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  1. Nope. It is I, adsii1970. However, I know that @DarkOwl57 loves this game...
  2. Wow, that's pretty awesome. I cannot wait to use this asset. This looks really, really great!
  3. Nice try. Buried under exams and paper projects this week. I am hoping to have another chapter in by Saturday. Should be interesting for y'all...
  4. Geesh... get snarky why don't you. Yes, that is what mods are for, but to have Squad add more runways to the KSC for the purpose of creating a "realistic airport" has actually been handled by a mod (Kerbal Konstructs + Kerbinside). The way I read the OP was these are things people want Squad to add to the game in default mode, not in mod form...
  5. The object of the game is to launch crap into space. The huge collection of fan fiction based on the game should never dictate what features are added to the game.
  6. I'd like to see the old KSC site made usable... Or at least have a runway.
  7. Quote of the day:

    "The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with the universe's divine revolutions, the stars' motions, sizes, distances, risings and settings . . . for what is more beautiful than heaven?"

    Nicolaus Copernicus
    (Feb 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543
    Quote from his work, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, first published in 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, likely independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier. (Wikipedia Commons)

  8. Don't have a bath tube handy? Just head over to @munlander1's house.
  9. Quote of the day:

    "Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space."

    Johannes Kepler
    (Dec 27, 1571 - Nov 15, 1630)
    Quote from a letter written to Galileo Galilei, 1609

    Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. (Wikipedia Commons)

  10. Oh, my bad. Is it this: Snark (Lewis Carroll), a fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Edited: Just saw the hyperlink in your previous post. Excuse me for being non-observant.
  11. the devs are working on... (wait for it).... (wait for it)... devs! They are dev-ing more devs to handle our request for more devs to the game! (how was that, oh master of the art of snarkyness, Lord @Snark?)
  12. One planetary community of Kerbals... at least that is what it is in my Kerbalverse...
  13. A point to ponder:

    With the level of dissatisfaction currently on display in the United States, I decided that I would share this here:

    If you want to see change in your life, then let the change begin with you.
    If you want to see change in your family, then let it begin with you.
    If you want to see a change in your community, school, or workplace, then let it begin with you.

    If you want to see changes in your nation, then let it begin with you.
    If you want to see changes in the world, then let it begin with you.

    If you see something that needs to be done, then do it rather than demand it be done.
    If you see someone who needs help, then be the hand that lifts instead of the hand that destroys.

    For if we do not do any of these things, then we are not the solution to the problem.
    We are its cause.

    -adsii1970

  14. Quote of the day:

    “The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow."

    Walter Cronkite
    (Nov 04, 1916 - Jul 17, 2009)
    Quote taken from CBS Moon Landing Coverage, July 20, 1969

    Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years. During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr., and Beatles musician John Lennon. He was also known for his extensive coverage of the U.S. space program, from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle. He was the only non-NASA recipient of a Moon-rock award. Cronkite is well known for his departing catchphrase "And that's the way it is," followed by the broadcast's date. (Wikipedia Commons)

  15. Nope, not @DarkOwl57, but I am here... he did summons me a bit ago. I'm actually getting a new(er) car today. What about @DarkOwl57?
  16. At least I didn't refer to it as the "Stennis Space Center..." Yeah, I've been there, too! I was on a tour there and actually overheard someone ask the tour guide, "I didn't think the Houston Space Center was so small and out of the way..."
  17. Sorry, bro. I wrote that fairly quickly and off the top of my head (NACA and NASA history was one of my minor study areas). It was in response to the person claiming NASA was a DoD agency... @kerbiloid The CIA is a strange fellow. Unlike NASA, they have a spot on the NSC (National Security Council) and a spot for an advisor on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. NASA has none of this. The CIA does use intelligence assets from the DoD and has some folks embedded within our military. Technically it is a civillian agency but totally unlike NASA.
  18. Nope. I rarely read instructions... 9/10 (-1 for suggesting someone read an OP)
  19. Von Braun did work on NACA projects; but even as he told the German government under Hitler, he believed rockets should never be used as weapons platforms. This haunted him throughout his life. While the military does provide the bulk of NASA astronauts, NASA and its assets are civilian, just as is the Coast Guard (until the Department of Homeland Security was created, the USCG fell under the Treasury Department). And just like the Coast Guard, during a time of war and by legislative action of Congress, NASA's assets can be transferred and used by the DoD. Until the STS program was cancelled, the DoD had to pay for it's cargo to go up on the shuttle, just as any other non-U.S. NGO or foreign originating cargo. In the movie, Armageddon, the only way that the Houston Space Center (Mission Control) would have been taken over by the Air Force is by the Vice President (the executive branch member who oversees NASA) and Congress (two Senate committees and one Congressional joint committee) in complete agreement, as the legislation that dissolved NACA and created NASA states. NASA has, in its history, never been administered by the DoD or its agencies. Also, the reason the legislation that was passed names the Vice President as the executive branch head of NASA is because the Vice President, by the duties defined in the Constitution and tradition, is outside the military chain of command.
  20. 3/10 - after all, he is a RandomGuy... with a number of 1,824.
  21. No, he is not next. It's just not your day. But I bet @DarkOwl57 is around.
  22. Now that's a good laugh. Thanks! I needed that today...
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