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As Albert VDS's link proves, there are many more very similar rocks in this photo. Tinfoil hat nutters are bored people, remember that.

The lightest cover might be the freshest icy deposit from the last winter. Wow, incredible. Incredible. edit: What if we're looking at a cryogenic version of a polar cap?

Depends on this. It will be negligible but it will occur.

NASA's Facebook page offers great quantities of stupid comments. Here's one made 12 hours ago on the latest Pluto-Charon photo: The space behind it looks so dark, I guess it's because there's so little sun out there to light it up. Also, people who ask questions about New Horizons such as this one: Is there astronomers in it? Or just a controlled craft? Honestly, how do they not kill themselves by forgetting how to breathe?

1) You don't have to move (relative to the source) at relativistic speeds to observe the Doppler shift of color. 2) The key is "relative". When you're expressing speed, it's always "relative to ____". There is special static place in existence, dignified with a nice cartoonish red and white pole used as the measuring mark. It's all about moving relative to something else. Always. (Please, for the sake of science and logic, use metric system. Not horses, thumbs, yards and sticks. )

Still, that's not a good enough reason not to include just one more filter. It's not like it would gonna complicate the mission. But this will have to do. So far it looks spectacular. I can't believe we're actually seeing this after so many decades. What makes me even more joyfull is the fact I've always imagined it looking like this.

You might want to read up on biology and microbiology. Panspermia is about stuff trapped in planetary debris, not naked spores behaving like Superman. I repeat, zero chance for a naked spore to survive that and I stand behind that. If you can prove I'm wrong, you're free to do it.

If a naked spore somehow survives eons (it will not survive, case closed!), and impacts an atmosphere or surface at interplanetary transfer speeds, it will get destroyed. This is not quantum mechanics so you can use probabilities. It will get destroyed, but it will be dead long ago because nothing can last that long naked, exposed to space.

Oh, forgot about that one. Yeah, then it's obvious.

You did not read the conversation properly. Conditions were established.

I'm focusing at the flying. Some people just make stuff in VAB and then HyperEdit it above Laythe and make nice screenshots. That's not cheating because they're using the game for a different purpose. Mechjeb does not control coasting. It controls adjustments, and that robs you of fun and learning. There's tons of things one could learn about orbital mechanics in an awesome way if one fiddles with maneuver nodes. Not to mention when it comes to landing. So much fun is taken away if you just "press key to adjust" or "press key to land there". For me, that's not playing KSP. That's witnessing the simulation doing its thing.

The way the battle would be done excludes such options. That's why I'd like to see actual robots, not mechas, so they could use really nasty stuff.

You mean hypotheses. These are not theories. Theories have evidence. Still, for a naked spore any reentry or collision with surface will be lethal.

Why? It could form with Neptune and still look like this. Neptune and KBO belt are neighbours.

Don't worry, the SF nerds are working on it. Their technobabble and fairy dust is showing huge potential.

That spore would be killed by the ionizing rays before it gets into interplanetary space. Even if it would survive it, it would take eons until it reaches another planet like Mars. It would impact it at enormous speeds and get turned to plasma. Therefore in reality, there is zero chance of success for these scenarios. There are chances of living/dormant stuff being transported inside porous rocks blasted by some impact into space above second cosmic speed, but chances of initial survival are incredibly small (even considering great number microbes fight with). Surviving eons in space and then reentry (where, Venus? LOL) ...

Tardigrades are something I've been toying with at college a lot under the microscope, and sadly, one of the things basically everyone who heard of them by Internet received false information. They basically became a meme full of lies. Much lies has been taught about these organisms. For example, about how they can live in space. No, they can not. Or how they can survive indefinitively in space and be brought to life. No, they can not. Or how they can be exposed to massive doses of ionizing radiation and all of them are still crawling around happy. No, they can not. They are very tough, but by no means will they survive, let alone live in harsh environments. To live, a tardigrade needs relatively cozy environment. They are funny unless you look at their mouth through an electron microscope.

What legal ramifications?

If you let Mechjeb do all the things for you, you aren't really playing the game, are you? It's being played in front of your eyes. It's like playing a car racing game with an autopilot. Why would you bother even playing it? You might as well watch "let's play" on YouTube.

Why? Choice of hand has nothing to do with it, and if you mean sitting or squatting, in both options it's less messier if you wipe immediately, before both m. gluteus maximus touch each other. That choice does not make things messy. That's still sitting and that's how normal people do it.

Why the hell would you want to stand while you do this?! By standing up you close your buttcheeks and that can make things messy. Ew. Stay sitting like a normal person.

Deadly Reentry kills Kerbals when acceleration exceeds a certain point. Animations are something mentioned numerous times and would be a really nice add on for the game. Also, they looked way better like this. Their heads seemed smaller, making them look dumber and more goofy.

How is using mods that make your gaming more difficult cheating? MechJeb is a form of cheating, I agree, but not all mods are. For example Deadly Reentry, FAR, RemoteTech, TAC lifesupport, ... They are all intended to make our gaming lives more difficult.

If the blanket is getting that hot to power those lasers, it is creating an incredible amount (read: dangerous) of fission products, and neutron flux is enormous and requires seriously thick and heavy shielding. I call BS. This looks like something ACME sells.

I'm pretty sure this map is nowhere near the actual number of detectable objects. I mean come on, there's way more stuff up there.