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I don't know if I should be considered daily, but I am hyped for ksp 2 Based on looks I'd be Seanster or mitbles
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I would, but twitter image compression is AAAAAAAAAAAa
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I've been pinged, but not by you! @Kerbalsaurus?
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Community Space Program: Control a Space Program Through Text!
Rutabaga22 replied to Kerbalsaurus's topic in Forum Games!
Ad Astra-1: Launch a satellite to orbit. Mission: Success! (Testing out my new D20) 4/10/62 (M/D/Y) Pre Mission Status report: With the success of the XR program, the rocketry team has decided on an orbital flight. Their first orbital rocket will be made of a stretched X-10 tank with a cluster of their X-4 SRBs inside a fairing designed to disintegrate during the heating while it left the atmosphere. This spacecraft will bring in a new wave of world funding and lead to public interest skyrocketing. The flight crew sat staring out at the rocket from their newly constructed Mission Command Center situated on the coast of Hawaii. They had slightly better computers than they had in the tower and large desks. Michel Blanc, the leader of the comms team, sat at his large desk and sent the command. Red letters suddenly flashed on screen, they read: "Control avionics activated, beginning countdown." 5 minutes later the rocket rumbled off of the pad, a sooty plume following behind it. Their fairing burnt out, a bright blue flash filled the night sky, a signal that the fairing had burned out. A string of data came back, it told Michel that the rocket had reached near it's apoapsis. Another string, the cluster fired, he shouted, "Boosters firing! Watch the altitude, flight!" A hush fell over the control room. 1 minute, altitude still going up, 7 minutes, going up, 15 minutes, going down. At 30 minutes a hoot came from the flight controllers, one yelled out, "She's going back up, we've really done it." After that was a blur, some people cried, some shouted, in one corner of the room someone popped open a bottle of champagne and hit the lead scientist in the head. Post mission Status Report: The mission was broadcast to millions across the earth, this wasn't just a victory for CSP, it was a victory for all mankind. Reports came in that the Ad Astra was still in orbit and was still transmitting it's universal message, this message was a small beep every 5 seconds. The rocket that launched Ad Astra has been named "Satyr" and there are plans to continue using it in the future. The idea of a crewed rocket has become a common topic throughout the world. The world has been changed in an infinite number of ways after this launch. -
You should make a cursed KSP challenge. No one could make a better challenge than you.
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What celestial body do you hate in ksp??
Rutabaga22 replied to Rutabaga22's topic in KSP1 Discussion
Just do Tundra orbit or somethin' Ike is the devil -
Community Space Program: Control a Space Program Through Text!
Rutabaga22 replied to Kerbalsaurus's topic in Forum Games!
XR-3: Test of liquid fueled sounding rockets to space and precise landing of a capsule. Mission: Success! 10/12/61 (M/D/Y) Pre Mission Status report: After the failure of XR-2 the lead rocket Scientist, Aleksandr Jones, decided to take a rocket engine from one of the X-planes and put it on a sounding rocket. This launch was announced farther in advance to excite the public and lead to more publicity for CSP. On the afternoon of a chilly day in October the rocketry team sat in the tower once again. They had prepared the rocket, but they now had a rocket engine on top instead of a second solid motor. The countdown began as avionics data was transmitted to the tower. As the countdown finished the rocket flew off the pad, a sonic boom shaking the tower as it punched through the sound barrier. At T +10 minutes the altitude tape shot past 100 kilometers. Data streamed back from the new instruments, old instruments transmitted more detailed info, and a small film camera shot a picture of earth from space. The rocket deployed its avionics and the camera, small compressed gas thrusters pushed the image capsule along through the atmosphere and landed it in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Naval vessels were in the area as it splashed down and rushed to recover it. Post mission Status Report: Precise landing and rapid recovery has been proved by XR-3, this could allow for future manned rocketry. Putting those compressed gas thrusters on a conical cockpit and then using it on a rocket could allow for high altitude manned spaceflight in the future. -
On Christmas, Santa gave sb sth…
Rutabaga22 replied to Abel Military Services's topic in Forum Games!
On Christmas, Santa gave Mortimer Kerman a spreadsheet -
On the nth day of Christmas, Jebediah gave to me...
Rutabaga22 replied to wpetula's topic in Forum Games!
