razark

I wonder how many people noticed their KSP installation didn't work, and rushed to the Orbiter forum to find out why.

Jsgme

Oh hell, is it Hide From the Internet Day again?

There is no before the big bang. Time began with the big bang. If there is no time, the concept of "before" is meaningless. As for the radiation, the theorists said "Well, if it's true, we should see something, and it should look like this." Some time later, the experimenters found something that exactly matched what had been predicted. If the radiation pattern was caused by something else, it wouldn't have matched the prediction.

I know what you're saying, but the problem is that people don't understand that space does impact their lives every time they turn on their TV to check the weather. People don't think about water purification, either. It's not a technology that exists anymore. It's become part of the "background noise" of modern existence that they don't have to think about. It's simply there, without thought, even though they depend on it for their very way of life. Edit: Not that I'm any different. I start getting out of sorts if I can't keep up with my webcomics every day. (Although, I do occasionally find myself considering how many acres of wilderness I would need to feed a small family.)

Yes, but we also knew how to recognize which plants were edible and which would kill us. And the landscape is not the same as it was before the neolithic revolution. Vast areas have been turned into living space, and other areas have been turned to agriculture. Those areas can no longer support the hunter/gatherer populations they once could. Eventually, they could be returned to wilderness, but it's going to take a long time, and the problem is feeding the population during the first year.

Fixed that up for accuracy.

Ah. The problem is that you only have a limited amount of time to figure it out; if you don't get the crops planted at the right time, there's going to be a lot fewer people to try again next year. Hopefully, you'll get it figured out before the local "tribe" become too small to sustain itself. It's a major set of problems to overcome. Civilization has changed our way of life, and most people have lost the knowledge that used to be commonplace. People have a lot more knowledge than we did ten thousand, two thousand, even one hundred years ago. That knowledge, however, has become so specific that it is very hard for an individual person to keep a useful general base of knowledge about how their life works. The question I have is: When do we become so dependent on technology that we cannot survive a societal collapse? Have we passed that point already? I'd argue that parts of human society already have.

My point is that I have very little hope that any of those survivors will last long enough to breed the next generation, let alone pass on any knowledge they may have, unless they already possess the skills needed for a hunter/gatherer or subsistence agriculture lifestyle. I'm not talking about spending a week or a month camping. I'm talking about shifting an entire way of life to one that people simply are not familiar with anymore. What crops are suited to grow in your area? When do you plant them? When do you harvest them? How do you tend them while they are growing? How many acres do you need to plant to ensure enough food for X people? How do you store the seed so that it is ready for planting? How do you get the water to the crops if the rains don't come? How do you tend the livestock? Where do you get the livestock and seed? How do you keep the cattle alive over winter? How do you preserve the food with no refrigeration? Those are the questions that would matter. I was responding to your point that those survivors would be able to find each other. If you're abandoning that point, then I agree.

Yes, but those ten thousand post-Toba people knew how to live in that world. How good are you at starting a fire without matches? Can you tell the edible berries from the poisonous ones? Take down an antelope with a spear? Care for a sick child without antibiotics? Those are the skills that most of us lack that would be needed to survive. I have no doubt that a number of populations of significant size would survive. If they have the correct set of skills, they might even be able to continue surviving. However, without modern technology, they are going to have a very hard time finding and maintaining communication between groups. Cities tend to be poor for growing food, and most people lack the knowledge of how to do it. Same for running most modern technology such as the power grid. Transportation technology would eventually break down, which means you can't move food from one area to another, even if there's someone capable of growing it. The survival of modern type people depends on a hell of a lot of stuff they don't understand.

Once the canned food in the grocery stores runs out, and people can't travel far beyond the current location, vast numbers of them will die. Disease will spread. Modern society is not ready for that. While I'm sure there will be some survivors in modern areas, there are people whose lives would not change very much, if at all. Remember, we live in a world where you can read about man walking on the moon, while flying hundreds of miles per hour, miles above the earth and there are people who have never, and will never, flush a toilet.

Except large areas of the planet are now full of people that wouldn't have the first clue how to survive. Probably the most capable survivors would be those from areas where subsistence farming with very little dependence on technology is a major way of life.

That is a true statement. NASA didn't pretend to go to the moon before, during, or after Apollo 11.

None of the above? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space#1940s

Shepard was neither. Gagarin was both.

They're all taken in by/part of the conspiracy.

Look at the picture! It's got clouds. You obviously can't see the stars on a cloudy day. To be fair, every compass I've used points south.

I remember watching this movie as a kid. Han Solo did not shoot first. Han Solo shot. There was no "first".

Just out of curiosity, since y'all seem to be pretty hard set on "we've set a date, and we're sticking to it", what happens if you don't feel the game is ready for release on that date? Are you going to release it anyway, because "it's release day", or are you willing to say "we don't feel it's ready"? Would you consider a 0.99 release on whatever your release date is? The way it's come off, it looks like there's a push that when the calender reaches a certain date, something is going to be released, and that something is going to have a 1.0 label, no matter what it is.

It's not moving it "willy-nilly" if you're delaying it to properly finish the project.

In the settings, under Input, Misc., there is Axis Bindings for Camera on the right hand side. Select each axis, and move the hat switch. That's all I had to do with mine.

Nope. I understand what you're saying, but I'd just like to point out that certain new features may be easier to show visually, rather than just describing in text. (The best way would be screenshots and short videos that show the feature, with plenty of description of what we're looking at.)

This is the simplest, easiest, most reliable way. Why bother getting other programs involved when you don't need them?

The aircraft ended up on the only area of open terrain nearby, the pilot survived, and the wreckage still looks like an airplane. Considering what could have happened, I'd say he did alright.

I was thinking it was "Brasse". http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Anthony_Roll/Second_roll Of course, you still have to decipher the archaic spelling and terminology. Looks to be a bit more extensive, to include all cannons onboard.