DareMightyThingsJPL

Mars is like Antarctica. Both are ridiculously hostile to most complex life, both don't have large reserves of resources that are readily available to harvest, however both are of high scientific interest. The main difference is the difficulty of getting there. That's why we have seasonal Antarctic research stations and we don't have them on Mars. I doubt we'll see a proper, self-sustaining Mars colony anytime soon. What is more realistic to expect is remote research stations, inhabited for years at a time, but with crew being switched out each transfer window or two. Unless we find some right proper MacGuffinite, there will be nearly no reason to colonize Mars.

My English assessment task (A video essay on Hayao Miyazaki's personal views reflected in the film Spirited Away) is due tomorrow. I've got the video done, but the video clock in at 7 minutes, a whole minute over the maximum time. If I submit that it'll negatively affect my grade. so I'll have to cut parts out. But if I cut parts out, I may lose potential marks. What bugs me the most is the time limit, because it's meant to be styled like a YouTube video. However, any youtuber would tell you that you want a long-form video to be a minimum of 9 minutes long - This is because, any shorter and you won't get midroll advertisements. My complaint is highly pedantic, but if the limit were something like ten minutes I wouldn't have to cut out segments and talk super fast.

Thank you! Was stuck on the Parallax part of this, you fixed my install. No worries

Their section Eyes On Exoplanets is also pretty off. Proxima Centauri has only one planet, there are also systems with planets that have been refuted or or othewise haven't properly been confirmed.

Release 1.3.1 Well you put them there so yes. Yes I did! First time I ever did a pull request on GitHub, so if there was anything I could've done more efficiently or better in some way, please tell me so I know how to do so in future

@NerteaAre PCAM engines a possibility? I've made a feature request on GitHub with more information on how they could work. Also I noticed something that may interest you, regarding Antimatter in FFT:

Cool to see that jet engines are getting the Waterfall treatment - Will this be coming to SRBs too, or no?

Have you seen the WIP waterfall plumes for RestockPBR?

I'd probably be sent to Kerbal hell for this early interstellar mission I did. It was an Olympian ICF engine (from Sterling Systems) with a fuel tank, a nuclear reactor, an array of SpaceDust telescopes and a Kerbal in an external command seat. The target was the Kcalbeloh System, and the goal was to identify all the SpaceDust bands, it got a ridiculous amount of science from the mission (approx 20,000 science points) but the Kerbal is still orbiting Kcalbeloh. My punishment? Go interstellar in a completely stock game (yes, not even bettertimewarp)

Thanks, that helped to clarify things. One note, them going up in multiples of 3.75 means that they'd only attach to the stock 3.75m and the NFLV 7.5m parts. What parts mod (procedural or not) would you suggest using for vessels of larger diameter? For the fusion engines, how will their integrated reactors work? You'd have to have the reactor running or at least charged-up to start. You could use FFT's fusion engine module, but that'd put a hard dependency on FFT.

Thank you for answering! Here are the other questions I had:

I remember I wrote sci-fi a bit ago. I liked being scientifically accurate, but some things have to be handwaved (TL;DR: no interstellar civilization if there isn't FTL). My word of advice for sci-fi is, learn and understand what science permits and does not. Once you know that, you know where you need to break scientific accuracy for story purposes

Oooooooo, I have questions - too many honestly, but I'll try to keep them to a minimum.

That is true, and I can see the point of view.

The thing is... you can. There are Penning traps, and concepts that suspend frozen antihydrogen masses in magnets, which use UV lasers to melt it for transport on-demand. Thing is, keeping that antihydrogen cool and confined is very expensive in terms of both mass and in electricity. Yes, this is true for any planet with a magnetosphere - specifically Earth and Saturn, and possibly Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune (either their magnetospheres are to strong or to weak). Only antiprotons are captured in these fields, though, and in VERY small amounts. Enough to use in catalyzed microfission or initiated microfusion, though.