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you dont have to feed it from ISRU. you can ship the required materials to orbit instead, though its rather more expensive.

that. was. awesome.

assuming cats = illuminati... ILLUMINATI!

Maybe one you can plug into an asteroid for resources?

I smell a new challange: 10Kdv probe to everywhere design Catagories, Lightest Cheapest Earliest tech Winners for catagories decided by that catagories metric of interest, bonus teirs for number of different science experiments carried. Bonus prizes for landed probes. Master Prober awarded if the same design ranks first in two or more catagories.

A few questions to help us; Any mods used? Did you attach everything with symetry? If you have used struts, have you checked on the runway that they are all where they should be? Sometimes one half of a symetrical pair will decide to either fail to attach, or attach somewhere else. Same for fuel lines.

RocketSquid, you made this too easy. Your avatar has 7 triangles in it. 7 is prime. your user name has 11 characters, also prime. thats the pattern. so 7+11 is 18, which is NOT prime, thats the clue! 18 divided by the 7 triangles is 2.571, that has 3 prime numbers and one not prime number, 2. so 7/2 is 3.5. both prime! 3+5 is 8. 11-8 is 3, the same number of sides as all 7 triangles in your avatar! illuminati confirmed!

Even with awesome power densities, for an atmospheric craft aerodynamic lift designs will always be more efficient than VTOL (barring any hoopdedoo future tech antigravioli propulsion devices) just because it takes less energy to generate X amount of lifting force by propelling a wing forward than it does to have the engine provide lift directly. Even helicopters use their powerplants this way, its a rotating aerodynamic lifting surface. Airliners are already a business running tight profit margins, every extra bit of lost efficiency turns into lost profit. Which is why i am of the opinion that vtol will not be used in a commercial transport role where it can be avoided. (The company next door to my old job was a helo operator that mostly serviced oil rigs, hard to htol on those)

The machine doesn't, the universe does in order to preserve its own existence.

As soon as you apppear in another time, an equivilant ammount of mass and enery is move in the other direction, taken randomly from anywhere in the universe and deposited randomly too. The universe is so large that the chances of the effect being observable to humanity is vanishingly small.

Thats why i said a doomed island, like the massive volcano on it will errupt in a months time. They dont have have time to go anywhere, but you can pick them up again an hour after you dropped them off if you find you need them. No risk of spreading to contaminate prehistory.

Except heat death of the universe through entropy. A haiku Stars above us now Rushing burning down the hill Yay proton decay!

I believe in the branching futures hypothesis, as it is impossible to travel forward again after a trip to the past and return to the exact present you started at, you may as well have some fun sight seeing. Any change you make just alters which future you have acces to, so explore a little. If you mess up, grab those island villages and start again. Just dont let anyone in the future know you are a time traveller, they might reproduce your tech...

Read up on current archeological digs Go to future, get some tech that modern science can almost explain, as well as whatever longevity treatment they have. Go to about 120k years ago, to what will become the present day dig sites, leave the tech there. Go back to the present and watch the fun. When that gets boring Go to get some dinosaurs Set them up on hawaii before the polynesian expansion hits them Hang around and watch that for a while Then maybe kidnap a medieval village and drop them off at the end of the last ice age Watch that over the next few thousand years Find a doomed island 60 million years ago Plonk another few villages as back up population Hit the far future for some great stealth and wepons tech Hit the history books, identify everyone who ever stood in the way of science Find the earliest one Kill them as a child Hit the history books, identify everyone who ever stood in the way of science Find the earliest one Kill them as a child Hit the history books, identify everyone who ever stood in the way of science Find the earliest one Kill them as a child Hit the history books, identify everyone who ever stood in the way of science Find the earliest one Kill them as a child Etc Pick a nice spot in post-scarecity 800BC and wait for further inspiration Maybe celebrity videos of famous world leaders throughout history? Hand raise some clever dinos, breed them for intelligence and teach them everything you can, in their own era? Give the inca an f-18? Take gallileo to mission control to see the first photos from his probe? Terraform mars in 100000bc with future nanotech, leave it as a gift? Also with future nano tech, build a pyramid temply and fill it with flying saucers and human skeletons about 10k years ago? Find the fox executive who cancelled firefly and blackmail him not to? Go back in time with nanotech and start a religion with myself as god, reinforcing it throughout history with real, documented visitations every hundred years or so? A more easily answered question is what wouldnt i do with a time machine.

Wheee! An aussie thread! Lets see, grew up in perth, nice maritime culture if you like working and playing with the ocean spent 4 years in darwin, drove through a cyclone, saw crocodiles, raised about 400 tree frogs in wading pool turned pond, did my gardening with a machete, complained it was too far away if it meant more than 15 minutes in the car. 5 years in melbourne, mostly down on the peninsula. great lifestyle, beautiful place. about 6 months in townsville, its small like darwin, expensive like perth. stayed about a month in nsw, now settled in adelaide. Its nice here. Never had adls 2 for very long, as speed tests at each location showed that i may as well get adsl and pay less for the same speed. If i need to internet in a hurry, i use my 4g mobile. If i need to go interstate, i usualy drive. Got around 400,000 interstate km racked up so far. I like the isolation.

Or... point the camera in a different direction? Photo shop it out of the screenshots? Make sure something is obscuring it when you take the shot, vab is pretty big, or you could pan around until the craft/kerb in the centr of the shot obscures it. Lots of filming tricks to make use of.

5/10, thats not very nice, but it would just create an alternative economy dealing in newly illicit twinkies, pizza, speed boats and copies of ksp. I would use the same meter to identify things people enjoy, then use drugs, pain and continuous exposure to that thing in order to make them hate / fear it. Then move on to the next thing and the next. Every thing they find comforting, everything that makes them feel safe is taken away. Its more expensive and time consuming than blanket bans, and is probably only practically achieved with a small percentage of the population at a time. But i think it could be interesting.

