ZeroTheAstronaut

Considering a lot of designs like flat strips of carbon nanotubes, and in the novel Limit they have two of those stripts, one could tug alternating between the two strips, causing tension to oscillate it one, then the other direction, all by pulling on it on the ground. Or even clever use of which cable you climb up with heavy cargo. If it doesn't oscillate, every satellite in orbit WILL eventually hit it.

Neat, nice and compact. What exactly occurs below 700 m/s ? Do the landing legs break, Does it become nonfunctional, or does it experience a rapid unplanned dissasembly event? Or is that the speed which it transitiopns modes and thus causes destruction that way?

Takeoff speed is atrocious. But, as detailed in the thread, the Drive has two distinct modes: In atmosphere Outside of atmosphere. On Kerbin, it's around 75ish KM. Outside of the atmosphere, you can get several Gees acceleration from the drive. For the single-piston drive linked earlier, I got 8G on testflight one, and oscillation around 5G for test number 2. I personally have not tested outside of Kerbin, and Jool's reference frames. (Alternis kerbol) I have heard, however, that the single piston drive has issues with the Mun.

Another issue that everyone seems to overlook is that One day, on venus, is equivalent to 116 days and eighteen hours. Once temperatures and pressures are adequate for human surivial, there still exists that the day is far too long; One side will be extremely cold for three+ months and the sunfacing side will be the only side getting any natural light (This assumes the sunshield will have small "Hatches" that approximate a day/night cycle to allow some light through. Once cooled enough, of course) A possible way to circumvent this is to target all water bearing comets that would eventually be destined to Venus (because we'll need water) at the equator, to attempt to impart a small amount of angular momentum to venus; Over the years/millenia that each comet impacts, perhaps one day it will reach levels deemed acceptable.

I ended up trying my hand at a true replication of that and ended up failing massively; Lawndart mode engaged after fuel depletion, The COM moved wayy too much.

Uh...The AK-47 Has a TWR around two.. http://what-if.xkcd.com/21/

Which Mods? I myself am Using Alternis, B9, Engineer Redux, kerbal Alarm Clock, and some texture reduction packs. I've not had issues, but for you, maybe it could with all the parts it uses up too much ram and crashes? It could also be that Other mods are conflicting with B9, and not this one.

This answered it exactly. Thank you. Perhaps I should rephrase that: My understanding of these pictures means nothing without an explanation, and explanations were unforthcoming with my fail of Google. Thank you all.

In a monumentally stupid question, I ask, just HOW do Gimballed Rocket Engines work? I understand that they use systems to move the nozzle so that the thrust is off center of mass, resulting in torque, turning, etc. But I have not figured out and am curious as to just how this is done. Is the entire combustion chamber and nozzle shifted, or is the nozzle only moved? If the nozzle is moving and the combustion chamber is staying still, how does that work? Is the throat between the chamber and the nozzle flexible? Is the nozzle physically separate and just held in place? If that's the case, how are hot exhaust gases not seeping between the connection? If the combustion chamber moves along with the nozzle, then are most combustion chambers spherical, to facillitate a socket/ball joint? Hopefully someone knows and can explain. (My google fu has failed me) Thanks.

Uh, just found this mod, looks interesting, but what's with the atmosphere? Is that a result of the mod, or if I had an equivalent orbit in unmodded KSP would I get effects like that? They look sweet but I've never seen the atmosphere look like that from up above...

From that article, I see little if no fundamental difference from Mars direct. http://www.marssociety.org/home/about/mars-direct ISRU...Check Tethered Artificial gravity...Check Hab/Lander...Check

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wheel This is also known as "Magic Torque" But the devs have basically claimed that it operates like the wikipedia article illustrates.

It is a bit sad so much was lost. We must rebuild! (Especially those awesome physics breaking threads involving helicopters and monorails and other such things.)

I have this strange desire to launch the speedboat to laythe and pilot it there.....Wishful dreams. Cool vehicles!

Who says the oceans are water? Also, Jool. Go take a temp reading of that Gas Giant. If it is water, I'm sure you'll find Jool is outputting a freakish amount of heat, or tidal forces heat Laythes core, or Laythes atmo has a freakish high CO2 content.