Lisias
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If you ever programmed in DOS, give a peek on SETEDIT.
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I use mcedit most if the time (first thing I do on every box is to check if Midnight Commander is installed). I run from Vi as it was the devil. But the devil runs faster than me, so... :-P
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I wonder what this guy is thinking now that half the World had noticed it!
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My guess is that they hadn't the resources (or the technology) to make the thing really cataclysmic as the real launch was. So they covered the mess with fire to hide whatever they had done. I found this re-renderized films from the Saturn V launches and, boy, it was cataclysmic. (I can just imagine what Sea Dragon would be!)
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I think that "Condolences" would be a better word. Thanks. Dude, you don't have the slightest idea about how I'm feeling right now. The Museu Nacional was a kind of "Smithsonian" for us (of course, way smaller).
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About that "knowledge is finickle" thing... The "Museu Nacional", the oldest and more important Scientific Institute of my country just burned to ashes yesterday. From the first document about this country (the Pero Vaz de Caminha Letter), to the Declaration of the Independence (I'm serious, we let the flames burn our Declaration of Independence), not to mention the oldest human fossil found in Americas (Luzia), all is lost. Forever. Any new technology that would help to better understand Luzia is now useless to this task. 12.000 years of Natural History, and 200 years of national documents just don't exist anymore. Any reproduction cannot be authenticated, our History can be easily forfeit as time passes. Civilization is fragile.
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In order to continue our debate ins a still useless but at least consistent way, I need to understand what do you mean by "energy". Are you talking about Energy on the Physics sense (thermodynamics, entropy et all), or you talking about energy on the common sense (efforts, resources, people's will to do something)?
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Who is? We are talking about shoving a unlucky guy into a freezer for centuries, perhaps Millenia! Nothing serious can be extracted from this! But… It's interesting maintain a discussion about, on the most "scientifically way" possible. The best SciFi histories born this way!
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What leads to the next problem, once we manage to freeze and unfreeze a living organism without damaging the cells beyond repair: for how much time the neuron's electric charge can be preserved before wearing off? A "brain washed" individual would be of no use. Exactly. I just read your post after writing mine - you got it first.
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Take a look on Iceland's geological history. It's well known enough to make projections about the future eruptions. So you can have a reasonable confidence about the best place for such long term project. You don't need something to be "stable" for more time than you need it to be stable! You are also assuming that such guy would be put on the freezer and forgotten about. Nope, such a project would be being backed by long term stakeholders with long term history - a country or even some rich secret society with money to burn. Generations of scientists would have to be paid in order to keep the project running - what, for sure, would imply in moving facilities if needed.
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You are too optimist about our recordings skills. A single EMP weapons based war would erase absolutely all our knowledge not written on physical, analogical means. A reasonably strong Sun flare, and our electrical power would be impaired for years, playing havoc with our storage devices. SSDs loose data after some years of power off (flash memory is like DRAM memory - it just leaks electrons on a incredibly slower rate). And HDDs too! Every artificially magnetized substrate wears off with time, and the high density of the currently used substrate make them very brittle to any long term storage that induces wearing. We are not talking about human lifetime. We are talking about civilization lifetime scale.
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GeoThermal sources, by all practical meanings, can be considered "infinite". By the time you would be have concerning about your GeoThermal source's longevity, you already have way more serious problems at hand, as finding a new planet to live. "Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus". We know that the Babylonians ate, but we don't have the slightest idea how it tasted and how they cooked it. Recordings are just it: recordings. I bought my apartment from a Croatian survivor from a WW2 concentration camp. 30 minutos talking to this guy and you learn more than every movie made on this matter - assuming the guy would be capable of talking about (he run from one early, before getting too traumatized - the best part of the history is how they survived wandering the World on the post-war times). Because you don't need it put off today. You need it tomorrow. Doing things in advance is not always a good move - things change, and you probably will need to redo it again, wasting the resources and time you spent on the previous work.
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This works both ways. Inheritors are incredible easy to locate and… "Handle". You know in advance who they are and where they live. This is something that the project's stakeholders would take care properly before risking the huge amount of money on the project. People don't get rich by playing nice.
