Found lying by the side of the road. A mystery on KSP

[SpaceOdissey]

Had you looked at the factory of ALL the parachutes? And appears Found lying by the side of the road? For me is very strange because if you look at advanced Mode at the parts and then you put Filter by Manufacturer and search for Found lying by the side of the road it's not there! Also contracts of Found lying by the side of the road are not there! So what do you think? Is this strange? And @SQUAD why you don't put that manufacturer on there? 

[Mikki]

...crazy...... going to investigate this... 

[Waxing_Kibbous]

Also, there are no roads on Kerbin- what happened to the roads? Or is there a hidden road-covered planet somewhere....

[The Aziz]

The runway looks kinda like a road. So you know, after many not-so-successful take-offs or landings, there should be plenty of spare parts there.

[MinimalMinmus]

35 minutes ago, The Aziz said:

The runway looks kinda like a road. So you know, after many not-so-successful take-offs or landings, there should be plenty of spare parts there.

But then what came first...

The spare part on the road?

Or the part in the VAB?

Bwahahahahaha!

[The_Rocketeer]

51 minutes ago, MinimalMinmus said:

But then what came first...

The spare part on the road?

I thought you were going to say "The spare part OR the road?" - which begs a far more profound question, if parachute technology could be found on Kerbin before the invention of the road... where did it come from?

[MinimalMinmus]

Just now, The_Rocketeer said:

I thought you were going to say "The spare part OR the road?" - which begs a far more profound question, if parachute technology could be found on Kerbin before the invention of the road... where did it come from?

It came from a dresser raid in the KSC, of course!

[Alshain]

7 minutes ago, The_Rocketeer said:

which begs a far more profound question, if parachute technology could be found on Kerbin before the invention of the road... where did it come from?

Well, they do land on the Mun before inventing the airplane.

[The_Rocketeer]

4 minutes ago, Alshain said:

Well, they do land on the Mun before inventing the airplane.

Not in my games.

[The Aziz]

Let's look at my old screenshots..
Yes, there is Mun orbit, but no signs of landing.
Oh, there's the first plane.
And then there is landing.

[SpaceOdissey]

20 hours ago, Waxing_Kibbous said:

Also, there are no roads on Kerbin- what happened to the roads? Or is there a hidden road-covered planet somewhere....

That's right! They could be invisible!

[Red Shirt]

For the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky!

[roboslacker]

I always figured the parachutes were put there by totalitarian dictatorships. Also, there's a lot of small roads inside the space center complex.

[BTW, I've never used a plane]

[jros83]

The folks at KSC are so committed to their work that they are completely oblivious to the fact that Kerbal society suffered a catastrophic disaster centuries ago. They won't let anything as trivial as societal collapse distract them FROM SCIENCE!

Edited March 27, 2017 by jros83

[SpaceOdissey]

4 hours ago, roboslacker said:

 Also, there's a lot of small roads inside the space center complex.

 

Well... Roads are on KSC, but the mystery is why SQUAD called it "Found lying by the side of the road" if this game is intend for Space Exploration...

[roboslacker]

The real mystery is why stuff found lying by the road costs funds. I just checked the wiki, the mysterious "road" manufacturer makes more than just parachutes. They also make low tier SRBs, over half the docking ports, the service bays, monopropellant tanks, and xenon canisters.

The totalitarian dictatorship is better equipped than I originally suspected.

[The Aziz]

12 minutes ago, roboslacker said:

The real mystery is why stuff found lying by the road costs funds.

Business.

[Hodari]

On 3/25/2017 at 4:26 PM, Waxing_Kibbous said:

Also, there are no roads on Kerbin- what happened to the roads?

Where they're going, they don't need...roads.

[NSEP]

Maybe its junk leftover by humans? Maybe Kerbals one day lived their life like an alien does, untill they found these parts and blueprints that lead to Kerbals having a human-like space program.

[Hypercosmic]

A junkyard nearby the road which the government owns. The government then sells stuffs to the space program.

[Urses]

On 26.3.2017 at 10:55 PM, Red Shirt said:

For the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky!

The evedince you see Every time where you splash at Night.. .

The Sun is Underneath you...

Physics...Kerballised....

Funny Kabooms 

Urses

[SpaceOdissey]

On 28 de marzo de 2017 at 9:27 AM, NSEP said:

Maybe its junk leftover by humans? Maybe Kerbals one day lived their life like an alien does, untill they found these parts and blueprints that lead to Kerbals having a human-like space program.

[Yobobhi]

On 3/25/2017 at 6:37 PM, The_Rocketeer said:

I thought you were going to say "The spare part OR the road?" - which begs a far more profound question, if parachute technology could be found on Kerbin before the invention of the road... where did it come from?

From the apparent tech progression, it seems that Kerbals have invented sub-orbital spacecraft before the invention of wheels with which to traverse roads, making any roads useless. However, parachutes are very useful on spacecraft.

[ZooNamedGames]

I actually made a thread which would explain and better implement this running gag in KSP buuut no one seems interested in that suggestion thread.

[Razorforce7]

Found lying by the side of the road?

Is that how Elon Musk started?