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So why isn't the captain 'entertaining' that green alien girl? Or would the alien girls be really be human colored here?

It would be if it was a Latin word, like hippopotamus (plural hippopotami). Stupid ancient people and all their weird language quirks... I can only shudder to think what people 2,500 years from now will think about us... assuming there are still people 2,500 years from now. Now back to the story!

Platypus is of Greek origin, so the appropriate pluralization is Platypodes

Is it less dangerous, or more dangerous, to poke the author if you live with him?

Catapults, you say? So, the epic battle is going to go down something like this?

It may be the finest, purest handwavium available in the Kerbal universe.

And now, the rest of us only get the remaining few drops of now finite fuel!

Just so long as we don't start shipping Kerbals.

It CAN land. Once. Won't be useful for much afterwards, though, outside of scrap metal. Would be interesting to see Admiral Shirley 'landing' it onto Kerbulan HQ after sending the rest of the crew safely back to Kerbin.

We know the smooth-faced little green guys are going to win because Kuzzter is not George RR Martin (although he really could be and his frequent updates here could be causing the delays in publishing book #6). They know of death. Afterall, they are not immortal, and even have a sign on the wall counting the number of days since the last fatality. So technologically induced accidental death is not foreign. Someone deliberately causing a death is. The next story, no matter where the author decides to go (and I advocate for no particular place here), will have a good deal of content just in dealing with the Kerbals exposure to a non non-violent civilization and the longer lasting effects of cross-cultural contamination. The cat is out of the bag now. How do they go back to non-violence?

Not everyone at Kerbfleet is naive when it comes to the darker side of things. After all, there is a refugee from that world with them. He may or may not be the only one, but you'd have to think at some point he briefed the powers that be about the existence of the Kerbulans and how they act. I also would not be surprised to learn that the peace and happiness ethos of Kerbin is a development that is not so old that it isn't part of their recorded history, much like how Vulcans in Star Trek have records of the time, about 2000 years previous, when their society was very violent and emotional. They didn't become all logical until the 'Great Awakening'. And the Romulans are an offshoot of the Vulcans from that time. They rejected the teachings of Surak and left the culture to form their own. So while most Kerbals really don't have a concept of violence, the few at the top of the command structure have to. After all, what is Gene intending to do after his epic zip? Go invite the bearded ones for koffee and to hug it out? And he's the one who communicated to the rest of them about how someone is trying to 'make them dead'. Surely, someone else higher than him also has some knowledge.

As a goateed-American, I find myself rooting for the Kerbulans. Fight on, little green bearded comrades! Take those smooth-faced interlopers down! #VillainsAreReallyTheGoodGuys

The truth will come out in a few years when Kerbileaks gets their hands on the data in the contract system servers.

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You'll have to rename it to the Valdez first.

Chaff is deployed to distract an incoming missile with a more attractive target. Chaff is pretty much the opposite of bloaking. Chaff announces your presence with authority. If there's nothing, and then there's a ginormous cloud of chaff, your opponent probably figures there are strange things afoot at the Circle K. Bloaking is all about fooling the sensors. If they are looking for light, show them dark. If they are looking for pattern, show them background noise. If they are looking for heat, show them cold (like Arnold covering himself in cold mud when fighting the Predator). For a Kerbulan, though, I can see them going the opposite way to an extreme. We'll take out your radar, and you're going to know we're coming, but we don't care you know we're coming. The element of surprise is best left for those weak minded Kermans' birthday parties, teaching babies, storytelling and the Spanish Inquisition. (No, not linking that one. Do I look like google to you?)

Are seances allowed on the forums? Necromancy certainly is frowned upon. I guess someone needs to gin up a KIS Ouija board so we can find out.

Given that just a few posts above yours, the mod's creator wrote: And he's always been on top of things, I think it is a safe assumption barring another Carrington Event or asteroid impact, we'll see one soon (tm)

We come in peace (shoot to kill). Thank you for bringing back fond memories of my radio days, playing Dr. Demento's show on the station every Sunday night using the LP's they sent out.

Bah! Upon further review, I decided my joke was lame.

If only the very first post in this thread would have had a link to github, that would have been brilliant.

If it wasn't for Dickens, you authors would never read this!

I wonder how many strips before Dilsby starts making Vallhenge replicas out of mashed potatoes, or whatever else might be at hand.

Yes. You can manually install mods, and CKAN can install others. CKAN will only track available upgrades on mods you installed with CKAN. There used to be a migration tool which would allow you to convert manual installed mods to be covered by CKAN. It may still exist, but the version I had is broken. What I end up doing now is manually moving mods out of GameData, installing them via CKAN, then copying any configs back into the mod folder.

If his experience was anything like mine... A) Being very thankful for the advent of digital photography, so that he didn't need to buy, transport and process about a billion rolls of film B) Wishing he had a 32 Terabyte memory card C) Spending days looking over all the pictures he did manage to cram onto the memory cards at hand D) Trying to figure out the order in which the subjects of those pictures become Kerbal ships E) Planning his return trip