Screenshots Just Before Disaster

[Guest]

Self explanatory. Here's mine:



Jeb decided to go rocket tipping.  

So, what's your's?

Edited November 30, 2015 by Guest
Fixed...EVERYTHING

[mythbusters844]

Made a so kerbal xD thing a while ago that basically consisted of an F-1 engine strapped to a car with fuel tanks enough for 2 km/s of DV, a TWR of 16, and an 8 second burn time. It was supposed to go down the runway, but every single time it lifted off and flew through the air at ridiculous speeds:

Note the thrust, TWR, and G-force

Split second later:


There's also this from when I was trying to fly an SSTO like a fighter jet:

Edited December 1, 2015 by mythbusters844

[Guest]

[quote name='mythbusters844']Made a so kerbal xD thing a while ago that basically consisted of an F-1 engine strapped to a car with fuel tanks enough for 2 km/s of DV, a TWR of 16, and an 8 second burn time. It was supposed to go down the runway, but every single time it lifted off and flew through the air at ridiculous speeds:
[URL]http://i.imgur.com/YtxdTKah.png[/URL]
Note the thrust, TWR, and G-force

Split second later:
[URL]http://i.imgur.com/i4wE9xdh.png[/URL][/QUOTE]
I don't even know how to describe that...

[Amphibious Rodent]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/BPMP1md.jpg[/IMG]

Ol' Bill didn't quite have enough juice to achieve orbit after the first landing on the Mun. So rather than sit inside a tiny capsule and wait for the inevitable, he decided to get out and watch his fate rush up to greet him. This shot was taken after his craft skimmed the surface and was on its way up in several pieces on suborbital trajectories. Bill met his end on that ridge up ahead, imprinting a Bill-shaped gouge across the dusty landscape. He left his mark to stand for eons as a testament to both the courage and folly of Kerbalkind.

[Claw]

I think "well crud" was about all I could say at the time.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/EhfNhyv.png[/img] Edited November 25, 2015 by Claw

[Spacetraindriver]

Concord with more engines=

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7IhxIm2.png[/IMG]

Even with just 4 it still manages that.

Oh and this:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/Xu8ghEUh.png?1[/img]

(Its the largest it allows me.)

[AbacusWizard]

The impending disaster here is subtle... take a very close look at the window and you'll see it.

[IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NG4WUKk38MU/VlVk8SJEvVI/AAAAAAAABj0/hyCnzKpFlw4/s800-Ic42/screenshot401.png[/IMG]

[Johno]

[quote name='CliftonM']I don't even know how to describe that...[/QUOTE]

"Hold my beer and watch this!"

[swjr-swis]

Valentina had just such a moment, in an Alternate-Reality-Now-Retroactively-Superseded:

Her thoughts at the time: "Uhm, was that wall there before?"

Edited December 9, 2015 by swjr-swis
forum upgrade borked image embed - I give up

[Overland]

Dont drive land trains without my steering wheel.. Just dont.. their modified to work very well with a steering wheel.. but lethal with a keyboard

That very thing goes through my head alot after work...



as the degrees the wheels are able to turn go from 45 degres @ 10m/s to 17 @ 23 m/s then finally 12 around 30

This means there wonderful to drive around the yard with a full steering wheel rotation making the train curve around corners naturally and ease into any shunting situation..

using keyboard.. not so much..

See I was fine tuning the power curve vs electricity generation of the new 44 class generation 6..
why I turn I dont know.. but I did..

a train is just a string of fuel tanks really.. and once shes on her roof... theres no turning back.. it ends horribly.. every single time
made worse by the fact that it doesnt matter if the gaurds van at the back twists first. or the locomotive.. the rest of the train usually follows :(


[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/duziemc.jpg[/IMG]


[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LpXWcDW.jpg[/IMG]

[Vermil]

I don't have any really 'fatal' disasters for you. Mission Control is very committed to keeping his astronauts alive. Anything potentially dangerous - except for the live missions - is flown unmanned. And so was this little scheduled test flight during Kronos development. The object of the test flight is to make a simulated Laythe-landing (but on Kerbin, of course), and then take off again and reach orbit - or almost reach orbit.

