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Posts posted by DunaManiac

  1. 1. I can't change anything that goes on in the Universe directly, but I can change things that can cause other events, e.g I can't cause a civilization to spontaneously disappear, but I can move an asteroid to destroy that civilization.

    2. I can't continue to force something to happen after I've started it, e.g the asteroid I sent to destroy that civilization can be deflected by the civilization if they have the technology.

    3. I can't mess with time. If I mess up on one planet, easy, move to another.

  2. 12 minutes ago, Lewie said:

    I started in early January  2020, but.....

    14 successful mun missions

    12 successful Minmus missions

    7 successful Duna missions

    2 successful Gilly and Eve missions

    1 successful Lathye and Jool mission

    7 stations, 3 bases, and 1 successful space shuttle

    475 quicksaves

    273 dead kerbals (although I always reverted, so they didn’t ‘die’ persay....)

    Started out on console, switched to pc July 10th

     

     

    Oh wow, how do you keep those numbers?

  3. 1 hour ago, KerikBalm said:

    If it was tidally locked, the waves would be standing still and not moving across the surface

    There is another explanation, the waves are so big because on this planet time has been running for trillions upon trillions of years, the wind would gradually create these waves, with no land to brake them up they would get larger and larger, until reaching the titanic proportions seen in the movie.

    The reason there aren't more of them is because most of the water is held in those waves.

  4. 4 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

    Some clone of Orville?

    Nope, the reverse.

    Anyway's, to get back on topic, the movie Interstellar even though it was mostly hard sci-fi, I feel like the main problem with it was the delta v and maneuvers that the Endurance seemed to be able to do. To me it looked like it was propelled by  chemical rockets based on the engine bell, (correct me if I'm wrong), but It's hard to believe that that puny rocket could take it to say, Miller's planet, and anyone who has tried to go to Moho that the Delta-V requirements would be astronomical, especially by direct transfer.

    Also, another nagging problem: where's the light source? I mean, they do mention a neutron star, but it's hard to believe it could light up the entire system and the radiation would most certainly have killed any life trying to form on the surface, plus, the light would be much darker or a much more harsh blue light, the light is clearly coming from a yellow-white star. But where is it?

    There's also the mystical equation that needs data from a singularity and can magically propel things into space. But what would that accomplish? The food that they brought with them wouldn't be able to be replenished because of the Blight, most crops were eradicated due to the blight.

    But overall, it was a great movie, just not great science wise.

  5. 3 hours ago, theJesuit said:

    Just had a thought which I haven't seen talked about...

    Will anomalies be in the game? If so will the monoliths have the squad monkey logo etched on them or something else? Or would there be a variaty of monoliths with other logos?

    Peace. 

    I'm hoping that there aren't monoliths, maybe some around Kerbin for nostalgia, but some other kinds.

  6. There's this one moment in Star Trek: Into Darkness which not only is unscientific, violates the laws of physics. It's that moment when the Enterprise loses power. The ship, which is clearly in orbit around the Moon, ironically picks up speed only after it's power is out. it inexplicably veers to the left towards earth as if something were pushing it, then proceeds to ignore the Moon's gravity and manages to brake the Moon's escape velocity. I don't remember how long it took to get there, but assuming it took 15 minutes, the ship accelerated to 955,600 miles per hour, which is 38 times the escape velocity of the Earth. Also, the people on board the ship experienced gravity or acceleration instead of free fall. it doesn't make sense why the gravity would be pulling them down, while they are falling, extreme speeds aside. But then it somehow decelerated down to sensible speeds as they aproached the Earth, which violates yet another law of physics, while the people inside the ship didn't feel any difference. Even if this gravity was caused by the mystical extreme acceleration, the angle is all wrong and their bodies would be splattered all over the floor from the extreme and sudden acceleration, nevermind the implausibility of it all.

    Plotwise it was pretty okay. Not so much sciencewise.

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