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Quote of the day:

"The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, or falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries."

Carl Sagan
(Nov 09, 1934 - Dec 20, 1996)
Quote taken from his book, The Pale Blue Dot first published in 1994.

Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect. (Wikipedia Commons)

For those of you who I've come to know...

I've had a rough month; the Veterans Administration (U.S.) no longer has a contract with f the pharmaceutical company that produces the only migraine medication I can take without complications. I have allergic reactions to both aspirin and ibuprofen. For this reason, I am limited to only two migraine medications that do not contain either one as an ingredient. Needless to say, this has greatly impacted things here. I suffer from chronic migraine as a result of my military service. Do not get me wrong, I am not bitter or angry about this latest development. It is what it is.

Because of this, the work load at the university, and getting behind in my household chores, I haven't been on the forum or playing KSP until earlier this afternoon. I am hoping to get the images needed for the next chapter and am looking forward to continuing the adventures of Kerny and his crew.

On a side note, I will no longer be making my graphics mods compatible with CKAN. Last week I had a bad experience with CKAN that required me to reboot my laptop into "safe mode" to manually delete three mods and to update two more.

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!

Doesn anyone know how to place something anywhere on Kerbin using the ctrl+F12 menu? (or any other planet/moon)

Well... It's Dres... But it's the wrong Dres... 

BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!!!!!

BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!!!!!

BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!!!!!

I'm changing my profile pick just for today because NSEP warned us that a strange gas called "love" is in the air.

Let's all thank NSEP.

Quote of the day:

"A time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means which we cannot conjecture... And then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet, and sun from sun. The earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all quarters of the universe."

Winwood Reade
(March 1838 - Apr 24, 1875)
Quote from his book, The Martyrdom of Man, 1872

William Winwood Reade was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher. His two best-known books, The Martyrdom of Man and The Outcast, were included in the Thinker's Library. (Wikipedia Commons)

Damn, I'm indecisive about what profile picture to use. I need a new one sometime.

Quote of the day:

"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."

William S. Burroughs
(Feb 05, 1914 - Aug 02, 1997)
 

William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, short story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre, and his influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films. He was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee. (Wikipedia Commons)

The next Star Wars movie will be called 'The Last Jedi'

The next Star Wars movie will be called 'The Last Jedi'

The next Star Wars movie will be called 'The Last Jedi'

Has this been explored in Sci-Fi yet? I dunno.

Using a Wormhole to terraform planets!

I'm pretty sure you know where I'm going with this, but if you don't, here's a (Basic) example;

Let's take Mars and Venus for instance. For Mars, you build several multi-kilometer gates, and put them on the surface, then you do the same to Venus, except you fly them around the Atmosphere to collect it (If we have Wormhole gates, we probably have some fancy new jet engine, like thermal fusion or something.), it should work, because air will be forced to go through the gate on Venus, and then expel itself on Mars. And because it's at a much higher pressure than Mars, Mars will lose a laughable amount of air, and will be ridiculously replenished by Venus'.

So... How well could this theoretically work?

Has this been explored in Sci-Fi yet? I dunno.

Using a Wormhole to terraform planets!

I'm pretty sure you know where I'm going with this, but if you don't, here's a (Basic) example;

Let's take Mars and Venus for instance. For Mars, you build several multi-kilometer gates, and put them on the surface, then you do the same to Venus, except you fly them around the Atmosphere to collect it (If we have Wormhole gates, we probably have some fancy new jet engine, like thermal fusion or something.), it should work, because air will be forced to go through the gate on Venus, and then expel itself on Mars. And because it's at a much higher pressure than Mars, Mars will lose a laughable amount of air, and will be ridiculously replenished by Venus'.

So... How well could this theoretically work?

Quote of the day:

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away, if your car could go straight upwards."

Sir Fred Hoyle
(Jun 24, 1915 - Aug 20, 2001)
Quote taken from an interview with BBC on the accessibility of spaceflight, 1997.

Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer noted primarily for the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, but also for his often controversial stances on other scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term coined by him on BBC radio, and his promotion of panspermia as the origin of life on Earth. While Hoyle is well-regarded for his works on nucleosynthesis and science popularisation, his career is also noted for the controversial positions he held on a wide range of scientific issues, often in direct opposition to the prevailing theories supported by the majority of the scientific community. He spent most of his working life at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge and served as its director for six years. He was a writer of science fiction, and co-authored twelve books with his son, Geoffrey Hoyle. (Wikipedia Commons)

So... Lucky me; I, the person who has not missed a SINGLE day of school (Unless it's an extracurricular event like sports) Am trapped in the doctors office with possible Strep... #FML

Normally I don't share music videos.However, for you younger folks who like "modern" country, this is what real country music is:

Quote of the day:

"Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done."

Eugene Cernan
( Mar 14, 1934 - Jan 16, 2017)
Quote taken from NASA's official Instagram account, entry by Eugene Cernan, dated December 4, 2016.

Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan, CAPT, USN was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot, and was the last human to walk on the Moon, in 1972. (Wikipedia Commons)

Quote of the day:

"For me, a rocket is only a means--only a method of reaching the depths of space--and not an end in itself... There's no doubt that it's very important to have rocket ships since they will help mankind to settle elsewhere in the universe. But what I'm working for is this resettling... The whole idea is to move away from the Earth to settlements in space."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
(Sep 17, 1857 - Sep 19, 1935)
Quote taken from his work, The Aims of Astronautics, 1929

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko and contributed to the success of the Soviet space program. (Wikipedia Commons)

Sci-Fi novel idea based of of an idea I had.

Now, as far as we know, wormholes can't be created naturally, and if they can, they're probably too small too detect/use, so my idea is if you build a wormhole gate without an exit, and, y'know, enter it, you'll pop out of a pre-existing wormhole instead of a naturally existing one that expands, or a white hole (If it's like a wormhole exit of course).

So that's going to be the abstract outline for a Sci-Fi novel set 100 years from now, where humanity builds a wormhole gate (Without an exit, still need to figure out an idea on why they enter without one, maybe space pirates, I dunno), and enters it out of curiosity, only to pop out in the Large Magellanic Cloud, at the presence of an Alien civilization, (Still debating on whether or not the Aliens has problems with another civ). Also need to work on some BS physics for it to make sense but I'll try to make it as accurate as possible, but you guys get the idea, right?

What do you think?

As for my WIP novels, they're on hold for now, sorry.

As an experiment I didn't go on the forums for  a day and a half: 

I need to unfollow a bunch of stuff...