Munslide -- Friction glitch in KSP

[LitaAlto]

Have you ever noticed that friction in KSP is a bit weird?

I went to record the new EVA animations in KSP 1.6 for... reasons... and wind up recording 37.5 hours' worth of sliding downhill just to make a silly video. Can you blame me? Yes? Well... me too.

Suits by GregroxMun: https://spacedock.info/mod/2030/Gregrox's Multi Color Suit Pack 2.0
Requires Texture Replacer: https://github.com/ducakar/TextureReplacer/releases/

Music:

"Improvbable"
"Enter the Party"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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"Spooky Scary Skeletons" (Otamatone cover, excerpt)
Used by kind permission from TheRealSullyG
(https://www.youtube.com/TheRealSullyG )

"Willaim Tell Overture" (excerpt)
Gioachino Rossini
Performed by the United States Marine Corps Band
Public Domain

Gunshot SFX by mitchelk (https://freesound.org/people/mitchelk/) 
Licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Video clip SFX taken from Pixabay (pixabay.com)
Licensed under the Pixabay License
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[PunkyFickle]

1. Frenziedly gesticulating Kerbals sliding their way down a Munar hill with a superimposed image of a herd of wild horses running in a prairie and Rossini playing in the background is likely one of the weirdest things I've seen on the internet in 2019 so far.

2. I did dance the Munslide*.

3. That liquid background in pinkish colors had me stop dancing the Munslide.

4. Despite all the above, this video is of the highest scientific interest for unveiling a great ill-documented physical phenomena.

5. You should conduct a comprehensive series of tests on all the Kerbol system in order to determine if the Polslide and the Mohoslide are a thing and to elaborate according choreographies.

*Although I was not actually on the Mun sliding down a slope, so it was not technically a Munslide, but that was the idea.

[roboslacker]

Now that's pretty.

[LitaAlto]

21 hours ago, PunkyFickle said:

1. Frenziedly gesticulating Kerbals sliding their way down a Munar hill with a superimposed image of a herd of wild horses running in a prairie and Rossini playing in the background is likely one of the weirdest things I've seen on the internet in 2019 so far.

2. I did dance the Munslide*.

3. That liquid background in pinkish colors had me stop dancing the Munslide.

4. Despite all the above, this video is of the highest scientific interest for unveiling a great ill-documented physical phenomena.

5. You should conduct a comprehensive series of tests on all the Kerbol system in order to determine if the Polslide and the Mohoslide are a thing and to elaborate according choreographies.

*Although I was not actually on the Mun sliding down a slope, so it was not technically a Munslide, but that was the idea.

1. I am proud to have brought such early 2019 weirdness to your life. I'm a bit worried about peaking early though. ...On second thought, nah.

2. YAY MUNSLIDE! You can do the dance anywhere, even in the real world. Scandalous, I know, but you can't stop the fever! (But you CAN stop measles. Get your shots, people.)

3. That was a reference to 60s discotheques and the liquid light show which was common to them. See Godzilla Vs. Hedorah for a suitably nerdy example of this. If it's an aversion to the color pink, just think of it as the color red, but with room for growth. 

4. Agreed, this video is of Great Scientific Importance^TM.

5. I tried it on Minmus but it's actually easy to start sliding so fast that your Kerbal acts like it's falling. It's actually kinda fun, except that suddenly the terrain will gain enough friction that the Kerbal stops and stands up straight before anything funny tragic happens. That said, now I kinda want to try it on Gilly.

[KerballingSmasher]

On 2/6/2019 at 9:15 AM, LitaAlto said:

But you CAN stop measles. Get your shots, people.

Yep!

[Sky Vagrant]

I had a lander slide for about 10 minutes on Duna on a not-very-steep slope. Actually pushed it along with RCS to get to the flat part quicker. Didn’t thing of turning it into a fun activity for my Kerbals - nice vid!

[FrostBird347]

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[LitaAlto]

21 hours ago, FrostBird347 said:

....how can I break this even more?

I have no idea, but I can hardly wait to see what you come up with.

One suggestion: Plant a bunch of flags and play Kerbal Pachinko.