Sirrobert

Just because you're floating doesn't mean there isn't gravity. There is still gravity pulling from a single direction, with a specific strenght. All life on earth has evolved under 1G gravity. Take away the most basic constant of life, and weird things happen. Yes there have been rats born in space. They had massive trouble with ballance. Can't tell up from down, presumably because they were born without the notion of an up and down http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v27n1/rats.shtml Genes are the blueprint. Designed asuming a very specific set of circumstances. Disrubt the circumstances, you disrupt the excecution of the blueprint

With the exception of decouplers/seperators, all non engine parts can crosfeed fuel

That's why we're here

Well if you replace the lawnmowers with lumberjacks in the rainforests... We kinda are

That's the thing, would battle in space even be possible? Orbits would be properly protected, and in intergalatic space, it's probably going to be impossible to even FIND a target. If there's no FTL, there will be no piracy, obviously. But if there is FTL, would combat be possible during FTL? I doubt it. So that's going to limit what piracy can do. Right, because that worked out so well the last time a bunch of rich countries tried it

Is that vague roundish blueish shape Pluto?

Where in my story am I talking about dependance? The colony is already independantly governed. But the corporation owns most industries on the planet (because it funded the development). So it'll be like BP or whatever owning the entire oil industry in some Middle Eastern country. What's stopping the planet from kicking them out? The same thing that's stopping said Middle Eastern country from kicking BP out.

Yea, all the changes that we humans cause are not JUST going to cause extinction. They are also going to cause new species. But that takes longer than the direct future, so noone takes that into account. But if Humanity were to survive the next thousand years, I have no doubt there will be many new, different species living next to us As he also explained, that's NOT taking into acount microscopic life forms, and species we don't know about in uninhabited parts of the world, and in the oceans

That is true, but let's not confuse the discussion about clarifying a theory further by adding dimensions. Though to respond, I have no doubt that, for beings that can observe other dimensions that we can, it might look completely different. If we asume that time (4th dimension) is finite, than a being observing a balloon made of those 4 dimensions should indeed see a finite thing. A theory I once saw on youtube science stuf (1 hour long video, very interesting) actually suggest that that is exactly how the Universe works. The Universe is basicly a balloon made up of the 4 dimensions that we have. And with string(?) theory saying there are 12(?) dimensions, there are also other Universes made up of a different combination of dimensions. It also suggested that, instead of stretching out infinitly, it indeed stretched like a balloon. So if you went constantly in 1 direction, you'd eventually reach your starting point again. Though the distance you have to travel would keep growing, because the balloon is still stretching (blowing up)

Having Kerbals that are able to do everything defeats the entire point of the actions being split in 3 classes

We've been here slightly longer than 50 years...

Roaches have already adopted. They thrive in our trash

There are hardly any protected species in the first world, because we already killed them. The only things left are species that have adopted

Sure. But this is the actual theory, instead of the foolishness people throw around about space having once been a single point

That's why corporations are going to be doing it. And setting up juicy trade contracts that support the colony in it's early years, and rake in big bucks once it's become a full fledged nations. Offcourse, these would be multi generational plans, so they'd require a big change in corporate structure

No. It's being able to ADEPT to everything Humans do to the world. Pidgeons and rats are thriving, and they aren't exactly usefull to us. But they make excelent use of the things we build and leave behind

A big amount of the confusions I see in this thread seems to be based on people not understanding what the Big Bang actually IS. It is FALSE that, at the time of the Big Bang, the Universe was compressed into a single point. The Universe was already infinitly big at the time of the Big Bang. explains it very wel. Imagine space as an infinite graph sheet (1 by 1 cm squares). Take a square, and zoom out until that square is visible only as a dot. That's the Big Bang (and time going forward is zooming back in)

I don't think there will ever be a united earth goverment. Atleast not while cultures exist as they do today. (and it'd require tearing down all current goverments and starting anew. So it'd be bloody) I believe it'll go like in a scifi book I read long ago, and can't remember the name off (which makes me sad, cause it was a triology and I only ever read the first book. I would love to read the rest one day). In that universe, new planets are formed by taking a group of 1 etnicity (so french cristians for example, or indian muslims, or whatever. Name a combination of culture and religion), stuffing it in a colonization ship, and sending it off to a planet. The result is that Earth is still as culturaly diverse as it is today (with all the different goverments, and relgions, and everything), but new planets all have a single governing body, and a single religion, ect (PS: If that rings a bell for anyone who knows the books, I'd love to know)

Yup

Sometime in .20 or something I tried to build something like that, alot shorter though. Wasn't stable, fell apart trying to drive it off the launch pad, and couldn't get it to orbit, so I ditched it. Now what are you going to do with that monster?

Yea, it's a little funny how the Mun does block the light, but it doesn't get dark

How are you 'testing' the decouplers? I'm pritty sure you need to activate those through the staging system (so hitting space) for the test to count. If you rightclick them and decouple, it doesn't count

Yea that pisses me off to sometimes. No actual gameplay effect though

It's far easier to plot an accurate trajectory with a manouver node from Orbit, than it is to try and calculate the exact time to launch, at the exact direction, all from the ground (without manouver node)

There's nothing to discuss really. Nothing any of us do/say will change anything