kreutzkevic

Pfsht... peanuts... No argument there...

It would be very cool, however, if you could run a (simplified) VAB and SPH environment on a IOS or Droid tablet. Design crafts on the go! Export the .craft to your KSP install! fly it in all its flawed glory!

*facepalm* Why didn't I think of that...? Not enough coffee, I wager.

Well, you could use the ScanSat mod by DMagic to map the bodies yourself. The in-game generated maps are exportable as image files. Use the right scanner, mind you.

Man, I can't decide which is cooler: your HX-1 or your XRR 1-S... Very well done.

Sure and granted. Sometimes you need to complain in order to get what's rightfully yours. But I think in this case constructive criticism (eg. bug reports) would be more helpful. Squad can't fix things they don't know exist. I must admit I've never encountered any serious bugs nor Krakens. I don't think I've ever been able to carry over my saves from one version to the next, however. I would, in your case, use freeware backup software to make an automated backup of your save folder every half hour or so, going back 10 iterations (that's five hours of gameplay). I agree that you shouldn't have to do this, but this would be good damage control. You would only lose one or two hours, tops. Once again, I don't think you should have to do this because in an ideal world the game would be absolutely bug-free. Alas, last time I checked, the world is far from ideal. And be patient. Squad's a small team. Upgrading the game's engine is no mean feat. They will probably crush a lot of bugs in the process and create countless new ones. They're still not done with KSP, however. Think of the possibilites if they get the upgrade right and manage to handle memory better: clouds, more planets, more parts,...

You silly people. Always with the doom 'n gloom. You know Squad could've released KSP 1.0 and called it a day, right? Hell, they could've gone the way of Towns or Spacebase DF-9. They didn't. There's a lot of love for this project. There will be improvements. I advocate patience, a lost art on the internet.

His hairdo does, however.

**Semantics Mode Activated** There is a huge difference. You are correct that contamination in reality is irradiation from eg. ingested particles. Hence the mask and overalls. But that reporter wasn't talking about that. He was talking about gamma irradiation. Gamma radiation is always dangerous, ingested or no. BUT Alpha particles are blocked by a sheet of paper or your skin. If you would have the misfortune of swallowing an alpha emitter, the radiation emitted inside of you is still blocked by your skin. So it bounces back and forth inside of you, knocking holes in your soft tissue. That was what these people were protecting against and that is called contamination. Way more dangerous than irradiation. Big difference. Gamma particles, if ingested, "just" pass through all of your bits and leave your body, never to return. http://teachnuclear.ca/all-things-nuclear/radiation/biological-effects-of-radiation/irradiation-vs-contamination/ As I said... Pet peeve! - - - Updated - - - I'm just an engineer. I won't touch politics with a ten foot pole. I'm also an incorrigible cynic. I would aim a rocket propelled ten foot pole at certain politicians. I do know this, however: there is no force in the world that keeps a person honest if that person doesn't want to be. And the old maxim "one man's meat is the other man's poison" will ALWAYS be true.

You mean that all those NASA astronauts had to do was remove the mods from their spaceships? No more tricked out sweet rides? http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html (joke's on me. Google's never going to let me forget I searched that link)

Can't...... Resist...... But I am a bad person like that sometimes.

Really? That's extremely interesting. It's taking the concept quite a bit further, especially the recovery. Logistics on that mission would be a nightmare. I have, however, built RemoteTech and ScanSat probes that split in multiple satellites upon arrival in the Jool's system. I just never could be bothered to recover them. And yes. The splitting into multiple parts was intentional

*tinfoilhattery mode activated! * The Blobs from Jool's atmosphere have finally gained the technology to leave their planet's gravity well and are speedily heading for Kerbin to seek revenge and wreak havoc. We shouldn't have crashed all these probes into the king of Kerbin's system. That, or ball lighting. That's spoooooooky stuff... Spooooooooky!

Exactly. 3000 Ci of Co-60... there are no words... If some nutjob decides to toss a source like that in a busy public place... And stuff like that happens here in Europe as well. Back in the day when I was doing NDT, the security of the source storage was laughable, most of the contracted operators were a bunch of cowboys with no regard for health and safety and I know of at least one time when and ex-colleague had his van stolen with a radiographic source FULLY SET-UP AND UNLOCKED in the back. Idiot. Luckily they found it again. He was, rightly, severly penalized. Or there was this time when a contracted operator (from the same country as the aforementioned one) caused a car accident while driving reclessly with a radioactive source in the back. And he ran away after the accident. Real smart. Not as spectacular as these, I grant you. Chemical plant disasters tend to be more of the fiery sort. There's not much in a nuclear power plant to burn. I remember watching the news some months after Fukushima and there was this reporter (ugh... save us from the ignorance of reporters) who went visiting the villages around the NPP under escort. He was commenting on how they had to put on paper overalls and breath masks to protect them from irradiation. Paper... against irradiation. It's CONTAMINATON, you...argh! I almost had to buy a new TV that day... Pet peeve and all that.

