Kerbface
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The surface of the moon looks suspiciously like it's had water on it...
But seriously, 3D printing can probably do great things for our future. I imagine in 10-20 years there will be some sort of 3d printing in every ship. Perhaps it could even make orbital construction a lot simpler, motivating asteroid and/or moon mining for cheaper space stuff.
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pareidolia is a natural and healthy human trait.
I didn't say it wasn't.
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The game is scaled down. I said that to the Kerbals but they just grabbed some pitchforks and chased me out of town.
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Well I think it looks like a fish wearing the sorting hat and giving the finger.
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"I love humans, always seeing patterns in things that aren't there."
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The title of this thread seems rather dubious.
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LOL, guys, I'm joking around!
Well, you guys seem to not be able to take a joke. I'll edit it now.
I thought it was an actual passage from International space law or something...
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Yeah, that passage doesn't include people OR companies. Also, if you have jurisdiction and control over an object, doesn't that give basically the same effect as claiming national appropriation? You can basically make whatever laws on that object you want.
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People are complaining about having a half-arsed galaxy if other systems are added. My question is how does a single solar system by itself in a lone void make any sense?
By the same logic you could say "How does only having one galaxy alone in the void make sense" or "how does a universe with no massive nebulas make sense". They're there, they're just beyond your reach in the game. The idea of there not being any other stars is only ever going to practically be an issue if the devs program a practical means of interstellar travel in the first place. Without it, there is basically no way you can get far enough out that you would ever reach another star before your computer crashes or sets on fire from running the game nonstop for several weeks.
And the "half-arsed" factor is one of my biggest problems. The whole game is built around a semirealistic solar system space program. Adding even a single other star, it's planets and moons, and all the technology to get there (and presumably set up a brand new space program, as you would need to) would probably take about as much time and effort as the entire game has so far, unless of course, they just want to half-arse interstellar travel, make it simple, and make colonising a new system and setting up a new space centre including all the infrastructure and more sophisticated resource gathering and part construction a really basic procedure as well.
And to me, at least, it's not worth it. The time they will work on this game is finite, I'd rather see that time put into many other things within the single system, including but not limited to - the currently planned resource system, the expansion of the existing solar system with asteroids and more gas giants and distant planets or dwarf planets, space habitat and planetary base construction, adding more detail to the planets, scientific study that actually means something in-game, etc.
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I believe recently there was an experiment where mice had wires attatched to their brains and were placed in identical boxes full of puzzles in different countries. The light in the second one was off. Now the first mouse was made to solve the puzzles and it's brain signals were sent across the internet to the second mouse. This second mouse completed all the puzzles in the same way in the same order.
So maybe there is more consistency between the connections in our brain than one might think.
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Fossil fuels to stay? Nuclear? Different kinds of nuclear like LFTR? Solar? Wind? Wave farms? Geothermal? Several or all of the above?
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Yeah, I know. but there just aren't any scientific alternatives. A plenty of un-scientific, though.
What the OP might conceivably consider scientific, regardless of it's actual potetial validity.
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Convergent evolution works only on things under strong selection pressures. It doesn't make things like junk DNA or vestigial features, which aren't under any reasonable selection pressure, converge.
To clarify, I was not seriously suggesting it, I was just trying to imagine what possible scientific alternative the OP was suggesting there could be to mammals having a common ancestor.
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I think you underestimate the want for freedom in some individuals. I know it is a rare trait these days but some want to live their life on their own success not being watched over by some parenting computer. If they could not flee into the wild they would break the system from within.
Yes, and I think also there is an underestimation of a human's need to desire for challenges and purpose. I could be wrong but if robots basically decided to do absolutely everything for us and just keep injecting us with chemicals to make us permanently happy, I reckon a LOT of people would outright reject the idea and do anything in their power to escape it. I don't think humanity's only desire is "happiness" and survival at this point. As the captain in Wall-E says, "I don't want to survive, I want to live!".
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So the other theory is... some mammals are a result of convergent evolution? Oh wait, they would still have a non-mammalian common ancestor... so the other theory is... some mammals evolved from life that came into existence independently of the rest of Earth based life?
