Kryten

There's no reason to believe spaceflight is fundamentally dependent on fossil fuels. Look at Delta IV; versions without solids have no large composite components, and the fuel is LOX/LH2, which can be obtained through electrolysis.

Care to explain how SES made £500 million profit last year?

Metabolism and 'metabolism' are not the same thing.

You don't. It's only ever been used for pure research, as production of it is incredibly inefficient, and trapping it even more so; only a few thousand atoms of antimatter have been stored at a time.

Remember that SpaceX initially gave Falcon 9 price at $27 million; it ultimately cost at least twice that. If that's the best they can do for a pretty conventional vehicle, I wouldn't pay any attentions to their predictions for reusable ones.

We also have issue with the censoring of the word s-e-x; simply because it's very difficult to discuss biological concepts without it. It isn't even replaced with something else so you can tell what it was; as far as I could tell from previewing this post, it's simply deleted entirely.

Or there's an option you've missed, or there's an error with one of your eliminations. Be careful using logical advice from somebody that believed in fairies.

Better to be over- than underpowered. This way it's expandable.

10 tons is pushing it for CZ-7, 20 tons is well into CZ-5 territory.

IRL, very few objects are in the sort of low, perfectly equatorial orbits that are common in KSP. Even quite small differences in inclination can add hundreds of m/s to relative velocity.

Toxic yes, small no. Glushko designed the F-1 scale RD-270 for UR-700, and got it to the testing phase.

It will be out of news within two days and the public will forget it ever happened.

OCO-2, a CO2 monitoring sat. Identical replacement for OCO-1, which didn't reach orbit.

The US managed to break the record for saves by one side in a world cup match, and it still wasn't enough. Good game.

The speed of light isn't that many metres a second because we've measured it to be so; it's that many because that's part of the definition of what a metre actually is. Any error in the measurement results in errors in the length of the metre, not the value in m/s of the spped of light,

They did have a bunch of German technical staff; they just set them up as a separate group from the soviet developers (including korolyev), and didn't actually produce anything they proposed.

Only one galaxy (andromeda) is actually moving towards us, excepting our small satellite ones. The rest are far away enough for expansion of space to overcome gravity.

What a lot of people seem to be missing here is that there is, strictly speaking, no such thing as Asperger's syndrome as a separate syndrome; it is simply a term for mild manifestation of autism. Because of the nature of aspergers/autism as a multiple-gene hereditary disease, two people with it are likely to have offspring with more affected genes that either alone-and therefore more severely affected. One of the more common single-mutation causes of aspergers/autism, fragile-x syndrome, has also been shown to become more severe over generations-the mutation itself causes the affected gene to become highly prone to further mutations.

Given what happened to the last two Taurus launches, I don't have high hopes for this one. EDIT: Nevermind, this time they're going with Delta II. I'd heard about Taurus being resurrected, and assumed it was for this launch.

Hydroxide can't exist as a pure material, at least under any reasonable planetary conditions. Unless it's already in a solvent, it's going to be part of a solid.

That doesn't mean it should be made worse. There is no price that can achieve that; that's my whole point. It's just delaying the inevitable.

Partial success. Inflatable heat-shield worked, supersonic parachute didn't. Should still be able to recover the box containing the telemetry data.

This really seems to be one of the big issues here; in the long term, humanity has no chance of survival. Immortality is as impossible on a species level as it is on an individual one. Viewed in that context, these kind of 'murder most of humanity to save a few sods' proposals are similar to people being kept alive with intrusive, quality-of-life ruining treatments; it'd be better to let humanity die with dignity.

A falcon 9 is not going to get that kind of payload that far out. It's badly built for high-energy missions like earth escape.

Giant, completely unique aircraft that require specially built hangars, airstrips et.c. do not a cheap system make. Their Pegasus launcher uses a modified airliner, and is still the most expensive launcher in operation in terms of $/kg.