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[RogueMason]

Soarer 4, the prime candidate for a Laythe Spaceplane. However, with speculation amongst many in Kerbal society that the 21st age is imminent, the mission is being held off for the moment, but the plane remains in testing on Kerbin:

It has excellent gliding ability, and with only one jet engine, flat spins won't occur in the event of a flameout.

Meanwhile, the military shows off the Atlantis ATL-040, an Atlantis class Torpedo Frigate:

Armed with 8 Helix Light Torpedoes, the Atlantis class is a formidable ship. This is bolstered by the fact that the ship itself is a tough nut to crack, and only a precise hit will cause significant damage.

Only 2 nuclear engines propel the ship, but this fuel efficiency should allow for a transfer to Duna if need be.

A linear docking port allows for refuelling of the ship.

Despite its designation as a frigate, the Atlantis class is quite small, and with a thin head-on and side-on profile, most ballistic or missile weapons will fail to hit without precision guidance.

[The Jedi Master]

Kerbals at their finest.

[pa1983]

Falxon XI Hercules lifting Eeloo Explorer craft to LKO.

http://youtu.be/CLJP_w6C93o

[zekes]

KSP in an alternate reality.....

Edited July 8, 2013 by zekes

[Simplicity]

Falxon XI Hercules lifting Eeloo Explorer craft to LKO.

Care to share your settings.cfg file so I can have a look at your settings please, I can't figure out how you can make it run as smooth as you do

[Giggleplex777]

Care to share your settings.cfg file so I can have a look at your settings please, I can't figure out how you can make it run as smooth as you do

I think he just sped up the video. He has a pretty good rig, too.

[Simplicity]

I think he just sped up the video. He has a pretty good rig, too.

Hehe, well my rig isn't too shabby (6 core 3.20GHz cpu, 8GB ram, GTX650Ti OC) - but when I load some of the big planes that have been posted on the forums my poor rig struggles, so I thought I would ask just incase he using settings that are different

[pa1983]

Well all 3 ideas are true.

My allowed physic cpu time is reduced from 0.10 to 0.03 in the game settings and that helps a lot. I have tried 0.01 manually but not sure it helps.

My cpu, i7 3930k run all cores at 4Ghz, 32Gb of DDR3 1600Mhz, Stock GTX570 (about as fast in games as GTX660ti).

I dont know what cpu you have but modern i5 an i7 are the fastest, IPC off 4-5 and hich clocks, fast low latency cache etc make them very fast per core preformence. Phenom II is okay but IPC is still low, like 3 so still a lot slower at the same frequency. Pildriver and bulldozer have even lower per core preformance so there IPC is even less that off Phenom 2 but they do have new instructionsets but really nothing ksp uses yet.

An FX processor have to be clocked very high to offer the same preformance per thread as an intel equivalent.

The fact that bulldozer and piledriver share fetch and decoder between two cores is the problem plus the fact that there cache is a lot slower and has higher latencies . Max IPC for a module is 4 but etch core has limited resources so thats why per core performance is low. Remember intel processors have sens core 2 had an IPC of 4 per core and intel processors have more resources then a single thread can use most off the time. Thats why they use hyper threading to take advantage of unused resources.

Best CPU for KSP to day would be an i5 4670k. You only need 2 cores atm but this are the fastest cores avalible that can be overclocked.

I5 usually clocks higher to sense hyper threading utilizes more of the core at once it demands more power and requires a higher level of stability. But sens ksp wont even use 4 cores an i5 makes most sense.

I also speed up my videos to reflect real time.

My current video runs at 0.5x so speed it up 2x. I do have good frame rates most of the time. What anoys me the most is the fact that I more or less always have 0.6x physic time at kerbin. Planets kill physics. If I look at the sky or ground I get 1.0x but looking at the horizon gives me 0.6x even with just a few parts.

They need to fix this asap. Im not the only one whit that problem.

Edited July 8, 2013 by pa1983

[lucidLemon]

I can't believe I actually did it. I used my crossbow to help send a Kerbal into orbit around the Mun

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I don't know how I'm going to top this. This is insane. I'm insane.

