Stargate525

Why would you want to? ...I mean, you're just doing an elaborate burn job on the stuff. For metals, that's a waste. For everything else... I mean, why not just setup near a volcanic pocket and make an incinerator?

If dV isn't an issue, I'd stick it into a sundiving polar orbit around the sun. There's not a ton of stellar astronomy that looks 'up' or 'down' to see it transit, you'll only get a solar pass very rarely (never, if you align the orbits properly) and it's not in a busy section of the system to attract attention.

It's Frankie Boyle, so no guarantees beyond 0:30

I would find it absolutely hilarious if the red-shift we see at very far distances is our simulation's equivalent of the floating point precision error.

Except that for the majority of beef farms (ie, cattle ranches), you CAN'T. very hilly areas, more arid land, a lot of those areas are where these ranches are. Grain farms there would require massive irrigation, annoying amounts of leveling the land, or both.

Which is irrelevant. If a billion years passed on the top simulation for the lowermost one to advance a second, how would we know or care? A universe ten orders of magnitude more complex than ours could very well be stable for the length of time needed to do this. Regarding storage, a sufficiently advanced society could run trinary programming by using positive/negative/neutral states of atoms to store data. doing this on a dense element such as gold would lead to massive storage arrays.

The base I'm building on my first captured asteroid is coming together nicely.

That's what I get for making assumptions. And I agree with you on principle. Heck, I'd like us to spend half the amount of money on NASA that politicians get running for office.

Yep. Good luck convincing the remnants of the Soviet High Command that the US had nothing to do with it. But honestly, 70% of our planet is covered in water. 3% of the planet is covered in what's classified 'urban.' The odds of major collateral damage are still very much in our favor.

It's also a LOT less demanding for raising. A strict plant-only farming scheme requires fertile soil. Most animals, however, will happily graze on scrub. It's why cattle ranching is huge in the southwest; not enough water for grains, but plenty for grazing. Add that to the fact that we have domesticated cattle, boars, chickens, sheep all to the point where they are almost incapable of survival in the wild... Paradoxically, to argue against their being eaten is almost to argue for their extinction. In the case of cattle, sheep, and chickens, we do get additional stuff from them. But chickens stop laying, cattle go past calving. Not eating them is simply a waste of a good amount of meat.

The other difference is that the IAS also gives you ASAS functionality, while the other only gives extra torque. Unfortunately, the only thing that is applicable on now is the command chair.

The argument I'd have against Zeus or any of the other ancient deities is 'if you want worshippers, and you have any influence on us at all, why is your religion extinct?'

'negligible' in terms of radiation typically means 'so small as we're not going to bother with the math on it.' You're probably talking about levels akin to an X-ray, eating a banana, or a few hours in the sun.

I think one of the best ways I'd be convinced (not that it would take a lot, since I'm already Christian) would be to have him tell me about some of my deepest fears and memories, things I've not only not told anyone, but would not tell anyone in an conceivable circumstances. Doesn't a belief that is held regardless of any conflicting evidence sort of count as a religion? So, those who say they could never accept a god... What does that make your atheism?

Bad idea. One astronaut loses his handhold, hits the envelope a little too hard, and there go the occupants of the bubble as well as hundred of cubic meters of your air supply. Metals thin enough to inflate are SUPER delicate; touching them too hard can make them rip. I assume the lead was to guard against radiation. You could simply inflate a standard inflatable module in the shade of whatever rad shield the main vessel has, or make a lead-filament cloth to inflate. Lets not forget sleigh bells and a harmonica on Gemini; and those were essentially large capsule-shaped spacesuits.

Eh. Probably not to the moon. People have already been there, so there's not much incentive to come in second place. The USSR didn't even want it. I could, however, see a manned race to Mars in our lifetime. Given NASA's budget and ability to keep a goal, my guess would be that the racers will be China, India, and some American corporation.

Yupyup. I'm currently building mine up, though I really need to get it off of a polar orbit...

aesthetics, size, part count...

This thing is AMAZING. SO helpful! Have some rep, and stars, and whatever else you want.

The biggest one I think I had was that for rendezvous, you burned towards your target. It took me a long time to figure out that, no, in a lot of places you'll get there faster if you burn away from the target. It took even longer for that stuff to become intuitive.

Actually... Yeah, I do.

I'll see if I can replicate the issue, document it, and bring the evidence. Be right back! EDIT: Okay, just did a rendezvous to attach some lighting pylons after I re-strutted the hab madule... And everything was right where I left it. Phooey!

Basically, yes. The end goal was to make it look like the various bits on the asteroid were bolted there a lot more firmly than their own claw. I was running a pipeline around its surface between my hab module and my power station, and had strutted the hab module to the asteroid. Nothing KAS was on the power station, and it was fine. When I got into range, the hab module had horizontally shifted perhaps ten or twenty feet, stretching the pipe and the struts. controlling the asteroid didn't cause any explosiveness, and detaching the claw broke the struts, but not the pipe.

Oh. Obviously. Thank you. They WERE docked together naturally. The asteroid was attached via claw. After that, I attached struts and pipes from the asteroid to the ship. This works ship-to-ship. Why is it not working asteroid to asteroid?

I've been using this mod to make my asteroid bases look a bit more anchored down. But, I came to my asteroid, and found one of my modules about twenty feet away, connected only by its (now insanely stretched) struts and pipes. The claw registers as still attached. What happened, and how do I prevent it from happening again?