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So I spent yesterday migrating from Kubuntu 12.04 LTS to OpenSUSE 13.2. And I have to say, I am pleasantly surprised...indeed, shocked and delighted:) All the pernicious problems of 12.1 are gone. Everything is as easy to install as it was under the Debian package system, and it looks...well...

So long, MESSENGER. MESSAGE received:salute:

Sounds good:yes: Fairing size? I'd check it myself, but O-H is blocked on my work computer:(

Damn. The website I used had the decimal point in the wrong place:facepalm: Anyway, that makes 110 mT for the disk. This could be pretty easily lofted in quarters using four launches of a Falcon Heavy or a Themis ETS. BUT...only if either has a 9 meter fairing... Quasar is currently under...

Here are my engineering calcs for the hab disk so far: Density of aluminum=2.7 kg/m^3 Volume of hab: 12 m diameter (6 m radius) x 5 m = 565.49 m^3 Now, if we make the walls 10 cm thick, we get an inside diameter of 11.8 m and an inside depth of 4.8 m, so: 11.8 m ( 5.9 m radius) x 4.8 m = 524.92...

XR-5 Vanguard--oh, wait...does it have to be organic?:P

In my job, the best way to avoid trouble is April 16:)

I used to have them down pretty well. It's a matter of coming down in the right place. Use Aerobrake MFD--it's almost impossible without it;)

The Vangaurd is about the size of an An-22 IIRC. And yes, she's a lovely bird indeed. A fitting futuristic replacement for the Shuttle:thumbup:

We lost ours to cancer last year--a red-haired mix of Pomeranian and something bigger, like maybe a spaniel. Anyway, we had to put her down as well. We had that dog for 10 years. She was pretty much my mom's best friend.

I don't have a favorite breed in particular, but I'd like my next dog to be either a border collie or a bulldog:)

Not exactly. Like I said, it can orient your ship and burn the engines automatically, according to the information you enter. But like any computer, you have to know what to tell it. That was the hard part for me;)

I used to be a loyal TransX'er, because I just couldn't understand IMFD. But once I figured what all those strange-looking numbers meant, and that it could orient your craft and burn the engines automatically, I defected:lol: Flying a real spacecraft is mostly automatic anyway--you just enter...

But researchers have confirmed the existence of four forces already--now we have five. Electromagnetic, weak nuclear, strong nuclear, gravity, and Star Wars;)

Thanks. That sounds like it'll work:)

Can anyone suggest a rocket with a 9-meter fairing and a payload capacity of at least 100 mT to LEO? Better yet, can anyone suggest where I might find a database on the specs of various rockets?

The hab is the only part that spins--like the gravity wheel on the Arrow. The other parts are cylindrical just for symmetry (except the engine). The crew walks along the circumference of the cylinder. The vertical side (the "walls") would have ladders. And the spin would be stopped when in...

For 6 meters and .16g, I get a "yellow zone" angular velocity (it would work, but my guys are not going to like it), and not enough tangential velocity. If we double this to .32--about like Mercury--the situation gets even worse. I got all green lights by having 0.3g, 14 m/s tangential...

Mesh progress for MINOTAUR Quarter-view Side view Current design features: 1) The hab and storage modules spin at 1g. At 12 m in diamater and 5 m deep, the hab module has, if I did the calcs correctly, the equivalent living space of a 2000-square-foot home with a ten foot ceiling. This...