How Kerbals Cope With Radiation

[CosmicX1]

I don't get why are you wrapping your head around this. This is a game. You can not explain it because it's a designed environment. It's like trying to explain the jagged world of Picasso using science. You'll fail.

We choose to explain Kerbals, not because it is easy, but because it is entertaining.

[leax256]

There are some who believe-or hope-that once you get beyond a certain atomic number, say about 130, that they start becoming stable again, which is one way they justify continuously trying to make heavier elements.

didn't know of that theory, however...they gonna need alot more energy to reach 130+...fusion reactor anyone?

[lajoswinkler]

We choose to explain Kerbals, not because it is easy, but because it is entertaining.

But it's one lie covering another. As soon as you include one incorrect or impossible thing, it all crumbles down.

Reminds me of futile conversations nerds (yeah, nerds, not geeks) have about Superman... or theology in general. LOL

I don't know, maybe it's more interesting if one is young and doesn't have much knowledge about sciences. I'm not trying to be a party breaker, it's just that it puzzles me. Where's the limit of manufacturing and misinterpreting stuff?

For instance, I was reading that thread about Eve's color. Everyone's talking about iodine. There is absolutely not a single chance of such scenario ever happening. Laythe's oxygen, too, but iodine is a better example as it's far more reactive.

I do like when stuff in games are based on scientific principles and I'm not one of those "everything goes" guys, but if I see "blutonium", I won't make a big deal out of it. OK, blutonium. Awesome. Let's scoop some of it, put it in a bottle and we'll analyze it in floppometric dooblerotator for any traces of palladium.

Occasional conversations can add a nice flavor to forums, but insisting on scientific accuracy where it just doesn't apply is just ridiculous.

I firmly believe they eat lots of spinach. They shove it in their big froggy mouths and, before they go to sleep, they put some in their cloacas, too. Ever since they're born, they take baths in spinach soups, rubbing their naked, slimy, genital-free bodies together in an orgy of brotherhood. Their species has no sexual dimorphism and quite possibly only one sex, so the reproduction is probably asexual. Therefore, spinach orgies aren't just useful for protection from ionizing radiation. They actually induce mitotic reproduction, so we have as many cannon fodder as we want. Case closed.

didn't know of that theory, however...they gonna need alot more energy to reach 130+...fusion reactor anyone?

You can't do that in a fusion reactor.

Realistic predictions say the island harbours few elements that decay in a matter of minutes. Pipedreamers mention months, potheads millions of years. It's not gonna happen.

Edited August 26, 2013 by lajoswinkler

[HeadHunter67]

They wear space suits constantly. Who ever said that the space suits can't be shielded?

Then we need to find out what they're lining those spacesuits with, because even human suits can't block cosmic radiation. To do so would make the suit so cumbersome as to be useless.

[Spyritdragon]

Well, due to the increased density of Kerbin, maybe there is a much lighter, relative to Kerbal elements, element that will act similar to a lead lining?

[HeadHunter67]

Sorry to inform you that "denser" never means "lighter".

(By the way, I'm honored that you found Samhat's line quote-worthy! )

Edited August 28, 2013 by HeadHunter67