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Solar FREAKIN' roadways discussion
lajoswinkler replied to HafCoJoe's topic in Science & Spaceflight
One bull**** in the neverending stream of bull**** from IFLS website. They can sell these fairytales to kids, not adults who remember stuff. I've been around for some time and this is not a new concept. Almost every 6-7 years there's an equally stupid idea being recycled and, because most people have fish brain memory capabilities, it's advertised as something new. -
Cheap open source orbital capable rocket
lajoswinkler replied to Aghanim's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Other than sticking a pile of it on or in your body and lighting it on fire, I don't really see the danger. It's a very stable, plastic mass which burns relatively slowly and won't detonate. Nothing like gunpowder, which detonates under pressure. I've burned my skin a few times with it, but that's it. Unless you're talking about incorrect ways to make it (melting the contents) which causes hotpockets and stove inferno, I don't really see the danger. I've never ever heard of someone losing their fingers over rcandy, and I was totally into rocketry. Please provide the evidence and tell me what exactly you did with this material that would cause a loss of limbs. I've worked my ass off with rcandy formulations and I've never ever experienced anything that could violently detach a body part. Yes, you can get third degree burns and subsequent necrosis, but we're talking about blowing your fingers off. I never took that material lightly. All I'm saying is that I can't see how someone can unintentionally detonate it and lose body parts. You're not listening. I'm not talking about a "big rocket". I'm talking about a missile that has achieved sufficient altitude and speed, and is heading towards a city on another continent. Anything unidentified flying that fast, that high and on that trajectory will cause panic. The missile would be under attack, emergency president lines would ring like mad. People monitoring these things don't know what's flying up there. All they know is that the data looks like ICBM. That's enough. It's a DEFCON 1 scenario. If an amateur in Australia would launch something like that towards North Korea, hell would break loose. Anyway, it's not going to happen. Vehicles capable of achieving orbits are not something anyone can build at home. The money involved is insane. -
Cheap open source orbital capable rocket
lajoswinkler replied to Aghanim's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Doesn't matter. If a foreign country detects an ICBM going towards them, **** will hit the fan. Don't you realize how big of a political impact these things have? Even if the missile is intercepted, many people will get hurt by others. If your rocket can establish orbit, you can bomb another continent. The moment another country's intelligence realizes this, tension starts. We don't need that. Just look at the crazies out there. Putin, Kim Jong Un and lots of other military nutcase criminals high in the hierarchy. -
Cheap open source orbital capable rocket
lajoswinkler replied to Aghanim's topic in Science & Spaceflight
And rcandy is not one of them. You can put radiologically dangerous stuff as the payload. You can put viruses inside. You don't need to put anything, and it will still wreck havoc with the world. It might trigger a war. -
We're having European Union parliament elections on Sunday. So far every election I've been at could be done at 1 minute. You get there, you show your documents, they give you the paper, you go behind a screen to mark your selection, you fold the paper, put it in the box and retrieve documents. It think this is how it's been done for decades.
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How about if our KSP NERVA could use any gas in the game, but with each having different efficiency? What do you think about this idea?
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Axial tilt for planets
lajoswinkler replied to Kasuha's topic in KSP1 Suggestions & Development Discussion
This should've been added ages ago. -
Cheap open source orbital capable rocket
lajoswinkler replied to Aghanim's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Orbital capable rocket? That's an intercontinental ballistic missile. If just anyone could make it, this world would look a lot more different. No, an ammateur can't make this at home. The best thing he can make (given the option of plentiful financial resources) is a suborbital rocket for reaching above 80 or 100 km. That's it. I wouldn't want to live in a world where anyone can throw stuff at you from any place on Earth. -
Average IQ correlates with the standard of living. It's because of early childhood nutrition and amount and quality of social interaction, so such news are hardly a surprise. Feed your kid with crappy food, ignore them, and chances are you'll raise a dumbass. It's nature and nurture, but in this case, and statistically speaking, it's mostly nurture.
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Soyuz isn't a part of common global culture. It's because of the Iron Curtain.
