cubinator

If I was making a star, I'd set up some kind of network of massive galactic leaf blowers around a cloud of interstellar dust, and try to trigger gravitational collapse by inducing shockwaves in the gas and pushing it into itself. It would be pretty much the same as natural star formation, except it would be helped along by artificial triggers. The leaf-blower would be some kind of extreme high-output "gas gun" that would probably have to be powered by a star itself. Maybe you could channel the magnetic field of the star into pointing the solar wind in a certain direction, or even induce a nova-like explosion on the surface of the star that would push out an energy burst that could be funneled towards a particular target.

Yeah I'm semi-serious. They are already building and launching these prototypes at record speed, and only want to go bigger. When they are finally launching to orbit multiple times a week, and able to send thousands of tons to Mars every window, who better to be the first crazy Martian constructioneers than the crazy people building a spaceport in a rural seaside village? They know what it takes to do the impossible and they'd be able to make sure it was safe enough for laypeople to follow. I kind of want to go work there...

At that point, infrastructure staff will be offered to relocate to Mars to build infrastructure there.

I see an ant.

It sounds like it happened at the moment the second engine was supposed to ignite.

Confirmed boom.

Blue people Avatar or periodic table Avatar?

Stakes are a lot lower here than on THAT fourth flight, lol

Hope all goes well!

Probe is eternal.

For modeling parts I want to manufacture I use Onshape.

Honestly I'd like to see it all. Lunar surface, lunar orbit, space elevators, Mars, Venus, nuclear rockets to the asteroid belt and outer planets, followed by colony ships to all the stars in the galaxy. The best future I can imagine is one where all the possibilities are open.

If it had any chance of being what it says it is, somebody would have launched one into space and accelerated a spacecraft with it by now.

Probably a lot of the same people who would want to live on Mars.

It's bone dry pretty much everywhere else, and there aren't even the right ingredients to make water out of the other stuff that's there. Maybe if we're lucky we'll find significant ice deposits inside the lava tunnels, but if not then only a few spots near the poles will have enough water to do anything with.

Water is even more scarce on the Moon than on Mars.

Better get my bug farm printed, geared up, programmed, and bolted tight then.

I bet you thought this thread was dead! A brown dwarf and a white dwarf. I got a little nostalgic and decided to make a pixel art piece again. I came up with a nice way to draw all over planets without worrying about keeping the edges clean, by putting the background in front of the planet. Seems to work beautifully!

It will be used for fireworks.

The Moon is in a smiley face right now, but we would never really see a frowny face unless it was upside down.

I have been getting to sleep way too late this week.

Indeed, the huge amount of shaking generated by the downward end of a rocket is enough to disrupt even the most robust antennas. And they are still able to get more useful telemetry data at lower bandwidth throughout the flight.

NM has plants.

It looks like someone bolted wings on a camper van with a jet engine strapped to the roof. Then it didn't have enough lift so they added more wings.

Isn't Kerbal gravity at the surface the same as Earth's? Putting Earth's mass into Kerbin's radius yields a factor of about 112.85. Not sure the slider goes up that far. The force 6000 km away from Kerbin's center (ten times its radius) would be the same as Earth's surface gravity. Kerbin definitely has the same universal gravitational constant as Earth.