tell about what your neighborhood was like millions of years ago...

When the shows you actually pay attention to include NOVA, Mythbusters, Doctor Who and not much more. I can't quite wrap my head around the fact that Mythbusters is ending soon yet...

Ok, I've finished my SCIENCE!!! Here are my results (Pressures are in mbars, altitudes are in steps, a unit of height which is equal to about 0.185 m and which I happen to have a bunch of in my house that are easy to measure): Pressure (mbar) at Various Altitudes (Steps) 0 Steps 1021.9 mbar 1 1021.9 2 1021.9 3 1021.8 4 1021.8 5 1021.8 6 1021.7 7 1021.7 8 1021.7 9 1021.7 10 1021.6 11 1021.6 12 1021.6 13 1021.6 14 1021.6 15 1021.5 16 1021.5 17 1021.4 18 1021.4 19 1021.4 20 1021.3 21 22 1021.3 1021.3 Gah, these tables are hard to work with! Anyways, I plotted this data into a scatter plot on my calculator, then told it to find the best exponential curve to fit that data set. The equation was: y = 1021.920684 * .9999722403x I am close enough to sea level that that distance is negligible (300 m) so I did not account for it. The fun lies in assuming you know nothing at the start, and doing all your measurements from scratch. The curve indicates that at an altitude of 587437.7 Steps, the pressure should be 0.00084574 mbar. This is essentially a vacuum. 587437.7 Steps is equal to 108.675 km. That's pretty darn accurate, don't you think? SCIENCE!!! YAY!

But shouldn't we classify all hominids as 'human'? They're pretty much the same as us...

Yes, I totally agree with this. I would definitely make good use of a 2.5 m SRB, but a 3.75 m one would be purely for those 'MOAR BOOSTER' moments that have nothing to do with anything productive, unless I felt like trying a 1-launch Eve mission or something. Speaking of which, I've never actually done an Eve round trip! I should get around to that sometime. But I need to finish my Mun Elcano first.

Instead of landing on Kerbin like they were supposed to, the plane goes prograde, gets a gravity assist from the Mun, and runs out of fuel, stranding it in Kerbolar orbit. I send a sounding rocket to collect pressure data from the tropopause.

Rover wheels could leave tracks in the dust, and Kerbals could leave footprints, which would stay for a long time on non-atmospheric bodies. However, this would likely have to take into account the material the surface is made of. For instance, tracks on Eeloo would look different from tracks on the Mun because Eeloo's surface is different from the Mun's.

I'm not sure what a 3.75 m SRB would accomplish better than a Mammoth engine cluster with Kerbodyne liquid tanks, but it sure would be fun to play with! I can see 2.5 m SRBs on Shuttle or SLS clones, but a full-on 3.75 m solid booster is hard to justify for anything but the largest missions like bulky Jool-5 motherships or Eve landers. If there was a 5 m main stage to strap it to, I would totally go for it, but otherwise it just seems overpowered compared to other parts. Maybe I'm just being picky about my radial boosters having smaller diameter than my main stages, but that's just me. This would be pretty cool too. I would use tiny de-orbiting SRBs if they were available, and for extra coolness when decoupling rocket stacks.

Which outputs mediocre conductors (as in band conductors). Hey, that's not a cube, that's a tesseract! The building is a decateron...

Hmm... [fluffy] are cute. Sharks have been the ultimate predator of the sea for some 300 million years. Ants work together almost mechanically. There are those tiny creatures that can live pretty much everywhere but Jool's surface (get it? Jool has no surface...) Dolphins and whales have something very much like language. Humans have proven capable of breaking pretty much every well-established natural process involving life on the planet. [Anything that lives at the bottom of the ocean] Did I mention there are snails with shells literally made of iron down there? For me, the question of picking a single favorite animal is hardly trivial, because there are so many really cool ones. However, I can answer the opposite without hesitation: I hate wasps.

