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While I don't consider the monk example a good one, I have seen plenty of videos of cars, motorcycles, quads and even snowmobiles driving on water, for quite a distance.

The first time I heard about Yugoslavian space program was many years ago and the context of that information had nothing to do with this movie. The info I was presented with claimed that Yugoslavia sold it's data to USA for quite a pretty penny, and that that data was important for Apollo.

I won't pretend to know the answer to your question, but let's see if I can use the powers of the forum to summon someone who I believe does. @Yourself, your self is needed!

With all the video feed cutting off at the worst moment, I always wondered why they don't have cameras on a boat that follows the barge. Surely, the barge is not all alone out there.

Remember the Avatar? The 3 billion dollar movie? Well, I've stumbled upon the new Ghostbusters hope-to-be-a-reboot and that brought me to the original Ghostbusters movie and Sigourney Weaver. Checking up on her IMDB page, the first thing I see is this: Seriously??? Three movies in the "not even a franchise yet" franchise? Just to make it clear, pre-production means that the movie has received a go-ahead and is practically confirmed and the budget already is or is about to be allocated. It's not just some wishful thinking, planning and hoping by the producers. Yeah, sure, the profits from the first movie can easily finance these three, even with the production cost similar to the first one, but the business model of basically committing to this amount of work. Three??? Set to be released in ~one year intervals? And I didn't even like the first one that much.

Maybe that's where Lemony sources his story material - spam folder.

You just got on their mailing list. Their compliance with your request to be removed from the list is an evidence that they are at least a half decent business. Nigerian princesses looking for a soulmate to help them transfer 20 tons of gold dust out of their bedroom because their evil uncle (who became their guardian after their parents died in a horrible car accident) is trying to steal it... that's entirely different story. I used to chat with them. Once you get them off their script, they're quite fun to talk to.

You don't need a rotating seal. Use regular vacuum bearings and an airlock that is separated from both spinning and stationary sections. When you want to go from stationary to spinning section you uncouple the airlock from the stationary section and spin it up to match the rotating segment. Once the rotation is matched, you align and "dock" to the spinning segment.

There are much, much better examples out there. Check out 419eater

I don't see how. Even without calculation, the answer is an obvious "no", or at least there is a much more significant factor you're not thinking of. Just imagine doing a prograde burn of, let's say, 200 m/s dv from a LEO or LKO and mentally compare it with a 200 m/s dv burn in a much higher orbit. The difference in the change of areas is definitely not equal, not even remotely.

A copy paste from someplace.

I'm no xenobiologist, but I see no reason why a child growing up on a high g planet wouldn't cope just fine. If he's born there he would not need to adapt at all. Yes, perhaps he would start walking a bit later compared to little earthlings, but with proper nutrition his bones and muscles would work just fine. After all, the difference between astronauts returning to Earth after months at ISS and this scenario is quite large. Here we are talking about the increase in gravity by factor of 2. Returning to 1g from 0g is the increase by factor of... well, my mom told me to always eat my veggies and never to divide by 0.

I don't know where you got your animatter figure, but CERN has something to say about it. Yes, the article is a bit dated, but the ballpark is still applicable. http://angelsanddemons.web.cern.ch/antimatter/making-antimatter And that's not even going into the containment issue.

The items they show off do not demonstrate the information density they claim to have achieved. Writing the amount of data they claim to have written on the disk of that size is trivial. A consumer grade printer can do that easily.

Just oxygen deprivation from restricted circulation. While certainly not something that you should try to replicate, if you regained complete functionality and currently experience no pain or other discomfort (other than perhaps mild pain in shoulder/elbow from prolonged unnatural position and stress), there is no need for alarm. However, if there still is any discoloration of the skin and loss of functionality, then the medical professionals at the nearest ER should be the ones you talk to, not some random strangers on internet forums.

