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Kron 3 has begun burning its engines to get away from the dominant influence of Kerbin. Third stage, which was still on the vessel, gave less than 70 m/s. I must admit, there were some issues. While burning this stage, I had to go with 1/15th of the total thrust, otherwise the structure would start to sag. After jetissoning, status of the ship is as follows: 333 parts, 477.47 tonnes, 9993 m/s delta v in current configuration. Here's one more blueprinty image, with highlighted habitable modules. I had to burn on the night side, so there's not much to see. At 100% thrust, ship experiences 0.06 G and does not bend. Naturally, several burns will have to be performed and, if possible, I'll use Mun to slingshot the vessel out.

Algae as in phytoplankton. These guys. Tons of them. Underwater plants such as these live only up to several hundred metres, often not below 200 m. There's no light on the ocean floor - it's barren and almost lunar like, except there are no craters. These plants have almost negligible role in oxygen production, unlike phytoplankton.

EdFred, there are several degrees and subtypes of autism, although I do agree in certain cases diagnosis is wrong.

Having an opinion about a disorder? I don't understand the question. What should I say? "I'm sorry" ? What annoys me is that some people are trying to force this meme that Mojang's bestseller is somehow indicative of it. That's one of the stupidest claims ever made by people who hate games where the goal is not to murder, conquer or destroy. It speaks volumes more about those people than anyone else so if anyone starts to connect KSP to autism, I'm gonna be very angry. I don't have any form of autism (at least not detected) but I'd like to point out that anyone who has and is a minor should be cautious when presenting such private information online. Please don't feed us with your apologetic positive discrimination. It's immoral and against the rules. No, it's not.

I'd say the spinning disk has grooves in it in which you place the record... It looks like a fairly expensive gramophone.

That was my intention. For the most part, the list is similar to the one in the original post for Kron 1, but here's an update: shield, tanks, adapters - Procedural Parts engines - lander has KOSMOS ones, main nuclear is LV-NB from KSPX, rest is stock; I tent to go stock with engines capsules/pods - ALCOR, Taurus HCV, Deep Freeze life support and energy management - TAC, Realistic RTG, Near Future instruments - DMagic Orbital Science, ORIGAMI, KAS Visual and gameplay stuff is Planetshine, Texture Replacer for skybox (Oinker's), Deadly Reentry, Real Chute, Distant Object Enhacement, FAR, Kerbal Engineer, and of course Outer Planets. So yeah, I like realism.

What saddens me deeply is that in discussions such as this, there are always two main types of participants: a) opposition to change because of general/political/religious ignorance; "planet has always been changing"; etc. support to change, but almost total lack of knowledge and endorsement of stupid, ill-advised ideas about plastering solar panels everywhere; hippie crap; etc. So it's difficult to discuss this when you have to fight more than one side.

Comets emit gaseous ices from their surface and vents. At least now with 67P we can see almost on daily basis that you don't need any holes to vent gases. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/107824-New-images-of-Ceres-by-Dawn?p=1763919&viewfull=1#post1763919

Venting gaseous water doesn't mean there's neccessarily a hole through which it wents it. I'd expect the whole surface to vent it, like a giant comet. Rate of venting would not be near comets' venting, though. It's just traces.

Ceres definitively has water ice, that is not even in question. The shallowest dust, with the thickest ice layer (available for radar) should be in the polar craters. Just like our Moon does, as well as Mercury. However this crater we're discussing, and few others with higher albedos, can't be water ice unless like less than a year ago an armada of meteoroids struck the surface. That would be too convenient, wouldn't it? What are the chances that this happened right before Dawn came? Ceres has surface old as the Solar system and I frankly don't believe that all of the sudden, right before humans start to investigate it, meteoroids expose the ice. It is possible, but highly unlikely with emphasis on highly. No, Ceres is deep inside the frost line. It's at roughly 2.77 AU, and the line is at 5 AU. Water ice on Ceres' surface would last for a very short amount of time. I'd say even a month would be an overestimation. Liquid water is an unstable phase in vacuum. Any liquid that evaporates needs to have pressure applied to it in order to stay liquid at a given temperature. Check this diagram. Ceres doesn't have an atmosphere, it has outgassing which doesn't (as far as we know it) form any layers. It just vents into space because barely anything holds it and the heat from the Sun is too high. Any pressure on the surface is ephemeral and for all intents and purposes infinitesimally small. Its core can not possibly be molten. Ceres is a dead body in terms of lava flows and tectonics. It is way too small. Gravitational tides from the Sun are negligible.

Because they would burn up during aerobraking. Everything needs to be in the shadow of the shield.

No, it doesn't make sense. Squad is not American/British, and Kerbals don't speak English. Mun is just a pun. Add this to several other earlier arguments by others and myself.

Not even them because they do not exist in microgravity on Earth. They're just buoyant. They're held by water, we're held by ground. Same thing.

You're trying to explain something that you postulated. Not scientific at all. The thing is bathed in sunlight for half a day. Water ice is unstable this close to the Sun.

Videos and photos? I don't trust software that claims to do both. Either do one thing properly or don't do it at all.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but heavy nuclei were prohibitively expensive/hard to assemble using replicators, so you couldn't make stuff like gold, lead, uranium in a food replicator because of restrictions. Foods are basically all about carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur. Heavier elements come in very tiny amounts (iron, cobalt, iodine, chlorine, zinc, ...) so they aren't a problem. What always annoyed me with Star Trek is how the producers were too lazy in some areas to they for example made up elements and coated them in "it's exotic high tech matter". No, it isn't. It's gibberish, technobabble. It suits well for people who don't know what atomic number is, but they should know better.

Were you recently struck by a falling coconut?

NHF, but this is truly ignorant of you. Public perception is not negligible. In fact, it's the main factor, but it works indirectly. Also, you're describing planetary scientists as robots who don't share interest in seeing what does their target look like. You're really failed with this. You're talking about bandwidths and this has nothing to do with it. It's not the probe that makes the image. The probe takes photos in different wavelengths and sends them to Earth as part of its normal operation. All that NASA needs to do is to use that data to assemble a true color image and if they don't want to do that, there are people who will do it for free. It is a disinformation that this is a waste of resources. This constant trashing of PR basics is one of the things that ruins NASA and has the potential to create destruction of longterm scientific plans. Humanity doesn't need more of that, and USA certainly doesn't, being all shaky already.

ESA has started to release NAVCAM images to the general public. http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/03/06/introducing-the-navcam-image-browser/

You do understand that the whole thread's topic is politics? Anyhow, this thing is recycling of things Marx and Engels were talking about. This is exactly what happens when you have hippies who are ignorant of history. And the whole Zeitgeist thing is a mashup of conspiracy theories (of which global warming denialism is one of the most dangerous) and other kooky material with some obvious and good ideas to make the blend more palatable.

That's called populism, and such people are often followed by criminals who, when these dumb ones carve the way, destroy them and take over. It happened in early 20th century Germany and it's happening again in certain countries, including mine.

You don't understand what I'm talking about. Read about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_scaling Continue with interpolations on the bottom of the page.

I suppose it's time for a total blueprinty image.

stupid_chris, your LV-NB engine is going to Sarnus.

Ship being disassembled to add radiator modules. Bill checking the computer and deploying the main radiator array. Albedo instrument added. 504.8 tonnes seems to be the last number. Part count is 364 at the moment. - - - Updated - - - I'm glad you like it. Thanks. The propulsion unit, which will be free after the third stage is removed, is made out of three engines: two LV-N and one LV-NB (KSPX) engine.