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  1. lajoswinkler
    Here it is. From Firewatch.
  2. lajoswinkler
    WHY the hell wasn't this activated by Squad? Honestly, sometimes I think monkeys work there instead of people. Good job, pizzaoverhead!
  3. lajoswinkler
    Moments ago, 1 million km mark has been breached.
  4. lajoswinkler
    Without China making nearly everything except food for USA, problems would arise in a few days. Without GPS and other fancy stuff, Internet would cease to exist and the country would plummet into chaos. Nothing good, folks.
  5. lajoswinkler
    Hm, some of my Kron ships would need at least 45 min.
  6. lajoswinkler
    It's sad when murdering a helpless person tied to a table finds its way into the funny trivia. Speaks volumes.
  7. lajoswinkler
    I've kind of sworn not to use anything else. LV-NB is kind of what makes Kron ships... Kron ships. Oh, and 3.75 m modules. And they're quite realistic. After all, we do have that technology developed on Earth (NERVA, RD-0410). CFG file for LV-NB says maxThrust = 160 so that would be 160 kN. In current, 4-engine configuration, I get TWR of 0.06 I've played with 0.04 before...
  8. lajoswinkler
    160 days in, Kaos 3 is crossing the orbit of Dres. I won't be using AHMS for Kron 6. I'll go with regular heatsinks and radiators. Also, I've tested the static stability of the ship using HyperEdit. It does not shake like a dog and is very stable. I'm still designing the staging system. New, 4 engine layout complicates things. I might return to a 3 engine layout. We'll see.
  9. lajoswinkler
    Congratulations on your first planetary visit.:)
  10. lajoswinkler
    Yay, grayscale!
  11. lajoswinkler
    When added to all the mods I already use, the sum makes too large of an impact for my system.
  12. lajoswinkler
    This one. Granted, if the conditions are similar to Gilly, I could get back to the ship on a hyperbolic orbit in a fraction of orbital period.
  13. lajoswinkler
    It reentered in a few months, if I recall correctly. It's just a bag in LEO.
  14. lajoswinkler
    I think the storm in Kerbalism is something that occurs suddenly in the whole system, with something like one hour of warning. I'm not sure, though. Timewarp also stops (and I think that feature can be turned off) so the crew being fried while in poorly protected parts of the ship is not a serious possibility. The issue with the lander is totally possible, but I need to see the orbital periods in low Plock, low Karen, and possibly low Beros and low Kxy orbits. Realistically speaking, lander's shielding should be minimal and that would give me something more to panic about.
  15. lajoswinkler
    I did some tweaks of the ship. With all radiation shields maxed out, the ship has an initial delta v of 14,234 m/s, and without shields at all, 15989 m/s. I'm considering maxing out the cryonics module where the crew will sleep and one of the modules where they could hide when a solar storm hits. The rest would have minimal shielding. That would give me around 15 km/s which is pretty decent, considering I'll get at least 500 m/s more after I dump the lander and one of the modules, as usual. Any advice on this would be appreciated.
  16. lajoswinkler
    Finally, the game has been scheduled for release on 2016/06/07 and it's available for pre-purchase on Steam. http://store.steampowered.com/app/304430/ Hype?
  17. lajoswinkler
    Seems to work for me. One suggestion for the author: LV-NB engines could get a bit longer. They're basically of the same height as stock LV-N engines. It would be aesthetically pleasing and more realistic if their bells were longer.
  18. lajoswinkler
    Well I say, I totally forgot about the signature. Thanks for reminding me! I'm working on getting Kerty back, yes.
  19. lajoswinkler
    Thanks. Will try because Beros and Kyx seem as an interesting addition. Indeed, there is a lot of time to brake, but I'm gonna go hyperbolic. Going to Plock using Hohman transfer would be insanity. Almost all Kron ships have had a NFE fission reactor.
  20. lajoswinkler
    Rocket candy must never ever be made without dissolving the sugar, and I don't mean melting it (extremely high probability of ignition and the mixture isn't homogeneous because the salt won't dissolve in molten sucrose) but dissolving in a solvent that dissolves both it and potassium nitrate. The cheapest solvent that does it is distilled water (avoid tap water because of limescale). Usual mixture is sucrose:KNO3=40:60 with a pinch of iron(III) oxide. It simply has to be dissolved in warm water and then evaporated and stirred constantly on a hot plate. When enough water evaporates, the procedure gets dangerous because hotspots can occur. Also, the mixing must not be such that it introduces air bubbles because those will quite possibly cause the engine to explode when the reaction front reaches them. The end result has to be a hot plasticine-like mass that still has some water in it and needs to be either immediately ram-packed into the engine or made into little cylinders and sealed in plastic baggies because it's deliquescent. It takes a lot of practice and the consequences can be disastrous if you don't know what you're doing. Always assume it will ignite and take proper measures. Rcandy is very stable and not subjectible to usual dangers but be careful.
  21. lajoswinkler
    I like the idea, but I'm using both OPM and Sigma Binary so... what happens in that case?
  22. lajoswinkler
    Scientists in USA were using metric system for decades. Granted, some of them didn't know how to properly write the units (for example, they would write "gms" for grams, instead of simply "g", and "kph" instead of "km/h" which shows they didn't really care about the fact that kilo- is a prefix), but metric was used simply because imperial is a disgusting tumor on a metric system (yes, it's defined using metric!) that makes calculations horribly impractical. Maybe he's trying to recreate Mars Climate Orbiter?
  23. lajoswinkler
    It's like watching New Horizons closing in on Pluto.
  24. lajoswinkler
    I might've seen it through my binoculars back then. It was funny.
  25. lajoswinkler
    That is not correct. Earth has massive deposits of ices in its mantle. Water, CO2, nitrogen, they're either bound as crystal water, part of a compound, or dissolved under extreme pressures. Earth itself is the main source of ices on its surface. Volcanos barf it regularly and isotopic content of comets simply does not match with isotopic content of our ices. For some reason, during the last years, general public is being taught by the media that water and life came from somewhere else. Earth had every possible means of delivering both.
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