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Yeah, I don't like anime a lot, but this was a great show, without much of the standard anime cliches.
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I like it very much. One of the best scenes is with Yuri and the rose. It's great how they managed to respect a lot of real life facts about spaceflight.
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Fun Web Based Game : Orbital Debris
lajoswinkler replied to TheCanadianVendingMachine's topic in The Lounge
80.83 after few flights. Very interesting game. -
And 50 % are below. They are more powerful. Intelligent people are more often introvert, polite, and less intelligent compensate by violence. They win most of the time.
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Saturn's moon, Methone - potentially artificial?
lajoswinkler replied to NERVAfan's topic in Science & Spaceflight
God I hate the look of Hyperion. Makes me want to scratch my flesh off. I do like Iapetus, a lot. Ablate from Krag's Planet Factory reminds me of it. -
Those are plants growing lights and are consisted of red and blue. Plants disregard other colors as chlorophyll absorbs light like this: Pure red would make you go crazy rather quickly, because it doesn't induce normal melatonin production. You see stuff, yet your brain thinks it's sleepy time. You'd go bat**** insane. Pure blue light would not allow you to get sleepy as it would continually trick brain to think it's middle of the day. That's why late night watching computer screens delays the normal procedure for turning to sleep. Combination of both would probably be ok, physiologically, but not psychologically. It's an unnerving color. If you wanted to sleep, you'd put something over your eyes, but I'd hate to be contained in a pink-magenta light when I'm awake. The brain would not compensate, at least not completely. They should have these lights behind a curtain, and living quarters with normal, full spectrum light.
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What are disadvantages of nuclear fusion?
lajoswinkler replied to KerbMav's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I don't get you "solar people". You think the Sun is "free"? Nothing is free. Panels cost. A lot. In most cases they're not economically viable because of unreliable weather, and they can not be used as a base load. Whatever you hear, it's a myth. They can not be used as a base load. Period. Additionaly, photovoltaic energy is expensive, pretty dirty (considering total life cycle - panel production is extremely messy per yielded kWh) and unreliable. One of the reasons why there are restrictive laws about it is to avoid destabilizing the grid. This is not a simple battery circuit we're talking about. National power systems are a mess that has to be monitored 24/7. You need a stable base load and systems for smooth and rough oscillations. People study these things hard. It's not some dumbass pressing two buttons. BTW we already use a lot of solar energy. Agriculture. Gigajoules of energy converted into chemical energy of the organic compounds. Drying stuff. Evaporating. Sterilization. Synthesis of vitamin D. Heating and lightning homes. Powering hydroelectric plants (Sun causes rain). -
That's from China Space page on Facebook. I sincerely hope their quarters were lit by normal light. I'd go psychotic here after a short time.
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Saturn's moon, Methone - potentially artificial?
lajoswinkler replied to NERVAfan's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Yes, you could. Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have lots of captured stuff around them. -
With Deadly Reentry installed.
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There is no reason not to use the new parts just like you used the old parts, except now you can build even larger things. Someone mentioned Planet Factory. Whackjob, there is Ablate. It's a real effort to reach it with a tiny probe. Why not sending a large station there?
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What? JB meaning Justin Bieber? No, man. The only hole he visited way a silicone one and it rhymes with flashlight.
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And you've made an account for this occasion? A little bird has told you someone is offering a free Steam key? The floods in Serbia are still making trouble, it's not over yet.
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You're dead wrong about this. Using "anymore", you're saying that people were better at this in the past. They weren't. Humanity today is the most caring version Earth has ever seen. The same questions asked 40 years ago would yield much less positive results, trust me. Some things have changed to worse, I agree, but as a whole, humanity is far better than before. It's just that now the communications are global, so you get an opportunity to see the scum we truly are and always were. In the days when telephone and telegram were the fastest routes of communicating, you couldn't grasp out collective crap.
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If you use a Steam version, do the "verify integrity of game cache". Every now and then, something is updated. And reboot everything, and download the latest (like, this minute) update of Procedural Parts. That should help. Otherwise, do a clean installation and start mod installation with PP first.