@Snark:

I've done a version of that, but in the old song, One Piece at a Time, I've done it one mod at a time. Three of the mods are dead, and that will give me something to piddle with in the next few weeks - to rip out their guts, redo the parts, and repackage, and post. I'm wait and see if the mod creators respond to my inquiry under the CC rules.  It will be a new experience for me, but one that I am looking forward to, nonetheless!

As it stands, I am down to 1o mods that have not updated yet, but have a question about OPM... is it the same as it was before, where as long as Kopernicus is updated, it is good to go?

If Kopernicus doesn't make any planet-breaking changes, then I suppose yes. My contract packs, for example, once Contract Configurator was updated I just threw them from my old GameData to the new one and they're A-OK.

That's good. I'm doing a test boot now. All looks good. Is texture replacer still functional in 1.3?

I see you like music, what do you think about mine? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbEqMD7hy-fqDsIzCabCg4A

@Souptime - nice music. Are those your original compositions?

Yup, made them myself! although the program i use is free to download and nearly anyone can use it, so there's bound to be at least a couple there that already existed

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@Dman979 said:

To take a break from the KSP advice-

What about just giving everyone A's in the course?

No, more "F" and adore the panik in their faces...

:3 no hide e.a xDr

No, you are not officially being warned. I can see how it would be confusing to you, though, so I'll knock off the funny talk. Sorry for the mix up.

The last bit there was me trying to shoehorn words that would fit into iambic pentameter, and those ones worked.

Ok, that's fine. I really couldn't tell and meant nothing with the question but clarification. Check out that link... It's kinda cool...

I have eighteen notifications because of you guys XD

Looks like you've found something else to do instead of grade assignments- post on the forums!  

I actually highly agree.

'It's simply not possible!' Is a common answer, but not a good one. If something doesn't seem possible to me, i scavenge the interwebs for answers, this is what i found:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Soft_tissue_preservation

But here's the thing, even that website presents the "this is what we believe happened" thing. There are simply too many variables to say for certain.

In this article, What do we really know about Dino DNA?, there are some interesting statements made. Now I am not arguing the young Earth theory, but what I am saying is what if? What if there were dinosaurs or some sort of dinosaur descendant that lived around the same time as humans?

There are too many times we, as a species, have said "this must be the explanation" that we are not only wrong, but blinded by our own belief in ourselves.

You know what, i should make a YouTube video/blog post about these kinds of things. Because this is a really interesting topic to talk about.

And basically it is a sign of relief to see that you guys are still safe. I am really woried about that at this time

No, I'm still kicking, @VoidCosmos. This semester has been very rough. At the community college I teach at, I gained two extra classes because a part-time instructor quit  in the middle of March. The instructor refused to take their classes to an online setting after our board of regents made the decision because of Covid-Wuhan (Covid-19). It wasn't an optional request...

Not having tenure, I really couldn't say no.

ooooof that sounds harsh. Well anyway just keep on persevering, we can do this if we just all stay responsible and the doctors stay determined [i just had to make an Undertale reference, it was staring me in the face.]

@Daveroski, while the subject is history, there is a language proficiency component. It is this way across disciplines. It does not do any good to have knowledge about a subject but no way to communicate that knowledge in a standard language format.

I've been teaching at the university level since 2004. In each of the universities I have worked at, each has had the requirement in every disciplinary field that students must demonstrate proficiency in English. This is one of the reasons why, as in the case of the major research assignment in my course, a student's use of English is a part of the grading matrix. In fact, here's what I look for in a project paper:

• The student's ability to state a thesis (argument or theory) and then prove it with data.
• The student's ability to use historical data as that proof to support their thesis.
• The student's ability to cite that data. I view history as a pseudo-science. It does not do anyone any good to do research and not allow others to verify the data on which you base your conclusions.
• The student's ability to use standard American (or in some cases, British) English.

In this small excerpt, there were two major problems - the use of the English language and the "history". Do each of the major world religions (and I am only referring to the top ten) have some sort of missionary? Yes, this cannot be disputed. Do missionaries force conversions? Yes, they have in the past. There's the Moorish invasions which led to the Crusades, there's the Spanish exploration of South and Central America, the Spanish Inquisition, nearly 1,000 years of forced conversions at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church.

Then there is the long history of wars fought over religion. The Second War of Kappel (1531) had armies of Catholics and Protestants fighting one another, leaving somewhere around 700 casualties. The Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) saw the death of over 150,000 people and was fought between Sunni and Shi'ites. The Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005) witnessed the death of over 2,000,000 and was fought between Muslims and Christians, much like the First Sudanese Civil War. And I've not even mentioned the Crusades, The German Peasant's War, The French Wars of Religion, the numerous wars in England, and the 30 Years' War.

