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To be honest, the trailers made me a lot less amazed than back when WB was releasing trailers for "Gravity". There are already several trailers and they are basically made out of the same scenes. I don't think we'll get anything close to Gravity let alone Odyssey. No way. It will probably be a good movie, though, but you simply can't expect Hollywood will all of the sudden start releasing insanely great movies. One movie about astronauts stranded in orbit can't change decades of commercialism and total artistic decline.

Definitions would be most helpful...

I wouldn't be surprised if this was true. Even after Stalin's death conditions in the society were insane. The whole USSR was a reenactment of Third Reich, but with different ideology. Fear. Pure fear and subordination to a system built on the principles of worshiping Stalin. Once you set up the system like that and you kill unwanted people and install brainwashed murderers in criminal agencies you've made invincible, it sticks. You can't rid of them unless you kill them. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if prisoners from gulags weren't sent up there like monkeys to see what happens with human physiology. They could've encased it in top secret shroud so that only selected few knew what is the payload. Don't think they couldn't have been capable of it. USSR did a lot worse with lot more people and even today we know only tiny bits. If you think humans in general or even those who were supposed to be good (doctors, nurses) couldn't perform evil, you should check out the war crimes of Japan. People are beasts. Always expect the worst behaviour.

That's a fragment of the market, really...

Your whole comment is filled with fallacies, sorry. Space shuttle used SRBs as assist, but also had a liquid fuel engine fueled by that enormous orange external tank. You can not possibly compare a Space shuttle launch with launching a communications satellite which basically jumps into the sky because its only source of propulsion is a brutal SRB first stage. Have you seen those launches? Absolutely uncomparable to Saturn V, Soyuz, Space shuttle, etc. Of course machines have G-force limits. Otherwise they could be thrown off a cliff and survive the fall. Thing is - people can't survive being launched at 10-15 G. They are launched at much lower accelerations.

Given the fact that today's vintage games were popular when only a small percentage of developed countries' population could afford them, it happens to basically all of them. As computer gaming was growing and spreading, it was producing games that will have ever greater valleys in these graphs. It's difficult to predict when will a 5 year old mass produced game's value start growing again. For Atari/NES cartridges, it's already starting to happen.

That's the middle of the graph. Eventually almost all of them start rising simply because there's less and less of them remaining. The abscissa in the graph is really quite arbitrary. Sooner or later these things become valuable just because they're hard to find. Notice the end of the graph - the prices don't go absurdly high. The key point is that there's a "valley", a time when their values are close to nothing.

Here's a lot closer "selfie", this time at 16 km. Two combined exposures. http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/10/14/mission-selfie-from-16-km/

You can't subject people to high accelerations as you can with machines. Have you seen satellite launches recently? Solid rocket boosters in first stage make the payload almost being fired from a cannon.

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Wait until they become "vintage". Here', I've made a little graph for you. It usually goes something along this line (pun intended).

Great, let's test this.

This is great news, I will download it immediately. - So far, it works great. Well done.

"quite a bit of oxygen"? Oxygen is the most abundant on the Moon. It's bound in silicates and oxides.

Again with this crap? Awwwww...

That seems like a great adventure.

KOSMOS. It has an interesting capsule based on TKS design. There is also the original Mk1 on curse.com now.

Vall, at least on one pole an I am pretty sure it applies to both, has a huge mountain. Not flat at all. I've been on most poles and so far Eve's are my favorite. Google Eve pole panorama, and my nickname. You'll see some nice screenshots.

I don't hate Jeb, but I'd like to see Bob and Bill getting mentioned more often.

Physics, yes. Every element of the chain is an object with collision properties so that the rope interacts with everything, including itself. Just imagine using such larger rope (lots of elements) on a more complex station. FPS would drop down like mad.

How exactly would you reduce Al and Fe? Hot Bayer process cells and blast furnaces aren't exactly something you can build there because there aren't any reducers laying around. The amounts of energy required for these things are for all intents and purposes - insane. It would take fantastically huge solar power plants or nuclear reactors with radiators of similar sizes. Water on Moon is at best in the form of dispersed ice beneath regolith inside permanently shadowed craters. To get that water (and hydrogen, via electrolysis) out would require not only a huge power plant, but also lots of heavy machinery. All that regolith needs to be dug out.

I think the lowest speed I've tried with was less than 250 m/s, probably close to 200 m/s. It wasn't supersonic, I'm sure of that. I'll check everything out again with 6.2. and let you know the details. Working on it.

No, it's not. OP didn't specify enough.

Imagine a goofy Kerbal forgetting to go away from the launch pad, so that when you go to launch something, you've got like 10% chance of seeing it running away and yelling gibberish. KSP really lacks these in-game jokes.

Here's the diversity I was talking about. Doesn't have to be exactly rugged like this, though. Also this. Some craters near the poles can have frozen lakes. All this combined makes an interesting terrain to wander around with a rover.