StrandedonEarth

Exactly five years ago? Still too late

Actually, since my mom ended up being fostered/adopted, I had three sets of grandparents, all of which have passed now. Unfortunately, due to geography, I didn't know any of them to any great degree

Although BFR is supposed to use all-composite tankage...

"In about 2 years, your wife will want to discuss something with your mom, who lives in the basement that you co-own. Make sure you open the discussion first, and burn any doodles your wife makes in the meantime. Things will be much less stressful that way...."

(broken image was foam earplugs last I saw...) Not good enough!

While it is hard to build for volcano resistance, hurricane resistance is just a matter of building codes, and building on a potential floodplain is a matter of planning. I've noticed that recent (farmhouse) buildings in the Fraser Valley are built on mounds, to put them above potential floodwaters. Now that floods are becoming more common due to climate change, people will soon learn to build on mounds or stilts, and not have sunken basements. Just as hurricane areas have learned to add "hurricane clips" to keep the roofs on, and seismic zones have learned how to built to withstand quakes (no more un-reinforced brick!). It's probably tougher to build to withstand a direct hit by a tornado, but some things can be done. As for volcanoes, well, try to build out of the way of potential lava flows, but that's only one of the hazards. The land around volcanoes is usually incredibly productive, so it seems the benefits outweigh the risks. If we didn't build anywhere where there is risk, well, we wouldn't be building anything anywhere! Although I wouldn't want to build on top of or at the base of a cliff, because that slope is going to fail eventually, in less than geological time scales!

Okay, never heard that before... Thanks for that! (now to go fill my red solo cup)

Oh sure, now I have to write an essay... Warning: lotsa pics incoming! Well, I've already posted this guy here, whom we acquired last Sept or so when his barn cat mom was hit by some farm equipment... The dog here, Marley, was a rescue dog who had been slowly coming along during the 3-4 years we had him, but we had to rehome him after he bit a little girl in our care on the lip... Then along came Oreo, a "Mountain Labernese". We didn't go looking, friends had one pup left in their litter, and she joined us in January... And it was love at first bite... Malibu's grown into quite the dashing fella, with cattitude.. Which he needs to compete with Oreo... Oh right, can't forget Timbit, although it's so easy since he mostly sleeps all day (we considered him a dog that thinks it's a cat). We've had him for about 9 years now. He came from a puppy mill, and had been pounded on by the other dogs, so although he was supposedly around a year old when we got him, he never showed much youthful energy or playfulness. He tolerates the other animals, but generally tries not to have anything to do with them. After barking at the kitten and pup whenever they tried to play with him, they learned to leave him alone. But I did catch Timbit and Malibu sleeping nearly side-by side, so I quickly got my iCamera ready and pushed them together... Finally, here's a pic of my first dog, who I got some thirty+ years ago when I was 13. He was the smartest dog I'd ever seen. He'd be lying on the rough concrete hearth trying to get comfortable, before going into a bedroom and bringing pack a pillow. Pillow on hearth, head on pillow, asleep in seconds. Unfortunately, we only had him for four years before we moved to the city and were forced to give him away because we couldn't find a place that would allow pets. More annoying, the complex we moved to went co-op a few years later and started allowing pets, but it was too late to get him back.

A few days ago I saw some discussion about cats in this forum, and there was something I wanted to add when I had the time. There's some cat stuff in this thread, but I don't think it's what I was looking for, tho I could be wrong. But close enough...

The Trajectories mod also draws a red X on the ground at the spot you'll land/impact. This spot is fixed to the ground and will not be under the end of your trajectory until just before impact, so you'll have to move your view around to find it.

Error 666: Beast not found.

Cooling all depends on how the system is set up. I don't know what the plan is for cooling the 10kW Kilopower units. If they are spread around the station, they can all be independent, instead of being plumbed into a single cooling system. As for redundancy, losing one of ten reactors is better than losing half of your power. But again, it all depends on how the base/station/installation is designed to function. So many ways to skin that cat.

Not necessarily as a larger reactor would have a more complex cooling system. It would be much cheaper to use multiple smaller systems that have already been developed than to design one with ten times the output. It would also be more redundant to have multiple smaller units instead of losing all your power if a single large reactor has to be shut down

Generally constrained by geography or geology. Also bear in mind, flooded rotting vegetation from HE dams release methane, an even worse greenhouse gas. Scraping away the vegetation burns fuel, unless someone has an electric bulldozer... Nuclear all the way baby! Even worse than NIMBY is BANANA: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone! Try this, with a little milk and sugar...

If you are open to mods, NavBall Docking Alignment Indicator is the first mod I ever got for this game, I find it makes it much easier. And with that, this is my handy-dandy simple docking guide: And BTW, F12 works for screenshots under Steam, even as it bring up that overlay. So check your Steam screenshots folder. F1 is the KSP screenshot key, which works in and out of Steam, and dumps it to the screenshot folder in your KSP folder

If you have KIS/KAs installed, you could tack on a new docking port later..

Or just paint the fairing orange...

Yes, top fuel dragsters typically use a solid block with water-filled heads, since they don't have to run at full power very long. To keep it on topic, I wonder how a top fuel dragster would do with ozone injection...?

But if said 747 is on ice.... More like:

Rama II used fluid baths to allow humans to endure high gees (don't recall the exact number) for extended periods...

Moving at the speed of bureaucracy, of course. Which is similar to the speed of an old neutered sloth in molasses.

Lots actually

But not nearly as fast.. Twin 502ci big blocks!

Yes, odometers and speedometers are usually geared to the output shaft of the transmission. Not sure why this would give a different result from your Arduino setup, aside from corners. The odometer would be taking the average of both drive wheels because of the differential gear in the middle. So having sensors on both back wheels makes sense so you can compare and/or average them. Water changing to vapor when the tire heats up increases the tire pressure more than the ideal gas law would, so @Shpaget's suggestion about filling with nitrogen is valid (but then you can't pull a James Bond and breathe from the tires of your sunken car while the bad guys wait for you to drown). Ideally you want to calibrate things for hot tires and warm up the tires before starting measurements. Could you rig your computer set up to have hot/cold settings for different weather conditions? Another thought on temperature: cold tires don't stick as well, and so may be slipping a tiny bit, especially when accelerating or decelerating. On your three test drives, did you follow the exact same route each time, right down to lane changes? Different routes with a different number of corners could also skew measurements. Is it a manual transmission? Any rollback will not be registered by the odometer but will trip the arduino sensor. Ideally, you want to find a straight stretch of road where you can mark off a true kilometer, with markings painted on the road. Perhaps ask a city surveyor for help with this, for the greatest accuracy and legality. Perhaps storm drains, lampposts or street signs can serve as markers. Then you can calibrate everything off your "true kilometer". Sorry, I'm kind of rambling...

How can this not be stuck in my head. I seem to hear it every time I turn around... Time to bring out the big guns...