Diche Bach

Very nice stuff; except needs moar boosters. Post your mod list?

Bummer. All this space stuff is so complicated: radiation, gravity, no air . . . sheesh

Makes sense: hot hydrogen gas is greater volume which increases internal pressure in the tank, so they gotta do something. "Venting so you don't explode," that is very similar to the process of Transference. These ideas to vent to H into a separate tank and use it as monopropellant sound like a good idea, but not very creative. Would it be cost effective to send up enough empty tanks to capture the boil-off H and then somehow reuse it? For that matter, I would think that there is _energy_ in that transition change else in the gaseous hydrogen no? Put one of your turbine thingamajigs in there to use that phase transition to make electricity out of the boil-off and then use that to solve the energy crisis! Seriously though, you physical scientists and engineer types really need some creative social scientist thinkers to help you with these things sometimes

That was mercilessly good Ming, thanks.

LOL. You and Moon Goddess are full of it. "Boil-off" evidently just means that it turns into "waste" gaseous hydrogen. It is still inside the big metal can in space, it just isn't useful as a reactive fuel once it transitions from liquid to gaseous state. Though evidently some genius thinks they might be able to use it as a monopropellant.

Is there a reason to suspect that it would NOT be metastable? So I'm gathering that the prospect of extracting it from Jupiter is actually not very feasible based on your comments K^2, and yeah, now that I think of it: way far away, and under enormous amounts of gas. Would seem to be pretty hard to even get "close" to the surface of Jupiter's atmosphere without getting sucked into for goners, and you'd need a really long borehole to mine it from orbit, eh? Kind of a big job given where we stand right now, heh heh!

I had heard of metallic hydrogen. Sounds like it will eventually make exploration and mining of Jupiter quite lucrative. Sadly, I doubt that will occur in any of our lifetimes.

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Just wanted to say a great big THANKS! for this mod! Really fills in the gaps and brings options and variety to the game!

Ah very good news! Agree on this. The 'solution' for me in Civ was a mod that slowed the game down dramatically. Instead of only having 3 turns to make use of your nifty knew bronze spear points, you'd get 30 or 40.

Ah, so "hermetic" is a relative concept I see!

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I wonder if an elliptical galaxy might not be easier to implement? One game I'd want to point out (to other players and the Devs) as being worth a serious look (just to see how such things have been successfully modeled in other games) would be Distant Worlds. Their fanbase are very devoted and I have to agree it is probably the best 4x space game out there at this point. To not learn from what this game does well would be folly.

Must say, I don't get how something can "boiloff" if it is inside of an hermetic big metal can in space.

Ah I see. Well I'm glad that work got published cause it is contrary to the prevailing generalizations using cognitive tests. I'm very surprised that there were any studies with reaction time instruments that could be matched going back that far in history. Also, I would very much question the generalizability of such old samples and also the fact that a meta-analysis of 14 studies is not very large. There are literally millions of people in hundreds of societies from virtually all walks of life and at all ages who have taken standardized IQ tests over the last 80 years. Whether they are valid indicators of "Intelligence" or not, I think we can safely conclude that the patterns of results in whatever it is they are measuring are representative of large swaths of humanity. Not something I think would be safe to conclude based on one meta-analytic study of 14 studies over 100 years. The other thing to keep in mind is that, "IQ" is generally based not on reaction time. Depending on what they mean by "reaction time" it might not even have any relation to explicit or 'intentional cognitive process so much as to implicit cognitive ability, which nonetheless is a very interesting index. Suffice to say, the prevailing generalization in psychology is that there has been an increase in IQ since the 1930s in most parts of the world where reasonable data sets exist to allow such an historical comparison. Because IQ is a culture-bound construct, this might only reflect changes in education and institutionalized knowledge sharing, and not really reflect on changes in innate intelligence or any other innate cognitive ability. If people in 2000 spend their entire lives preparing for things that resemble IQ tests, then it stands to reason that they would do better at such tests than people in 1940 who underwent less intensive educational preparation for such things.

I don't think I understand what the stated purpose of SLS and Orion missions are enough to answer about the technical aspects of your question. But as an anthropologist, I think one very reasonable explanation for why NASA has these proposals going would hinge on: pride (national pride in particular, but 'agency' pride too) and perceived self-interest (could say "greed" but it is more complicated than that). A pragmatic interest to not being 'dependent' on other nations for future objectives is also a very reasonable perspective. But yeah, I thought the whole point (or one of the major ones) of a space station was to serve as a foundation for much more efficient interplanetary operations.

