lajoswinkler

I thought FM radio function was something that comes with cellphones just like any other basic function. You use headphones or any other cable ending with a 3.5 mm jack and it serves as an antenna. It is not a new function and I certainly haven't noticed it being pushed out. It's pretty standard stuff.

There isn't such thing as a clean nuclear bomb. They are sometimes called clean because their ratios of radionuclide dispersal to explosive yield is smaller than of basic fission bombs, but H-bombs require fission bombs as the stuff that induces the fusion. Even though such things release tremendous amounts of energy, we're talking about a planet here. It's less than a tickle. Changing Mars is a futile attempt. Building bases is not.

Children born by mothers who took thalidomide during pregnancy would disagree. We simply don't have any evidence to support your claim that microgravity is safe for these things. And no, floating in liquid is not microgravity. If it was, then people in submarines would be floating all over their chambers.

There is something deeply disturbing about Jupiter that close on the sky.

Yes, there are. Some forms of bacteria. The pressure, however, can not sustain them.

You can give up. Creationists are stupid people with faith. Arguments don't work there.

As I've said, liquid water could appear as very transient, ephemeral phenomena in the regolith and the rocks themselves if the tiny chambers experience optimal pressure and temperature conditions and thus such thing will increase the mobility of the material. If you think they mean this happened: Then you're wrong.

There is a way to detect such activity and it's routine procedure when assessment of brain death is needed, but any decyphering is not possible at this level of technology. I always approach as the person is fully aware. Sometimes only the speech synthesis is affected.

No, they did not. "We're not suggesting that there was a river-like flow of water. We're suggesting a process similar to debris flows, where a small amount of water mobilizes the sandy and rocky particles into a flow," Scully said. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4453 Water (as a substance) would push towards the surface while changing form in the fine particulate matrix of the asteroid. Mostly sublimation and deposition, sometimes possibly liquid while the conditions were right. This matrix has a huge surface area and lots of tiny chambers where you basically have dynamic balance of various phase exchanges. That makes the matrix prone to detaching. Under sufficient gravitational force the material can collapse.

Cubic decimetres are standard in science. Molar concentration is expressed as moles per cubic decimetres, mol dm-3. Litres are an older and more colloquial term for the same thing. When you do science, you use dm3, when you don't, you use litres.

It is a valid concept.

You drill a vertical mine shaft until the pillar of atmosphere above you is sufficiently high. At designated depth you have heat, water and air pressure. Voila.

It will take at least one week before I start planning it more thoroughly.

This is not liquid water flow, and ESA said that. Let's not spread erroneous informations around.

Here are some sweet close up high resolution photos. One of them seems to be artificially colored. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Highlights/Comet_close-ups

If I go to Slate, first, then later going to Eve, it will be less interesting. Going to Eve is not that awesome anymore. Everyone saw it. It is still interesting, but I'd like a slow buildup of interest. My current plan is to dump a probe on the shores of Eve, then send a Kerbal to pick up a part(s) of it and return to Kerbin. This is insane enough. It will probably require a rover. I do these things manually; MechJeb is out of the question. Also, Deadly Reentry, even though it's not difficult, makes going to Eve a very demanding task because of the atmospheric density. When I go to Slate, I'll try to use Jool flyby as a gravitational slingshot, but can't make any promises. These things often cause more problems than they solve. I'm in sandbox mode. Thanks for the suggestion, it's similar to what I've been planning for Eve, although I don't know how to pick up probes. How far away is Stella-Barry system? I've never used Planet Factory CE, only the original one I still like the best. It might be possible to reach them using nuclear propulsion. I'd rather use something realistic, but if it turns out to be impossible or extremely difficult, I'll have to use this warp thingy. Anyway, I'm not doing the third mission very soon. I'm quite tired and don't have the time for it, but I will continue this, so thanks for the support.

I see your crown is changing color. Fascinating, truly riveting.

Little would happen, and no, ocean of liquid rubidium would not erupt in classical fire. Alkali metals do not burn like organic material, breaking down and releasing small volatile molecules. In order to make a flame (in oxygen) of an alkali metal, or any other matter, you need sufficient concentration of vapor over its condensed phase. With sodium, that happens close to 800 °C (boiling point is almost 883 °C). Because burning sodium does not give off enough heat to maintain such high temperatures, the flame quickly dies and is replaced with smouldering which creates ash of sodium peroxide covering the melt. It is truly difficult to set sodium on fire under normal circumstances. Rubidium melts at 39.3 °C and boils at 688 °C, so the temperature at which its melt will produce flammable vapors is probably somewhere in the range of 500-550 °C. That is also not sufficient, so rubidium will also start smouldering ("metal fire") when you remove the heat source. At room temperature, rubidium will start a metal fire after a while. It depends on the buildup of heat , quantity of the material, its surface, properties of air. If we ignore water vapor constantly seeping through our skin, reaction of just molten rubidium with constituents of our skin is basically negligible, and even then, surface products buildup stops further reactions because they aren't soluble in metal or skin. At higher temperatures reductive power of it is way more obvious. For example, a blob of molten and hot sodium will make a hole in your skin, but dry finger touching a just molten sodium (approx. 98 °C) will survive fine. However, if we include those traces of water, we get a weak reaction forming dense aqueous solution of rubidium hydroxide, which although doesn't react or is miscible with the metal, does react with the skin in the process of saponification. It is a strong base. Quantities of water escaping our body are very small, so one could survive and even swim in it (density of the melt at melting point is slightly lower than of water in standard contidions), although the movement would be different due to different viscosity. There would be chemical burns, though. Quite severe ones after less than half a minute. If the man exposes his mouth with saliva, localized violent reaction would occur because of hydrogen burning and extreme injuries would certainly be a consequence. When you exclude water from the situation, alkali metals do not react violent at all in normal conditions. If you pour water on their smoulderings, hydrogen rapidly develops and catches fire. The lower you go in the 1st group of periodic table, the more violent the reactions are, but it's basically about hot hydrogen and its mixture with air. So if you plan to jump into a pool of molten lower alkali metals, be sure not to be wet, to close your orifices, to ensure the melt is not hot and to get out ASAP, but chances are you'll get gravely injured.

Nah. Not gonna happen.

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Cats were first.

My hypothesis - bright spot is a fresh crater. Centuries old, at most. Surface is covered in darker tholins, underneath is fresh icy material. Great stuff. Volcanism, hardly. It's too small and nothing is squeezing it.

This is just a splendid combo.

Styx is Pluto's satellite.

Well it would obviously take thousands of years or more to destroy it all, but it's all a fragment on the geological scales of eons. The current situation is one frame in the film featuring dynamic balance where one of the actors is a highly reactive gas. It would take a serious scientific study to increase the security of statements involving numbers, though. However, problems for the autotrophes would become apparent a lot sooner. The whole grid would collapse very fast.