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Until life support gets added. Notice the world "really" in the title.

Yeah, some guy did some calculations a few pages back and worked out that at sea level radiation is bearable, but a few hundred meters up it rapidly expands.

Yeah, still no signal Oh well, it was fun!

Yeah, I couldn't replicate it. I'm gonna try repeating the steps once more, just on the off chance. EDIT: Nope, still nothing

I've set the UT of my save file to 31,553,800,000,000. My probe should be nearing the 10 Em mark now, I'll check. EDIT: SIGNAL FOUND I HEARD SOMETHING THEN I PANICKED AND SWITCHED MY SPEAKERS OFF BUT OH MY GOD THERE IS A SIGNAL I'm going to reload the save file, with recording on. Hopefully it wasn't a one-off glitch. EDIT2: Results were not replicated.

It's an appeal to history. That people are wrong about a colony on mars being impossible doesn't follow logically from people being wrong about e.g. supersonic flight.

Antimatter works, if you find enough of it. You only need a 0.01% conversion rate, so feeding it to a black hole and collecting the radiation might also work.

That's probably because I haven't posted any images yet Here's the Ion stage: The rest of the rocket is just an ordinary ~10 km/s NERVA stage and a 2-1 mainsail asparagus booster. EDIT: Acceleration is now a brisk 0.031 g. Ion stage is 93% depleted.

2.9 hours left of the Ion stage burn, and the coasting stage will begin. Well, that's going to be my next destination!

I've started up the Ion stage again. 6 hours to depletion. EDIT: 5 days into the mission (I went to minmus in the meantime to save jeb, who I stranded), and the orbit of Duna has been passed.

I have many screenshots, I'm going to post them all once the mission is done.

I decided to run the numbers of this: Energy released by star = E26 Watts (luminosity of star) × E10 Years (lifespan of star) ~ 3E43 Joules Mass energy of star = 2E30 Kilograms (mass of sun) × c2 (from E=MC2) ~ 2E47 Joules Therefore, turning stars directly into energy is more efficient than letting fusion occur by a factor of 10,000. This could extent the lifespan of a civilisation from 100 trillion years to a quintillion years.

What part of Universal is difficult to understand? There are no more stars, they've all been colonised. Even if there were more stars, Isaac Asimov rebuts your idea well:

The lifespan of a universal civilisation is around 100 trillion years, due to the limited lifespan of stars. How would you extend this? EDIT: Turns out I underestimated the length of the Stelliferous Era. Thanks!

How is he pleasant in the slightest? He proposes the killing of baby seals!

The reason to imagine a different solar system is because it turns out that very little of what we know about geology applies to planets built around black holes. Certainly, it works for physics calculations, but that's why I think of two solar systems which are used depending on what's useful, interesting, and compatible with reality. Also, I did some calculations about the atmospheres of Kerbal planets once and I think they were inconsistent with the dense core model (permission to call it hardcore?). I'll have to check, though, so don't take this as an argument for or against yet.

So it turns out that I underestimated the time it will take to reach 10 Em by a factor of 10001.33. I thought it was 0.1 ly, not 1000 ly. Anyone know any mods that will let me timewarp 1,000,000 years quickly? EDIT: The good news is that my acceleration is at an unfathomably huge .024 g

It's too late to use Jool as a slingshot, and even if I used it perfectly it would only add another 40% to my current velocity. Anyway, .02 g is a huge acceleration. Only another 15.84 hours, and my Xenon will be depleted and my craft will be hurting along rather swiftly.

2h36m in, the SOI of Kerbin has been left. Ion stage is 11% depleted. EDIT: Due to my changing angle relative to the sun, the Ion stage is now only working at 83% capacity. ETA of maximum velocity is 18.57 hours. EDIT2: My acceleration is a massive 0.21 m-s-2 EDIT3: Now, it's an inconceivably huge 0.22 m-s-2

The figures on the left look like Kerbals with enlarged heads. EDIT: 1h39m in, just passed the orbit of Minmus. Ion stage is 6% depleted.

It's only 10001.67 times Kerbin's distance to the Sun! That's barely anything! I'm actually doing the launch right now. 9.7 km/s, and I haven't even started on the Ion stage yet. 200 whole newtons of pure thrust on my ~1 ton probe will be fun. EDIT: 42 minutes in, and I've just passed the Mun's orbit. Ion stage is 1% depleted.

I believe you just enough to test this. I'll report back with results.

For topic like this, I like to take the position that the Kerbal solar system acts as if it is made of super-dense balls sometimes, and as if they were normal density but 11 times larger at other times. For example, orbital mechanics acts as if the planets were super-dense balls, and geophysics acts as if they were 11 times larger.

So, if I'm not mistaken, a GoogolyottaZekeplex is (...(10^goolol)^googol)...^googol, with a septillion Zekes of googols? Nonetheless, this is glorious and there's no doubt it's huge.

Well, that definitely beats mine. Have fun on the leaderboard. I'm reading up on the latest in Googology so I can continue making bigger numbers.