Simon Ross

PMSL Trust me, mine didn't look any better :-)

In truth, landing on Eve is a piece of cake, it's probably the most helpful planet in the system in that respect. Getting out of the gravity well and atmosphere is a whole different challenge. Have never been able to do it with less then 3 separate launches from Kerbal, I know it can be done with less, but in honesty, I ain't that smart LOL

I think Larry Niven gets pretty close with his Warlock series. Not really any technology involved, but the use of magic is grounded in the Mana that powers it being an exhaustible resource (fossil fuels ?) It certainly makes an interesting play on the idea of magic as a power, and the limitations once the basic energy source is used up

Several times, but never in a single ship config Maybe one day :-)

It's basically what Shuttle was supposed to originally be. Simply a cheap way of getting warm bodies to Leo and back with reusable technology. Frankly there is no other use for it

Only really makes any sense as a people transport. Other then that there are far cheaper options to do anything else

To our ever lasting shame the United Kingdom is the only country to have successfully developed and then abandoned a satellite launch capability. What could have been :-(

In truth, I don't think there is an 'ideal' age for the game A 10 year old will get as much of a kick out of it as a 60 year old. I agree with a few of the other posters on this thread though. Just think how much more interesting a physics class would have been at school if it actually included a copy of KSP to learn about orbital mechanics :-)

Carbon Without it we wouldn't be here having this discussion :-)

Well it happens all the time in real life The only thing missing from the American moon landings was a swastika on the actual rocket

The new Wolfenstien & Doom 4 Think I will be waiting a bit though :-)

Scott Manley for me. Being part Scots myself, he just cracks me up :-)

It really all comes down to the CPU used. Even in the latest gen consoles, the actual CPU used is in reality a bit underwhelming, consoles generally rely on decent GPU's to carry most of the graphical workload. Could the PS4 & Xbox run KSP...Just about, but it would be laggy as hell !

Certainly not perfect, but then again, which game ever is ? In terms of playability it certainly rates up there with just about any game I have ever played, and trust me, I have been around for a while :-) Certainly one of the biggest plus points is the community involved, both on the mods side and just the general interaction between individuals. Very few other games sport this level of involvement

With respect, please do a wee bit more research on the subject. In real life combat trials, Typhoon and F35 kill ratios are pretty much 50/50 when they are matched against each other The CAPTOR radar on the Typhoon is one hell of a lot better the the US airforce would like to admit in public Stealth is good, but once it's acquired a F35 is a sitting duck, it's not a true fighter aircraft, a Typhoon is

Hey guys You can still buy the Typhoon you know, matches the F35 in air to air combat at a fraction of the price. Ah, but it's European, so thats never going to happen LOL

It's an interesting question In terms of natural selection, evolution has pretty much done with us as a species, we kinda topped out 80,000 years ago, since then there has been no actual increase in brain mass, although there has been massive increases in our size and weight due to better diet, hygiene etc... I think the jury is still out as to intelligence being a successful survival characteristic, after all, we haven't actually been around very long It could be that we simply end up as another roll of the dice by nature, what the next roll will bring, I really have no idea

I think we kinda need to baseline where we are at, at the moment We can pretty much accurately map a DNA strand This is pretty impressive, it doesn't mean we can re create it, it simply means that in a low fidelity sense, we can map a DNA strand and understand the molecules that go together to make DNA work as it does. The next level up is cellular, and that is a HUGE jump Think 2 and a LOT of zeros !

Well please tell us how we do it ?

OK, so lets just break this down to what needs to be actually done to produce say a chicken wing... You have to define it at the macro level, you then need to define it at the cellular level, you then need to define it at the molecule level, you then need to define it at the atomic level Not saying it is impossible, but trust me, it's a LONG way from where we are and will conceivably be any time soon

Unfortunately if you don't get the base information correct at the molecular level, the errors propagate and exponentially multiply into the macroscopic level. It's very straightforward math. Your not going to end up with a bucket of chicken, your not even going to end up with something resembling a single chicken cell

Again, it comes down to the complexity of the object you wish to replicate as to the required accuracy of measurement needed. It's why I used the house brick example. You will never be able to completely scan and replicate a house brick to 100% accuracy, but if you can get close enough it will to all intents and purposes still function as a house brick. The problem really becomes relevant when you are trying to scan and replicate living structures as the complexity and required accuracy goes through the roof ! I'm usually loath to say anything is impossible, but I put replicating a human being with any accuracy out there with time travel and gravity control

Nasa's own SOP is that whenever possible, any first flight of an untried system will be an unmanned launch Hence, it will be unmanned

Sorry, but with respect, you are totally wrong on both counts. a) Proton is not 'Man Rated' and never has been. The design included provision for it to be evolved into a man rated system however this never actually took place and NO Proton has EVER been used for a manned flight. The cost of man rating is very far from irrelevant, reliability is only one of the factors involved. I would suggest the following to enable you to gain a little more knowledge on the subject http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR_8705_002B_ If man rating a system was really that easy and cost was 'irrelevant' don't you think NASA would simply man uprate an existing MLV ? They don't because it is not !

Errr that was because Saturn V was a man rated booster design, something Proton has never been