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I've been playing video games for so long, I thought you'd figured out a way to make leather in KSP before I clicked on the thread. Damn slick, too!

Hey OP, you know why you don't see us? It's because people like you keep making threads like this.

One day when I was 11, I got this book for... Christmas, I think. Or I remember having it around that time. Everything spiraled out from there.

Last I checked, nobody said you can't encase it in a metal shell. Or do what Sal suggested.

Hell, just cut to the chase and turn it into a railgun. Your enemies may be able to clean the mess out of their decks, but they'll never be able to wash away the shame.

That's true, but Earth has many times more water in its atmosphere and even in the driest rocks and deserts alone, or these are at least surrounded and affected by atmospheric water on a daily basis, than a dry space rock. Even if the Earthly formations turn out not to be due to the activity of water, "dry" Earth rocks aren't a good example for other worlds.

I think it's not mind-boggling to think that we share the universe with beings far beyond us; religious people believe it all the time, for one. Why shouldn't everyone else be able to accept it if it turns out to be true? I doubt there will be any sort of mass panic; what would we panic over unless it was clear that E.T. posed an immediate existential threat? As an example, humanity has faced nuclear annihilation for decades, but there haven't been any nation-shattering panics over that.

Honestly, why should we be hearing from other life-forms if there's so much of it? Most radio signals, as Cirocco mentioned, as well as most other kinds of signal, with few exceptions drop off into the cosmic background noise after around 2 light-years with our current technology, well before reaching any other stars. And as technology improves, our radio signals get fainter and weaker, because we can afford to transmit more, with less. I think that more advanced technological sapient life-forms could easily be invisible just because they don't want to pay the power bill to transmit signals around the galaxy.

I don't think anyone is arguing for unendingly increasing complexity. So to be honest, Sal, I would say that Jouni was right, and this is a strawman. I personally don't believe that greater realism has to amount to simulating every fart, and I think other realism enthusiasts have reiterated this point very well. Rules of game design absolutely apply equally to realism as to anything else; but I also think that SQUAD, like Kegereneku, are focusing unnecessarily on realism as the sticking point in this equation, as though all people who want greater realism want the game to require you to micromanage every single little detail of everything.

Moho was originally going to be bathed in lava, and I'm assuming the atmosphere would have been rock vapor or something else continuously evaporating/outgassing from the planet's surface. When they decided Moho wasn't going to be the lava planet, they took out the atmosphere, and now the lava planet concept seems to have been completely forgotten for the past year or two.

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Sadly so. And yes! Absolutely! That's true, although hypothetical future mechanical counterpressure suits might change the first point. But the second point - yeah. I liked it largely because I feel like pink and violet colors get more than a little underrepresented in SF; not that these are inherently "girl colors", but they can make for an interesting paintjob on a spacegoing machine as well as more garish flaming reds and so on... but the suit design itself definitely feels like more of a "fashionable outfit". That video is amazing; I love it.

I suppose so! I'm not sure if a few space missions would have helped sway girls a lot considering the focus seems still to be largely about stuff traditionally marketed to girls, though. Nevertheless, these spacesuits're definitely badass: And yeah! The Mercury 13 - really awesome people, and it's really sad that they never flew. Apparently NASA mandated that all Mercury astronauts had to be already qualified test pilots, who of course were all dudes. While that's true, it isn't really what I mean. After all, the people mistaking my gender could always say "they" if they're unsure. Most people, on the other hand, assume male, or treat masculine nouns as if they're genderless, which raises the question of if you're going to consider masculine nouns genderless, why aren't feminine ones also genderless? But I'll stop there. English could, though, definitely use a major reworking!

Absolutely! I personally can't wait for Ballderaan.

An aircraft carrier; drop it on Laythe.

Doesn't it? Also, yay for another transperson! Sadly I can attest to this. Even though my signature clearly declares what I am, and/or I put my gender on forum profile pages, I've still been called "sir" before. And people wonder why they don't see women on the internet as much. I dub this phenomenon manliness-goggles. Nevertheless, the fact that there are women in this poll at all is at least slightly heartening. But there's definitely much, much farther to go. Awesome! I'll definitely check that out.

@Levelord The Super Guppy is the cutest thing ever. Also, the Caproni looks like it's trying to be all like, "GUYS LOOK! I'M A REAL JET NOW GUUUYS" I'd also love to see KSP designers break out the weird aircraft shapes; our own aircraft don't have to be the norm on another world. Perhaps Kerbal engineering took a different turn, or the needs of Kerbal society turned out different such that tail-sitting XFY Pogo-style interceptors or Vought Flapjack-style circular fighters turned out to be more economical or otherwise left the R&D phase on Kerbin. Just look at this thing: There is one issue with KSP that I can see hampering this design work, though, and that's the way aircraft are currently built. Building wings out of "modules" is sort of awkward and sometimes mandates a fairly extensive repositioning of modules where a Procedural Wings-style system would just let you adjust points on the wing, in the vein of a vector graphics program. I'd really love for SQUAD to get on it with a more intuitive procedural/tweakable design system for wings and control surfaces in that way, along with other parts.

Robbaz. Nassault. Danny. Scott.

Definitely; my thinking is that the asteroids would be docked together with claw-modules, forming a physically attached hoop. Come on, it's time to get hyped.

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Build a ring of asteroids, then find a bigger asteroid and slam-dunk it through the center.

And if warp drives were unavailable, we could build a wormhole between Earth-Moon L1 and Venus orbital space. Then we could launch our trash up in a compacted, spherical form, held together by a skin of carbon nano-stuff, to be driven through the wormhole by a massive booster. We can build it in the shape of a man, and we will call it The Barkley. I'm sorry

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