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  1. razark
    Ah, yes. Comparing apples and oranges. You have a point. By the way, did you know that apples were cultivated before oranges?
  2. razark
    Zeus? No. If you're thinking about deity names, go with tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Thor
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    Perhaps it's not clear, so let me lay it out: I don't give a damn who did a better job, or how much more impressive SpaceX is. When the final accounting is done, Blue Origin put a rocket into space and recovered it propulsively a month before SpaceX did. Do we get it now? It's not about who's better, it's about who did it first, and the history books will forever show that Elon Musk and SpaceX got caught with their pants down. Furthermore, I've been making dumb arguments on the side of Blue Origin simply because Elon Musk got his panties firmly wadded over it, and the fanboys can't help but do the same. In the long run, it doesn't matter, but SpaceX fans can't stand that their guy lost this one. BO went to space and recovered first, and SX fans want to shift the damn goalposts to the other side of the field. BO won the first medal in the game, and SX fans are complaining that BO doesn't count since they won the 100 meter dash instead of the 200 meters. BO still won the first medal.
  4. razark
    That's true. Another truth: On 22 December 2015, SpaceX launched a rocket. It crossed the Karman line, then returned to a soft landing via engine propulsion. On 23 November 2015, Blue Origin launched a rocket. It crossed the Karman line, then returned to a soft landing via engine propulsion. Argue the merits and differences all you want, but when it comes down to it, November is still before December.
  5. razark
    Not necessarily for targeting. More as a secondary capability to take pictures of anything that needs its picture taken. Aside from equipment giving it a secondary mission, what is the bus going to contain that makes it that much easier to reload rather than replace it?
  6. razark
    You're not a big fan of universes, are you?
  7. razark
    Give that common center a deborbit and guidance system, and you've got one extra round, as well. Although, I don't see the benefit to making a reloadable rather than a single-use system. The OBS bus would be a rather small part of the total system. Maybe you could build a reconnaissance system into the bus for additional usage while waiting for a strike mission, and post-strike analysis afterwards.
  8. razark
    Per-save tech tree options? I also start over every update, but having the option for a different tree for each save should make it possible.
  9. razark
    Whatever it takes to remove the simulation and expose the underlying reality.
  10. razark
    >rm -rf /* Again.
  11. razark
    Really? This is y'all's reaction? You find out that the very nature of reality is a fiction, and you say "I'm going to mess with this fantasy to make things awesome"?!? Wow.
  12. razark
    >rm -rf /* There you go. All the problems solved.
  13. razark
    Where is the idea that multiplayer is going to be rushed into the game soon coming from? If you read the dev notes, it's all been about fixing things lately, and not a word about multiplayer. The devs haven't even really said much about multiplayer since they mentioned they were adding it.
  14. razark
    Why would they have a vote on something they have already decided to add? Are they going to vote on spaceplane parts, too? Can we vote on EVA? No one is going to get everything they want out of this game. There will be things added that you dislike, and there will be things you like that won't be added. Sit back and enjoy the ride, and get what fun you can out of the game.
  15. razark
    Good point. SpaceX recovers and reuses (well, someday, I guess?) only part of their vehicle. Blue Origin recovers and reuses all of theirs. Another point to BO.
  16. razark
    Here's the bottom line: All our complaints of "I want KSP to be exactly what I think it should be, no more or less." are meaningless. There's not a single one of use that is going to get exactly what we want. Yes, we can make suggestions. The thing about suggestions is that they can be rejected or ignored. Once your suggestion has been suggested, screaming and whining about it is not going to make it anything more of a demand. Multiplayer has been decided as something Squad wants to add to the game. Get used to the idea. Go forth and unwad thy panties. Good or bad, we're getting multiplayer. Now, can we move on and discuss/make suggestions about how we think the multiplayer we're going to get should work? BRB. Just saw the horse run by. Need to go close the barn door now.
  17. razark
    Some days, you don't even need to go outside to get the sweaty, slimy, just crawled out of a swamp feeling.
  18. razark
    My first guess would be the reason anything stops happening at NASA. "No bucks, no Buck Rogers."
  19. razark
    Well, since we're redefining "first", might as well go all the way. Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1 shall no longer be considered the first supersonic flight. Yeager only did Mach 1, but Scott Crossfield did Mach 2. David Scott will now be the first man on the moon. While Apollo 11, 12, and 14 landed before, Apollo 15 did it with a car, and brought back the Genesis Rock. Yuri Gagarin may have orbited the Earth before anyone else, but Glenn orbited more than once. Glenn shall now be the first man in space. (Sorry Shepard and Grissom, you just didn't have the right stuff.) Mir is now the first space station. While there were others before it, Mir just did it bet... Oh. Breaking news, ISS has now become the first space station. In a second snubbing, Neil Armstrong gets it again, because Gemini 8 is no longer the first docking between two spacecraft. That honor goes to Apollo 9, who did it with two manned spacecraft, making it the actual first. Dr. Goddard did not, in fact, launch the first liquid fueled rocket. He was beaten to that by von Braun, who was first several years later.
  20. razark
    I want to like this post, but I live on the Gulf Coast... Who the hell decided that Houston was a good place to build?!? (Oh, right. Lyndon Johnson and Albert Thomas.) (I've read lists of tips on how to stay cool in hot weather. Most of them are "make your body sweat more" or "wet your skin". None of these lists were written by people in humid environments. )
  21. razark
    Many of them.
  22. razark
    Spoilsport.
  23. razark
    You misspelled "Allen Shepherd".
  24. razark
    Two groups are given a test. The tests are identical in every way, except that one is labeled "Easy Level", and the other is labeled "Hard Level". (And a group with an unlabeled test as control.) Does the label affect how the two groups score on the test or how they perceive the difficulty or their level of confidence in their answers? The thread is labeled "Social Experiment". We're just being social about it. (And as the surveys are now closed, I can only guess the data gathering portion has been completed.)
  25. razark
    Blue Origin is crappy, because they built something that didn't go into orbit, and wasn't supposed to. SpaceX is good because they built something that didn't go into orbit, and wasn't supposed to. Blue Origin launched a rocket. SpaceX launched a rocket. BO got their rocket into space. SpaceX got their rocket into space. BO did not get their rocket into orbit. SX did not get their rocket into orbit.* BO landed their rocket vertically using propulsion. SX landed their rocket vertically using propulsion. BO did this before SX. Even if it was less impressive, done for different reasons, and aimed at a different goal, BO still did it first. The first flight of the Wright Flyer was a lot less impressive than the first flight of the Concorde, but the Wright Flyer came before the Concorde. Bonus points: BO launched their rocket more than once. SX did not launch their rocket more than once. *Yeah, whatever. The part SX recovered did not go into orbit. The payload it carried did, and when SpaceX recovers that, they can have their bonus points, too.
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