On the 23st day of Christmas Jebediah gave to me: 23 Failed Shuttles, 22 Tylo landings, 21 golden probes, 20 fires a blazing, 19 Kerbals riding SRBs on EVA, 18 rovers a-flipped over, 17 17 page essays on the pluses of using only srbs for my rocket,16 rcs blocks, 15 KNR tours, 14 pickles ,13 headaches, 12 entire Kerbins, 11 Gigantor Solar Panels, 10 crashed rockets, 9 days of work, 8 Deep Space Networks, 7 trips under the KSC bridge, 6 nuclear pulse rockets, 5 stars that are collapsing themselves, 4 mammoth engines, 3 modded installs of KSP, 2 kraken doves, and a rocket made of pear trees. -
Community Space Program: Control a Space Program Through Text!
Rutabaga22 replied to Kerbalsaurus's topic in Forum Games!
XR-1: Launch a small solid rocket to the upper atmosphere. Mission: SUCCESS! 6/5/61 As public interest continues to slow CSP needs a way to bring it back up. How will they do this? They begin building rockets and broadcast the launches on television! They will also be sending up a small scientific payload for the R&D Branch of CSP. At 3:00 PM Pacific Standard Time a small rocketry team sat in the control tower and began to shout as the rocket began transmitting telemetry data, "5..! 4...! 3...! 2...! 1...! Liftoff!" The rocket's solid rocket booster roared and crackled as the slivery craft shot off the pad. Small tapes flicked up, showing the altitude of the craft. 10 kilometers, 30 kilometers, 60 kilometers! The tape suddenly stopped, telemetry data stopped coming in. A silence fell over the crew in the tower. Then, as abruptly as it stopped, the data rolled in. The tape shot up, 82 kilometers, 90 kilometers, 100 kilometers! Mission control lit up with glee, a shout rolling over them. They had sent something to space. The tape slowed, 110... 112... 113... 100... 80... 40... 20... 10... 5... Parachute deployed! A naval ship off the coast of California caught the transmissions from it off the coast. Recovery was successful and thousands across the world saw the success of CSP. A significant amount of funding was dropped into CSP due to them carrying an important US payload. -
Covid, after all I did to avoid you. You win this round.
Rutabaga22 replied to Andrew the Astronaut's topic in The Lounge
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Whenever I see kourou and it looks like some of these things look like they are launching out of jungle.
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No Shortage of Dreams | A KSP Skylab Alternative History
Rutabaga22 replied to TruthfulGnome's topic in KSP1 Mission Reports
OOoo, I love the shots! Could you provide some craft files for these?- 139 replies
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3) it was blamed on the poor management of Mortimer Kerman
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Buffalo 2 Modular Space Exploration Vehicle
Rutabaga22 replied to Angelo Kerman's topic in KSP1 Mod Releases
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2) He did not realize that orion drives were for in space and managed to nuke the KSC without BDA.
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It disrupts it because it block view of the current craft. If you are trying to build a craft and need to block out the view of it every time you place a part things will get tedious, especially if you're trying to decide what looks nice. You would need to pop open the menu try, choose an engine you think will look good (you can't be sure if it looks good due to the menu blocking the rocket), place it, if it looks good you use if it not, you have to go through that process again.
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I just ask family for names. You sometimes get poopfart 3000, but there are some people who have good names, like pioneer or hummingbird.
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I'm having an issue here where I'm trying to re-add an instance that was moved to a different area of my computer. Here is the error in the console: 11709 [1] ERROR CKAN.GUI.ErrorDialog (null) - InvalidArgument=Value of '-1' is not valid for 'index'. Parameter name: index 22177 [1] ERROR CKAN.GUI.ErrorDialog (null) - InvalidArgument=Value of '-1' is not valid for 'index'. Parameter name: index 227197 [1] ERROR CKAN.GUI.ErrorDialog (null) - InvalidArgument=Value of '-1' is not valid for 'index'. Parameter name: index
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THE SPACE SAUNTER - Racing to space in a time of peace
Rutabaga22 replied to RoninFrog's topic in KSP1 Mission Reports
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Are mods allowed?
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New rule: All images must be drawn or winter/holiday themed
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[1.12] KSP-RO - Realism Overhaul [16 May 2022]
Rutabaga22 replied to Theysen's topic in KSP1 Mod Releases
This would be amazing. FAR is the bane of my existence and will make RO so much better.- 2,179 replies
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P 69 I'm ack to the number war
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