Its weird for me. I must've played this game about 130 hours or thereabouts, and I have yet to even try to dock. Just haven't progressed that far yet. I'm fortunate that I can spend a lot of time on gaming at this stage in my life (though that won't be the case for too much longer). As such, I tend to play any new game I get with a definite "Master crawling thoroughly, before ever trying to walk . . ." kind of mentality. I'm often amazed at how quickly other players report having zipped through a game. For example, I think my Steam says "255 hours of play" for Skyrim (which I haven't touched for over six months) and a lot of that was just play-install mods-play-install mods kind of 'retooling my setup.' With that much play, I had only really visited two cities in the game world, and I doubt I had seen any more than 10 or 15% of the map. Mostly I just wandered around, having random encounters and doing a few quests just to get settled into the game world. Anyway, just an idea that (maybe?) spending more time just focusing on the basics and developing good 'muscle memory' for the game in general can be a way to get better.

Yeah, I heard such mediocre things about Spore I never even bothered. Sucks when such promising things turn out so lame.

OMG, reminded me of this . . . Crush your enemies, see them driven before you . . .

Yes very much indeed! I have worked in education most of my life and I have slowly developed a vague idea that there is tremendous untapped potential in applying computer games or other interactive problem solving technology to education. KSP, for a commercial product that is clearly being presented merely as a "game" is amazingly successful at moving toward this revolutionary goal. I still couldn't handle the maths behind most of this. But having played this, I've learned more about classical mechanics than I ever might have learned by jumping into the maths headfirst. That probably sets me up to get much MORE of a 'traditional' technical approach to such topics. Indeed! A truly amazing human achievement. It is particularly edifying to see so many nations cooperating so efficiently and effectively for so long, up there in the heavens. It perhaps suggests that 'we can all get along' after all, which is inspiring! ADDIT: Wow fascinating video! I'm actually a bit surprised at how cluttered everything is on the inside, though the barcode reader thing made it all make a lot more sense. I'd think there would be a risk of doing something dangerous by accidentally grabbing something or flipping a lever what with all those cables and hoses and stuff dangling all over the place.

Not sure what you're talking about. Not surprised if the Flynn Effect is considered by some (if not many) to be controversial. But I've never seen anyone claim an actual _decline_ in IQ over the decades. Unless you are referring only to a specific population, or limited time range?

IQ has been steadily going up for decades. If not for all the sound-bite distractions and impulse facilitators that teens and pre-teens cope with in their typical environments, I'm guessing the average 10 year old could do much better at this game than the average 20 year old. I tend to think that 10 year olds today are in fact "smarter" than 10 year olds of 20 years ago, despite any superficial appearances otherwise. That said, yes, I think with the options that most juveniles and teens who might be in KSP's target market have at their disposal, KSP is not likely to be sufficiently alluring to compete with the other options.

LOL, it wasn't until yesterday's Wiki surfing session that I knew the International Space Station had been continuously in operation for 12 years ! I mean sure I had heard of it, and knew it was 'up there (at least sometimes?). Everything is trivia from a given perspective. So here is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek question: Why not just buy and use Soyuz? Or just keep using Soyuz and ISS via Baikonur based on the existing treaties for that matter? It seems to be working right now, right? I could see the bureaucratic/technical/economic issues involved in having to get our projects/people onto Russian rocket launches as being one possible "real" reason to not just rely on Soyuz and Baikonur. But I wouldn't be surprised if "national pride" were in fact a significant part of why NASA and certain elements of the U.S. want to have a replacement for the Space Shuttle. That combined with an interest on the part of U.S. firms to get a piece of the pie so to speak . . . NOT saying either one of those motivations are 'evil' nor even for that matter 'bad.' I myself am a bit of a patriotic profiteer. But on the other hand, the fact that we have for quite some time now been cooperating with the Soviets . . . *Ahems!* . . I mean _Russians_ is a rather mindbogglingly GOOD development from the standpoint of our historical international relations. Anything that moves long time former enemies closer to being bosom permanent pals is a good thing I say.

Career mode and resources. Take us a few steps closer to the ultimate KSP + Civilization dream game!

I envy that you live in San Francisco and have a "vastly profitable" job