Spaceception

Watch the video, then discuss Alternate history hub

That would be a good stepping stone, plus you wouldn't need to wait days, weeks, months, or even years to get up to really high speeds. As for the requirements, I have no clue:/ But it probably depends on how fast you want to go

The Zoo hypothesis, which states that all intelligent species that don't have, say, interstellar travel are watched over by other, more intelligent civilizations, and it may be why we haven't seen any evidence of intelligent Aliens..

A Mini-mag or Medusa NPP starship to do a flyby of Proxima Centauri/Alpha Centauri, the speed would be 10-15% Light speed with a 100 tonne payload, and would get there in ~35-45 years

Do you have the Valentine solar system? It's more realistic than the other red dwarf that another mod has, plus it has several planets/moons that would be really good for colonization. Also, do you have the Nuclear rockets mod that adds the Orion? That would make interplanetary missions really fast.

So, with the recent confirmation of gravitational waves, does this make the Alcubierre drive just a little bit more possible?

Well, I added a bit to the conversation.

@RoverDude When do you think the Mini-Mag will be up?

The Apollo missions would've been longer as the two superpowers USA/Russia eyed the Earths second Moon as the grand prize Also, we wouldn't have called the Moon 'the Moon' as we had two. Plus, history would've been different as old civilizations probably would've eyed the two Moons as feuding gods or something.

When pretty much all your time spent on the computer is KSP, KSP forums, or space related stuff.

Congrats Thanks! Also, I was thinking it would have mostly flat plains. Also also, flight would be really easy.

Spiced up? How about... giving it a small ring, thick atmosphere (Like Eve's, but slightly thinker), almost no liquid water (15% of the surface is liquid water, while 22% is ice), while also having 50% of the gravity and only 1/2 degree c above freezing It's excellent!

You got featured! Video

Time for Uranus! Uranus: Same OTL save for the rings. Miranda: Mass 0.0009 Moons | Radii 320 km | Temp -215 c | 0.0044 g | Albedo .27 | Materials Iron 2.48%, Silicate 22.3%, Water 75.1%, Organics 0.08% | Ariel: Mass 0.018 Moons | Radii 748 km | Temp -50 c | 0.0161 g | Albedo .39 | Materials Iron 4.94%, Silicate 44.5%, Water 50.6% | Umbriel: Mass 0.015 Moons | Radii 726 km | Temp -36 c | 0.0142 g | Albedo .10 | Materials Iron 4.98%, Silicate 44.8% Water 50.2% | Titania: Mass 0.0496 Moons | Radii 1000 km | Temp -214 c | 0.0248 g | Albedo .27 | 0.0000000000996 Atm | Materials Iron 4.06%, Silicate 52.1%, Water 43.9% | Oberon: Mass 0.04 Moons | Radii 777 km | Temp -213 c | 0.0332 g | Albedo .23 | Materials Iron 12.1%, Silicate 87.8% Water 0.0605% (TO give it the appearance of water cryovolcanoes filling flat areas with water) |

Oh, well, it can still depend.

Okay, I didn't have time to do Uranus today, but tomorrow morning, I'll try to get to it, and (Probably unlikely) Neptune as well.

Well, it also depends on the composition, like the ratio of Water, Iron, and SIlicates, and the density. Are your calculations assuming that it has the same composition/density as Earth? I'm just wondering.

1.3 g, The mass would be 2 Earths, and the radii would be 1.3 Earths, the gravity would be 30% stronger than here.

I shared it to various twitter users.

Their budget is already massive, taking a small chunk out probably wouldn't do much, and it's high time they figure out better ways of spending, I read once that the Military spends more in a week that NASA does in a year.

It's serious. Although, in hindsight, I should've left that part out

Hey, its better than killing, there has to be at least 100,000 people who are for space exploration and against excessive military spending.

Triple NASA's current budget so we can go to Mars by 2030 Will you please sign this petition?

Instead of designing washing machines that operate in microgravity (And everything else that would be much harder in microgravity, like toilets), how about we just put a centrifuge in there? Over time it'd be cheaper, and the Astronauts would actually be able to WALK when they get back onto Earth, instead of being carried out like babies.