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Those dimples usually come in pairs. How unusual.

Over 3 years.

They are sleeping, and the ship is crossing Duna's orbit.

Chemical or chemical compound? There is a difference.

Oh, IFLS regurgitating regurgitated articles. It's the burning sulfur flow of the Ijen volcano. Poor people mine the sulfur there with barely any breathing protection.

Are we allowed to link to other forums in our signatures? For example if one has another project regarding another game on another forum.

It did allow time warp scanning. If the speed was too high, accuracy would be lower, but you don't need 100% accuracy if you're going over thousand times faster. The map would be "printed out" like slowly emerging white noise while the satellite would be fluttering around. Also you didn't need 100% accuracy as even a map with sufficient data density would clearly show where the kethane is and how much is there. It really was superior, but mainly because you saw the ground track which was awesome.

Kethane had a superior protocol which also allowed you to learn how different orbits affect the ground path. Unfortunatelly, Squad agreed to an overly simplistic protocol which is totally uninteresting.

Perhaps something like this? There's the tiny RCS tug that can be used to manipulate it prior to docking. I've deleted the stock 1.25 m and 2.5 m fuel tanks (except jumbo orange one) so I had to launch it using procedural parts tanks. It glows red because of Surface Lights mod.

It's perfectly compatible and even better - you can remove other planetary bodies which is easy - just delete their folders. That way you keep your RAM from bloating and still enjoy the feature you like.

It didn't stop someone from making an orbital decay mod. Yeah, I agree it's not optimized, but that wasn't the point of my post. Of course you can't do everything with mods in general let alone KSP.

Around 645,000 km. Radiative heat at that distance is insane.

Well, it wasn't today but it was few days ago so I guess that could count in. I've learned that peanuts are phosphorescent. I knew they're fluorescent as most oily edible things are, but they actually display few seconds of perceptible phosphorescence when excited with blue, violet and ultraviolet-A, possibly even higher frequencies. The phosphorescent material is inside the protein part of the peanut, not the oil one, and it's one or more aminoacids in the peanut agglutinin.

I could make you some weird truss to connect to a 1.25 m docking port. Are you sure you can't add Procedural Parts? It would give more design opportunities for less parts. BTW what's the part limit?

Here's the explanation, as well as equations. http://www.dsp.agh.edu.pl/_media/en:dydaktyka:cosmic_velocities.pdf That is an interesting idea, but would make things easier. The idea behind Kron ships is to try to send a 3.75 m based ship with all the needed equipment. It's basically a self sustaining space station and it does deploy one before heading back. It's pretty tough to do it, hence the tweaking of the propulsion unit for every mission. I did once (I think it was with Sarnus) send a refueling tank out of precaution because it was my first manned OPM mission, but in the end it wasn't even needed. I'll have to do it with Ablate, although I'm not even sure a Kron type mission and ship could reach it, even with refueling and all.

No nuclear rockets, Moho, return home? Congrats!

Very nice and goes along with the songs.

3rd cosmic speed achieved. And more than that. Regular Hohmann transfer would last more than 9 years. I think three times shorter was enough. I always like to see this pattern. The engines are cooling down. Reactor is at 5%. SAS is turned off. Remaining delta v is at least 9 km/s. Kron 5 is a rock thrown out of the solar system. The crew is sleeping. (Some of you might've noticed the discrepancy between the dates in the screenshots. It's because of a fatal lack of one part that caused the ship's reactor to die. I've added the part at VAB and hyperedited the ship duplicate at the same spot with the same amount of tanks. Nothing has changed except that the ship now has one extra insulator. Kron 5 can now thrust indefinitively at almost 45% power and for a couple of minutes at 100% without the reactor getting cooked even if it's turned off.)

If by "safe" you mean "does not cause problems of any kind, nor kills anyone in its whole life cycle", then nothing is safe. In reality, there is no 100% safe and environmentally friendly energy source. Some of them kill in the long run in front of your face (coal), some of them kill in the long run away from your face (solar panels). The point is that anyone who tries to compare nuclear fission with solar photovoltaics as if they're on the same level of hierarchy, shows their ignorancy on the subject matter. Those two things are not replaceable and will never be because energy sources differ in a lot more than just amount of power they deliver. Things can be "safe enough". There is a calculable and tolerable amount of risk in everything. You still need a containment building, so it's easier to build it above ground than digging a hole, first. Unless we're talking about a bunker buster attack, it doesn't make them safer, just more expensive to build.

Fukushima's containments were fine, as well as the reactors. They performed flawlessly even though it's very old boiling water reactor technology. It's the electrical engineering part that was stupidly designed and not the nuclear part. Vital systems were placed at positions where they can get washed away by a tsunami or get bombed. When the vital systems that kept the cooling pumps failed (outer power connection, diesel dinamos), the internal system that can use the decay heat to pump some of it out could only work for a while because, well... thermodynamics. What then happened was deliberate release of steam with hydrogen which ignited and blew the building apart. The containment structures were fine, though, but then, as pressure still rose and the workers plugged the whole thing, some of them got breached at the torus down below. It's really an "end of world" scenario. Today plants are being built, some existing right now, that could survive even total neglect and destruction of the vital systems. They have core catching pools and strong passive, gravity driven mechanisms to avoid breaches. Some people even say it's overkill. What I was saying before is that those containment systems, when done properly, are absolute tombs. The weakest part are the main doors, such as the one on this photo.

I've been advocating for such commercials for years. Most of today's commercials don't even pretend - they're almost openly telling people they're dumbasses who will buy their crap.

Moisturize me, moisturize me! Yeah, most of the stuff just tweaks the osmosis. Only the most expensive stuff actually has stuff that the skin can absorb and use. The rest is lies in a nice wrapper. Usual trick is glycerol and petroleum jelly. You keep the skin healthy by avoiding harmful rays, not smoking or ingesting ethanol, drinking enough (not the 2 litre myth, though) water and having proper nutrition which means various foods and not "just salad for me". It's that simple, but it's the people who are lazy and stupid that have become the feeding ground for the cosmetics industry.

Safer from what? The existing containments are capable of handling pretty much anything, from inside and outside. Direct aircraft hits, bombs, nuclear explosions. Bunker busters and asteroids are really not important.