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There are superluminal phenomenons (even some quite banal ones), but none of them can transmit information. We simply don't have anything even close to it. As far as we're concerned with most groundbreaking physics today... we might never ever have superluminal communication.

I don't see the fun playing KSP without Deadly Reentry, and I never really needed MechJeb because it gets in the way of even more fun. It was already too late for that, but it turned out fine. I did try locking them, and that caused quite serious trembling of the vehicle. After some adjustments, the launch went quite straightforward. It's important to get the hell out of the first 10 km as soon as possible, and then things go relatively easy. I didn't even spend the last two stages. Trying out weightlessness. Establishing an encounter with the tug. Their heads were in the way for a proper contact, so I had to remove them, dock and get them on again. With plenty of fuel left, they went home and boarded Kerbin's orbital station.

You know what I meant. Kids with attention spans of a muon's lifetime clutching to their iPhones, taking photos of their junk with Instagram. Like Vine, perhaps? Don't worry, it will find its clientele.

I guess it's the YTMND of the i-something generation.

Warmer means wetter. Warm and wet = more energy in the system = more pressure differentials = more awesome rain/thunder/snowstorms in some areas and more droughts in other areas. That's why people are concerned. Plus sea rising, but that will be a huge problem some time after huge and numerous storms and droughts and flora&fauna migrations start messing with out plans. I live in a town where there weren't any tiger mosquitos 20 years ago. Today, they're taking over because the new climate is beneficial for the little fu*kers. They spread viruses. Do I need to go futher? Jellyfish - they like climate change. Young jellyfish eat zooplankton, undermining the whole food net from below. Result - disastrous reduction in fish production and a stab in the back of fishery economy. They also undermine tourism. Some stupid countries rely on it. I live in one. Things will get worse in a lot of ways. There is a measurable and proven trend of these, and other things changing and screwing us. So you're saying that someone is going to make money on something? Wow. I had no idea people did it. Just wow. You're kidding, right? No, it does not mean more rains and more crops. It means extreme weather, whether it's a drought or a hurricane. Get your facts straight.

Yeah, I know how the stupid name supposedly started, but the media is fault for spreading of that sickness.

There have been no significant or alarming increases in global volcanic activity. There have been huge increases in reporting and distributing information and fearmongering about volcanic activity. There aren't significant emissions of CO2 from the poles and permafrost. CH4, yes. Permafrost, once permanent, slowly, but faster and faster becomes sludge, releasing extremely potent greenhouse gas, methane. Ice cores going like 200,000 years in the past contain bubbles of atmosphere which can be analyzed using spectrometres. That's how we know s*it has hit the fan in the last 100 years. The speed of concentration increase is unbelieveable, unprecedented in the geological history. We can know all kinds of stuff from the past because of geological layers, whether they're in rocks or ice. Nobody sane and informed denies that this is mainly our fault anymore. The evidence is overwhelming. Whether we can do something about that... that's open to doubt. Not the fact there is a problem or whose fault was it. Climate change happens over vast time spans. If a change that took tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years, appears in 100 years, and it perfectly correlates with measured enormous increase in evidently human emission of the gas, then it's our fault. Stop watching FOX news.

In case someone wants a nice wallpaper, this is the original one of that low resolution Tommygun had posted earlier. https://i.imgur.com/1OF5OEK.jpg

Sparkling you see under rockets aren't for igniting the mixture. It's to prevent hydrogen buildup and to avoid detonation.

Again with this fallacy. Yes, Earth had more CO2 in the past, but it doesn't matter. The rate of increase of CO2 concentration is absolutely bonkers, unprecedented in the geological history. It has happened in little more of 100 years! Stuff that normally takes hundreds of thousands of years. But yes, Earth will survive, Earth's biosphere will survive with great losses. We'll probably survive with great casualties.

Gilly is the smallest natural satellite in KSP universe, E-class asteroids are the largest off-rails objects, and 67P is a comet we've got the best photos of, so I've made this comparison. (right click, view image to see it in full resolution) In this scale, E-class asteroid is half pixel wide so one pixel would mean 60 m, but that's the best I can do. I've lowered the brightness of the comet significantly because its albedo is around a typical albedo of comets, which is 4%. We can say it's darker than a pile of fresh coal, or of freshly laid asphalt. It's extremely dark and the photos presented in the media are overexposed to actually let people see the details.

Nice collage. KSP "asteroids" are not all asteroids by typical definitions people used throughout the history. A class certainly isn't an asteroid. It's some 3 metres in diameter, making it a meteoroid, a typical rock in Solar system, impacting Earth on weekly basis or even more often (usually detonate high above oceans). I don't know the dimensions of other classes, but B and C might be falling under meteoroids, too. E class certainly is an asteroid, a tiny one, measuring some 30 metres in diameter. I'll see if I can do something with Churyumov-Gerasimenko, too.

Don't call it "God particle", because that's a stupid name. It's Higgs boson. It has zero connections to any concept of deity.

Told you this is a tricky one. It's a huge, relatively thin plane. Just by itself, its nearby gravity field would be complex.

I don't know, I think all this will probably be lost forever after less than 30 years. I can't even imagine the state of the Internet after 100 years. It's completely unimaginable, brave new world. Just look the progress in the last 10 years, and the speed of it is increasing every year.

Thanks, Idobox, for saving me the trouble of typing.

I've sent the capsule. Microliter of venuous blood protected by two sealed glass barriers and plucked eyebrows will be enough. The letter is bicarbonate treated paper, sealed with wax stamp. See you in the future.

Enough to probably require slowing down first, instead of aerobraking like Apollo. It might be done like with Apollo, but the angle window would be so much smaller... if any.

No, it's been done before. It's not new per se.

Have in mind that Minecraft is a huge plate of negligible thickness relative to its surface area. Distribution of gravitational force would be tricky to figure out.

Yes, absolutely. That's a shock wave, a Prandtl-Glauert singularity. If you're in the area where it exists, you will not survive, therefore anyone on the shore of that island would get killed by total rupture of soft tissues. The island is some 4 km away from the ship, so the energy dissipates and only a sonic boom is left. Thanks for sharing this great video.

I'm good at eating donuts. I've memorized how to eat one as soon as I've ate the first one. Never had any problems with them since then.

That's not telepathy just like these toys aren't telekinesis. Let's not change the meanings of words.

They sure are, and they had a blast with the best view ever. Why? Because for the first time ever, I've managed to get off Eve. With lots of delta-v left, too. The vehicle had one major flaw. One of the pipes on the first stage wasn't connected, so ascent would soon turn into unbalanced flight, ending with ground fireworks. It also registers incorrectly with the KER delta-v. Actual atmospheric delta-v was close to 10,000 m/s. Interesting enough, the flag left there actually broke and was left lying on the ground. Screenshots of ascent soon.

This is a rough estimate. The banana mod has been rescaled and now is of proper size.