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Chuck Yeagerr, first man to break the sound barrier. Even though he had his arm busted and had to fly this weird contraption called the Bell X-1

Ahh I had so much fun in the previous thread researching current missions to add to the timeline. Made some guesstimates on the current missions (like Hubble and Oppy). I'll add some more ESA / Indian / Chinese mission timelines

Stick. Definitely stick.

the only release date known is that every time someone asks when a new version will come out the release date is being hold back 1 day.

What strikes me the most in this series is how whiney the developers where. But it sure is good to see how much software development has benefited from the program.

also, the modules in KSP have their centre of gravity (CoM) in the middle, this makes it impossible to skip.

I love re entry in the DG-IV. That lovely autopilot to manage your angle of attack. On the left MFD is surface. Than the board computer switching between the heat information and the AOA info. And on the right MFD the map in groundtrack mode.

Re entry phase is a really cool part of spaceflight. It is difficult to predict, there are lots of variables and it goes really fast. It annoys me that KSP doesn't have a realistic atmosphere.

I'm really exited to find out how he fits into the story. The most simple explanation would be that he is the doctor in between the movie and the resurrection fo the series. The doctor that ended the time war by commiting genocide. It would explain why Rose is comming back. She dealt with the 10'th doctors clone who did the same. but I'm sure Moffat won't go for the simple route.

Godspeed Scott Carpenter. A space cowboy with the Right Stuff!

I love the books by Tom Wolfe. Got in touch with his writing via The right stuff (about the Mercury 7). Really loved his writing style Read "The Cool aid Acid Test" a month ago and now I'm waiting on Bonfire of the vanities. Other stuff I like is Hitch, God is not great is a brilliant work if you want to win a discussion regarding religion. Furthermore I've read Orwell's 1984 & the animal farm. A must read for every one. Also Huxley's "Brave new world". and of course a lot of books about space and the moon missions written by Dutch author Chriet Titulaer and a few journalists I cant bother to look up now. and because of my education a lot of books on IT management. Wayyy to much books on IT management.

As long as it is played by musicians on music instruments. There are certain genres I prefer over others but since my work in a music venue I've come to love most of the genres. My biggest genres are country, blues and metal, because guitars are manly! In my spare time I organize metal concerts in the venue I work at. All you Dutch metal lovers should two explanations are offered, one must discard the one that explains the least, or explains nothing at all, or raises more questions than it answers.'> check out my metal foundation I use to organize it all with.

Yeah Saturn would be great. Seeing the rings and all. Also has a lot of cool moons to sightsee.

The shuttles angle of attack (something I really miss in KSP!) was swerved from a -50 to a 50 degree bank roll. This allowed the shuttle to create more crossrange thus araving safely at the landing site. It did however made a circle right before landing to align the shuttle with the runway. This manoeuvre was called the Heading Alignment Circle.

It would be disastrous if the ISS collided with anything and would leave a smear of debris in space. Besides it is inherent to space travel that a ship gets destroyed after it's mission. Or at least isn't reusable.

Why would we want to do that? It'll only increase the risk of Kessler syndrome.

Spaceplanes need development and we should do that! Sometimes changing the path taken can lead to new unexpected developments. Spaceplanes could become a new faster way then flying. And because you're out of the atmosphere during the majority of the flight you're not polluting.

I've seen your posts on other boards before. Made me laugh so hard coffee came trough my nose.

It kinda does have a USSR feel to it. A country in debt yet having a huge space program... Luckily the ISS is shared with other agencies.

The black hole would disappear really slow. The orbit of the planet would slowly grow since there is less mass keeping the planet in it's current orbit. Eventually the planet will have such a big orbit the gravitational pull of the weaker getting black hole would be negligent and the planet would drift off. It would not happen instantly or in a year time. It would happen during the evaporation of the hole. and to all those talking about quantum theory, it has very little to do with this case. Yes it explains how the black hole is evaporating but the hole itself and the planet are wayyy to big to fit into the quantum world. So we can use normal physics here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_in_space And to be fair, Graphite in a zero G environment surrounded by electrical devices doesn't sound like a good plan.

Wonder if Karen has a few days of...

It is also that certain shady groups of people use scare tactics in order to push a certain political standpoint or to make money. the most obvious ones are the charity campaigns with all these sad images of dying kids / animals followed by instructions to make monthly payments toward the charity (And to push certain people over the line they also include a free plushy or something cute). Anybody with a sceptical mind knows that these images are deliberately chosen (or sometimes faked) and when crunching the numbers. Most of the cash flows into the wallets of the managers. But there are also groups proclaiming that every day stuff is dangerous to use. From wireless internet to the so called E numbers, non bio-friendly grown food. And the weird part is that these groups can make people so scarred of certain stuff they stop seeing the impact it has on the world. A funny example, a few weeks ago I was at a party and a somewhat leftist-hippie friend of mine brought a bottle of cheap whiskey. When searchign for the coke I could only found Diet coke. My friend refused to mix his whiskey with the diet coke because it contains Aspartame. A sugar substitute that has quite the fame on the internet. I was baffled, he got so brainwashed by these groups claiming aspartame is killing people he completely forgot the WHISKEY part in the whiskey-coke drink. His mind rationalized the banning of Aspartame above alcohol. The DHMO petition is a great trick to show how these groups work. Smart / sceptical people know how to interpret such a story. But most of the people in our civilised world rather know all the pokemon than the periodic table. And when asked to help ban a "bad something" they sure will sign.

Not sure about the president but here is the investigation report : http://klabs.org/richcontent/Reports/Failure_Reports/as-204/senate_956/index.htm It has some beautiful words on page 3.

Awaiting vehicle downlink. AARRGGHHH