I think sending a Kerbal to Munar orbit like this might be a first.

Edited July 8, 2013 by lucidLemon

[Whackjob]

I just now realize that I've never contributed a picture here.

Corrected.

[War Eagle 1]

So, BSMC finished the AIES-BSMC VIII mission. Here are some photos:

The trajectory that got it out:

Mun flyby

Pale blue dot (more of a marble)

To Jool!

Much timewarp later...

The end!

Hey just fyi using the mun to escape actualy uses more fuel. Idk how to explain but Scott Manly can so go watch his videos on youtube

[SuperWeegee4000]

Not a ship, but I felt it was meaningful: The flag planted by Buzz Kerman, the first Kerbal to set foot on the surface of Minmus.

[Majorjim!]

[SuperWeegee4000]

The Munar transfer stage of the Waluigi Pond II, drifting at 1000 m/s in orbit around the Sun. Its orbit takes it halfway out to that of Duna, and a quarter way to Eve. I leave it there as a monument of sorts.

My Soyuz replica escape system went amazingly.

Buzz's capsule landed right next to the monolith, and he had to take a publicity photo. "Greetings from the equator!"

[Kialar]

Couldn't believe that this thing can be steered or even be landed until I just tried.

On Gilly. Was a hell of a unstable ride...

[j-tk]

Wife was talking to me as I was heading to Mun, noticed at the last second I didn't time my burn right leaving Kerbin, so switched on MechJeb to save the day!

[inigma]

My first contribution (all from http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/38461-Kerbal-Space-Program-Wiki-Campaigns) :

A planned (debris-free) disassembly (really, it was debris-free...I just like the parts flying off in all directions to give the command module an accompanying fireworks show announcing to the Kerbals below of their intrepid space explorers' safe return):

Edited July 8, 2013 by inigma

[Flixxbeatz]

Just another day at the launch complex

[Ferrit]

I can't believe I actually did it. I used my crossbow to help send a Kerbal into orbit around the Mun

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I don't know how I'm going to top this. This is insane. I'm insane.

I think sending a Kerbal to Munar orbit like this might be a first.

Good grief!! Almost unbelievable. Congratulations sir, I salute you with jaw dropped!

[lucidLemon]

Thanks! It's only getting more powerful too, the latest version shoots kerbals 1.1 kilometers on Kerbin, 400 meters more than what the one currently on the Mun could do.

[Ryan7074]

pic of an eclipse on duna 2013-05-07_00005.jpg

[Deadweasel]

pic of an eclipse on duna 2013-05-07_00005.jpg

Going to need a path, more than just the filename, in order to get it to show up to everybody.

[espm400]

Okay, story short; went to a buddy's birthday party last night and got, uh, more than a little intoxicated. Upon arriving home, decided to watch a certain Mike Meyers movie, and partway through I got curious; would it actually fly? Some of you may already know where I'm going with this. Also, to be clear, I'm using Deadly Re-entry and FAR, which makes the following even more surprising.

First, it made it to orbit, so I guess it's a rocket-based SSTO

Damn, missed the island hideout

Here's perhaps the most interesting part. With DE installed, it actually survived re-entry. Not the landing however, oh no... Not a bloody parachute on the thing.

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Now normally I wouldn't have posted this, but this afternoon when I booted up KSP and went to load a ship, I noticed a ship named 'Dr. Evil' that I only vaguely remembered building. After trying it out, I just couldn't believe how well it performed. Well, Dr. Evil, you've proven your chops today. You've definitely earned your title of 'Evil Genius.'

[Deadweasel]

Looks like a giant johnson to me.

[astropapi1]

-What is it, son?... I don't know, but it looks like a giant.

-Dick! Take a look at our starboard!... Oh my God, it looks like a huge.

-Pecker! Wait, that's not a wood pecker, it looks like someone's.

-Privates! We have reports of an Unidentified Flying Object, it is a long smooth shaft, complete with.

-Two balls!.... What is that? it looks like an enormous.

-Wang! Pay attention!... I was distracted by that enormous flying.

-Willie! What's that?... Well, it looks like a giant

-Johnson! blah blah blah...

That's why I love that movie.