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0.5c flyby of target system, (don't bother slowing down, it just lets them know where you are). on the way through, use a rail gun to decelerate small 1 or 2 gram packages of nanites into intercept orbits with pretty much anything you can see. Hundreds of them. Then watch them devour every scrap of matter in sight. Or, just fire off a trio of similar sized anti-matter pellets (delivery vehicle tbd) aimed to encounter the sun at 120° intervals about its equator. Just blast the whole inner system with gamma.

Sounds like fun, but... Be very careful, please. If you dont know exactly how to do any part of it, seek out someone who does it for a living to do that part for you. Smaller is better. Be aware that in some parts of the world, purchacing certain combinations of items can raise red flags with government agencies, have an explaination ready just in case. When you do get around to igniting anything, please stand behind a very sturdy wall and look into remote ignition systems. Check local laws regarding pyrotechnics, and use of airspace regulations. And always remember, an srb is just a pipe bomb that leaks. Make sure yours does.

So, metals generally form an oxide layer when exposed to oxygen. MH would have HO, or H2O? My chemistry is weak, but think either one would likely accellerate further oxidation.

I read in another thread that some of the flat earth crowd believe ksp is "a brainwashing tool made by the evil overlords nasa to make people believe in space and the spherical earth lie" Is the op maybe collecting data to support that belief?

Spelt is a type of wheat If you are going to currupt english, at least make sure your alternate spellings aren't other words. Personaly, I don't find alternate spellings acceptable. The practice seems lazy to me and despite my best efforts to be inclusive, I still find myself judging people who write this way as being poorly educated. Sorry, but its how I feel about it. Don't worry too much about me though, I'm often bothered by the general slide in pronunciation as well as the tendancy for poor word choices.

I saw ET at the drive-in sitting in the back of my parents station wagon. I remember when my best friend came to school bragging that he had 'round blood'. Just installed a brand new 3dfx Voodoo card. Before that, the blood spatter in quake was square. A few years back i wanted to get my kid a tonka truck. I was shocked to see that they are no longer all metal haulpacs, but instead poly-carbon stylised curvey fisher price looking things. Shame on you tonka. Had another shock when i decided to show the kids the original transformers cartoons. That animation quality was horrific, scale and geometry were flexible, and sometimes the animaters would skip the detailed colors and just bulk fill a single color. Oh, and the casual racism... I remember when thomas the tank engine was filmed using model trains. I remember when an automatic transmision was the optional luxury extra, at extra cost. Now its the manual. Yeah. Ive felt old for a while now...

Thought? Assume time is a free dimention like the other 3, (our math says travel in either direction isnt disallowed) now consider how we spend most of our lives thinking of the other 3. We can move left and right, forward and back over the ground reletivly freely. But up and down are different. We are constrained, so we dont usually think about traveling freely vertically without some tool to help. So we can consider that we live most freely in 2 of the four dimentions. Now consider spacetime. This is the four when viewed from the point of view of space. But what about timespace? In spacetime the biggest check to velocity is gravity. Imagine you are falling into a black hole, with time stretching out, each second farther from the next the faster you fall. And lacking a rocket, you have no choice but to fall. This is the only situation when a spacial dimension acts like time. You can only go one way. Thats a spacial black hole. What if, in our hypothetical timespace, there was such a thing as a temporal black hole? A mechanism that enforces the unidirectionality of time the closer you get to it. Is is beyond reason to assume that such a body may be acting on the universe, sucking timespace in one direction? As we get closer to the event horizon, might we begin to see our 3 dimentions expanding in a similar effect to a spacial black hole on time? I got this idea from a short story, i cant remember what it was titled or who wrote it. Maybe 4(?) Years ago.

8/10: makes up an arbitrary test, then proves they pass it. Very human. Although 2 points off for repeating it 10 times (insanity=doing the same thing and expecting different results) My kids are 100% humans (though small ones), They got dna tested to give us a heads up on a hereditary disease on my wifes side. As kids are 100%, and I'm responsible for half of their genes, I must be at least 50% human.

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for the record, I love my dog. if you have ever fed a toddler, you will understand.

