MrZayas1

Landed on the mun near a near 55 degree slope, had to use SAS to keep myself up!

I have one simple question, this topic absolutely blows my mind. Here is the topic, why in the world (for lack of cleaner phrases) does the welfare program cost annually a trillion dollars a year (based on this page) when the budget for just NASA is only 13 billion dollars? My main question is, why do we pay so much for a pretty much unproductive system, in place of a revolutionary space science division that with a trillion dollars, could go to the moon, create a new settlement, mine helium 3, and send human to mars within 10 years? If you have any more information on this subject let me know, as soon as I researched this topic I became infuriated, I would much like some water now I do realize that much of the budget is directed to HIV and AIDS, or other research and health care, which is understandable, but most of our taxpayer money is going towards people who don't work at all! Most people even don't look for jobs which also makes me angry. Any additional information on this would be great thanks!

My rocket actually had a TWR of about 3 meters per second per second, I was very happy with how it turned out!

I feel the same way bro, I have always liked space, and how much we stand out in the universe, even though we are so small compared to it! Keep playin!

I am currently setting up a jool mission, with five seperate 2.5 meter landers for each different moon it is already massive, and I am working on the last 2 landers, each have their own seperate flag and i have yet to make a tug stage to it but I will!

Thanks alot!

Thanks i put them in an album

Hey guys, just wanted to express how awesome I feel right now. I have been fiddle faddling with KSP for about 3 months now, and have always been shortcame on interplanetary travel, all of my science came from the Mun and Minmus until now! I started using sandbox because I know how the game works, and I decided that I would finally stop waddling around with single rockets, and decided to create a rocket in space! Once I created the interplanetary rocket, composed of one lander, a tug, and an end cap, I set off for my destination; Duna, more importantly, Ike. I figured that landing on Duna would be a little bit out of my league at first, and decided, "you know what, let's go to Ike." So I launched at the correct planetary positions (that much I knew how to do) and set off for Duna, I snapped some pics leaving Kerbin, and during the flight for you guys I will probably insert them in this post. Once I got to Duna, I aerobreaked at about 20km into the atmosphere, and got into a capture. After fine tuning it, I dispatched two probes that I brought with me. Funny things: they didn't have enough electric charge to last them in their decent without solar panels, and half of the landing gears were upside down (FAIL). Brushing that aside, I set up a burn for my lander, after detaching it from the tug, and set out for Ike. After getting into orbit, (easy enough) I decended and landed on the surface, where they stayed for about a year waiting for the next planetary alignment to occur. Just before the alignment, I set off of Ike, the crew of 2 flew back to Low Duna Orbit, alongside the tug, and performed the rendezvous. Once that was complete, I set out for home, and after 2 whole years waiting, I used Kerbin's atmosphere to slow me down, and dropped me into orbit. Once again a roadblock, SOMEONE forgot to pack parachutes! (I blame Jebediah!) So, I quickly built a craft, brought it into orbit, close to the Ike One, and transfered the crew via EVA. Then I simply deorbited the craft, and landed them safely at Sea! Thanks for reading, I just couldnt help but post it because I am so happy I finally did something else I haven't done in KSP! Thanks devs for making such an amazing game Couldn't get pics to work but check them out in my Imgur Album!

Hey guys, I just wanted to start a post to discuss a very hot topic in science; energy. Many scientists are debating about whether or not we should use coal power. Coal is dug out of the ground in vast quantities, and commonly using strip mining. Strip mining is the intentional mass clearing of land to extract minerals or ores. Coal is most commonly found in mountains, as the mountains in the past have undergone immense pressures, where coal is formed. Coal is formed by millions of years of compression of organic matter, where mostly everything is stripped away, except for the carbon. The burning of coal can cause massive amounts of health problems, it creates smog, which gives us acid rain. Acid rain contains a large amount of mercury, one of the most toxic substances known to man. Mercury falls into the ocean via acid rain, to be consumed by the fish we eat. So is the risk of coal worth it? Coal is a non-renewable resource, among many things, a lot of scientists ponder the global effect on the climate that burning coal creates. Tell me in the comments, whether coal is worth our time, or should we invest more money in renewable resources such as Nuclear power, Nuclear Fusion, Solar power, Wind power, etc! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

I haven't landed on any planetary bodies yet, despite having the game for about 3 months, sadly. But I still enjoy trying out the game in new ways. I know how to dock pretty well, so I want to try an aerial docking like a refueling jetcraft in the sky! I bet it will be a difficult feat, but It is definitely a great thing to try! I can't wait to get started!

I always thought that skip-reentry was kind of like skipping rocks off of a pond. The mark 1 pod seems to use the rounded surface to act as if the atmosphere was kind of like water, so that is how I envisioned it!

Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you knew some good, balanced, ksp mods. I love vanilla ksp but sometimes I like new spice to the game. Anyone know some good mod combinations that are really good together? If so thanks in advance I will most likely use them! Thanks guys! P.S Sorry if this is kind of in the wrong forum, wasn't sure where to post it

Well i definitely like both, so i use both. I tend to make my rockets look very aerodynamic, but I use a small amount of asparagus staging. Like 4x symmetry, or 6x symmetry. So yeah, they are normally good looking and very efficient, and I have tried to get away from mechjeb so i cant see my delta v! I enjoy experimenting with rockets and mechjeb has helped me learn what is good and what isn't! Gotta love ksp

Well today i am typing this in a testing room inside my school so i am being an extra bad person i believe that the test that i am taking will be very difficult, but hopefully when i get home i can get to duna! I have never had much success in getting interplanetary! Hope your missions go well!

