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Just because TweakScale makes it possible doesn't mean you have to indulge in it.

Sweet ride, dude! After the flip with explosion near the end, what part blew up?

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

I'd rather have competent and reasonable skeptic people. And compare it to Arctic Exploration in the 19th Century. One of the most successful (if not appreciated in his own time due to...reasons) was John Rae. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rae_(explorer) Rather than massive teams, he used very small groups that used many techniques learned from the Inuit as well as his own good judgement. A surgeon and a highly competent explorer. Sure, you can't quite live off the land on Mars as you can with a very small group of people in the Arctic. But the principle can be adapted: Don't take too many people depending on what is to be done. And for Mars exploration and colonization, I have still not seen as good a comprehensive plan as Robert Zubrin's in The Case for Mars. Ground checkout and two launch vehicles per expedition in successive and steady expansion. Can always be adapted to other launch vehicles and variant spacecraft, but it's still the best overall sketch for how to approach it.

The vast majority of the millions of people who put Apollo on the Moon never travelled farther than their daily commute to work. It's one thing if you're hired into a well-paying job--like engineer or astronaut--that up front says there will be a lot of compensated travel and away-from-home as part of the job. It's another thing if you're most people, who don't have that.

Considering how often race cars get festooned with many sponsors' logos, perhaps you could make a car covered with the various Kerbal agencies symbols ?

Really the same with me. Is there anyone who's previously done Caveman interplanetary who hasn't contributed yet?

How about Flying Cars...?

Eating right now. @Triop?

Yes, but I'd like to tackle interplanetary at a later date without worrying that I returned the craft but not the pilot. Leaving Jeb in a Kerbol orbit with no way of getting him home would be a poor way to fail our Caveman Jool-5.

Shouldn't that be "...high elliptical Laythe orbit." Interplanetary, especially the Caveman kind, is a bit beyond me.

In some ways the best mod to aid docking is used in the VAB: RCS Build Aid. It helps to build the balanced spacecraft that manuever well during docking, having little coupling between translation and rotation. Used it so much I can now do good designs even without the mod.

I believe their policies are so haphazard, self-centred, and unvoiced that they almost certainly break some laws. They definitely break the rules of good sense that should guide all businesses. Like never waste good will on petty things, because some day you'll need it when things get really bad. They aren't really good corporate citizens of any nation. Did you watch those videos? They aren't long and they go into detail how YouTube jerks their content creators around. These are the people who have made the content that earns YouTube its advertisers and revenue and they are being mistreated. But YouTube is like many businesses over the years. Makes a thousand right decisions, then start making wrong ones more and more that slowly destroys all it built. I've seen it before and I'll see it again.

COPPA has been law since 1998, yet YouTube and Google pursued policies that violated it. Amongst their other actions, it shows a carelessness in breaking law and regulation when it suits them. From all the other comments I've seen on YouTube's inconsistent and obtuse behaviour, I believe they would be even more careless with respect to the content creators, who haven't the means of the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate, gather evidence, and accuse. That will likely be a factor in the future. However, there should be enough knowledge of how this happened to be apparent that a lot of this is down to YouTube and Google's haphazard application of automated policies that shot themselves in their own feet. There's already subscription services providing alternatives, so there's already movement.

YouTube / Google's unstated policy of gathering information on all its users and tracking them came around and bit them because it broke COPPA. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/09/google-youtube-will-pay-record-170-million-alleged-violations And now YouTube doesn't want this to happen again. So it's implementing changes to its service effective 2020 January 1. The problem with this is it will effective kill off what remaining revenue there is for a large chunk of their creators. And possibly expose other creators because of YouTube being obtuse and not treating their creators properly. Jingles, a rather major creator, covers the issues with YouTube and the coming changes extensively in the first 31 minutes of this video.

I can understand the automation. But *internally*, the code has to know what was violated. So why isn't that reported to the creators? If someone unknowingly breaks a rule but is never told how they did so, how can anyone ever figure out what-the-frak YouTube means? And if it's a trained neural network that gives PASS or FAIL without a way of knowing why, well, that's irresponsible, as such neural networks are known to be inconsistent and give high levels of false positives and false negatives. And you can argue all day that YouTube is free to offer an inconsistent and abusive free service. But that violates laws in many jurisdictions. And is just wrong. That's crazy to use as a business model. And in the end, YouTube and Google are sowing the wind. Someday, they will reap the whirlwind.

I can't remember hearing the phrase "Terms of Service" with respect to these issues. I've heard "violate community standards". And in most cases that aren't demonitized, a copyright claim, or a copyright strike, they *don't* even say how the creator violated those standards. Often it's just kill the whole Google account, get one appeal--to Google--then usually hear back "Nope, still banned, not saying why." That's what happened to Jim Sterling's podcast side channel. BTW, considering the 3 that are reported, YouTube has done wonderful things like copyright claim a YouTube creator for their *own* music. In what world is all that rational and fair treatment?

Even simple docking only in Kerbin orbit allows the simplest method of providing a large vessel: Launch the mission spacecraft as dry as possible of propellants, then launch tankers to dock with the mission spacecraft and fuel it. That combines the power of surface checkout of the mission spacecraft with a larger spacecraft for a given launch vehicle.

You're right, the fundamental problem with advertisement as it started on YouTube was unsustainable. Something had to change. But that doesn't excuse the way change happened. The excessive amounts of screwing around that happened and is happening to small creators. And the lack of explanations and communication coming from YouTube. YouTube doesn't want to explain things. Partly I think because it keeps changing them. And all this is effectively throwing small creators under a bus. That's not the way people and organizations should treat each other, even corporations.

@Triop, you've brought Kerbal-kind into a suburbia equivalent to the 1950's. Congratulations. Next, where's the Flying Cars?

BTW, that was in the Community Caveman Jool-5 mission, meaning it was completely manual. With all level-1 facilities, that's also without maneuver nodes or targetting outside of about ~50km.

Matt Lowe's case isn't the only one. Take for example the comment by the creator of this video which I just watched. This is a common occurrence since the Adpocalypse a few years ago. Any video on serious subjects, involving history or weapons especially, gets demonetized. And the trend with what is expected to happen soon is that no smaller creator will get any revenue from YouTube. Eventually all that will be left there will be large corporations, people doing it because they've built up their exterior support, or those who do it for free. YouTube will not be the same place it was. Was this likely to happen whatever YouTube's policies? Probably, in some way. But @Aperture Science, there are a lot of cases of people getting screwed around by a YouTube that just reflects the casual carelessness of Google; sure you can find fault with some, but *all* of them ?!? All those small creators help establish YouTube. YouTube doesn't care about them. The way things are and with the attitudes displayed by YouTube, most of those creators who's content I like now will be gone in not too long. I think that's sad.

I could help you learn how to rendezvous and dock, with whatever level of modding you're comfortable with. Just recently relearned meself.

I thought it was more, but you're right, it's just a double negative. Confirmed, @razark is Star Theory.

I'm hearing too many stories about YouTube doing stuff screwing around channels out of the blue with no explanation. From radically different content creators. This is real.