StrandedonEarth

Hey, the old explosions were underwhelming, to say the least. The "new" explosions are much better I say new, because they were revamped about the sme time the buildings became destructible. That was what, 0.25?

Yes, it should, AFAIK. I haven’t tested that yet, but old parts are supposed to be deprecated and hidden, but still there for crafts that use them. I believe that it’s the same for textures

The New Glenn factory is located at the cape. Not far to transport at all

My 2 cents (in 1969 dollars): Overall program cost divided by number of flights will give an average cost per flight from an overall perspective. The marginal cost of adding another flight to the manifest was much lower, around that $450 million figure or less. Using the yearly human space flight budget divided by flights that year give a year-by-year idea of flight cost. And no, the Shuttle did not have to have all the tiles replaced after every flight, just the ones that were damaged or missing. That number was highly variable. Edit: Getting back to the topic, NASA isn’t going anywhere. The only thing they have in common with the proposed Space Force is getting to space. Given that commercial interests are now taking over the launch business, this clears NASA to get back to their NACA roots, namely developing and advancing technologies, like life support and other nascent techs. Their HSF regulatory duties could be handed off to (perhaps a new department of) the FAA

It is incredible, yes. All part of the oneupmanship between Musk and Bezos.... ”I landed my suborbital booster on solid ground!” ”Yeah, so? I landed my orbital booster, on a barge no less!” ”Hah! I’m going to land my orbital booster on a moving ship!!!”

Come to think of it, the increased stiffness of creasing a thin flat sheet may help prevent aerodynamic flutter, as well

The original reason for contour lines on cars is to increase the rigidity of the panels. If the panel is stamped metal, stamping it makes it stronger by work-hardening it. At the same time, making curved or creased panels makes them stronger by increasing the (not sure of the correct terminology here) bending moment? Cross-section? In the same way that angle iron or an I-beam is stronger than a flat strap of metal of the same thickness. (Modern) Vehicles that use plastic panels for lightness have most of their strength in the (unibody) frame and underpinnings, so any molding would be for looks. Of course a dollar bill (or other paper money) has no resistance to bending while flat, but fold it lengthwise like an accordion and it will support a load

I like it! ”Houston to MARS [Mars-bound Active Reactor Ship - on the return trip call it EARS], we show you approaching TMI, do you copy?” ”Roger, Houston, TED is primed and ready to percolate!” Just ignore that “Mr Fission” sticker on the side...

True enough

If you hit something going the opposite direction, then there’s twice orbital velocity wrecking things. One of the more effective ways to cripple modern communications would be to release a cloud of sand or ball bearings in a retrograde orbit at geostationary height, kicking off the Kessler Syndrome.

The Soyuz-style side boosters in Making History have a solid separator motor built in

Pumping water to a high place. Unfortunately, to get to MJ/kg, you need a roughly 100 km height difference between storage and generator. So maybe not

I’m given to understand that there’s plenty of perchlorates in the Martian regolith. Maybe that could be an export product for a Martian colony A bit of a long lead supply line though

Did they have to make the tanks green? At first glance on mobile the lander looks like it’s stuffed full of kerbals

Terminator 8: BrainNet vs SkyNet

My 2-seat Eve Ascender turned into a monster, with enough dV for Surface-to-Kerbin when you build to over 8km/s dV. Includes sacrificial landing legs. Mount them on the end of a truss and let them explode

Touch tone phones were around in my area in the late 70’s, but you had to pay extra for the TT line as well as the phone.

Yep

As a kid, my brother would sometimes answer the phone with "City Morgue, You Stab'em, We Slab'em." Of course, the one time I answer the phone like that, it's my mom. She was not impressed. This was way back before call display, of course.

Only if they signed up for BO Prime. Soon Amazon will be offering BE-4’s and surplus Merlin 1D’s...

I believe that’s true. I also read that the V2 could have been more destructive, but more powerful explosives were too sensitive and would be set off by the reentry heat, so it lobbed a ton of weaker explosives instead.

Thanks. Believe me, I want to. Need to record it first( I think just subtitling it would be lame), then I need a proper video editor to make it like my vision, then record video clips... etc

@LordFerret, the cycle of life goes on, friend. If it helps, one family friend just had a baby and another friend is due anytime.

Wings in the middle are no big deal, and the canards are small. Computer guidance can handle it easily. Bear in mind that modern fighter jets are on the edge of stability, to make them more agile. Fly-by-wire allows the computer to keep it going in the direction the pilot wants it to, within limits.

I've had this stuck in my head all day, except with Kerbalized lyrics...