LukeTim

Well, they do have a game to work on... It would be nice if they posted a bit more... especially to their blogs... but you can't blame them for not finding the time to tell us about what they're supposed to be doing.

So many people have done this now that it's beginning to seem pretty boring. I did want to do this as my Dissertation Project at Uni... except transmitting images back to earth as soon as they're taken, and also transmitting GPS data to track the flight, rather than just storing it all for later. Had problems with licensing, though. You need some pretty powerful radio to transmit that stuff back from 100,000ft. Ended up doing the transmission sort range without a balloon. I still want to do it... just with a rocket instead of a balloon now.

I thought the pressure caused the core to be solid, simply because it is so great that the atoms are forced together so close they can't really move. Maybe not...

I remember my little brother got something similar a year or two ago... I found a registry edit file somewhere on the net which when I ran seemed to stop the issue for the most part. Then I just had to delete any associated files.

Surely it will kind of be possible to stick yourself anywhere you like using the Scenario stuff, though, right? Also, on a separate note, I'm really looking forward to getting 0.17 and learning how to use Gravity Assist. That stuff is so cool... Just look at how cool it is.

What do you mean it could have been built by now if the microproccessor hadn't been invented? Surely that would have benefitted such a project?

Well, we'll never know unless they put it in.

Yeah, sure, when there's one person trying to find it... but if you have hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions?) of people all putting hundreds of hours into the game, the chances of somebody finding it begin to more realistically approach 100%.

SORTED. THANKS SO MUCH! Now I'm going to buy some new RAM, and an SSD to stick Windows 8 on. (I recently got Windows 8 Pro 64-bit from Microsoft Dreamspark Premium, which used to be MSDNaa). So excited to have my PC back.

Thanks, I'll try with each stick individually.

I want to try for a grand tour, with fly-bys of everything... I think that stuff is so cool, where you let gravity fly your ship.

I want to try for a grand tour, with fly-bys of everything... I think that stuff is so cool, where you let gravity fly your ship.

Okay, so a couple of months ago, I packed my PC up to go into storage before moving house. During which, I opened it up to get rid of some dust since it had been a while since I last did so. At one point, I dropped a screw inside, and it even went underneath the motherboard... afterwhich I realized I had left the PSU on! I switched it off, and used a paper towel to clean dust off the CPU heatsink... and maybe a little off the PCB. Now, after 2 months in storage, I have reconnected my PC and I am getting no video output. I have tried both GPU outputs, I have tried the motherboard output with the discreet GPU plugged in and with the discreet GPU taken out. I can hear the HDD being accessed, so I know that at least some of the Motherboard and the CPU must be working. Has anyone heard of a similar problem? Does anyone have an idea what it might be? I think it's something on the motherboard, but I'm not sure. Specs: CPU: Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Mobo: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R| RAM: 4GB Crucial 667MHz DDR2| GPU: Powercolor Radeon HD4850 PSU: Corsair TX650W

I also support the Russell's Teapot idea. That'd be awesome... and a huge challenge to find it.

Star Trek has some grounding in scientific fact. It's reasonably realistic. Just don't watch the The Next Generation movies, because they are stupid hollywood crap with virtually no realism. I think Firefly is fairly realistic, too. Though I have never watched it so I don't know for sure.

I believe it's the Kosmos Spacecraft Design Bureau pack: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/17165-0-16-Kosmos-Spacecraft-Design-Bureau-VA-released

I am not a great pilot... and I prefer the macro-management/planning of a whole mission to the micro-management of each little manouever. I am very glad to have Mech Jeb, as a result.

Okay. I'll admit it.... I killed Jeb. Lots of times. He keeps coming back. Currently he is stranded on The Mun with a crashed lander.

@Paprika It means that the devs have three different explicit walk animations for low gravity, Mid/Kerbin gravity and high gravity respectively... and they are going to use some clever blending between the three so that, depending upon what the gravity is on the current body, the walking animation should look appropriate to the current environment. Given that this says between 0.17 and 1G... I guess they're starting with low-gravity first... which makes sense, because the low gravity places are where people will be going first. I know I really want to check out Bop.

Yeah, how much energy would be required to make the entirety of Mars habitable? Probably a hell of a lot more than we have access to, or will have access to for the next few thousand years. Heating the core up in order to re-instate some sort of magnetic field is a good idea but would take an absurd amount of energy. I don't know the mathematics, but I should imagine it would take more energy than all of the power stations and nuclear bombs on this planet combined can possibly muster. You've also got what Sneaky Pete said... the atmospheric pressure is just too low. There's not enough of an atmosphere for it to be breathable even if it was mostly oxygen. In fact, I think the pressure is so low that if you went out in it without a pressurized suit, you'd die. So, you'd have to somehow get more gas onto Mars in order to make it remotely habitable...

Yeah, I knew that. I just think it's silly to limit your options when there's plenty of great possibilities which don't have des in.

Unlimited is an absolute must... but I checked on the BT website, and apparently fibre isn't available in the area yet... but I can get High Speed DSL... roughly 15Mb. Sky I don't really want to go for, because I know they'll keep trying to sell me their satellite TV service, but I don't want that... I don't watch TV. So, O2 and BT are good? I'll have a look into those two.

That's cool. You should let us know how your launches go with photos/videos. And £40 is a lot, but if that's the only way you can get a hold of this stuff then it is definitely worth it.

With regards to naming the Desert planet, perhaps if it has a lot of dust storms* it could be called Aeolia? I think it's a cool sounding name... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolian_processes * which it probably should.... when weather is implemented... cause that'd be cool

Okay, so I am moving into my own apartment, soon, and it's the first time I'm going to have to choose my own ISP. Just interested if any fellow UK residents can recommend me a good ISP that doesn't have monthly download limits, doesn't throttle peer-to-peer connections (at least not too much), or censor my browsing (I'm looking at you, Virgin Media), and makes (fairly) good on its speed promises. I don't want to be stuck with a terrible ISP for like a year... so this is an important decision. I'm gonna be in Hemel Hempstead, so if anyone can make suggestions based on that then that'd be cool.