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I always wondered what a spacecraft engine firing in a vacuum would look like. Here's an image of Apollo 8 performing its TLI as visible from Hawaii.

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=17714.0 Basically, it\'s a bug that causes your spacecraft to move by itself. It gets worse the faster you go.... to the point your ship will eventually become uncontrollable and even be destroyed.

What kind of work around would be needed? It seems like all your would need to do would be to create a small rocky planet with a very large mass and put in a HUGE opaque atmosphere... then again I haven\'t really worked with Unity. It seems rather limiting.

Welcome to the forums. I have noticed mechjeb does several odd things while trying to do transfers. Sometimes it warps for you, sometimes it doesn\'t, and sometimes it warps to a half way point for a correction burn. I don\'t know what causes it to do what though. I always try to override whatever it does after MECO.

Yes, that is the right hand rule in action. I think I overly edited my post. I could have swarm I mentioned something about orbital direction. :-[

With the 1:11 scale going on the gas giants might be the same size as Earth. =P

Try and do your plane changes by using the orbit of Mun as a reference. Look at the Mun\'s orbit straight on and compare it to yours. That should make plane changes a lot easier until it\'s included in an auto pilot. Remember that Nrml+ points your spacecraft north and firing north makes your orbit going that direction change to north. The orbital velocity around Kerbin is slow enough that you don\'t really need to be perfectly accurate to the nodes in order to get an accurate plane change. Plane changing to Minmus\' orbit (or any spacecraft orbit for that matter) is easy too. Zoom out in the orbital view until you can see the orbit of Minmus. Rotate the view until the nodes line up with Kerbin.... In other words, looking straight on you should see Minmus\' orbit as a straight line that\'s at about a 5 degree angle to the equator of Kerbin. Kerbin should be dead center in your monitor. You now know where the ascending and descending nodes are and can use that to adjust your plane.

Weather seems to me like it\'s going to take a rather large amount of time to program and implement. I wouldn\'t doubt if it would end up taking an entire update or two on its own. I personally would rather see 10 weather-less planets at this point than one with half implemented weather.... but having 10 with weather sure would be great.

Where is the source? What is used to compile it with? What language is it? I haven\'t looked up anything about creating adons yet, but I really miss the renezvous info.

Using this part makes me really wish the kraken was dead. D:

D: That site looks like an a 90\'s computer magazine!.

Yeah, that\'s what I do now. I have my live server hosted in another state. I have a backup and test server running in a closet, and several test VMs on this workstations. I connect and manage all of them with PuTTY, FTP, rsync over SSH, etc... I also use XAMPP for 'quick and dirty' php and mysql/mysqli work. My favorite program of them all is rsnapshot. I have hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups points on my live server. It doesn\'t take up much space either. If I do something stupid I\'m always sure to have a 'restore point' available.

There\'s a definite learning curve. I started using PC\'s back in the DOS days, so using a console came more naturally to me than a GUI. Though you can control linux from a GUI now a days as well. A GREAT way to play with linux without going through the hassle of a multi-boot is to use VMware. I use Oracle VM virtualbox (free program) to run a test server on my main workstation. It\'s a great and very easy to use VM program. I think the biggest obstacle to Linux is DirectX. I REALLY wish more game developers used OpenGL.

I\'ve been tearing apart PC\'s since about 1995, and I see no reason what so ever to buy a high priced computer unless you don\'t have the knowledge to build your own or simply have a lot of money to throw away. I would personally recommend putting together your own PC. It\'s incredibly easy to do now a days with some research. There\'s always a risk involved doing that though. If you are uncomfortable with that risk then finding a local PC builder or getting a pre-built PC off of a site like newegg.com could be your answer. YMMV. As for Alienware, they are a very good machine, but they are WAY too expensive.

Linux has been running my business servers since 2008 (CentOS and Ubuntu LAMP servers). I really don\'t understand why people use windows servers. I\'ve also used Linux (CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu and flavors) as workstations. While I prefer a Linux workstation over Windows for several reasons, I have been using Windows 7 on my main 4 monitor 'command post' for years. I\'d use linux, but I can\'t get anything more than two monitors to work like I want it to. I HIGHLY doubt I\'ll be using Windows 8 when it comes out. I hope I can get a decent Linux rig capable of running my wall of monitors before Windows 9 comes out. The automation, security, ease of administration, robustness, flexibility, scalability and cost of Linux is hard to beat.