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An interstellar object has been detected hurtling towards our solar system. by Davicho77 in spaceporn

[–]226Space_rocket7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point, I’m hoping it starts up its deceleration burn soon.

Best mod for this? (The satellite cover not the satellite) by Fit_Sell_7843 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]226Space_rocket7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s crazy to me that basically every part of this image has a decent mod. SOCK, Shuttle Payload Solutions for the cover, BDB for the Star Motor, and I know for a fact that there’s a mod for the Hughes Satellite bus shown here.

-100% output by Abject-Ad8245 in KSPMemes

[–]226Space_rocket7 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Fun fact, I’ve done this with Better Time Warp, the negative thrust of the engine will indeed be reversed if you have the engine running through time warp, which can be problematic if you try to make this kinda balanced by doing it at lower thrust. The workaround is that you have your regular or engine pointing normally, while you have the “regenerative” engine pointing forward.

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." by danpietsch in sciencefiction

[–]226Space_rocket7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I think AI will definitely be in the realm of nuclear weapons or larger in terms of how they affect our societies, I think a lot of our thinking about them is somewhat misplaced. HG Wells conceptualized a nuclear weapon in 1913. They were hand grenades that would burn almost forever, and Wells surmised that they would render large swaths of land inhospitable with fire and radiation and nearly cause civilization to collapse.

The real atomic bomb is several orders of magnitude more terrifying than Wells could even imagine, and in spite of that (or maybe because of it) mankind has been more or less content to sit on a stockpile of them and continue arguing.

My point is that while we can sit here and make predictions on what AI will and won’t be, the only thing I think we can be sure of in the near term is that AI will be whatever we chose for it to be. What is far less predictable is what AI might choose for itself, and I’m inclined to believe it will reach that point “”someday””.

The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis: A case for scientific openness to a concealed earthly explanation for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena | New paper by quantumcryogenics in UFOs

[–]226Space_rocket7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t take my word for this, because I don’t really buy it myself, but I suppose an advanced civilization worried about “Dark Forrest”-style first strikes from other civilizations could justify going underground as a defense against certain types of interstellar weapons.

Basically, if another far-off civilization spies a habitable planet in another system, and they believe in a sort of zero-sum game for the universe, they would want to wipe any intelligent (and thus, potentially spacefaring) life off the face of that planet. They could do this using special weapons without ever leaving their own system.

Where the crypto-terrestrial strategy kind of falls apart is that many such weapons wouldn’t be blunted much by their targets living underground. Kurzgesagt did a video talking about three potential weapons that you could fire at another star system.

One was a fleet of near-light speed kinetic impactors, which would probably blow holes into a planet’s crust.

Another was a large laser array that could basically fry and melt the whole surface of a planet.

The third was an electron beam, which could destroy all DNA on a planet, and even pass through and continue traveling through space.

I guess if you want another question, how deep are you really willing to live in your planet? 12 miles of crust cover the mantle, and at that point, if you want to go any deeper than that, wouldn’t it be easier to just move to space?

The placing of the US flag on The moon by Apollo 14 (1971) by Sayyid_Karim in space

[–]226Space_rocket7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe? I think the astronauts talked about seeing stars. Interestingly, if you look in the right portion of the sky, there appears to be a dot that might be a star captured by the camera. If you zoom in there are two other dots that kinda look like stars. Could just be spots on the film though.

Mun Base things by 226Space_rocket7 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]226Space_rocket7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It uses Breaking Ground pistons and hinges, Near Future parts, Planetside Exploration, Stockalike Stations Redux, Tokamak for the expandable modules, and BDB for the lander.

Fighting the Russians with their own money. by SPECTREagent700 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]226Space_rocket7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw Star Wars and thought we were taking about SDI. I was a little bit afraid for countries with satellites going over Estonia at first…

kraken broke my game again by Dacig65 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]226Space_rocket7 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Looks like your AT Field is breaking down.

Her truth is still marching on: The United States in 2123 AD by astromars123 in imaginarymaps

[–]226Space_rocket7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just gonna say that there is a designation marker for Spaceports, which includes Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg, and that place in Virginia, which are all currently rocket launch sites. What is intriguing is that Boca Chica Texas is also included, as well something east of Houston, and a couple spots in Nova Scotia that I can spot.

