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There's no way this is an MMU. It has well over 1,000 m/s dV in her. I hate to say it, but it's actually too good to be an MMU. I could do a Minmus landing with this MMU I bet.

Well, ARM is known widely for low-power and x86_64 for high-performance. The only thing's we've seen as far as mobile phones go are x86 processors and ARM processors... I think a middle ground is what we could really put to good use. However, processors like the Tegra 3 & 4, in my opinion, show an entirely new concept: High-power cores to do the heavy lifting, paired with a more basic low-power core to do things like play music.

If I'm not mistaken most of the Soyuz accidents were early on. Additionally, the Columbia disaster can be blamed by NASA not testing the environmentally-friendly foam they switched to for the possibility of it damaging the shuttle when it impacts it at high velocities. On an much less serious sidenote, it may be a good idea if NASA stopped having ship names begin with the letter "C".

This sounds interesting. It will definitely be something we'll be seeing in the many IVA-only videos floating around

I found that if you detach, rotate the plane so that pitching up changes your heading, turn on SAS, and do so, you have an infiniglider.

A very interesting post. I hope Humanity in the future will appreciate the time capsule, assuming it survives.

As long as they ensure that some survive to reproduce, I have no personal issue with it.

I built a whole new machine for $1,500-ish, but I did overpay. I used some server-class high performance HDDs and other things... I had built one 2 years ago, but I really had no idea what I was doing then. Since this build is for $1,000, Intel is not your best option. Intel is your best option if you have a high budget ($1,500+) or if processing power is what you really need. Since this isn't a high-budget build (by my terms) I'd suggest the AMD FX-8350. It's easily overclockable, features 8 cores, and is actually has one of the best power:price ratios of any medium-high end processor on the market today. It's $200 at most places right now. As far as graphics goes, AMD recently released their new R7 and R9 series lines back in November. I picked up the R9-280X which cost me $300. I suggest the Radeon HD 7870, which costs $190. This has a pretty good power:price ratio (according to benchmarks) and is likely being phased out to an extent due to the new line, so that should drop a bit more. In the end, though, it really depends on what you're going for. If you want a 1,000 part ship to run on 4x time acceleration, go with Intel's flagship i7, and a lower-end graphics card. Perhaps you're tired of seeing polygons in higher-end games and want to dump more money into graphics. Here's how I see it: $300- PSU, Case, RAM, HDD, Motherboard (if you get the right ones) $600- Processor/Graphics Card. Balance these however you want. $100- Windows 7/8 (Or transfer it elsewhere if you're using Linux!)

I'd store it all on some inexpensive 1 Terabyte hard disks. It would take a lot and wouldn't be stable for more than a few decades, but it doesn't need to be. What I'm putting on the face of every planet, asteroid, and moon I can get a probe to, is a symbolic message detailing two things, using the Milky Way galaxy as reference: when to find the hard disks, and where. They could undoubtedly carbon-date the probe that inscribed it, and use that to figure out where to go. These inscriptions would be massive, kilometers wide and deep, to ensure that they will likely survive the coming years. In orbit around each of these celestial bodies, at the geostationary (if possible) orbit above the site where the engravings are, is a probe, much smaller, but with the exact same information inscribed within. You really don't need to store the data, but how, where, and when to access it.

