Darnok

If we can detect so weak, as Earth, magnetic field then any stronger source of magnetic waves can affect our brains... http://phys.org/news/2016-06-evidence-human-ability-earth-magnetic.html

Your mistake is to think as businessman while we are at step of exploration of new "trade routes". First you have to explore new things, then you can make business. You can't make money from exploration... or at least you can't be sure you will have any return from exploration itself, because it may fail in many ways. Exploration is very risky part of finding new things, people may die, your way (technology for example) of exploring things may be just wrong and you will stuck at some point, you have zero guarantee you will earn any money from things you find. You can't even guarantee you will find things you are looking for... look Columbus he was looking for new trade route and found two continents. That is why business sector is terrible when it comes to explorations, risk and making huge steps. Orion won't make huge steps, it will make one more business step, but that is it. While SpaceX can achieve more, but it is more risky. But after we pass that risky part and someone does find "new route or continent" you can start your business calculations and analysis and money.

And? Most of private companies had to pay for design and building things in cash and up front. SpaceX is no different with that, it only make it in larger scale.

Developing costs of Soyuz were higher than Russian fee for each American astronaut. Soyuz is single use craft, ITS is going to be reusable, so design and build costs can be much higher than single use. Some people are paying a lot to travel around the World... I am sure some would paid a lot more just to flyby Moon or Mars.

Unless SpaceX is going to rent ITS, just like Russians do with Soyuz, and let Chinese go to Mars

I made few suggestions about balloon few months ago...

So you are saying there are rare biomes only on 3 planets and you see no reason to take samples?

Those are needed every few kilometres, so it shouldn't be problem. Once we will have multiplayer you could transport rockets into your private launch site. For now easy way for transporting planetary bases or vehicles for tests on different biomes would be enough reason for trains. If Unity doesn't allow that we could have on-rails-NPC-trains that move from one station to another and you can load your cargo on them, but you can't control them. Same thing with ships... this would give little life on that planet, because right now Kerbin is dead.

But we do have terrain with different shapes. Why we can't have single terrain shape repeated for few kilometres? and wheel shaped in way to stay on tracks... physic in real world allows trains to fall from tracks. I don't want tracks to be physical (parts like) structure that would need to be loaded into physics engine. Tracks should be terrain-structure shaped like rail (picture above), so when you put train-wheel on this terrain-rail it would be possible to travel safe and fast, but not 100% safe There would be no special ability or mechanic for this kind of wheels except their shape and size would fit shape of terrain (rail). Simplest solution I can think of and I can't see reason why Unity wouldn't allow that?

Rocket parts need love, I don't care about multiplayer...

Bring some new real world inventions and ideas to KSP... Planes have many different landing gears and I feel that spamming small landing legs is wrong, so maybe we could use some SpaceX like landing legs ideas for larger landers? Draco like engine (with pretty shell that is on Dragon V2) with thrust between 24-77 "Twitch" Liquid Fuel Engine and Mk-55 "Thud" Liquid Fuel Engine, because there is huge gap between those engines. This engine would be very useful for development of medium weight landers/crafts. Anyone heard about this huge airship? It could be fun to have those in KSP, with ability to hover on few kilometres above land or sea... It is 1.2 version of KSP and still no pressurised rover cabin... guys it is wrong! Since we have water pressure, can we have proper submarines parts? That would allow to submerge just like in real world? Also jet engine for sea ships or submarines doesn't look good Kerbals should have at least one oil ring, barge or some ship on the planet... so we could use it as landing pad. In carrier mode recovering craft from this spot could be cheap, but not as cheap as recovering it from KSC. We could also use some very large structural parts, some of them could be flat as barge landing pad. Ramps... this is not new technology, so why we still have no simple ramps? Another not new technology, but still not available for Kerbals... tracks. Planet could be covered with few railroads, Russians use them to transport their Soyuz? So why we can't use it to transport our rockets or planes on different parts of planet? We would also need special wheels that would stick on tracks. Life Support: I've read few ideas about life support and almost everywhere people were afraid that this would make game too much repeatable. In 1.2 I can see "hibernate" option for probes, maybe we could have hibernation option for Kerbals? So once we are focused on other missions our space station/base is draining less resources that on normal use. It could require additional part, something like "hibernation compartment". Once kerbals are in hibernation they should lose all experience, but not permanently, they would recover it slowly once you awake them. After being awake recovery of experience points should be slow and take day or two. Also making kerbals uncontrollable for some time after being awake should force players to plan ahead and do not use hibernation for every time they are going to manage super short missions elsewhere.

Because SpaceX is not only company owned by Musk? Because people are voting and some politician may try to get more votes by saying "I will support private sector in space exploration"? Because more garbage about SpaceX makes harder to search real information about some unresolved cases, like this one accident when Falcon exploded?

Competition?

He is paid troll, you can hear it in his voice.

Amazing... post in comments of that video link to KSP

add hacking or remote disabling implants.

Literally some of us can not live without simplest technologies we made, for example scalpel changed our evolution and today we are totally dependant on that tool. I wonder how much we are changing our evolution by using other technologies that "saves lives today". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarean_section

I know it is not new information, but I haven't seen it here “This was the biggest dose of heat we’ve received from a solar storm since 2005,” says Martin Mlynczak of NASA Langley Research Center. “It was a big event, and shows how solar activity can directly affect our planet.” http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/22mar_saber/ “Carbon dioxide and nitric oxide are natural thermostats,” explains James Russell of Hampton University, SABER’s principal investigator. “When the upper atmosphere (or ‘thermosphere’) heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space.” This ^ is interesting, it would suggest that carbon dioxide is protecting us from overheating and the less we have it the more heat will reach Earth surface

Sometimes scientists are doing things for money and fame https://www.sciencenews.org/article/notorious-‘ape-man’-fossil-hoax-pinned-one-wrongdoer

Then you can see how far we went in wrong direction? We added just one virtual dimension to make science simpler and today people can't imagine basic things without time (human invented dimension). You think that is measurement of time? This way you measure distance that your body travel in space. As the starting and end point of the measurement, you are using a line of sight of the sun.

You don't measure time, if you think otherwise please enlighten me and tell me how to measure time Funny thing is that you are measuring speed of object to calculate time and then you are using speed of first object to calculate speed of second object What is speed? You can calculate change of location of object using vectors. And change in movement vector (acceleration) you can also measure without time.

We have no way to measure time as fourth dimension. All we are measuring is movement/change of location of objects in 3 dimensions and this change we are calling "time". You can make any calculation you need without this human invented dimension called "time".

So legends about women bathing in blood of very young children is not so fantastic after all.

How you measure forth dimension?

Can you show this "time"?