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I've been giving the idea a bit of thought.... this is probably mostly scientific nonsense, but here goes...
In the year 2456, humanity has come to inhabit this system, which has a Star a little more massive and brighter than our sun, but mostly similar, at the centre. I haven't thought of names for the planets so I will call them P[Number in order of distance from sun], moons will have M as a prefix.
P1 is a hot, volcanic planet with temperatures reaching about 400C. It is 6,000km across with a gravity level of 0.4G. It has a thickish atmosphere. Much of it's surface is seas of lava.
P2 is on the hot edge of the habitable zone. It is 15,000km in diameter and has a surface gravity of 1.1G. It has an atmosphere about 60% that of Earth and a somewhat weaker magnetic field. It has a rotation period of about 3 Earth days. It has a largeish ocean at the South pole, formed from a massive meteorite impact that is on average about 30-45 degrees celsius. There are some other smaller oceans near the North pole. The planet has only a minute axial tilt, so there are no seasons based on that, but the planet is in a slightly eccentric orbit which gives global seasons. Beyond the poles, the planet is scorching desert, much of the sand crystalised around the equator. There are not many dramatic surface features as the core is mostly solid and tectonics are minor. There are a few human colonies around the South pole. Atmosphere is breathable, though thin. There is also native DNA based life on P2, including many types of aquatic animals and some that live in the sand dunes, plus sparse, large autotrophs resembling Dragons blood trees with extensive root systems. P2 has 2 moons, one smaller and rich in minerals, about 600km in diameter with 0.06G gravity that circles rapidly only about 2,500km from the planet, and the other, a large, more distant, geologically active moon, 3,000km in diameter with a thin, partially acidic atmosphere and a surface gravity of 0.14G.
P3 is a Gas giant 120,000km in diamter with a surface gravity of 1.8G. It lies a little beyond the edge of what would be the habitable zone for an Earth like planet. It has thick rings around it's centre and it bright blue and purple in colour, witha bit of red (why? I don't know). It has many small moons, but above 1,000km, it has 5.
P3M1, closest to the planet, is tidally locked, about 2,300km across and with 0.11G gravity. A rocky moon, it is a tidally locked, strongly volcanic moon on one side. This side has canyons and cracks and jutting mountains due to the plate tectonics and the pull of the planet P3, and is unusually. The dark side is mostly flat. and a dark grey with splashes of colour from the smaller number of volcanoes there. It has a weak atmosphere.
P3M2 is an almost entirely icy moon, 1,300km across with 0.5G gravity. It is cracked and cratered and has layers of liquid water beneath the surface.
P3M3 is a mostly rocky moon about 3,300km in diamter with a surface gravity of 0.15G. A massive impact in the past has left a massive crater on side of the moonalmost 1,200km across, giving it an axial tilt of 36 degrees and rotation speed of about 58 hours per rotation. The remnants of this impact have become nearby minor moons.
P3M4 is another rocky moon 3,800km in diameter with 0.22G gravity.
