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I'm pretty happy with the current rate of updates. I would love to see more dev-blogs in the vein of Harvesters procedural craters article however. Part of the appeal of buying into the early-access / alpha model (to me at least), is the potential to get an insight to the development process itself.

I think that in the context of discussing the radiation surrounding Chernobyl, some may find the following youtuber interesting: https://www.youtube.com/user/bionerd23 Therein you will find her literally frolicking through parts of the exclusion zone, digging up bits of nuclear fuel from the ground. With her hands. You want to know the kicker? She recieved less radiation on her Chernobyl trip, than on a trip to a Brazilian beach.

Can't wait to take my thorium-powered car for a spin on one of those.

Haven't gotten that far, but comments like '(I) find their arguments compelling - even though I'm NOT a scientist.' do make me smile.

Yes please.

HAL was given orders that came into conflict. HAL reasoned that killing the crew was the only way to proceed with the mission. It was a logical decision, not madness.

In my day, we didn't have a place to go. And it took ages to get there. And we had to walk there. In the snow.

I had heard another theory, namely that by not having a round number, the cashier has to give change, therefore having to put it through the register and not simply pocketing the cash. The seems cheaper than it is theory is what I'd go with personally.

I would disagree with it being defined as racist - the idea is usually applied across all early civilizations without any particular prejudice. However I agree with the sentiment, it carries the idea that humans are incapable of any real achievement. I don't think that is intended so much as an insult to earlier civilizations, more that it is intended to influence the mindset of the individual in the present day in a negative way. I always get a chuckle that moreoften than not, the people expounding theories like these (and any of the overarching control conspiracy-theories) are usually the ones screaming that the 'sheeple' must be woken up. As an aside, I loved the Mysterious Cities of Gold when I was younger.

There were two other books in the series. I want to see 2061 and 3001 before we think about remaking the first one tbh.

To a Discordian, the version number positively jumps out at you. In fairness though, we very nearly did have an update. Sometimes these things take as long as they take.

One thing that I might suggest is to look at whether there is comms available between the ailing craft and mission control. The ability of the guys back home to come up with the solution which is then relayed to the astronauts would probably have a large influence in the success of any repair. Beyond that, when there's no comms available, a smart kerbal probably can fix it, wheras a badass presumably hits it with a hammer till it works. Good luck anyway!

It's worth hunting down a copy of the screenplay. There's a huge amount of notes describing what is going on in the final part of the movie. I actually loved 2001 when I saw it for the first time, particularly for the high-strangeness of the last part.

I think this comes closest to what I would suggest. Were I to propose a challenge, I would set it on the basis of 'do it however you want, BUT tell us how you did it.' At the end of the day, people complete challenges for a sense of being able to demonstrate to themselves and others that they have mastered KSP to some extent. There is no reward for completing a challenge other than the praise of the community (that I've seen so far anyway), and in general we already pretty much seem to be in agreement about what sort of things are genuinely challenging (Type A), versus trivial to complete (Type E). Therefore it seems to me that challenges that specifically pre-exclude people are doing the wrong thing, for the right reason. It reduces the number of people willing to do a challenge even before the challenge has begun, with the only benefit that assigning the winner is then a bit easier. This becomes an issue if no-one actually participates in the challenge. Obviously, lying about how you did the challenge would still result in disqualification.

Remember the good old days when parents let TV be a babysitter? It's not so different today.

Ilivid is a download manager promoted by some file-hosting sites. It wouldn't surprise me at all that AVG would find something in it, it practically screams spyware. BSOD is usually related to an out of date driver, or a hardware issue.

I'm in the process of switching my fuel tugs to use the kerbodyne tanks, and a couple of my larger asteroid tugs use them too, but thats it at the moment.

Apologies for nitpicking, but C would traditionally be considered as a high-level language, although it is quite close to the metal. What you would consider a low-level language would be machine code, or assembly. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-level_programming_language Not that this necessarily invalidates your main point however.

Before we had the alarm clock, we were a species that occasionally went to space. With the alarm clock, we're a space-faring species! All hail the alarm clock!

I very much agree. Pure science is unbiased, but it is carried out by people. I'm not sure I've ever met a person who was utterly unbiased. Scientists can be as dogmatic about their beliefs as anyone else. The greatest answers almost invariably lead to more profound questions, and there are often small caveats where one or two little things do not fit in with accepted theories, yet they are ignored because of the general utility of the theory. Where it goes wrong in my opinion is when we forget that these are all methods of modelling the world, and as the saying goes; the map is not the territory, the menu is not the meal. We're all occasional missionaries in that sense - any time we say that 'this is how it is', we're doing it.

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Actually I was unaware of the outcry, but it does not surprise me in the slightest. It did strike me that the new series seems to place more emphasis on the historical conflict between Christian Belief Systems and science. Ironic really, considering mainstream Christianity today generally embraces the scientific worldview, and still finds room for faith. I don't count myself as religious (my grandfather was a clergyman, so I had a fair amount of exposure growing up), but I look at the evolution of the entire Universe - which can pretty much be explained from Big-Bang forward, right up to where we are now. That's where I find whatever faith I have left. But here's the thing: I recognise that my Belief Systems are just that. They're a set of tales I tell myself to essentially handwave away the things I cannot explain or find irrefutable answers to. I refuse to be dogmatic, I recognise that my BS is imperfect, as are all BS. To question someone's BS is probably the best thing you can do for them - it's how we arrive at better, more meaningful answers. People opposing a show like Cosmos, are not defending their faith, they are against thinking.

Seriously, could you not make it bigger?

I've been watching it, I'm glad it exists, but honestly I preferred the original series.

Strangely I don't find any links or video on that page OP linked to. If it was me, I'd invoke DMCA, it's what it's there for. If you're feeling nice, contact him and allow him a short amount of time to take it down before you go the nasty route. If I went this route I'd probably want some kind of public apology though. His age is irrelevant. Tracing his IP is unlikely to help you much, I doubt his ISP cares particularly what he uploads to youtube or wherever as long as he's not DOSing you or something like that.