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Hadfield could give some really valuable input on space stations and the uses for them in the game (especially career mode, we really need some use for space stations in career mode!)

It should come from the community not from the devs. I've rather have them spend time on the game than on videos. Besides that, I love the little videos by Squad, if we have them every week I think I'll get bored with it. Now its still cool "Woohoo Squad has a new KSP video! Can't wait to see it!"

A lot of astronauts started painting after their missions. It would be so cool if an astronaut would paint / design some flags for KSP.

Do you think it might be possible for Squad to send a gift code to Mr Kuipers? After all he did in some way had a lot of input into the game. I would like to clear some air. During my Q&A with Mr Kuipers I had a very brilliant question. the subject of the conferance was "Taking responsibility" and my question was about taking the responsibility of safe space flights which are maintained by private company's. Company's who's first objective is profit. SpaceX might be capable of launching stuff cheaply but if it leaves lots of debris in space, it might have a bad side (Kessler). all with all, I'd like to know if more space people play KSP. I've read an article (which was featured on these boards) that it is a popular game in JPL. And Scott Manley played the game with an astronaut. But it would be so cool if an real life astronaut played the game out of its own!

Ik zit niet in Utrecht op school maar woon er wel in de buurt (Harderwijk, iets meer dan een half uurtje trein). Ik zou graag mijn liefde voor KSP en ruimtevaart met andere delen. Ik weet vanuit mijn school / studievereniging in Zwolle ook andere KSP fans die dat ook wel zien zitten.

I emailed him the link to the game when I got home. Might even buy him a copy of the game for him.

You just made my day even more complete!

Today I was invited to join a few masterclasses given by the top of the Dutch military army. And one of the key note speaks today was Dutch expedition 30/31 astronaut Andre Kuipers. After his talk there was time to ask questions to the speaker via an open mic. this was my chance to talk to an real life astronaut so I did. the subject was taking responsibility and I asked him a very clever question on the responsibility of commercializing manned space programs. He gave a long answer on how these company's and talked some about opening the first Dragon capsule at the ISS (He was aboard during the test dragon berthing). After my question I was asked if I had another question. I kinda lost track of where I was and asked Andre if he was familiar with or even played Kerbal Space program. After the question I heard a few laughs, a "yeah!" and some applause behind me. but to bad. Andre Kuipers didn't knew the game .

I'm more of a realist. Everything must have an end. Humanity, the Earth, our sun. You name it. So in that I'm pessimistic. Yet the moment it will happen (and how) I'm realistic about. I do not see humanity destroying itself anytime soon. Those days are in uor past. Evidenced by the fact that the doomsday clock is slowly turning back. We do still have the arms to do it. and Iran is currently trying to build the A-bomb. But the big treats of using them is over us. the biggest risks of our demise are either being hit by something big from outer space. Or a pandemic like the plague. The first problem does have some hypothetical solutions but these do depend mostly on the the space monster hitting us or rely on technology still in its infancy. Luckily the NEAR program is scanning the skies and non sciency news agents also report on asteroids close-by. This might help to generate funds to develop plans for when things do go wrong. My biggest fear is a pandemic. The plague cut 1/3th of the European citizens in a time with limited travel possibilities. Nowadays we can fly between all the continents within a day!

No fatalities but the Russian space program had a lot of errors. Poisonous gasses leaking into the crew areas. Failure to reach orbit. failure to separate the service modules fromt he descent capsules. And when you read about MIR. It's a small wonder nobody died in that thing. Fire. collisions, power surges...

More Soyuz. I love the Soyuz rocket. It just has this majestic look.

That is lovely!

