I started to refer to myself as the walking nuclear explosion ever since I got one
.Looks like we have a replacement for Xycraft Fabricators
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.I don't really like using that and instead just make lots of picks. Lots of upgraded picks -> lots of broken picks -> lots of extra force shards -> lots of extra picks -> lots of experience -> level 7 tome in not much time. Adding to that, once you get to level 6 for sturdy, your tools will hardly ever break again. And then you get to level 7 for repair and they literally will never break again if you combine that with sturdy.
Nope, given that it starts with IC2 and IC2 shall never again sully any of my worlds.
Neah, just stick the shards into the upgrade table thingie. The book will get 10 xp for each.
I started to refer to myself as the walking nuclear explosion ever since I got one
when are you not a walking nuclear exposion
Well Builder of things that might work but most likely will go Boom, are you not also one?when are you not a walking nuclear exposion
No he's not he's a walking supernova which, technically is sort of like a nuclear explosion.
Fusion rather than Fission, but yes it most certainly is a nuclear explosion. A star is simply an ongoing nuclear reaction running on hydrogen and helium fusion.
You also get a bucket of force back, which means most of your early enchants end up being pretty much free. That's useful when you haven't found that much ore and don't have a squeezer yet, I guess
Yeah I knew that. Fusion is when they slam atoms into each other and Fission is when they rip it apart, amiright?
Note that what is being fused depends on the mass and circumstance of the star in question. Stars fuse a lot of material and then fuse upwards on the periodic table. In special circumstances, the reaction can fuse any element found in nature. Much of the time it ladders up to around iron and then stops as I understand it. Iron is the tipping point where fusion reactions are no longer energy positive, and unless the star can reach a type 1 supernova, no heavier elements will be created. I'm told there is an exception to that rule, but its beyond my understanding as a hobbyist astronomer.
Many stars rip themselves apart in type 2 supernovae, where the shock of their iron cores ceasing to collapse sends waves throughout their substrata, setting of chains of fission reactions. Betelgeuse, that nearby red star in the sky? Probably already blown up in this way. Hopefully in our lifetime the light will reach us. It ought to be brighter than the moon and visible next to the sun in broad daylight, and its 800 light years away. It'll last for months that way, too!
The problem is:
When the fuck is the light going to come?
Also, anyone else feels like the space companies (the ones that are trying to put humans on the moon as travels) are only going in space for the money and not for the science?
Damnit, I remember that one CEO offered I-Don't-Know-How-Many-But-It-Was-A-Big-Number Billions to drag an asteroid to Earth in order to mine it in search of rare minerals?
C'mon, that be stupid and suicidal - besides, alterating something's route would probably fuck up the entire universe.
I wanna build an actual rocket.
That'd be cool.
Well that's what I'm saying. The consensus of astronomers is that the light is probably en route or about to leave any day now. Stars don't have long in the final stages of their lives.
Well we desperately need helium and lots of rare earth metals. Asteroids would be a great place to get them, and why not? There are a ton of them up there and they're all in stable, independent orbits. We need to start doing dark body tracking in the sky for our own safety anyways, so it's a nice warm up as we start to really get the world's computing power warmed up to start tracking the Kuiper Belt. So it's both science and profit, which history has shown is the sort of science that gets the general population behind funding the more obscure science.
The universe is older than human sanity and has seen worse things than a handful humans tugging rocks around.
You can. May I suggest starting out by building your own telescope first? You can't figure out where your rocket is gonna go if you can't lay a course first! I took some photos of the time I assembled one.
Hopefully it won't be like the first major extinction event where the planet is bombarded by hard radiation. Then again, we have a stronger atmosphere currently than we did back then.
Of course. Companies are in it for the bottom dollar. But since NASA has effectively been shelved, they're the only way we're going to GET into space in our generation.
The major problem to bring up is what you would use to tether it. After all, we don't have a convenient tractor beam technology, or any kind of anti-gravity really, to hand-wave that little problem. We're talking about a *lot* of mass here. You wouldn't want it slipping its leash.
However, if you can tether it... hell, maybe build a couple of engines for it, a couple of attitude thrusters, hook it up to remote control... it's at least theoretically possible, anyways.
Building a rocket is fairly straightforward. Flying one... now that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish.
I get where you're coming from with this. You might wanna consider Mekanism as a valid replacement. Everyone comes into RR very skeptical of mekanism but most people become converts. It's under very active development and its balance is improving.
Stars are so pretty cool...
I once read that some big enough stars can start flying around and that makes me all happy because they're like "I want to FLY FREEEEEEEE"[DOUBLEPOST=1371318943][/DOUBLEPOST]
Dude. That mod is one of my favorites and I have a windmill currently powering my base.
I once read that some big enough stars can start flying around and that makes me all happy because they're like "I want to FLY FREEEEEEEE"[DOUBLEPOST=1371318943][/DOUBLEPOST]
Dude. That mod is one of my favorites and I have a windmill currently powering my base.