[Episode 31: Future Echoes | It's Hardly Rocket Science]

Oh shush, he'll be back.

[Episode 30: It’s What He Does | It's Hardly Rocket Science]

I liked the older comics better. The only real not-as-funny comics that you've made, in my opinion, is number 27, 29 and this one. Otherwise, they're great fun.

The last two weren't really supposed to be super funny. Some writers are able to seamlessly blend plot and comedy. I am sadly not quite as brilliant as, say, Rich Burlew. Nowhere near, in fact.

[Episode 30: It’s What He Does | It's Hardly Rocket Science]

Can and did.

Don't worry. He's Jeb, he'll be fine.

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Circumnavigated the world in an aircraft. Judging by the fuel levels after landing, I could have easily flown around the world twice and still made it back to KSC.

Flies on two engines at 27.5 km altitude at ~1700 m/s.

[TVtropes]

This page seems to have been written mostly by Orbiter fans. Describing KSP as "like Orbiter but more casual" almost.

That was actually written by me and I've never played Orbiter. So there.

[Radial decouplers as rover suspension]

Personally I prefer using I-beams as suspension due to their curiously weak connections. Look:

All four wheels touching the ground! That's what I call axle articulation!

[Blast from the Modding Past]

Indeed.

Fun times.

[Good controllers for KSP?]

Although it may be a valid workaround, TBH, Joy2Key is far easier than modding config files (not trying to be a dick). All you have to do is map two buttons to their keyboard equivalent.

The point of triggers is that they're analog. Keyboard keys aren't.

[Good controllers for KSP?]

Personally I have pitch and roll on the left stick, yaw on the right, throttle up and down on the shoulder buttons, A to stage, B to cut thrust, X to toggle RCS, and Y to toggle SAS. That's basically all you need to fly. I also went into the config files and changed the sensitivity of all my analog axes to 2.5. That's largely a matter of preference, though.

[What do you guys think of the Mun's new surface?]

Mostly it looks weird because there are craters all over the maria (the dark, flat areas).

This. I do love the progress that's been made but clearly there's still a bit more to do.

[Good controllers for KSP?]

A regular gamepad works perfectly fine once you tweak the sensitivity a bit. Personally I use a PS3 controller, but anything with two analog thumb sticks will do.

[How long has that been there?]

Yeah, the fact that it's called differently always throws me off. "Oh come on, where's the stupid Atlas engine! .... Oh, it's this one with a different name. Right."

[Jessie cox is doing ksp!]

Yeah, I'm not terribly keen on Scott either. It's just the tone of his voice for me, the way he speaks makes it seem like he's talking down to you even when he's being perfectly polite and friendly. Same problem I have with Richard Dawkins, though it's an order of magnitude worse with that guy.

[purpose of ..]

In soviet Russia, ...

that doesn't always happen.

So much for making a soviet russia joke.

Fun fact:

# of casualties during spaceflight in the Soviet/Russian space program: 4

# of casualties during spaceflight in the US space program: 14

[purpose of ..]

Given that the game is a complete sandbox with absolutely no objectives of any kind at the moment, people return kerbals back to Kerbin for the same reason they do anything else in the game: They find it fun.

[Beware the Kerbal Volcano]

Oh dear, I knew the day would come when the kerbals make their cloning devices small enough to fit in a command pod..

It's okay, it could be worse. They still haven't managed to make it fast enough to be able to build rockets that fly by expelling kerbals instead of burning rocket fuel.

[renaming your kerbals??]

You'd need Crew Manifest, and it's not updated to .20 yet. (I think.)

Alternatively, open the save file with Notepad and change their names manually. It's not difficult.

[.20 Feature Spotlight]

Constructive criticism time! Record the game, not the window border.

[Episode 26: Predictable | It's Hardly Rocket Science]

Nah, it's like a daily routine. It's one of 20 or so webcomics I check every morning on my way to classes, it's like a substitute for not getting the newspaper comics.

Hm, I thought we had an RSS feed... but apparently we don't.

Well we need one.

[Episode 25: Safety Zone | It's Hardly Rocket Science]

Your point?

Psst, I think he doesn't want this thread to get bumped.

Bump. :B

[Elite docking club]

I don't think this is difficult. You can use those small radially attached liquid fuel engines divided up into action groups in place of RCS ports, thereby satisfying the requirement of no RCS and retaining fine control of the vessel.

[A bit of confusion that I could find and answer to...]

Yeah, sounds like that would be the case, but it'd still be nice to have official confirmation/clarification on it. I really like this "a promise is a promise" attitude, so I'd like to throw some more money at Squad by buying it on Steam in addition to the Store-bought version. But it'd have to really be the same, I don't want to have to keep throwing more and more money at it to keep it in sync with the Store version I already own.

[0.17 Easter eggs]

Farewell, Delorean hub cap. We hardly knew ye.

[0.17 Easter eggs]

I'm surprised this isn't in this thread yet.

[spoiler=Silly spoiler tag is silly. ]

I suppose it's not really an easter egg, since Harv announced it'd be in the game, but I think it's quite cool regardless. It's also super-easy to find even without cheaty add-ons.

[Could we be the offspring of some Von Neumann probes from an ancient civilization?]

Given that they self replicate, and have plenty of time, It's pretty much inevitable that they will evolve beyond recognition in the blink of an eye (relatively speaking)

Self-replication isn't enough to get evolution going, you also need variation. Given that evolution is a horribly inefficient process in which the vast majority of mutations are either harmful or pointless, I'm fairly sure any civilization building von Neumann probes would make certain that they replicate exactly, without variation.