lajoswinkler

Very nice indeed. How about Outer Planets mod, being stockalike and the most popular extension of the stock space?

Don't give up.

Nah, I can't. I don't have such data. Here's the stitched up panorama. Grayscale PNG, open it in another window. (the image uploading service doesn't want to display a full resolution image, idk why)

New images. I'll try to stitch up the rest.

No such progress, because of the chaotic nature of the atmosphere. We only got better at getting more accurate predictions in means of spatial resolution. Three days, that's it. Anything over that, don't even bother.

Turn on the scatter, set it to maximum. Pol should be entirely covered with those spikes. You're gonna get very frustrated with this body. I suggest examining the slope map for Pol and planning your route using that data. http://www.kerbalmaps.com/

Not every metal and it's not sulfury smell, but weird fishy one. It's mostly phosphine. I know exactly what you're talking about. It happens a lot with steel, aluminium and zinc. They contain traces of phosphides. Quite unavoidable stuff and even the slightest traces will be obvious because our noses are highly sensitive to it. Wow, who stepped on your balls? Really, this is survivable? Really? In impact that basically turns a part of the lithosphere into plasma, along with the lump that did it, and stresses the lower parts into another crystal modifications? I'm talking about pieces large enough to bring decent amount of materials, not peanuts. All the tiny crap that rains on a daily basis (or rained) is nothing compared to decent chunks that brings orders of magnitude more than all of those peanuts together. Once upon a time such impacts were a daily event. It's ridiculous to think anything organic can survive such impact.

Carbon based biochemistry is not anthropocentric because of the laws of nature distilled into element properties. If there's carbon, life won't be formed out of something else because it will, as everything does, follow the easiest way. Anthropocentrism is saying the planet is tailored for us, which is wrong. We're the product of it. Browning is not ionization. It's usually Maillard reaction i.e. amino acid and reducing sugar organic chemical reaction. I don't really see how does ionization play a role in this. It's as if you're trying to describe tholin synthesis, but then divert to browning, but those are two very different things. And comet impacts are not hot? Those events are, if anything, both sterilizing and pyrolizing events. I'd say the vast majority of the compounds in question were there from the beginning and were refluxing as aeons went by. I've read about gunpowder-like smell (sounds like sulfur(IV) oxide) when Apollo astronauts would get back in the lander and pressurize it which was probably regolith aerosol reacting with the moisture and nasal mucosa. Rubber degassing would be a fair explanation of the smell you're describing.

Crossing Urlumian orbit. 1 year, 200 days to go. 243 million kilometres away from Kerbol, 3870.4 m/s. This is the farthest a Kron ship has ever been from Kerbin.

From the creators of LIMBO, here comes another game. 3D and reminiscent of LIMBO. The release does not have a deadline, although first part of 2015 was mentioned, and we're getting close to the end of the year. I waited and waited, but still nothing, and the company's Facebook page does not exist anymore. I really enjoyed LIMBO and INSIDE seems to be very promising, too. Hopefully it's not abandoned or something.

Well yeah, Earth had it all from the begining. I really don't understand the sentiments saying Earth was a clean slate, a reactor vessel in which comets and asteroids dumped the ingredients. Earth was made from the same materials but just grew bigger.

So, among 21 molecules detected, ethanol and 2-hydroxyacetaldehyde were detected, for the first time in comets. It's not really a sugar (chemically speaking) but it's related to sugars. The paper says: The abundances of ethanol and glycolaldehyde, respectively 5 and 0.8% relative to methanol (0.12 and 0.02% relative to water), are somewhat higher than the values measured in solar-type protostars. There's probably an usual amount of methanol there, which is probably quite low. I mean, abundance of 2-hydroxyacetaldeyde is 0.02% relative to water, and comets generally have equal amounts of rock and ice, which is around 80% water. As usual, this cometary material would probably smell weird and be poisonous.

Works great for me.

The ship is crossing the orbit of Sarnus. Kerbin and Eve are in conjunction. All systems nominal.

There was no need for painting it white, ever. It was pretty obvious it was gonna be orange, so I'm not sure why all the white paint in the earlier renderings.

Alaska is melting anyway due to the global warming. Half of the work is already done.

Jool is roughly the size of Earth and the system could barely fit inside Venusian orbit.

Yeah, it's a glitch, but a fine one. Looks amazing. I'd love to fly around those.

Gravitational constant of the Kerbal universe is the same as ours. You can calculate it from the standard gravitational parameter of each planetary body and its mass, both of which are shown in the map view. If the gravitational constant was different, accelerations would be different yet they are not. It's the densities. Everything is just so enormously dense for the sake of the game because Squad thought a game where you need to wait for a long time to get into orbit would not be this popular and they're probably right.

We already have a thread about this movie, and we certainly don't need a new thread with its title being the spoiler. Come on.

Kerosene is not a compound, it's a mixture and thus can't be expressed with a chemical formula. But yeah, it's a chemical.

Nah, they appear even at the highest levels. I've seen them on nearly every planetary body. They are very rare, though.

Radioactive seat? Well ok, at least the children will be a surprise.

Wow, a perfect capture.

The probe was pretty lightweight and when you go nuclear on such probes for a long time, you get high speeds. Kerbin revolves around Kerbol at 9284.5 m/s, so this was a delta v of more than 8.2 km/s which is not a huge problem. Even greater speeds can be achieved using ion engines, but that would be a lot tougher. Waiting for that long... oh.