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RT mentions it. https://www.rt.com/russia/466238-russian-rocket-blast-sea-rosatom/ But I found Rosatom's announcement and it says nothing about it. http://rosatom.ru/journalist/news/zayavlenie-departamenta-kommunikatsiy-goskorporatsii-rosatom/ So I don't know anymore.

I think we can exclude any RTGs being blown to bits. They are simply way too weak to be used as energy source for any engine. Since apparently this has been on a sea platform, and people have been blown by an explosion into the sea, this might've easily been an engine with a small powerful reactor with highly enriched uranium being damaged to the point it was blown into bits which fell into the sea, thus stopping the direct fission product release. There shouldn't be lots of fission products in such reactor since they don't work for months, but are propulsion tests. Arctic currents will dillute it, but Grenland and Alaska should be able to detect it. Grenland first.

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/143040-161-reentry-particle-effect-14-2019-02-12/

Controlled conditions, yes. In September 2007, dehydrated tardigrades were taken into low Earth orbit on the FOTON-M3 mission carrying the BIOPAN astrobiology payload. For 10 days, groups of tardigrades were exposed to the hard vacuum of outer space, or vacuum and solar UV radiation. After being rehydrated back on Earth, over 68% of the subjects protected from high-energy UV radiation revived within 30 minutes following rehydration, although subsequent mortality was high; many of these produced viable embryos. Does this look like "immortal toughest animal"? No. The devil is in the details. They are very delicate organisms, but the species is very resilient in a certain span and combination of conditions. If they were so incredibly tough as simplistic IFLS-like news portals claim, they would be everywhere, but they are not. If you want to get some, damp moss is the best place to look for. Damp moss is not exactly everywhere.

Good question. AFAIK they were not randomly oriented, at least not for all missions. Astronauts practiced photography to get good shots. It would take some decent geometry and digging data to figure out the orientation and impact of the rays. Still, after all these years, I think it's safe to expect they're all thoroughly wrecked. We know that all but one are still standing. Turning to carbon means losing some mass. I can imagine some warping has occured, too.

You know how people thought all those flags are now white and fragile to the point of crumpling on slightest touch? It came to me few hours ago that even though the colors had to be bleached rather fast, it probably didn't take a long time before they turned black. Why black? Because they were made out of nylon, a polyamide, which is an organic compound, most of which is carbon chains. And we know what happens to plastics under the conditions of high temperature and full ultraviolet spectrum - they outgass and then slowly turn to soot as the radicals are blasted away from the chains. Nylon is one of the weakest artificial polymers in this regard. And because of the increasing darkness of the flag, each lunar day would impart a higher temperature to the nylon, accelerating the total carbonization which is, overall, photochemical, not high temperature like dry distillation. Thoughts on this? What do you think was the timespan before they started looking black like charcoal?

The container they were in couldn't survive since the impact was at some 1 km/s. It all turned into tiny bits, scattered along regolith. They were all likely all permanently dead in few days from the intense UV at high temperature and vacuum. Tardigrades are not like the popular media portrays them and basically all you know about them (if your source of information has been popular "science" posts on social networks) is just a disinformation. No, far from indestructible. They're very delicate. It's the single special controlled conditions they can survive in suspended animation... for a while. And not all of them. That was vertical velocity. Horizontal one was almost 950 m/s.

I do use latest Kopernicus because I use two custom planetary bodies (Realistic Ascension and Ablate from Sentar expansion). Problem only occurs when I install Outer planets. I don't understand it.

Sadly, that didn't help. Thanks, nonetheless.

So how about leading us to the solution? Installing OPM also makes the identical crap time on Mün for me. 4 fps.

Time for a new thread title change. https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/30/king-of-random-youtube-star-grant-thompson-dead-dies-paragliding-accident/

Yes we do and it's nothing new. Example: https://www.datarespons.com/processors-high-temperature-applications/

You're forgetting about the computer onboard. But it doesn't have to be cooling down to room temperature. Keeping stuff at 150 °C or a bit higher is also ok. We have such microprocessors. It could totally work.

Yes, a nuclear reactor powered refrigerator could do it. But just landing. Returning back to orbit is a nope.

That's about heat source, which Vall has none in the game. This is about harnessing the thrust it's going to have in the next small update.

Steven Mading proposed this and I immediately went on a search to find a dynamo from some mod, but no success. @ZooNamedGames suggested the RAT pack. However, the propellers don't move when rocket engine thrust impacts them. I haven't landed any mechanism on Vall, and it would be useless because the geyser thrust hasn't been introduced yet. Does anyone know of other mod that has a part that produces electricity when it spins? All we'd need is to make a turbine using tiniest wings and an axle connected to it. Then landing next to the geyser, using robotics to lower the turbine above and that's it. That is... if the thrust from the geyser is of different origin than the engine thrust which, as we see, does not trigger anything, at least not with this mod.

They are not in the game. You need to download them. https://www.curseforge.com/kerbal/ksp-mods/kerbin-cup It was the first official KSP mod, made for the 2014 World football cup.

Basically just wanted to see if it's a scam, but it's not. It really is radioactive. I already had one older source.

Today I got two Am-241 sources. It's so small you can't even see it and therefore a pathetic source (<29.6 kBq), but it was like one dollar for piece so why not... Funny times we live in when one can buy and get delivered home what is essentially fission waste.

That would be in KerbalismConfig\System. Thanks. But it doesn't help a lot because I have no idea what to do with it. I'm dumb.

Did John just pull out what I think it is (tongue in cheek mocking of you know what)? Awesome!

The whole thing already is that. Also low yield compared to fission reactors. It's ok as a thought experiment, nothing more.

How does one create an ionizing radiation belt stuff for a custom planetary body?

Last night I found out there has been a show called "Мотыльки" (literally: moths) AKA "Inseparable" made in Ukraine. It also features large factual errors (ARS and ARS deaths where there were none, helicopter crashing into ventilation stack, liquidators sent to the roof mere couple of days after the accident, pet shooting, etc.) but there's also lots of overacting, which is sometimes cute and sometimes isn't. The most interesting thing is in the video description: Google translation: The team was nominated in 12th annual VES awards for "Outstanding visual effects in a broadcast program". So, if I got this correctly, the basic detailed rendering for HBO was made in 2013 for this miniseries and HBO took it and enhanced it with new textures and more postprocessing?

I had to google it. So my answer is - I'd wipe out collective memory and everything related to the plague of "superhero" movies.