InterCity

I use them sort of as an end-game goal. Also to make my shuttlecraft look less impractical (They're still impractical as hell, but now they actually have a purpose)

One of my first attempts on career mode back in .25. I was going to make myself a space station on the Mun. Now I land my bases two ways: Either I assemble them in orbit and land them in one piece (non-atmospheric) or I use the "Cluster Bomb" design where I make a cluster that disintegrates deploys once it's safe. I've eventually used both for that one. Attempt #1: I warped to the mun to save time. Base smashes into the surface. Attempt #2: Failed suicide burn, started too early, ran out of fuel. Base smashes into the surface at 50 m/s. Attempt #3: Failed suicide burn, started too late. Base smashes into the surface at 50 m/s. Attempt #4, #5, #6: See Attempts 2-3. Attempt #7: Trying the novel cluster bomb tactic. Base smashes into the surface at 50 m/s. Attempt #8: Revamped cluster bomb tactic. Base smashes into the surface at 20 m/s and most of it actually survives. Any sane kerbal would chalk that up as a success, not me. Attempt #9: Further improved cluster bomb. Base smashes into the surface at 10 m/s and survives. Unfortunately, after deploying the modules, about 1/3 of them landed on their roof and another 1/3 on their side. Habitation module destroyed when attempting to nudge it with engines previously meant for landing (see attempts 1-3). Attempt #10: Repeat of #9, except this time the nudge is successful. Base is standing! WIN!

Hello, guys. Yesterday, we've had a "Bad movie night" with my wife. For those of you who don't know what that involves, we've been watching some of the worst movies conceivable (Sharknado, one episode of Twilight, couldn't bring myself to watch two...) and pointing out the stupidities in them. This is when I pulled out Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4), because I heard that it was pretty awful. And the pearls they were letting out of their mouth... Seriously? Do your script writers do their homework, Hollywood? Anyway, that made me curious. What's the worst faux-technical nonsense talk you've ever heard or the most hilariously stupid science you've seen in movies?

From my limited experience with the way AIs think... I can't recommend you an exact game, but anything that requires a lot of creativity should do the job. Minecraft would be great, but there's no real objective there. Strategy games might work as well, if you don't grant the AI the ability to see through fog of war. A human can pull off an unexpected shenanigan. Of course, you'll need a human who's up to the task of thinking out of the box, but still...

I didn't need to hold such a ceremony so far (In prerelease, that is). But before then, every KIA got a flag at the astronaut complex. They weren't numerous, the glorious ol' days of going out in a blaze of glory (pun intended ) are looooong gone for me...

It contains Jeb's secret stash of snacks scientific equipment. Also, Bill's model rocket collection snacks, Val's designer EVA suits model rocket collection and Bob's scientific equipment designer EVA suits. A whole lot of stuff, actually.

TAC Life Support. Would get bored really fast without it.

I'd have a few theories: Politics is an extremely nasty business. Even on communal level, smear campaigns are extremely common, and wouldn't like to imagine what goes on behind the national level curtain. The thing is, whenever you try to do something out of your personal values (think trim corruption), it will probably get certain people angry. You don't want those people be angry. Which is why you settle on a compromise. Even if you somehow managed to pass through these people, most personal values do not translate well into policies. Think for example, "We need to support all the *insert personally preferred group*, because they're *insert personal reason*. Cool idea. But it's going to cost money. Truckloads of money. And it will probably make group B upset, because they want support too. You just might wind up losing the next election. Losing elections is bad for most people. Period. It makes life hard, you need to find a new job and (at least in my country), a public office is often a stigma to bear forever, lowering your chances to succeed in society. As said above, some personal beliefs alone are enough to make you lose the election. I think there's a good example of this in House of Cards, namely congressman Peter Russo. Poor guy wants to give people jobs and to trim corruption, instead he winds up being stomped by those "Higher up the food chain" and, ultimately, murdered by them. If you're into politics, you should watch the show.

... And because of that I don't even own a TV. Dang you, education CSI Whatever: Oh, so this random piece of hair I found on the white hairy carpet in a house with multiple cats and dogs belongs to the murderer. Aaaand it contains a full DNA match. And this guy just happens to be in our database, because reasons. Cool, let's just have our bulletproof cop pick him up in a police chase. Dr. House: Go ahead, House. You won't get fired if you trash talk everyone from your boss to your patients, break multiple laws and ignore anatomy. Bones: Oh, so i found this Randomus Whatchimmacalitus in the victim's pelvis *points to the skull*. This particular species of a bug happens to live on the few square kilometres of forest in Brazil, and also in our culprit's trailer. Combine that with the 1080p HD picture of the culprit our tech gal made with her computer out of that grainy 320x240 video from security camera, and the baddie is busted! Cobra 11: 20km/h low speed car bump? KABOOM! The 100: ERMAHGERD! I got irradiated! *immediately gets burns and dies*. Just to name a few series from top of my head. And don't even get me started on movie computers. Punch a fist through the monitor = computer destroyed. Yeah. Luckily I haven't watched any medical movies yet...

Man, I have to deal with that thing at hospital every day. It's one of the deadliest things I've ever seen... Anyway, Well Played. Well played indeed.

I used to run a windows version of KSP back in .24 in full stock Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. On the same machine with the same system with the same craft, I was getting about 55 fps using wine's version of DirectX, and about the same with OpenGL. With OpenGL however, there was less stuttering induced by large craft. I don't have the exact benchmarks, but I'd say that OpenGL worked better on my machine, albeit not as well as it should. I was getting 10-15 FPS edge in XCOM: Enemy Unknown... Actually, Skyrim was running better on my machine under Wine than it was running when native. Space engineers was the opposite, though. It might finally come down to what games you play and which libraries are you using in wine. I personally think that I was better off with ubuntu.

