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    The Roof is on Fire

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted

    they are not OP because they have very slow terminal velocity ; ie its not the fact that 1 chute can slow down a full booster slow enough to land it that is the problem.

    What makes chutes OP is that you can just open them at like 40km hile re entering at 3500m/s and they will not burn nor tear apart and they will slow you down freaking 25gs very easily. THAT´s what makes the chutes OP

    RealChute

    Skipped re-entry?

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    Rain, it really isn't that hard to skip, the trick is to set your periapsis so it is not too deep into the atmosphere that you land on the planet, in this case, Kerbin until you come around again for another run! Overall, this is a good way to save fuel, but, if it is a manned flight, it may not be keen (especially if you are using a life support mod like TAC Life Support). In fact, IRL, it is considered far better to reenter the atmosphere via a direct reentry and take the higher G reentry, than to risk the lives of the crew by performing a skipped reentry!

    No, that's also just aerobreaking

    Do you want a memorial on Laythe for Leonard Nimoy?

    in KSP1 Suggestions & Development Discussion

    Posted

    I would like to clarify that I was not suggesting we have individual memorials for all the people who worked on the Apollo program. If the people who worked on Apollo are fine with the Armstrong memorial representing the entire Apollo program, I have no issue with there not being a separate memorial for engineers/rocket scientists/other people who worked on Apollo. However, it would be nice to have an update to the Armstrong memorial on the Mun with the addition 'Also Dedicated to all the men and women who worked on the Apollo Missions.' Or something like that. I guess it just seems wrong to me that only the guy(s) that went there gets to be memorialized rather than all or most of the people who made it possible, however that is just my opinion on the subject.

    While on the memorialization topic, do the many Squad monoliths count as memorials to Arthur C. Clarke, Kubrick, and the other people involved with 2001: A Space Odyssey?

    Why would they be?

    If anything, they are a wink to the movie itself

    Do you want a memorial on Laythe for Leonard Nimoy?

    in KSP1 Suggestions & Development Discussion

    Posted

    All you saying that there should not be a memorial for him because he didn't make "meaningful contributions to space exploration" all offend me quite deeply. The entirety of Star Trek had a huge impact on real life space exploration. The younger audiences of the show were inspired to pursue science and space exploration. Even NASA decided to name the space shuttle test craft "Enterprise" to commemorate the shows contributions.

    For that reason I think an entire star trek memorial should be made. Since sadly, many other of the meaningful people involved in that show are dead or close to.

    Just because these actors didn't actually have a direct impact on space exploration they inspired others to do so.

    "To be recognizable for space exploration you have to be an astronaut"

    Dumbest reason for someone not being able to have a memorial or be recognized. The astronauts often are the lucky ones who make little contributions to space exploration. Its the engineers, ground control operators than actually make the missions happen. Without them the astronauts wouldn't be able to do much.

    People who never went to space yet had huge contributions to rocket and space technology like Goddard and Von Braun and other engineers should not be recognized cauz dey nevr wnt 2 spac.

    Sure, but that is still reason enough to not put a memorial to some actor, nomather how good an actor he was or how well known he was.

    For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    Image linked in the chat:

    http://s24.postimg.org/e95w93a5x/DSCF1710.png

    That stuff looks dangerous to me. Not sure if radioactive, considering the vial was not opened, meaning this is how it was originally stored. Does people store radioactive material in glass vials like these? Shouldn't it be in something...more protective, if they have any sense at all?

    Then again, we have no idea.

    Well, hospitals do use radioactive stuf for Xrays and stuf.

    I've read stories about people finding highly radiactive materials in abandonned hospitals that did indeed glow. The end result was not pritty, though in that story they oppened it

    I'd bring it to some kind of expert. And NOT keep it in your pants pocket while doing so

    What was you first contact with internet?

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    I'm significantly younger than most of you, the first time I used the internet was in 2000, when i was 4 years old. I had no idea what it was, just went to PBSkids.org and played what games and activities they had there. It was on a windows 95 machine.

    I didn't get into real video games and learning about computers until i was 10.

    Talk about growing up with the internet

    Would you like to be abducted

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    We're not talking about minors (legal issue, consent, etc.) so abduction is something done to a person against their will.

    I think his point was more that, after it has been against your will, you might find out that the aliens actually wanted to make you filthy rich. And they just didn't know how to ask.

    That's techniqually an adbuction, but would make you very happy.

    Against your wil is not the same as 'do not want'. Techniqually, it could just mean you never got the chance to say yes

    Frankenstein becoming real :/

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    Are they certain that it isn't a body transplant

    Techniqually I think it is a full body transplant yes.

    The head is where your personality is stored, so that would be the most logical anchor to define who the new person is. Everything forgein to that person has been transplanted.

    Though the different physiology and hormone levels would obviously cause huge changes in personality

    this is impossible, do not worry. heads cannot survive 5 seconds minus bodies.

    Yet. Why couldn't a head survive without the body? All it gets from the body is blood.

    If you can reroute the blood circulation in such a way that you can remove the head without interupting it's blood circulation, wouldn't that make it survive?

    What was you first contact with internet?

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    I have no idea.

    I THINK it already existed when I started using a computer, but I'm not sure. It would have been late 90's

    I do remember dial-in, and I'm pritty sure I only used it for 'research' back than (legitimate research, just not very serious as I was not even in high school at the time)

    Would you like to be abducted

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    Now wrap this around, how would you do it, you are in orbit around an planet with 1950-2020 technology in a stealthed starship.

    You have some dead bodies from an remote accident or warzone but want some live aliens to examine, they have to be returned unharmed without much disruption.

    The most ethical would be to snatch some who was in mortal danger and about to die, however this can be hard to find or dangerous as you might have to enter an storm or active warzone.

    Easiest would be someone alone in an remote area, having them wake up drunk or drugged might be an benefit.

    That depends on the mission.

    Exploration and just stumbled upon the planet?

    Already known and researching?

    Debating weither or not to make first contact?

    Or more nefarious goals?

    Asuming it has already been determined who the dominant/inteligent species is (1950+ equivilant, that's going to be a very easy thing to figure out)

    As a scientists, the first thing I would probably do is tap into the race's knowledge banks. I have no doubt the concept of an internet would exists in all equivilant civilizations.

    With access to full translations between all respective languages, it should be relatively easy for my species language experts to translate them.

    In the mean time, remotely study behavoir, substance, ect. Once language has been translated, asuming the species has scientists themselves, study everything they know.

    All of this can be done without direct interaction. Even if there is no internet equivilant yet, knowledge is always written down somewhere.

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