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General Discussion / Re: Citys
« on: January 19, 2013, 09:44:55 am »
Did go to Uni in a city, but Brisbane is a different beast to a city like london, so i doubt i have any useful advice, apart from: its what you make of it.
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Other Games / Re: Maia - Space colony god game
« on: January 19, 2013, 09:43:28 am »
Well my point was, it's easier to generate that it would first appear when you open your power bill, is all.
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Other Games / Re: Maia - Space colony god game
« on: January 19, 2013, 09:05:32 am »
Its like, 4c/kwh to generate*... I wouldn't call that expensive.
*of course, what you pay isn't all profit, there's the cost of building and maintaining the grid
*of course, what you pay isn't all profit, there's the cost of building and maintaining the grid
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General Discussion / Re: Citys
« on: January 19, 2013, 08:58:28 am »
Lived regional (eg, not remote, 10K resident town in a country area) and in the city. City is thew way to go 
Sure, you can probably make friends easier in the country, but there's only one type of people to make friends with. Not to mention, as others have mentioned, lack of services. I might have to drive across the city sometimes to get something, but if I need almost anything, I can get it. Cars, computers, healthcare, building materials, advice, entertainment, whatever.
We do have the whole, "city going over the horizon" thing here, but its not particularly dense, like, say, LA is. Doesn't really phase me. This image gives a good overview. Just the south side, and not even the Gold Coast.
Sure, you can probably make friends easier in the country, but there's only one type of people to make friends with. Not to mention, as others have mentioned, lack of services. I might have to drive across the city sometimes to get something, but if I need almost anything, I can get it. Cars, computers, healthcare, building materials, advice, entertainment, whatever.
We do have the whole, "city going over the horizon" thing here, but its not particularly dense, like, say, LA is. Doesn't really phase me. This image gives a good overview. Just the south side, and not even the Gold Coast.
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General Discussion / Re: Humans, and eventually a colony on Mars.
« on: January 16, 2013, 03:59:43 pm »
Nuclear power
+Constant,reliable power source
+Can be put wherever you want it
+A single fuel cell can supply an average town for 30 years.
+ Modern day reactors are mostly failsafe
+Waste heat can be reused to heat the base or produce rocketfuel (The latter requires to run the reactor at quite high temperatures, but a properly designed reactor should be able to handle them ).
You seem to be getting nuclear reactors and Radioisotope thermoelectric generators confused, and taking the best points of both while ignoring the downsides of both.
Namely that RTG's are terribly mass inefficient, their power output slowly degrades over time, and they dont' have radiation shielding on space craft because no humans are on said spacecraft.
A reactor, on the other hand, is rather heavy, but probably more mass efficient. There is the whole issue with the global outcry you'd get trying to launch one.
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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« on: January 12, 2013, 06:00:42 am »
You can just end the flight too.
Haven't had time to get my folks back from Jool. went to get jebs space plane back upto orbit from Laythe and dropped the gears. again. Icons on the HuD aren't really intuitive to me i guess
Haven't had time to get my folks back from Jool. went to get jebs space plane back upto orbit from Laythe and dropped the gears. again. Icons on the HuD aren't really intuitive to me i guess
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General Discussion / Re: Influenza Epidemic
« on: January 11, 2013, 01:09:12 am »
Quick, everyone evacuate to Madagascar!
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General Discussion / Re: The Hobbit
« on: January 09, 2013, 01:47:43 am »
Saw it with two mates who haven't seen the other movies or read any of the books. They... did not like it.
have to agree with them somewhat too. Movie was to long for the amount of material it had, hence tacking in all the other things that didn't really make much sense when looked at on their own.
have to agree with them somewhat too. Movie was to long for the amount of material it had, hence tacking in all the other things that didn't really make much sense when looked at on their own.
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General Discussion / Re: Humans, and eventually a colony on Mars.
« on: January 06, 2013, 06:31:12 am »
A lot of research going into crops is getting more out of crappy conditions, eg salty soils, aswell. Not exactly useful for what your going on about in here probably
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Life Advice / Re: My career choices are looking quite grim and so much more.
« on: January 06, 2013, 04:11:10 am »Life is better if it's fun. I advice choosing a lifestyle that will bring you joy rather than a lifestyle that will bring you dollars.
For example, the guy making 20k on a one-day-on one-day-off schedule at a ski resort, spending all his free time skiing for free and flirting with vacationing ski girls probably enjoys his life a whole lot more than the guy making 100k spending 10 hours day in an office moving around pieces of paper.
He also probably didn't have to spend 4-6 years putting himself in large amounts of debt to get that ski job.
As a guy who spent 5 years putting myself through study* to push paper around for a 5 day working week, i've gotta say i'm having a hell of a lot more fun now than when i was an almost broke uni student with heaps and heaps of spare time...
Not to mention a much better long term and retirement outcome.
*Did have the benefit of government loans that are taken back as part of tax, and living with my parents for cheap living expenses
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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« on: January 03, 2013, 02:12:11 am »
wikipedia will explain it better than i can put it into words.
The answer to fixing our crafts is just going to be to wait for the next update, unfortunately.
The answer to fixing our crafts is just going to be to wait for the next update, unfortunately.
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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« on: January 02, 2013, 02:08:31 am »
It seems like there's an issue with their PID control, so you can turn RCS and SAS on and it will never stablise itself properly.
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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« on: January 01, 2013, 02:39:49 am »I assume using tricoupler + 3 docking ports will make the ship align just right?
Ah, so that's what people have been using that for! I was wondering what that accomplished in a lot of the pictures I've been seeing.
I'm not sure exactly how well it works. sometimes all 3 seem to connect well, other times i've had it where only one will, (transferring thrust through them in that case... bad idea)
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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« on: December 28, 2012, 01:28:29 pm »
Right click on the engine, activate it. You can activate/deactivate pretty much anything now
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Other Games / Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« on: December 28, 2012, 06:58:22 am »Congratulations, sneakey pete!
How much fuel left does your lander have? if you did an unpowered landing ( which should be possible, with laythe's thick atmosphere), you should be fine, assuming you didn't burn much when deorbiting. My duna lander is similar and it can launch from kerbin, even if it needs to decouple the radial tanks(plus engines) to do that.
I used just a tiny bit to deorbit, and to burn on touchdown. 95% or more of the fuel should still be there.
I just tested the lander design, from Kerbin it can just, just get into a 70*70km orbit, using a bit of RCS to get the final amount. Considering Laythe is 80% of the size of Kerbin, I'm thinking with careful piloting that minimizes the need for any corrections, I should be able to make it back to my mothership.