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Are you familiar at all with real world truss building? KSP physics properly respects trussing when created using struts, but it also exhibits the same behavior that it is impossible to make a perfectly rigid structure- you have to allow some flex or it pops right apart. And I too am kind of curious what kind of vessel that is. You don't see too many people launching a great wad of orange tanks like that except when attempting to reach the record for weight to LKO.

The portalgun survived incinceration at the end of Portal, it probably is able to endure a host of other harsh conditions.

Sounds like they are revising the Source engine too if they're going with HL3. Most of the games that Steam made themselves use the HL2 engine- nothing more than a tweaked and lightly upgraded version of the game engine that made HL2 possible. Creating a HL3 game would allow future titles after it to take advantage of the new engine, as the current HL2 engine is starting to show its age.

Only 22 hours is awful quick to be giving up. Keep it simple. First try building a very basic rocket with only one engine so that you learn to guide it along, and see how far you go. It'll eventually run out of gas and fall back of course, and when it does you'll learn how to control a craft without a working engine. Then add a little more- perhaps some boosters, or a bigger fuel tank. Eventually you'll figure it out, KSP seems to mostly involve learning patterns in which the parts fit together and perform well.

Please note, bumping of threads is not permitted. Also I think you need to provide a little more info as to what you are looking for. KSP has a lot of engineering and scientific folks around, but someone with the qualifications you seek is probably too busy to contact you without knowing what about.

Probably not- for four reasons. 1. the plant had been modified in violation of international standards for nuclear power stations, greatly reducing the effectiveness of some of the safety equipment that could have reduced the damage once the disaster began. 2. Despite having been notified that there was a very real threat to the plant, the owner did not sufficiently protect the plant by raising the seawalls and making sure that all reactors could draw power from emergency equipment located on high ground- the generators and power distribution gear were located in the basement, and quickly flooded once the seawall overtopped. 3. All sane contracts include a force majure clause wherein damages resulting from natural or manmade disasters are not the liability of the company supplying equipment or information. 4. Much like Chernobyl, initially the extent of the damage was downplayed and international assistance declined. There were American warships in the area that could have provided vital supplies much faster than the shattered Japanese infrastructure could deliver them, but with the extent of the damage not reaching the people that really needed to know it and the Japanese government declining international aid at first, the blame for everything that happened after the initial disaster rests entirely with the plant's management and the Japanese government.

Chernobyl had the most lasting damage- even today the facility is dangerously radioactive with no hope of an easy solution for cleanup. Fukushima experienced severe damage, but the bulk of the nuclear material did indeed remain within confinement even though the reactor was destroyed. Not only did the plant survive conditions far beyond its design calculations, but the lessons learned from Chernobyl were successfully applied. Although Fukushima is a major cleanup cost at this point in time, remember Chernobyl practically bankrupted the USSR in the immeadiate aftermath trying to contain the mess and relocate citizens from the exclusion zone. Because Fukushima was more contained, it will be easier to clean up the area and return it to service. The lasting consequences won't be as severe.

At the moment only Souyuz and SpaceX Dragon are able to service the ISS. Although Antares did have a successful flight, I haven't heard anything since then- their craft might not be able to reach the ISS yet.

Well, let's hope that SpaceX can send a dragonload of coolant and spare parts up asap. If not, Antares has yet to try sending actual payload to space- they only tested their Cygnus mass simulator.

Okay that makes more sense. Chobit is at your place right now from the sound of it.

What I mean is the one that you also posted in this thread which has been removed as well- and removed from another thread it appeared in. Not the one chobit got banned for.

Posted an inappropriate image again it seems. It is being delt with. Probably best not to worry about it in here. Also Trekkete, that image about this situation also must not be posted again.

Not all of that time was the time it took me to get home. Most of it was me working. But when my shift ended at work I checked on the thread and it was at a low number. So I take care of some stuff on my way home and when I get on again, I'm like wait what. That's twice in one day it's gone more than 50 in less than 30 minutes.

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I don't see why they would. Squad has already expressed support for people uploading gameplay videos, and no other companies are authorized to issue takedown requests for Squad-owned content. However if your videos used copyrighted songs or if you had other videos on the account that could be, that would probably be why. As far as I know there has been no changes to Squad's policy regarding fan content, and if someone is having videos taken down without proper authorization they are doing so illegally.

But then you never invented time travel, and couldn't go back to... Oh I see what you did there. If we're lucky the unravelling of time-space will only affect our own galaxy.

Only needs a little piece of one. Spudguns are also just right for using up the potatoes that have gotten soft in the bag or turned green from exposure to sunlight

Granted. Somebody out there will feel a need to wreck it, and dispatch their little fleet of one man fighters to strike at its weak spot and destroy it. I wish I was actually good at art.

Could always make a trebuchet or spudgun to launch it for you. I'll bet it would fly nicely out of a spudgun with a bit of potato under it as wadding.

Oh my god. Chobit using the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. We would be in so much trouble...

Granted. That roadside picnic becomes the roadkill bonanza when a big truck passes without stopping. I wish the trains near my house were a little quieter.

You guys are evil, putting a mindvirus in the thread. Lost the game.

Linux and Windows don't use the same filesystem. Repartitioning the hard drive is unavoidable. Though if you're smart about it you can make two partitions, and rig it to dual boot Windows and Linux on the same machine. The trick is to install Windows first, since Linux can drop you into Windows but Windows will not have anything to do with Linux. Your stuff will have to be copied off to a different drive, and the Linux install should use EXT3 or EXT4 as the main / filesystem with an ext2 /boot and plenty of swap. Most of the distros in common use will automatically create the required drive layout, but if you want to keep the ability to run Windows too you should split the drive so that you can have both on it at once.

Internal organ rearrangement is always in order. They can sometimes reattach severed limbs, but they end up completely numb cause they can't reconnect the neurons.

Banned for trying to keep Jeb in a space station.