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Granted. The resulting complexity of meta-wishing clogs all the pipes of the internet and we end up going back to living like it is the 1960s. I wish I had more customers.

This. The reactor geometry is designed specifically to make it impossible to form a supercritical mass. However reactors do indeed contain plenty more than critical mass at any given time. It just isn't dense enough to experience anything worse than prompt criticality. Chernobyl demonstrates a worst-case scenario for what a typical reactor will do, that reactor went prompt critical due to operator error. It resulted not in a nuclear explosion, but effectively a steam bomb after the water hammer from the rush of heat raised the lid. A nuclear weapon detonating in close proximity to a nuclear reactor would cause the reactor to experience an excursion from the influx of neutrons. Depending on the intensity of the excursion it would range from nothing more than triggering safety devices to inducing a steam explosion and raising the lid. I think the reason why they don't use them is political. If you use a nuclear device of any kind you will instantly get the entire world's attention from the audacity of such an action, and you would very quickly find yourself on the receiving end of bigger devices. Nuclear Deterrent only works because nobody dares throw that first punch. If somebody ever did it would be the death of us all.

Banned because I wonder what the ISP of a potato-oxygen hybrid booster would be.

Granted. It is served to you with mentos as the secret ingredient providing the fizz, and you explode after drinking it from the resulting gas production. I wish I had a Linux supercomputer

Tank! Ban it!

Banned because CREEPER!

Granted. I give you a jar of honey. This is a natural product that is incapable of becoming moldy or spoiled, and lasts as long as it is kept free of contaminants. Too bad you don't know that many recipies that can make proper use of it, and have to consume it by scooping it by the spoonful straight from the jar. I wish the next-gen consoles weren't such a hassle.

Granted. You get bitten by a pissed off vampire and die from it- only to wake up a few hours later and learn that you've become the wimpy sparkly kind of vampire instead of the awesome ones that live forever and have logic-defying superpowers. I wish I had a cow.

Granted. In the resulting parallel universe, your parents didn't get together and you weren't born. Instead they became coworkers in a bioweapons research facility, and through a series of unfortunate accidents created a killer virus that wipes out all of humanity. I wish I had more pizza.

Banned because banishment to traitors.

Banned because wait what when did you

PLOTTWIST! Its a moderator! The user below me is also a moderator.

Banned because maybe if I do this you'll appear more often on the other side.

Granted. I've got tons of them. Problem is I can't really post them here because there are rules against that. I wish shasacat was more popular.

All of the time-spaces merge due to the will of Odin, and the resulting twisted wreck of a hill is bulldozed back to its proper height, planted with grass and trees, and a flag pole raised at its peak. Now then, shall we have a picnic lunch?

I think the problem here is you don't seem to be putting a lot of effort into this yourself. It's nice to have ideas, but you really do need to at least attempt to make them on your own and get it to a point where you at least have proof of concept before asking for people to join the project and work on it with you. I'll use KMP as an example. gimp worked quietly on it for months to get it to where it was when it first became known- in a condition where he had a primitive concept developed to the point where it could be used as intended. It wasn't until after he was already showing results that other people joined the project and contributed to the codebase. Asking for help learning to code is fine, tons of people willing to do that. But it really isn't a good idea to ask people to write your idea for you, starting with that kind of approach usually results in frustration and giving up. C# isn't hard to learn. If you're good with a google search and willing to install Monodevelop for your operating system of choice, developing KSP mods is rather easy to get started in.

Have a mirror. Now you stare at yourself until you die.

I'm not saying the problems don't exist- I am saying they aren't necessarily a show-stopper. It just becomes a question of how much time and money is willing to be put into it, which is where to date few production restart programs have gone through with it. The engines I am talking about are being distributed by an American manufacturer. Its the basic NK33 design with much of the hardware being reconditioned NK33 components, modified into their AJ26 specification. Antares uses two of these in the first stage.

