lajoswinkler

Guys, do you know what is a mole (unit)?

I might bomb something, honestly! Sadly, it's not a joke. Many dumbass politicians use it, such as Sarah Palin and George W. Bush (on numerous occasions). There are more examples, but they're scattered all over Youtube. Makes you cringe to hear "nucular" coming from a person who has access to launch codes.

No, it would not be possible. If you had a chunk of ice the size of Minmus, its center would be liquid because of the pressure, and indeed, even pretty small bodies (accounting for the higher gravitational constant in KSP universe) would reach equilibrium and become rounded. However, the ice would sublimate (no melting in vacuum) very fast and it would create a huge coma (way larger than Kerbin's SOI) around the body. It would essentially be a comet orbiting a planet with the planet inside the coma, a weird sight from far away. The tail would be still, pointing away from the star, the planet would essentially be in the middle of it, and the comet nucleus would orbit it. No reasonable amount of albedo would save such body. It would gradually thaw into vacuum, probably shooting some geysers, launching ice chunks in the orbit. A temporary icy ring could be established if the decay is sufficiently powerful. It could last for thousands of years. A blink of an eye in the geological timescale. Any crust forming on the body would not stop it from thawing. Comets have nice, coal-black crusts and they decay. Solid methane is even worse, and methane clathrates quickly decay when brought into vacuum. So that's absolutely impossible, too. Me, too. Crushed greenish inorganic minerals. No ice at all.

I believe you wanted to say that your middle mouse button is broken, not the scroll function. I have the same problem and it's very annoying. Numerical keypad plus and minus keys. If you use a laptop, you need to include the function key in your keystroke.

It is still pronounced like that, just like nuclear is not nucular, but nuclear. Before I saw Futurama in early 2000s, I never even knew about the joke, because I've never heard the incorrect pronounciation. And before anyone starts about "everything is correct" and "the language evolves" crap, I'll just say that few dumb people's errors that spread like wildfire does not account for a note in a dictionary. Few years ago I learned that the dictionaries started adopting "nucular". I wanted to shoot something.

If we are talking about going "from the scratch" i.e. going from subatomic particles, then uncertainty principle plays a huge role. You can't deny that. You also can't deny the huge numbers involved. It's easily calculated. We aren't talking about the stuff that's routinely done in genetic laboratories in those small tubes. We're talking about subatomic particle manipulation to make tissues. Tissues are made from cells, and this is a grossly oversimplified surface of a cell. That will never be possible to replicate directly. The number of atoms is unbelieveable, and more important, you'd need a computer to calculate the energies and conformations of each protein molecule. I don't think you realize how complex this thing is. Just how are you going to keep it from decay while not precipitating the proteins inside? "Stasis chamber"? "Decay compensator ray"? LOL I really think many of you here have a narrow, mechanical engineering approach to these things. This is not a matter of technological advancement. At best we can hope for some kind of matter lasers that could build microscopic amounts of simple lattices, using prepared atoms.

I think the term you're looking for is "emergent phenomena".

That's because every change is done gradually and the network works through it. Synthesis de novo would be futile as it would introduce immediate and total differences. Emulations are possible just like we do with weather prognosis, but when you apply that to brain, you can't expect to replicate an exact healthy person. I think the product would be horrific. Probably highly mentally disrupted individual, at best. Neural tissue communicates not only by ionic impulses. There is chemical signalization, too, and the communication goes throughout the body. Brain is not a separate entity that just calculates stuff using neurons. All that is subjected to chaos on a molecular level. In short words - no. We can't make an exact copy.

Ionic crystals, metallic lattices, that might work by pure repetition (although it's also insanely difficult). Biological matter? Never. Those inadequacies are the difference between a pile of smelly goo and a bunch of cells, even dead ones. Even if you could be precise enough, you'd need to do it instantly. Position, conformation and energy of protein molecules are everything for biological matter. If we wanted to replicate a raw steak, we're talking about number of atoms on the order of magnitude of 1023-1024, and it all (positions, energies) needs to be done instantly. It's impossible not only by the means of technology (what computer could store all that information? It would have to be big as a planet). It's scientifically impossible.

Absolutely not. The opposite would be foolish and absurd.

