This is so unbelievably Kerbal I had to share it with you...

[Excalibur]

[Excalibur]

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I\'d have thought this would have been a major talking point! Unless I\'ve being a little dense and someone posted this up recently.

I hope at some stage we can use rocket sleds as part of any R&D programs we may have in the future. Especially if it ended up being something similar to nVidia\'s Rocket Sled graphics demo, complete with G/Wind blast distorted Kerbal facial expressions. Think of the hilarity!

[Zephram Kerman]

I think we\'re all just speechless.

Real life getting too close to things that should only happen in a game. That\'s kinda disturbing.

Thank you, Col. Stapp.

[Guest]

I think it was something about his retina that made his vision disappear.

[Moach]

curious fact - did you know this man and his team are credited for having created the original concept of 'Murphy\'s Law'?

'Murphy' himself, was actually their superior at the time - and upon his criticism of an engineer\'s failure to install a set of accelerometers facing the correct direction or some other mistake of the sort, he stated something such as: 'if there\'s a way to do it wrong, he will do it' (speaking of said engineer)

then, as to relieve the engineer of his complete fault in the matter, it was replied 'if there\'s any chance that something could go wrong, it will' - which, from then on, became known as 'Murphy\'s Law'

not sure if i\'m telling it right... but hey - here\'s the story

doesn\'t get any more Kerbal than this, it really doesn\'t :thumbup:

:cheers:

[DonLorenzo]

Wow that deceleration is impressive. And the man, ofcourse

[GOOMH]

40 g\'s on deceleration!?!?! Holy crap that\'s insane. They better gave that man a medal for enduring that.

[AlternNocturn]

Oh my word. I always thought subjecting my Kerbals to over 15 G\'s on reentry from a Mun mission was enough to kill them, but then I see this guy sustained over 40 and LIVED!!

[sss]

Now, this isnt as shocking, because i already saw it on inventions that shok the world. =P

anyway, thats pretty good.

[Richy teh space man]

The guy actually volunteered for all that Oo

Now that IS Kerbal

[Excalibur]

curious fact - did you know this man and his team are credited for having created the original concept of 'Murphy\'s Law'?

'Murphy' himself, was actually their superior at the time - and upon his criticism of an engineer\'s failure to install a set of accelerometers facing the correct direction or some other mistake of the sort, he stated something such as: 'if there\'s a way to do it wrong, he will do it' (speaking of said engineer)

then, as to relieve the engineer of his complete fault in the matter, it was replied 'if there\'s any chance that something could go wrong, it will' - which, from then on, became known as 'Murphy\'s Law'

not sure if i\'m telling it right... but hey - here\'s the story

doesn\'t get any more Kerbal than this, it really doesn\'t :thumbup:

:cheers:

I had read that little tidbit after I\'d first seen the video. Just adds to the legend I think.

[ultrasquid]

SQUAD should attempt to replicate some of these scenes with Kerbals. It would make for great advertising and cutscenes. Having actual test facilities like these in the game would be great too, both for kerbonaut training and engine tests.

[Foamy]

That would make for some hilarious R&D experiments.

[Zephram Kerman]

I could just see:

a Kerbal centrifuge go flying through the wall,

a Kerbal rocket sled (with Jeb in Dr. Trapp\'s seat, his lips stretching out due to the wind), and

a Kerbal test pilot eating something out of a tube, which tastes good but spontaneously explodes.

[PeriapsisPrograde]

I can laugh at little green men on my screen doing this.

Knowing that there were real people doing this dampens the humor considerably.

[samstarman5]

Colonel John Stapp: The original Cave Johnson.

[purple100]

I could just see:

a Kerbal centrifuge go flying through the wall,

a Kerbal rocket sled (with Jeb in Dr. Trapp\'s seat, his lips stretching out due to the wind), and

a Kerbal test pilot eating something out of a tube, which tastes good but spontaneously explodes.

Dear Jeb someone make some fanart!

[DonLorenzo]

The same can be said for designing ridiculous rockets that explode. That also happened a few times IRL. Lighten up.

Edit: this was in response to periapsisprograde about the humor etc. didn\'t see there was a 2nd page yet.. oops

[Excalibur]

I can laugh at little green men on my screen doing this.

Knowing that there were real people doing this dampens the humor considerably.

I disagree. The fact they were all willing volunteers removes any guilt from the humour for me. Stapp\'s Jeb-like grin as he sits in the steel rocket-porta-toilet helps with that a bit too.

[what-the]

Now I wish KSP had a rail test track. Maybe in the future when kerbals are training to be pilots we will have one.