StrandedonEarth

Your kerbals have not truly lived until you have aerobraked around Jool and landed on Tylo.

Flip on this bed of hot coals!

Well, you did order the kitchen sink soup! Waiter, there's a mentalist in my soup!

Sounds like some sort of killer, a disease of some sort. Polio was still around by WWII, less than a century ago, but I'm not sure how long smallpox or scarlet fever were a threat. "Dark interception," OTOH, suggests Bubonic Plague edit: another suggestion ninja'd and denied

Yup, heard that too. I recently had to break my son's (who was 9 at the time) habit of saying "Me want...." that he must have picked up from some stupid cartoon. "You're not 2, you're not getting what you want until you remember to use proper English!" And English speakers are so surprised when they hear that English is one of the harder languages to learn, it's not like the nouns have gender. But if you hear someone say what sounds like "To pare" they could have some fruit, a poker hand, or be using a knife.

Sounds like "Survivor"

Terminate it!

Rocket-powered hype-plane, of course. A thought on the secret feature: it's been suggested that the new building by the runway would deploy a fire/rescue team in the event of a crash. It's also been stated that we will be able to see and recover debris (and ships) from the space center screen. I shall combine the two and suggest debris recovery teams will be deployed from the new building, much like a FOD crew at an airport. Then they will scramble out of their vehicles clown-car style. I think the devs underestimate how often good players will see this feature, as the good players tend to push the limits of what will hold together through a launch. Looking at you, Whackjob. You too, Xacktar.

I know this is late but I must protest that, as Red Iron Crown noted, CCl4 is by definition not a CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) although, like a CFC, it is an ODS (ozone-destroying-substance). Since that riddle is now ancient history, I will now quietly wander away and shan't insist on my turn to post a riddle, as I don't have one ready anyways. As for the Mechanic's riddle, I have no idea, at least nothing that fits the riddle, only watch-related things. Sundial? Stonehenge? I doubt either of them

HypePlanes, HypeTrains, and Hypemobiles! John Candy would be looking for his old Barf costume about now! The same hype that powers the Hypomotive can also turn the Hypellers. Given that this hypedate features more spaceplane parts, it's only logical that the hypemobile is a hypeplane this time. As Spock would say, anything else would be highly illogical.

Oh, right, suddenly the term "Applied Science" comes to mind. That's the term I was looking for. Back in high school there was an "Applied Science" course that included scratch-built model rockets, including carving your own nose cone out of a block of balsa

One of these.... [hide]Principal CFCs Systematic name Common/trivial name(s), code Boiling point (°C) Formula Trichlorofluoromethane Freon-11, R-11, CFC-11 23.77 CCl3F Dichlorodifluoromethane Freon-12, R-12, CFC-12 −29.8 CCl2F2 Difluoromethane/pentafluoroethane R-410A, Puron, AZ-20 -48.5 50% CH2F2/50% CHF2CF3 Chlorotrifluoromethane Freon-13, R-13, CFC-13 −81 CClF3 Chlorodifluoromethane R-22, HCFC-22 −40.8 CHClF2 Dichlorofluoromethane R-21, HCFC-21 8.9 CHCl2F Chlorofluoromethane Freon 31, R-31, HCFC-31 −9.1 CH2ClF Bromochlorodifluoromethane BCF, Halon 1211, H-1211, Freon 12B1 -3.7 CBrClF2 1,1,2-Trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethane Freon 113, R-113, CFC-113, 1,1,2-Trichlorotrifluoroethane 47.7 Cl2FC-CClF2 1,1,1-Trichloro-2,2,2-trifluoroethane Freon 113a, R-113a, CFC-113a 45.9 Cl3C-CF3 1,2-Dichloro-1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane Freon 114, R-114, CFC-114, Dichlorotetrafluoroethane 3.8 ClF2C-CClF2 1-Chloro-1,1,2,2,2-pentafluoroethane Freon 115, R-115, CFC-115, Chloropentafluoroethane −38 ClF2C-CF3 2-Chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane R-124, HCFC-124 −12 CHFClCF3 1,1-Dichloro-1-fluoroethane R-141b, HCFC-141b 32 Cl2FC-CH3 1-Chloro-1,1-difluoroethane R-142b, HCFC-142b −9.2 ClF2C-CH3 Tetrachloro-1,2-difluoroethane Freon 112, R-112, CFC-112 91.5 CCl2FCCl2F Tetrachloro-1,1-difluoroethane Freon 112a, R-112a, CFC-112a 91.5 CClF2CCl3 1,1,2-Trichlorotrifluoroethane Freon 113, R-113, CFC-113 48 CCl2FCClF2 1-Bromo-2-chloro-1,1,2-trifluoroethane Halon 2311a 51.7 CHClFCBrF2 2-Bromo-2-chloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane Halon 2311 50.2 CF3CHBrCl 1,1-Dichloro-2,2,3,3,3-pentafluoropropane R-225ca, HCFC-225ca 51 CF3CF2CHCl2 1,3-Dichloro-1,2,2,3,3-pentafluoropropane R-225cb, HCFC-225cb 56 CClF2CF2CHClF Technically, it's the Br atom or Cl atom released by the ozone-depleting-substance's molecule when it is destroyed by sunlight that depletes ozone....

A little farther down the wiki page I find good ole Freon-12 (R-12): CCl2F2 I guess I should have used the first generic equation on that page, no 2-carbon formulas in the table....

Mud for the first one generic CFC formula, courtesy of Wiki: C2ClmF6-m

Wesley Crusher rocks! EA just bought your favorite game! Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a good blaster at your side Larry Niven is a talentless hack with no originality

Science researches the principles that engineers put into practice. The early rocket scientists (Goddard, von Braun, etc) figured out how to build rockets and the equations that describe how they work. In fact, I don't know that there ever were any pure "rocket scientists," just engineers figuring out the science of rockets. You hear a lot more about "brain surgeons" or "rocket science" than actual rocket scientists Main thing for pretty much anything aerospace: Math, heavy on the calculus, along with computer wizardry skills. Beyond that depends on if and what you want to specialize in: Structural and/or materials, electronics, chemistry, physics, aerodynamics, and generally some combination of those. But hey, even rocket companies need managers, accountants, HR staff, and even janitors and cafeteria workers

television?

If not stars, then... Dreams

A Mobius strip?

A motor! Oh wait, the Mechanic hasn't posted a riddle yet, guess I jumped the gun. *fades back into the background*

I work at a tire retreading plant. I can only see technology replacing 2-3 jobs there, at least not without massive increases in tech and a massive price tag. I do know that tech has eliminated one post compared to older plants.

It is a shame spacecraft engineers aren't (or weren't) a little more forward thinking, to equip satellites for the possibility of being visited by a servicing craft. I hope they start doing that now, hopefully the extra weight/complexity/cost wouldn't make it prohibitive. Imagine being able to reload Spitzer's liquid helium supply to extend the full capabilities of that billion-dollar piece of hardware

The gaming rig should be loaded up with KSP, of course, along with a metric crapload of mods to pick and choose from. It would be powered by the zero-g treadmill. No exercise, no little green guys getting splattered across Tylo. Also good for practicing their re-entries

Even The 100 did this: Burn straight down to de-orbit. I don't recall which way Bullock pointed the Shenzhou though