lajoswinkler

Why do you think this method would work? There's number of flaws in it. What's "strontium waste"? If you mean spent fission fuel, that thing has a great deal of periodic table inside and requires much more procedure steps than described here. Not to mention that macroscopic amounts of Sr-90 are abominably dangerous. To approach a small analytical crucible with few grammes of its phosphate sitting on a desk would mean almost certain death. I'd do it, but not without this.

Remote, polar sea lighthouses and buoys, often the ones established by the Soviet Union. Quite a bit of those are abandoned. Strontium-90 source gives off plenty of penetrating gamma and beta radiation, and those betas, when they hit a metal like aluminium, produce a burst of röntgen rays.

Jool's mass is 4.2332635×1024 kg and Kerbol's mass is 1.7565670×1028 kg, which means Kerbol is around 4194.4 times more massive. Loolbol is 83.479 times more massive than Jool, therefore has 3.533886×1026 kg? What's its diameter? It shouldn't be much larger than Jool... No need to apologize, my ships can't reach your worlds. It would require a totally new class.

There's no need to mention metallic strontium. LOL Highly radioactive, chemically very reactive elements in their elemental forms are just a scientific curiosity. They are always used as compounds inert towards our atmosphere. Strontium is chemically similar to calcium so it's neat to use it as a phosphate. A phosphate of strontium will behave similarly to Ca3(PO4)2, which is the main ingredient of the inorganic part of our bones. Its aqueous solubility is very low, with its Ksp being 1*10-31. To compare, Ksp (Ca3(PO4)2) = 2.07*10-33 which is two orders of magnitude less soluble, but at these exponents, it doesn't really matter. Both are practically insoluble. 90Sr decays into 90Y and it decays into 90Zr. Their phosphates also have very similar solubility in water. That being said, strontium-90 is already being used in RTGs for special applications.

LOL this looks very promising. Is it a satellite of Kerbol or are both orbiting a barycenter? I don't think I could ever reach it using nuclear thermal engines.

Launchpads are places even more meteorologically probed than airports. I'm pretty sure today there are radiosondes being sent like every 15 minutes or so and the data is being crunched by supercomputers.

I'd rather ionize and throw out mercury ions than magnesium. It's already liquid so there's no need for spending energy on melting the damn thing. It's also a pretty damn heavy ion, which is a good thing.

There is a lot of atmosphere at 27 km because the pressure is 1-2% of sea level pressure. It is impossible to orbit at those heights.

Istina, ne bi bilo loše sklopiti neki KSP spot s tom pjesmom. Da. Kron 6. *ba-dum-tss* Ili Plock ili Ablate. Ovisi o tome kako će se ponašati simulacija topline u v.1.1, a već znamo da svaka nova veća verzija poremeti jako puno toga.

It's the media. Sensationalism is what powers it these days. 27 km has never been the edge of space.

Kopernicus with OPM, yes.

Yeah, I'm gonna need some evidence to support the one with the animals. We've all heard of "man marries a cow", "woman marries a tree" etc., in stupid newspapers, but we're talking about legal marriages here, recognized by the country, not some mumbo jumbo in front of a shaman. Post mortem marriages are a legal anomaly. Rare occurences in few countries happening when there's a deceased party's written consent.

There is no "kph". Proper way is km*h-1, but for the sake of writing, km/h is allowed, too. No, the only thing dangerous in a typical Martian storm is the grinding effect of the dust particles on softer surfaces... unless you're trying to carry something very lightweight with a large surface area. That could be a problem.

When you ask a legal question, you need to establish for which country that question should be asked. I don't know of any modern occurence where a human has married an object. Marriage requires consent between two parties. An object can not give consent.

Search for older threads, there were few polls before.

They are replaced, but not by division. Replacement occurs by metabolism. Molecules get replaced all the time.

Almost made it at fifth attempt, but suddenly it decided to tilt and explode. It waited landed for like ten seconds.

I made CASE using thick paper. It has 3 rows of magnet joints, 18 tiny magnets in total. I used this. http://progue.co/paperstellar

Somehow I doubt this is even true.

First two fueling missions have been successful. Central pillar tank is almost completely filled up.

Kerbals have launched the ship. Liquid fuel booster separation was very clean. First stage separation also flawless. Giant fairing separation. Second stage separation. Every jettisoned part of the ship reentered the atmosphere. Only the last, third stage, finally circularized the orbit. The third stage can be operated by radio to execute a retro burn, there's still enough fuel inside. It will stay in orbit, separated from the propulsion module, until the module is filled with liquid fuel. Meanwhile, Wernher von Kerman ordered the fueling missions to proceed. It's a busy sky over Kerbin.

Kron ships already use this flag. It was me who designed the Deadly Reentry logo and the button.

He has a history of such stupid statements?

"We did not expect to find hints of a nitrogen-based glacial cycle on Pluto operating in the frigid conditions of the outer solar system,†said Alan Howard, a member of the mission’s Geology, Geophysics and Imaging team from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. “Driven by dim sunlight, this would be directly comparable to the hydrological cycle that feeds ice caps on Earth, where water is evaporated from the oceans, falls as snow, and returns to the seas through glacial flow.†“Pluto is surprisingly Earth-like in this regard,†added Stern, “and no one predicted it.†This is just BS. Nitrogen hydrological cycle was expected, at least in the form of sublimation and deposition, with actual flows being hypothesized. Is he on drugs? This was all predicted and expected, but when you actually see it happening in front of your eyes... just wow. These images are amazing.

Testing the launch vehicle of the actual ship. Spectacular failure, I must say.