User:Cesrate/The New Future/Notes
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This is the note page of story "The New Future", showing some references and background details.
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Notes
Artificial Gravity
Using centrifugal effect to simulate gravitational force is the easiest and most possible way for future space flights.
Base
Picker Bases are similar to the Mars bases in Constellation Project.
Pegasus
Pegasus is a relatively small manned ships, with parachutes, lander lags and four liquid engines.
"Return to Kerbal Space Program"
The idea of "Return to Kerbal Space Program" was from Showchen on Deeptimes.org.
The Developers of KSP are actually Kerbals trapped on Earth, the navigation system of their ship was broken, so they had to use Earth's computing technology. While, unfortunately personal computers they can find on Earth were quiet awful, so they decided to set up a game-like distributed computation system, using many players' computer to draw the cosmic map.
Rockomax 1X
Rockomax 1X is a fictional liquid fuel engine in this story. It's small and capable for ships with complex jobs because of its relatively high performance.
Temperature of Laythe
The temperature of Laythe is between -40.19℃ (232.96 K) to 6.21℃ (279.36 K). Kerbals are advised to wear thermal clothes in the open air.
Time Units
The "Day", "Month", "Year" and "Century" in this story are Kerbin's units shown as follow, not Earth's.
| Earth | Kerbin | |
|---|---|---|
| Day | 23 h 56 m 4.100 s | 6 h 0 m 0.000 s |
| Month | 27 d 7 h 43 min 11.5 s | 1 d 14 h 36 m 24.4 s |
| Year | 365.2564 d | 106.5225 d |
| Century | 36525.64 d | 10652.25 d |
