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Doctor Robert Peter Gale himself, talking about the scaremongering made by HBO's crummy attempt at dealing with disaster's impact on human health. (shorter version on official site of Sky News Australia here)

I don't know what "cya tendency" is, but regarding the overall feeling of citizen freedom, the show did overdo it... but not a lot. Even though it's true that the openly displayed state terror diminished a lot by 1980s, the state never bothered to say it's not that brutal anymore, and the public doesn't forget easily such things. So basically it was enough to simmer the society using strict behaviour, stories circulating, and being inhumane to criminals (extermination, torture, etc.) to keep a decent level of fear. There was always the "what if they come for me? I better not do this/that, better keep quiet." And that's just the worst poison for a society. It breeds corruption, bribery, covering up, intimidation and worse. If one didn't try to meddle into politics and behaved as a good drone living in prefabricated concrete boxes, life could've been decent. But not decent in a Western style. This is where Westerners usually make a mistake - they think that decent in France is same as decent in USSR. Those are two very different decents. I wouldn't call it golden cage because there was no open trade - one couldn't just buy some foreign import clothes, technology such as electronics was severely lacking progress (not keeping up with miniaturization of transistors, relying on bulky circuits with electronic tubes). It was a cage and it was kind of rusty, but one had daily fodder to munch on. Also, if one did not want to be a member of the Communist party and clap at the meetings, any even remotely serious career advancing was basically impossible. There was one notable exception called Yugoslavia, country of neither one of the blocks and AFAIK the only socialist country where, even though economy was planned, repression towards import and especially towards youth who wanted to sport jeans and share and create popular music - was very weak. But basic simmering I mentioned earlier was evident.

And the debunking on YT started. There's also doctor Gale who treated ARS patients in USSR which did not hesitate to accept his offer. I'm glad people are reacting and opposing lies this miniseries portrays, but I'm afraid the series is one of the things that will cause a huge social and environmental damage. Laymen's fears of "nuclear" has been reset to start, in times when we need fission to help the biosphere as there is no other way that is remotely significant. My god, the producer is apparently pro-nuclear and he's not even aware of the disaster he unleashed. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/11/top-ucla-doctor-denounces-depiction-of-radiation-in-hbos-chernobyl-as-wrong-and-dangerous

I don't understand why Making history got three virtually identical spherical capsules and not something that looks like a Soyuz one. Luckily, there is Home Grown Rockets for it, and its Soyjuice capsule, as you can see here. Instead of making three fairly large spherical capsules, Making history should've implemented this and a small spherical capsule like Spud (also HGR) so one could make a Vostok spacecraft.

I can't get this thing to crossfeed fuel. My "Resource transfer obeys crossfeed rules" option is turned OFF and it still doesn't work. No matter what fuel arrangement I use inside, nothing. Sometimes fuel path shows in VAB as normal, sometimes it doesn't, but during flight engine on its bottom just doesn't work. No propellant. I tried central node for tanks, two lateral nodes, lateral pouring into central by fuel pipes... nothing. It's been like this since "Making history" came out.

I can say with 100% confidence that he did less research than I did back in highschool (break of the century) when I gathered more facts about it over a dial-up modem. One thing his team did really well is the visuals - everything is very 1980s USSR and you can almost smell cigarette tar everywhere (since most people were smoking everywhere all the time). There are some things with the miniseries which are unneeded and unacceptable historical fabrications. I love the miniseries but I hate those mistakes and how they tainted what could've been almost perfection.

I can't say which one I like the best but on the top of my mind, "There will be blood" is a damn good one and a true masterpiece in my humble opinion.

This is it.

Does anyone else have huge framerate issues on Mün surface? I'm getting <3 fps. If make Jeb leave the lander, it goes well after 400 m, but when I approach to 200 m, framerate plummets again. I think it has something to do with surface scatter. I tried disabling it entirely, and it still shows. It's more plentiful after installing this DLC and there are obvious issues with it in my case.

Is he what Aussies call bogans?

I've noticed this, too. The whole magnetic force thing is extremely overpowered and all these years it has been nothing but trouble.

Two questions. 1) In the cinematic trailer we see Kerbals having orange and blue glowing suits - I've managed to see only orange in my game's EVA. Where is the blue glow? 2) What happened to the old Soviet style suits from "Making history"? I don't see them anymore.

Yeah, I don't use RO. I just want a heavy customizable part for stock sized game. Last night I've been tinkering with PP files so I'll try to make one.

I suppose this is the thread to suggest stuff for Procedural parts. Now that we can easily build centrifuges because of the "Breaking ground" robotics, we need a dense counterweight with precisely customizable size. I thought of making a special mod, but Procedural parts are perfect for it since they already have the infrastructure. I suggest adding procedural counterweight made out of concrete, as most rocket ballasts are made of it. Well, KSP universe concrete, with appropriately higher density than our ordinary concrete (2400 kg m-3). Impact tolerance should also be higher.