Points of interest is the angle of the descent - about 23 deg off vertical -, the velocity - 840 m/s or almost Mach 3 -, the altitude - 3524 m above sea level -, and finally the obvious fact that those rocky crags are certainly pretty far from being at sea level.

Cost of this little test flight ended up being about 3.4 million. A good thing it was just tax payer's money.

Edited November 30, 2015 by Vermil

[sdrevik]

[IMG]http://imgur.com/wsRw5Ed[/IMG]Rover re-entry.
[IMG]http://imgur.com/wsRw5Ed[/IMG]

[Spartwo]

I love these.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/cvPi2oa.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Wya6d8t.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/cNElpcE.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jBBdSYb.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/KySTdEC.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6hR6hPH.png[/IMG]
That's all the ones in short-term storage.

[Just Jim]

I have 2

The first is called "They're going the wrong way!!!"



The second is called "I thought you set the parking brake..."

Edited December 1, 2015 by Just Jim

[Renegrade]

I'm surprised nobody's posted this yet:

[img]http://alpha.renegrade.net/images/JustBeforeDisaster.png[/img]

(for the visually impaired, it's a picture of a 3.75m forum software rocket that's flying dangerously close to the forum data VAB)

...I've heard that didn't go so well last time~

[LordFerret]

Did. Not. End. Well.

Edited December 1, 2015 by LordFerret

[problemecium]

[quote name='Renegrade']
[img]http://alpha.renegrade.net/images/JustBeforeDisaster.png[/img]
[/QUOTE]

HAHA! lol very true.

[Wolfos31]

@LordFerret

What version is that screenshot from? I forget when but I want to say when 1.0 was released they changed parachutes so that they stay open until your velocity is down to less than 1 m/s. So I would have expected that to land and then slide down the slope with the parachutes keeping it's velocity below crash tolerance until you reached the river.

[Guest]

[quote name='Wolfos31']@LordFerret

What version is that screenshot from? I forget when but I want to say when 1.0 was released they changed parachutes so that they stay open until your velocity is down to less than 1 m/s. So I would have expected that to land and then slide down the slope with the parachutes keeping it's velocity below crash tolerance until you reached the river.[/QUOTE]
The parachutes cut when they hit the ground, though.

[theend3r]

One from the ancient age of orange asparagus rockets:
[imgur]z2Doy[/imgur]

[Guest]

[quote name='theend3r']One from the ancient age of orange asparagus rockets:
[URL]http://imgur.com/a/z2Doy[/URL][/QUOTE]
Awesome.

[justidutch]

Before ...

After ...

 

Edited December 2, 2015 by justidutch

[Bluegillbronco2]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PUGLgnu.png[/IMG]This is what happens when you land too hard....

[mythbusters844]

[URL="http://i.imgur.com/5DKNpwn.png"][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/5DKNpwnh.png[/IMG][/URL]

Fraction of a second later:
[URL="http://i.imgur.com/JIYh4I8.png"][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/JIYh4I8h.png[/IMG][/URL] Edited November 26, 2015 by mythbusters844

[LordFerret]

[quote name='Wolfos31']@LordFerret

What version is that screenshot from? I forget when but I want to say when 1.0 was released they changed parachutes so that they stay open until your velocity is down to less than 1 m/s. So I would have expected that to land and then slide down the slope with the parachutes keeping it's velocity below crash tolerance until you reached the river.

This was from v0.90.0. I had posted about this a while back in the fails thread. At the last second, I had both Kerbals bail. The Kerbals tumbled down the cliff and went poof! (died), while the capsule slid down and safely came to rest on a little ledge lol.



[quote name='CliftonM']The parachutes cut when they hit the ground, though.

Yep.

Edited December 1, 2015 by LordFerret