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I'd imagine the "strength" of an EMW and the "type" of wave, are two separate beasts. Frequency determines the type, and the amount of energy in the photon (or the number of them?) would determine the actual strength. For instance, I'd bet any and every wave with a frequency measured in milometers will always be a radio wave or microwave (therefor non-ionizing, irregardless of strength), while throwing more energy into it will decrease the rate of its attenuation, thereby increasing its range. I'm no EM expert, but this is my uneducated guess as to how it works. I imagine it's the same as having a G-String on a Violin. You can pluck it so softly you can barely hear it, or you can pluck it hard enough to be heard throughout an entire auditorium - in both cases the sound-wave heard is G.

I get an OOM CTD with this mod installed. Error.log Unity Player [version: Unity 4.5.2f1_9abb1b59b47c] KSP.exe caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005) in module KSP.exe at 0023:0172d554. Error occurred at 2014-07-27_031000. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Kerbal Space Program\KSP.exe, run by LK. 72% memory in use. 1024 MB physical memory [1024 MB free]. 2048 MB paging file [1024 MB free]. 0 MB user address space [542 MB free]. Read from location 00007ffc caused an access violation. outputlog.txt Clouds: Textures initialized (Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49) DynamicHeapAllocator out of memory - Could not get memory for large allocationCould not allocate memory: System out of memory! Trying to allocate: 178956972B with 4 alignment. MemoryLabel: NewDelete Allocation happend at: Line:0 in Overloaded New[] Memory overview ... d3d: failed to create 2D texture id=697 w=8192 h=4096 mips=14 d3dfmt=21 [out of memory] Crash!!! Just wondering if you lot had any advice, like "the x folder isn't important and can be removed to save memory" or "that's weird, maybe you've got a glaring issue because you shouldn't get oom's" n' stuff.

Thanks. I'll try this now. I also noticed that the mechjeb module added a lift vector when added to the finished rocket - a lift vector that threw the COL off the rocket centerline and off to the side somewhere. I think with your suggestion and removing mechjeb, I should be able to make my lunar return. Thanks.

Latest rocket: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/ssj14vegetajr/Rocket1_zpsa189d804.png For launch, I only use the 4 "boosters", burn those off then use the main. Long story short, it will flip on its back and break apart if there is ANY change in pitch before 25km. [Even a light 2 degree nudge is enough to end the flight]. Typical launch profile has become a launch, straight up, until about 25km, then I'll pitch over 90 degrees to round out the orbit. It's a horrible waste of Dv and I can't for the life of me make a lunar return flight with such a Dv loss. OBVIOUSLY I messed up somewhere. I just don't know where.

N00b question: How do you do gravity turns in the early stages of the tech tree? (With no RCS, but just simple airfoils and inertials)? Even a small 2* turn at any altitude (I can even start my GT @ 25,000m and do a light 2 degree bank from vertical) and I'll flip over backwards and tear my rocket apart. Every time. These aren't some crazy rockets. I'm talking a 2 stage rocket with two boosters on the sides. (Still early game). I tried doing a slight 1-2 degree bank right after liftoff so I can follow the prograde into the horizon, but there's absolutely no way to stop it from listing into retrograde and exploding. After a dozen or so small tweeks with the same result. TL;DR: Early game. Gravity turns. How?

I assume by "immortality", the OP means the "inability to die due to decay or old age." not "living until timespace explodes." The former is definitely possible. Living until you are killed (and the destruction of the Earth via the Sun is a pretty good way to go) is still immortality if you ask me, and that is where my comment about immortality being the most basic, natural instinct, came from. To be fair, every organism that has a sense of preservation is fighting to survive as long as possible. It's natural to push the limits as far as they can go.

Non-Ionizing Radiation: Dangerous in large quantities in the form of burns. Effects are both immediate and obvious. Ionizing Radiation: Dangerous in all quantities in the form of cancer, burns, or vaporization. Effects can be immediate or surface after decades. Radio Waves = Non-Ionizing Radiation. Therefor, the antenna transmitting radio waves are of no concern, unless you allow it to burn you.

The entire point of offspring is immortality of the species. Species and organisms strive to live as long as possible in a volatile world. The fact that our brains allow us to make offspring an inefficient method of immortalizing the species does not make it unethical. In fact, the opposite is true. Immortality is as natural as natural gets; It's what every organism and species strives for. Go out into a forest and listen to nature. What you'll hear is the sound of a thousand species just trying to get laid so their DNA can live on forever.

I have an ATP cert with my Private Pilots License. I live in Las Vegas, and the heat here (113*F this week. How wonderful) can sometimes keep me from falling asleep. The temperature stays above 100 at night, 85 inside the house, and there's no way I'm getting to sleep inside this stucco oven. It's not grounds for losing your medical. If you call in too much for being unfit to fly, though, you'll probably get leave restriction or something requiring a doctors note, and at that point you might encounter problems.

Considering I was quoting someone else, and not you, that's probably an accurate statement.