The opinion was fine but only if she had some sort of historical fact to back up her claims. The part of the research project I quoted was actually one of the better written sentences of the paper. But where it might make a good philosophy paper, it is not a good historical paper. And one of the comments even stated " Only knowledge of the subject being taught should be considered" bears witness that the student does not understand history.

All correct, rational and logical and the place she is talking about clearly doesn't exist.

Just imagine though how different and wonderful that world would be.

The facts are unfortunately much colder.

Back in the day, we feared and respected our teachers. The thought of rising up and doing  a teach physical harm... that was a line that none of us crossed. Even raising your voice or speaking in anger was a no-no.
Some teachers were just awful teachers and should have been vetted more fully and the teachers should have policed themselves much better than they did.
When one was caned at school for instance, it wasn't even so much the caning that students were afraid of. It was more the humiliation of being punished in front of your peers. Feeling all their eyes on you as you made your way to the stage in assembly where the cane would be administered. Everyone knew that you had reached the ceiling of tolerance and were now going to be 'put in your place'.

Now students have no fear of their teachers and when the fear left, so did the respect. As a species, humans have put themselves on a pedestal and believe their young have qualities that they simply do not possess. They are teased constantly on TV with commodities that neither they nor their parents can afford.
They can go to school in expensive clothing, setting themselves apart from their peers and even their teachers. They are allowed to use and carry technology that takes the individual thought out of their studies. In many cases around the world, exams have been simplified to raise the number of students who pass.

Students are taught that degree level jobs ensure wealth and respect.
' One simply must have a degree to be anything in this world...'
You have degrees. How are things on the Wealth and respect front for you?
How many people do you know with degrees? How many of them do you respect?
I went to school for several more years than many of my peers.I don't feel that I am more respected than anyone else. I'm certainly not incredibly wealthy either.

I don't envy you your job and I have the utmost respect that you are doing it. I feel somewhat amazed that you can get up each day and get on with such a monumental undertaking. Knowing that most of your efforts will be futile and yet you continue to try. My hat is off to you sir.

So here I am giving you an opinion that you are not really allowed to agree with, even if you do.
History is a vital subject, possibly one of the most vital. Because as you well know, if we do not learn from our past mistakes...

Any spelling or grammatical errors in this post are for entertainment purposes only.  (covered!)

@Daveroski: So many things to comment on! But here we go...

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All correct, rational and logical and the place she is talking about clearly doesn't exist.

Just imagine though how different and wonderful that world would be.

The facts are unfortunately much colder.

Yeah, I do understand this. But the world is a cruel place and not just for humans. Yesterday, during office hours, a student and I were talking about the whole global warming debate. And as I told him, the Earth has been around billions of years before us. Human existence, human industrial existence, would be the equivalent of a drop of water in an olympic-sized swimming pool. In the big scheme of things, we are nothing. And what really blew his mind is when I made a comment along the lines of "we are not essential to life on Earth. None of us is irreplaceable. Even within our own lifespan, once we die, the world continues around us..."

Your comments about the youth in the world, or at least the Western world, is pretty close to what I observe. It is natural for a young person to be driven by emotion. And that's where the West has messed up is the silencing of the voice of reason which comes from the older generations. Reason without passion is hopeless. Emotions without reason are dangerous. The two work together to bring balance.

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Students are taught that degree level jobs ensure wealth and respect.
' One simply must have a degree to be anything in this world...'
You have degrees. How are things on the Wealth and respect front for you?
How many people do you know with degrees? How many of them do you respect?
I went to school for several more years than many of my peers.I don't feel that I am more respected than anyone else. I'm certainly not incredibly wealthy either.

In truth, one can make a very comfortable living and gain wealth in a trade based job.

And the lie about "one must have a degree..." yeah, it's true, if you intend to keep universities financially solvent on the backs of the student. I often get both official and unofficial warnings from the university administration because of the way I advise students. I am honest with them - if they are not doing well in their classes, I ask what they are interested in. Some are more hands-on, and I do my best to match them with a career path which will fit what they enjoy doing. In my mind, if you enjoy your job, you get paid to play. And that's important.

Yeah, the Ph.D. wasn't cheap and while it does impress some, it does not buy much more than did my high school diploma. And you're right about the respect. I have a few former students who keep in touch; one had me when I first started teaching at the university level in 2004. But it is for more than the degree they respect me. It is because of who I am. The degree may open the door, but if I am a horse's rear end, there's no respect.

