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Finaly done with an new huge project. An stock (except mechjeb) grand tour ship. Goal is that Genebree will plant his flag everywhere except sun and Jool. On top is the Eve lander, drop tank for the deobit burn below, main ship is orange and gray tank, with two orange tanks in nuclear asparagus. The rocket sticking out is an service module who docked the two dock tanks who can be added to the second stage you can see at the back, they also have modules with spare monoprop. An second dock tank is in the back. I will use the service module going to Mun an Minmus before the Eve burn. Leaves in in Leo in case I come home dry. This second stage is the key to the mission as only it will visit all the targets, the first stage act as an carrier for the extra landers and the fuel and will not go everywhere. Plan is to have the fist stage only stop at Eve, Duna, Laythe and Tylo, it has 8000 m/s dV so it should be enough, will use it until it runs out of fuel after Tylo. Only second stage will visit Moho, Dress and Val, if has 7000 m/s dV but use far less fuel than the main stage so I save a lot using it for the expensive trips. In front an large drop tank for balancing the first stage and bringing extra fuel. over it is the Tylo lander, it uses the 3300 m/s lander just behind it as an upper stage. I have an small lander on top of the first stage for use on low gravity moons and the Kerbin landing. Should have added more docking ports as it will be a lot of transforming on the ship like using one of the docking tanks to balance the Tylo lander after Eve where I decople the second stage.

Something like the alarm clock mod yes, its very useful then you have lots of different craft in flight.

I know, however mules cant reproduce, so you had to continue using humans. My shock was mostly about using ladies for this. We are doing plenty of research on genetic to cure diseases. Also to modify plants. The hard part of doing it with humans outside of curing deadly diseases is that you need very low chance of fails. Current genetic engineering has an very low chance of success. For plants this is an minor cost issue, you modify thousands plant and select the ones who works out. However things are improving, banning it will not work, still legal on animals and an wish to use it to treat diseases so technology will improve over time. Also different countries will have different rules.

I have an old 6 core amd cpu, the model before bulldozer. Game runs relative smoothly with 500 parts ships. My main problem is memory, however as I understand the problem with 64 bit is that the game crashes without any good explonation. I guess they just wait, if they are very lucky some unity updates fixes, if not its not wort doing a lot of work fixing an bug who might show up again later.

High chance its nothing special either, its an high trafic area for both ships and planes so you will get plenty of accidents, few other sea areas has this density outside of coastal areas.

True stuff only the rich can afford like cars should be restricted. This was true in the beginning, however mass production made cars so cheap everybody could get them. Note that genetic engineering involves manipulating molecyles, has far more in common with building computer chips than cars. If we make it safe enough to use outside of life threatening diseases it would be done pretty much automated so the process will be cheap.

Need brain floss badly. Apes and humans are different species so I doubt you would get any offspring.

1 Orion is for huge loads, think 1000 ton ships however its very marginal for interstellar travel, you would need one gigantic one for that. 2,3 vasmir is an improved ion engine higher trust and better isp, worse than orion as an interstelar drive. 4 laser boosted solar sails might be an nice way to do interstellar probes, realistic but don't fit in the game. Fusion engines sounds pretty much perfect, some work is actually done on an Fusion Pulse Drive. Not up to interstellar qualities but an good one would. Nuclear salt water sounds insane to me compared to the orion, you would have control problems controlling the continuous detonation.

Note its exist an mods for sample returns. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/33323-PLUGIN-PARTS-Development-0-20-tek-Industries-Science-v0-3-0 I'm using it myself now, downside it the weight of the samples, 100 rock is 0.5 ton and 100 liquid is 0.2 ton. My Eve sample return used an airship who makes things far easier, it also let me fly to water and land to get samples, Atmospheric samples was gathered during aerobrake.

My worst was 77.000 g, however it was using an orion pulse drive probe using only the largest bombs, some rcs and torque modules. Accelrated the ship to close to 1000 Km/s hit Eve after a bit over a day traveling and did an aerobrake. Ship itself survived but the side mounted rcs tanks and torque modules was ripped off without me noticing making it impossible to turn.

One benefit of an warp drive is that you can load and unload systems. You adjust time on switching that is no huge problem. For slower than light you would be able to see mulitiple suns then zooming out in map view and jump between them who might generate performance issues. Interstellar travel without faster than light in KSP is not an huge problem, system is scaled down and few would complain if you put the closest star 20 times the distance from Eeloo. An stock asparagus with nuclear engines would be able to reach it in a decade or two.

This is very cool, can not wait for more, Why is some launch done from Kerman Airbase?

