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BTGBullseye

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  1. It very much could, and in fact I'm working on my own design for an SSTO. It's still having issues with the propulsion and powerplant, mainly that I keep melting the propulsion unit, and not generating enough power. I'm essentially using the atmosphere as the primary fuel when it's there, (this is when it melts) and lithium when it's not, all on a modified MPDT. The powerplant is only producing 5MW of power in simulations, (it needs closer to 20MW for what I'm planning) but it's still doing more than any previous nuclear power plant of that size.

  2. I think a double-length episode (including the whole battle, titles and credits, and the ending scene) is the most likely case, though. About 20 minutes altogether.

    That battle took me 10 minutes, including my 2 deaths and restarts the first time I got to that thing on hard.

  3. You could conceivably make an artificial island, provided it was at least somewhat near a continental mass, and was positioned on a continental shelf. The problem would be getting the 'land' out to the location. A few large barges with appropriate garbage hauling could do the trick.

     

    Make sure you initially build it kinda like a coral reef repair... Old bus hulks and so on for the perimeter, and fill in the middle with rock and boulders. Top it with soil, and you're good to start planting vegetation, and introducing wildlife. You would probly get a good selection of research grants to help with it if you play it right.

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    Alternate, build an underwater+underground facility. Basically, you make an access point at the bottom of the ocean, and have the facility mined out of the sea bed. It might be cheaper than any other plans, and you could expand indefinitely. Build it in the Pacific though, better water conditions and sea life for construction and sea-floor farming.

  4. Why not skylon? whenever that comes out of development. If it does, because SSTO's are the way of the future.

    For a couple very big reasons...

     

    1. It might not even work, so it's not good to bank on it.

    2. Who knows when it'll be able to make it's first full test flight? The mining drones might be in place and mining before it gets it's first flight.

    3. I can't find any info on who is going to be operating those things, so I can't tell if they could even be used to do this.

  5. You just know it's going to go down like this.

    December 31st: last Freeman's Mind episode is released.

    January 1st: Half Life 3 announced.

     

    January 2nd: Second coming of Christ

    Damnit... Now it WON'T happen... Quite expecting it already so He can get here!

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