Ultimate Steve

I'm thinking if it gets close enough to a star the solar panels might start working again and by some passive means if the current is enough it will allow it through to the computers and stuff. And these would be space grade electronics in sheltered areas with basically no outside influence, presumably built large enough (not too compact or anything) that it will be more reliable than a dense electronic. Or better, find a way to make the whole thing electrical instead of electronic. All it really needs to do is melt stuff when it has enough power to do so. Although keeping oxygen for the crew when they wake up is probably the problem now, storing it for hundreds of thousands of years.

You would be correct! SANCTUARY FOREVER!!! @qzgy "Jank Station" aww yeah. I guess it would be quicker to launch as well. Next part coming within a few days, potentially tonight, I have just March left to go, but it is a busy March. I sort of wish I had snagged the Jupiter opportunity, but I just now unlocked the proper antennas, and I think I'm too late for Saturn at this point as well.

In the atmosphere it's 22.5km and in space it's 2.5km.

So they have used epoxy sealant and gauze (and maybe a toothpick) to replace the temporary tape patch, but the epoxy is bubbling. This seems like the sort of procedure they should test on the ground first.

All valid concerns. For this specific ship, everything would be shut down and the computers would not be on, nor would the life support. Maybe there would be cryogenically frozen beings on board, but that's it (ignoring whether or not cryogenic freezing is possible). The only active function the spacecraft would need to perform would be to thaw the beings once the spacecraft got close enough to a star, which requires the computers to be intact but not running.

Hmm. Interesting. So based on this, assuming all the spacecraft has to do is remain in one piece and not maintain anything, large timespans are doable, I think. Thank you all.

With MREs, the problem would quickly become volume unless you severely redesigned the packaging.

Okay. Thank you for your responses. Radiation and particle erosion should be much weaker if you're not near a star, though, right? Radiation in LEO isn't bad, but tiny space debris is probably pretty bad, and we've managed to keep the ISS up for 20 years without it becoming a problem. And we've had the Voyagers working for 40 years, some of that outside the influence of the sun.

So say we launch a spaceship using slightly futuristic technology, like nuclear rockets, part metal part carbon fiber, modern computers, a crew compartment with stuff you'd find there, solar panels or nuclear reactors, etc. Now say we launch this on an escape trajectory from the solar system. While there is a crew compartment there is no crew onboard. So now this spacecraft is floating in deep space, far away from any star, for the next several million years. What will happen to it? Will it be preserved almost perfectly? Will stuff break down for some reason?

Did you just change your profile picture for this thread? *changes profile picture to 1 million dollars*

Welcome to 2018. You can't. There is a way, but it involves moderate hackiness. There is a temporary fix that involves a small amount of hackiness. What is the specific reason you're so update averse now? Yes, they have been known to break things but that's a pretty small chunk of users.

Both agreeable points. I still think the standards they are aiming for are unrealistically high.

I have frequent moments where I'm the only one raising my hand and the teacher asks for someone else who hasn't already answered.

Okay, to start off what I'm complaining about is only 20% of our grade, but... This year in PE we have a new teacher. He's like the polar opposite of last year's teacher, who was really lax and you could do almost anything and still pass the class. This year, we're graded on our athletic performance. Which I agree, should happen within reason, but he's taking it too far in my opinion. We have 20 tests a year, these can be pull-ups, push-ups, long jump, or the pacer test. Let's take the pacer test for example. If you don't know what this is, basically you have to run 15 meters and turn around in 7 seconds, repeat. The 7 seconds goes down by some every once and a while. Now for all of these tests, we have to match the 90th national percentile to get a 90%, and it goes down from there, separated from percentile rankings. For the pacers, for example, it goes down 1% per lap. if you scored 20 less than the 90th percentile you would get 70% on the pacer test. Today's test was not graded, but we did the pacer test. I consider myself above average in the athletic department, not amazing but decent. I was able to get a 41 on the test, the best person in the class got a 67. The national 90th percentile for my age group and gender is 80. EIGHTY. If it was graded, most of the class just failed. My best ever was back in middle school at 53, which would get me a B+ if I was a 16 year old girl. The best person in the class would have gotten a C! I was one of the last 6 people and I got an F! In order to get an A on the test you have to be literally amazing. And something doesn't sound right about 10% of boys my age being able to do 80. And because everyone contributes to the national average, everyone is graded on it. If you have asthma, too bad. Again, the tests are only going to count for 20% of our grade, so if I keep performing where I am and do the other 80% perfectly I will get an A-. But still.

If you have an arm in your profile picture you can afford to lose a lot of arms. But if they are only left arms then you'll just have two left hands for the rest of your life unless you can manage to not lose the original right one.

Okay, then! I know I have *most* of my stories backed up on Google Drive, but I should probably make sure I have all of the chapters at some point. And save it physically to the computer. And print it out. And launch a copy to Mars.

