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You could argue that, but because you can also discuss objective fact in addition to subjective matters in such a place. I think it's nice to keep a clear distinction between when a person is presenting objective fact and when it is a matter of subjectivity and too often an oppinion is uttered as a universal fact, when it's not.

True enough, when it's become data, you can transmit, recover or just delete.

I'm a manic game saver... I'm upto 63 game saves and I'm still exploring the mun.

Well, due to RNG and/or possibly missing them, I've only had 1 mun science contract, since I deployed the station and lander. *lol* Exactly what I did with the power and I'm, as we speak, on a mission to connect a girder with solar panels and batteries.

It's also how I do it, but eg. right now I'm waiting for the lab to turn data into science, which due to the data limit, also means experiments waiting to get "processed". So I'm taking the landings to get new science and sending a craft to return experiments rather leisurely, with a little too much time on my hands to do contracts inbetween. Offcourse, it's not exactly the most efficient space station I have, it tends to run a little out of electricity and it's main purpose was to just act as a refueling station. - - - Updated - - - Actually, as long as there is the option of open gameplay (career, science and sandbox), I wouldn't be adverse to someone with a bright idea for a story to add it in.

But why have the extra menu clicking, when it's allready motivated someone to deliver science to the lab, regularly and pick it up regularly and/or design a bigger lander to get it on the surface? That just seems to micromanaging to me...

It would certainly help the argument, if people learned to preface statements such as these, with a simple: "In my oppinion..." Rather than starting out with heralding ones own subjective oppinion as fact and completely disregarding the equally valid subjective oppinions of everyone around. EDIT: Oppinion does not equal fact and I can't believe the amount of times, this has to be pointed out to supposedly grown up people on forums. Who wants to enter any kind of discourse, with a person, who is basically saying: "I like red, thus red is the best and rightest colour and if you don't like red you're stupid and I most certainly will not respect that you prefer blue."

Did a mun landing and am now earning some moolah, doing a 3 in one rescue mission around kerbin and a 2 in one rescue mission around minmus. I think they should add... some kind of red cross ambulance service flags to the selection for space agency

Farcry 2 and 3, were pretty much computer breaking for some. Diablo 3 was unplayable, due to connection problems and if I recall simcity suffered the same launch problem.

Personally? I rather like the concept, but I cannot say whether it's balanced, in regards to when one "should" finish the tech tree and what not. I would prefer though, to not have limits on data and science. I should just input the experiments I've done and take out finished or "processed" experiments ready to get transmitted or returned. I'm allready visiting e.g. the spacestation when returning experiments and when picking them up. It's seems a bit too micromanaging and clickfesty to visit in between to manually process experiments in a specific order. I do like tho, what it adds to the science module and gives you somewhat incentive to build spacestations, bases or just more challenging landers.

Just out of curiosity. What is the standard for bugs to feature or lines of code ratio allowed, for finalized software end products? Because, I can't really see anything about that in consumer law. I think there should be... Like the defects to pixels standard for flatscreens, but as far as I know, there isn't. Nor is there a comprehensive sampling of thoroughly tested products, so we can even know which ones are good or bad. PS: On the other hand, shooting people seems to be pretty much illegal most places.

I must admit, I have a tendency to restart my games when I reach the interplanetary stage or play something else when I get that far, but I wanted to cheer Slapgizor117 on. *does the wave or possibly a panicking kerbal imitation*

Taking Bill Kerman out for some experience on a contracted rescue mission to Minmus. Her third or 4th successfull flight.

Heavy and 1 small engine... but mechjeb did manage to land it quite good on the last attempt and I even managed to pick a spot that was flat enough, but I'll keep a better TWR in mind for my next generation of lander ... In any case it doesn't get any more kerbal than adding moar/more engines.

Sorry for off-topic. Ever present safety hazard, on the level of the chance of an airliner hitting you, while walking your dog or there abouts right? Because, deaths from nuclear powerplants, including the disasters, are drops in the ocean compaired to coal (still over 10.000 deaths a year in the US alone) or just car usage (1 mio. dead year and up to 50 million wounded a year is the global estimate) and thats for the 50's tech you mention.

Well, I don't know how applicable this is, in regards to tweaking the landings and with the new atmosphere model. Currently trying to get mechjeb to do a pinpoint canyons landing on the mun and having problems with it either overshooting, undershooting or just not allowing enough time to brake (smashing into the ground at between 50-110 m/s). It will land fine sometimes, just not necessarily in the right position. From different altitudes. 100 km, 25 km and 15 km. Tried 2.5 and the dev build 442. But it's been quite a while since I played ksp and I might have designed a crappy ship. It has a rather crappy thrust to weight ratio (1.11) and im relearning both kerbal and mechjeb again so... Anyways, I just meant this as possibly helpfull feedback and not a complaint... I love mechjeb

True and I probably could have built in another stage or added more parachutes, but it seems a bit excessive to have to do that, not for bringing back alot of extra stuff, but the bare necessity to get back. I think less than 10 burned off the ablator.