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[1.3] [Kopernicus] New Horizons v2.0.1 [2JUN17] - It's Back!
Lisias replied to KillAshley's topic in KSP1 Mod Releases
New Horizons IS WORKING on KSP 1.4.5 and Kopernicus 1.4.5.4. All you need to do is to apply the Tidus fix from Lyneira and to make sure Making History is not Installed. If I would make a bet on the reason, I would place my coins on the code that checks for the Making History halting up while trying to place the new launching sites on a reparented Kerbin. (again, this is a guess - I didn't check this). -
No. It's still happening. Or we are facing a new problem with the same modus operandi. Or even a regression, but it appears to be something on KSP for ages. See:
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Has anyone gotten New Horizons working for 1.4.x?
Lisias replied to Mythical Donuts's topic in KSP1 Mods Discussions
As far as I understand, the only real hard dependency of New Horizons is Kopernicus. Once Kopernicus runs fine on a given KSP version, New Horizons should follow suit. Things should be so tight that you must match exacly the right Kopernicus Version to the KSP Version - you use Kopernicu for KSP 1.4.3 on KSP 1.4.5, and things just goes kaboom. In time, there's an internal change on KSP 1.4.4 that prevents Kopernicus to work at all. There's not a Kopernicus for KSP 1.4.4 (and it will never be). You need KSP 1.4.3 or 1.4.5 (and the respective matching Kopernicus). I'm firing up a KSP 1.4.5 installment with the respective Kopernicus and New Horizons to see what I really get. I will edit this post with the results. — POST - EDIT — Yeah. There's a glitch on a configuration file. IT`S EASY TO FIX IT YOURSELF, use a text editor and the instructions from this post: [(see all the post edits!!)] — POST - POST - EDIT — Said it too soon!!! Some glitch (apparently on Kopernicus) is locking up the mouse on the Start Screen, besides everything looking ok on the KSP.log!! Looks like something that should be handled by Kopernicus Team. New Horizons appears to have stumbled on a new KSP 1.4.4 era issue that was left unchecked. — POST - POST - POST - EDIT — It was the Making History!! By deleting Making History (GameData/SquadExpansion), my 1.4.5 installment with the latest Kopernicus and the New Horizons (with the Tidus fix) is working! -
It's way better machine, but the GPU is not top notch for gaming. https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare/Quadro-K2100M-vs-GeForce-GTX-950M/2665vs3171 It's not bad, it's just not better enough than what you have to worth the price, if you have only KSP as motivation for the upgrade. The CPU will make you smile on the every day tasks, but I don't think the difference will worth the price tag if KSP is the only reason for migration. The memory is EXCELLENT. But... A bit of advise. There's a glitch on the Win64 port of KSP that may impair the usefullness of the extra memory. So KSP usually crashes before being able to use that beautiful extra memory. On my Mac machine, KSP processes with 10 to 12 G of memory allocated is usual. I once managed to get a circa 24G KSP process on the other machine under Linux, but it was a synthetic run: I just wanna see how much I would shove on it, I was not really playing. When running Windows, however, there're consistent reports that KSP crashes on certain situations when the KSP process grows to more than 4G RAM. The bigger the process, worst your chances to stay playing. I'm successfully ran KSP64 on that Xeon until about 8 to 10G, but your mileage may vary (it appears to depend on the memory footprint profile on the running mods, and how much do you change scenarios). KSP win64 is known for capsizing with no mods too, but it's way less prone to it - I believe the trigger is the memory footprint. Using Making History appears to increase the rate of the crashing, what apparently confirms the memory footprint thesis.
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No. I lied. She sold it to me. I spent 30 years of my life paying her the parcels.
