Hyperspace Industries

Eat it Aussies! (24 to 8 baby!) You might do better next time, but not this one!

Alrighty, had to stop dinner ‘cause I was laughing too much. Now that is kerbal comedy if I ever saw it!

Yeah, this place has gone backwards fast. Back when I was born load shedding was unusual and uncommon, now it happens every few weeks. And don’t get me started on the potholes. In other news, I found a newspaper piece about spirit and opportunity with a picture of an old mirage jet on the other side in one of those books.

We went to the boeremark, translation, farmers market. We bought: 25 rolled up super thin cinnamon sugar pancakes, the South African, originally Swiss style. A pack of caramel popcorn. And, out of my own money, copies of: Race to Mars, the ITN Mars flight atlas and The soviet manned space programme, An illustrated history of the men, the missions and the spacecraft. They were cheap too, they cost just 70 South African rand. Which is roughly off the top of my head: 7 dollars Australian, 3.5 pounds British, or 5 dollars American.

Why not just build the things out of metal, then you could recycle it into cool stuff, like jet engines, car engines runnin’ on petrol, coal fired steam trains, and other cool stuff. The fuel of course would be algae oil. Fun fact: algae decomposes to crude oil in minutes to seconds if properly heated,

Rough title translation, since dutch later mutated to afrikaans,”on land, on sea and in the air. Backwards(something) caravan race.”

I apologize for it not being english, but it's been stuck for a while.

So it’s personal taste then. Should have thought of that earlier.

I’ve been interested in science and technology (especially heavy machinery) for as long as I can remember. I was watching Mythbusters and Topgear (the old one, with Jezza, Richard and captain slow) when I was 4 (if I remember right). I only got obsessed with space back in late ‘20. I was watching a documentary about factories, and while I was waiting for another bit of the show, they showed the production of the SLS. My engineering genes saw the giant, wasteful, disposable, billion dollar rocket, and said:”There has to be a better way!” I came up with an idea, proved it wrong, came up with another idea, proved it wrong, rinse, repeat. All the while doing research and learning. I stumbled across Matt Lowne and ksp, got it as a relaxing, simple downtime game (spoiler, I was wrong). So I continued, thinking, thinking and trying (unsuccessfully) to build basic stuff. (There are meerkatte (proper plural of the afrikaans meerkat) with more building skill than me.) I finally, during easter this year, officially gave up! -on trying to outsmart the rocket scientists, and switched to outdumbing them. By which I mean essentially taking big dumb boosters to the extreme in cost reduction, as in making fibreglass tanks out of sand. I am focussing enough on my schoolwork, but I do not have near as much trust in going to university then getting a job in space as my parents have. Seeing as I’m in South Africa. If at all possible, I would make a space company either in, before, or in stead of university. I am still doing my work so as to keep the direct to university option open, since anything else would be reckless. But it probably wouldn't start as a space company, I might even piggyback on a classmate's tractor repair company. Probably the best strategy I have now is "operation gapyear." One year after highschool to make a profit from something (not necessary space launch, could be anything from boat construction (sea launch is a requirement in my plans, so already developed systems could be adapted to it) to aircraft to fishing. If unsuccessful, go to university, study, reevaluate, do it better. This is all provided I develop the necessary tech in the next few years. Operation gapyear is the best compromise between cautious and ambitious I have come up with, allowing for immediate company founding if successful, and a safe fallback position if not. Oh, and if you're wondering about capital, when I say "cost minimization" I mean it. As in adding a parachute and reusing the stage would cost more than building a new one.

Why do people like the taste of coffee and tea? Is it just me, or is that bitter taste just horrible? Is it because of the caffeine, like how people can stand alcohol after starting to drink it, or what?

To sort out a plan for building stuff (I am much better at designing than building, but I refuse on moral grounds to just give orders, I can, and will, when needed, get help from others, but it has to be help, not labour), I started, but did not finish drawing a tech tree. Though the essentials are there.

Leaf blower construction is not about "why," it's about "why not!"

"A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he ain't afraid of anything." -Wash (from firefly)

Boris became afraid. He expected the safety inspector to appear before dark. The Doctor thought that massive rollers might counter the lack of punters and dockers on Kerbin. The mission would gradually devolve into wheels, something revolutionary to Kerbalkind. How extraordinary that is, considering the effort required to make big ol' pitch forks and feather dusters with large torches, and wiggly tentacles playing the piano for fun. Exactly one week later, the inspector woke to find a great disturbance in the

Not that part of Africa. And by the way, I’ve only seen snow up close once, in 2012 or so.

It’s finally starting to heat up! Sure it’s only about 24*C now, but it means spring is coming! (Southern hemisphere) Hopefully this means we’ll be getting into the 30’s relatively soon, then we can stop wearing winter clothes. Maybe even swim in our pool! (No, we aren’t rich, land and labour is (and especially was) cheap) Though I should probably wait until the 35-40 range. If you’re wondering about the high temperatures, welcome to Africa!

The tragedy of military engineering, as always, the jets and tanks and ships and guns are always cool until you remember what they’re shooting at. In thread related news: the Cirrus SR20 has a parachute for the entire plane.

Trying to set the record for most Geneva convention breaking weapon, are we?

My great grandma’s piano. I’m horrible at it, but it’s fun!

Be extremely cool!

Can't argue with that. Coulda warned a guy though.

Not exactly, the sequel has a scene with Rooster.

I actually prefer to go a few fighter-jet Miles more.

Goodness gracious great balls of fire - If you don't already know that song, don't look it up, nothing explicit, just a whole lot implicit.

There are other games? I suppose I do like chess.