Ok, not quite the same thing, but maybe a hint that parachutes need a little further "balancing". I just landed a large pod, with the heatshield, a mechjeb pod and the large parachute. It touched down at around 10 m/s and trashed the heatshield. Seems a little bit too high for a parachute that seems designed for that capsule.

Completely agree... Speaking for those of us, who are both clumsy and have partially melted and broken keyboards, Kerbal space program wouldn't be the same without mechjeb.

Personally I don't think it needs to, but it might be a good idea... I think human biological imperatives and emotions are a kind of baseprogramming for the only kinda sorta general purpose intelligence we know. Ourselves... And it's done okay'ish.

I'm thinking even AI's will have certain limits like density and the speed of light barrier... And if it can't recognize that ie. unlimited growth severely cuts into it's survival length, how intelligent can it be... I also think immortality and "forever" is overrated. I like wii bowling, I might even love it, but I'm pretty convinced that after x millions of years it'll feel like torture. So unless there is an unlimited amount of things to see and do, immortality seems like a curse. Personally I think everything between 60-80 years is just fine and respectfull and a genorous limitation of ressource usage for the sake of following generations.

Didn't Rober Bussard claim that the polywell technology had so thoroughly tested, that the only real thing left to do, was to scale it up enough. Which presumably would cost a bit? I presume, he was referring to just producing enough power to selfsustaining fusion and a net gain, not an actual powerplant design.

To be honest, you can have completely stock systems, that crash for no apparent system. Substandard components sometimes find their way into systems. Laptops that apparently can't handle a heavy software task while sitting on a table. Odd combinations of hardware and software, that for completely obscure reasons wouldn't run properly ie. I was unable to run farcry 2 and 3, without looping sound and in the 2nd case looping sound to bsod, over multiple different versions of vista and win 7 32 bit and 64 bit, 2 different sets of ram, 2 different motherboards, 2 different gpu's and 3 cpu's. Never found out exactly what the problem was.. guestimating it was some weird timing error.

Using average current numbers 22,126 TWh's is 1,305,634,000,000 $ of windenergy or 1,747,954,000,000 $ of solar energy. Now add, atleast day to night storage for solar, backup storage for wind and other backup's necessary and everything else conveniently omitted from the diagram. Maintenance? Degradation over time of solar panels? The global electrical usage of 22,126 TWh's is from 2011, it has obviously grown since then. It will also grow in industrialised nations as if ie. instead of central heating you now need to use electrical heating. Then developing nations will massively increase the electrical usage. Even the 1.3 billion chineese needs to use 3.75x as much energy to compaire to germany or a massive 7.125 x to use as much as the average american. It is 5,9 billion people needing to double, triple or many times more their electrical usage to get an equal standard of life. So are the industrialized nations willing to pay for them not going cheap ass coal? We kinda should... it's been our usage of coal, oil and gas that's partially the reason we are rich and it's rather certainly the reason there's a problem now. Also... I still haven't seen you give even an estimation of the enviromental or human health impact of digging enough ressources out of the ground, then reshape them into windmills, solarpanels and energy storage on a megaproject scale, then transport them around the globe and deploy them and then maintain a megaproject like that over 50-100 years, possibly to forever?

1. I'm saying it's a tiny insignificant local pollution problem. There are a gazillion tons of a gazillion dangerous things put into our environment and into our water supply. Radioactive waste is no different, except people usually take alot more care with that. 2. Noone is gonna let nuclear waste lie unprotected in a football field ffs. It was an example of the physical size of the problem. If terrorists can fly brazenly across X country and drop bombs, then they could just as well drop the bomb directly on the government of x country or any boatload of population centers. Rather than something encased in concrete. 3. What are the enviromental consequences of mining rawmaterials, produce, transport, deploy and maintain enough windmills and solarpanels to make a significant contribution to the worlds electrical use? 4. The world wide electrical usage was 22,126 TeraWattHours in 2011. A relatively modern solar powerplant with day to night storage was built for 900 mio. euro in 2009... which translates to... 45,581,571,454,545 $ Though I believe that my original calculation was for more recent solar panel cost, but including degradation over time. Remember you have to double or triple the production for future energy usage. The other calculation I'm not as sure off... I looked at the worlds largest windmill farm in china and it's estimated costs compaired to installation costs of relative new japanese reactors. The reason china is investing heavily in windpower and even more heavily in coal power, is that they need power now... and nuclear power, as you point out, takes time to build. 5. Yes, mass production can improve anything. You could do the same for nuclear energy. I don't believe "moores" law to be able to continue indefinately, as processors has allready shown and at some point solar panel technology will definately run into some diminishing returns in terms of price lowering. 6. I will just recommend the documentary pandora's promise on netflix or youtube, even if it is dumbed down. I call it a pipedream. 7. What happens when a terrorist drops a bomb on a hydrodam? What is the enviromental damage of a multitude of hydro plants? But yes, hydro energy is a great thing. The problem being that it is very geographically dependent. It cannot work everywhere.