Superluminal Gremlin

Oh my gosh My computer is a potato, and imagine my pleasant surprise when I see that fft only uses 55 patches with module manager! (Compare to like 600 for restock/+ and eve and waterfall) I am beyond overjoyed to be able to play this masterpiece of a mod!

October 4, 1959 NENSC, Kourou Reporter – On this historic day, 2 years ago Sputnik 1 was launched into Low Kerbin Orbit. Today, we further push the boundaries, this time, launching into Lunar Orbit. Not only will this be a historic day for all Englishmen, as we push the boundaries of exploration and science just like our forefathers before us. This is the heaviest payload ever launched, second to Sputnik 3, which never left Low Kerbin Orbit Mitchell Kerman, Spokesperson – This was the final launch of the year and lets just put our hands together for all the amazing engineers, mathematicians and everybody else who made this record breaking launch possible. We promise that next year, is going to be even more insane.

29th December 1958 In light of the progress that the Soviet Space Program and NASA, UKSB and Ghost Aerospace turned their eyes to the titanic challenge of accelerating a craft to ~2300m/s parallel to the ground at an altitude of over 70km. Orbit. So far Sputnik 1,2 and 3, Explorer 1-5, the mostly unsuccessful Pioneer 1 and SCORE, the Brits where roaring to catch up. The rocket designed was the new Norfolk class. A 1.25m diameter rocket with 2 Mk-15 “Torch” Liquid Fuel Engines, with the upper stage being a single LV-303 “Pug” Vacuum optimized Liquid Fuel Engine. Onboard, it carried the basic OKTO-1 Science satellite, carrying 2 Heat Energy Analyzers (aka, Thermometers), 2 Barometric Pressure Sensors (aka Barometers) , and 2 Advanced Liquid Space Reactivity experiments (aka, Mystery Goo). 29th December, 14:00 Hours BBC Reporter – We come to you today from Great Britain’s National Space Center in Kourou, on the pad is Norfolk 1 rocket, designed to carry the scientific payload OKTO-1 into an orbit of Kerbin. This Is the first true step in Britain’s conquest of outer space. While not being the prettiest rocket, she has the 2nd best payload capabilities in the world, only second to the USSR’s R-7 Semyorka Converted ICBM. Mitchell Kerman, Flight Director of Norfolk 1 – We come to the pedestal today to announce our glorious success at becoming the 3rd nation, behind the superpowers of the USSR and the USA to launch a payload into the orbit of Kerbin. We are now planning further missions to LKO, and even some Mun Flyby missions are on the books. That is all for this press conference. 3rd May, 1959. The launch of the first upgraded Norfolk 1A. This would be the launch of the OKTO-2 space science satellite. The Norfolk 1A just barely meets the delta-v requirements for this mission. However, it will provide a wealth of scientific and technical data for the engineers at Ghost Aerospace to study. The added weight is from a Mark 1-B Heatshield, and an Experiment Storage Device, which would protect the experiments upon their return to Kerbin. May 4th Meanwhile in Ghost Aerospace’s Aerospace division they were working on hard on setting a new record. To break the sound barrier with a British pilot at sea-level. That extra challenge of the denser air made for hard work, but eventually, a slightly modified T-4 Crew Trainer, and Jebediah and his unrelenting inability to say no, he eventually became the first to do so,330.1 , at a mere 570 meters above sea-level, with a pitch of 28 degrees! During the pull out, he briefly experienced 10 gees of acceleration change, which his G-suit handled just fine. This netted the Aerospace division a neat little sum of money from a contractor. More is on the way

Due to the pitiful state that the KSC’s contracts… I’m making my own, arbitrary, and on here, for all to see. Lunar Scout Ranger Trafalgar

Imagine if it was on the 24th THAT would be pretty funny.

Into The Unknown 3rd May, 1958 Langley, Virginia CIA headquarters McPherson - Sir, we have credible intelligence that the British have launched a rocket. Jackson - And? McPherson - It appears it reached space. Jackson - ... McPherson - Yeah. I know. They are catching up. Quite blooming fast as they would they say. United Kingdom Boyd with the success of Magpie, he starts designing with the help of his engineers, the Condor. A multistage rocket, which was much more powerful than Magpie, it has 4 SRB's with a central liquid core. Complications arise when it turns out, in order to receive the funds, he actually needed a business, in accordance to British Consumer Law. Hurriedly thinking of a name, he settles on Ghost Aerospace. One of his engineers asks why, and he replies dryly " Because no one knows we exist". 2 months later, 17 July 1958, Condor is ready, 5... 4... 3.. 2... 1... LIFTOFF! I really need to use F2 more sorry:( Stage separation! Casually cruising at 300.000 meters, with a butt-ton of science transmitted After its fiery destruction, the engineers rejoice at the seemingly epic 45 science. Enough to unlock the fabled Science JR!! Of course, the only way to celebrate properly was to build a car Meanwhile CIA Headquarters Mackall - The Brits, are being Brits McPherson - And you do know what they do best. Mackall - Coloni.... I need to inform the president right now! And drive it at night! A few little exploratory hops later, and a long drive, enough science has been gathered to unlock the Thud and Torch engine, major improvements over the Cogswell engine before them. These engines would be crucial in creating an orbital class rocket. How fast, remains to be seen. Stay tuned. Notice- Post still under editing and additions.

woops I'll fix that soon enough. (Aka within a day hopefully). They work for me. Hmmmm.