Just that if you want to live stress free, its better to be less like us, and more like animals, right? my initial counter argument assumed a smaller step backwards than what was first implied. So why not skip the human part all together, throw out the last 70ky of progress and grunt our way to happiness. We are stressed and unhappy now because of resource shortages (real, imposed, and imagined). The key feature of these primitive harmonious lifestyles doesnt seem to be the low tech simplicity, or any inherent non-violence of early man. They had resource abundance, so much so that even if their resource distrobution was unfair, there was still enough to meet evveryones needs. We dont need to go backwards to get back to abundance, we need to go forwards to the point where our most limiting resource, energy (given enough energy and we can make just about anything else we want) is no longer scarce. Then we can start to relax and use our big, hard bought brains on something more worthwhile than trying to figure out how to make ends meet.

So, you dont mean nomadic hunter gathers, like the australian aborigines, or some tribes of native americans, or even the innuit. You mean like a family of bonobos, human like primates with some social order and a vocabulary of a hundred terms or so. Cool. I want to be a cat. Eat, sleep, repeat

This: Planetes I vote for this. Either that or once ever 20 years we declare an international debris cleanup year. we first build a bunch of replacement satelites with more modern tech, and get them ready for launch. Then we lob a bunch of nukes up there on new years eve, and set them all off at midnight (as decided by the largest contributors time zone) vaporising everything thats currently up there. We then spend a global week in reflection on how greatful we are for the space industry now that we have nothing in orbit. Im thinking 1950's style home dinners, singing telegrammes, local news and playing outside. This gives us enough time to finalise launch preparations and co-ordinate schedules (and for the glowing cloud of plasma to cool down an disperse). Then we spend the rest of the year putting everything back up as fast as we can, and starting new programmes with all of the funding generated by renewed public interest. Win win.

I wouldnt mistake hunter gathers for a simple life. They had the same pressures on them that we have now. Probably more. We worry about money, because all security comes from money, food, healthcare, shelter. If you have lots of money, and are very careful with your social networks, you can get yourself a good reputation and earn respect. Respect, reputation and money gets you a mate, who maks you happy then helps you make a bunch of little resourrce sinks. Which means you need to collect more money. All the while you worry about others who want to take your thing, but if someone does, society automaticaly upholds your rights as a victim. The H/G doesnt have the nice single asset to collect. If they want food, they have to spend a day hunting. If they want shelter, they have to gather the materials, build and maintain it themselves. Healthcare is more along the lines of 'smear moss and honey on it, then pray' which seems pretty stressful. Their reputation and respect is tied directly to their ability to manage their social networks. But their reputation and respect is what stops their tribe mates from stealing their things while they are out hunting, their protection from victimisation is not a given, but rather depends on the mood of their peers. So a HG is likely to spend much more time on social activities then we are. A well liked person can murder a disliked person and get away with it if they have kissed the right donkeys first. But on the otherside, a person who has to devote more time to survival (maybe they have an elderly, non productive mouth to feed as well as the usual pack of dependants) spends less time with networking, so falls out of favor. No one will pay much attention if they start hollering that they had four fish on the drying rack that morning, not three. Sounds stressfull to me. Lone H/G, fine. Good stuff. Dont get caught immobilised without stored food though. H/G with partner to share the chores, even better! H/G with partner and 3 dependants? Dont get sick, dont sleep in, or your loved ones die. H/G with tribe, partner and dependants? Invent agriculture and professions and law so if you get sick or gain a dependant you dont die as a social outcast. MM in a city with a job, partner and dependants? Dont worry about it. Our society wont let you die of neglect if you income doesnt meet your expenses. And the law protects everyone equally, rich and poor, famous or unknown. And if you have enough money, you can pay other people to gather money for you! I would rather look forward to a post scarcity future for an easy life.

Wow, quite an article. Corrections i noticed: Fusion has no waste: Some fusion reactions are aneutronic, meaning they dont emit neutrons (the bad radiation) but these require not only less common fuels, but also far higher plasma tempuratures and so heavier containment methods. But that said, all fusion reactions have a un-fusable end product. By definition, this is waste. Fission is big, heavy, dirty and dangerous: thorium, nuff said. The future of rapid air transport is fusion: no, not quite. We have somewhere else to go first, REL A2 Huge passenger planes could be VTOL: never happen. Sorry. Its just such an inefficient method of lifting big things. I dont care what kind of energy density you get from your power plant. The energy budget you have will always be more economicaly utilised providing thrust for an aerodymic lift platform, rather than a thrusting lift platform. Even if its only 1% more expensive to VTOL, business still wont use it because that percent adds up over a few hundred flights. I stopped reading after that.

You might have a loose part rattling around somewhere. Check that your previous stages detached as intended and didnt leave behind anything that detached and got hung up somewhere. Parts attached to your vessle wont collide, but parts no longer attached can, and in unity (4, dunno about 5) that tends to cause a continuos force to be applied that is often out of proportion to the expected physics. Check any payload bays as well. The heat mechanics do odd things and often a low heat tolerance part inside a bay somewhere pops because a high tolerance part decided to dump its heat into it. Whatever was attached to it then rattles around causing the same kind of collision errors.

If you are playing from steam, first move your mod folders somewhere safe for a moment (anywhere but the ksp directory). Then from your steam library, right click on ksp and find 'check file integrity' or something similar. If i recall, its under the options selection of the right click popup. That will scan your ksp folder and replace any missing files. When its done, move your mods back in.

2/10 from the negativity returned on gene's feedback questionaires, i dont thinnk any of the kerbs would notice. I made my 6 turning 7 year old do the breakfast dishes on her birthday.