AncientAstronaut

G-eh-mes Get it, cuz you guys say "eh" a lot.

Somewhere out in Cis-Munar Space. Completely unedited. (Clouds and black skybox courtesy of "Universe Replacer". Hanging out with Minmus, Kerbin and Mun, all in one frame.

They aren't the size of a pixel. In the Kerbin and Mun photo, they're the size of 1/2000th of a pixel. In that picture, 1 pixel is equal to 2 kilometers. In the Kerbin and Minmus photo, they're 1/3000th of a pixel. In that picture, 1 pixel is equal to 3 kilometers. Also: Standard Gravity on Earth: 9.81 m/s^2 Standard Gravity on Kerbin: 9.81 m/s^2 If it helps any, in the Minmus photo, if you stacked 3 THOUSAND Kerbals on top of each other, they'd make up a single pixel. See that TINY green dot circled in red? That's 4,000 Kerbals stacked on each other's heads.

Agreed completely. We deserve our own little badge of insider knowledge.

Come in and contribute while you can. For purposes of calculation time with the amount of entries here, I'm going to be adding it all up in exactly two hours, so that's sort of the cut off.

Preparing to blow more minds. Minmus's distance makes Mun look so darn close.

This is sort of a little poll I'll be doing, without an actual poll because the options are limitless. On an average Low-Kerbin Orbit flight, how low do you go? Your input is greatly appreciated in the name of science.

Honestly, I strongly recommend EVERYONE who has "Universe Replacer" at least tries out a fully black sky box. I put it in place and never went back. It's so mysterious and vast looking. Also, if you are interested in more KSP facts or even suggesting some mind-blowing KSP info yourself, follow @KSPFacts on twitter. I just opened it.

If anyone wants to know why we use rockets in Kerbal Space Program rather than just walking: ========================== Kerbals walk at 1 meter per second. The mun is 11.4 Mm away, or 11,400km, or 11,400,000 meters. It would take a Kerbal 11,400,000 seconds to walk to the Mun. That is better expressed as 131.94 days. ========================== On that subject, it would be kind of fun to run a twitter account about mind-blowing KSP facts.

If you really wanna cry and pat yourself on the back for how awesome you are for being able to get to Duna, the CLOSEST planet to Kerbin, here's some more info. Distance from Kerbin to Duna AT CLOSEST APPROACH 6,069.281109 Mm In an image where Kerbin is 600 pixels (diameter [km]/2) and Duna is 160 pixels, Duna would be placed 3,034,640.5545 pixels away. A Kerbal at that scale would measure 1/2000th of a single pixel. Remember, this is at CLOSEST approach. When we go to Duna, we're significantly further away from home than that. DUNA'S Peribol: 19,669.121365 Mm KERBIN's Peribol: 13,599.840.256 Mm

I was messing about with paint and relative sizes to scale since I now have a totally black skybox and clouds on Kerbin (Kerbin in this picture is not photoshopped to have those clouds.) And since the game looks 5,000 times prettier, I've gotten back into it again. Anyway, check this out. My jaw dropped when I realized how small Kerbals were in the scheme of things.

Agreed. I have always hated the hatch placement since its debut in version .16. I don't know what the devs were thinking, but they certainly weren't in any logical state of mind, that's for sure. The hatch placement on the pod makes NO logical sense for symmetrical attachment of parts.

I love all the people that take it seriously and say things like, "OP is an idiot who didn't pass high school physics!" You guys are the reason satire works. Thank you very much.

Thanks mate! I came up with the bucket of water splashing in the face right on the fly because I had no idea where the heck I was going with this one.

Why does Scott Manley deserve to be on Wikipedia? What contributions other than video game help has he made?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOd7954VnqU This is a video which clearly solves perpetual motion. On this day, science will be rewritten. Please don't steal my idea.

Um, there really needs to be some sort of guide to show how to actually do this. It doesn't make any sense.

I have done it. I don't have the screenshot anymore because it was like .16 or earlier, but it was pretty exciting. The moment I snapped the picture, the orbit was to the meter.

An explanation of the division of any number by zero by 17 year old math genius, Vincent McConnell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=774OrQ8cx30

Why is it that people like you just read the thread title but not the actual contents? He's asking for Kerbals to be able to deploy panels WHEN THE BATTERIES ARE DEAD.

Go on Steam and buy Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. This game is pretty cool.

You can't challenge people to do something you can't do yourself. You're liable to turn into a board.

He probably is. Kerbal Space Program's community is just overrun with small children now.

I know the arch on the mare just right of the center of the face of the Mun is still there. I saw it when orbiting.

I've been playing KSP since December of 2011 and I really love using MechJeb. Sure, I can pilot any mission manually without it. I proved that for the initial four months before plugins even existed of my gaming experience with KSP, and then later in summer of 2012 when I went purist for about a month. The fact is, though, MechJeb is convenient and it gives you more to look at on screen. It feels much more realistic.