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Also Europe is easy to set a convention any major city really cause of the great railways, Berlin probably is best (well Berlin, Munich, or Paris) the bigger issue with Europe is getting language translations for everything! Often easier just to do one in UK, one in France and one in Germany

Posh accent and bowler hats only come down here in the beautiful wimpish south... but I'd better jump out the way before my humberside girlfriend whacks me with her tough northern exterior!

tylo is the moons older brother edit mun, been playing rss

I learnt how to make space planes last week, so new save: Kerbal Spaceplane Program

I feel a good explanation for the "edge of the universe" is a flat landers persepctive. If you were two dimensional being only going left and right, fordward and backwards, up and down would be a mystery. Imagine if then your world was wrapped around a sphere, you would still only go l&r, f&b but you would eventully end up where you started again. (and expansion just makes this more complicated, your flat lander sphere is actually a baloon, which is being inflated faster than you could run).

3/10, both countries are too damp!

Even if skylon goes belly up the SABRE engines have had a lot of development (in fact other than some cool graphics the rest of the craft is a "we'll come up with it later" affair). Let's hope no one gets spiteful with the patents if it does go, those enginges do look like an SSTO spaceplane maker

after reading @Val tutorials on spaceplane design I finally managed to get one into a 75km orbit and have it return without losing stability. Finally time to turn down the funds and run a reusable spaceprogram! And now to work, a place where Kerbal only exists to fill a two hour delay in surgical rotations!

So multiple krakens or one kraken in multiple places?

Yeah she also follows the mouse, taking hunting to a new level of laziness

today I couldn't play ksp cause poppet decided to sleep on my laptop, would you move her?!? also inserting images from iPhones turns out to be trickier than copy paste

This constant spreading out by less than a generation will eventually lead to people not breeding with each other, disparate group reproducing without gene flow is how speciation occurs (humans are doomed to go extinct eventually, that might be by literally breeding our species to extintion)

If the planet did have an atmostphere but was tidally locked you'd get some interesting weather patterns. Interesting as in a continuous cycle of wind from the day side to the night side and back. Life on this sort of planet would have to deal with hurricane strength winds permanently along with radiation and temperature extremes...

I have done this, but normally I design my payloads then immediately launch them (my LKO is full of ships ready for departure, just need crewing up and the right window) so there's never really the foresight to launching multiple things. Closest I get is a multiprobe gantry (basically a long girder with lots of disposable probes on it)

It doesn't give you the angle for an ideal launch window (which can massively change your dv requirements)

I know it's not SSTO anymore but I usually put on a couple of panther pods on the wings to get the plane to about mach2 (ish) then drop them and fire up the RAPIERS

trust me this converation has being on weirder places, asking for evidence as to why the evidence for the speed of light is valid....

I get the science with planes, land them and transfer all the reports to a river, drive that to my rocket which has the lab and a capsule (etc) then launch the thing with all the science already

Although a bit of me would more prefer them to use kelvin whenever it's a science situation and provide a Celsius and Fahrenheit (still can't spell that) comparison in brackets

sorry.... Been watching this unfold, getting the same arguments, basically Imperial: easier to factorise but a nuissance when doing conversion and science. Metric: good for conversion and scaling but factorising is more difficult. I'll say for me, if I need to dissolve 1mcg of amiodarone in 20cc of fluid and I have amiodarone in molar solution (0.02mol/L) and saline in L then know what I'm doing. I'd be kind of screwed (as would the patient) if it was in imperial. The NHS (UK) went metric before the UK due to patient safety concerns!

I'm amazed how long that solar panel survived for!

I use the banana as a unit of radiation... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose 35 MB (mega banana) is a lethal dose

"liquid" I'm loving this, try typing p i s s

Yeah in UK we have a weird mix, so we're taught metric in school (and if you're in state that is all you will get taught) which is fine because it's the same numbering system as maths, but then yougo to the real world and beer/milk is pints and your relatives will talk about it being in the 30s and meaning cold and roads being in miles, but you get used to it. Guess we're still getting rid of imperial. I do find it ironic that the country that fought against being under the monarchy still wants to measure stuff in relation to an old kings foot... (Don't get defensive at that comment, it's just taking the liquid) hang on does liquid

Don't know if anyone saw the thread metric/imperial in science chat, but it got pretty heated, but did find a great list of units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement I love the idea of a -ve Helen.....