If your orbit is matched, you wont be getting any closer as you both take the same amount of time to go around kerbin. You need to change your orbit so its faster or slower than your target, but so that some part of your orbits still touch. What you are looking for is an eccentric orbit, an oval. Burn prograde for a bit and raise your apoapsis by 20 or 30km. The lowest part of your orbit should still touch your target orbit. Now make a manouver node where the orbits touch. Make sure you have the target selected as a target. Set the manouver to rematch yor orbit. Now see the circle in the middle of your maouver node? Click on that and it should chane so it has 3 little circles in it, a red one for killing the manouver, a plus sign and a minus sign. Those two let you move the manouver node one whole orbit into the future, click on the plus and you should see your closest point of approach markers step around and converge. When they are within about 100km, then you can tweek the manouver node to try an get it within 1km. Then you just warp to the burn (watch the time next to your navbal, you may need to do a few orbits) and do the burn. Now chane your navball to target mode (click on the speed) and burn retrograde until the speed is zero. You have matched orbits within 1km of your target. Now you can nudge yourself toward it. Slowly. If you try to do it fast, you will miss. I generaly stick to 1m/s per 100m range. So, if you have stepped your manouver node around and not seen a good intercept, delete the node, and raise or lower your apoapsis by half of what you did last time. Hope that helps.

Two for one specials! Kids sand box=cats litter box Hot bubble bath=dishwasher Pet carry cage=short term toddlers playpen Overhead power line=cloths line Double up and save!

Are you sick, but cant afford those expensive perscription antibiotics? Most over the counter hand sanitisers can kill up to 99.9% of bacteria at a fraction of the cost. In fact, many hospitals, clinics and pharmacists will have a dispenser available for free public use. Just take a few swallows for free and save your cash!

An actual use for the ms hololense? Quick, someone send this to bill gates.

Assuming windows: You want to look in your steam folder for Steam/steamApps/common/kerbal space program Copy the kerbal space program folder and paste it somewhere outside the steam directory (you could put it on the desktop if you really wanted to). I have steam on a dedicated drive array, so my backup copy and modded copy are just dumped in the root of that drive. Within the new kerbal space program folder, you will the executable files for starting the game without steam, these are named 'KSP' for 32bit, and 'KSP_x64' for 64bit. You can make shortcuts of these by right clicking them, then moving the new shortcut to wherever is convenient for you. I have the 'ksp korner' (top left) of my desktop set aside just for ksp stuff.

Long ago an asteroid hit minmus and blasted a chunk of its creamy, pistachio green ice onto a collision course with kerbin. The fragment impacted near a sea coast. And melted, forming a small pond of complex fats, acids and various crystaline minerals in solution. Over the eons, random chance saw just the right combinations of these spark into what could be termed life. Lacking the ability to exert a physical presence, the pool of sentient green goop harvested the soil that thus far had cradled it. This material was first used to extrude structures that could float on the pool, but still be of the pool. The glop began to look around with its new senses, one of the first things it became aware of were the stars. So it constructed a mobile structure, and filled it with a tiny portion of itself. The strange new bipedal objects that wetly clambered from the ooze that day were of the pool, but stood apart from the pool in mind and body. These new kerbals, clear sacks filled with gloppy green life stuff learned for themselves the wonder and joy of the skies, and have been trying to reach them ever since, always aware of the teeming hoard of sacks beneath the vab waiting to be filled with more goo.

I think it wont be an intentional effort to exterminate us. Consider a slower than light civilisation bent on expansion. Each star has a maximum carrying capacity for life due to limited energy and mass. Because they dont have ftl, before they leave their own system they explore every option for getting the most out of thier own star. Planets are an inefficient use of mass when it comes to supporting a large population, the habitable surface area only increases with the square of radius whereas the mass required increases with the cube of the radius. Oniel cyliners have a much better surface area to mass ratio. So their original planets would eventually end up as a swarm of habitats in solar orbits. Once a population fills that, any surplus population must be shipped out to find a new star. Every year each populated planet sends out its surplus in the form of habitats retro fitted for interstellar travel. the more stars doing this, the closer the total yearly surplus is to the carrying capacity of the new star. If we are unfortunate enough to be in the way of such an expansionist culture, we may find a fleet of construction ships arriving to start building orbital colonies (and more ships) out of any matter they can find. If we get hit by a fleet thats already nearing the maximum capacity of our star, they would have to choose between a primitive surface dwelling alien species selfishly hoarding mass, or their own children. We get bulldosed without hesitation. Absolute worst case is if they go for automation in a big way. Even if their race eats itself to extincion, their machines may carry on. Thats assuming they hang around to inhabit the systems they have already mined out, instead of a slow trickle of surplus, we might face the entire population of their home star migrating all at once, and probably getting here within a few hundred years of each other. Sure they would start with the easy to get mass in the asteroides, then move on to the larger bodies. Thats assuming there are enough easily mined volotiles around and they dont just start stipping atmospheres. In the face of a ravenous hoard, we are just small sacks of indignant water.