Comedic solutions: 1. Send our best actors (William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, etc.) from space shows in a modified Soyuz towards our impending doom-inducer, leading all of mankind's nuclear explosives capable of making the journey, on a mission to blow the sun up/detonate the weapons to attempt to push the sun away. 2. Split the Earth in two with surgical nuclear detonations in the deep mantle, leaving one half to be destroyed. 3. Become a cargo hauler on the ship and sneak into a container Actual solution that nobody will really complain about: take lots of human DNA and send nuclear-powered probes on long journeys to habitable planets far, far away. These devices will then use chemicals to synthesize human DNA (stored in memory banks) then inject it into some cells that were in cryogenic storage, to grow humans the ship would raise, and train in survival and life skills, as well as human history and culture. The probe would be massive, perhaps 30 feet in radius and 100 feet long, to store all this complex equipment and resources, as well as machines the soon-to-be colonists will use. It would also have automated child-raising equipment and videos, as well as a massive database of humanity's knowledge. Surely these probes would be cheaper than sending what, billions of tons into space? These ships I am suggesting would be mass-produced, taking a variety of human DNA samples, to be stored in electronic form. It is also possible that, instead of synthesizing the DNA, that single-celled human zygotes be produced and cryogenically frozen. For those of you who don't know, cryogenic freezing is a process that involves replacing your blood with cryogenic fluids, then freezing you, the cryogenic fluids not containing water, as to prevent your cells from bursting when frozen. This process has not been tested on humans, but a dog was successfully frozen, then brought back to life, undamaged, some time ago. Anyhow, hundreds or perhaps thousands of these probes would be sent out to various planets, each containing information stating where the others are headed, and what fate befell their home planet. Perhaps this technique should be used for colonizing other worlds today, as all the technology needed is present.

Drunkrobot provides a very good point: Static electrically-induced attraction could allow artificial gravity to an extent. This does sound highly impractical, as you'd need to insulate all devices to ensure that when you touch the main computer console you don't destroy everything. I think that if we could generate massive amounts of static electricity, and some clothing that is attracted to it (It's not so bad, we can all wear jumpsuits similar to those worn by modern-day astronauts). I think the lack of gravity acting on cargo would be a nice thing, making it easy to move, among other things. But I am still in favor of centrifugal force. Most "aliens" fly rapidly-rotating saucers, so I guess we can actually take a hint from fictional science (something that's happened a lot, actually) and make ships with artificial gravity in mind, and thus saucer-shaped. Launching them, though, would be an issue.

No, no... the Kraken will likely live forever. It's like computer bugs. Fix one and two more pop up.

Yes... I need to somehow decide how to open/close parentheses in a sentence. (Maybe 2 special words for this)? As I said, it's a big WIP. However, I believe there needs to be a version of English without any confusing rules.

Now I really don't see how nobody has brought this to the world's attention. I see(not) how entity(none, plural) bring(past-tense) to world(population, possessive) attention. (The above sentence isn't properly processed by me, and as a result isn't in the language's current format) The second line is a WIP of the language I've created, called Metrified English (the name is also a WIP). What I fail to understand is how for so long we have used this illogical language called English. Ride => Rode (for past tense) Bike => Biked (Should be boke, if you applied the same logic used in ride) There's a lack of simple rules in modern-day English. But if you know some French like I do, you'll find there are a lot of flaws there as well (I believe the rules in French are even harder to grasp), such as having to write/pronounce a word a certain way based upon if you're addressing a friend, a parent, using the pronouns you, he/she, and we, etc. Rules like these are simple not needed. With my language design, you don't have prefixes or suffixes, mostly what I call "daughter definers" (a temporary name as well). Below are a few examples. The top is in English, and the bottom in my variant. I liked red apples very much. I like(past; very) apple(plural; red) You'll see that adverbs and adjectives are included with the words they describe or enhance. This is similar to French, how some adjectives follow after the noun. You'll also see that you no longer need to know all the potential future/past tense forms of a word, something very tedious to learn otherwise (like when to add -ed, has, etc.). I have also replaced all timing things with the words present, past, and future. These words themselves can be modified, should you want, to clarify. I will walk my dog in 10 minutes. I walk(future(10 minutes)) dog(I). You'll notice here dog(I). The I shows that the dog belongs to you. When clarifying details you use the following order, abandoning whatever details you do not want or are not needed: (Ownership; Tense; Adjectives/Adverbs). This is a quick language I threw together that's based upon English and I imagine can be learned in less than 1/4 of the time due to it's simpler rules and strictly logic-based structure. What do you all think of it? What rules should be changed?

Being American, I'd bring back the Constellation project and ultimately make a self-sufficient Moon colony, both a valuable asset for pride and nationalism but also necessary for future missions. Launching rockets from Earth is extremely expensive, but now if we would gather ores from the Moon, even via automated robots, and build rockets, it would be an investment that would pay for itself quickly. The Moon should be what all our eyes are set on, not Mars. Besides, Helium 3 is there, which is a valuable commodity on it's own.

