GreeningGalaxy

*spark* I'm not entirely sure what you hoped to accomplish with that anyway. Now there's a fireball over you and an angry warship under you. yes, I know that US naval airships used helium. hush.

I can assure you, sir, that a nuclear weapon small enough to fit in your soup bowl would never be able to exceed the critical mass of any known fissionable material, and would therefore be almost entirely harml- Oh! Yes, right you are, sir, let me just nip off and call bomb control! Let's all stay very, very calm for the time being, and start moving towards the door with some expedience. I don't like the look of that countdown timer, sir. How did that get in your soup, anyway? Waiter? There's a Color out of Space in my soup! It's spreading to the eyes of everyone who looks upon it, and I think my soup is shrinking as it cools.

Sun. The mud. It's getting old. Yes, you're allowed to like mud. It's fine. No one's judging you for it. What we don't like is that every single post you make features a picture of someone's boots in the mud, which often has very little to do with the thread at hand, and seems to be intended as just yet another reminder of what you've already made abundantly clear- you like mud. Message received. Thank you! Can we move on yet? Let's see if anyone can top the BadS=true level of this photo of an airship docked to a regular one.

I don't think you learn any less about space travel if you follow tutorials. Now, granted, you don't exactly learn all that much either way compared to actually going to college and majoring in astrophysics or something, but all I did at the beginning was follow Scott Manley's maneuver node tutorials, and now I have a significantly improved idea of how orbital mechanics work than I did before. These days, I sometimes don't even use maneuver nodes out of laziness / just to see how far I can get before I have to use one (usually all but the inital encounter burn), which ends up creating trainwreck missions like my last one to Eeloo. In all seriousness, though, I think just playing with maneuver nodes and understanding what they do goes a very long way towards teaching you orbital mechanics, regardless of whether or not you watch tutorials or use Mechjeb to follow the nodes for you after you create them. Figuring it out on your own might give you a sense of satisfaction, but I think if you manage to land on another body in KSP, you'll arrive with a better understanding of physics no matter how you do it. Hyperedit and jump drive mods nonwithstanding, of course.

6/10 for avatar, but -1/10 for repetitive mud posts.

Well, I can think of one... who actually uses green-on-black terminal colors anyway?

You get one, but you can't play it without being sucked inside Tron-style. I wish I didn't have to go to class in like five minutes.

The year is 2051. Commander John A. Madden of the Multinational Space Association is stuck behind a desk on Mars Station, managing the station's day-to-day operations. He's more than qualified as an engineer to be a part of the Jupiter expedition leaving next month, but the MSA has seen fit to keep him where he is, just as they have for the past twelve years. Today's scheduled shipment of supplies approaches the station. Madden opens the docking port shield, then turns to the communication screen and opens his mouth to clear the ship for docking. Before he can say a word, three gleeful faces appear on the screen, doubled over with mirth in the microgravity. "John Madden!" one says, between fits of wild, hilarious laughter. "John Madden! John Madden! John Madden!" The other two join in, flooding the cramped space with a mind-numbing flood of nonsensical drivel. "Yoyoyoyoy-" "Questionmark exclamation point! Question mark excla-" "Nine nine nine! Nine nine nine! Nine-" "Aeiou! Aeiou! Ae-" "Brbrbrbrbrbrbr!" Commander John Madden slams his fist against the communication computer's power button until the noise stops, the screen goes black, and the hard drive whines to an abrupt halt, then reaches over to the control panel and closes the docking port. John A. Madden is a broken man leading a cursed life, all because an ancient, meaningless meme couldn't be left to die.

Hunf. Guess I'm done here, then.

Granted. It is now spelled "Scott Fairy Fairy Fairy Manley." The fairies in the middle will disappear one by one as he uses his three wishes. I wish peanut butter wasn't so expensive in Chicago.

Banned for wrong thread.

The biplane has an autopilot which automatically engages when my hands leave the controls. (It's a really fancy high-tech biplane, okay?) I wake up a few minutes later and land safely. I unleash a swarm Alcubierre-bubble nanobots on the next poster- they each travel in microscopic warp bubbles, and whenever they collide with matter, they use the influx of particles and energy created by the interaction of atoms with the bubble boundary to construct more nanobots and warp bubbles. They're impossible to see coming until it's too late, and their numbers are such that they can wipe out an entire star system in a matter of hours.

banned because it took me a moment to get the joke in the pic in your sig. sure did lol when I did get it, though

Arthur C. Clarke's physics is all wrong because everyone knows you can't have nuclear fusion!

In a no-holds-barred scenario, I'd prefer one just under the ice of Enceladus. Nice low gravity, lots of water to use for everything, and, if I picked the right side, a great view of Saturn and its rings. The water would also be easy to electrolyze and use as fuel, and then the other awesome moons of Saturn (like Titan!!) would be in easy reach. Of course, in real life, I would be totally against landing anything on Enceladus or Europa besides completely-sterilized uncrewed probes, because contaminating a world that could possibly have alien life with Earth life would be tragic. Instead, I think some tiny moonlet of Jupiter or Saturn (Elara, maybe? Cute name), or maybe even a Kuiper Belt object like Pluto or Eris, which would be an excellent place for secrecy, but not a great spot for remote monitoring (which I don't personally care about anyway). My very favorite idea just from a great-place-to-live perspective would be a floating airship base on Jupiter. It would have to float high enough that storms wouldn't wipe it out within a day or two, and ideally, low enough that the atmosphere would filter out the worst of all that angry radiation floating around out there. You'd also have a beautiful view of all the cloud layers and storm formations (I hear Jupiter has fantastic lightning), and might be able to filter useful things from the atmosphere. So yeah, floating base on Jupiter would be awesome. Of course, it would require some mad fancy technology like vacuum-filled airships or maybe some kind of physics shenanigans to use the magnetosphere for superconductor flux pinning (probably impossible, but would be cool), but we're already making the assumption that we can fly a random girl out to Jupiter just because she asked, so that's comparatively trivial. I like this train of thought, though.

The user below me sells black-market wheat and wheat by-products.

*crashes through door* *pants heavily* Reporting for duty, sir!!

This particular part of Gravity was the most annoying to me. Not only was it completely bogus (He was nearly stationary relative to her, so he pretty much should have already been moving back towards her, even if his pack weighed two tons. A slight tug might not have done it, but she was giving him a good 15 seconds of focused yank, which should have been enough to shift a very considerable weight in space), but it could have been fixed very easily- just make the station have gained some spin from the debris strikes. It probably would have, too, especially if a module depressurized asymmetrically. If they'd done that, not only would they have made it realistic for him to experience a force (centrifugal force) pulling him away from the station, but it would have added to the dizzying and disorientating mood of the film to have her trying to board the station while it was spinning (and deal with the forces while trying to get around inside) while probably keeping it easy enough to keep track of what was happening. It's not just an example of movies forgetting about how physics works for creative license, its an example where the correct physics would actually have made a better movie.

Leaked NASA feed of Wheatley and the Space Core about three minutes after the end of Portal 2. That portal full of air launched them onto nothing more than a low sub-orbital trajectory, on account of them being heavy, relatively aerodynamic metal spheres.

A video is the same a picture, right? Just a lot of pictures. With sound.

"I skipped straight to Act 5 because I wanted to meet the Trolls first. The first four acts aren't that important, are they?"

Actual youtube comment. not especially sfw "World of Goo is okay but the music is really boring."

I shall now attempt to confuse Fett with an entirely bogus cutaway diagram of a lightsaber. Like seriously, what do those irregular bits of quartz hope to accomplish? And why is there a PCB so close to a tube carrying hot plasma? Oh, nevermind.