Also I Have A Dream The year is 1936. Rockets where an unknown. Cars where all the hype. But yet, a small kerbal, Mitchell Kerman, saw the future. He knew what was coming. He knew that one day, kerbals would ride rockets, and hopefully, he would to. 1946 After 6 years, the largest war in the history of kerbal kind was over. The Allies where successful, and the world was at peace. For a while. Mitchell saw during the war, the use of rockets was shown to the world. They where used on his town, his city, his country. But this did not deter him. That was during the war. During the peace, they would change there explosives for that sweet, sweet science. 1956 Now, with the developments in spaceflight, with the Jool-C successfully launching, Mitchell founded a little club. Their goal? Launch the first British Payload into orbit. With some bank loans and a bit of his life savings, he and his friends made their first rocket. The Spaceball. A single solid rocket booster, with a simple probe core and a thermometer. For science. The launch was a partial failure. Due to a miscalculation in electricity consumption, only two experiments where transmitted, not the 4 planned. Unfazed, they went and upscaled to the Quail. It had a much larger booster, with the same comms package, more electricity, and another science experiment, the Barometer. This allowed for even more science. This mission was actually successful. All the mission parameters where achieved. However, and odd tendency with uncontrolled rockets is there tendency to start pitching over, causing it to fly a ballistic path instead of straight up. This definitely wont cause problems? Right? Right? Because all the easy science is mostly gone Because of Mitchell's dwindling supply of SRB fuel, and a limit on the amount of launches he could due to his permit for using government property, a small rover, designed as a testbed for future rover missions, was constructed to gather all the easy science around the KSC demonstrate roving abilities and mechanics. With 2 science instruments, 2 solar panels and 4 wheels, it was affectionately named the Morun, because it looked moronic. It did however, get a lot of science demonstrate that rover where cool, and could work. Sadly, it was then scrapped for parts to produce the Gerbill, a manned rover. Maned by Bill, because he's an engineer, and officials where worried that it could break down. Luckily, it didn't, and further proved the advance roving concept that Mitchell was pioneering. 1958 A new year, a new launch permit, and much more fuel. And an exciting new prospect. The British Tea Company released a challenge, stating that whichever British rocket company passed the Kerman Line first would receive a little prize. Of 150,000 Kredits. Naturally, this excited Mitchell, and immediately threw all of his attention into helping design the most powerful rocket that so far had been built in Britain. Meet, the Magpie. A multistage rocket, with the standard payload package on top. First stage nominal passing through Mach 1. Stage Separation at 10000 meters ASL SECO! Apogee unknown (No flight computer) THEY HAVE DONE IT After 5 months of work, the Magpie passes through the Kerman line, and nets Mitchell a nice little sum. Mission control notices, and so do others... Stay tuned for more. As i re upload these photos, i am also doing a little more progress.

uhhhh how? By brachiostonic trajectories you mean? How would you even implement that Like how. How do you (the game) tell the difference? Cold, Wet, and Lonely - Swim on Laythe

Polytheism

Some months can have more days than others

I have never built a mod, and even i do find that slightly mean Like, the Near Future Suite (and FFT), most all of Nerteas mods are very well designed. Yes, there heat system is complex-ish, but its quite well done. Ive always liked the idea of sliders for some more difficult options. But mods will be needed for ultra-realism, and im all for that.

Except if you have Parralax And you need RAM for mods, mostly part mods.

I have a paper copy of this book. An absolute banger. Someone does die however (Some metal, titanium i think was in some acid (for tests), exploded and killed the guy next to it.) It also talks about tripropellant motors, namely Li-F-H and Be-H-O. The first one had a ridiculous impulses of 542 seconds!. Sadly, the exhause had, well, Fluorine in it. And slurries. Those are weird. Compound A (ClF5) CTF - Chlorine Tetrafluoride Flox 30 and 70 - Fluorine and oxygen IRFNA IWFNA LOX (duh) MMH RFNA UDMH WFNA plus at least 50 other special little chemicals which never really worked. The book eventually states "Lithium Hydride and a Hydrocarbon binder with Chlorine Tetrafluoride and Perchloryl Fluoride is possibly one of the better combinations". Sounds expensive, and dangerous, but oh my, the ISP would be worth it It also talks right at the end about free radicals. But the only people ever known to have success trapping them is the FBI...

Vaporization - Use a Orion-drive at the launchpad

i didn't see that

and this is exactly why i play with a local file. not being forced to update by playing it off steam. gotta love it

Can we please not get into heated conversations about peak oil because it won't end well I mean mathematically it does work, but I must agree that new technologies can extended the peak, and have, but not postpone it indefinitely. We are done talking about this. No more. It will just result in this peaceful thread being locked If you want to, just DM on the forums. Humanity's downfall will be humanity itself. We have a natural hunger for self-depletion, violence and greediness. We may just be one of the only species to end up killing ourselves, not relying on some other event like a meteor, or the weather. Resource exploitation may be part of the reason. When the "cheap" oil goes, and the price of oil skyrockets, many extremely important industries will have a greatly reduced capacity, like mainly the automotive and transport. Then the world may slowly turn into a mess, and we may just end up all dying. However, this is extraordinarily unlikely, as maybe all the governments may just join forces to try and stop the madness. I'm holding out for the hero's who can do that.

Memory use. I should have been clearer. Habtech is pretty good but i would play with SSPXr if I could

I just use Habtech 2 for all my station parts... SSPX is too heavy:(

November 8th 2008 Discovery of water on the lunar surface in the form of ice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1

ahhhhhhh

Whats with the numbers?

You will never know if water is wet because if you put a wetness detector in water to find out if water is wet the wetness detector will immediatly become wet and invalidate the test