Bill Phil Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 What if we got rid of the Van Allen belts...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 1 hour ago, StrandedonEarth said: and KOOS? Do kerbals eat kouskous? Kouskous is the perfect name for a KSP part mod, maybe a station or something which is humorously named after the food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munlander1 Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 9 hours ago, Bill Phil said: What if we got rid of the Van Allen belts...? Death Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 KYS could be "Kerbal Yndustrial System" To distinguish the Kerbal yndustri from the normal industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barzon Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 KUS could be Kerbalised Upper Stages, with kerbalised Agena, and Centaur varients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 KFC - Kerbal Food Cooking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 21 hours ago, Bill Phil said: What if we got rid of the Van Allen belts...? We'd need Van Allen suspenders? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 4 hours ago, TheSaint said: We'd need Van Allen suspenders? Trying vainly to picture that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
septemberWaves Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 On 2/2/2019 at 10:13 PM, Bill Phil said: What if we got rid of the Van Allen belts...? Van Allen's trousers would fall down. Obviously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chel Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 What would happen if Earth had a second moon? What would night time be like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 2 hours ago, septemberWaves said: Van Allen's trousers would fall down. Obviously. 1 hour ago, The_Cat_In_Space said: What would happen if Earth had a second moon? What would night time be like? There's a joke here. I'm sure of it. Hang on. Give me a minute..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, septemberWaves said: Van Allen's trousers Hanging, drying. Spoiler We would never see them any more, I guess. (Just the question itself was not correct: Does "got rid of the Van Allen belts" mean "no magnetosphere" or "no particles currently captured by the magnetosphere") 4 hours ago, The_Cat_In_Space said: What would happen if Earth had a second moon? Irl it : either would be far away, as the primary Moon was originally much closer, then got farther, hitting everything on its way; or would be closer and very small, as being captured later and having not disturbed the primary Moon and the terrestrial life So, it anyway would be much smaller visually. 4 hours ago, The_Cat_In_Space said: What would night time be like? Neon, spotlights, street lights. So, the same. Edited February 5, 2019 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lapis Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 what if on another planet little aliens go to a space groundhog as a holiday to see if summer will last 6 more weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 13 hours ago, lapis said: what if on another planet little aliens go to a space groundhog as a holiday to see if summer will last 6 more weeks Then somebody should study the chemical spills next to the water intake in your city, to find out the hallucinogen solved there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 16 hours ago, lapis said: what if on another planet little aliens go to a space groundhog as a holiday to see if summer will last 6 more weeks Don't have to go to another planet, just go to the Southern Hemisphere. When I was living in South Africa I never got used to the fact that we celebrated Christmas by having a braai (barbecue) on the beach, hanging out in our swimsuits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 (edited) Winter barbecue is normal. A fur-tree with pineapples - too. (Better than pine cones) But a roundelay around the fur-tree in swimsuits... Edited February 7, 2019 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 (edited) Imagine back in the 19th century, with your average Joe living in a mostly rural area, very basic education, using crude technology such using fire as a light source at night, horses and carriages as the main mean of transport, having to actually go somewhere in order to talk to others, growing his own food, etc. And then this Edison guy comes along with a machine that speaks like a person, can remake past sounds at will, hell, it can even speak with his own voice, imagine how confused Mr. Joe must've been. Even more so with the invention of the telephone, talking to someone kilometers/miles away without even seeing them by speaking into a magic hole that mimics the other person's voice. Surely at least someone thought this was witchcraft or an otherworldly spawn. Edited February 8, 2019 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Phil Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 3 hours ago, Aperture Science said: Imagine back in the 19th century, with your average Joe living in a mostly rural area, very basic education, using crude technology such using fire as a light source at night, horses and carriages as the main mean of transport, having to actually go somewhere in order to talk to others, growing his own food, etc. And then this Edison guy comes along with a machine that speaks like a person, can remake past sounds at will, hell, it can even speak with his own voice, imagine how confused Mr. Joe must've been. Even more so with the invention of the telephone, talking to someone kilometers/miles away without even seeing them by speaking into a magic hole that mimics the other person's voice. Surely at least someone thought this was witchcraft or an otherworldly spawn. Some people might have thought so, yes. But a well-read or well educated person could easily see that these are evolutions of already existing technologies. We could record with the written word, it was logical to think that it was possible to record sounds. The electric telegraph and semaphores already existed. True you couldn't speak through them, but as they developed there's a good chance somewhat thought about transmitting sounds. The first fax machine was arguably made in the 1840s. May not have been a great one, but it could reproduce images over a distance. I would be shocked if no one thought of reproducing sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Bill Phil said: a well-read or well educated person could easily see that these are evolutions of already existing technologies. So, they renamed the "magic" into "magnetism" and everything got ok. That's the great power of knowledge! Edited February 8, 2019 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernel Kraken Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 Shrek and Han Solo dress the same Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Kernel Kraken said: Shrek and Han Solo dress the same You never see them in the same room together either.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFerret Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 14 hours ago, Aperture Science said: Imagine back in the 19th century, with your average Joe living in a mostly rural area, very basic education, using crude technology such using fire as a light source at night, horses and carriages as the main mean of transport, having to actually go somewhere in order to talk to others, growing his own food, etc. And then this Edison guy comes along with a machine that speaks like a person, can remake past sounds at will, hell, it can even speak with his own voice, imagine how confused Mr. Joe must've been. Even more so with the invention of the telephone, talking to someone kilometers/miles away without even seeing them by speaking into a magic hole that mimics the other person's voice. Surely at least someone thought this was witchcraft or an otherworldly spawn. You're basically speaking of the likes of my grandmother (for one example). She used to talk a lot about the invention of the electric light, how in her opinion it was the greatest invention. Conversely, she thought the invention of the automobile was the worst, as it separated families... which it surely has. I have never in my life known or met a more read and literate woman, and she was nothing more than an average homemaker. The average Joe of the 18th & 19th centuries was far better read than, for example, young people of today. In the early 19th century, the USA saw its highest literacy rate to date. Along with those literacy rates were an abundance of basic life skills, things which our millennials of today have a complete and total lack of. That would make one hell of a science experiment, to throw a group of millennials back to, say, 1850. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 (edited) Cygnus just has undocked from ISS with 2.5 t of junk onboard. If it was a reusable Dragon, they could deliver this junk to Earth. Edited February 8, 2019 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 virtual reality for insects Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 12 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: Cygnus just has undocked from ISS with 2.5 t of junk onboard. If it was a reusable Dragon, they could deliver this junk to Earth. I already have enough junk in my garage, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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