Shock absorbers? That wouldn't work in space i don't think...

Well, the only problem with colonizing an asteroid, is that gravity would be minimal, if any at all, and you wouldn't be able to predict their paths very easily, unless you know they are in the asteroid belt or the kuiper belt. And plus that would kinda be like a big floating town in space if i had to guess, where you know if you want to go to a friend's house you can just put your space clothes on and float to their house, if you miss, RCS backpacks FTW! But what that would be helpful for is that the asteroid would be a nice radiation sheild for you because in space, there is no atmosphere to protect you from the cosmic and radioactive waves in space! And mining asteroids in higher portions of the belt would be profitable. I'd imagine that building rockets would be kinda difficult though, as the amount of fuel in space is limited, and most rocket fuels that we use are liquids, so planetary bases would be a must whether or not we move to asteroid belts or not. Many of the chemicals that we use in life would also be scarce in space, making the household items industry profitable, also people need a way to travel, so I could definitely imagine shuttles from maybe one end of the belt to another in a couple hours ride. So indeed, it would be like living on Earth, but we would be able to live in many different orientations, and conserve alot of space. But resources will be limited to planets, but I really do think that life in an asteroid belt would be pretty cool! Hope this solves some issues and calms your curious mind

Basically if you want to find the mass of a planet orbiting a star, you can use Kepler's third law which is expressed in this equation: T² == (4À²/µ)*A³, so you could use that or, if you had a spectrometer you could measure the amount (or color ) of light coming from an object to observe whether or not it has an atmosphere, from which you could find it's density to determine the mass of the planet. (I think that is how it works) Hope this helps!

Well today, wanted to go to Duna, made a rocket, waited 1 and a half years for the approach encounter, found out staging was wrong. Rage quit ftw!

Look, it may make sense for us to mine smaller objects, and to a sense that would make sense, but thinking in astronomical terms, a small company in the future might be mining asteroids for profit, but as that company grows, the jobs will become more tedious, and potentially end up costing the company more money to send a craft out to the belt than to mine a moon or planet of the orbiting body. Bigger companies would probably want to go straight for the large asteroids, for this reason. Take this example. You are a starving man/woman looking at two plates of food, with the same thing on the plate. But, one is filled to the brim with said substance, the other is only in miniscule amounts, which do you choose? That should be about the answer to your question hope it helps!

I think bismuth is the coolest element ever, it looks really cool and forms in geometric shapes!

I think the reason you think so (in this case) is because a lot of people who play this game enjoy the subject of space thoroughly and love to create things. The creativity for your space program is extremely varied, you can build rockets that look like giant cubes, or ones that look like real rockets and everywhere in between. Granted, it's your opinion, if you don't like the game so much then why do you reply on the forums saying negative things such as these and the dev team... You definitely don't know how much effort goes into this game, each person on the team spends hours, if not days getting out the next update, and you think that just because you play the game you have the right to criticize the massive amount of work that goes into this game...Damn you must be very ungrateful and spoiled. The game is still in ALPHA, not even to version 1.0 think about it, it has bugs and is still in development So if you are going to complain, leave it in the dumpster outside the VAB and keep your subjective thoughts to yourself.

Look bro, I know it is extremely bad attention for NASA to have accidents, but it happens. Every time you make new things it will go wrong one way or another. I'm sure that when they built the first nuclear reactor they had problems and had to shut it down and fix it, I'm sure that when they built the first blimps they had problems like the Hindenburg. So quit blaming NASA for accidents, it isn't there fault. The man made it out alive, and NASA corrected the space suits. Don't act like everything NASA does is on purpose to kill people. If anything if we didn't have a space program, then we would be behind technologically. Using your logic, the program would have been closed a long time ago. NASA's budget is already at it's lowest, and for that reason we have to skimp out on things. So please use some logic next time you make a post on a Gaming Forums where they discuss this game called Kerbal Space Program, which is built off of the United states NASA program.

Well let me tell you something, instead of completely destroying saturn's rings, I would definitely try to probably mine all the asteroids on it, even if the amount of minerals isn't much (which it is) I could still send the millions of metric tons of rock to building companies, or other for a nice profit! So honestly I think the only time we would ever destroy asteroid belts is if we had inter-planetary war and we ended up destroying them in the process!

I agree with that because SABRE jets are much more efficient and awesome lol!

Hey guys, i wanted to present this situation to you so ready your eyes and thought processes! Year 2027: The space program has been extremely unused, not much progress has been made, but the cryonics labratories throughout the world have commercialized freezing yourself for years at a time! So you indeed pay for a freeze-induced sleep/coma, for about $100,000 for 150 years, and you lay in the chryo-tube and slowly fall to sleep. Year 2089- The awakening: The unknown sense you awaken to is astonishing, as your eyes sear from the red light flashing in front of you, after being asleep for over 60 years. The noises around you seem to have a female voice, scrambled and unrecognizable until it is drowned out and silenced. The screen above you says "Power outage" for a few seconds before turning off. You finally reclaim your limbs, and you pull the lever to open the tube, and you stumble out of your tube, and fall to the floor, working your legs to wake them up, you are cold, extremely cold. You begin to thaw as the biochemicals begin to drain from your body. As you regain your vision, you begin to notice something about this that isn't right, everything around you is broken frayed, and destroyed... So, indeed this seems like a very bad situation to be in, but what would you do if this happened? What do you think humanity would have done in order to prevent extinction from thermonuclear war? Leave your comments in the comments section (see what i did there?) and let me know!