The point of the story is that society raised in an atmosphere of obedience backed up by fear learns nothing, and when the stick is gone, will turn into its worst. Of course, even during the system everyone learned to wiggle through it by bribery and threats. This miniseries is a lot more about the rotten system and the society which breaks the law anytime someone doesn't look. You aren't allowed something? Offer some money. That's how the things worked. Even though such societies were advertised with pride, it was the fear of getting imprisoned, tortured or killed if one broke the law. Thus people haven't learned that you don't do bad stuff because of the punishment, but because it's a bad thing in general. Completely opposite of scandinavian societies, for example. After the system would fall apart, it was snatch time. No regard for anything. Stealing, destroying. Selected mobsters working with law enforcement, exchanging drugs and money, sometimes getting even more powerful than the town officials. It's a total mess and this circus with the facades is just a visible tip of the iceberg of all the horrible things that happen beneath. I live in such place and it's not even among the worst examples.

Just to further point out to the mess of the postsocialist societies. This is what one of the morons in a nearby town did to an apartment skyscraper to get a better view from his balcony. Thankfully, to prevent any damage to the facade wall, he installed two flimsy beams. Can you imagine the mess of the society that doesn't give a rat's ass about someone who starts cutting a concrete wall on a skyscraper with a diamond saw? Oh, and there's those enclosures. One used black, one used white, one used gray, but nobody used the same one.

Um, that's just enclosure and can be done using wood. And you can't tell it's plastic. I've seen these things made from wood when PVC enclosures were too expensive. The error is that any facade modification could not be done back then. We can say all we want about socialist countries (and most would be justified), but the city communal services paid great attention at the uniformity of buildings' facades. People destroying that occured after socialism fell and crisis (or wars) started. I'm speaking from personal experience. Control loosened up and people slowly started turning buildings into circus. And now there's a whole little economy around this - legalizing procedures for the crap one built while no one was looking. The amount of money twirling around this is amazing. These are first hand personal experiences. I live in such country and had to deal with this excrements.

Imagine how much less of the confusion would there be if the company was being decent about this and pretended that USA was not the only country in the world by putting a UTC time format in the announcement. A man can dream...

Where did you see plastic windows? You mean plastic window frames or panels themselves? I haven't seen any of it. I don't understand how can one analyze the material by looking at it in the distance on a video clip...

Is Asperger and IT related?

The first one took several days for us to finally get predictions, and by that time they drifted apart and are obviously a lot less easy to see with naked eye right now. They're still relatively close, at least some parts of the "train". https://heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx Post your observations here.

You know that. But most people don't. They will see this as a historical reenactment, almost a documentary. Comments on Youtube, Twitter, etc. are clearly showing that majority of people really thinks this is a word to word reenactment. No entertainment. And the show itself has no disclaimer, at least I haven't seen one, not that anyone would bother to look for it in the end titles. It's relevant because it basically mocks the deceased and their families. Helicopter pilots were not idiots who would fly into a direct gamma flux shrouded in a plume with fission products. They knew the dangers involved. Imagine if it was your father or grandfather who died in that accident and then some show portrays him as an idiot who carelessly flew into death due to stupidity. Irrelevant. I didn't say this did not happen. It did. People did go to the railroad bridge and really watched the accident, but none of them got acute radiation syndrome as depicted later in the hospital where that guy with the baby has his facial skin flaking off. There is no reason to include such historical inaccuracy. Tell that to their families. Gennadiyevych, Kudryavtsev and Proskuryakov. Literally no reason not to do it properly and pay respect to all of them. No, I mean Yuvchenko, who held the reactor room doors opened. Completely fabricated and dishonest. No, that is not Cherenkov radiation. That is ionized air glow. Very different things. For air to glow with Cherenkov radiation, ionizing ray flux would have to be much higher, but by then it would already likely be plasma and its light would not allow you to see it. And no, there is no reason to make this into entertainment. It's disgraceful and panders to people who think radioactive things glow like in the Simpsons. Not showing goofy stuff is actually good for suspense and the general principle that humans can not detect ionizing radiation which makes it even more ominous. Since Khomyuk is an invented character, I can only comment on Legasov. I am pretty sure the guy was smart enough not to say such a stupid thing. Since he's also a hero and later commited suicide, it's also very disrespectful to portray him like this. The only thing that could've happened is unstoppable, enormous release of steam contaminated mainly with radioiodine. It would be disastrous, but no "3-5 MT TNT" blast would occur. Fukushima's contamination is laughably negligible compared to what happened in Ukraine and Belarus and there is no need to destroy the topsoil there. I urge you to read this article. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11/it-sounds-crazy-but-fukushima-chernobyl-and-three-mile-island-show-why-nuclear-is-inherently-safe/ In 2017, while visiting Fukushima for the second time, I lost my cool over this issue. Jet-lagged and hungry, and witnessing the ridiculous and expensive bull-dozing of the region’s fertile topsoil into green plastic bags, I started grilling a scientist with the ministry of the environment. Why were they destroying Fukushima’s precious topsoil in order to reduce radiation levels that were already at levels far lower than posed a danger? Why was the government spending billions trying to do the same thing with water near the plant itself? Was nobody in Japan familiar with mainstream radiation health science? At first the government scientist responded by simply repeating the official line — they were remediating the top soil to remove the radiation from the accident. I decided to force the issue. I repeated my question. My translator told me that the expert didn’t understand my question. I started arguing with my translator. Then, at that moment, the government scientist started talking again. I could tell by the tone of his voice that he was saying something different. “Every scientist and radiation expert in the world who comes here says the same thing,” he said. “We know we don’t need to reduce radiation levels for public health. We’re doing it because the people want us to.” The truth of the matter had been acknowledged, and the tension that had hung between us had finally broken. “Arigato gozaimasu!” I said, genuinely grateful for the man’s honesty. The man’s face was sad when he explained the situation, but he was also calmer. The mania behind his insistence that the “contaminated” topsoil had required “cleaning” had evaporated. And I wasn’t mad anymore either, just relieved. I understood his dilemma. He had only been the repeating official dogma because his job, and the larger culture and politics, required him to. Again, we're not speaking about radionuclide release, but the explosive force. It is literally impossible for that scenario to occur. It's equally ludicrous as the "China syndrome".

