StrandedonEarth

Edit: found original image via Google Image search. I was hoping to find an empty kerbal helmet. It seems to have been a test image in the mod release forum. Not sure if I need to credit anyone for it. Original post: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/65416-0235-green-skull-inc-custom-design-spacesuits-v038-14th-april-14/&do=findComment&comment=1009502

Because the American public screams every time anything nuclear is launched, for fear the rocket will fail and pollute the ocean with highly toxic radioactive materials.

Oops, yeah, I meant engineer.... edited.

Ability to edit action groups on the fly. Requiring Pilot and Engineer to do so

Actually, I found a great use for the staging action group on (single stage) aircraft. I used it to toggle the afterburners, which has the advantage of lighting them up on the runway!

Whaddaya get when Batman and Robin get run over by a steamroller?

I'll check it out tomorrow... And I swear, I'll stop procrastinating next week!

The first things that comes to mind are the Red Mars / Green Mars / Blue Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

That would be in The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall, which also includes the rescue of some original colonists and a few other stories. And btw, P.E.R.N. = I always hoped she would write something along the line of the "Chronicles.... Final Fall" which would include... Edit: Back on topic: I second the recommendations for Catch-22 and Farenheit 451. For something completely and punnily different, there's also Spider Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

If platinum was cheap and widely available, it would do wonders for fuel cell prices and market penetration, and be a big help in moving the world towards a hydrogen economy

Hold on a sec while I put on my flame-resistant suit, cuz I'll probably get flamed for this.... Ok, much better. If you can stomach some of the questionable "science", I quite enjoyed Anne McAffrey's "DragonRiders of Pern" series. It's more fantasy than sci-fi, but hey, the stories tend to suck you in. Just stay away from the ones co-written by her son Todd. Her "Talent" series also entertained me (the first 3, the "Pegasus" ones, are the best IMO) And I'm also a Niven fanboy. His "Known Space" universe is vast and richly textured. On the other hand, there are over 10 collections of short stories and novellas written by other authors but set in Known Space, known collectively as Tales from the Man-Kzin Wars. Quite entertaining. On the gripping hand, he also has some excellent stand-alone novels, such as Footfall, The Mote in God's Eye, and Fallen Angels (others may disagree with the last one, but it's a nice salute to fandom).

I don't think the staples can carry quite that much power....

STS-27 very nearly did have a burn-through, it was just luck that the spot where a tile was knocked off happened to be where the aluminum skin was thicker. From the CAIB:

Intel HD what? My i7 laptop has Intel HD 4000 (backed up by nVidia GeForce GT 630m), while the i3 desktop I got for my boys with airmiles has an Intel HD 4400 (and only that). I might want to try this on the desktop

^This. They're still updating the game and adding features for free, after the 1.0 release. With no DLC in sight. No expansion packs. No micro-transactions. Best $23 I ever spent.

Um, you must mean Larry Niven's Ringworld books. A Mote In God's Eye is in a different universe of his.

Exactly what i thought too. OTOH, I once read a short mystery story where the basic premise was that the human body can't use heavy water. Granted, it's fiction, so I don't know how true that is. A woman who drank nothing but bottled water was murdered when her not-so-loving hubby secretly replaced her jugs of drinking water with pure heavy water. The coroner was baffled when the body was bloated with water but the apparent cause of death was dehydration.

I've lost many solar panels by doing a de-orbit burn to jettison a nearly empty stage, decoupling, and then turning around and burning back into orbit. Occasionally all I'm left with is a cloud of debris. Someday, hopefully, I'll remember to burn to the side first to get a clear path back to orbit. Edit: even worse is getting all lined up to dock and using a puff from the engines for a little forward velocity. Then accidentally pressing 'z' instead of 'x' *facepalm*

You know you're a nerd when you understand all the jargon on The Big Bang Theory

5/10 um no I don't get the joke The workhorse of the north, I flew in it several times as a kid.

Army of Darkness time! "My name is Jeb, and I am a pilot..." "Alright you primitive propellantheads, listen up! You see this? (points at rocket) This... is my boomstick!" "Klaatu Barada Liftoff!" "Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the rocket." "First you wanna launch me, now you wanna land me. Blow." "Well, I've got news for you pal, you ain't launchin' but two things, right now: Jack and spit... and Jack's on Eve". Gene: "Are all you kerbonauts loud-mouthed braggarts?" Jeb: "Nope. Just me baby... Just me" (Jeb, after surviving an abort sequence) "Whoa. Wrong button." "Buckle up Bob. 'Cause you're goin' for a ride!" Wernher: "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and propellants and things with... boosters" (Jeb, after seeing the 5 kiloton rocket stack he's about to ride) "Groovy!"

Most of the younger set won't know this movie, and possibly much of the older set. I'm 45 and this is from when I was a kid. I'm also not sure which version is better... The original quote fits as is.... "Go ahead, make my day!" - by "Dirty" Jebby Kallahan, to the launch ground crew. OR, the more kerbalized version... "Go ahead, make my rocket!" - to the VAB crew, maybe even to Wernher himself. After looking up Dirty Harry on IMDB I was surprised just how many Dirty Harry movies there are, and how old. I must have watched the first few on VHS. I'd heard of most of them but didn't realize the newer ones (like Sudden Impact, which I don't think I've seen) were also Dirty Harry.