Stupidandy's Career! (Better Title Coming Soon!)

[StupidAndy]

if I could embed, this is my glorious flag!

okay! this is my first mission report! um...how do I start this?

lets start with the modlist!

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• [X]Science
• 000_AT_Utils
• 000_Toolbar
• 000_UsiTools
• Antenna Sleep (thanks @Snark!)
• Community Category Kit
• Community Resource Pack
• Community Tech Tree
• Configurable Containers
• Contract Configurator
• Custom Asteroids
• Custom Barn Kit
• Distant Object Enhancement
• Dmagic Orbital Science
• Firespitter Core (for some reason? I don't know!)
• Final Frontier (my first working mod! well, it was KCT for some reason...more on that eventually!)
• Kerbal Komets
• Ground Construction
• Hide Empty Tech Tree Nodes (most literal title ever award goes to...)
• indicator Lights
• Interstellar Fuel Switch
• Jool Biomes(again thanks @Snark!)
• Kerbal Attachment System
• Kerbal Construction time (default configs)
• Kerbal Engineer Redux
• Kerbal Inventory System
• Kopernicus
• Add on Version Checker
• Outer Planets Mod
• Portrait Stats
• ScanSat
• SpaceY (Heavy Lifters and Expanded)
• SQUAD
• Texture Replacer
• Kerbal Alarm Clock & Transfer window planner (they were in triggertech and I don't want to do any more alphabeticalizing today!)
• The Grandeur List of USI mods!

Community Category Kit

Community Resource Pack

Firespitter Core

Karbonite

Konstruction

Malemute

USI Core

USI Exploration Pack

USI Freight Transport Technologies

USI Kolonization Systems (MKS/OKS)

USI Life Support

USI Tools

and that's the modlist, yet I still call it lightly modded...strange...

and here are the pictures of my great and powerful space career so far!

ooh ooh! and GIFs! cant forget GIFs!

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https://db.tt/UZUojLcocs

a picture of my early career orbital rocket

https://db.tt/4Ooim1CLFA

that is my very unsafe tourist rocket, strangely only one failed mission...and that was because we didn't get enough altitude...

https://db.tt/nuF5vUqybv

landing after an orbit, early career, I think that is first one in the career...probably Jeb

https://db.tt/0VgHVGPj55

AH! good one! a sortov...return cargo bay? yeah!

https://db.tt/n1LT1T7o0i

long distance shot of an early career rocket...you haven't seen one yet! I should get pictures of them...

https://db.tt/Envr3suszP

https://db.tt/LxZFjzXf2G

https://db.tt/LxZFjzXf2G

I think those are from my other save...

https://db.tt/1oY3RGfOzf

always with the night launches!

https://db.tt/oFBJrLGurn

accidentally took this when my Alt key got stuck

https://db.tt/Jxc3XSJU1A

I should tell you about the probe, simply a scanning probe for the moon, also I think my first Munar probe...

https://db.tt/j0hGOdgqe1

last photo of it I swear!

https://db.tt/g3iVT5pdnP

either a Keostationary satellite or the scanner again...

https://db.tt/C9EwKT4vcX

a boom-boom of my highly overbuilt Munar lander

https://db.tt/KbahtD7LEV

to Minmus?

https://db.tt/iJoTbi3xIO

the backside of a rocket!

https://db.tt/L3qw6UZuLP

kaboomboom!

https://db.tt/bJoqDTblML

I think that's Munsat IV?

https://db.tt/ZiG6N2SabH

dark side ejection to da mun!

https://db.tt/Xy5RLakDfx

here we see the wild yet fatal KCT error, and the names of some of my crafts, and apparently I already went to Minmus...

https://db.tt/wxtlltiYpm

a bigger Mun orbiter

https://db.tt/l7JkEm4akj

AHHH! THE KERBIN DRAGON SWALLOWED KERBOL!!!

https://db.tt/IgOZzg9rGc

my first space station! Blavso! I should get a picture of the station now

https://db.tt/cQ1Sfy3z7X

unlike kaboom booms bigger isn't better

https://db.tt/fYkC5Fhafd

not kaboom boom lander #2

https://db.tt/ofkUWgWdqX

you can see Kerbol look into your soul, you have killed many kerbals

https://db.tt/jyikUamJlC

can you smell the asparagus?

https://db.tt/ZfhhlOvZ9U

didn't I do this already?

https://db.tt/MSEnsFqA8h

TO THE GIFS! this was a failed attempt at making a Mk2 rocket, I should check the TWR at sea level

WAIT MOAR PHOTOS!

https://db.tt/3xFvA1JPOI

Landing after an orbit?

https://db.tt/PIJkACrQ0w

my Duna Probe 2 out of three, one has arrived! this one is called (Mesbo to Eve, Maffon to Moho, Opler and Kermem to Duna as well...what is this one?)
the thing on the bottom was supposed to land on Ike, but the fairings ripped of both the antennas and solar panels

https://db.tt/UcQl4wX7jn

my plane! Querty! it went to the north pole, then the first time Jeb flew it he ripped apart the engine and half the plane...

https://db.tt/xg2DVBSySn

GROUP PHOTO! again the failed Mk2, thank goodness that the decouplers have an unusually high decouple force!

https://db.tt/VzKEeYbpqA

and the devastation...isn't that bad!

https://db.tt/8GHR6jLZc5

all the land you see, is crawling with worms, that's why we are going to space

and that's all so far! except for my rover! this is my rover!

