Accelerando

A different geographic location is best, lets us specialize in producing different things. Greenland, North America area gives you Coal, Iron, and Uranium, which puts you in a good position to manufacture steel, so you can manufacture vehicles and some buildings more easily. National color gives you a certain bonus to national income based inversely on how many nations are invested in that color. You need to pick the alliance color to get any benefit when in an alliance, green for United Kerbals. Not sure how government affects stuff, tax rates? What you think? I'm Democracy, Socialist with avg tax rate 33% for comparison

Yes! Growing and maturing your nation and providing us with additional working stiffs human meatshields proud citizens and valiant defenders of home and country.

Things are calm, and Futuria and I are forging ahead. Alliance announcements seem to be dead, only higher-ups can use them. Anyone out there want to regroup? Belated congratulations, MGUARN. ^^

1kg payload to suborbital is indeed possible. if you had some millions of dollars to blow, you might be able to do JAXA one better than its first orbital rocket, the Lambda 4S, an all-solid fuel, 16.5m-tall, ~10-tonne rocket with a payload capacity of 26kg.

or you could consider that the OP probably meant that there must be a universe containing the Kerbol system. it's not that far of a step up intellectually from nitpicking about syntax indeed OP, if space is infinite and quantum mechanical uncertainty is true, then it's possible. here's hoping on the latter

I prefer the look of the rockomax parts on the exterior, personally - they feel as though they have a more crafted, "visceral" shape. The SLS parts indeed look smoother, more streamlined for spacecraft construction Something of a mix between the visible fuel tank rounded-ends on the SLS parts and the rockomax exteriors would be great

I use it for pretty much all maneuvers except fine docking and landing. That's the most interesting stuff to me.

with you on that one. technology looks cool too

you can also use regenerative cooling with cryogenic propellants. if you want hydrolox fuel for one, LH2 is a nice coolant. VTVL single-stage designs like phil bono's ROMBUS would have used regen cooling pumping LH2 through the aerospike plug during ballistic reentry.

on a more specific level, you can use electrical detectors to find bacteria that communicate, transport materials with electricity for one. bacteria living deep in the crust of a planet are likely to perform respiration by reacting metals in the absence of oxygen. this article's table on anaerobic respiration might be helpful.

As long as it goes beyond 50x, sign me up!

a lighthugger.

Ah - yes, that makes sense.

What marks the difference between local and global causality? For what observer is local defined here, or is this even a matter of observer, and what consequences does violating global causality have? If a warped vessel is able to, for example, near-instantly transport itself from here to α Cen with respect to observers on Earth, why won't it, if it doesn't, appear to be arriving around 4 years in the past relative to Earth? Or is this even the matter at hand?

yeah, a mirror sat is much more flexible.

mostly, coverage. a weapon can deorbit and strike a spot anywhere on the globe within a few hours. indeed irl though, probably wouldn't be a devastating weapon on the order of city destruction... real life kinetic impactors don't deal more damage than conventional explosives unless they're accelerated to greater than orbital velocity, and city destruction with ICBMs is cheaper than building orbital platforms. probably would carry conventional explosives, used for a fast strike to support other units or preemptively. in the days before nuclear weapons and transistor computers, space stations could be used for bombardment since they would be sort of hard to hit, anti satellite rockets wouldn't have been very accurate + cheap, and they could carry large computers or humans to carry out firing solutions.

this is a comprehension problem. relativity by itself does not strictly forbid moving faster than light, i.e., having a velocity > c relative to an observer outside the warp bubble. it does, as the document points out, prevent a massive object from accelerating faster than light. thus if your warp drive expands and contracts space such that you, in the bubble, stationary relative to that bubble, are apparently moving FTL with respect to observers outside, then that is effectively what you are doing, and that comes with all implications of causality violation, time travel etc. using the moving cars shortcut analogy, you're folding and stretching the road around you such that your car arrives at the destination point at an apparent velocity of 60mph rather than 30mph by conventionally driving down the same road. thus you are not moving any faster relative to your own little stretch of ground that is not being folded, but relative to everything else, you are still moving 2x faster than via normal road.

"We will not go quietly into the night!"

yus! and while you're at it, make sure the referendum includes provisions for providing every major city with its own ridiculously huge skyscraper pyramid and that's a future we can all believe in

that's byoutiful. * 3 *

truth. there's my flaw ^^ sorry truth. there's no vocal movement for it afaik aside from in science fiction books like Charles Stross's work where timescales are counted in kilo, mega, gigaseconds etc. not much traction, indeed as for the nation things, unanimity, yes, it would require overcoming many diplomatic and cultural challenges, and ensuring democratic participation and lack of corruption, which for some countries would be a cultural transformation in itself, perpetrated by who-knows-who, edit along with some better way to normalize voting power. however, this is already a hypothetical case where it would be actually worthwhile to make this shift for economic reasons, so it's already pretty removed from reality ^^

realism seems to be defined for some as "static unfun nothing ever changes in it that ever makes it more interesting than bideo games" i love realism. i love consistent mechanics and laws of physics that agree with reality. it's not unrealistic to assume that inconceivable-sounding changes can occur in the future, or in another universe where the laws of physics of physical constants are different. why can't ksp universe be another universe as has been repeatedly said by novasilisko? a universe where the physics realistically allow for bug-eyed little green men with little rockets blasting off a sub-pluto-size planet with 1g surface gravity... personally i'd love to see the physical laws of ksp fleshed out and explored to their logical extremes, or else continuously remodeled and revamped until we get a universe that under current models can afford for the "unrealistic" elements we do see

truth. requiring an update of all records currently used for stuff not sure. other nations seems like a reasonable starting point - if, say, hypothetically it came down to a global semi-popular vote, with each country serving in the role of kind of "senator", so pure population numbers don't factor in as much. maybe a unanimous vote would be required. true it would encourage short term debate, but in the long term may be less divisive should it come to pass; as for it to do so it will require all nations to agree on the standard. what do you think? although yeah, you can just gibber about it with big capital letters too.

and if you do, choose "merge files" if possible. or look in the mod's gamedata folder for the mod-specific folder. usually has the modder's name, and inside may be folders like Parts, Plugins, PluginData, Flags, and others. then • copy that into your kspfolder\gamedata

yes! you render mars oceans wonderfully. like i could go there now and wade on the shores of a rust-stained beach, barbecue with some friends, shivering in the chilly air of the thickening atmosphere at such great distance from the sun. love how there are no land plants either. just a barren desert with sea bearing the distant promise of life.