Brotoro

An all-water planet would have a solid interior because water is a solid at the kinds of pressures you find inside a planet-sized body. See a water phase diagram. And when I say solid water, I do not mean ice as you know it...this solid water would have a different crystal structure and density than the ice you know, and it requires pressure to form...not low temperature. No, the pressures are not going to be great enough to cause thermonuclear fusion or anything like that...you'd need a much more massive object for that to happen. The interior of an all-water planet would not be as hot as the Earth's interior because the all-water world lacks the things that made the inside of the Earth hot (radioactive elements and the differentiation of heavy elements into the center). Because of the lower density of water (even in the interior solid phases) compared to the materials that make up the Earth, an all-water planet the mass of the Earth would be larger in diameter and have a lower surface gravity than the Earth does. Depending on the surface temperature (distance from its star and what kind of star it circles) the all-water planet would have a water vapor atmosphere which may also contain oxygen (if the star is hot enough to emit enough photons with sufficient energy to photodissociate water molecules). Any hydrogen from the dissociation would rapidly escape. I suspect that the planet would not have a strong magnetic field. Although impure water is a good conductor and can participate in a dynamo effect, the all-water planet would lack the important convection currents in the core that Earth has because liquid iron is "freezing out" into solid iron, releasing energy, at the boundary of the inner and outer core.

Because vegetables are an important part of any space diet. And leeks are tasty. But do they keep well in a vacuum?

People always want to know how you take a leek in space.

Real Astronaut Hairâ„¢ courtesy of Valentina, Sally, and Shannon.

Put checkboxes in the Settings: [ ] Male Kerbal Pilots. [ ] Female Kerbal pilots. That way everybody can have what they want.

There should be female kerbal astronauts. The basic model should look like a male kerbal (same eyes, same general shape of the skull)...they are the same species. That leaves the hair as the distinguishing feature. Simple enough. Or you could make them a slightly different color, since animals can show coloration differences due to sexual dimorphism, although it's mostly birds that are very extreme about it. But I like green.

Only if you aren't having fun.

Thank you, sir! I didn't mind that people were dubious...it was such a weird occurrence that I couldn't blame them. But it was the inexplicability of it that caused me to come to the Forums looking for an answer...and then I got to meet all you fine people.

My Magic Boulder mission thread got trashed in the Great Forum Disaster, but I reposted it (link below in my sig).

I was probably most satisfied with my first deep space rendezvous and docking. I was amazed that it could be done. Now, of course, I've done it so many times that it loses its amazingness. I was very happy when I managed to find and rendezvous with Magic Boulder, since not a lot of people do that (and now that Magic Boulder is apparently MIA in the current versions of KSP, others are missing the fun of trying). But I suppose circumnavigating all the way around Duna with a rover is the accomplishment I've done that fewer others have managed. But that was just a lot of grunt work.

That's a very nice looking N1. Have some rep.

They are just for show at this point in time.

Figuring out a pump should be easy compared to the dangerous activity of building a liquid propellant rocket engine. I fear for your safety.

White patches? Picture, please. The high plateaus used to be lighter in color in the previous version of Eve, but since it was re-done in version 0.18 the highest elevations were removed, and the high elevations now appear darker than the lowlands.

I like Zubenelgenubi (Alpha Librae), just because it's fun to say. Zubenelgenubi!

If that was the case, then the ground would not look purple at night under the illumination of my rover headlights.

But the point is that while iodine gas is purple, I can't find any iodides or other iodine compounds that are purple. White, yellow, colorless...but not purple.

I think the atmosphere of Eve must be purple because of suspended particulates of the same material that you find on the surface of Eve. Otherwise we need to find both a purple gas for the atmosphere and a purple solid for the surface. It's simpler if the same material does both jobs. Because solid iodine is not purple, it won't do the job for coloring both the atmosphere and surface. So...we need something else purple.

Experimentation is the mark of a true scientist. Excellent!

I was testing a base module's landing sequence by dropping it in from orbit onto KSC property...and it happened to land right on top of a kerbal I had standing out in the field (he was there to test getting into some initially-unmanned rovers that I would drive over to him). He was squirted out to the side like a watermelon seed, and he survived just fine. The base module, however, fell over and was wrecked. So if THAT doesn't kill a verbal, I'm not sure HOW you do it.

If the game screws me over with some bug or weird behavior, I'll certainly edit the save file to fix things... so I've cheated by Umlüx's definition. Also, I needed a certain flag for the astronauts on a vessel launched back in version 0.19, so I edited the save file to give them that flag (instead of the generic flag). So I cheated again. I'm so bad.

Aerobrake violently at Laythe, then leave Laythe orbit in the correct direction if desired? I'd go with this one.

Try for a gravity assist from Tylo?

I would be surprised if that is modeled in the program.

You can't extrapolate from one data point. We don't know how difficult it is for life to form even if you have a planet with the proper conditions. I have some biologist friends who think that the chances of the right chemical reactions occurring to make life are a one in a billion chance, and we are the only planet (out of the billion possibilities in our Galaxy) that hit the jackpot. I have other biologist friends who think that since Earth managed to do it sometime in its first billion years, it can't be all that difficult. It's true that once life gets going it has shown that it can adapt and survive in the damnedest places...but it's the question of how readily life forms in the first place that is the big question.