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Oh, a difficult question. I don't know if I could pick one. I'll briefly explain a few of my favourites. TES III: Morrowind. I only discovered this post-Oblivion. It's hard to say it's one of my favourites in terms of playing it, there are a lot of problems and limitations, though also many aspects better than subsequent games, but what I really love MW for the most is it's world. So much better than OB and SK, had such a strong sense of unique culture and lore, the cities were cities, it has such a great atmosphere, all those different designs and so on. Awesome. Crash Bandicoot 1 and 3. 2 never got me for some reason, but 1 and 3 are absolute classics. Perfect simple but awesomely fun linear platforming. Crash Team Racing. I still maintain this is the best kart game I've ever played, including all Mariokarts. Just the control of the things felt so visceral and cartoonishly exciting, Looney Tunes sort of style. In Mariokart I always feel like everything's made of foam and rubber floating on a plastic floor coated in oil. Spyro. Particularly Spyro 2. It was my favourite game as a kid, and the series felt like a parallel to Crash Bandicoot in some ways, and that sort of carried over to Jak and Daxter and Ratchet and Clank on the next consoles, though I didn't play much of Jak and Daxter. Simcoaster. Perhaps if I were older I might have preferred RC Tycoon, but for me, Simcoaster was the ultimate Theme park game. I loved the coaster building system and how you could do audience view for all the rides, plus walking around. Jurrassic Park: Operation Genesis. Very sadly overlooked PS2/PC game. You MAKE YOUR OWN JURASSIC PARK! How is that not awesome? It was a Tycoon, like Simcoaster, and a great one. What I would give to see a sequel. I lived setting up Safari trips in the cages with the dinosaurs and crafting the island and everything. Plus it was fun when they got loose. It had well balanced, progressive gameplay that had you constantly expanding your park and optimising it for visitor appeal. Hercules and Tarzan. Disney made some seriously good games for PS1. Super Mario 64. I didn't have a 64, but this was so awesome, I played it whenever I was at somebody's house and they had it. Rally Cross 2. Don't know how well it would hold up today. But this was a great fun racer when I was a kid and the first I'd seen where you could make your own tracks, so fun. EDIT: Oh! Oh! Kula World. Such a good puzzle game. I couldn't remember the name of it for ages until one day it popped up on the PS3 Playstation Store.

But I've got to wonder, would the amount of energy needed to push the planet to Jupiter not be more than the energy needed to blow the planet up?

Yes for the 5.5rpm 5m radius Discovery centrifuge, but Space Station V too fast? Hardly! It's 1rpm, people have been shown to be able to adapt fairly easily to at least 2rpm. The lunar level gravity was not terribly well demonstrated on-screen in either craft though.

I also noticed that there is no terrain deformation in Kerbal Space Program, therefore the surface of every planet must be made of coloured diamond. When objects hit the ground at a high speed, they explode and dissapear, there's no way they can be made out of aluminium, steel, carbon fibre or anything else, as it has to be a material that combusts and vapourises upon impact. Do you see the point I'm trying to make in regards to the GAME and SCIENCE?

Really? Why is that?

I think I'd be irritable if I were experiencing the effects of breathing Titan's atmosphere minus the death part.

I think our bacteria is more likely to kill them, since ours is evolved to deal with macroscopic life and theirs would not be. Nonetheless, it would be probably a good idea to examine the cave carefully before setting up base.

I think the foam in cave idea is really interesting (are there many caves in Mars, though?). My biggest doubt, however, is how currently scientists are not big on exposing Mars to Earth life. It may already be too late to avoid that, but if you lived in a cave, I think it would definitely be too late. You've exposed rock directly to humans, which are crawling with the stuff.

A huge moon-based economic centre that can survive independently, you mean... That's more than just a base and would cost countless billions or trillions. Plus if the whole world was in Nuclear war, what's to stop nukes being sent to the moon colony as well? Treaties? Doubt it.

I read some stuff about it in the comments of a Scott Manley video... seems it's a little unclear exactly why plants are green. http://gizmodo.com/5990764/we-dont-actually-know-why-plants-are-green Here's a little discussion of it...

Green things reflect green light and absorb light that is not green. Just saying.

