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40+ @GRS There you go

Desain, terutama pesawat, pendaratan, rover

Twin Knights

Hmmm... aku 26, sekarang tinggal di Jember, Jawa Timur

Ahaha, gomen gomen. Aku udah main KSP sejak versi 1.0, tapi sampai sekarang nggak pernah tahu ada thread buat orang Indo

Oh, my... Ternyata @GRS dan @YNM orang Indonesia. Salam kenal, ARS disini, KSP player dari Indonesia!

If we planned to mine celestial bodies (don't ask how) in our solar system (that includes moons and asteroids), ignoring the space travel limitations and energy requirements, what's the potential resources that can be gained from each planets (and moons)?

Well, for me, sandwich is more like a term instead of food (like "being sandwiched between X and Y")

That settles it. As long as the wrapper is carbohydrate-based, it's sandwich

It is, for me

Anything that has carbohydrate-based wrapper enclosing a filling is a sandwich for me (that includes taco and kebab)

Who the hell do you think I am!? The reputation of Team Gurren echoes far and wide. When they talk about its badass leader - the man of indomitable spirit and masculinity! KAMINA! Go beyond the impossible, and kick reason to the curb! That's how Team Gurren rolls!! The rating system is off the scale!!!! Badass / 10 (Sorry, can't resist it, it's 10/10 )

If it's not overburdening my already strained PC like most visual mods, then it's okay. Stock clouds for aesthetic purpose is always welcomed

I built single-engine and double-engine biplane Has very low takeoff speed of 30 m/s and it remains stable and flyable on that speed

Why biplanes have lower stall speed compared to monoplane/ jets? How they can make tighter turn compared to them?

You really had to improvise if you can't do something Here's another one Pretty much anything that requires docking (especially space station) will be launched in a single launch. Interplanetary craft needs to transit celestial bodies to mine resources to continue the mission

You can't just simply make more rockets simply by having a replica of one of the rocket in the first place. Yes NASA has a bunch of engineer, yes they can reverse-engineer technology, yes they can make rockets. But when you have a Saturn V engine outside your office, reverse engineering isn't merely just copying it down to the rivet count, you had to know how it was made like that. It's pointless to copy the engine when you KNOW this cable goes from A to B, but doesn't know WHY it goes from A to B

Thanks! I'll try it and see how it works for me

I don't know my level. I have done something on higher level, but on the other hand I cannot do some stuff on lower level. I have visited every celestial body, can do Gilly operation, doing Eve return, landed on Eeloo and back, understands gravity assists and orbital mechanics, know how to build atmospheric crafts, etc. But for the love of god, for nearly 5 years I played this game I cannot do a simple DOCKING. All of my interplanetary craft are single-launched and over-engineered, no matter how impractical or horribly inefficient that launch is (But I guess that makes KSP fun, the ability to "Improvise")

Read this: http://www.angelfire.com/ego/g_saga/kaijubiologyarticle.html note: (reload page if it isn't responding) It's a pretty good read, attempting to scientifically explain how things such as Kaiju operates (Hello Godzilla and Pacific Rim). For those who want a shorter version, in a nutshell, it basically explains that kaiju cells are basically cellular-level fission reactors

Well, I mean on the river depth depicted in movie, not the "real" depth of Hudson river