I am probably coming late to the party, but anyway: These are awesome. I've already ordered them printed in high-res on A0. Searching for suitable frames right now. Gonna hang them in our bedroom.

I don't think 1,25m engines suck. On the contrary, i find the aerospike to be one of the best engines in-game, and swivel is a good engine for smaller missions. Granted, compared to the mainsail they suck as lower stage engines. Take them to orbit, though, and you'll see their true power. Until then, you basically have one five options: Boosters! More boosters! Ridiculous amount of boosters! Ludicrous amount of boosters! FIRE ALL THE BOOSTERS!!1!!1!1!!1!!1!!!1!!1

Try that against 70 cm of amor...

Mine has been renamed to Solent Corporation. No, not Soylent....

Oh, so you want me to post the database of my employees? OT - for 1.0.5: Elger Kerman - MIA, likely died after a failed takeoff of SST-T-2 Tailwind (tail strike accident). No remains were found on the crash site. Anlenna Kerman - KIA, failed to follow safety instructions during a deorbit burn aboard the RC-N-1 Notoriety. Craft destroyed by reentry heat at 20 kilometres. Edrie Kerman, Billski Kerman, Nella Kerman - KIA, cockpit of their SST-R-3 Renegade was destroyed by high temperatures during ascent. Faulty manufacturing process of their MK2 Cockpit was found as the cause. C7 Aerospace held liable for the disaster, forced to reinforce their cockpits. In addition, all kerbal crews are required to turn on air conditioning in flight. Hopefully the list will not grow...

I'm not a pro, just someone who used to work as a php programmer in college. PHP has an API for uploading stuff, including images. You can have it uploaded through that (there is even a HTML input type called File for that). Then, you simply upload any data about that thing into a MySQL database. When you want to load the thing again, you loop through the database and load a div for each one. I might even write a snippet, if you want me to?

They don't have to. I never thought a war was inevitable, it's the last resort for everyone involved. I thought more about their interaction: what will they do when they discover each other? Will they collide and clash? If so, how? How will this introduction of foreign tech/magic change them?

Oh, I forgot to mention. They do have FTL comms, but slow FTL. Any help would be about two years away - too far away to reinforce the current outpost.

Well... The problem is that I'd get excluded from any heritage and lose family connection. Furthermore, no one would pay for my education in anything else than medicine. It also isn't that I hate my job, not by a long shot, it just wasn't at the top of my list. I might not be getting an ATPL anytime soon, but I'm still satisfied with my life. After all, I probably wouldn't meet my current fiancee if not for the med school

I work as an internist right now. It's far from my dream job, but because of rather strict family rules I've been forced to take this career instead of becoming a pilot. I've been involved with all sorts of aircraft since early nineties, when I was still a child. KSP is more of a consolation prize for me. Hopefully, I'll be able to afford at least an UL license soon. Shouldn't be too hard. If there's one good thing about my job, it's the salary

Hello, guys. I know that this question has been asked elsewhere countless times, but I haven't seen it (yet) on these forums. I just feel this could be something you could be interested in, so I ask this anyway. Basically: Let's suppose that somewhere (in a galaxy, far far away ), there is a lonely planet. It's inhabited by, of all things, elves. Or some race that is sentient, has just moved past the tribal stage, is very religious and fully devoted to living in harmony with nature. They might live in wooden shacks, but they never take more than they need. Their deity has a place in everything they do, the high priest (or priestess) being the head member of their society. Although they pose like they value justice and love above all, they act like your average medieval government, with the nobility being rich and lavish, all titles being hereditary, and the commoners having an extremely hard life. But they're not alone in the universe. Another race has developed FTL travel, and by the time of the events, they're boldly venturing to the edges of their travel range. Their main concern is expanding their empire over everything they can, much like post-1492 european powers, but not necessarily destroying everything in the process. They do not strive to eradicate their subjects' culture, they only want them to recognise their supremacy. One particularly intrepid group of explorers has started an outpost of the elves' planet, failing to detect the natives at long range (No radio tech), and not noticing the fields until it's too late. They didn't bring along the "Big guns", only small reconnaissance aircraft, personnel transporters and personal (beam) weapons, as well as a plethora of mining equipment, habitation containers and other colony stuff. Inevitably, the two groups meet. They don't share a language, their belief system is different, the second race values the good of space above individual good (e.g. "It's OK to destroy anything, as long as it allows to create an equal or greater value of something else"). However, their bodies are remarkably fragile and prone to diseases. They always wear suits with controlled environment, except when aboard their ships or their vehicles. As you have probably noticed, It's very similar to Avatar in many regards. The differences are that the elves (Na'vi) are way more numerous than they ever were in the original Avatar, they're capable tactical planners. All in all, even though they probably cannot tackle the invaders head-on on a tribal scale, they're more than able to "Zerg" them if allied with others. The invaders don't know it yet, but they're not bloodthirsty and will not attack until being attacked themselves. It's not Avatar because neither side has purely good or evil intentions, no one aims to destroy the other (at first), it's basically a vast, but primitive population versus a tiny, but advanced one. The question is: What would happen, starting from the moment of touchdown of the first invaders' recon shuttle. To make things more interesting, you can throw magic (Let's set the rules as in "The Lord of the Rings", with only privileged few able to control it) into the fray under the elves' control, with or without answering the original scenario. TL; DR: Elves vs. Terran. Who wins?

I`m a World of Warcraft junkie. Also, Witcher 3 and StarCraft II from time to time.

Interiors? Cutaways? I`m salivating pure hype now!

One first class ticket, please...