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It works because I'm not a dirty cheater.

I simulate mould growth by randomly deleting vessels from my persistence file. If you don't, you're cheating.

Seventy percent!?! My gods. The USA really does have a massive obesity epidemic.

Or just a misunderstanding. @AngelLestat: So far you haven't given any citations or references. Those would be helpful. Otherwise all you're saying is supposition.

Protanopia/deuteronopia? Give me a few minutes. I'll work on screenshot for you that should work. Edit: Here you go. The red satellites should show as a blue-ish hue. I adjusted the green ones so they should be more contrasty. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5296507/WebGL_Globe_protanopia-safe.png It should work for almost all colour-blindness types except the monochromatic ones. I wish there was a clear indication of who made that map. I would give them a stern talking-to when it comes to presenting data using colour.

Relevant: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Ground_Systems_Engineering/ESA_Space_Debris_Office Also, holy crap, that's a lot of crap we threw up there. O.O

TweakableEverything has a dll (TweakableStaging.dll) that adds a ModuleStagingToggle module that makes this trivial.

No one can help you without details and logs.

Because they don't use EC. This is explained on the wiki. And in the OP. O.o

Except hydrogen really is everywhere. It's practically in everything. The earth is full of it. I'd take a guess that NFUN was kidding. At least I hope they were kidding. Fusion reactors don't blow-up. Depending on the type and the fuel being used they could spread some nasty radioactive material if they were violently destroyed, but blowing-up? Not likely. And nuclear fission reactors (which are the ones portrayed in the image) don't explode like that either. Meltdown, sure. Have the reactor housing crack and even violently explode outward because of extreme heat inside (and the subsequent vaporization of water), sure. But not explode in a fireball.

It's not more likely to happen, it's going to happen. Even if we stop new/extra launches completely, we've already reached a point where we absolutely need active management of orbital debris to prevent the catastrophic effect of Kessler syndrome. If we keep launching as many objects as we do right now, it'll be bad, and increasing numbers of launches would be even more catastrophic. http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2013/04/The_Space_Debris_Story_2013 http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Ground_Systems_Engineering/ESA_Space_Debris_Office

Try Firefox too just for good measure. And then try using Spybot S&D. That's just strange.

Fair enough. Maybe Europa could shed more light on that. I really wish we were sending even more probes out that way.

It's still around, and is a good option for those who want to build things in space but don't necessarily want to deal with the piles and piles of other stuff that comes with ExPL (like Kethane, ore, metal, smelting, etc.). http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/56140-0-23-5-Orbital-Construction-Re-Redux-v1-1-1

I believe the original run of Cosmos covered that somewhat. It's possible to generate organic matter from inorganic matter under the right conditions (conditions similar to what we think the Earth was like some few billion years ago). How that ever got around to actual cellular life might've been dumb luck. All you really need to get that started is some lipids, and some other parts to hang-out and operate inside those lipids.

If I were you I'd just persistence edit one of its EC storage parts and give it some absurd amount of EC storage. The problem is caused by something that's going to be fixed in the next version, not by design.

My prescription: Some philosophy courses. If it can't be proven through rational argument, it doesn't really matter that whatever it is is right or wrong, there's no logical way to prove why it is so. Conclusions without support have as much substance as arguments without reason. Basic epistemology would show you that there are ways to build knowledge from a basis of reason. Glossing-over Socrates, are we? Medieval Europe didn't have the monopoly on the world's knowledge. Hell, I get cranky about it, and such don't even badger me that often. Although Jehovah's Witnesses do tend to be on my way to the grocery store. That's always good for some amusement. O.o

I was kidding! Mostly. *hem*

I dunno. It needs more mega. Can you add more mega?

Sure, if the victim is a girl. If you're a boy, SUCK IT UP MISTER. No, I'm not jaded because of my childhood experiences with an educational system that quite literally justified its inaction because of my gender. -.-

A minute of searching turned-up exactly the opposite: "Women generally have lower body weight and organ sizes, and a higher percentage of body fat.4, 6" - http://www.womenshealthresearch.org/site/PageServer?pagename=hs_healthfacts_dat (Retrieved 25-May-2014) 4. Rademaker M. Do women have more adverse drug reactions? Am J Clin Dermatol. 2001;2(6):349-351. 6. Meibohm B, Beierle I, Derendorf H. How important are gender differences in pharmacokinetics? Clin Pharmacokinet. 2002;41(5):329-342. Women don't have pride? What in the world gave you that idea? Same as above, I'm having trouble thinking of where you got that idea. Maybe, but again, no citation so one can dismiss this out-of-hand. In fact, it seems women are far more likely to have mood disorders. Technically, you haven't provided any supporting information. From the papers I've seen on the topic, most suggest that there is some slight biological reason for women tending to live longer. In fact the statistical evidence points to men dying much faster for pretty much any health concern. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/health30a-eng.htm (Odd that this country has a Minister on the Status of Women to presumably advocate for women's issues exclusively, and no such department in government pointing-out this massive gap in deaths that affects men.) I hope you aren't suggesting that that should be the state of affairs. It may well be socially acceptable to toss men into the meat grinder of a war but anathema to do so with a woman, but that doesn't mean it's right or just. Nor is it really a biological reason for the difference, but a social one. (Given the OP, social inequities are indeed within the scope of the thread.) Given that there is clear evidence that men die at far higher rates than women, I would argue it is fundamentally unjust for a society to preferentially support the health of women, which is, unfortunately, exactly what is happening in a few societies, like Canada (with the Minister on the Status of Women, who also has the authority to block inter-ministerial communications that would elucidate this issue here), or Sweden (which has arguably gone off the deep end in this regard, with even so much as the suggestion that there may be differences between men and women being thoroughly squashed). This isn't an answer. All it amounts to is "Men die sooner because testosterone." It's not an argument. It's barely even a sentence.

Neat. So once those struts are staged, they disappear right? No extraneous part count? (Yes, I'm a little OCD about part counts.) I haven't played with the struts yet but do they have a Disable Staging tweakable? That'd be...nice. Avoid staging spam, just assign them to an action group instead.

Huh. Well, there you go. Cheaper ways to space in our future. Maybe when I'm old and grey we'll be at a point where I could get myself launched into space to die. That'd be fun...I think. Just as long as I have a kill switch. Nice, giant dose of morphine would do.

To say nothing of mach tuck. -.- I recently put together a plane that takes a nosedive whenever it goes through transonic speeds. The simulator pointed toward the problem; I should've trusted it. *grumblemuttermutter*

SpaceX is pretty darn cool, in that they've basically made a tall pointy object take-off and then land again with thrust from the bottom. It's like the spacey-gigantic-rocket-explody equivalent of balancing a broom on your hand...with more explody. StarTram is a nifty idea if you have lots and lots of electrical power available for cheap. Fusion power would be an obvious candidate if it can be made to work, fission a decent second.