Very good answer. I would like to point out, however, that there are much easier sources of radioactive material than nuclear waste. Think of Co-60, Se-75 or Ir-192 sources used by NDT or medical companies. Remember the Goiâna incident? (wiki). Nothing as spectacular as Chernobyl or Fukushima but way more insidious. And there are others... I've worked with aforesaid isotopes and Co-60 in particular is nasty stuff. It takes a huge amount of distance (inverse square law) or concrete/steel to block it to the point of acceptable levels of radiation, depending on source activity. How ignorance can kill you...

Cool beans. Voted for you on Greenlight.

My parents had the console version of "Pong". Other than that it was "Alex the Kidd in Miracle World" and "Bomber Raid" on the Sega Master System II and "Oil's Well" and "Alley Cat" on my very first DOS PC. Damn... I'm old(ish)...

I'm sorry for your loss, Ted. And congrats on the promotion.

I tested these on Duna as well as Eve. The descent on Eve was nerve-racking. It was a really close call but nothing exploded. Not for want of trying however. Darn thing was flickering like a christmas tree. Can't recall the descend angle but since these probes are separated by small SRBs, finetuning is not really an option. Too bad they landed in the ocean. No pics, alas. On Duna it was hard getting at least a couple onto the ground with intact wheels. - - - Updated - - - I separated quite low (under 30k) to keep them in physics range. The spread was not great. Less than 1 km. they're painfully slow and completely useless as they have no science experiments. I just thought it was a fun idea. If the physics range were greater you could release 4 probes with different small science experiments over different biomes. The rocket, however, is stupidly expensive. I'm sure there are more efficient ways of gathering science from Duna. - - - Updated - - - I use that Caterpillar rover a lot. It's an infinitely better design. The centre of mass could be lower, however. As I said: these small rovers are painfully slow. Not really useful. I just wanted to try this.

Confirmed working for me without a hitch (...until now. Damn. Now I jinxed it! ) except for the right-click bug. I went absolutely overboard with mods though I did have to use jrodriguez' unfixer. And don't worry, modders or Squad. I won't come a-knockin' if this stops working. It's all on me. (Sorry it's in Dutch) Here's my totally bat-crazy modlist: (not including rareden's Real 8K skybox)

Confirmed working for me without a hitch (...until now. Damn. Now I jinxed it! ) except for the right-click bug. I went absolutely overboard with mods though I did have to use jrodriguez' unfixer. And don't worry, modders or Squad. I won't come a-knockin' if this stops working. It's all on me. (Sorry it's in Dutch) Here's my totally bat-crazy modlist: (not including rareden's Real 8K skybox)

I use service bays A LOT and have never encountered problems like that. It seems sensible, though, to make the service bay the root part if you're going to put in probe cores and not just offset the service bay so it looks as if the probe core's inside. Could be the AGU: the grabbing unit is notorious for buggy behavior. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/100286-BUST-Claw-Frozen-Stuck-Orbits-Breaking-Infinite-Acceleration

Went to space. Never got back. "All right. Munar polar orbit. Check." "Let's fire up the thrusters and land this thing" "OK. Coming in for a landing. Looks quite hilly and steep. Better be careful." "Hey, I need an EVA report from low orbit above the Mun's poles. Thanks, ScienceAlert!" *Clicks EVA Report button presented by Science Alert.* *Watches in horror as Bob's feeble fingers can't maintain their graps of the handholds on the cockpit* *Cries out when Bob is flung behind the rocket and accelerated by the rocket exhaust* *Bangs head on desk* *Manages to land Bob in some forsaken polar crater using the EVA RCS pack and some creative bouncing* "How am I ever going to get him back?"

I used MJ back in 0.23. I recall I mostly used the "circularize orbit at Ap" and "Execute next node" (after I had planned the manouever myself) because I'm lazy like that. Oh yes, and I used the "Ascent guidance" after launching umptheen refueling missions to my station because of tedium. And I used the "Rover Auto-pilot" once to get from one side of the Mun's polar crater to the other. Kudos if you've got the patience to make that trip by hand. Even then it took some planning in placing the waypoint markers. I use KER for data readouts. Easier on the eyes. Never used it after that. Will never begrudge players for using it. Or not using it for that matter. It's *your* game. You can darn well do whatever you like with it. So long as you have fun.

Why launch only one rover probe when you could launch twelve? This high-tech littering system lets you land four probes at a time, which adds the statistical benefit that al least one will survive! Atmospheric bodies only! http://kerbalx.com/kreutzkevic/DERP-ScatterProbe