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@Motokid600: Could you post a link please?

It does not matter if he's of different opinions/judgemental. The only thing that matters is if you care of each other and can help each other. Regarding opinions and views, different opinions around teach you respect and to be careful with arguments and judgements (or judgemental arguments). It's much better than stay in a equal-thinking bubble.

I don't think so. I used aeronavigational charts a lot, and never saw "height" for any sort of altitude. It's always altitude ASL (above sea level) and altitue AGL (above ground level), the latter shown in parethesis (or vice-versa if I'm confused, but the distinction is like this). Height ALWAYS applies to obstacles height, and always shown unambigously, either ASL or AGL in parens. Ground always has elevation to it. That's how terms are used. (I think it should be the same in Portuguese, no? altura vs altutude)

But it's still going on. T+340 now. so pity it's autumn and snowing here, in clear skies at night I can see the boosters working.

End of October last year. Clouds touching the ground, not fog, because I saw low clouds in the mountains, and this was the same.

I'm perplexed at how much patience you have to explore all these traits of character. I'd have long let him go, but I think I have such people around, I just don't care what they think, and ask their opinion as an excercise, or to test my ideas for possible counterarguments. I perceive you not are insulted by this behavior, so if you guys have something to talk about and spend time, then you may keep communicating. If I were in such a situation today, I'd just not try to change his mind, it's his own business. He will change his mind, of course, with life, although judgementalism will stay. A couple of examples with games being useful. 10 years ago, at the university, I was playing video games and writing at English speaking forums. Suddenly at the last year of uni we got another course of English, "to revire the skills". It turned out that most fellow students forgot most of it, while I didn't. For you KSP may be a good brain excercise, and still useful. You never know how it pays off.

^^ Same reason why crimes happen. [edit] Kids still have to develop higher social skills, while physical and mental skills are already available. Besides, primeval men were not locked together up in age-based classes.

That's a slogan, not practical advice. Life is much more complex, and there are plenty of situations where you can't stand up for you. All the society around is made so that you don't need to trust only you. When humans developed speech, it helped exactly to weaker ones unite and cope with stronger bullies, rather than try to just stand for oneself.

I use Ubuntu 64 bit for 5 years now, and used 32-bit version 2 years before that. I tried different combinations, and Ubuntu is still the most maintained and compatible with everything, and Mate Desktop Environment is the best replacement of stock Unity DE. But the question is what software you're using. Desktop Linux is and will always be for developers (I'm web dev), for those who can google and apply fixes (like edit a config file). There's no TweakUI analog here. Running the most basic things takes some new skills. And things only get harder when you need things that average prorgammer does not need much, like to work with graphics or video. I use Audacity for sound editing, Inkscape instead of Illustrator/Corel, GIMP for Photoshop, OpenShot for Premierre, but these lack a lot of features or some are still buggy, crashing in the middle of nothing. All because Linux is "fix-it-yourself" model, and those who are able to fix it are developers, who don't need these things. Linux systems always lag behind in big features, offering just small incremental ones. Otherwise, Linux is very reliable. Video/graphics/publishing/printing is quite a pain, and I often need a virtual Windows machine for this. If you need to work with this, you don't even need to try Linux. If you want to be/are a developer, it takes the same skills, and running Linux will be very easy. So, question is what you're ready to pay for more reliability of Linux.

Best wishes to Indians, hope they'll repeat the previous steps and push further, to what others hesitate to move.

Ok, I get your point and I disagree. I think we rely on moderators, police and other forms of authorities to keep order. They were created exactly for this, to let people not need to be heroic alone. Of course, if someone mistreats you, it's not a case for police investigation, defending from this is a matter of your social skills. But if OP thinks the bully is too tough for him, why force himself and fistfight?

From my experience, this does not always help. Thank you captain obvious. Are trying to make a point that fistfight at school can teach you to detect and defend from bad management? I read the article, and can recognize some events, although I call it turf wars, when I had some managers on my side, and others torpedoing me and those managers. It's called bad politics, and defence means are completely different. Just to name some, you have to keep strong arguments and information untill decisive meetings rather than give that side a chance to prepare, learn some negotiation skills. Nothing to do with bullying. If school-like things happen between peers, that's another thing, and fists used appropriately surely can help.

