Comment Re: Looking more and more likely all the time... (Score 1) 518
How are we to know which of our theories are accurate?
Because they predict things accurately. That's all there is to it.
How are we to know which of our theories are accurate?
Because they predict things accurately. That's all there is to it.
they're just really efficient in a vacuum.
Fixed that for you. Well, for your reader anyway - you probably understand it. Because of the way these things work, they are just about useless anywhere other than a vacuum. The only way you can spend a tiny tiny amount of energy accelerating particles to massive speeds is when there's nothing else in their way for them to bounce off of. But if you are not in any kind of rush for your delta v and are in near total vacuum this is almost a perfect engine.
Creative commons licenses don't fit their preferred use case, because it allows redistribution:
A single license that gives users access to the code but limits the ability to redistribute the code and distribute patches to the "core" is what we'd prefer.
More generally, creative commons licenses aren't an appropriate fit to software. They're designed with creative works in mind and protect the expression of a work, rather than the way in which that expression is created.
However, the problem of safely re-entering the atmosphere is a daunting challenge as well.
Yes this is especially true since they updated Kerbal Space Program manager to 1.02...
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.