Nuclear bombs do not "consume radioactive material". They fission a tiny bit of uranium-235 (or fusion a tiny bit of hydrogen isotopes) and produce a lot of fission products with some transuranics. Before the explosion, radioactivity of the nuclear bombs is negligible in a sense that one could touch the material without any issues, provided that there is no ingestion. Not even one gramme of mass has been consumed in these bombs that killed so many poor people. Basically all of the mass has been preserved, one small part transmuted and splashed into a ball of plasma, churned together with calcinated dirt, sucked into the mushroom cloud and then dispersed as fallout. Chernobyl did not release fallout because there hasn't been any nuclear explosion and dirt calcination. Also no compounds of high transuranic elements. Since it's not a sudden, violent fission with intensive neutron flux inside, fission reactor products don't go higher than fermium (and that one is produced in traces). Bulk of the fission products are much lighter nuclides of caesium, iodine, technetium, zirconium, samarium, europium, krypton, xenon, etc. As for the series itself, it's has a remarkably high degree of historical accuracy, but there are some things that are plainly wrong and the producers didn't bother informing people about it or the reasons behind their decision to include misinformation. the helicopter accident didn't occur until months later, and its cause was not radioactivity, but pilot's error people on the railway bridge did not get acute radiation sickness. In fact, no one apart from the first responders and some powerplant workers got it. Not even beta burns. three, not two people went into the ruins of the reactor hall you don't get sudden skin bleeding from being exposed to fission products - no need for such sensationalism the scene with the burning core rubble should've contained plenty of blue glow from ionized air - workers described blue fire you can't see air ionization glow during daylight from a helicopter flashlight batteries don't die because of ionizing radiation that whole scene with Legasov and Khomyuk describing "between two and four megatonnes" thermal explosion with a 200 km shockwave "destroying other cores" is just plain BS. Nobody ever claimed that. It's pure fearmongering and sensationalist claim in an already grave situation. I can tolerate artistic liberty, but with things such as historical event reenactments, where details are crucial, it's simply wrong. I could forgive design details being wrong (props, buildings, clothes style) but important facts about the event, no.

Hm, I prefer more realism, but not hardcore realism. From 0 to 10 linear scale, where 0 is some goofy 2D smartphone "game" that respects no physics, and 10 was a nitpicking hardcore scientific simulation that requires actual paperwork, teamwork with professionals and time to plan an insanely large number of variables, current stock KSP is at... 3? Too many things are simplistic. With Kerbalism mod I'd say it climbs to 5. I like it that way. With Realism overhaul pack of mods with all the recommendations, where engines can't be turned on more than n times, and they have limited throttle modes, where Principia makes the orbits so much more complicated, etc. that is like 6. Too much for me.

I'm pretty hyped up about "Breaking ground", but there's one thing that just doesn't feel right. This is on Vall, right? Vall is a satellite without atmosphere. You can't have convection on Vall because gases do not behave like that. Gases spread in a cone, like a myriad of bullets. In the video, flakes are going around like firebugs, and the orifice is spewing steam like a kettle. Very unrealistic. A realistic approach could even be a lot more visually appealing, if not only less resource intensive (right now it looks like volumetric clouds moving). Take a look at Enceladus. Whenever there is a sudden sharp drop in pressure, gases will behave like this. We see the same thing with pressure drops in our atmosphere, however when the gas reaches a certain distance from the source, convection starts because pressure is 1 bar. When the end pressure is zero, there is no convection. It would be a lot simpler and it would look nicer if a large conical plume was made, looking something like this. Just a simple cone with edges tapering into nothing. Animation for the plume itself is not needed at all. Regarding flakes, they could shoot out in straight lines and fade into nothing at a certain height, which would simulate sublimation. Consider the height of the plume and height of the cryovolcano. I think such sight on the horizon would be amazing.