lajoswinkler

I've got a phone with Corning's Gorilla glass and after more than a year there still aren't any scratches. I do take care of it, though. I never put it in the pocket where I keep my keys and I seldom put it on the table. I'm not usually this considerate with mobile phones, but there things' screens are active input surfaces so you have to be careful. When you clean the screen, first dust it off with something fluffy and wipe afterwards. Environment if filled with quartz minerals and they're harder than Gorilla glass, so they can obviously scratch it.

Let's say there was a 3D printer that could 3D print in full color your customized ship/ space station from Kerbal. How interested would you be in having physical versions of spaceships/spacestations you made in Kerbel? "in Kerbel" :3

Oh god, no.

Perhaps a plugin that would make a classical blueprint of the vessel you make, so you could print it out on paper?

I was just commenting the controversy around the whole thing. You can't avoid it, it's too intertwined. I'm not US American so I have no idea about the concept except the stuff I got from media.

I've never understood the concept behind it, and I was terribly disappointed when I learned that it's a private funded thing done by religious fundamentalists with appropriate rules. I see it as youth indoctrination, nothing more. Maybe the things have changed, I don't know...

Why "Teens react"? Why not "Elders react"? They'd appreciate it more.

That would mean partnering with Microsoft. I highly doubt that. What, for console peasants? Pfff... How could they even do anything in VAB?

That shadow is made by something, and that something is a fallstreak hole.

It's definitively a fallstreak hole. You can see it's falling down in its typical fashion. Those are altocumulus clouds (cirrocumulus are a lot higher and more cutesy) so it makes sense. It's a very nice photo.

Writing posts in this part of the forum doesn't trigger the post counter, so you have more than that.

It is possible to use this energy to drive coolant pumps. That's what BWR reactors at Fukushima used when deprived of external electrical energy and diesel generators. However it can't be used for long. Few hours perhaps. 4 seconds is too long for modern PWRs. SCRAM actually occurs very fast, often by almost a free fall of the rods. In Chernobyl, however, the graphite pile SCRAM takes a lot longer, perhaps ten seconds or more. That, combined with their graphite tips, ensured the heat to build up tremendously. Don't be so sure about that. Submarine reactors contain extremely enriched uranium so the density of fission products can be even higher. It's not the leftover heat that needs to be conducted away. That would take a few minutes. It's the fission products which decay produces heat.

It doesn't take 20 years. It can take a week. The pressure vessel is flooded, top is opened, fuel assemblies are lifted up and transferred by a water channel into the cooling pond. The reactor itself can be dismantled afterwards. 4-5 years after the fuel assemblies have been decaying their fission products, they can be stored in so called dry casks - large concrete barrels, because the heat output is no longer enough to cause melting. But what you're describing is a PWR or a BWR type reactor which are like water heaters, and RBMK is like a brick oven through which channels for coolant and fuel assemblies pass. Radically different designs. My condolences for the plant shutdown. The stupid have won and now you're all gonna pay for it. Pun intended.

Spasosima?

If I know nothing about these six people, and I have two choices (you really didn't elaborate it well): a) tell him to spare five tell him to spare one then I'd choose a), but i wouldn't feel empowered. The whole "wizard showing future" is pointless because it produces a paradox. If you know the future, you can change it and you don't know it. Therefore you can never know it. I'd stick with my initial choice.

Just don't shove KSP in her face. You want indoctrination to proceed at a slow rate. Welcome back!

These types of reactors (basically graphite pile ovens) are good - if you want in situ production of plutonium and you don't mess with them. If you mess with them, they get angry, unlike other designs which by their very nature in passive and active fashion try to stop whatever weird you do to them. Chernobyl wasn't a typical meltdown (reactor shuts down, coolant boils off, fission products' heat builds up, matrix melts, possible leak of volatile radioisotopes), but an angry bull the operators kicked in the nuts. The pile itself exploded. It is by far the worse reactor accident ever in the history of nuclear technology, and the only reason why Fukushima's reactor accidents got in the same INES level is because the scale is poorly designed, leading to a whole lot of unnecessary fear. Chernobyl eats Fukushima for breakfast. Uncomparable accidents by any means.

I just hope Squad won't, as it happened with some other things in the past, listen to few bickering kids and pull the model.

Without eyelashes, she looks like a very weird male Kerbal. I think this model is spot on.

Yes, you should edit the title. It is possible.

One problem with your logic - Kerbals aren't Americans or residents of UK. Also, Minmus is visible from Kerbin. Oh, did I just say Kerbin? Sorry. I meant the Kerbin.

To plug in the centrifuge arms, I undocked the service module. The screenshots are enough. All there's left to do is to dock the propulsion unit. It is so heavy I'll have to launch it more than half empty, and then send refueling missions. In the meantime, Kerbals will arrive with a service ship and start placing struts to increase the rigidity of the structure.

Service module has been docked. So far, this is all still unmanned, as there are TAC resources onboard I don't want to waste.

AFAIK there's always some ROM inside. BIOS needs it.

Because there was already enough heat liberated inside. Operators had most of the control rods pulled out (xenon buildup tricked them) and they were in fact playing with such an unstable situation. Rods don't just fall down in this stupid design, and they also have graphite tips. When they are lowered down, there's a period of neutron moderation by those tips, which increases the fission rate. Too much heat caused too much steam pressure to be generated, and then the construction gave up.