okay, by now you should have skipped through all of those photos, glancing all of my glorious failures, and such

now to the first thing! my Rover!

here's a picture of the Rover, or I'll just stop talking like this:

my first rover that actually worked, wasn't all that a success, Named Kavvor after...random letters, it went badly from the launch, the Glovma OLV usually has a very stable launch, never varying from 90* or wherever you needed it in polar launches, but due to the offset center of mass of the payload the rocket wanted to drag northwards, leaving the rocket on a highly inclined orbit of maybe 4* inclination relative to the Mun, the badness didn't stop there.

https://db.tt/jyikUamJlC

during the ejection burn the transfer stage wanted again, to drag southwards, so there was even more inclination, not all that important, but it still was signaling even worse things to come,

the sky crane designed for landing the probe was expected to probably get to orbit after deploying the rover but due to a mistake in building the fairings, it ripped off both of the expandable solar panels and a deployable antenna, so no comsat. the sky crane when landing the rover was supposed to lean forwards and be decoupled so the rover didn't crash straight down and stand straight up, but here comes the offsetness again.

during the capture burn, the transfer stage burned a bit to long and put the rover on a suborbital trajectory, so I just went ahead and tried to land on Minmus. I went ahead and decoupled the safety of the transfer stage, looking back, if I simply landed with the transfer stage I could've saved the mission, oh well, but I detached the sky crane and tried to land, but since the size was smaller, the CoM indifference was much greater, making the spin happen, the spin made the spacecraft...well...spin! it messed up the landing and made the speed stay the same throughout the first burn, I combated this by doing multiple smaller thrusted burns and having the SAS point always towards prograde (because I had no way to make it point "retrograde") it worked, but it didn't give me enough time to slow down, so I was forced to go back to full thrust, it didn't work. even though that didn't work, I managed to do something productive, I just decoupled and went flying (and I cheated a bit, I used timewarp to stop the rotation) I landed upright(ish) but lost one of my back wheels, and I'll let the pictures do the talking, you've read enough

 https://db.tt/AOYKjtyZnb

https://db.tt/p8yeSeyXrS

https://db.tt/zQZsQoOavB

https://db.tt/U6H3FQD5Tw

yeah, I crashed...

if you read through all of this, thank you! feedback is appreciated, next time I will have more pictures and hopefully less text!

Thank you!

[Snark]

Nice writeup! 

By the way:  If you'd like to embed pictures, use something other than dropbox (it doesn't work because it has deliberately screwy image URLs, precisely because they don't want people embedding them in other websites).  Basically, you need a site that lets you have image URLs where the URL itself ends in ".png" (or ".jpg" or similar extension).

The usual site that most folks on this forum use is imgur.com.  The nice thing is that you don't have to have an account at all.  Just go to imgur.com and drag-drop an image to the right spot to create a post.  Then, in your browser, right click on the image itself and choose "copy image location".  When you paste that link here in a forum post, it will automagically get converted to an in-line image.

Like this:

Instructions on how to do that in spoiler below.

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I did that by easily converting your flag from dropbox to imgur.  Here's how you can do that for an image that you've already got hosted on dropbox:

1. go to your dropbox page, so that you're viewing the image
2. right-click on it
3. choose "Copy Image Location"
4. go to http://www.imgur.com
5. click on the green "new post" button up top
6. paste the dropbox image url that you just copied into the box that says "Paste Image or URL"
7. Now you're looking at an imgur page with your image
8. Right-click on the image on imgur
9. choose "Copy Image Location"
10. now paste that straight into the forum here, and it will work.

If you were posting images straight to imgur from your computer, instead of moving them from dropbox, you'd skip steps 1 through 3, and in step 6 you'd just drag-drop the image from your computer into the imgur box.

 

[max_creative]

For names maybe "StupidAndy's StupidCareer?" 

I like your flag!  

[adsii1970]

Cannot wait to see more of what you do! Keep it up and as always, share...

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have main engine go! Please keep your arms and legs inside the capsule while we are moving..."

[StupidAndy]

thanks everybody!  I think next time I'll have embedded pictures (thanks again @Snark, is there nothing you cant do?) and go into detail about my Duna mission! and find out what the name of that probe is!

I have all of the Photos and then some but I need to get Imgur to work

Edited March 25, 2017 by StupidAndy

[StupidAndy]

okay! lets do this!

do you see anything? its my KCT inventory if you do, and you see all of the weird names for my things!

(Blavso-My space station, LKOV-General LKO ops ships, Comsat, you can tell, Mire- a failed mission to Minmus with the Little Brother Surveillance Camera, which you can see

here and

here, it didn't go all that well...

did the pictures embed? they look embedded to me.

[Readerty2007]

They have embedded.

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here, it didn't go all that well...

It appears that your rocket may be top-heavy, especially as the fuel drains. I used to have this happen to me between 15-20 km almost every time. There's two solutions: lots of struts and SAS, or a multi-stage rocket. 

Edited March 31, 2017 by Readerty2007

[Kerbinchaser]

On 3/31/2017 at 5:25 AM, Readerty2007 said:

They have embedded.

It appears that your rocket may be top-heavy, especially as the fuel drains. I used to have this happen to me between 15-20 km almost every time. There's two solutions: lots of struts and SAS, or a multi-stage rocket. 

AUTOSTRUUTTTTSSSS!!!!!!!