Or if you know the electrical layout of the original computer, there should be a point in the system where the computer itself can be separated from the manual overrides in the signal harness. Cut the harness at this location, and in its place insert a modern PLC brick with IO boards to match the voltage and current. That PLC board can then interact with your phone by protocol of choice, allowing the phone to operate all of the controls as though the original computer was still working- except now it is a lot faster. This is how retrofitting of industrial equipment is performed, the harness is separated at a point where the bare IO to the machine is exposed and a new computer or data interface is fitted in its place. Of course the PLC itself would probably have more power than the original LM computer. Depending on its capabilities the entire LM computer could be reduced to a plastic box no larger than a shoebox, with a few thousand wires coming out of it. The power consumption would be reduced by orders of magnitude in the process.

Trivial task. I work in a machine shop that does exactly this on a daily basis, making the odd bits for other factories and machinery in the area. And it often involves examining the broken pieces of something that was brought in and going okay how can we make this without significantly changing its properties. You just have to know what you are doing is all. Oh and if the blueprints really are intact, the exact methods used to produce it are irrelevant as long as the final properties are correct and within the specified tolerances. And the measuring equipment of today can do this far more accurately than anything back then- the original engines had a lot of custom-fitted parts that were specific to that engine serial number. Those same parts could be made accurately enough today to be interchangeable to a modern reproduction- or exactly reproduced to replace a failing original. The only major loss is the jigs. Assembly tooling is usually easy to replace, while modern machines can be substituted. In the 1960s they didn't have the luxury of CNC milling machines, so they did it with manually-controlled ones and expert operators. A modern CNC mill could do the same job in half the time, and using far less skilled labor to do it. I know, I have firsthand experience with it. Among my charges are a 1971 Pratt & Whitney Star-Turn, a 1961 Lucas 441B-72, and a 1985 Cincinnati Autoshape. There are some parts you just plain can't replace, and that's where you have to go back to the drawing board and work out an equivalent replacement. But they're all still young compared to the 1926 Nelson Bros that I keep. Spare parts for that do not exist at all- if I break something on it I have to create the replacement from scratch. Its not impossible, it just becomes an issue of how much effort are you willing to put into it. You can still get asbestos, and they do still use it in applications where there just plain isn't anything suitable. Fiberglass is not a suitable replacement either, its temperature tolerance is not high enough. I'd want to use something more along the lines of Kevlar, or something from the rockwool family. I've been working as an Industrial Systems Specialist for 5 years now, mostly on older machinery that had been cobbled to life over the years instead of being properly restored to original specifications. And that's a big deal in what I do for this equipment- I actually go back to the original prints wherever possible and try to either replicate the original hardware or match it up to a modern equivalent without triggering unintended consequences. True nothing I deal with is quite as intense as a rocket engine, but the principles are still the same- and the NK33 heritage engines show that it isn't impossible either. The NK33s were supposed to be destroyed, they were originally meant to push the N1 towards the moon. Instead of being destroyed at the end of the program they were warehoused, and now companies are rediscovering their capabilities. Modified to use modern control solutions and refurbished to offset the effects of their age, new and rebuilt engines springing from Russian stock are being used in the Antares booster and might find applications in other craft as well. Because why just rebuild the F1 when you do have to at least partially re-engineer it anyway. Might as well factor in some of what we've learned since the originals were made, creating a greatly uprated version with a similar silhouette and capability.

I am the king of this hill! Obey! *orders a shrubbery to be planted on the hill to go with the remaining trees and clumps of grass.*

Banned because if you read the fine print I actually can ban you with or without reason if the situation would call for it.

Uh, yes you can. The same manufacturing tools they had in the 1960s are the basis for the modern equivalents and follow similar methods. Only now we can do it even faster than back then. I still look after machine tools from 1960s and 1970s in my line of work as well, if you really wanted to you could still obtain reconditioned machinery from the time period and do it the original way. The only difference between then and now would be material- our metals are more highly refined, and we have more options for what to use where. Some conversion work would also be needed to replace obsolete materials like asbestos with modern equivalents, but the bulk of it is close enough between then and now to work acceptably well.

Banned because shall we shed some light on the subject

Your walls mysteriously come crumbling down, as a passerby climbs on top of the rubble to plant a new flag. I say, this hill is now Odin's land.