I hear you, I think the local plumber I use is more financially well-off than I am. But hey, I do enjoy, most days, what I do.

My huge modlist has been diminishing. I'll admit I never used KJR much, but now I won't even consider it

@monstah: I deleted it this  morning. My list of mods is down to 46; the ONLY two mods I will download in the near future are OPM and Kopernikus - but those will have to wait until I upgrade to a new laptop.

Most of the mods I have are basically parts mods...

@adsii1970 I dislike part mods; they turn my save hostage to the parts.

I'm currently using around 15-20 mods (used to be 60-70 around .90), and the only ones I'm waiting to come out are FAR and Strategia! I must say I'm pretty satisfied with 1.2  

(I don't have a RSS install, however. I've wanted to play one for some time, but really lazy about it...)

Hi, i think you should do a modded minmus base on the part of the great flats (not the greater flats or the lesser flats) that crosses the ekvator.

This sounds like something you could design in the new Mission Creator...

Probably is, but I just don't have time to figure out how to use it. My plate is full already.

Well good to hear that it's better.

@Urses - another example of my handiwork is above, in my profile header. Granted, all it is is just an image with a text overlay, but I am getting pretty good at them...

Adsii i "stalk" you a little and i seen your badges works. My idea was something like Deedleys tread for nice surround on forums. Your Version would ne something around the thema "vulgarity of language" i think this is a important for a social communication between people.

Swearing and offense make it hard to be polite with each other. Especially if it is the prefered form...

Urses

I'm sorry you feel that way, Ascii. Let us know if/when you come back.

Of course knew it was french lol.

It's ok. Even my French and German are a bit rusty here lately... Not too bad considering that I've got brain damage and French is my second language...

I think I may have been misunderstood... Right now, I use KSP for a break from reality... But here lately, I am so tired that it takes tremendous effort to get motivated to play. Especially when I am having to play "bug chaser" to figure out why 1.3 keeps crashing.

As I told @Just Jim earlier today, I might just stick to 1.2.2 just to avoid being constantly in a foul mood.

Bob Dylan is right out of the 70s. He still performs in that old 1970s style.

Yeah. Its like cheating! They are litterly the most well known people known to the human race yet they don't deserve most of it because they cheat!

Only T-Pain uses AutoTune properly because thats the only reason on why he is relevant .

@NSEP: to me, it is cheating. I'll give you one of my favorites from the 1970s - Jim Croce. On one of his records (I know own the CD release of it, too), you can hear him playing his guitar and right in the middle of the song, you hear the sound that every guitar player hates to hear... *POOOINGGG* as a string breaks... In today's music, that would have been digitally removed - edited out for the sake of a "perfect take", but in the 1970s, accidents like that remain - and even with the imperfections, they have more character. To me, today's music that depends on auto-tune is to music what Wal-Mart is to an old fashioned department store...

@Dman979, It's so obvious from what he said. 

@The Dunatian:

Yeah, I agree. But here's the problem... my job and the forum rules puts me in dangerous territory to begin with. So that's why I tried to be "forum friendly" by using the term, "well balanced" which is more user-friendly and unfortunately, less accurate. I am literally caught between a rock and a hard place... I'd like to be able to finish that last sentence, but am sure the moderators would assign me penalty points if I were to.

Obvious or not, it stays off the forums.

Anything can break a computer if you swing it hard enough...

Computers are pretty easy to break, yup.

YEAH. My computer spontaneously combusted after I dropped a quarter on a keyboard. NOTE: I am talking about my OTHER computer.

@Kerminator K-100 and @The Doodling Astronaut - please don't feel bad. I should have said something sooner. It's all good.

I appreciate you sharing this, I feel that you’re an important member of this community and I wouldn’t want this to happen again to you or anyone else. (And I think a cool screenshot is better than a color blasting GIF anyway)

@adsii1970 I like it too, in some uses. I don't think it works well here.

I like it!! If anything I would try a few different Bold Type Fonts on the title just to see what it looks like. Other than that all looks good to me!

@Dman979 and @Castille7: I played around with the fonts and think I have found a combination I like. It seems to be easy on the eyes and, well, I'll let you two be the judge of the results!

@Urses: Not a problem... I don't mind you following me around. There are a few that I've chased around the forum, mainly to learn various aspects of the game from them. Remember, this is a new site - and a bulk of the setup was done over the last two days. Over time, I will add more to the site...

@Dman979

Whaaaaaallleeeessssss

Going to ignore @Dman979's comment. Those were my observations about an informal survey.