Purely hypothetical, just curious. Say someone infiltrated a writer's account and edited their posts to nothing, basically deleting a story. Do you have an "undo edit" button or feature or something? Or once you edit a post is the original gone forever?

Okay, so might not be extremely relevant, but STORY TIME! The acronym ESREP has been in my head a long time. I was actually going to use that for a mission to Eve at some point, a mission called Eve and beyond, which would have originally been a total ripoff of Kuzzter's Eve: Order Zero graphic novel. It even featured its own dipperkraft. And Evestation. Then I thought better and decided to run the mission myself without posting it as a total ripoff. I also shrunk it, no ESREP. Or Eve polar glider probe. Both of which were recycled into Project Intrepid. So the tiny bit of the graphic novel I did make was in a google slides presentation created on August 21, 2015, and I found a planning sheet from somewhat earlier, And I remember that I had thought of the acronym while I was in the lazy river at my local pool. July 16, 2015 is when Kuzzter's comic was first posted, meaning the acronym ESREP (Evian Self Refueling Exploration Plane) was thought up between July 16 and August 21st, and is over three years old! My, how time flies! I'm glad I finally built it! The original ESREP was going to be a 2.5m probe version as I had not yet brought people back from Eve, according to a vague sketch on the planning document, and it grew into what you see in the story. Just thought it was interesting, and I wanted to share it with you!

That sort of reminds me of the first time I sketched out a Duna mission, let's see if I can dig out the notebook... Took me half an hour, now I can finish typing this sentence! It is a picture, pencil drawn, of an insanely long mothership. It appears to be 2.5m in diameter because this was before 3.75m parts and back when nuclear engines also used oxidizer. The front module is an RCS tug, and then there is a stockpile module of 3 large monopropellant containers, then a nuclear drive stage with ONLY 2 nuclear engines and only 2 orange tanks. Then there is a giant crew section with a lander can and at least 3 hitchhikers and 2 cupolas. Then there is a science section with a science lab and a few experiments. And then there is what looks like a 3 hitchhiker return vehicle covered in parachutes (this was before heat was a thing), a 3 hitchhiker base module, a rover, a plane, and an adapter with 3 separate Duna landers on it. All of this would have supposedly gotten to Duna and back with just 2 orange tanks. I also found two other early Duna proposals - One, titled "Duna Mission" was probably designed to be fictional, but it was a massive rocket which contained several mk3 and 2.5m base modules in its interstage, probably totalling the length of 5 or 6 large mk3 segments. With a tiny ascent vehicle. And what appear to be 7.5m and 10m parts. The other one was Operation: Amulet. This one appeared to be a lander with a 2.5m command pod, a science lab, and the smallest 2.5m tank surrounded by two stacks of an FL-T800, an FL-T400, an LV-T30 or 45, and parachutes/legs. It was connected to a habitation module and nuclear tug for use on orbit and a weird box thing which might have been an ISRU on the front. @Atkara So here is your ship: And here is mine, the KSS Petersen/Peterson: The resemblance is there, is it not? I'm pretty sure this was my first manned Jool Expedition.

It's waaaaay better than it used to be, thankfully. The last time I've had a Kraken attack was playing very heavily modded 1.2, and the last time before that was potentially pre-1.0. That's excluding times where I've tried.

Maybe a dumb question, is your throttle up? You look to have plenty of thrust, that's the only thing I can think of. Is there anything restricting fuel flow between the tanks and the vectors?

My first big-ish Mun base. Munbase Python. At this point it was 3? modules plus a little klaw adapter thingy with RCS. And a science hopper. So I was flying Degrid Kerman, Scientist, back from a polar biome and I either ran out of fuel or began the braking burn too late, or both. I bailed out and she hit the Mun hard, 30km from the base, and presumably she would have all sorts of broken bones, but she survived, so I flew the klaw thing over to her, klawed her, flew her back to the base, ran out of fuel again, crashed, but she survived again and got into the base. Until the Project Intrepid era, Degrid was the fifth most important Kerbal in my head after the default 4.

I remember having to do this once! I might have even had to do this in RO/RP-0 once! As far as my craziest mission, hmm... I made the first or second ever functional ion plane in the new atmosphere, but that was more groundbreaking than crazy. I started an SRB grand tour but it's sort of semi-permanently on hiatus due to the agony of sending enough refueling boosters to get to Moho, but I got Eve out of the way so I have gone to Eve and back to orbit with SRB's (and the EVA pack because some of my upper stage exploded on the way down). I then "refueled" and went to Gilly. And I tried twice to get enough fuel to get to Moho but it didn't work and I got burned out. With everything else that's going on I sort of abandoned it. I've also did a career mode and landed on all of the planets and moons in 6 hours, 40 minutes, and 1 second after starting. I did a 7:54 run and that's the current world record but I haven't uploaded the 6:40 one yet.

Ultimate Steve - October-December 1955 (Cycle 20) Notebook Space Program: Twelve Launches @qzgy You are up!