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NFUN

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  1. Ding ding ding! I doubt that is it, but it just feels right. Though it would probably take less than two days of work on it.
  2. Was that a common style among games back then?
  3. Wikipedia vandalists: just wait a few days or a week until they stop monitoring the page so much and try to sneak it in. If you keep trying to change the same page on the same day, the article will be upped a 'security color' and watched more closely. If you really care, then just wait, or buy off somebody with power in the Wikipedia network.
  4. Date pages seem to be reviewed extensively. It won't last for long.
  5. Which will give one tons of ore, assuming one can manage to land on it.
  6. It releases a week before AP exams. There won't be much time for KSP until they finish...
  7. So is Elite Dangerous. This type of measurement is tricky. KSP is mostly empty space with only a few points of interest that were somewhat randomly created, Minecraft is randomly and procedurally generated, Elite: Dangerous is procedural from a seed, etc. If everything is empty or random, than size doesn't really matter and is a poor metric.
  8. With functional aerodynamics, I assume that rockets will, for the most part, descend nose-down, and not sideways. Probably only the part leading the rocket experiences significant reentry heat.
  9. Yeah, that looks like some player is asking the question.
  10. Yes we can, we just need to try hard enough. We would simply need to build a few rockets, then nuke most of the world and cut the population down to just above nil.
  11. I hate the toroidal tank, it is best used for its glitches.
  12. I doubt that infinigliders will still work, because the calculations and modeling of drag, lift and control surfaces will be different. Changing the atmospheric density won't matter.
  13. Cr-cr-cr-craa-craft thumbnails? Craft... thumbnails. CRAFT THUMBNAILS!!!! WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN? Ten out of ten, ten outta ten, it's a mastapeece, amazing. Also, thank god that those first contracts get auto accepted/completed. It was really annoying to limit launches in .26, and more so with limited contracts in .90.
  14. F=ma Force of gravity = mass * acceleration = 9.8m 1000N = 9.8m 1000/9.8= 102 kg = 224 lbs That search was correct.
  15. In order to create the hydrogen, power plants must be used anyways. Fuel cells are just another type of battery, storing the energy used during electrolysis. This isn't an argument about clean energy, but of safety, efficiency, and maybe environmental friendliness in construction. I do like how you essentially said "study it out" though. Really builds up your credibility.
  16. Whack, I think you still had the full craft with the seperatrons saved, you just loaded the auto saved craft from when you first tested the legs.
  17. That stage can't be throttled, so in order to descend it needs to waste some thrust gimbaling laterally.
  18. I doubt it will have something so ridiculous as infinigliders or the souposphere. Old aero is horribly (but often entertainingly) unrealistic, and the new aero will probably be a huge improvement. It won't be simulator-level realism, but it will probably work roughly as it should, with most of the eccentricities being bugs or actual oddities of real life aerodynamics (Squad said that at least some supersonic effects will be added, for example).
  19. I knew it! Your video confirmed something I've been strongly suspecting for a while. Anyways, it was good, just a little more video fast forward for the laggy bits and a slightly louder mic would be nice.
  20. So long as you have blooper reels of Kerbin- (or Universe) destroying explosions.
  21. The photon sphere wouldn't be bright unless many photons were escaping (and thus the sphere were decaying if not being refueled). Unless some photons left the sphere and made it to an observer, they would be unable to be seen. If they were around a black hole, of course, some crazy crap would probably happen and this post would likely not apply.
  22. Mun and back in less than half an hour. He is scrapping that design though.
  23. many times that mass, which will push with more force the tank parts or the air around. No, it won't. Pressure is determined by the amount (moles) of the gas, not its weight.
  24. Wish my old man were around to tell you his scuba diving stories. While a tank can be good for many thousands of charges, damage is invisible to the naked eye and hard to detect even with specialist equipment. yeah is possible.. but still not sure how severe would be a 700 bar h2 tank explossion vs a 700 bar air tank. The h2 diffuse faster so it does not provide (in my theory) much acceleration to the tank parts as it will any other element compressed under the same pressures. Pressure is pressure. No matter the gas, the contents of the tank will expand rapidly and be pretty destructive. If it diffuses faster (not entirely sure what you mean by that in this situation) than should it not be even more destructive by spreading out faster? if your car suddenly filled with hydrogen, you'd have 9-12 seconds of consciousness How can be filled if it is so diffuse? Also how do you extract the o2 from inside your car? Also pitched voice.. What do you mean by diffuse? It doesn't matter how light hydrogen is, it still roughly follows the ideal gas law like almost any other gas, and there is plenty of it at 700 bar. One may still suffocate with O2 in an enclosed area with enough of another gas present, for example, it is possible to execute or suffocate people with nitrogen. I doubt in that instance the oxygen present in the room has to be evacuated first. Also, He, not H2, is famous for making your voice go higher, and although H2 would too, neither would be used in a parlor trick at the levels or the duration one would be exposed to in Renegrade's example. If you want to get into weirdness like on-board water-capture tanks and reversible fuel cells (hi extra mass and complexity!), I could simply counter with photovoltaic cells, giving a pure-electric vehicle charging pretty much anywhere (slowly of course, the roof of my car wouldn't support more than about 2kw of photovoltaic cells - of course, that could give me about 33% charge just.. sitting in a parking lot whilst at work..hmm). It all depend in how cheap will be the new catalysts in the future. It doesn't matter how cheap the catalysts are, they will still add weight and complexity, which is one of the core arguments against electric. All I have to say about hydrogen and safety at this point is: Hindenburg 2.0, QED. Only this time, the hydrogen really is at fault. Is funny how all arguments against hydrogen only has 1 case to point in 1930. Hydrogen is flammable.. so it burns with air.. the same han all the history fire caused by oil derivatives. Hydrogen is much more flammable than gasoline, and his Hindenburg example was made because of its apparent relation with hydrogen. The Hindenburg burnt because its paint caught on fire, which he admitted ("Only this time, the hydrogen really is at fault"), and he could have used many other disasters as examples of explosions. but it's hard to produce and even harder to store. ah it seems that we are talking about antimatter now. That is just redirection, stop being fallacious. Hydrogen is also notoriously hard to store, though I'm not sure about the efficiency of electrolysis.
  25. I thought 64 bit worked fine on Linux.
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