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  1. lajoswinkler
    "Non GMO" - ROFL what a bunch of dumbasses. You can't do this without editing the genome. And, as others said, it's still too expensive. One day, yes. I'm looking forward to it.
  2. lajoswinkler
    My Lego astronaut on the bed sheet looking towards my old phone's LED. And a flare.
  3. lajoswinkler
    How the hell can we give you an evidence he's lying?
  4. lajoswinkler
    The ship has been finally loaded with liquid fuel and is ready for departure. The crew is still on Kerbin. Here is the data on Kron 6. Take the delta v reading with a grain of salt. It's gonna change because the ship is modular.
  5. lajoswinkler
    Jebediah, Bob, Valentina, Bill. Standard team.
  6. lajoswinkler
    I'd rather not change the actual planetary bodies, but the second idea is something I've been thinking about. It would indeed have to be something special. I'll think about it some more.
  7. lajoswinkler
    Pls no kill Kerbals. I never gave it a serious thought, but I should. It might happen.
  8. lajoswinkler
    They would be put to cryostasis and the Ministry would launch an autonomous rescue vessel with higher TWR and possibly ISRU (because I don't expect it to happen anytime before getting back to Kerbin - running out of sufficient fuel quantities for braking is a plausible scenario). No Kerbal was left behind for years. Stranded Kerbals on Plock - chances for that are close to zero, unless actual destruction of the ship occurs.
  9. lajoswinkler
    The sample is way too small. I'd take this not with a grain of salt, but with a spoonful of it. I've noticed that during the recent years there has been an increase in panic over "them space radiamations" in general public and the media. Most cosmic rays aren't stopped by the magnetosphere or atmosphere, but lithosphere. We're constantly bombarded by them and that's obvious when you look at the cloud chamber or just hold a Geiger-Müller tube in air. Take a look at this fairly large surface (but low height) cloud chamber and imagine how many of these rays/particles flash around in one cubic metre. A lot more than in this small chamber, that's for sure. Magnetosphere and atmosphere shield us mainly from solar wind and once you're on the Moon or further away, your increase in ionizing ray dose is basically increased by them. It's the Sun. That is manageable.
  10. lajoswinkler
    Basically all you need to know is here and available on the links in the document. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_blanket
  11. lajoswinkler
    That's a pile of cow poop. There are sooooo many successful movies with longer scenes. Some of the most memorable movies used quite longer scenes. How about Kubrick's masterpieces? Christopher Nolan? Granted, the "research" might've used dumbasses... That would make sense. I'm also highly annoyed by this "style" the reboot uses. I don't have the feeling I'm looking at a Star Trek movie, but mindless lensflare-napalm psychotic perversion from the minds of typical moneybag directors of this time. Historians will condemn all of this, I'm sure of it. Alfonso Cuarón comes to mind.
  12. lajoswinkler
    Hopefully less than I'll have onboard. One of the things I like to do with KSP is to eyeball a bit. I really plan these things a lot, with tons of details (because once you're on your way, that's it), but I like to go higher than expected and then act conservative with fuel spending. I often end up with like 3 km/s left. Kron 6 should have something like 15 km/s when fully fueled in low Kerbin orbit. Granted, some of its parts will be left behind like the Knugen lander and the station. As with all Kron ships, that means an increase in total delta v. It can all be calculated in advance, but ain't nobody got time fo dat.
  13. lajoswinkler
    Neutron star suroundings are not only eliminated of matter due to the supernova that created it, but also constantly bombarded by intense ionizing radiation. Nothing could survive there.
  14. lajoswinkler
    No, I'm taking all the fuel with me. ISRU is tedious and it takes a long time, and time is a commodity when you use life support. Exactly. It's gonna be difficult to get captured by Plock, but I'm gonna rely on its enormous SOI.
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    I'm gonna have to push towards Kerbin because, otherwise, trip back home would last for a LONG time. Then I'm gonna have to brake. I've never done something of this magnitude.
  16. lajoswinkler
    Surprisingly enough, not as someone would expect. The farther the orbiting bodies are, the lesser are the increments in delta v a ship needs to spend to get there, Hohmann or hyperbolic. I'm mainly concerned about getting back. Think about it.
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    The plan is to make the trip last for less than five years, but it will depend on the Plock distance. I think it will be possible to reach it in four years.
  18. lajoswinkler
    Time is the most important variable here. Few minutes, few hours, perhaps, but more than that and you'd start feeling very bad. The smell would be unbearing at first and would probably lead to laryingospasm or, at best, strong coughing and vomiting, but the smell would go away because H2S saturates the olfactoric nerve endings.
  19. lajoswinkler
    Wasn't Pandora's atmosphere ridden with ammonia (NH3)? In any case, That much H2S is extremely dangerous and would lethally poison you in a few breaths (you'd die in minutes if you don't receive immediate help). Hydrogen sulfide is more poisonous than hydrogen cyanide and, being a small molecule, it diffuses through skin so at those concentrations it would poison you by entering your blood via skin. You could hold your breath but you wouldn't last for long even with the mask on. Kidney failure in case of ammonia and cell respiration failure (and suffocation) in case of hydrogen sulfide.
  20. lajoswinkler
    For those who think this is "so powerful", a cold shower - just because something is superhot, doesn't mean it's packed with energy. Power is energy delivered divided by the time it has been delivered in. That means that you can get enormous powers if you use short enough timespan during your measuring. Example - lasers. They can heat up targets at millions of kelvins because they release a certain amount of energy in a very short pulse (picosecond bursts, for example). Temperature ≠ heat And it has been determined that such power sources are extremely expensive to the point of complete financial loss. I was surprised, too.
  21. lajoswinkler
    But someone has got to run the experiments. And land. The whole ship has only one probe core and it's in the propulsion unit.
  22. lajoswinkler
    I'm not sure. I shouldn't increase the length of the arm because it will increase the torque, but I might be able to relaunch the thing KAL 9000 did, with two more decouplers on the sides holding your . I'd remove the outer docking port, then. Send the file and I'll check it out. It won't be until the ship is filled with liquid fuel. With Kerbalism installed, I don't want to increase their psycho-problems by exposing them to space more than it's needed.
  23. lajoswinkler
    The plot thickens...
  24. lajoswinkler
    Noted. I'm continuing with filling missions for the ship. Its mass is almost 620 tonnes now, and it's something like 1/3 full. We're getting closer to 9000 m/s of delta v capability. Some nice screenies. Here you can see @KAL 9000's tiny landers, safely docked.
  25. lajoswinkler
    You made at least two very serious errors in your opening post that could even cost someone life. If I were you, I'd delete those lines. Most people will see your post and won't see mine and some of them will do it and get injured. a) Mixing powdery sugar and potassium nitrate creates a very heterogeneous mixture that has extremely unreliable burning. It can easily detonate when confined in a rocket engine, but it will probably fart agressively and blow the nozzle out. b) Adding metal powders, especially powerful reducers (aluminium, magnesium) into a mixture containing nitrates (even worse if it's ammonium nitrate) will cause two things - either the mixture will slowly degrade in time by surface phase reactions which will get gradually faster with increasing moisture and could heat up and ignite if larger amounts are present, or it will detonate on ignition. Never mix powdered metals with oxidizing powders unless you're trying to make an explosive and I strongly urge you not to do that. There are combinations that lead to very sensitive mixtures that can ignite if just stressed with a spoon or by a tap on the table.
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