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    The Conspiracy Game!

    in Forum Games!

    Posted · Edited by DunaManiac

    It's just a coincidence.


    Some conspiracy theorists say that the ILLUMINATI is real. But it isn't. So THAT MEANS THAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY AGENTS OF THE KITTEN EATING CANNIBAL CATPEOPLE OVERLORDS TO TRICK PEOPLE INTO BELIEVING CRAZY THINGS TO HIDE THEIR TRUE EXISTENCE!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!1111!!!!1

     

     

     

    Your PROUDEST moment in KSP

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted · Edited by DunaManiac

    When I landed on Tylo for the first time ago a few months ago.

    Interestingly enough, I overengineered the return craft so badly it was able to go from Kerbin orbit to Tylo and back to Kerbin orbit, and still had enough fuel to probably go to Duna and back. I'm reusing the original core stage for my Duna mission, and using the design for my planned Moho Mission.

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    On Planetary Colonization and Alien Pathogens.

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted · Edited by DunaManiac

    5 minutes ago, Spacescifi said:

    Does not matter who or what already lives there, they must be assimilated to service the colony... or wiped off the face of the planet if they cannot be of any service... which is also highly unlikely.

    Depending on whether there is intelligent life on the surface or not.

    Since Earth only has one intelligent species of life, us, and no others, especially since we have not found any other species of intelligent life in the Universe,  I'm willing to bet that intelligent life is a rarity in the Universe.

    On Planetary Colonization and Alien Pathogens.

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    What's interesting, and all science fiction works I've seen don't take this into account, is the prospect of alien viruses/bacteria on other planets.

    Assuming that life on other planets takes around the same path as Earth:

    To start, let's use an example, the Coronavirus. A virus that evolved on Earth, in more or less the same conditions, but completely Novel, was able to infect millions in only a few months, and that was a relatively mild virus in most people.

    If a virus like that is so potent, than what about a virus that evolved on a different planet all together? In that case, it probably wouldn't be a very good idea to land thousands of people on a planet which could have thousands of species of bacteria and viruses, and could hitch a ride back to Earth or other planets. In order to avoid this, they would have to spend probably years, even decades studying the planet, looking for every conceivable kind of pathogen, and create medical technology to combat it. But this costs money, and time, and most importantly, resources which you could be spending on improving existing infrastructure. Even assuming that they magically have a panacea that can cure all illnesses, even ones on other planets,  it still takes up valuable cargo space to send expensive medical equipment to a colony, and faster than light travel is not cheap.

    Therefore, I think that perhaps large space stations could take the place of interstellar colonies, perhaps even terraforming mars-like planets in the habitable zone of their star.

    What do you think?

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