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It was a typo. I meant to say their benefits are nothing compared to the downsides with the whole life cycle taking into consideration.

It takes some time because some of it is physically locked inside grains. It really needs to be properly reprocessed. Milling, washing, drying, compacting the regolith, and water reclamation. They can be returned as most if not all of them crystalize before the perchlorates do as their solubility is lower. Proper reprocessing is needed. Complex and expensive. Only if they promptly reduce them to chlorides. Chlorates, chlorites, and hypochlorites are much more reactive and would downright oxidize the plant. I guess GM bacteria would be of immense help here. Well, that explains a lot.

Ah, you don't need to give me more reputation, I've got plenty. I had two accidents today, involving the southern pole. First the lander detonated 3.5 km above it "due to overheating". Next, while Bob was near the pole itself, he also died of overheating. This pole is obviously an extremely glitchy place so I recommend avoiding it. Avoid orbiting over it a low altitudes and don't approach it. You can see Siren here, few hundred metres above its landing spot. Touchdown was easy, but it's very difficult to find a place that's leveled enough. Don't try to land on the spikes. I suspect Kraken might attack you. The pole itself is at the bottom of this cliff. You can see the sense of scale on this screenshot where the lander is visible in the lower right part. Bob is fine now. Back at the ship, thinking whether he has false memories or something.

Of course everything has an impact and everything creates pollution. The problem with PV is that its benefit is awfully pathetic compared to its downsides. It's a known fact, but it's not popular to say. The most environmentally friendly energy source is the most energy dense and plentiful one - uranium fission. And comparing PV with it is done by people whose knowledge on the topic of energy production is worse or equal to SimCity. Such power plants have proven to be unfeasible. I had hope for solar thermal, but it simply isn't worth it. http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2015/07/20/solar-power-still-disappointing Mind that this is still more feasible than photovoltaics.

Who is Radon? Or you mean radon, the element?

This is nothing new, but it's not popular to say because of the greenwashing. Greenwashing (a compound word modelled on "whitewash"), or "green sheen," is a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's products, aims or policies are environmentally friendly. Photovoltaics are anything but beneficial. They are expensive, but actually cheap compared to the price we'd pay for them if China was manufacturing them while thinking about the environment. While stupid Western people think they're so green and good and fancy with their silly panels, it's all being paid by this. Heavy metal pollution of the watertable and streams and lakes, soot and carcinogenic compound pollution of the air, acid rains, enormous carbon footprint, CFC release, etc. That's what drives our "green technology" called photovoltaics. They suck ass when used as anything than remote, offgrid, small application, peak load energy source. They were never meant to be used as base load power. It's just stupid and silly, completely disregarding the professional opinions.

Maybe from photon's perspective, direction is meaningless. It is formed and is destroyed in the same moment.

We know how to do it. All perchlorates are highly soluble in water. All you need to do is to grind and wash the regolith (it's not soil, it lacks the organic part) which will remove some other components, too, but hey, at least you don't have perchlorates inside anymore.

This is kind of interesting.

Off he goes to probe Nissee's hole. It's difficult to predict when the hole ends. It's similar to Moho's mohole, only more serrated. I tried to keep Bob close to the wall to have some kind of a reference point. Half of it is in shade. And here it is. Bob at 2635 m. There's probably some 4 metres below him, but Bob can't fit. The hole is too tight. Unlike at Moho, I haven't had any kraken attacks or anything. Bob was able to pull out the hole with ease even though the thing was very constricted at the bottom. Almost there. Bob has exited the smaller hole feature, but he needs to get on top of the large one to measure the depth precisely. Well then. Top of the hole is 6739 m which makes the depth 4104 m plus whatever was beneath Bob at the bottom. There are small canyons radiating from the center, large enough to house a small rocket in them. Back to the landing site. Siren takes off. Rendezvous with Kron 5. Docking and replenishing the oxidizer (orange tanks) in the lander. Next stop - south pole of Nissee.

Nissee's gravity is very weak so the mission was quite easy. The terrain this close to the northern pole is quite jagged so caution is needed to avoid landing on a slope. Bill stepped on its surface as the first Kerbal to do so. Jumping will launch Kerbals 14 m up. Performing experiments on Nissee proved it's an icy body quite similar to a comet. Incredibly cold surface. Dirty snowball. Scientist Bob Kerman will depart on a jetpack journey to investigate the pole.

Because I want to check the whole terrain while orbiting it, and often to see the poles. So far every body had a fast enough rotation so it was useful. Mission report. Siren lander departing the ship. Approaching the hole rim. Landed. EVA soon.

Hilarious!

Food texture is necessary not just because of the morale, but also peristalsis. The colon does not like being shoved with goo all day.

Congrats! What are your reentry settings? 100%?

This is not really something best used outside small sounding rockets and amateur rockets. Super Strypi is too fat.

This!

No, totally irelevant.

Send them a free copy of KSP.

I bet the stream wasn't advertised a lot because the team presumed the chances of this happening were pretty decent. It's a passively controlled (spin and aerodynamics) glorified amateur rocket, really. Kind of like trying to reinvent a wheel.

If it weren't for Conan, we'd never know.

Black holes' rims have entire sky visible in them, including the observer, but you probably realize it would be very difficult to pick one detail out and undistort it. Even if it's a thought experiment with everything perfectly set.

Again, one of KSP forumers that has no understanding of basic physics, hasn't seen the scene properly and claims to know it all. Bussiness as usual. Not just recent. Of all times. It is among the top best space movies ever and because of that, Internet nerds of today that never saw any older movies are more critical to it because they take it for granted.

Indeed, sadly I didn't see any images. I think the flyby's task was primarily to take some measurements.

Thanks, all. If anyone has a particular spot on Nissee they'd like to see visited (except for the poles, because I'm definitively going there), I'm opened for suggestions.