Kerbal Space Program - Kerbal Asteroid Defence - Episode 1 - The Sentinel Project
I thought I'd run a mini series on the Kerbals plans for dealing with the cosmic impact threat, starting out with a mission to launch a specialized asteroid hunting telescope into an heliocentric orbit to catalog every Near Kerbin Asteroid that could pose a threat to the planet.
This is of course a near clone of Sentinel, a mission proposed by the B612 Foundation which is a non-profit organisation which has the noble goal of dealing with the very real threat of cosmic impacts, or as some people like to say for dramatic effect 'Killer Asteroids'.
For people who are OCD about good looking rockets we have Fairing Factory, a web page that will create custom .part files to match your needs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIDU2zSyfRM
Stripping out more features, cutting the fat, and now I have a rocket just under the 2 ton mark that will take a brave pilot to minmus and back, with a bit of spacewalking involved and some careful solar panel management.
http://kerbalspaceprogram.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbgjlZeujws
You've orbited a rocket, flown to infinity, now it's time for some real challenges.
Download the game from
http://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCQfgVXx5eo
Our scientists and engineers have unlocked the secret behind the AVATAR, and the trick to getting through the gate. However it seems that our meddling has forced ADVENT's hand and they're going to being 'processing' the entire non-essential population if we don't find a way to stop them.....
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuZLkmkFLq4
Being a lifelong Star Wars fan this is a question that's pertinent, Star Wars doesn't care about physics but one of the few places we can invoke real science is in figuring out just how much power it takes to obliterate planets.
Planet and star simulations are generated using Universe Sandbox 2 http://universesandbox.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7n9eK_v2ZM
How exactly do you divert the course of an asteroid which is going to hit Earth? I talked about the gravity tractor concept last week and I felt I needed to go into more detail because a number of people like to point out the problems without thinking about the solutions.
If you want to help 'save the world' from the impact hazard I suggest checking out the B612 Foundation https://b612foundation.org/
Here's my previous video on why 'nuking an asteroid into space dust' is a bad idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCjrYPc-4nE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GoPRCjEhTc
Exploration is done, we now need to take our crew back, no more 8 hour drives across the surface instead the Gilly team are performing an old fashione orbital rendezvous, but for a challenge we do the docking without using RCS. And the submersible airship has a long flight ahead of it, but thankfully I can just point that in the right direction and put a weight on the 'H' key.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjirPFcbOPQ
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is an upcoming fleet command strategy game developed by BlackLabs and published by Slitherine. It's set during the first Cylon War, 40 years before the TV show and as such most of the characters from the show don't have a place in the narrative. Right now this is just beta code, there's a bit of polishing and game balance to be done before the proper release, but as I understand it the game is more or less fully formed.
http://www.slitherine.com/bsgdeadlock
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsdZFnjq7xw