NovaSilisko

[flips table and storms off]

Anything but that name.

Stop confusing KSP and real life.

Maybe someday I'll finish one of the stories I'm working on. There are a solid dozen ideas in the same universe, and the furthest along is at T+ 1 year but only 15,700 words...

Hrm. Can you really count screenshots of the game as fanart?

I don't remember that being said... but that's probably something for another topic

Yeah... haven't felt much reason to hang around recently, really. Just on a whim decided to see how things were going over in KSPland.

"Disappointment Minimization" is what I'm calling my personal PR technique from now on

Just put up an updated version. Has a few extra (spooooooky) sounds added, a few tweaks I was wanting to make, and versions for mac and linux.

Nah, not quite that complex. It's more an arcade style progression with options for difficulty at the start. Each session is relatively short and independent from any others, with a new level generated by the game each time.

Hi! I've been making a small game recently (you may have spotted it already, if you follow me on twitter or youtube), and have finally gotten it finished and released (and by that I mean "made 90% of in august then lost motivation and finally got back and finished it in the last two weeks ish"). It's free! You, too, can get blown up by meteors and experience frustration, which seems like the sort of things KSP forumgoers would be into. So... View & Download on Itch.io yes sots is still happening sooner or later

This is a general announcement. Passengers of the patience ferry are advised to put on their earmuffs at this time. They can be found in the antihype kits located beneath every seat. Instructions for properly donning these headphones are included in the kit. Thank you.

It's from a documentary about a fictional secret Russian moon landing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_on_the_Moon

I was under the impression that it was the mass of the nuclei in the atoms of the shielding material that determined how effective it is at stopping radiation, rather than the collective mass of the whole shield (or air column, in your comparison)?

Bad wording on my part. "Bombarded by radiation" would be a better way to say it. I am not so sure about the surface radiation environment being classifiable as "benign" though? Maybe benign in comparison to, say, Io, but versus Kerbin or Earth it would be varying levels of deathtrap (to say nothing of the other deathtrappy features)

Enveloped in clouds flashing with lightning, the air laden heavily with noxious volcanic gases. Only occasionally do the clouds break to reveal glimpses of the surface below - either the greenish, choppy ocean, or yellow and white and red landscapes of rock and sand peppered with everything from hot springs and geysers to active volcanoes, every square inch radioactive from the intense radiation belts of Jool. That is Laythe.

Yep, clearly the vast number of Cassini EOL options studied by JPL pale in comparison to what a few people on a forum have thought up... I still wince in recollection of someone insisting that fixing Hubble was "easy" because you could "just send up a Soyuz" to fix it. KSP is the gateway for some into an understanding of spaceflight, and the gateway for others into a misunderstanding of it.

Lately it's been retro space art. Here are the last two I've used:

"What is the ground on Eve made of?" Regret.

This would appear to be the case. It is strange that, in spite of all the easter eggs being touched up, colliders were not added to the ones that didn't get any the first time.

[eye twitch]

Not really, as I said in the notes in the image, anything under about 70 arcseconds apparent diameter is going to be basically indistinguishable from a point, and Mars falls well below that limit.

In a little while I'm going to calculate the views from the various moons of Jool, I think.

So! I've been thinking about doing this for a while. I made a chart showing how big various celestial bodies would look from the surface of Kerbin, compared to many real world bodies viewed from Earth: (click for full size) Look up at the moon outside, and imagine it being almost four times bigger. That's about what it would look like. Bonus: Ike when viewed from Duna is insane: http://i.imgur.com/AYqokIx.jpg