But you know, I could turn it into an official survey and see what happens...

That'd be interesting

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@Dman979: No, this student insists on doing things the hard way. It was obvious her name misspelling was a typo... At the beginning of the semester this student was looking for a mate, not a degree...

@ZooNamedGames: No, this student is that lame.

oof. That's... wow.  Ya might wanna make a stronger version of your cute custom emoji.

How can a student be that lame?!

@HansonKerman When people have deluded perceptions of reality, they do weird things

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Ouch.
At least you didn't break it. I mean, sprains suck, but breaks suck more. 
Hope you feel better Adsii. Take all the time you need with Kerny. 
(Actually, that reminds me to update my novel. )

get well soon!

Hope you heal quickly!

IIRC, most of the thread was saying to start early. Did you get any helpful tips about what to emphasize and what to speed over?

The Marxists were great. Loved watching their

I'll take you one better.

I think it depends on what mods you're working around. I'm waiting on 2: OPM/Koperikus and Texture replacer. I could work around OPM, but I just made a bunch of new suits, so I have to wait on Texture replacer.

And I'll call all of these great comedians and raise all of you a... Duckfather!!!  

Yes, it did. I just replied to the thread and am thinking about assembling it as a two course spread. I don't like the idea of popping into manned spaceflight without any sort of pretext. Many of the comments were really moving and I could sense the passion of many about space exploration.

The only problem is the disconnect most have between space exploration and spaceflight. These go hand in hand and in my mind, you cannot have one without the other.

Oh, and got you back...

Jebediah needs a sledge-o-matic!

Mainly Fengist's Maritime Parts mod. I could go forward right now in 1.2 but would have to recall my ships. I currently have five out right now... with two crewed with 10 Kerbals each. I do have 1.1.3 on the desktop, so I could still do it in the previous version and simply wait for the mod.

OPM is later down the road in my narrative. I will say that 1.2 has some really nice things going on, although most of my aircraft fly pretty crappy now.

Shaaa whaaa??

@Urses: There's a term for what I was describing, but I cannot find it or remember it. Your hypothesis of atmospheric loss may not be correct according to current data available from NASA/JPL:

http://newsquench.com/article.php?n=nasa-says-asteroid-impacts-could-have-caused-mars-present-climate&id=122467

and:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/pdf/2608.pdf

If you read the second article, they suspect Earth also lost a good portion of its atmosphere...

The tsunami generated by the meteor impact on Mars was huge. I still think it lost most of its atmosphere in the aftermath of that impact.

Thanks for the Links will absolutely go to read it.

Sorry i see Now there is a doubleposting Oo

@Angel-125: Yes, it does, but I need to go in and redo the light curves so the light is more realistic. Right now, I have three of the planets roughed out (put into an orbit). I have two more planets and then the moons to rough in before the next release.  It is a work in progress and I'm a much slower mod builder than you!

And the "ruh roh"? It might be an easy fix; you're more talented than I am. In the release of the DSEV cargo bays, how hard would it be to have them be roll-back doors, as you have with the Heisenberg Airships mod cargo bay, rather than hinged doors? In the tight space I am working in, the roll-back doors would work well.

For me to do that I'd have to make a whole new part. Not impossible, but I'm focused on my top secret project for the next couple of months...

@Angel-125:

I'm not worried too much about it. It will be a while before I can actually use the part. Right now, I am trying to figure out which pesky mod is causing my 1.3.1 to crash. I have two different installs of 1.3.1 -

• the one I am using to edit Nohochacyum -
  • I have been told those who are still using older versions of KSP should be able to use it as long as they have the Kopernicus updated for their particular version.
  • I am going to have to get good at creating terrain maps for the planets. If anyone want to lend a hand, I will gladly list you as a co-writer of the mod in the OP.
• and the one I am trying to upgrade Kerny's saved game to.
  • I am going to delete some of the mods I rarely use just so I do not have to keep them updated.
  • I have another mod I will need to update that's under my maintenance - InflightFlagSwitcher. Now I just have to remember the steps to get everything updated.

The best was the gecko-feet ability... like fly up and glue yourself on the wall...

@Deddly: I love this entire movie for the slugs who sing!

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"Poor little Roddy flushed down his own potty..."

And for some reason, that song makes me just lose it. Even if I am in a bad mood, I will laugh...

What?

@HansonKerman: Once upon a time, I did one of these six days a week (normally I am not on the forum on Sunday). For some reason, I quit doing it. Wondering if I should bring it back or let it die...

Bold added for emphasis...   Sometimes my fingers cannot keep up with my brain...

Maybe just 1 a week?