His "final mission" series, he invited people to send in a ship, and I sent in the tug thats on the last page.
Ah. I have a Eve-copter that if I had heard about this before it was over (and before I learned that it couldn't really take off from Eve, at least not easily), I would have submitted it.
I like how he just stayed silent through much of the Duna-plane-with-too-many-numbers test. Also amusing was how he said it would take more than a minute per craft, but the video was almost exactly one minute for each craft he tested.
...atmosphere so tick asteroids float*
*figuratively. Need to try anyway.
At 20 degrees Celsius and one atm of pressure, air has a density of 1.2 kg/m
3. According to the KSP wiki, Eve's atmospheric pressure is 5 atm; assuming a mean surface temperature of 100 degrees Celsius, we should be able to get somewhere.
The Ideal Gas Law states that PV=nRT. Let us assume that the atmospheric composition of Eve and Earth are similar in molar mass, so n is proportional to density. Thus, for Earth, we have (1 atm)(1 m
3)=n(8.205e-5 m
3*atm*K
-1*mol
-1)(293 K), with n equaling 41.6 (assuming the math and the constant are correct--the constant was screwed up the first time I did this). Similarly, for Eve, we have (5)(1)=n(8.205e-5)(373), with x being 163.4, very nearly four times the value for Earth. Thus, we can conclude that Eve's atmosphere would be roughly four times denser than Earth's (not quite five kg/m
3, or 4.8 milligrams per cubic centimeter). That's not dense enough for much of anything, save lighter gases, to float on top of.
Sorry, Eve's atmosphere cannot float asteroids.
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