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Galactic empires are very difficult when your only communication is slower than light. I wouldn't say it's impossible for someone to want the power of a galaxy - you could have 300 billion individuals owning one solar system each, and waving the flag of her Galactic Federation.

Nice! What's my prize?

I see the Kardashev scales as the following: Type 1 - Planet Type 2 - Star Type 3 - Galaxy Type 4 - Universe Type 5 - 10 billion Universe equivalents Type 6 - 100 quintillion Universe equivalents And so on.

Since the context was in province sizes on TES, I assumed you were talking about that :-) Also, I understand the direction your coming from, and it's based on interpretation of he evidence. I see the Kerbal system as a fun metaphor for our own, whilst you see it as a unique system with it's own set of rules.

255/d0.5 is used here, where D is the orbital distance.

Another example is Starcraft. In the official books or guides or whatever, units are differently matched in combat against each other than in the games. The numbers were tweaked from what was "real" to what's fun. A similar thing happens with Laythe. Magic isn't involved in the area of provinces. In game they are about 6 km^2 but they are said to be larger.

I've got one or two features on Duna that I want to name, I'll take screenshots of them later since I'm not at my KSP computer.

The one with the large ship over Duna is my favourite.

I found a couple of threads about future timelines and predictions here, so I decided to make a future timeline that can be edited y anyone. Here's the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hWBczdLBwwRLhHqIZ4B0vcbfVylEFi-h97SJ471B1E8/edit?usp=sharing There are already some events there by me. You can add any prediction you want to here, there are no restrictions or anything. Just make sure that it fits into the already established timeline, and is plausible

Run a big computer.

Hooray! Also, where's the map? I wanna try some epic battleplans.

This challenge is LiquidFuel+Oxidiser only, sorry. Even with Xenon, you couldn't get to Laythe for the purposes of the challenge because all engines need to be constantly on, full thrust.

They weigh 31 kg when on EVA http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/15504-The-mass-of-a-kerbal

There could be a source of food on Titan more accessible than methane pools - other Titanians.

The JeB spacecraft consist of an advanced electric drive strapped to a hab module. This allows for short transit times and large payloads.

What's fun is that the "immune system" of a Type 3 could be as intelligent, or more intelligent, than us. We could talk to an "extraterrestrial civilisation", only to find it to be an immune response by the Type 3.

Yeah. It's shocking how little we actually know about the outer solar system.

JeB Program: Manned exploration of the Jovian moons (esp. Callisto) and beyond.

Whom ?

The Gamicus Unfinishicus virus has many other side effects. For example, it can absorb radiation. It also taints chemical samples, making the useless. In addition, it grants you a knowledge of nuclear physics.

This thread is not going to run into troubles.

It was in some blog where people were talking about Moho's atmosphere being removed for .18 IIRC. Devs said that there would be a new dwarf planet near the Sun with Moho's .17 atmosphere.

I will . I guess it's because I see the KSP universe as our solar system with some fudged numbers, whilst you see it as it's own solar system with different laws of physics allowing the numbers to be different. I guess this also ties in with my Kerbals Are Humans concept, while your view is probably Kerbals are Aliens. All different points of view, and I do like them

That's the 600 km method for planets, and it works for many cases, but it's easier to convert it to real life sizes if you want to compare it to real life.

They do "correspond to" and "are really" some other distance. It's like saying Kerbin doesn't "correspond to" or "[is] really" Earth, or that Duna doesn't "correspond to" or "[is] really" Mars. It's pretty clear that it is. Alternately: Is Kerbin really a 600km planet that ignores real material densities? Alternately2: By the way, I'm not saying that the planets are LITERALLY only 6,000 km or LITERALLY only 600 km. I'm saying that it's useful to think of them as 600 km when discussing physics as it applies ingame, and useful to think of them as 6000 km when discussing hypothetical planetary science. ExampleToIllustrateAlternately2: If you want to talk about an orbit around Kerbin, you have to think about it as 600 km or you get a nonsensical description of an orbit within the surface of a planet. If you want to talk about the internal structure of Kerbin, you have to think about it as 6,000 km or you get a nonsensical description of a 600 km asteroid that should have cooled and lost its atmosphere eons ago.