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Oh yeah, thats so true. I was realy good at math in school (i didnt even learn much for our final test in school and passed with 14 out of 15 Points) and loved it, but now at university its awful...

My favorite arguments that humans were on the moon: 1. The soviets had the tech to disprove the americans, afaik there was even a soviet probe orbiting the moon when Apollo 11 landed. There would be no way they wouldnt have used this chance... 2. Look at the Saturn 5. Its massive! Where else would you go with such a big rocket if not to the moon?

You can find some facts about engine restarts on this blog (its from an engineer involved in the developement of the J2-X engine) in the most recent posts. But i would recommend to read the whole blog if you are interested in rocket engines anyway...

I want to disable collision-detection on a part, because one of my crafts with clipped parts has a 50% chance to explode on the launchpad. Is that possible with a simple .cfg edit?

Thats a realy awesome rover! Im playing with the restriction to get everthing in a fairing, too, but i never came up with such an amazing piece of tech...

There is nothing less important for KSP-performance than disk space and the RAM-size...

Funny that you post this thread now, i just build a Launch Escape System that i though was so cool that i build a whole SLS+Orion style spacecraft around it. I allways had problems to build good looking escape towers when i wanted to fit a dockingport under it, it allways looked like this: But with a little clipping i got this: The escape tower is afaik from KSPX, the small things on the top are the stronger sepatrons from KW-Rocketry. There are four of them, but i used symetry on only one pair to enable asymetric thrust on abort and tower seperation...

The GTX 760 is enough for KSP (im quite sure its an overkill, but weaker cards dont make sense). But in other recent games the GPU will be the bottleneck most of the times, since you have a powerfull CPU... Did you check the price of a R9 270X or a HD 7950?They gave nearly the same performance. Also it is important to select the right cooling solution, but i cant suggest you one...

You wrote in you first post about memory on graphic cards as an important factor. It is not, it just has to be enough (2GB is enough for everything on Full-HD, even 1 GB is good enough for most games). The interesting factor is the power of the chip and here you dont need that much for KSP. You should choose a card from the newer generations (AMD 7XXX or R7/9 2XX, Nvidia GTX 6XX/7XX), the have MUCH more power than the older generations and are way more efficient, also they have better featuresets so and never DirectX versions so you can play new games for a longer time before you have to switch again. Regarding the Brand: Nvidia and AMD are tied on Graphic Power (a R290X is as good as a GTX 780ti, a 280X as good as a GTX 770 etc.) but they differ from price per performance, at least here in Germany Nvidia is allways more expensive than AMD, but that can differ in you country. Regarding SSD vs. HDD: ALLWAYS choose a SSD (i would choose Samsung 840 Evo Series). They are more durable than HDDs in most cases and much, much faster. If you need space to store videos etc. you can buy a HDD for that, too, but allways use a SSD for your OS and Programs... I would go to a special hardware dedicatet forum from you country, there are way more people who know about such stuff and you should read several tests about everything you want to buy (never trust the description in stores).

How does the Intake of the Kethane-Engine work? I tried to build a Duna Plane, but it seems like the special intake-resource gets used up like fuel, once its empty i dont get new air. I tested the same plane on Kerbin, the intake worked in the beginning, but it then suddenly it went from full to empty in a single frame. On my way back to the surface, much lower in the atmosphere, "KIntakeAir" went from empty to full in one frame again...

The main problem is that more dockingports dont look that good, also the partcount is allready to high (look at the panels from b9)

I plan to build a huge spacestation with some massive solar panel (the ones from Kosmos). I docked two truss-sections (both with a pair of solar panels) together, using bicouplers like this: But the alignment is not perfect, which results in a difference at the tips of the panels of 0.5m, which is realy annoying. Both docking ports have the "decouple" option, meaning they are properly attached, but it still looks like this: (the other pair is perfect) I have tried to undock and redock it, but i never got it straight. Do you have any suggestions how to solve this problem? I dont mind installing mods or edit my savefile...

Thank you!

You do wonderfull things, Porkjet! Where does the plant module come from?

The more i read about education and stuff like that in the USA the more i am afraid. Strong political forces who take god as the only foundation of their politics and an (at least it seems like this) educational system close to complete breakdown (teaching creationism, extreme liabilities for going to university, no political interests etc.). Im afraid that, if we have an asteroid threatening and we need Nasa, the future US-President just would start praying or declare its god's punishment for sins...

KSP suddenly appeared on other forums. After i read the name some times i googled it and found the demo (at that time 18.3 was new). On the evening i told some friends on our TeamSpeak Server, we all downloaded the demo and startet a race to the mun. I won because i found Scott Manly on youtube that day

Wow... I just saw "Neil" and when i noticed the rocket i was realy excited. I didnt know you did such a wonderfull thing to the craft i posted months ago. Used by the (IMHO) greates artist on the forum to honor the greatest mission of mankind

As i understand the upper airship should stay in the atmosphere for a long time. But they could lift up new hydrogen with every "launch", so that could be solved... I dont think its that easy to "simply build it bigger" to lift heavy stuff. You have to think about stuff like load distribution and it has to be realy light...

Most times i swear when something goes wrong especialy when its surprising. I dont care if others swear, but i care which words they are using. I know some people who say stuff like "dirty jew" or similar words when they are killed in a shooter or similar and this realy nakes me angry, most of them dont realise what they are doing with such insultions...

I dont think that would work, hydrogen (or helium) loss would be a huge problem. Afaik the atoms are so small that they can escape nearly everywhere, especialy through a thin foil...

My second attempt was good enough, even with lots of spare fuel: (Its an aerospike at the end) My first attempt used a NERVA instead of the aerospike (8000m/s DV) but the T/W was to low to overcome the drag at 118km. With the aerospike it was quite simple, i burned retrograde until i reentered without leaving the atmosphere. When i was at 118km i did the reseach and started burning 45° upwards to gain altitude fast, because the drag is quite high...

The problem is that i want to return a kerbal, and with a balloon you would loose all your horizontal velocity and then its very hard to get back to orbit. But in one hour im back home and can start testing...

I read in the wiki that you have to be on a suborbital trajectory or it will count as a "in space near". To avoid gettig torn of the ladder i plan to store the brave kerbal in a cargobay or similar...

That is just insane I dont want to go far below the 118km needed for inner atmosphere science, so it will be a lot easier. Perhaps a large B9 rocketplane with a droptank will be enough...

Interstellar is to overpowered in my opinion, especialy with the energy transfer over long distances. And i think a ballon wouldnt work since you cant keep any of the orbital velocity and you need an even larger rocket to get back to speed. I have no idea how the kethane engines perform at high speeds, perhaps its enough in combination with FAR that i dont loose to much velocity. Sadly im not able to test stuff since im not at home right now