lajoswinkler

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I've seen the gameplay on YouTube. It does not look interesting to me, at all. It looks like a crippled, buggy, cheap version of Minecraft. Add the fact it's a massive multiplayer online game and it makes me cringe.

One thing this awesome web application doesn't do, and I don't recall the movie did either, was red shift. There should be a tremendous distortion of colors near the black hole.

It's an analogy with errors, but unfortunatelly people don't explain it's not how it works. There you have a mass distorting 2D into 3D, but in our universe, mass distorts 3D further. There are no wells and holes in their literal sense, just like electrons aren't in these holes or bands or gaps or standing on "orbits" like birds on wires or just like how molecules don't travel over any hills and slide down. Unfortunatelly, this sloppy education principle has turned into a meme. People actually think black holes are circle shaped holes and that planets orbit wells, and the Moon is rolling on the edge of a cone. This is what inept educators are able to create. A widespread disinformation.

Hydrogen and nitrogen reaction at standard conditions is incredibly slow, so slow you can ignore it even over aeons.

Be careful. Now you will have 2 enemies against you.

Direct capture by Laythe is more easily said than done. After spending less than 5 m/s turning the resulting orbit into polar from the edge of Jool's SOI, I've tried out several PE heights. 26.5 km seems to be the best. Below it the ship falls down, above it doesn't enter stable orbit. 30 km was too high, but here's a screenshot nevertheless. The target, bathing in ionizing radiation of Jool. This was approaching limits because some of the parts went as high as 1100 °C. Procedural shield doesn't shield the ship as it should. After the ship got captured into orbit, I've performed almost ten additional brakings until the orbit became acceptable for the returning lander. Inclination is 89.8° which means that basically the whole satellite is accessible for landing. Vall eclipsing Tylo. Bob had to check the banana. It was fine. A bit chilly and ionized, but otherwise fine. Tomorrow Kerbals remove the main aerobraking shield and start with Laythe's survey, picking an interesting spot near the poles to land on.

It does appear to be significantly longer, I agree.

After a series of burns and tank jettisons, this is what Kron 1 looks like. I've chosen to do a transfer orbit correction at Dres orbit's distance. The plan is to do an aerobraking maneuver directly at Laythe, by impacting its atmosphere at a shallow angle. This will be a real challenge with DRE on hard mode, but I have a 5 m shield and F5/F9, so I'll try out periapsides from 20 to 35 km. Even Jeb is often scared.

Family cold? Family work! More work, no more cold! It good!

Rocks are vastly more abundant than metals, so it's not really expected to find such oceans. Molten lava, yes. Metals don't offer much elemental variety, either. Iron, nickel. Others are either in compounds or rare, dispersed, too heavy so they sink into cores... Molten metals are much more volatile than stones. I don't see how such oceans could exist, they would sink into cores. Maybe transient, ephemeral puddles... maybe. Highly improbable. Again, solids can not form atmospheres. Doesn't matter which solid. It's solid, so it falls on the ground. That layer doesn't have a distinct phase border, so we can't really call it an ocean. Hydrogen just gets more stuffed and more conductive with depth. No sights to see down there. :/

Earth does not have an atmosphere made of solids. It has a real, gaseous atmosphere where solids are transient phenomena, being poorly suspended by the gas and eventually growing so much they fall down. For solid particles to be suspended, you need a fluid medium. It can be gas (atmosphere) or liquid (hydrosphere). Electric force can't be called an atmosphere. We don't have a name for it yet, IMHO. 14.06 ÃŽâ€t at 1 atmosphere, that sounds reasonably wide. There could be planets far from their stars that never became fully developed gas giants, with several bars of pressure, extremely cold, with nitrogen precipitation.

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The ship has reached its descending node relative to Jool's orbit and has used around 250 m/s to correct it. First set of tanks have been jettisoned after retracting the vital solar panels. The Kerbal Ministry of No Better Things To Do has issued an order to keep the number of orbital debris as much as possibly close to zero, so Enford Kerman went to EVA and engaged the self destruct sequence for the decouplers and jettisoned tanks. The ship continues on its path to orbital transfer node for Jool encounter.

Formation of asbestos requires hydration, so it would have to be a world with previously accessible water, at least underground. Then most probably eolic errosion of such rocks to detach its fibrous needles and form tiny fibrous particles. Two things would need to cease forever: water rain to avoid dissolving them, and tectonic movement to avoid recycling of the crust. Then you need decent stellar radiation to ionize the dry, vacuum surface of such world and to suspend such dust by electric force. It's a series of not improbable events. I'm quite positive there are many world where such "atmospheres" (where "atmo" is not applicable) exist at least as transient phenomena. The Moon has it, although not made of asbestos.

That was not his question. He asked about an "atmosphere" made of dry ice crystals. That is impossible. The only way for powder to be suspended in vacuum is electric force, but the source of it is stellar radiation, high flux of which is nonexistent at distances where CO2 can exist in solid phase. Regarding the liquid nitrogen ocean, I've posted the phase diagram. Such oceans are possible on somewhat larger bodies, away from their stars.

Dry ice crystals, no. That's a powdered solid suspended by nothing, therefore it will fall on the ground just like any matter does in vacuum. Oceans of liquid nitrogen? Let's look at the phase diagram. With sufficiently high gravity to hold enough gaseous nitrogen to exert pressure on the phase boundary, and with a temperature low enough, yes - liquid nitrogen can be stable, and I don't see any reason why we couldn't have such place. Nitrogen is extremely abundant. It is possible Triton is vomiting liquid nitrogen which quickly turns to gas because of vacuum. If Titan was further away, its hydrocarbons would solidify, and nitrogen would create oceans.

They did it with Yutu all the time.

Well, it's not like they don't do that all the time. You've just extended their custom.

Is it that difficult to get an English translator? This is horrible. They keep repeating the same mistake over and over again in some South Park fashion, obviously unable to see that the only reaction the world has to offer is snide, exhausted smile. I've heard Chinese scientists and aerospace engineers talking in English and they do not talk like this at all. This is Engrish syntax. Are they trying to mock something on purpose or the government is so inept that hiring a proper translator, despite spending huge amounts of money on spacey stuff, is an unspeakable act? LOL

On the contrary, it sounds like gunshots. Ask people riding Soyuz capsules. Bangbangbang!

Thanks, Cmdr. Arn1e, for the notification.

In which time zone is February at this moment?

Wow, many snow. Amaze. And they couldn't stream this?