GreeningGalaxy

[every swear word I know directed at my mega-strength life-ruining nuclear hiccups] Sugar.

Floor 923: You are passed on the stairs by a group of burly kerbals in uniforms which say "security" across the back, who thunder grumpily downwards while muttering something about "gosh darn bionicles in the building again." As you continue up the stairs, you think you hear faint sounds of breaking glass and rending steel below.

The barrier between the GreeningUniverse and the megaverse breaks down, and both universes begin sharing quantum foam micro-wormholes. In an unorthodox move, I instantly force every last drop of my universe's zero-point vacuum energy through the wormholes leading to the megaverse. The massive increase in vacuum energy density causes the megaverse to destabilize and collapse instantly into nothing, taking everything related to Bionicles, space marines, Toa, hype-constructs, and ponies with it. The GreeningUniverse, now devoid of all vacuum energy, ceases to exist. The stars visible through my semitransparent skin wink out, and my body suddenly goes back to being a normal, biological body composed of tissues instead of galactic superstructures. In an unlikely event, a spiral galaxy somehow survives the death of the GreeningUniverse and becomes locked in a tiny, down-scaled bubble of space inside my ribcage. A small fraction of the energy output of the stars within it is fed directly into my bloodstream, giving me access to a smaller-but-still-considerable array of spatial manipulation powers. GreeningUniverse becomes GreeningGalaxy! Fortunately, I managed to expel myself from Jool's atmosphere before I did that. I may be floating unprotected in open space now, but I've always been able to do that without much trouble. Fiery reentry over a gas giant planet is an entirely different matter. As a physical being, I once again have to actually interact with the universe around me at all times rather than simply ghosting through it whenever I pleased the way I did when I was a universe. I create a bubble of polarized space surrounding myself, altering my velocity from a Jool escape trajectory to an encounter with Laythe. I try to reify myself a glass of water, but a large sphere of ice materializes above the palm of my hand instead. Quantum vacuum manipulation is harder than it used to be, I guess. I try to melt the ice by directing a diffuse beam of high-power infrared into it, but I end up vaporizing it instead. Guess I'll have to wait until splashdown at Laythe for a drink. My projected landing site on Laythe.

5016: The humans catch Kerbin Kough, a viral infection which is quite common and mostly harmless to kerbals. To the humans, however, the disease seems to behave a lot more like airborne Ebola. The colonization effort on Kerbin fails in much the same way as every other attempt to colonize anything by humans. 5017: A misguided unit of the Kerbal Marine Corps arrives at Sentar with the intent of destroying Erin with a large (but probably inadequate) antimatter warhead. However, their nuclear thermal engine is sabotaged by Erinite spies and accidentally dumps its entire molten salt core out the back of the rocket, and the warship undergoes high-velocity unscheduled lithocapture on the surface of Thud. The antimatter warhead is fired on an intercept course for Erin at the last second, but is itself intercepted long before it reaches the moon and its one thousand tons of valuable antimatter are extracted and confiscated.

Your lunar super laser (probably of only a few pitiful petawatts at best) agitates a column of Jool's atmosphere and gives rise to a short-lived storm system, but is hardly able to do worse than that to a gas giant planet which already absorbs many times the power of your laser in solar radiation. I decline to purchase anything at your muffin sale. My boycott.

Floor 917: You cannot stop on floor 917; this floor is occupied with electromagnetic flux-pinning machinery designed to provide the building with some extra support way up here, and only authorized engineering personnel have the key to the stairwell door for this level.

You successfully split one atom. It doesn't create much of a fireball or lightshow, but the display of finesse and dexterity elicits some applause from the GreeningUniverse sisters in any case. At the offer of free pizza in exchange, we ensure that you get to keep the hill and that it remains defended. The quantum superposition forces holding my sister and me as separate entities wear off. GreeningUniverse-Alpha and GreeningUniverse-Beta become GreeningUniverse! I enter the atmosphere over Jool and begin to descend towards the metallic hydrogen layers below. This will take some time, but I might as well preemptively lay claim to Jool as it is. My Jool.

0/10 - Where did you come from? o:

7/10 - a soldier? I can't quite tell.

Yes, sir, our finest stone soup. Did you not know this diner is world-famous for it? Waiter! There's a passive-aggressive note in my soup!

Then mammalian biology would work a lot differently. What if, instead of just a capsule icon, KSP showed a tiny, low-detail model of your current vessel in the map view?

I don't hate it, but the physics that I used to let slide now .... me off to no end. The user below me owns a laser pointer.

Wrong. My/our abilities can extend for billions of light years. It wouldn't make sense if they couldn't, because our universe-bodies are each 90 billion light years across at their narrowest. Meanwhile, we allow the space marines to take us to their hills, whereupon we anchor ourselves to the ground and turn our gravitational constants deeply negative for a moment, blasting the space marines away. My sister and I do a reference frame-pinch, bringing our two hills directly adjacent to each other to the north and south despite being miles away. Our hills.

Well yes, you'd definitely have a window and not just stick the camera out in the open. The trouble is, though, I don't think there are very many transparent-enough materials that can match the heat tolerance of the best heat-resistant metal. That's why I think the shielded-shutter idea might help a little bit, to protect the transparent window and the instruments behind it while not in use. You could probably further improve the window's survivability by making it very small and surrounding it with active cooling tubes, but a shielded shutter would probably help a lot too.

Would it make any sense to have a tiny openable viewport with a tough metal shield over it for a camera? You could just pop it open for a split second to take a picture and check the light level before closing it again. Eventually even that little exposure would break the camera, of course, but it might cut down on cumulative exposure effects as you dropped deeper and deeper. Is having something that works as a good shield but can also open and close for a camera very quickly even feasible?

Then ...everyone would use it? Everyone already does use it. Except for the ones that don't, obviously. Then everyone would stop complaining about it. What if I checked out 20 books from the library?

10/10 the one with the train that isn't GregroxMun.

I reinstate the Bionicle Free Zone and add a spatial diversion field around it which makes it impossible to view, destroy, or otherwise interact with. I also issue a statement saying that the kerbals do in fact have free will and that I am not in control of them, nor have I visited or interacted with their planet for over a hundred years. I also mention that the bubble of antibionicles belongs to me and will stay that way.

5011: An unexplained loss of antimatter containment strands the Kerbals on Erin. They don't really care, because Erin is so much prettier than Kerbin anyway. also oh my god I feel physical agony from having to watch your sig while I type I swear

SyntaxError: Property undefined; post null. I set up a Bionicle Free Zone surrounding my hill, a sort of Faraday bubble in which no matter, energy or information related to Bionicles can exist. My peace and quiet.

Oh man! I love those. My phone is an Android and has the default Google camera app, so it has a 'photo sphere' function that lets you take a mosaic of your surroundings which it then stitches together (often hilariously badly) into a spherical panorama, which you can then make into a little planet if you like. Hours of fun. Those look like they're taken more or less all at the same time, though, rather than as mosaics- how is that done? What kind of camera do you need? Edit: Okay, I'm relatively sure that the Curiosity rover takes its pictures as mosaics- those are just stitched a lot better than my phone can manage. I'm still perplexed about the rocket launches, though- is it just a really wide angle lens for the rocket and then everything else is taken after the actual launch?

GUNS GUNS GUNS ropes.

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Banned for sudoing spreadingscience.