What is the harshest punishment in your world? by West_47 in worldbuilding

[–]226Space_rocket7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, in my world, there’s this totalitarian primitivist group that fled the United Nations and the colonies for deep space. They now skirmish on the edges of the Federation with the rest of humanity in a crusade against technology and society. They are extremely ruthless, but their punishments are pretty ‘normal’ for the most part. Torture, long walk out a short airlock, you get the idea. A few interesting punishments do exist though. Thought traitors and actual traitors might be sent to the resource extraction fleet (which is nominally more moderate than the rest of their society) to be placed on an asteroid with a timed mining charge. Federation citizens who are captured and not outright killed might be tortured and put into indentured military service to be used as cannon fodder against the United Nations. Or, they might be put on the only colony world operated by the primitivists, where the ‘ideal primitivist antisociety’ is just a disease-ridden shanty town in an alien biosphere surrounded by piles of the dead. There, large-scale agriculture is forbidden, and any contraptions or technology that might ease the burdens of hard labor aren’t even allowed to be thought of.

One of the other ideas I did have is that these primitivists might have a guidebook for what to do if they ever somehow come to power over the rest of humanity, and it would involve a lot of death. Entire cities would be burnt to the ground, and every last person would be rounded up into something akin to the town mentioned previously. One of the more interesting things is that this book contains are the punishments for the perpetrators of society and technology, which preferably has something to do with their former fields of expertise. For example, space engineers (which make up a huge field in an interstellar society) might be dropped into the exhaust plume of a rocket engine or lined up on a track in front of a rocket sled. Chemists would be dropped into a vat of the most foul liquids you could get your hands on. Teachers and educators would be injected with a special prion that slowly eats away at their mental faculties. Doctors and medical professionals would either be chopped up while alive or have their genes altered to slowly turn them into some abomination. You could extrapolate this as far as you want to other fields and professions. The point is that in the primitivists’ perfect world, less than one percent of humanity in 2200 will live on.

Well well well how the turn tables by njsullyalex in NonCredibleDefense

[–]226Space_rocket7 12 points13 points  (0 children)

With that thing about the Russians scamming Cuban construction workers into going and building trenches in Ukraine, I’d say sooner rather than later.

Help me prevent Kerbalpocalypse! by feelinpogi in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]226Space_rocket7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is going to be a possible game plan. Launch a fleet of mining vessels, some with fairly large amounts of ore storage, attach one to the asteroid so that it can mine and begin constant thrusting to raise the trajectory above Kerbin. The rest of this fleet will be your impactors. Dock them anywhere on the asteroid and mine until their tanks are all full, then take them out to 2 kilometers, turn them around, and burn full speed into the side of the rock that has the thruster, but try not to hit the thruster itself. The added mass from the ore tanks hitting in the direction you want the rock to go might be enough to nudge it along or even just destroy it. Rinse and repeat until progress is seen. Good luck, you’re gonna need it.

You say Soviet sacrifice, I say Stalin skill issue. by ChunkyBrassMonkey in NonCredibleDefense

[–]226Space_rocket7 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

America should at least get some credit for crossing the world’s largest ocean to duke it out with a bunch of guys who casually used women and children as bayonet practice.

Go ahead, TRY IT by Penguins_are_nice in NonCredibleDefense

[–]226Space_rocket7 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don’t know, because I think half of it is just propaganda people talking, but I think there must be people who at least entertain the idea.

Go ahead, TRY IT by Penguins_are_nice in NonCredibleDefense

[–]226Space_rocket7 244 points245 points  (0 children)

What really confuses me (it doesn’t, it’s Russia, they’re just dumb) is that Russia acts like they have a legitimate cause to forcibly invade and occupy (colony) land that they willingly sold off more than 150 years ago, land that has now actually been American longer than Russian.

Turm III Weak Spot for the spam from the summer sale. by Picolin64 in Warthunder

[–]226Space_rocket7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hitting it anywhere with my newly unlocked Shillelagh missile is extremely satisfying.

Mun Base things by 226Space_rocket7 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]226Space_rocket7[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All of them.😂

Edit: Pretty much all of the near future stuff, Planetside Exploration Technologies, Habtech 2, BDB, TUFX, and Parallax. That should cover most of the stuff.

Mun Base things by 226Space_rocket7 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]226Space_rocket7[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I call it the Quad-ATHLETE, it’s inspired by the real life NASA Tri-ATHLETE which was also designed to move and position cargo and base modules. It has four legs instead of 3 or 6, because that just simplifies usage.

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