cubinator

Dude, that's literally a question on the entrance evaluation in Physics 1! "Which path does the dropped payload follow? a, b, c, d..."

Quadricorder

Untitled Space Craft comes to mind...

...Better or worse than the Rise of Skywalker?

As someone who has a lot of gripes with SLS and a lot of hope in Starship, I think that in a vacuum I would be happy with SLS. Especially if I was in the rocket and it was protecting me from the vacuum. The rocket itself is fine and cool and launching dozens of them and visiting the Moon and landing probes on Europa would be the best thing ever. What I'm actually upset about is the politics and penny-pinching and ulterior motives bogging down NASA's moon program for decades, from people who are not rocket engineers or scientists or astronauts and who need a good healthy dose of overview effect. I am worried that they will foot the two billion dollar bill for the first test flight, then immediately say "We have to pay this every time? This isn't worth it!" and shut it all down, again. I think that until we can launch our politicians personally into orbit there is a big risk that they will stop letting the engineers have their fun. Reusable rockets promise to reduce that risk in the second-best way by reducing the actual cost of rocket launches. Starship promises to reduce it even further by being fully and rapidly reusable. I guess SLS and the moon program as a whole are somewhat buffered now by incorporating as many commercial partners as they can for crucial roles, such as moon landers and bases and supplies and modules. But that's how I feel about some of this stuff.

The OG Blade Runner was set last year, wasn't it? Funny that they hit so close to the mark.

My guess: The grid fins work well while the rocket is moving fast. Only when it's really in the last few seconds of its journey does it slow down enough that they can't really affect the ship's motion. So until it's almost hovering over the pad, the grid fins can help to maneuver the rocket. Remember how big the rocket is when thinking about how fast it's moving.

I think the shock front is pushed somewhat outward from the galactic core due to "stuff" coming from that direction.

Maybe they were thinking of antioxidants. I've heard eating lots of those can help with radiation.

The walls in question will be frequently coated with powder as the food delivery system activates. That paint won't last long. I'm looking at PVC pipe with little hatches actuated by servos. It would be closed well enough for all but the few seconds needed to drop food into the enclosure, but it's one more servo that has to be added to the machine.

Particles are of variable size.

No, that's too mean. Slippery might work, but food particles will eventually nullify it. I need a closing hatch.

I have to make an insect feeder, but insects are small and can climb up into most pipes and tubes. So I have to prevent that from happening somehow.

Doctor Freeeemaaaaaannnnn......

You can lock the thred, But you can't stop the clik.

My first thought on trying to get plant cells to replicate faster: It's going to get hot, just because of physics. A lot of proteins operate in a certain range of temperatures, and most of the time organisms are built to operate in the actual most efficient temperature range for their proteins. (I realize plants are cold-blooded, but take your own body temperature as an example. If you go into a fever, you won't feel great because your proteins are losing efficiency and some may even start to break.) So just trying to get the plant to 'go faster' wouldn't work. Maybe there's a few other things you could get around a little bit, but not easily.

They're not asking for much more out of SLS, either...They're putting Gateway in that weird high orbit just so that Orion can be capable of reaching it.

Also, the radius of the planet in Avatar is dependent on plot.

I feel like a black hole without the physics that cause black holes to exist doesn't fit the educational theme of KSP. They'd only include it if it tricked players into learning relativity.

Ahem,

The waterbenders simply haven't realized yet - they are powerful too, perhaps even more so. Every bender is an "avatar" of sorts, able to manipulate many actual elements. Here is a tentative map of which elements are controlled by which groups: As you can see, Earthbenders have a wide domain over the metals as well as interesting attunement to radioactivity, however fire and waterbenders have power over some of the explosive or water-soluble metals. Any ices are within waterbenders' domain, as are the noble gases (Imagine a waterbender earthbending on Pluto). Airbenders control air, which is a mixture of gaseous elements. Thus, they can easily control anything atmospheric, even certain metals if they get hot enough. (Airbenders could probably earthbend on Pluto too.) They just need that steampunk guy to show them a little chemistry, then they will finally see their real power. It's like that waterbending witch who showed Katara she could remove water from the air. She could probably pull pure oxygen out too if she realized what water is made of.

If I were to have a black hole in Kerbal, I'd want the space around it to be fully noneuclidean as in real life. I'd want to play with precessing, unstable orbits and time dilation, relativity of simultaneity as I approach the speed of light, Lorentz contractions and Doppler shifting, 3D space bent into 4D. A black sun with visual effects won't cut it. And since most of the propulsion types in the works wouldn't realistically get close to the speed of light (not to say we won't try), I don't think relativistic mechanics are really being considered as a gameplay mechanic.

If you go far enough back, the killing was for food.

Ah, that's simply the manufacturer. https://www.apogeerockets.com/