Paul Drye

Nice video. Their graphics are better than ours, but we have explosions

Well OK, the board really didn't like those Cyrillic characters

Just for fun, the Cyrillic for Kerbal is ??????. KERBAL would be ??????. 'Kerbal Space Program' is ?????? ??????????? ????????? ('Kerbal Kosmicheskoj Programmy'), so 'KSP' would be '???'.

I haven't the chops I hack around in VBA, but that's it.

Oh cool! I played this game back when it came out and have missed it ever since -- even though it was damned hard. I would usually play the two player hot-keyboard version and deliberately screw up one of the two sides so I'd have time to 'win' with the other I've been pining for a newer game like it that extends into the future with Mars missions, etc. the last few years.

By the side of the road, obviously! :

According to NASA the last shuttle delivered a year's worth of supplies last month, and the next European Jules Verne craft (which can carry a similar amount) is going up early in 2012.

Yikes, that's Grissom, Chaffee, and White (left to right), the astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 fire.

The only problem with this one is that you get three-quarters of the way up the Oregon Trail and then it's the dreaded message 'Jebediah Kerbal has died of dysentery.' I mean, have you ever had dysentery in a spacesuit? In a pressure-sealed capsule with two other kerbals? No wonder Bob and Bill are screaming all the time.

JEB: 'Hang on a second Mission Control, I have to sneeze.' MISSION CONTROL: 'No! Jeb! Don't!' JEB: 'AAAAAHHCH--'^%$##&****TRANSMISSION LOST

WHIPPERSNAPPERS! WHEN I WAS A BOY WE HAD TO BUILD ROCKETS OUT OF WOOD AND DINOSAUR BONES! WE HAD TO MAKE FUEL FROM OUR OWN FERMENTED POOP! (I'm 41, born between Apollo 12 and 13.)

That way when the Kerbals crash and have ouchies, they just have to step outside for antiseptic. Actually, as a halogen an iodine atmosphere would probably be ridiculously reactive -- both on its own and as hydrogen iodide, which is highly acidic. Anyone wonder what the Kerbal skeletal system looks like?

1 - Don't you mean Charles McReginald Charles 'Chuck' Mandrake? 2 - Egar is our planetary friend because once it helped us move. Also we play K-Box 360 every now and then. 3 - Surprisingly, U.B.O.R. is not named after its appearance, but after their discoverer Herr Doktor Werner von Useless Bits Of Rock.

Literally LOLing at the gigantic 'My Little Pony' graffiti. DAMMIT JEB!

((stops gnawing on Phoxtane and looks guilty))

Non facile ut quis viridis -- 'It's not easy being green'

Heh heh. You said 'dictaphone'.

Say, I was thinking of going on vacation. What do you think of this place: http://www.visitpenistone.co.uk/

Nice work. But I think we need Jeb at the back lifting the engine nozzle with a car jack

Give it a few seconds to load, as it's pulling a bunch of audio from YouTube: http://dontsave.com/youtube_free_jazz/?s=kerbal/space/program (Actually, this is a website called 'You Tube Free Jazz', which makes sound collages out of any term you give it to type into YouTube. This is the intriguing -- and explodey -- result of KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM.)

And let's not forget their favorite breakfast cereal:

I heard it was strumpets.

Yeah, but if they're not right under him he's all 'WHEEEEEE!'. So -- ambivalent

Except Jebediah, who is ambivalent about the concept.