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That's why there is absolutely no such thing as people running on treadmills in gyms or hamsters in their wheels. If they try to run, they will run away from it.

Indeed it would. Here's the blueprinty image. Almost 14 km/s inside in this configuration. Could be close to 15 in the end. We'll see.

God, not this crap again.

There was a huge issue with the propulsion unit. For some reason it would start rotating and shaking like a dog when it comes out of water. It was completely unusable, so I've redesigned it (slightly larger lateral tanks). 4 instead of 5 rows of them now, with more space in between. Seems stable.

TKEP was a very popular thing back in its time.

Yeah, I don't think so. This is the grandfather of all these time wasting "projects".

"Blood moon" = total lunar eclipse "supermoon" = crappy BS forced down our throats by overhyped media of the "facebook/twitter culture". "blood supermoon" = oh dear.

No, and the main reason is not because there are perchlorate anions inside (they're sluggish at low temperatures, unlike when heated, for example in a solid rocket booster), but because it's brine. Osmotic tension inside is enormous. That's why NaCl brine is a preservative agent for many foods, and also the reason honey won't spoil if hermetically sealed. Not because honey is special, but because sugars inside are so concentrated. Also, if you want to extract water for drinking, you'd need some serious processing because perchlorate anion is an endocrine disruptor. - - - Updated - - - But wasn't liquid surface bound layer found years ago? There's a paper on it, I've linked the title. By all means, don't think I'm one of those "yay, rivers!" people. I'm well aware of how hydration occurs and what happens, and I'm inclined to think what NASA said yesterday is really a PR stunt.

Pressure is not a problem. 92 atmospheres is more or less a piece of cake. The temperature is the main and the biggest issue. Any facility would require refrigeration.

No, they found the evidence of a high salinity brine (where salinity has much to do with perchlorate salts of alkali and earth alkali metals) occuring seasonally as wet streaks on some slopes. It's basically a very saturated solution, surface phase, coupled to hydrated minerals. No evidence of surface running water or aqueous solutions exist. Not even mud burps, as I like to call them, although these might exist seasonally in the lowest regions. I'd describe these as taking some calcium chloride powder and sprinkling it on a rocky desert slope. It will absorb moisture and that highly saturated solution is gonna wet the dry dirt and make it optically darker. And this is not news. This is a PR stunt of an organization struggling with rednecks in the Congress that decide how much money it gets. Cull, S. C. et al. Concentrated perchlorate at the Mars Phoenix landing site: Evidence for thin film liquid water on Mars. Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L22203 (2010). We knew about these liquid films and voila - there will be a streak if you do it on an inclined plane.

a) are the explosions scaled, as Kerbin is to Earth? are the explosions of nuclear bomb in vacuum realistic (no mushroom cloud, just flash and bright blob)?

Total overcast above Kroatia, so nothing in my sight. :/ BTW the term "supermoon" was popularized by stupid Facebook pages like "I ....ing love science" few years ago. Nobody really used that term before. It's a new meme.

For peeps in most of Europe, it will happen early in the morning, before dawn. If the weather allows for it (I'm probably gonna have a few clouds - it will be cool for nice shots), I'm gonna watch it.

It would be cool, but to pull it off using chemical rockets? Won't happen.

No clouds, just atmosphering scattering by Scatterer. I'll probably have to remove it, though. It takes an enormous toll on my framerate.

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That accounts for a small part of the thrust. Most of the force results from the conservation of momentum by direct throwing out of little balls called gas.

Imagine you're on a tiny boat on a perfectly flat and calm lake next to a fixed marker. You start throwing balls in one direction. The boat will go in the other direction.

If you need the original file (Steam does compress it, ruining it in the process), just let me know which one and I'll send it to you.

Distant Object Enhancement tweaked to show planets as very bright and tiny dots and with maximum skybox dimming. Engine Light for quite realistic engine plume illumination. Planet Shine set to maximum shine, minimum vacuum ambient light. Real Plume, set to maximum possible particle number that doesn't wreck your framerate. Scatterer for nice atmosphere. Texture Replacer with Chezburgar's seventh skybox (362 kB in total), which gets rid of the awful stock skybox. Seventh skybox contains only tiny stars because that's the maximum that you'll ever see in reality. You don't need CPU wrecking EVE with Astronomer's pack (which ruins airless body vs. space contrast) to get basic visual realism KSP lacks even today.

Kerbol's nice shiny appearance is gone outside the atmosphere. Is there a way to make it always look like that?

Really nice comic. Easy to read and nice looking layout.

The propulsion unit has been filled up and I think its mass is almost 750,000 t. It's time to dock the ship to it. Jebediah and Valentina will do it, but first they need to reach the ship. Kerlinne Kerman got them safely and precisely in orbit and managed to dock the ship without even making one full orbit. The launch was before the sunrise. Climbing through the upper atmosphere. Jettisoning LES. The ship is free and on a route to meet Kron 5. Docking occured right around the sunset. All Kron ships offer spacious accomodation for even the most claustrophobic Kerbal astronauts. Nice view from the attached taxi-ship. Meanwhile, Kerlinne Kerman returned home.

Unless you're thinking of underground rivers, there can't be any on Pluto's surface. The pressure is simply too low for those. I don't know what were they thinking, but as scientists, they need to express their thoughts accurately. BTW those images are amazing. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pmap_pmc195_8092-shenk.jpg

Mun will do absolutely nothing. It's basically useless even for returning from OPM planets.