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  1. lajoswinkler
    Mindless summer asplosion movie. That's it and that's how we should approach it. No expectations. Just silly crap for wasting money for ticket, popcorn and a drink.
  2. lajoswinkler
    "Dwarf planet" is not a type of planet. It's not a subcategory. It's an entirely new species among planetary bodies.
  3. lajoswinkler
    What is "homemade"? If you think of rockets made with home cooked fuels, then no. Never. Impossible. Please don't use that crackpot terminology. It does not suit the KSP forum. There is no such thing as "HHO".
  4. lajoswinkler
    120 days in, Kaos 3 is crossing the orbit of Duna. Meanwhile at the KSC, Kron 6 is being prototyped. I think we'll go with 4, instead of 3 engines this time. Plock is a really tiny planetary body and we need some more serious force here. I've used the parts from what seems to be a revival of Active Heat Management. (https://spacedock.info/mod/790/Active Heat Management System) I expect there will be a lot more changes here, but this is the general look, with the centrifuge and all.
  5. lajoswinkler
    Second stage fires again, giving the probe around 1 km/s extra velocity. Kaos 3 jettisons the second stage, deploys its instruments and starts to fire its ion engine. With only around 20 m/s left, the craft has now reached third cosmic speed and will leave Kerbol forever. The plan is to do a flyby of Plock (and possibly Karen, too, if it gets into a suitable position) as low as possible and will be corrected on the way. The probe is on its way, its systems are working. Hibernation will occur very soon.
  6. lajoswinkler
    Kaos 3 has launched. Getting rid of Thumpers. Climbing through stratosphere. Jettisoning the first stage. Second stage is kicking in. Kaos 3 has established a direct link to the Kerbal Space Center and is waiting for further instructions in a circular, equatorial orbit. Second stage will be able to achieve second cosmic speed, correct the inclination and accelerate the craft so that it will probably be able to reach at least Jool. Ion engine will then carry on.
  7. lajoswinkler
    Not inconceivable at all. I don't want to sound harsh, but where have you heard those things? Not only it was plausible, not only it was expected, but it was like that decades ago. If there's a huge layer of ice pressing deep layers, if there are solutes, if there is primordial heat, there HAS to be liquid underneath. Just because NASA's silly PR posts clickbait articles, doesn't mean science was duped about it.
  8. lajoswinkler
    @NotAgain I use only few of its parts for looks, such as the big white dish it has. I've deleted everything else and thus that mod has no function besides aesthetics. I don't want to go into the hassle of all that, Kerbalism is hard enough.
  9. lajoswinkler
    Of course. It still works, even though it hasn't been updated for v1.1.3. Kerbalism all the way. (I still don't know all its tricks; I just cram everything with shields at max. capacity LOL)
  10. lajoswinkler
    After all this mod kerfuffle, the Kerbal nation is planning to send the sixth iteration of Kron to the Plock-Karen system. The Ministry gave a green light for basic preparations, however they wanted reasonable scans and images of the system before a great deal of funds is spend on a full blown manned mission. That's how Kaos 3 came to be. Blutonium powered, ion engine probe designed to reach the system on a hyperbolic trajectory and take readings, transmitting them using a large dish commonly used on Kron ships. Kaos 3 is now waiting on the launch pad. It will be launched using a two stage rocket with four "Thumper" solid rocket boosters.
  11. lajoswinkler
    Oh, wow, I've been listened to? That's something.
  12. lajoswinkler
    Hydroponics bay, thick one.
  13. lajoswinkler
    Depends on what rays were used, how long, etc. For example, if you irradiate a potato with infrared rays from a typical oven for one hour, you'll get a tasty potato (and you'll destroy its toxicity; potatos are actually toxic). But if you put that potato in a strong neutron flux inside a nuclear fission reactor for a few days, it won't be safe at all. It will have, just to name one radioisotope, phosphorus-32 inside.
  14. lajoswinkler
    Yes, this. As if Squad stopped listening to the community since Felipe left.
  15. lajoswinkler
    Starch would be a poor cosmic ray absorber. It's best to just use water.
  16. lajoswinkler
    This thing with versions jumping up must be grinding your gears, eh, Nertea?
  17. lajoswinkler
    Is this mod abandoned?
  18. lajoswinkler
    I find them annoying only because of the Squad logo and, to a much lesser extent, their tapered shape. It would be nicer if they were proper monoliths from 2001.
  19. lajoswinkler
    Potatos won't grow in heavy water. Enzymes are highly sensitive to small differences in hydrogen atom size.
  20. lajoswinkler
    "Technically edible" - yes, we read it.
  21. lajoswinkler
    No, things are changing in the positive direction because of internets and people who correct And languages do change, but accepting gross misinterpretations of such words, especially because it introduces massive confusion and degradation of public opinion of science, is completely unacceptable.
  22. lajoswinkler
    Then it can't be a theory. Theory has evidence and can produce new hypotheses. It's a hypothesis, at best.
  23. lajoswinkler
    Microwave oven radiation is nonionizing electromagnetic radiation, microwave photons. They heat stuff. Stuff you want to block in outer space is cosmic rays (extreme gamma rays, protons, electrons, neutrons, ...), gamma rays, x-rays. Ionizing radiation. They strip electrons from atoms and molecules, creating ions and radicals that wreck our body's cellular proteins and other stuff. Two completely different things.
  24. lajoswinkler
    Potassium cyanide is also edible. Once. This is stupid journalism. No way that thing would not make you sick. It probably has accumulated lots of bacterial toxins, amines and all other kinds of crap.
  25. lajoswinkler
    Where is the point of it being randomly generated? It's like looking for a needle in a haystack... an ever growing haystack. As it wasn't difficult enough in the first place...
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