I wish I could live long enough to see moon colonies, there there would be actual low-g dancing and sports, and the best part is if you got a really big dome and filled it with air you could fly with a wing suit, and after that it would be only a matter of time before someone invents some kind of flying sport. As for Bill, I applaud his artistic talent!

"It works? Great." Whatever does the job, man. A good example of this is the...thing I used to transport my Elcano rover to the Mun. Boy, did it have problems but eventually it got the job done.

You know you're a nerd when you: (The following is the sequence of events that occurred in the past few minutes) 1. download a barometer app on your phone 2. look at it for a minute 3. Google conversions to atm 4. "Cool." "..." *light bulb* 5. Put it on the floor for a few seconds 6. Get REALLY excited when the pressure goes up by 0.1 mbars! SCIENCE!!! (7. (what I'm about to do) Go upstairs and measure the difference, then put it next to an AC vent and see what happens) 0.1 mbars!!!!! That's like, uh, well...ENOUGH TO MEASURE!!! I wonder if I can calculate Earth's atmospheric height based on the assumption that pressure goes down exponentially with altitude, and with measurements taken on different levels in my house.

I'm making progress on my Mun circumnavigation. I think I can finish before 1.1 hits, because if I don't then it's not happening...

CHAPTER IV: THROUGH THE FARSIDE CRATER The Farside Crater, although intimidating at first glance, was actually not too bad. I managed to get all the way to the other side and only had to quickload twice. There were some unexpected events, such as me accidentally driving straight into a crater, falling some 50 m, and not breaking anything , but unfortunately amidst all the chaos I was unable to press the screenshot button so you will have to take my word for that . I got to the end and climbed the wall of the mare without too much trouble, and although the EVA report indicates that I am still inside the Farside Crater biome I consider myself to be at it's edge.

Granted, but turns out Laythe is actually really cold, and it's air is toxic so you have a hard time staying alive. I wish for an airplane.

I inspect it under the microscope for signs of alien microorganisms. Next poster receives 1 gram of silver gas.

You know you are a nerd when you know who the hat guy is.

All right, I've got something to say about puns. Let me tell you, there is one job where you can make so many puns it's unbelievable. That job is knot theory. If I had a thousand years to live, I would definitely study knot theory for a while. If I were a knot theorist, I would knot give up even the slightest opportunity to make a knot pun. Unfortunately, I do knot have a thousand years to live (probably) so I will knot become a knot theorist. It's knot just about the puns, knot theory is actually kind of interesting. I read some simple basics about it in a book (the same book that taught me how to count in binary). Knots do knot work in 4 dimensions because the string has an extra dimension to slip around in. In knot theory, knots are drawn as loops, knot as strings with ends. If the loop can be untangled into a circle, then it is knot knotted, and that instance is actually called the unknot. No knot can be the unknot, and any loop that is knot a knot is the unknot. Although knots may not seem complicated at first glance, the math behind knot theory is definitely knot simple. I do knot know much more than that about knots, but I do think they are cool! I wonder how many knot puns a knot theorist could put in their PhD paper before someone complains. Probably knot very many, they need to act professional for something that important. It would probably be fun for a while, but knot for long. I imagine all the knot puns sound as bad to a knot theorist as all the Uranus jokes sound to an astronomer.

Kerbal Krunch: Part of a balanced TWR!

Well, Io looks cool and weird, Europa and Enceladus have friggin' liquid water in their mantles, Pan is a walnut, Mimas looks like the Death Star, Charon has that weird split, some Uranus moons have huge cliffs and low gravity, but of course if there was one place I would pay to go to, it's Titan.

Ah, that's better.

A 3-digit LEGO kit? Like, as in, just one?

Cool! I wonder if I can hack it into my tiny drone? The next poster receives 1 boiled dollar. As in it was cooked thoroughly in boiling water beforehand.

You know you're a nerd when you are eating cereal that has small semi-cubic chocolate pieces, and there are three of them left, and you instinctively feel the urge to stack them into a 3U Chocsat before eating them.