The advanced probe carrier Jool sampler is designed to both analyze and return samples from the Jool system, atmospheric samples from Jool and Laythe atmosphere, water from Laythe and rocks from all the moons. It will also deploy mapping satellites around all the moons. This mission will bring lots of new knowledge is critical for later colonization or resource extraction. Why does not the water on Laythe freeze is one question. who will be answered. As you see the ship is very large to be unmanned. On top the Laythe blimp, below the Val sampler, this will also be reused on the two outer moons. Finally the Tylo lander who upper stage will be used to return all the samples to Kerbin. One the drop tanks you see four of the mapping satellites, yes it was not an good placement as we can not drop the drop tanks until we return. Now the green tanks at the rcs tank is for atmospheric samples during aerobraking. The tanks in front is for analyzes and sample return, the ones in back are holding tanks to store atmosphere for future analyze if the areobraking is to violent or short to do an analyze in the atmosphere. As the tank used for this passing Jool would be compromised and we has an separate one for Layte it was jettisoned after analyzes was done. Jool sampler has to orbit multiple times to get an low dV Laythe intercept so mission control decided to follow the sample tank on an aerobraking path to learn more about orbital decay because of atmosphere and more important watch it get crumpled deep inside Jool. Her you see the tank going down after two orbits. Deep down, the darkness below is a bit of an disappointment but the sunset is beautiful. --------------------------------- Confidential part --------------------------------- The first indication that something was wrong was the black line on the bottom of the sent picture. This is an know phenomena, however it has never appeared so high in the atmosphere, the reason for it is unknown but most hold it as an simple optical effect of the high pressure. Then one operator look down and shouted: "my God its full of moons". First reaction was that Jool was hollow inside and had moons orbiting below it surface. However the moons looked very much like Laythe an Val, their position also match their position on the opposite side of the probe. Only explanation must be that Jool is totally transparent at larger deep, however we should still see the atmosphere on the other side. This picture shows that the surface on Jool is just an thin layer who is not visible up close. Below 0 attitude the we as usually lost camera control, however nothing happened at 50 meter. At 250 meter below the surface the probe exploded violently. Note that in an earlier trip Jeb was able to go down to the surface level at -50 meter and bounce around before safety returning. This has changed during the cataclysm, the effect might have larger impact than all the new craters on Mun who has created widespread accusations that the government did it and an call for safer Mun lander. Doomsayers will hold is as an sign that the kraken is eating Jool from the inside and will emerge soon as large as Jool itself. An secret followup mission is critical, luckily the factory and mining ship Jool conquer is underway to Bop to set up an mining opperation, they will start dropping more advanced probes then entering the system.

Yes, most technology can be abused however abusing genetically engineering is hard compared to most others. You hardly need it to create soldiers except general improvements, perhaps an focus on tolerating damage.

Nice, I liked the lack of trigger guard. Who was this made for? an legendary bad shooter?

To listen is cheap however to have any chance of receiving anything sent towards us they has to send in our direction at an time we listen, as we don't listen for long on each star they have to transmit all the time, shifting between 25 targets during a day and we have a roughly 95% chance of missing it. And you don't know then we start listening, if you stopped 100 millions years ago it was pretty pointless. Same if they start in 50 million years. The mass use and geological time-span you had to do this project over would make it costly. Far better to build some kilometer sized receivers in deep space and search for broadcasts. Polling each planet with life every 50 years is easy.

Think it has been know by seafaring people since prehistoric time. People who was not seafaring like the ancient Egyptians belied the earth was flat. Yes some medieval artists imagined an flat earth, do not see this as strange, stranger that Hollywood believes cars blow up in small collisions and revolvers has 9 bullets or more.

Yes, the are designed as hunter gatherers, with a few hot fixes like better disease protection and some features like the ability to drink milk as adults added the last 10.000 years. It causes some issues like overweight, however trying to change humans emotions would be extremely dangerous compared to other ideas as ground launched orion pulse detonation rockets and aerobraking asteroids. Within 50-200 years we will probably be able to modify human dna pretty safe. However would the ones who create the modifications do changes you would like? Less violent yes, combine with more docile who don't restrict authority and you have an combination many countries would like.

As I understand canon shells can face even higher accelerations and you both has rocket assisted and smart shells. However they are all pretty small (12-15 cm) expensive 50-100.000$ and the most of the weight is the casing. More important they are subject an linear trust and some rotation for an short time. I also think the track will get far more serious problems, remember that to get this useful you must past 20 cm shots, probably close to 30. the only way its possible to get this to work would be to kind of send one or multiple counterbalancing projectiles This is something who work nice in small scale but scaling up 100 times is like making an mouse you can ride on.

One exception to the smart=predator must be the elephant. However they are a bit special, very large, this makes an huge brain an trivial expense and probably an good idea as they live long time. Pigs and apes are omnivorous. As for war an murder, decent chance for it, however I think other factors than diet has more impact, look at the differences between human cultures. You want to run into Switzerland rather than Djengis Khan, other groups are far more warlike like some tribes on New Guinea. One feature that animals who are dangerous to each other usually has an well developed surrender reflex.

Then finding something is pretty much like jackpot. We sent one deep space message 30 years ago, we might send another in 20. Yes you could fist scan for life signals on planet and transmit to the relevant ones. However you could transmitted to earth some hundred millions years before anybody had an chance of detecting it. Sending an interstellar flyby probe sounds far more cost effective.

True, single cell life would how we look at the universe. Europa and the other ice moons might be the best bet however it would be water based life. Now the ice moons raises another exiting opportunity. Cells are captured by the ice and is transferred close to the surface. the ice is hit by an impact and this throw out a loot of ice with the moons weak gravity. It might hit other moons and survive the impact or even be sent in towards earth or out in interstellar space.

Or the few kerbals who know its diferent would probably get mad petty fast anyway. Like how did Mun got all the craters.

However if you have an two ton probe you might want an reaction wheel but don't want the 0.3 ton sas module, one option might be to use an larger probe or perhaps multiple. Remember that the torque uses power so you want an battery

Or just make an new folder and copy the files into it, this is most to get an rollback if you do something who is both risky and takes time. On an difficult landing you might want to save both in circular orbit and just before hitting the atmosphere. However at least with the versions before 0.21 quicksaves was overwritten on launchpad. This might have changed because of the new revert function