This might not be the case. The transporter is a technology. It is designed, just like the gun in both scenarios. If the designers design diss-assembly of the passenger at the origin, that's murder too. That's no different from designing a booth that vaporizes you when you press a button. In fact, it's the exact same thing, except the bonus is it copies you into a suicide booth somewhere else. (hopefully). At the most basic, fundamental level, murder is implied in both scenarios with the only difference being the creation of a life in the first.

Everyone seems to be against this idea in this thread, but if I had a couple of million dollars you'd bet my driveway and private road to my house would be using this roadway.

Money won't always be the backbone of human society. Work won't always be the primary purpose of human society. Communication and transportation will, like they have over the past several hundred years, drastically and unpredictably evolve. ^The above 3 concepts are crucial when predicting the future. People, still living, existed in a time when The Model T was the fastest thing on the roads. When World Wars had never been a concept. When telecommunications, photography, and railroads were in their most basic forms and when something as simple as a processor were something only aliens from outer space could own. Hollywood hadn't become a media centre and Brazil had the military capability to topple the United States. The next hundred years should be just as dramatic as far as change is concerned.

To answer the OP, No, I do not believe that an entirely new type of brain, CPU, what-have-you is necessary to create a brain incapable of logical fallacies. I personally think it is possible, however unlikely, for a human brain to have a sequence of neural connections that make it apparent to that brain when a logical fallacy is thought up. Considering there have been over 120,000,000,000 humans since the dawn of man, I also like to think that at least one of those unique brains has existed between our rise from the Horn of Africa to 2014.

What do the Jedi use to power their lightsabers? Use that.

Just remember two facts: 1.] You'll get out of it exactly what you put into it. [Time, energy, detail] 2.] You are not a AAA studio. You cannot build an AAA quality game. If you go into this with those two facts in mind, you'll get something great in return. I personally have a project of my own going that I've never told anyone about. It's an indie project I've been working on for a little less than five years now, with no less than 2 hours / day dedicated to working on it. (At times as much as 10 hours / day). The quality is utterly amazing, but I've set the bar so astronomically high it is impossible for me to finish in this life-time without getting help from a lot of equally skilled people like myself. I only keep at it now because it's become a fun hobby, and I never expect to finish the project before I die. Realizing the impracticability of success is probably the greatest drive there is.

The (observable) macro-structure of the Universe looks like neurons, axons, and dendrites in a brain. Another interesting fact is that the only way to observe the ultimate fate of the Universe is through (near) infinite acceleration. Driving "fast" gets you to the "destination" that is the end of time much quicker. @ 0.999 999 999 999 999 999 999 9951c, you could witness the "Big Freeze", "Big Crunch", "False Vacuum" or any other likely Universe-ending phenomenon in just a second or two.

Except you're starting from an altitude where the air is extremely thinner. It's been a few months since I've read up on aeronautical health factors and altitude, but I believe the air is already 50% thinner at 18,000 feet. That's a lot less resistance to burn through if my memory hasn't failed me again.

I see quotes in italics, but all other text on the forums are in standard font. This is written in italics, too, but this is not. If that's not the case for you then I imagine the culprit is not the forums but your user settings.

There are subatomic particles that, from what I understand, "fade into" and "out" of existence like cosmic bubbles. They appear from nothing and disappear into nothingness. They serve no purpose, have no meaning and exist simply to exist for a finite period of time. What if all of existence was just another one of those cosmic bubbles? No purpose, no reason to be - it just does - and will soon fade away for no other reason than because it will?

I have to disagree, Raven, People in real life are certainly just as cruel, rude, and disrespectful in person as on the internet. I've had the rudest most unbelievable things said to me without prompt over the past few years - though in my defense I also work in an environment that introduces me to slightly more than 50-75,000 people / day, so I get to meet a large chunk of the population on the daily. Most people are very, very quick to jump on the "I'm offended" bandwagon for any perceived unfairness, confusion or insult. Mot people are prone not to believe you (and I'm going to cite you here, because chances are you don't believe more than 75% of the things I've typed here.) irregardless of truthfulness of your statements, and most people are quick to say "no" when put into a situation that confuses them. I will add that this is also a cultural phenomenon. Other cultures, I'm talking primarily Asian ones like Japan, are perhaps the exact opposite. I've recently had the opportunity to spend the last three weeks in Japan and I can safely say that the "normal" personality is the direct opposite of the one found in America.

This is that thread! Why do most debates and discussions in the science labs turn into a flame war or "I'm right you're wrong" back and forth? Why are non-aggressive conversations, in the Science Labs and by definition in human interaction, so hard to uphold?

Why not? It's one of the few places in the Solar System where you can boil water, cook food, and enjoy a relaxing sauna without burning any resources.

As fun as a flyby sounds, I as a member of the public with very little knowledge in the sociopolitical-economics of space flight would be about a hundred times more interested to see man land on an alien world, be it Luna, Mars, or a martian moon. There's something enticing, almost romantic about watching those white spacesuits trek ever so heavenly across a terrestrial landscape with an alien sky hanging above.

One of the reasons why my post said "modern and future society" about ten times. Because now adays, that would not happen.