P3M5, the most distant of the major moons, is an unusual moon, as it started out as a planet on the edge of the habitable zone until it eventually became a moon of the P3 system. It is 8,200km in diameter and has a gravitational force of 0.64G. It also has large oceans on it's surface, deep and vast, and a thick atmosphere, 1.5 times that of Earth. It also rotates at about once every 26 hours (Was considerably faster before capture). It has an axial tilt of 12 degrees. Aided by surrounding moons, it's rotation speed and a molten core, P3M5 is very geologically active, with many thermal vents at the bottom of the oceans and island volcanoes scattered across the globe. There is one large continent just North of the equator (about 1,600km across and 700km high) and the rest of the planet is island scattered ocean. There are large ice caps at the poles, and equatorial temperature averages at a rather pleasant 12-20 Celsius on land. Because of it's thick atmosphere and complex tidal system, weather is very wild. Strong winds and storms are common. Tides rise and fall at unusual times, and quite strongly. Even the daily tides are rather intense because of P3. There are many human cities on the planet, and due to the tides, they live mostly on higher ground, usually near thermal springs where it is hottest. The atmosphere is not very toxic to humans, though there are high levels of some chemicals such as sulphur, and has been found to give many people illness, though there are simple ways to treat it. Oxygen is plentiful. It isn't just humans living on P3M5, though. It is supposed that the life on the moon originated from P2 and was perhaps brought over in the debris from the impact that made P2's Southern ocean. In addition to gelatinous invertebrates, vertebrate hexapods have appeared and become the most common form of life on the moon. Most of the life is aquatic, including massive 600m long monsters that lurk in the deeper oceans. There are some land dwelling hexapods as well, including, unbeknownst to humans at this time, amphibious creatures with 4 legs and 2 arms that are intelligent and have developed primitive tools and a religion based on the moons, sun and planet P3. Autotrophic life also exists, though much of the surface is too consistently erupting for thick vegetation. There are thick jungles on the big continent though. A unique feature, the moon has it's own submoon, which it retained from when it was a planet, although it is in a very irregular orbit and is being gradually lost to GE. It is a rocky, browny-red submoon about 150km across At it's closest approach, it is about 3,000km from the moon.
To be continued when I'm less tired of writing.
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As far as I know, nobody has discovered any yet, but do you think it's possible? There's about 10 AU between Saturn and Uranus and Uranus and Neptune and none of them have the pulling power of Jupiter, especially the last two. Is it possible? Or is there no way we could have missed them at our current level of technology?
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Wait, are we talking about Boop or Ignus, because first you said Boop was a moon of the planet Ignus, then you said the planet Boop, then you were talking about a planet without making it clear if you meant Boop or Ignus.
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A particularly icey core section exposed by a massive impact? That's my only guess. Except maybe the guess that the impacting object itself was almost fully ice and it's the remnants of that.
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Yes, developers lose money from resold games. Busninesses have had to deal with that for centuries. People can resell things. It doesn't mean you can't have a good business model. It's just the height of greed. It'd be like if they somehow put trackers in books and when they left the house for so long, an ink packet was released permanently destroying them. It's just an intentional sabotage to earn more money from selling things again.
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I imagine they'd start to like air pressure a lot more.
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I'd bet that your hypothetical doesn't prevent the original author from getting paid. If copyright were gone today, and JK Rowling wrote another Harry Potter book, she would still make an obscene amount of money selling it to some big publisher. Why would a well known author go to a tiny publisher which has little capacity for distribution?
That's just circular logic. J.K Rowling is a famous, rich person. Of course she's going to go to a massive publisher. The question is if when she made the first book and WASN'T extremely rich and popular, would she have had the success she did if any publisher could just take her book and sell it without her earning a cent? In fact I believe she was rejected many times before someone finally took her on. What's stopping those people from simply publishing it without her anyway?
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Why add mods when you can add something different?
Well, because adding a mod does not stop you from adding something different at all in the slightest? In fact it would make it easier because it means there's one less thing you have to focus your time on.
Others have said that modders often use copyrighted material and make inefficient coding, but some modders become part of the development team, so surely they showed that they could create high quality original work that wasn't terribly coded, so why can't their things be brought in (if it fits the game)?
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I don't think that zilch is a good way to describe the state of rocketry in 1961 in the US.
zilch suggests that in 1961 people had to beat their dinner to death before they could eat it and traded bearskins and flint spears
No Apollo wouldn't be possible without 1903 wright brothers biplane, the V2, jet powered aircraft and the Bell X-1 which proved that a person could actually be accelerated passed the sound barrier safely
Not to mention everything else which I haven't listed
...Obviously I didn't LITERALLY mean nothing. But we'd never even sent someone to space and within a decade we were on the moon. I really don't see how this can be seen as baby steps when you're trying to tell people to stop rushing to Mars when it's 45 years later and we've never even left LEO in decades.
Explanations for the Extreme Densities of Kerbol Worlds
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I think they were just afraid because I was undermining their perception of reality.