On the bright side, give it another 50 years after the Chinese Moon landings and they'll surrender on the Moon as well. (reference to the American flags on the Moon being bleached white by the sun)

TI-84 Plus Silver Edition. She's easy to program and compatible with the most applications. I program games using the Axe assembler on her. She's the successor to the TI-83 /TI-83+/TI-83+SE, one of the most popular lines of all time. But under no circumstances get the TI-84 C Silver Edition, which has a color screen, because supposedly it's horribly slow. Most math students use the TI-83+ as it is. I personally have a TI-83+, TI-84+SE, and TI-Nspire CX CAS, the CX CAS being the most advanced calculator on the market, being so advanced it is banned on the ACT. It can even have Wifi through an addon module.

Remember that Scramjets rely upon extremely high input air speeds, after all there are essentially no moving parts in the combustion chamber. I can't find any numbers right now, but you'll probably need more than 300 m/s to start it, not to mention a higher altitude. I do definitely think Maglev launches are the future.

We need to change the foam, for one. When the Columbia disaster happened, NASA insisted it was not the foam, even though they had absolutely no evidence. Then, when they shot foam at hundreds of miles per hour at the wing of the shuttle, they found that the foam was what was to blame for the destruction of the shuttle and the loss of her crew. The bigger problem isn't even the shuttle itself. What we need to stop doing is grounding it whenever it decides to fail on us. There are going to be at least a few thousand more deaths in space that are very much mandatory so that humanity can learn how to safely travel in space. For example, if a 747 had an engine failure and crashed today, you wouldn't see air traffic controllers scrambling to get every 747 around the world out of the air. The same should apply to NASA. For example, back when there were a lot more test flights, you had more than a 30% chance of not coming back from such a flight. But a lot of those deaths were necessary. For example, we learned that (if I recall correctly) a sonic boom forms at the edge of your horizontal stabilizer and works its way back to your ailerons. Lessons like this are ones that have to be learned, and can only be learned by taking risks. Safety is not an option, especially in space. Back in 1492 Columbus knew he took a big risk when he went searching West. Pioneers like him, knowing full well that they're likely to not come back, are what we need in space. People like him, specifically in the daring aspect, truly have the "right stuff"

Well... Decelerating relative to Kerbin's rotation. But once you completely counteract it it'll be accelerating again.

1. To them, you're the nut. 2. They'll just say Jade Rabbit is staged as well. ---- How about paying them to send the conspiracy theorists to the Moon to see for themselves?

This is quite a good question. I believe only a time machine could hope to figure it out. That said, if it didn't exist we couldn't be asking. So it's possible the Universe is actually in it's infancy compared to.... erm... whatever you'd call the vast nothingness before it. Perhaps this is a universe created from a white hole (the hypothetical opposite of a black hole, spewing out time and space and matter) that came from another universe's black hole. Because of this, it's very much possible that there is evidence of something far different than a big bang in the other universe, whether it be a god entity, we do not know. It's also possible that the same idea of the evidence not being in our universe could apply to the fact that we could be a computer simulation to begin with, and that the real evidence lies in our creator's, that is to say, the beings that host us, universe. Amazingly mind-boggling.

Hey there, new CM! A few things you don't need to bother telling Squad.... -We want Multiplayer -We want multithreading Anyhow, I can't wait to see how you can help coordinate between Squad and the community! You should stop by the Science Labs sometime, there's always cool discussions going on there...

It would be amazing if they had a 24/7 live feed from the rover's cams when it gets there. Who wouldn't want to pay several hundred thousand dollars, plus a massive deposit, to rent a Moon rover? 3:20 made me think the Chinese had stolen our Sojouner rover plans...

18 months ago I built my first rig, using fairly cheap components. A few weeks ago I built a new one, with dual HDDs utilizing 2 6 Gb/s SATA ports. The saddest thing to know is that I love portability, and nobody has made a laptop designed to hold removable components. The best you can upgrade is the CPU, HDD, or RAM. If they made a laptop with a full PCIE port, I'd be in love.