Because people are stupid. Most people don't know jack about how a nuclear reactor works or what radiation exactly is. And nobody really cares to find out. When you ask a common anti-nuclear activist to tell how a nuclear reactor works you'll get an answer in the line of "Well uhh... uhh... It gives you cancer... And cancer is bad.". The big problem for people is the atomic bomb. Even though it functions in a completely different way than a nuclear reactor people know the A-bomb is nuclear. And during the cold war people got really afraid of the A-bomb. (and who shouldn't be scared we had/have enough ammunition totalled to kill the world 3 times over). In fact. Yesterday I learned that the biggest demonstration ever in my home country (The Netherlands) was against the storage of atomic bombs on Dutch soil. When you mention nuclear power a simple peoples mind goes like this : Nuclear reactor = nuclear Atomic bomb = nuclear Atomic bomb = bad Nuclear reactor = bad Then there is also Chernobyl. We could have a long big discussion about the Chernobyl reactor (and I would love to read / contribute to it). But the only reason the accident happened was because of mismanagement and poor construction. But this made people even more scared of nuclear power. This is still a recent happening, in the fact that when I was a baby my parent's where told by our government not t feed kids from home grown crops because they could be contaminated by the radioactive cloud comming over Europe. Whether they are right or not. This scared a lot of mothers / caring parents of radioactive reactors. What might be a little point of light for reactors is Fukushima. I know that went terribly wrong during the 2011 Earthquake / Tsunami. But to date no one died of the effects of the meltdown / radioactive leak. Granted that Tepco currently has a lot of problems cleaning it up. But for such a unique situation, Who would do well? But also Fukushima is plagued with misinformation. The spend fuel rods are being stored in water containers. This is just like normal reactors do because water is quite the isolator. Yet people misread this and think Tepco is poring 'radioactive' into the sea. And also the media keeps reporting Fukushima as 1000 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb. No it's not as powerful as a weapon! It's like comparing the power from your microwave to that of an handgun. Long story short. Radioactive stuff is really complicated and people do not want to learn complicated things.

Errr wrong. We (probably) have the knowledge to send humans to Mars. We know the problems and know how to tackle them. What we don't have is the technology. Currently the only human rated spacecraft is the Soyuz TMA. What also lacks is the financial support. Mars-one has quite a bit of money from the applicants and donations. But still nowhere near the amount needed for missions to Mars (and the management and support for such missions).

both of which do not exist yet. And the Falcon heavy is capable of sending a payload of 13tonnes to Mars. Which is about half the weight of the Apollo spacecraft...

For me, the main reason I like space science is because it utilizes rockets. The most powerful transport vehicle ever build. Most guys drool over the power of a luxury sports car with posters of Ferari/Porche and whatnot on their wall. Well we KSP players drool in the same way over rockets. so lets share the most beautiful pictures of rockets in this thread to drool over! I'll start with some legendary pics. Apollo 11. This is my favourite Apollo picture (Well Except for the EVA pics) Apollo 17. The only night launch. I love how bright it is. Space shuttle Columbia STS 1. Freedom 7 on an Redstone Friendship 7 on an Atlas booster. Voyager 2 on a Titan. The rocket just yells POWERRRRRRRR A lovely image of Columbia during ascent on it's tragic mission STS 10 Soyuz! I am just in love with its looks. If I where a rocket this is the kind of girl-rocket I would fall in love with. Engines! Powerful engines!

Maybe make it a hot Jupiter like planet? That would be col for science!

Well I kinda like this thread after all it came from me. (woohoo).

the only benefit of a moon shuttle is the re usability that it might bring. But as the Space shuttle program showed that is very hard to achieve when calculating the economics of such an endeavour.

One of the most popular paradoxes do not apply to computers. At least this is my interpretation. ->This sentence below this one tells the truth ->The sentence above this one lies For us this is impossible because both meanings conflict. But a computer doesn't care about the meaning of the first sentence when it is computating the second. It just accepts the order to regard the first one as a lie. It does not care about it's content.

Last time I saw him he was heading towards the Munar surface with something like 250 M/S. with an empty lander...

Yesterday at my study :

I made a little story about the passing of John Glenn on NYE. Might be a bit unrealistic but I liked it. You can change it to Glenn dying in 2015 is preferred.

Torchwood was actually the working title for the new series to keep the revival a surprise. But RTD liked the word so much he included it in the series and even became an spin-off.