3/10, inconvenient, but I would adapt. All crimes are now punishable by 'laser deli-meat slicer' One of these. But with a surgical laser instead of a blade so you don't bleed to death. Feet first, severity of punishment measured in slices (maybe only 5 or 10 for littering?). Only the thinnest of settings is used (think shaved ham) in order to maximise the available nerve endings.

? This "how to be evil" not "how to stamp out the evil that is capitalism" How about: capture a stony asteriod, an icy one and a metallic one, then use the first two as raw materials to set up a big solar smelter in orbit. Make 10,000ton biconic vaccume sponge metal ignots with a density of about 900kg/m(3). Spin then up to about 10 rpm and use a lfo/coilgun mass relay (coilgun for the giant slug, lfo rockets fueled from the icy asteroid as recoil compensators) to fire them into reentry orbits. From here you can go a few different ways. The obvious is to drop them on cities with a steep angle. The slightly less is to drop them on farms and power stations, then watch the people starve and descend into savage anarchy. My favorite though is to drop them on shallow angles so they plop into the oceans at low speeds (<mach3, but subsonic might be doable) and tell all the countries its free abundant metals in higher quantaties than ever before. Then you can watch as the world economy destabalises and reforms into a post scarcity economy. Many eggs will be broken, but such a tasty omlette. The same could be done with obital solar power microwaved wherever requested.

So, it dimmed twice over 700ish days. Commetary occlusions in the target system have been mentioned, but a dimming of that magnitude would mean lots of big comets. What about a small object in our own oort cloud? Just random chance that a couple of grains of sand happened to line up with this star 700ish days apart. How big does one of our own oort objects need to be before it can occlude a star at 1500ly? And how small does it need to be before we cant see it? As for the repeated dimming, im going to out on a limb here and site terry pratchett: a million to one odds usually means its a near certainty.

Thanks, Laie, good info. Ill have to experiment a bit. Maybe the mechanic, like so many others, is disabled when shielded? Ill put an inline fairing over that part and see if that does anything on the next run. My return vehicle did make it to landing with a little bit of ablator left. This re-entry profile is using a little under half of it up. If I can solve the 'ceramic boil off' issue, I might be able save a lot of mass overall by not launching the ablator I don't need.

Hello, Under what conditions is ablator depleted from a heat shield in ksp? I made a ship to do a 5,000,000km flyby of the sun then re-enter kerbin atmosphere. All went well, but as i was planning a heavy, steep and fast reentry i used the next size up heat shield (2.5m for a 16 ton 1.25m re-entry package) with the default amount of ablative material (all of it). As i crossed 70km coming home, i noticed that half my ablator had disapeared before i hit atmosphere. I flew the mission again and watched the ablator levels. I didnt loose any on ascent, but it did slowly drain away while i was outside kerbins soi. I have a hefty heat source on the ship in the form of an NFE reactor, i believe its adequetly cooled (radiator dont exceed 50%). Could it be the reactor heat causing this, or heat from the sun, or maybe the game models solar wind ablation now? Has anyone else seen it, or have i discovered a wierd one off interaction between 80+ different mods?

Snake rocket: verticaly launched train (with flexible linkages). Garden gnome grand tour: make a rocket that looks like a garden gnome and get a screenshot of it on as many planets as you can. Space toaster for structural panel toast? Project parasol: try to make an arteficial solar eclipse (might need an outr planet so the sun is smaller)

But do they have any subsonic missiles with ramjets?

Starbound, starmade, empyrion, space engineers, spintires, portal 1 or 2, factorio, infinifactory, subnautica, doom... or some $2 thing off steam. I have never been tempted to go back to guild wars2, the game ksp freed me from. 3 years sober next month!