The whole list needs to be re-sorted. Engines and tanks are all randomly thrown in it. There's no order whatsoever and it's highly annoying.

It looks fine to me, better than any capsule I've seen so far. How does it behave when the textures are set on 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8? That's not how chorion normally looks like. Here's a famous photograph (Nilsson, 1965.) that shows what I'm talking about. Therefore, the name is highly appropriate.

ROFL I've totally lost it when the pinball sounds started.

Great way to ingest toxic gunk... Oil is a good way of removing heat if you circulate it, but mineral oil is the best because it won't spoil. People have been doing it for a long, long time. If I had the money to spend, I'd do it, too.

I just had to. You're repeating the same mistakes on other posts, too.

No, we are not. Viruses of influenza destroy their habitat. Bacteria, if you feed nutrients to them, will just multiply until the concentration of their waste material exceed the load bearing capabilities of the population, and then massive bacterial death occurs. The graphs regarding all other lifeforms are strikingly similar. All animals, except humans, will proliferate without restricting themselves in any way if they're given the chance. It's the other interactions with living and nonliving nature that keeps their populations under control. The notion that animals have the sense of when it's enough and chose to "live in harmony", is infantile and completely false. This harmony is the product of balance between s.e.x (really? censorship? wow.) and birth and death due to other species or lack of nutrients. Nothing romantic about that. Only humans can decide "hey, let's stop, all this might not be a good idea". The fact is that most of the time we don't do this and behave like other animals.

It's usually my own voice as I hear it through my skull. Sometimes it's some news reporter's. It's never been his voice, though.

The idea behind the movie is great, most of the effects are really great because they respect realism, but the plot needs more work. No, I don't mean more action and explosions and drama (I hate crappy action-packed movies even if they're high budget).

They could not use our foods because of the different biochemical makeup of their organisms. All they could use is a place to live in special compartment cities with appropriate atmosphere, where they could synthesize/grow their own foodstuffs. Every time they'd come into contact with us, they would effectively be on EVA. Unfortunatelly, humans are savages and I think they'd be killed.

Nice dreams, y'all, but that's it. Dreams.

It seems everyone here is forgetting one crucial thing. The number of particles in a chicken or a steak. Even if you could avoid Heisenberg principle (you can't) and even if you had enough energy for all those nuclear transmutations (because sheer inefficiency is unavoidable), it would take billions of years to synthesize even a cube of sugar, let alone something that complex and prone to decay as biological matter. DNA doesn't do anything. It's a bunch of molecular data. Protein machines are responsible for any DNA manipulation, and that is probably the most insanely complex molecular process in the known universe. The whole system can't be compared to Santa Claus machine because it takes even more additional protein machines to make the final product - a functioning protein. Santa Claus machine is a pipedream with infinite obstacles.

No, it's impossible. Heisenberg principle is the fundamental scientific obstacle, and technological obstacles are just... unimaginable. Anyone comparing this with "we never knew cellphones will be possible" lacks basic understanding of physics.

I usually play stock, but I try a mod or two here and there, usually deleting them after a while. I'll probably leave: Deadly Reentry because it's a necessary level of realism, Krag's Planet Factory because I like its new challenges and KSPX because I like how it offers parts that really should exist in the stock game. Kerbal Engineer is something I'm testing at the moment and it really makes my life easier. I've removed MechJeb a long time ago because I don't need it. If I had a beast of a computer, I'd probably use those mods that make the game prettier.

It contains similar atoms just like Earth below its lithosphere. Its composition is similar to typical asteroids because all planets were initially made of such material which clumped together. Jupiter was larger and far enough to keep its permanent gas (hydrogen and helium) atmosphere. So it's basically rock, meaning heavy elements like carbon, iron, nickel, uranium. The state of it... probably some kind of degenerate matter. No compounds. Just plasma so compressed it might be solid. I don't think scientists did any actual experiments outside computer simulations, and it might be that nobody even did some decent simulations of it. It might have a crust of carbon in the diamond form, but the actual core must be made of heavier elements. So I'll vote for "exotic matter" because that's the closest explanation, but it's undoubtedly rock by composition. It can't be hydrogen.

This is a truly great thing you're doing. I hope your videos will become more famous once KSP gets more popular. I'm watching the videos and it looks so similar to this. Very cool. Keep up with the mission.