StrandedonEarth

My queen overheats, obscuring the board with a smokescreen. My bishop attacks your rook from out of the murk.

Eureka, Or

Needs moar boosters...

You haven't been reading any weird books bound in some unusual type of leather, possibly called the Necronomicon? If so, repeat after me: Klaatu, Verata, Nic..... um, I forget that last word. Just fake it, it'll be okay

Anchorage

Queen to Rogue 5, launches proton torpedoes into thermal exhaust port

A: That's a good question. We'll look into it. Q: How do you feel about politicians (such as a certain J. Trudeau) answering every question with the above answer?* *I watched his post-election interview where he did exactly that

I forgot all about these! I use to make something similar when I was a kid: 2 wooden matches laid head to head, then wrap the heads together with foil (cigarette-pack foil worked best because of that bit of paper lining). Stick one end in a crack in a log, hold a flame under the foil..

Oh the Kerbanity! @SQUAD should give you an honorary kerbonaut suit for that! How tall was that thing? Liftoff mass?

Base-10 is almost certainly because of 10 digits on our hands. I've often thought that if we had a base-9 or base-16 system, then square roots shouldn't be (as far as I can tell) irrational numbers, since there is a number that, when squared, is equal to "10." We already use base-16 with hexadecimal computer code, although with base-9 one could also have "perfect thirds." Ye old programmers' joke: There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.

The chemistry is definitely the key. The least complicated booster to make would be solid-fueled, and the casing could be hammered out of bronze and wrapped in electrum wire, with a clay (or clay-lined) nozzle. The trick is creating a propellant and casting it in the casing. Staging it is merely an engineering problem. Fins for atmospheric guidance and try to get the gravity turn right. The hardest part is getting the orbital insertion burn to actually put the thing in orbit.

I once used butane in an empty rifle shell casing, and sent it bouncing around a friend's basement.... There must be a way to make a water rocket with a 2-liter pop bottle and an air pump/compressor

Too bad you forgot the pilot. I'm sending an ISRU reminery to Tylo

Ooops, someone placed c4 on c5 and your bishop is blown back to his Maker. "Nuclear Launch Detected" - Check.... and mate?

Lol, but that's nothing that couldn't be done with a trench full of black powder and/or a flammable liquid Or at least "good enough" tech.

Go Fish

Disassembled by nanites

Well, the Canadian unit would be (Clifford) Olson's, with a value of 11

Spaceship implies a manned vessel. Spacecraft would be any (crafted) thing that operates in space.

How about a tablet computer (and solar charging system) with all the information and blueprints you'd need? Ancient Egypt should be able to bootstrap something up. They had access to the Nile which meant shipping and hydro power. Oil was nearby, as well as the whole Mediterranean trade network. They had plenty of artisans and craftsmen working to produce treasure and military equipment for the Pharaoh, who would love to see a way to truly join the gods. If the effort that created the pyramids was channeled into reaching pace, with blueprints to follow every step of the way instead of developing everything from scratch, I'm sure they could do it. Which begs the question: with access to solar-thermal, oil and hydro power (not specifically electrical, to start), thousands of skilled craftsmen, tens of thousands of laborers, and the blueprints for all the required technology along the way (not to mention all the required mineral resources), how long would it take to get to producing steel, aluminum and mig-arc welders? Bringing fiberglass or carbon-fiber composites into play sooner could also speed things along in terms of simpler things like filament-wound SRM casings. I would expect the harder technical challenges without electronics would be the guidance system, but for simply reaching orbit gyroscopes tied to a mechanical, clockwork "computer" should suffice. Jump up and then throw it

Congrats! Have you warned the local people that you're on the loose yet? Just like I had to when my daughter finally got her 'Newbie' (novice) license to replace her 'Lamer' (learner) license 6 weeks ago?

I said wanting, doesn't mean getting

One thing mentioned in the devnotes a few weeks ago is that the rt click menu stays put in 1.1. I imagine my boys will be wanting this for their XB1

A knot theorist telling too knot puns would be a very knotty theorist indeed