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Probably yes, but not enough to buy another computer just for it. Let's take my machines as comparison: I'm running KSP on two machines mainly, a 2011 MacMini5,1 (i5-2520M 2.3 to 3.2GHz, Dual Core, 4 Threads) with 16GB RAM, and a monster running Xeon X5470 (4 Cores, 3.3GHz no throttling down, tons of cache, tons of data lanes) with 48Gb RAM. There's an abyss between the performance of these two machines. It's plain ridiculous how fast the Xeon machine is compared to my MacMini. But yet, I have a huge vessel (1200 parts) that runs approximately with the same performance on both machines (the Xeon is only slightly faster). The Xeon, obviously, can withhold a hell more of mods due the absurd amount of memory I shoved on it - but my "best" crafts runs approximately at the same performance because the part count chokes the running thread equally on both computers. Of course, all the rest is way faster on Xeon (hell of a CPU), and I hung a decent RX-460 on it (way better than the HD3000 on MacMini). So… Your mileage will vary about performance. Your current CPU is not that bad, and the new CPU is not fully used by KSP. Your main gains will be on the SSD, more RAM and way better GPU for sightseeing. Probably! Hell, I'm always confused by these Imperial Monetary System! (Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, Quarters… By God, give me the cents!)
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Don't bet your coins on it. I'm running KSP on a MacMini, also on an aluminium case. And it gets HOT. Some MacBooks are not known for running cool neither. The thing can be so bad as some people use copper nickels stacked on the MacBook to help on the cooling. Click on the image for more info.
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I think it's KAX. The rear landing gears are from FireSpitter.
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I don't think we have enough fuel on this planet to get someone out of a black hole's orbit!
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Not necessarily. Let me propose an alternative: Only if such energy is usable somewhere else. If you choose to put the guy's freezer on a geothermal energy source, the only cost would be the maintenance of the energy converters. Space Tourism will be simnifically more wasteful , IMHO. Not necessarily. You are assuming the good faith of the historians, what History taught us is not something you can rely on. It would be a very enlightening event talking with a Classic Greece citizen, for example. What he/she would told us would be biased, of course, but still useful. It's a bit more than 60 years from the last World War, and people are already trying to rewrote it. This is a problem to be handled by the tomorrow's society. Assuming that such experiment will be successfully carried on as time goes by, people in charge of the mission would take the needed measures. The guy would be long dead without constant support anyway... That didn't worked very well for the Neanderthal's history preservation. Knowledge is finickle - only two generations, and everything is lost if not cautiously studied and preserved. We are unable to reproduce the Saturn's F-1 engines nowadays. We have the schematics, but we lost the manufacturing know-how. Humanity just lost the skills needed to redo the F-1 engine! We can build something equivalent, but we cannot reproduce it anymore. We don't know how the Lycurgus Cup were made, neither. And just recently, after a lot of investment on research, we "rediscovered" how romans made their concrete - probably the best concrete ever made by the human race.
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While diagnosing and (trying to) fixing a problem on a Mod, I ended up trashing a lot of Missions I did (under Contract Configurator). Since I already had set back my savegame due involuntary cheating (I forgot a cheat activated testing another problem), I didn't bored to try to restore it from a backup. However, I also ended up with a hand full of Tourists that just don't go away! (leftovers from the vanished missions). Since I vowed not to kill a single Kerbal on this savegame, I think I will torture them for some time before dismissing them - I vowed not to kill, and that's all I vowed to. . So I took my X-3 Mach3 plane, shoved some cabins on it and put some (Screaming) Tourist to fly over Mach 2 at 5 meters high. I'm pretty sure they realized pretty fast the reason the vomit bags were replaced by diapers on the emergency kit…. 2.5Gs of acceleration on a straight line: and almost 11Gs on turning. Boy, I'm happy now. — — — — But since we are already here, and also due that vanishing missions accident, I'm redoing my CC missions again - what's being interesting (and funny) with the current know-how. This is my (re)flight of Tito's Tourism, my Space Tourism kick off rocket. 100% recoverable - if you manage to get the thing in orbit (really hard, as I don't eject absolutely nothing, not even the escape tower - that is used to help on the deorbit burn, so tight is my fuel profile!). This baby had 140tons at launch, and now with tanks near depleted, she's weighting about 35 tons. Tito wants a 4 hours flight, so I'll probably will scare the "paper" out of him only tomorrow morning. 3:-)
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My mom gave it to me. (they say it was a difficult childbirth!)