From Godzilla (1998): 1. The movie claims that heat-seeking missiles can't track Godzilla because, being a giant iguana, he's cold-blooded. An animal as huge as Godzilla would be warm-blooded simply due to the sheer mass of its body making heat take a long time to escape, much like the largest dinosaurs. The process is called gigantothermy and is already seen in animals like large crocodiles and sharks, all of which are tiny compared to Godzilla. 2. There is no way a human pregnancy test would work on a lizard, much less a giant radioactive lizard, as human (and mammal) pregnancy tests are searching for the presence of a hormone called Chorionic Gonadotrophin, which is only produced in placental animals, as the 'chorion' is another word for the placenta. Reptiles are not placental animals, and do not produce CG. Thus, the test wouldn't work. Even Nick notes that the test shouldn't have worked. 3. Iguanas, from which Godzilla mutated, are herbivorous (eat plants), not piscivorous (eat fish). Though to be fair, they aren't skyscraper sized, either. Also, The prologue shows nuclear testing in French Polynesia interspersed with shots of various lizards that implicitly live on the island chain. The only problem is that none of the shown species are native to French Polynesia (Marine iguanas are native to the Galapagos, Komodo dragons are native to Indonesia, the Chinese water dragon is native to mainland Southeast Asia, the green iguana is native to Central and South America, and bearded dragons are native to Australia) In fact, French Polynesia has no reptile species, native or otherwise, making Godzilla's origin something of a mystery. Also, despite the movie claims the origin of Godzilla is from the French nuclear test on French polynesia (Philippe and his colleagues planned to cover up their country's role in the nuclear testing that created Godzilla in the first place) the footage shown instead was the Operation Crossroads nuclear test (Specifically Able and Baker test), which is conducted by US and located on Bikini Atoll, almost 6000 kilometers away 4. When all the destruction from Godzilla's first appearance is looked over, the MetLife building is seen with a huge hole through it, implying that Godzilla somehow jumped through it. It looks cool, but it's still difficult to believe that it would be standing after that, especially with the entire middle section essentially gone. The remaining upper section of the building being held up by the perimeter structural members would have buckled almost immediately. 5. During the first helicopter chase, Manhattan doesn't have extremely high, Coruscant-style corridors of skyscrapers taller than Godzilla that stretch for blocks and blocks. Also, the way the movie potrays Apache helicopter is wrong on so many levels. First of all, Sidewinder missiles aren't possible to mount on an Apache, the warheads on Sidewinders are tiny compared to, say, tank shells. They contain only a couple of pounds of explosive, and wouldn't cause monumental damage to any building they hit; they would in no way would cause the top of the Chrysler Building to be chopped off, and probably wouldn't hurt Godzilla either (The Chrysler Building's destruction itself, while highly memorable, still sees the spire float very slowly and unconvincingly off its base, and then flattening like a pancake when it hits the streets). Anti-tank missiles like the Hellfire would be more practical; Sidewinders are designed for small, fast-moving aircraft. Apaches also don't have a pair of guns bracketing the cockpit; they have a single 30mm chaingun in a chin mount beneath the front of the fuselage. Ironically, attempts WERE made to increase the Apache's air to air capabilities by making it able to launch the Sidewinder, complete with test firings. These were ceased in favor of a modified Stinger missile design (also a heat-seeking design; every Stinger variant after the FIM-92A, including all ATAS variants, uses the same seeker head used in the AIM-9X Sidewinder). The Apaches is also depicted to carry far more weapons than realistically possible; real Apaches have two wing-mounted hardpoints that traditionally carry 70mm Hydra rocket pods on the inner pylons and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles in racks of eight on the outer pylons, with a 30mm M230 chaingun under the nose. The movie Apaches feature longer wings, fitting two sets of Hydra rocket pods on each wing, a Hellfire missile rack with wing-tip mounted Sidewinder missiles and forward facing chainguns under the cockpit windows, with the aforementioned undernose chaingun still there but unused. The film Apaches are also depicted as maneuvering more like jet aircraft, with sharp banking maneuvers while flying straight and flying forwards at high speeds, with multiple helicopters flying around each other with precision. The helicopter pilots seem to always stay at mouth-level of the monster they're attacking, despite the fact that Apaches can fly as high as 20,000 feet above sea level, meaning there was no reason for them to be flying that low to begin with. 6. The idea that Godzilla can disappear by burrowing into New York's subway system and sewers is ridiculous; the subway tunnels are not that deep under the streets, with the deepest station being 180 feet underground. Godzilla would have to burrow past the subway tunnels into the ground underneath to remain hidden, as his size would mean he would be disturb and collapse the streets and would be easily visible. 7. Godzilla is also shown diving into the Hudson River, where he is engaged by three US Navy submarines. The Hudson River is shallow; it can be anywhere from 32 to 200 feet deep at most depending on location, yet Godzilla is shown swimming well below the surface, and is nowhere close to the bottom as if he were out in the middle of the ocean. There is no way submarines would be able to conduct operations in the Hudson as well. On a side note, if you pause the movie at the right moment during the submarine scene, you can see that Navy officers on the submarines that engage Godzilla are shown wearing "SSBN" hats. SSBN is the US Navy designation for a nuclear submarine, which would be far too big and impractical for operations in the Hudson. A fast attack submarine (SSN) would be more appropriate given the situation. 8. The F/A-18 pilot that destroys Madison Square Garden is shown disengaging master arm and selecting LGBs which stand for laser-guided bombs. However he is shown selecting his plane's AGM-84 Harpoon missiles and stating that he has a good laser track on the target. The Harpoon is a radar-guided, anti-ship missile, not laser-guided. The Harpoon missiles that the F/A-18s use are also woefully impractical for destroying a large building, and would not be effective against a large stationary target such as Madison Square Garden, as the Harpoon is designed for anti-ship use. Harpoons are also not practical for engaging land targets; their seeker heads are designed for use over water, which has minimal obstacles and radar interference. Ground terrain creates a chaotic radar picture, which can confuse a Harpoon's seeker head. A variant of the Harpoon was developed for ground targets, but it didn't enter service until 2000, two years after movie's release. The F/A-18 squadron leader says to his wingmen before launching his missiles "save your Mavericks", referring to the AGM-65 Maverick air to ground missile. However, when shots of the planes are shown, none of the F/A-18s are shown carrying any such missiles. The lead F/A-18 is the only one that deploys Harpoons to destroy Madison Square Garden, yet without returning to base to resupply, is able to fire two more salvos of Harpoons from his underwing pylons at Godzilla on the Brooklyn Bridge. 9. Although the filmmakers apparently tried to make Godzilla more realistic in his design, ironically his more dinosaur-like design is far less plausible than the old bulky design. The traditional Godzilla design has pillar-like legs and is built in an upright stance with a low-center of gravity, with massive thighs and thick tail support that you'd expect for an animal weighing thousands of tonnes. This Godzilla has a sleek, raptor-like body held horizontally that basically threw all remaining logic out the window. No 300-foot tall bipedal animal would be able to hold a horizontal position all of the time. 10. The US Army inquiring what a Frenchman is doing at the scene of the clawed freighter. The problem? It's in Tahiti, a French overseas territory. The US troops are the ones who shouldn't be there. No wonder the French sent their secret service after them. Also, during the "Godzilla's footprint" scene, a geiger counter is shown beeping around the footprint, which implies it has a trace of radiation. With how long Godzilla spends tromping about Manhattan, he'd have turned it into a uninhabitable ghost island if he were at all radioactive like his Japanese namesake (And indeed, the original Godzilla WAS radioactive). And with the leftover fallout from the nuclear bomb tests, he should be.

How long nuclear fuel lasts? Like, if for some reason, a nuclear power plant was shut down and abandoned, but there's still spare unused nuclear fuel and all of the necessary stuff to reactivate the reactor, how long it will last until it's considered "expired"?

Just like whenever aircraft in movies instantly plummet into vertical nosedive whenever the engine is shut down instead... You know, gliding like an actual aircraft THAT'S NOT HOW AERODYNAMIC WORKS!!