Regardless of whether the average Kerbal is vegetarian or not, it's perfectly possible for both humans and presumably Kerbals to live without animal products, and on a self-sustaining mission, this would probably be the case, as growing animals for consumption is just a waste and in that sort of situation, one you can't afford.

Well, I guess it depends on how efficient they manage to make artificial muscles. May not be a big deal in 20 years time. And what if the muscles fail? It's no harder than in a normal spacesuit and can be repaired later.

"I spy with my little eye, something beginning with L." "Life?!?" "No." "Aww..."

The weight of spacesuits is one thing, but another thing restricting mobility in a spacesuit is pressure, with the internal pressure pushing the suit constantly into a shape that best distributes such pressure. Perhaps in the future, this problem could be rectified using artificial muscles, which I believe are currently in development, positioned at joint bends in the suit, that are activated by sensors that detect motion or electrical signals from human muscle movement to replicate the motion of the wearer. I remember reading about the use of sensors to allow movement in robotic exoskeletons being studied currently.

The idea makes me uncomfortable, but I don't feel like going into detail about that. Anyway, as for death, I'm really a bit terrified of it, but I still think I'd prefer it to living forever as a computer, and hope I can eventually come to terms with it. This poem gives an interesting perspective on eternal sleep. Here, where the world is quiet ; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds’ and spent waves’ riot In doubtful dreams of dreams ; I watch the green field growing For reaping folk and sowing, For harvest-time and mowing, A sleepy world of streams. I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep ; Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap : I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep. Here life has death for neighbour, And far from eye or ear Wan waves and wet winds labour, Weak ships and spirits steer ; They drive adrift, and whither They wot not who make thither ; But no such winds blow hither, And no such things grow here. No growth of moor or coppice, No heather-flower or vine, But bloomless buds of poppies, Green grapes of Proserpine, Pale beds of blowing rushes Where no leaf blooms or blushes Save this whereout she crushes For dead men deadly wine. Pale, without name or number, In fruitless fields of corn, They bow themselves and slumber All night till light is born ; And like a soul belated, In hell and heaven unmated, By cloud and mist abated Comes out of darkness morn. Though one were strong as seven, He too with death shall dwell, Nor wake with wings in heaven, Nor weep for pains in hell ; Though one were fair as roses, His beauty clouds and closes ; And well though love reposes, In the end it is not well. Pale, beyond porch and portal, Crowned with calm leaves, she stands Who gathers all things mortal With cold immortal hands ; Her languid lips are sweeter Than love’s who fears to greet her To men that mix and meet her From many times and lands. She waits for each and other, She waits for all men born ; Forgets the earth her mother, The life of fruits and corn ; And spring and seed and swallow Take wing for her and follow Where summer song rings hollow And flowers are put to scorn. There go the loves that wither, The old loves with wearier wings ; And all dead years draw thither, And all disastrous things ; Dead dreams of days forsaken, Blind buds that snows have shaken, Wild leaves that winds have taken, Red strays of ruined springs. We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure ; To-day will die to-morrow ; Time stoops to no man’s lure ; And love, grown faint and fretful, With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light : Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight : Nor wintry leaves nor vernal, Nor days nor things diurnal ; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.

Meteors? They usually look more whiteish though, I think.

OR the devs are making a space program and don't want to waste resources on massively complicated ecosystems and you just use suspension of disbelief.

No we haven't... some people are saying they are plants, others are saying "No, that makes no sense. They are clearly animals, though it's possible (but not necessarily true) that they share some plantlike characteristics like photosynthesis".

"We are pleased to announce that none of our current plans have been cancelled since the last conference." "We were originally going to send a probe on the 12 year mission around the solar system, but we had a look and it turns out the 3 man capsule isn't that heavy."

Update. Luckily, the seller agreed and accepted to cancel the transaction, so everything is AOK.

Damnit... this is one of those areas where that attitude is useful...

I know, but it would probably smash a large chunk out of it and cause absolutely gigantic tremors, altering the shape of the Earth and turning it into a big volcanic wasteland. Yes, in a few billion years it would spring back, but that's an awful long time.

I think the US might pick up their game once China comes close to landing on the moon. They don't want to be the second best at something!

It was called live, they've removed that part now. I know about 2.8, and it's the one I'd rather use, only problem is it has very limited output options, is not of amazing quality, and doesn't accept a lot of filetypes, including the video from my camera.