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Food and drinks? Assuming these aliens eat actual food instead of consuming some sort of nutrient fluid or something.

Not me. I have an i7 2600k running at 4.6 GHz and it's still working great. I couldn't afford a new CPU anyway, especially since I'd need to get a new motherboard and a new cooler as well.

Waitbutwhy has an interesting article on this: What Makes You You? The continuity thing seems logical. As long as the "old you" doesn't cease to exist before the "new you" is created, that "new you" is still you. The system would assemble the "new you" at the destination before disassembling the "old you" at the origin, thus maintaining continuity. This brings its own problems, though. First, you'd be in two places at once, and then you'd die and not die at the same time. It might be a rather disturbing experience, I'm not sure you'd be able to handle it without some serious mental training.

8/10, looks interesting. Providence class freighter from EVE Online (it's a lot bigger than you think - nearly 2.5 kilometers long):

Kerbals can too! They just have to do it at night

Because gliding is a ridiculously efficient and cheap way to fly. Modern gliders can easily achieve ranges of over 2000 kilometers with a single launch, and you only have to pay a few dozen bucks for an aerotow or a winch launch and that's it. Do the same trip in an average single engine piston prop airplane (Cessna 152, 172 etc) and it'll probably end up costing more than $250.

Both. /stuffandthings

Done what, exactly? Long burns with a low TWR spacecraft? If so, I've done that quite often. My standard interplanetary transfer maneuver for such things is as follows: 1) Timewarp until a few days before the actual transfer window 2) Initial burn at the correct spot to increase eccentricity so I'll have a reference point for subsequent burns, and to make sure I'll eject at roughly the correct angle. 3) 4, 6 or 8 minute burns at PE to raise AP. Burn duration depends on altitude of PE (since long burns can take you on a trajectory through the atmosphere if you're not careful). From here on it's just like any other transfer.

Kubuntu. I've been using it for ages. Currently rocking Kubuntu 15.04 as the primary OS on my laptop and as the secondary OS on my desktop (because glorious 64bit KSP), with Win10 as the primary.

That is not true. With a standard ceiling height of 2.4 meters, the 5x5x5 km cube would have 5000 m / 2.4 m = ~2083 floors and a total floor area of 2083 * 5 km * 5 km = ~52000 km^2. Even with the population density of Tokyo (~6000 people per square km) it would only have enough room for a bit over 300 million people. And remember, this is assuming 100% of the station's floor area can be used for habitation. In reality, that is not possible because a significant fraction of the available space is taken up by station systems, transportation, medical facilities, stores, parks, schools, you name it. E: Well, it would be possible, but considering the above you'd probably need a population density 4, 5 or even 6 times that of Tokyo in order to fit a billion people in there, and it certainly wouldn't be comfortable.

This is stupid. I don't know about you, but if I was a terrorist, I'd probably try to make my bomb look like anything but a bomb and avoid showing it to anyone... Everyone's so paranoid nowadays that only an idiot would build a "hollywood bomb" hoping people are like "dude, nice replica, it looks exactly like the bombs you see on movies".

One of them is probably out of operation for some reason, but using the other outboard reverser isn't worth the hassle of dealing with asymmetric thrust when the runway is long enough. Also, MOAR AIRLINERS! Boeing 737-600. I just love its unique looks. It's so short and stubby, and so ridiculously low! They actually had to use specially designed CFM56's - ones with a smaller fan diameter and the gearbox mounted on the side instead of under the engine - just to make it fit under the wing. That's what gives the intake its cool non-circular shape. Another fun little detail on the 737 series is the way the main landing gear works, there are no doors so you can still see the sides of the wheels when they're in the retracted position! And look at the size of that vertical stabilizer compared to the rest of the plane, it's HUGE!

MD-11(F). Too bad they only use them as freighters now, I always wanted to fly on one

I think electronic warfare and lasers would be the most likely options, at least for long range engagements. Projectiles should be sufficient for short range battles (a few thousand kilometers). One of the railguns developed by the US Navy could (theoretically) fire a 1 gram projectile at 230 km/s.

Can't you just use a group of multiple smaller spacecraft that only carry mirrors and whatever optics they need to reflect that light to yet another spacecraft that carries the actual camera? We can hit a mirror on the moon with a laser beam (sure, it's over 6km wide when it hits, but still - it's nearly 400k km away) so surely it would be possible to reflect an image to a target a few dozen or hundred kilometers away...? Upgrading it would be a matter of launching more mirror craft or swapping the camera craft for one with better equipment. For stereoscopic images, you'd just launch more than one of these groups and position each one at a lagrange point.

Not yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if I met one after I (hopefully) start my uni studies next year. I'm applying for the third largest university in the country. Roughly 75% of its 19000 students are in one of the 4 schools of science and technology (school of science, school of engineering, school of electrical engineering, school of chemical technology), all located on the same campus, so there should be plenty of people who have at least heard of KSP

I've also somehow managed to avoid getting in any serious accidents during the 18 months I've had my licence. The worst thing I've had happen to me was accidentally reversing into our mailbox, leaving a dent on the rear fender. It wasn't that bad, but fixing it turned out to be surprisingly expensive because the fender is part of the pillar structure located above the side windows so nearly half of the car's left side had to be repainted. I've had lots of near misses though, not only with other cars but also with pedestrians and bicyclists.

£120 is a lot of money when you have no idea if the expansions will be any good. The lifetime expansion pass is definitely a no-go for me. I'll wait until people start making reviews and then buy expansions one by one if they seem to be worth the money.

Just put the lid on (if you have one, otherwise cover it with plastic wrap so bugs can't get in) and leave it outside for a few hours.

Vacuum cleaner pls. It makes lots of noise so it must be powerful!

You got one part of that wrong - the GE90 is only used on 777's. You must be thinking of the GEnx (which is based on the GE90) - that's the engine they use on the 747-8.

I would've used Linux but my mouse doesn't work with it so I'm stuck with Windows. Thank goodness they're finally solving the RAM problem.

ASUS Nvidia GTX 970.

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