The claimed lifetime of 13,8 billion years sounds a lot like the age of the Universe, so my spidey sense is tingling. Also, the disks they show and claim to contain the Declaration of human right, Bible etc are actually quite pathetic demonstrations. The declaration is about 10 KB in size. The Bible, while bigger than the Declaration, can still fit on a floppy disk.

While I'm not a fan of their music, most of their videos are just awesome.

... when those ugly street lamps are not getting in your face.

I can't recommend anything, but reflectors are usually a lot less expensive than refractors for the same light gathering capability. However, refractors usually have better image quality. That being said, I doubt you can find anything new for $150 that would be half decent. Supermarket stuff is a waste of money. Take a look at the possibility of making the primary mirror yourself. That's the most expensive part of a reflector and actually can be done at home and very good quality is achiavable.

It's a macro tool. It can run automated task, record an replay mouse and keyboard activity, manipulate other program running on the computer etc. It's very powerful, yet relatively simple to use. It does require writing a small amout of code. You download the program, write your script and run it on your desktop. The code, as I imagine this approach, would every now and then check your dropbox folder and if there is anything in it, the script moves it to the KSP. There should be a logic check to make sure the script waits for the download to finish. Probably the simplest way would be to check the folder size and if there was no change for more than a few minutes, it goes ahead and moves the files.

AutoHotkey can do that quite easily. https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/FileMove.htm You'll need to write some simple logic to decide when to move the files (so they get moved only after the download is complete).

They also had a dedicated symbols for 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 etc.

There is no drag and drop interface for ship production as you would find in KSP. Everything is more of a textual interface with lists of stuff you have, need and can make. You can also steal stuff and sell at retail. Ships blow up when somebody destroys them. There is autopilot. You select a destination and the ship gets there. Yes, you can mine resources, attack other players and steal their stuff, do missions for NPCs, explore new regions, do salvage etc and earn ingame currency with which you can buy more play time. You need the client.

While I wouldn't call myself an expert, my job is to build a model railroad layout. That means I have to do various stuff like carpentry, modeling and painting, mechanical and structural engineering, electronics engineering etc. I also write a good deal of my own software that runs on embedded stuff that makes all the pretty lights blink. Before I got this job I trained for an air traffic controller and before that I studied mechanical engineering and transport and traffic sciences. Jack of all trades, master of none?

I've played for some time and EVE is a game extremely similar to the "ultimate sim/rpg game" I fantasized about years before EVE was a thing. Anyway, it is nothing like KSP, there is not a single aspect of it that connects these two games. Yes, even the space setting is vastly different. In EVE, physics and orbital mechanics are not simulated. You point your ship, push the GO button and you are speeding along. Jump gates connect different star systems. What I like about EVE is that is offers so many possibilities. The huge amount of items in game is mind boggling. Everything is connected in some way (you need this and that to build something else which you use to get something. The trade is (almost) exclusively driven by players. There is virtually no game system imposed price on anything, it's all about actual supply and demand. One downside is that the mechanics favor older players. Making stuff costs certain amount of other stuff. For example, the efficiency of refining ore is calculated in accordance with player skill (increased with time played), relation with the station owner, etc. Older players specializing in refining ore will always have an advantage and be able to produce more from the same amount of raw ore, consequently lowering the price of it, quite possibly below your profit margin. And final thing that is just beyond awesome are the rules. Pretty much everything is allowed except hacking. Cheating, fraud, backstabbing, treason.... heck, even destabilizing entire game economy is allowed. On one (or more) occasion, the developers actually restructured the servers to better handle the upcoming major event that wrecked havoc on one of the most important trade hubs. Thousands of players had their ships destroyed, prices of raw materials skyrocketed, and the devs actually supported such an event. Another thing is the game of chances and lotteries. Those things are allowed, even if you collect the money for the lottery tickets and run away without giving any prizes. It all allowed! Of course, it's also allowed for anybody that feels wronged to hunt you down and destroy your entire fleet if the feel like it.