StrandedonEarth

Oh was THAT the solution for that. I just remember having to throttle back just enough so my Mainsails wouldn't overheat into RUD.

I'd mention the joke about the vacuum cleaner but it sucks

There is a Larry Niven short story, titled Grendel (in the "Neutron Star" collection), not realizing one of his landing legs had been damaged and didn't deploy. The gyros spun up trying to keep the ship upright, until they seized up and all Jeb broke loose

This is nothing next to some of these previous posts. The most abusive I've been is stacking this quintet of lifeboats with no fairings and putting it in orbit to ferry down all the returning interplanetary kerbanauts, and destaffing some of my local stations.

Until someone popped out a few billion too many monoliths...

I'm not sure what bug you have going on, it sounds like it should work. I managed to recycle old satellites and stations for new contracts by docking to and undocking from a more massive transfer tug. Imagine my surprise when I completed a new contract that way, I only wanted to plant a flag.

I experimented with FAR once, and haven't bothered with it since. Not that I didn't like it; I just haven't bothered. That said, one thing that would make landing easier with supersonic aircraft is if a modder came up with variable-sweep ("swing-wing") technology, like the F-14, F-111, and B1: straight-out for take-offs and landing, swept for high speed. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-sweep_wing

So that's what Jupiter's thin rings are made of!

After going through 0.23-0.25 saves using a 4-nuke lander almost everywhere (also augmenting the transfer-tankers' 4 nukes), for .90 I decided to challenge myself by NOT using the LV-N. I was also not going to use the RTG, but they're just too goshdarn convenient. So far, it's no big deal, I just have to send out more tankers. The shorter burn times (and not needing a kick-burn to raise Ap) are nice

I was only half-serious. For small rockets it would end up being a token amount, no more than 100 roots, maybe more like 20-50

Yeah. Can't wait for the F9 Heavy launch. 27 engines of RP-1 goodness!

In the Okanagan region there are hostels for the transient fruit pickers that have solar water heaters for the showers. Given that busy season is in full summer, I don't think there was much of a shortage of hot water. It's also fairly easy to make a solar water heater for those cheap Intex inflatable outdoor pools, but I never did get around to that.

BTW I know, that's why I posted the image from a Google image search

Hey, I've never seen an Avro Vulcan before. That's one sweet-lookin bird, and that wing is ginormous. But speaking of early British Jets, how about the Vampire? I've spent lots of time flying Vampires, doing strafing runs, acing dogfights, landing in flames.... Okay, okay, that was all while playing CFS3, but it was still a fun plane to fly. Very easy to rip apart by turning too fast.

I tend to go with roots, but I like the idea of reputation being "space kred" (i.e. street cred)

I like the idea, but the same effect can be had by linking to spaceflightnow.com, spacedaily.com, and space.com. That covers pretty much everything with a man-rated level of redundancy. Although spaceflightnow.com has been overloaded right before the last few F9 launch attempts Edit: Now if they find something not covered on one of those sites, that would be truly bonus!

And how exactly do I get them to land on their helmets? They always seem to want to fall feet-first unless they've been rag-dolled.

Further to making the "Engineer's Report" be generated on demand via button-press: Call it a "Critical Design Review" or "Flight Readiness Review" and charge a few roots for it, maybe by mass or part count or some funtion of both! The "Engineer's Report" can be the basic KER-type readout of TWR, dV, and burn time per stage. Want to find out if your 500kroot JoolTour monster is missing something? Shell out another 20k for an FRR!

Bear in mind the ISS is large and not very dense, so it has pretty high drag, especially with all those solar arrays and radiators. I wonder how the deceleration due to drag compares between the ISS and the second stage, which would also have a pretty low density when empty (but no arrays sticking out), and which wouldn't spend much time below 400km. Also, each pass at perigee is lowering the apogee, so it would take a lot of orbits before the orbit (perigee) starts to seriously decay. So that's a very long eventually.

From SpaceFlightNow.com: Ok, so, the F9 second stage is now free of the payload. I wonder if there's enough propellant (and ignitor fluid) left for one last burn to drop the Pe back into the soup to dispose of the stage? Don't want to clutter up space with debris, after all.

I'll agree with the consensus of plain old "Kerbal Space Program". It's actually a euphemism for "Kerbal Population Control. "

Do they only have the one processing facility at the Cape? It'd be nice if they could roll out the next launch on the manifest while waiting out the Moon Blackout in the event today gets scrubbed

Fast & Furious 6. There was one stunt that was ridiculous. Vin would have been dead or crippled for life, never mind the odds of actually pulling it off. Not to mention the sequence at the end where the runway must have been the length of Europe.