@RedIronCrown: If you're average/stronger than average, you can try this. I'm not sadly mistaken unless I see evidence of such bullying out of school. Could you give any, please? I did see strong clashes inside a corporation, or mistreatment in small firms, but this is called turf wars, and a matter of your social skills and social network.

What can one achieve defending himself alone against strong peers who are skilled at such torture? Try fistfight a big guy? Fire a gun and get himself imprisoned? Take submachine gun to school and get into news headlines? Society is invented exactly against this kind of behaviour, and using means of society is 100% appropriate. I think it's hard to cope with bullying, but there are not just one principal, but other influential people. It's good that you started acting. I think there might be other people, like we had a security and military relations officer, who was the responsible for all "reinforcements". Bullying only starts when you're packed in one place and nothing else bounds you. In a normal society there's dynamics, and those with bad behaviour are expelled automatically, and they are very careful. I see guys who tend to domineer, and if one starts boosting his ego/social status at the expence of others, I sometimes become the "bad policeman" and mock them mercelessly deriding them. They don't escalate, because some years out of school they know very well what they are doing, and feel this resistance is legitimate. And a good and "correct" (not insulting) mocking is a powerful weapon, because fear of being excluded is very strong and is one of basic instincts. You don't make friends this way, but the group stays functional rather than be a mere stage for the domineering guy's jokes and wishes. Well, out of school/uni this is much easier, because you're not locked together.

@Laie: please tell me if this clipping is ok? (Intakes slightly touching each other) I'd be pleased to add more beams to have enough clearance, but parts count is already hitting me hard. Going to do 3 launches to get all the assets in orbit. This is kinda reusing the jet booster, and also due to part count limit.

^^ Should they be stock, they'd make all sense, just as it makes sense to launch rockets from a boat rather than from ocean bottom.

^^ impressive BTW, parachutes on radial decouplers tend to tear them apart. Need a drogue chute.

Just a perfect idea. Realistic and still touching.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie. TLDR: first half was epic, second half was ........, so clumsy I couldn't but laugh at moments. All the story in the first half was very humane, compelling and touching, even made some guys drop a tear. I was positively shocked and almost had tears when the guy was leaving for the space center to fly. The exploration part was at Jebediah level with quite stock physics. Land first, then learn about the waves, waves of early alpha release. But let's admit it wasn't a big deal. The suspense when they rushed back to the ship was very well done. All the story up to that point was excellent. Right after that CGE started to be mixed with sugary vely slow paced melodrama. What made it look clumsy was the very slow pace and big leaps in time in between. They were quite disconnected, and looked like history chronicals, you couldn't build enough compassion for all the things and people there. I was in a small city cinema, mostly with lower middle class people, who don't care of astrophysics. Those were not impressed by CGE enough to swallow the cheesy second part. Instead of having tears of happines in the end, the audience laughed and doh'ed. Overall, far beyond expectations. Good plausible graphics and decent physics, good story in the beginning but leaves poor aftertaste. It looked like if a cheaper director was hired in the middle of the movie. I think it is quite watcheable. Historically it may take place in top 10s of Sci-fi but with some "if"s. Probably, like Blade Runner, it'll see directors cut with all the crappy sugary parts removed. I think if in the mid-late XXI century people managed to settle in Saturn orbit, they'd have done liquid polymers and have this guy as helper robot around:

^^ Look at the link in the end of page 1, that vid is much better.

Is aerofly FS physics better than that of X-Plane?

^^ Wow. I'd make you the winner if I were a referee in this challenge. You really did the smartest thing. Really, why are we trying to land these cans at sea level when we care about science. There's no need to haul a hell lot of iron when you can get there by land at much lower cost. I wanted to make something as compact as possible, but you outperformed by far any expectations.

36 tonnes?! Do you use Mk1 lander can? What altitude do you start at, and what are atmo stats? Could you post a couple of screenshots ahead, please? I'm yearning to see it.

Yes, got pretty cold yesterday, seems to stay indeed. As a typical millenial I don't have nor want a car, so I can only make active logical guesses. I think everything just boils down to what oil and coolant type you have. And Russian cars had next to no advantage, because I never heard stories like foreign car not starting. Eveyone who had a Toyota seems happy and won't ever buy another brand. May be rugged they took more time to freeze one part to another (like the axle above), and it's hard to kill a rugged machine completely, but overall... why would they do those tricks take oil and water indoors in army?

^^ ok, nevermind