lajoswinkler
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You're focusing on combusting them, which is not something that would even be done. Hydrocarbons are precious because they're used to make various chemicals. You make solvents with them, polymers, reagents. The horror of depleting the viably accessible fossil fuels is not the fact energy will be harder to come by (uranium fission is available and plentiful), but the raw material to make stuff we need. Chemical industry would suffer profoundly and that's the base of our society's survival.
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Who are those "many people"? The idea is mindbogglingly stupid and would (if done... but that won't happen) wreck the climate even faster. Low hydrocarbons on Titan are present in abundance only in the lakes and they would be useful as sources of hydrogen for atomic rockets as an orbital propellant. The source of energy for stripping hydrogen away would be uranium fission. I can see that happening in less than 200 years. Titan is small and its gravity well isn't a great obstacle.
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Not before it's thoroughly examined. Since we didn't even examine Earth in such fashion, the answer is no. It would be a crime against science.
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I'll just prune DMagic because I'm trying to keep the GameData small as possible. Thanks.
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I've ditched DMagic because of this, after long push-me-pull-you. It's one of the best mods I saw and now I'm stuck to it. However, there are few problems. I can't deploy the magnetometers and RPWS. There is no button for that when you right click them. Amd I doing something wrong?
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As soon as the probe got close to the anomaly, problems with its electronics started. This is the last photograph sent up to the ship. The probe soon lost control and crashed nearby. On another pass over the site, the crew saw the landing site, but there was nothing they could do anymore. Data was sent to KSC and, after brief investigation, it will be decided where to land the Knugen lander.
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PPMTL-B01 has been released. Its target is the anomaly on Beros. Retro burn of some 8 m/s. Update soon.
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Quantum phenomenon, yet the article title goes like there's an upside down beaker somewhere in a lab, full of upward falling liquid. Clickbait. It would be the same as if someone would talk about electron gas as something you can put in a balloon. But worse.
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I'm stuck at this challenge. Even with this small decoupler having a zero detach force, it still pushes like a small docking port. It doesn't allow you to do precise maneuvers as it imparts around 1 m/s and when you decouple it. If it says zero in VAB, I want zero pushing. Can we have this fixed? Also, if someone knows a quick solution to this, I'd really appreciate it.
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Removing the disgusting skybox. TWR and Δv readout. Not having that is just stupid.
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[old thread] Trajectories : atmospheric predictions
lajoswinkler replied to Youen's topic in KSP1 Mod Releases
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Not only Kopernicus (which is the core mod that allows OPM's magic to work) doesn't allow it, but imagine the load. Those lumps have to be rendered. Also, vessels pass through so fast it would attribute for a fragment of second of stuff whizzing by. Planetary rings are VERY thin and unless you're determined to destroy yourself by having a zero relative inclination, you're going at orbital speeds and you basically won't see anything. It's not like in the opening of Star Trek: Voyager where every sense of reality has been tossed out the window.
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Those are standard terms, yes. For some reason they aren't used much in USA, but they are valid and a standard outside USA. They date from the time of first serious works in orbital mechanics for practical application. Tsiolkovsky used it, Oberth, etc. (For future reference to those whom might find it useful - it's speed, not velocity, as people sometimes write. Speed is a scalar only and velocity is a combination of speed and direction. Because velocity is never mentioned without direction, term speed is much more prevalent. Laymen usually say velocity when they try to sound serious, but those two terms aren't synonyms and should not be used interchangeably.)
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Yes, that's an excellent compromise.
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Forked Ascension at perihelion.
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Not long after the end of the primary mission, Ascension reached its perihelion which lies inside Moho's orbit. The comet, if it had coma and a tail modelled, would be spewing gases at high rates now. Let's check the lander probe. As the nucleus was rotating and exposing its surface to Kerbol, the highest temperature recorded was 870.1 K which is 596.95 °C. Let's round that up to 597 °C. At those temperatures iron glows red. This is the end of the probe's life. Even though it survived all this, it's depleted of charge.
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This is very interesting, but it's way too close to Kerbol. As it has been said, it's within Plock-Karen orbit. I'd push this at least 10x further away and that's really, really close. There are mods that allow travel to great distances, much greater than OPM gives us. Why not use this fact? If you're gonna add a wormhole (somehow), make it an addon for Sarnus from OPM.
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What a shame that someone has to make a mod for something that should've been a stock feature. Well done, Wheffle.
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Why don't you divert your efforts to editing the wiki? Threads sink and are forgotten. Wiki is always available.
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I was told by a moderator that it is no longer forbidden to post threads and materials that support conspiracy "theories" on this forum. This is one of the worst things that could've been made for a forum policy. What's going on? Did this happen because a lot of new, unknown people suddenly became moderators and admins, as the old ones went away? There is nothing good about such material. It's always spreading lies, uncritical thinking, confirmational bias. It teaches young people it's ok to ignore facts. Sometimes it's offensive (and people running this forum obviously know a lot about that, with all the censorship of simple words), sometimes/often it's downright racist, nationalist, jingoist. You're opened the doors to the worst scum trolls destroying forums out there. If you're all so very overprotective of kids here like Ned Flanders, you should revoke this... Or you're hypocrites.
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I find it ridiculous and pathetic that anyone is actually rooting for such censorship. Grow up, people.
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Kentron's cameras are radially positioned, so the center black square is where the harpoon goes into the screen. Mission is a complete success.
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As you can see here, it was an excellent landing. No bumping, no nothing. Just halt. Kentron is sending its photos to the probe. There are 4 cameras onboard.
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Impact. Even though it was tumbling, the lander went harpoon forward like a knife into dirt. No top thruster used, no harpoon ejection. Pics soon.
