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razark

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  1. 1.78267702 × 109 smoots per hour per day? How about 462.48532 attoParsecs per microfortnight^2 ? Metric is standard for scientific usage. What we are discussing is, by it's very nature, completely unscience, therefore metric is unwarranted.
  2. Sorry. 70939741100 furlongs per fortnight^2
  3. The other one I've seen is that all objects in the universe are expanding. That's why two masses appear to get pulled towards each other.
  4. Because gravity is a lie. The disk Earth is accelerating upwards at 32 feet/sec^2, which causes the appearance that gravity exists and pulls things down. (Yes, I have seen this "theory" in the wild.)
  5. They also have lower-level engineers to crunch the numbers and bring them an answer so they don't have to do it personally. It's Kerbal Space Program, not Kerbal Space One Person Doing Everything By Himself. I'd like to see delta-V in the game, but if the devs decide not to ever put it in, I'm pretty sure there will always be a mod to handle it.
  6. I did, also. Fortunately, it was a slow morning at work.
  7. No! Only the way I play is correct! If you're not doing it exactly like I do, then you are wrong and bad and evil and wrong!
  8. My desktop rarely gets shut down, but I reboot it at least once a week.. It depends on what I have running at the time. My (alleged) laptop, however, has been continuously running for about 892 days without a reboot.
  9. Well, the way that some players treat it as a wacky lolsplosion murder simulator, I think Kerbal Space Pogrom will do fine on consoles without delta-V readouts.
  10. I think Squad has adequately shown that just because something appears to be a really good idea to a large number of players, they don't have to do it.
  11. The reasoning was something along the lines that it would take away all the fun of repeatedly failing if you actually knew the numbers.
  12. Being pilots, they already know. "You can always tell a Gunner by his greasy hands and vacant stare - and You can always tell a Bombardier by his manners debonair - and You can always tell a Navigator by his pencils books and such - and You can always tell a Pilot - but you can never tell him much."
  13. If you devolve far enough, do you become a sci-fi screenwriter?
  14. Because if they remained a complete secret, they couldn't deny they exist. If no one was denying they exist, it's obviously because the Illuminati have managed to cover up their tracks. So by revealing signs that they exist, they can deny they exist, which shows they don't exist. Fnord.
  15. I always thought he had the most awesome stuff for Bond, but in the Roger Moore films, it went the way of everything else and tried too much for comedy.
  16. Obviously a discombobulator is that which confuses someone. (I'd say it's working, huh?) Therefore, a combobulator would do the opposite. It is that which combobulates, fuse, concerts, set, or unfrustrates. For a dicombobulator to properly dicombobulate, it must be in proper working order. If it was not working, one could say it was upset or frustrated, etc. So to properly prepare the dicombobulator for discombobulation, one must first combobulate the discombobulator. Or that could be all it is, and attempting to dig any deeper into it will only leave you confused, disconcerted, upset, or frustrated.
  17. By the time NASA was 14 years old, ten men had walked on the moon. Scaled Composites Tier One started in 1996, and in eight years managed three manned spaceflights with two astronauts. SpaceX was founded in 2002, and has yet to put a person into space.
  18. Spacecraft: Abort: Aborts. 0: Jettison fairings. 1: Toggle On-Orbit Operations/Maneuvering modes. Toggles solar panels, ladders, opens service and cargo bays. 2,3: Usually science instruments. 4: Toggle maneuvering engine. Aircraft: 0: Toggle pod torque. 9: Toggle engine/intakes. 1: Disable nose gear steering. 2: Toggle ladders.
  19. Y'all don't agree. Let it end now or take it somewhere else, please.
  20. Yes, he drew it in a letter to another author, but never described it in his stories. Whether that should count as canonical or not is up to debate. Someone else later did describe it as a star shape, and that version seems to have gotten popular. In our office, we have the branched version posted.
  21. Much like the Elder Sign. I'm not as familiar with the Yellow Sign, though.
  22. I got it. I was wondering why it didn't match the one I was used to, though.
  23. razark

    Apollo 21

    However you want to number them, much of the basic documentation still exists. A lot of the more detailed stuff pertaining to individual implementations of the Saturn V and other Apollo hardware were destroyed, however. Why? Because it would have been too expensive to keep. Storage and proper treatment for rail-cars worth of documents costs a lot. As mentioned above, there are existing examples of the hardware that could be taken apart and reverse engineered. It would probably be easier to just design the Saturn V anew from existing documents and knowledge, using modern materials, electronics, etc.
  24. Don't worry, I'm sure De Beers would fix the price of diamonds.
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