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Don't mention it. I like this mod very much. It's not intrusive and blends well with the whole Kerbal philosophy. It would be cool if there was a cartoon about them actually growing these parts from the ground.

The silt in Yangtze and lots of other Chinese rivers recently has been caused by huge rainfall. The fishes aren't happy about it, but it's a natural process. Probably a crapload of organisms died. That's how nature works.

Finally. This is one of my favorite mods and one of the main reasons why I'm still making stuff in orbit. Thanks.

Well this seems to be one of those "Earth is polluted, we're doomed" threads, at least to me. Yangtze is not clean, but this is silt. It happens.

The problem is gone after I launch the thing without any RealChutes on the vehicle.

Yangtze river in the first photo, as well as many other Chinese rivers has recently turned reddish because of huge amounts of silt that has been washed by the extreme rainfall. Although Yangtze isn't the cleanest river around, this is not artificial pollution. Before alarming the population, check your facts.

Is there a valid reason why this thread isn't merged with this one? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/79291-EmDrive

If she isn't serious about this, you shouldn't be, either. The fact is that you love her and the only thing this will bring you is misery and, perhaps, an STD because she clearly wants more ....., or perhaps even ......s. (really, censoring the female organ in Latin?) I'd end it because I wouldn't want to be eaten from inside by the suffering. She's obviously trying to slip out from all of this, but lacks the brains to set everything straight.

I guess this myth just won't ever die. Kerbal speech is not reversed high pitch Spanish, at least not most of it. I've personally checked many Squad's videos. I've lowered the pitch and reversed the audio. It's garbled and unintelligible. Basically gibberish. That's why Chatterer sounds so different from Kerbals in those animations on YouTube.

That's the only error? Really? Really?

Yes, I use RealChutes. I'll try without them.

I'm here to report a bug. When I use the new orbital modules, the rocket explodes to pieces at 6076 m, as if it hits a ceiling. The main part from which the flight is controlled is gone, and the modules survive. The whole rocket becomes a confetti of parts. The problem is gone once I remove new HGR components in VAB. I'm using 32-bit KSP.

Was opening a new thread really that important? This is your third thread on the basically the same topic.

My opinion on music? I like it. I really do. It's a great thing we humans have. Not every kind of it, though, just some of it. I don't care about the rest.

It's probably due to your different IP. It's a shame Google does this.

Hungary doesn't have any Mediterranean climate because it's separated from it by Dinarides. (I live in the yellow region, you live in the light blue one.) Hungary has humid continental climate, which is not acceptable for growing such fruit because of high chance of fungal diseases. South of Dinarides pomegranates grow well, but the plants really likes dry climate. This summer was quite damp, so the harvest will probably be close to pathetic. Pawel, if she wants to grow it, she should make a one of those reflective foil tents with dehumidifier machine and lots of heaters. It will be one expensive pomegranate.

True. Liquid sodium is truly a nightmare. I worked with it plenty of times, but thankfully never had an accident. The only way to extinguish it when it's burning is dry inert powders. Graphite works well, copper also. Silica sand, too. Sodium fires don't look like regular fires, they're more like smouldering yellow piles. But if you add water or anything that reacts with sodium (carbon tetrachloride for example), you're in for a treat, and a visit to the ER. It gives off smoke made of sodium oxides which react with moisture to form sodium hydroxide fog. Now imagine a meltdown with liquid alkali metal contaminated with fission products. It's pure hell to manage. The fog is absolutely corrosive to humans and lots of materials. That's why these things need absolute isolation. Core catchers and spreaders, and complete thick seal from the environment.

Steam generators actually are common points of failure because they tend to clog up. They're huge and obviously, there's a lot of piping inside. They clog up with rust. I don't recall any accident where it lead to sudden catastrophic failure of the system (it's more like something that gradually reduces the quality of the system), but operators are required to know what to do in case there's a large breach in the secondary loop and pressure drop. They have it in their tests. But what if there's a breach between the first and the second loop? That's one of the reasons why the steam generators are inside containments. They can be isolated from the tertiary loop if they become contaminated. It's a normal scenario. It's highly unlikely, but it's something the operators learn to handle.

I know the differences between those reactors. I just said RBMK also had a containment in the sense of containment you're describing, that's all. If there is absolutely no chance of the volatile fission products to leak out, then I guess it's ok. No, I do not think that and I was clear on that. There isn't a working commercial fission reactor exposed to the biosphere anywhere. Even RBMKs weren't. All I want to know is if BN-800 can tolerate aircrafts. All typical containments can, whether they're half spheres, cyllinders or something in between. This is not a matter of resistance to overpressures only, it's about actual stability against impacts.

I'm about to go to a post office and it's wet and cold outside. Should I open a thread about that?

Why would you open a thread about this?

Siberia is probably dotted with these holes. They will become more and more often. This is the methane clathrate permafrost melting and releasing methane which is a very powerful greenhouse gas. These are the last signs before a huge surge in global temperatures occurs and one of the things that gives me chills. The public has no bloody idea what disaster is ahead of us.

We've got mountains higher than 8 km, so we could launch from their tops. Thing is - expenses (money+energy) to haul the stuff up there is much higher than just stick boosters for getting out of troposphere. We don't need anything else because we don't live on Venus or Eve.

That is true, it can be a lot smaller if steam explosions are eliminated, but consider that the working medium still is steam in steam generators (second loop) which need to be housed inside containments. Steam generators are quite large structures. I was not talking about containment domes, but containments themselves. No, this power plant doesn't have one. Using your definition of containment we could say Chernobyl reactors also had them - those huge lids sitting on top of huge reinforced concrete vessels. But it wasn't a containment in the true sense. In the unlikely event of a meltdown when the vessel is breached and the lava flows down, where will the fission products go? What is there's a meltdown and a breach of secondary loop? Nuclear fission reactors must be able to isolate themselves from the environment. There's absolutely no discussion about this. I'm very pro-nuclear, but this kind of recklessness I do not tolerate. One such accident with new generation reactors and we've got a huge problem with politics.

Using planetary geology terms, it's not fuzzy at all. Rocky means silicates and metals, gas means hydrogen and helium. Huge terrestrial planets will still have a solid surface and a thick icy (nitrogen, methane) atmosphere. Gas giants are huge blobs. Gaseous envelope with icy clouds, gradual transition to supercritical fluid (gas/ice in variable ratios), highly compressed plasma with increasingly rocky content towards the center. There can't be a gas giant the size of Jool. Considering normal matter we encounter in the universe, the densities aren't enough to cause one.