StrandedonEarth

For today’s thankful Thursday the local radio station was reading texts from people on the air. And they actually read my text on the air which said “I am thankful that I can listen to CFOX in the morning at work. I am also thankful to SpaceX for giving us hope that I can see boots on Mars in my lifetime.” The DJ followed that up by saying “I don’t know why people would want to go there. Elon Musk said ‘I can get you there but I can’t get you back.’ ” Of course the first part was just the requisite S-kissing to help get my text on the air. Edit: Now that I saw my post on PC, I could notice where the mobile somehow duplicated stuff. Fixed.

Yes, it is a beast of a machine. It grinds the crawlerway gravel to powder when it turns...

No, it takes their contractor five years to build a Mobile Launch Platform. But I bet they could shave off a year for an extra billion kerfunds....

Because the SLS thread was inundated with BFRguments, retribution was brought down on the SpaceX thread in an effort to bring balance to the force forum. Next SpaceX will seduce SLS to the sooty side and attempt to rule the BO thread as master and apprentice!

Nah, you're late for rehearsal because you had to post about watching it again...

NASA needs to go back to its roots and STOP designing and building rockets (actually, they are built by contractors, presumably on a cost-plus basis, with no incentive to make things cheaper). They did the heavy-lifting pioneering work of researching different ways of getting rockets to work, much like its predecessor NACA did for airplanes. Now the commercial sector has taken the ball and is running with it. It's time for NASA to use commercially available boosters to research and develop the technologies needed for deep spaceflight, such as continuing the work on ECLSS systems and ISRU and asteroid mining systems.

Yeah, well.... Writing KSP limericks is hard One has to be quite the bard. But, I suppose, I could always write prose On the back of a Kerbodyne shard

After helping a new player / forum user by suggesting a mod that would do what he wanted to do, I came up with this meme... I guess this would fit in... Gameplay Questions:

And here I am considering paving the postage stamp that passes for a backyard at our townhouse...

Of course! My forum handle is a pun

I’ve had that before, it is Ike’s shadow, it’s a mod that throws it but I don’t remember which one.

Ah, I didn't realize there was a way to defuse the landing legs.

Nope @Lego_Prodigy?

If you are on PC, there is a mod that will let you transmit science from the instrument to an MPL. It's called "Science Relay" and is available on CKAN as well as the usual sources, linked in this thread: Note that the linked thread has several small "modlets" including "Science Relay"

Earth is good. Plants like to grow in it. Life comes from the Sun, soaks into the earth, and then sprouts from it. Unless we go around poisoning it. If we are careful and think things through to their conclusions, we can still do all the commercial/industrial things we want to do on it without killing it.

Yeah, I had those moments where I'm waiting for a stage to completely empty, with my fingers hovering over the space bar. Then my fingers twitch and the side boosters decouple while still thrusting and demolish the core, leaving Bill to sigh as he reaches for the "parachutes" button, praying he remembered to stick them on....

While that is a great idea, there are a few issues with that plan: 1. Hoping the BFS has enough dV left to match orbits with a stage. 2. BFR/S is supposed to replace F9/H. So there would not be much point in recovering F9US by then, and many probably would have decayed out of orbit by then. 3. The technical details of catching a stage that has no attitude control or even power, being dead in space Edit: ninja'd by Ultimate Steve, as well as what CatastrophicFailure said

Aaahhh, you caught me! (but many of those got liked)

My wife went grocery shopping yesterday, but didn't buy bacon or sausages. So now she doesn't have anything greasy to go with the omelettes and pancakes she's thinking of making for breakfast this morning j hhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee And now my cat decides to sit on the keyboard of my laptop. I keep having to remind him that it's NOT a bun warmer

There is no such thing as "bulletproof." The correct term, as pointed out by Bill Phil above, is "bullet resistant." For instance, the spec for vehicular armored glass is the ability to stop three closely-spaced bullets (don't know what the specific kinetic energy spec is) without failing. After that, hopefully you've driven out of range. Body armor prevents penetration, but not injury. Quite often catching a bullet on the kevlar vest means a severe bruise or a broken rib The same would presumably apply to an EVA astronaut, depending on the impact energy. I would imagine the resistance all depends on the kinetic energy and the size of the projectile. The larger the area that the energy is spread out over, the more likely it is that the suit can prevent a puncture. Also, spacesuits need to be flexible. I don't think that body armor is all that flexible, and usually has pockets for ceramic inserts over the vitals for extra protection. I suppose a spacesuit could stop a .22 short round, but that's just a guess.

dingdingdingdingding! Try this again.... @Just Jim?

Not sure if I posted this in this thread or not....

I had to remake one of @Red Iron Crown's old memes from the first page of this thread, since all his links broke when he dropped off the forums. This is the only one I could remember offhand... E: Silly me, forgot to actually post it...