StrandedonEarth

Kerbal Strike - gotta keep those ground crews happy...

Well, you have a steamthrower or steamcannon for defense

My avatar is a Thrint, aka a Slaver, It can telepathically compel other beings to follow its orders. If it can control a zombie, I think I'm in good shape, especially if I can find its amplifying helmet. If not, um, I'm done for. It would compel me to give myself to the zombies while it tries to escape. Which it wouldn't, because aside from (and because of) the Power, they're pretty useless.

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I'm guessing it's more like "the bot randomly selects 2% to be sent to a human for rejection"

Just doing what most of the others are doing....

It's weird, it happens to me now and then too. I think it's bored and/or new forumgoers browsing back through old and long-lived threads

Clive Cussler likes to put some cutting/bleeding/future-edge tech in his Dirk Pitt and other novels. One novel featured the (re)discovery of electrohydrodynamic engines derived from Verne's sub based on the principles I underlined above. Perhaps you've read it?

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke...

When you eat your Smarties®, you eat the red ones last.

Nope. @Just Jim?

Wanna bet?

Only 30+kW for a weapon-strength laser. Bear in mind that lasers need time (1-2 seconds or more) on one spot to be effective destructive (sensors can be fried pretty quick). There are LaWS for that sort of thing

It tickles me that the last planet is Elmo....

I wondered about those things too. The jagged shadows confuse me as well. The image is deceptively narrow which makes it hard to see what really happened to the ballast around the displacement. A thrust fault hadn't occurred to me but certainly makes sense.

Now THAT is an excellent concept. It gives a ready-to-use base to do the converting work from. Maybe the ITS could use the wet-workshop approach when it has arrived at a permanent location. The key to wet workshop is to design and build the future WW to be easily reconfigurable, with all the hatches and fittings and lugs and conduit paths all built in. There are also the anti-slosh baffles to move and re-purpose and otherwise play with. The payload can consist of all the equipment to move inside.

Whoops, I quoted you on that.. I'd say there's more than a few inches slip there... (Fun Fact: The Universal Studios tour includes experiencing an earthquake in a subway station)

The Mun Arch Speed Challenge: How fast can you go through a Mun Arch? What? You don't know where to find a Mun Arch? That's part of the challenge! Four Categories: EVA kerbals, manned craft, unmanned craft, and asteroids too bad the "Kerbin Cup" official mod doesn't appear to be a thing anymore

Hmm, good deal... Do they charge for the bathrooms?

(from http://aviationhumor.net) Santa Claus, like all pilots, gets regular visits from the Federal Aviation Administration, and the FAA examiner arrived last week for the pre-Christmas flight check. In preparation, Santa had the elves wash the sled and bathe all the reindeer. Santa got his logbook out and made sure all his paperwork was in order. He knew they would examine all his equipment and truly put Santa’s flying skills to the test… The examiner walked slowly around the sled. He checked the reindeer harnesses, the landing gear, and Rudolph’s nose. He painstakingly reviewed Santa’s weight and balance calculations for the sled’s enormous payload. Finally, they were ready for the checkride. Santa got in and fastened his seatbelt and shoulder harness and checked the compass. Then the examiner hopped in carrying, to Santa’s surprise, a shotgun. “What’s that for?!?” asked Santa incredulously. The examiner winked and said, “I’m not supposed to tell you this ahead of time,” as he leaned over to whisper in Santa’s ear, “but you’re gonna lose an engine on takeoff.”