cantab

Now it's your fault I'm hungry. As for the riddle, still not correctly solved.

I don't think it's already been guessed, but either way, it's never been the solution Other guesses all wrong too.Stores of knowledge no-one may see Abutting spacetimes; energy Is needed yet to make them real As the strings the present must feel. That present may elude our grasp When what's to come we spy in glass. Week foll'wing week, day after day, A year or more to maybe stay. I've not tried to make this easy But I do hope it is not cheesy. Hint 1: You can find one in the solar system. Hint 2: You can find one on Earth.

Not any form of radiation nor any of the other new guesses. And newhint? Eh, I suppose so...seems a bit soon after the last though. Stores of knowledge no-one may see Abutting spacetimes; energy Is needed yet to make them real As the strings the present must feel. That present may elude our grasp When what's to come we spy in glass. Week foll'wing week, day after day, A year or more to maybe stay. I've not tried to make this easy But I do hope it is not cheesy. Hint 1: You can find one in the solar system. Hint 2: You can find one on Earth.

As mentioned there's not really a more-accessible analogue to Duna. Best I can think of is to try a landing on the highest location on Kerbin you can find. The mountain range near KSC has some flattish tops, though they aren't big targets to hit.

If you were on an escape trajectory then from certain angles it might look like the non-orbit described, but once you burn to get a closed orbit you'll see it's inclined.

None so far. And an interesting analysis from Arugela, but the riddle does say "not cheesy" Also a bit spamming guesses from Arugela. There's no formal rule but I personally don't like to put more than three guesses per post, and usually just put one.

No, no, no, and no. Stores of knowledge no-one may see Abutting spacetimes; energy Is needed yet to make them real As the strings the present must feel. That present may elude our grasp When what's to come we spy in glass. Week foll'wing week, day after day, A year or more to maybe stay. I've not tried to make this easy But I do hope it is not cheesy. Hint 1: You can find one in the solar system.

Use of the new superSAS tools in rocket ascents. Ie should you click "Hold Prograde" for a gravity turn or not. That's something old tutorials aren't going to discuss. How FAR behaves with clipping, and the notorious DRE heatshield problems. Again, something old tutorials won't include - but equally something liable to be obsoleted. As far as aircraft go, consider discussing different configurations and the pros and cons. For example "conventional" wings and tail, tailless deltas, tailed deltas, flying wings, even bi- and tri-planes. How to flight test, how to relate issues in flight to what the analysis tools report, and what changes to make to a plane to correct what issues. How to use the Flight Assistance, and how to tune it to work well. How to use trim too. Techniques to shed speed - it's often a real nuisance in FAR I find. Really most of those topics would be a video in themselves. Aeroplane design is complicated.

None of the above.

It's not Jupiter.

None correct. Edit: And a hint, huh? Well, OK then. Stores of knowledge no-one may see Abutting spacetimes; energy Is needed yet to make them real As the strings the present must feel. That present may elude our grasp When what's to come we spy in glass. Week foll'wing week, day after day, A year or more to maybe stay. I've not tried to make this easy But I do hope it is not cheesy. Hint 1: You can find one in the solar system.

All wrong still

No on all three counts.

Sounds like rather demanding needs. I've got a simple plug-in meter knocking around somewhere, but that just records kWh and shows them on a little LCD display, there's no fancy computer connection stuff.

Not television. And yes, as RIC said, the edit summary was just a cute way to say I'd fixed some misplaced punctuation. Newpage Stores of knowledge no-one may see Abutting spacetimes; energy Is needed yet to make them real As the strings the present must feel. That present may elude our grasp When what's to come we spy in glass. Week foll'wing week, day after day, A year or more to maybe stay. I've not tried to make this easy But I do hope it is not cheesy. Edit: And not any of those Stranded.

I bumped into a lamppost outside of level 2 Mission Control at about 3 m/s and the whole thing went kaboom. The building strength really is wonky. I vaguely recall discussion that the buildings have a hidden "damage meter", to handle situations where they take several impacts one after another that individually wouldn't destroy the building. Wild mass guessing here, maybe when something slow bumps into the building and isn't destroyed itself the game wrongly treats it as repeatedly impacting the building, whereas a fast impact will be one hit and the impactor is destroyed.

Final Frontier, to track the achievements of your Kerbals. Either Dang It! or Kerbal Mechanics, to make stuff break so your Kerbals have to fix it. Pick one and stick with it, switching between them on an existing save is liable to cause bugs. Also, I suggest relaxing rule three and allowing limited manoeuvring capabilities. Otherwise sooner or later you will get into the target orbit and deploy the satellite, only to find that deploying it nudged the orbit just enough to be outside what's accepted. Which brings me to suggest the Kerbonov mod - it includes a tiny little combo RCS thruster and tank designed for small stuff. Regarding the life support mass needed, well as I see it you have three choices. A) Require less life support, or none at all, by changing mods. Easiest way, but will it really let you appreciate the challenge of the outer planets? Make self-sustaining ships. For this OKS is the obvious choice. It's not easy though, and often a self-sustaining ship is just as heavy as one using consumables *and* I think still has one little consumable item to annoy you. C) Get there quicker! For this I suggest Near Future Technologies, which features a range of high-Isp electric engines, as well as nuclear reactors (and solars) to power them.

Nope, nope, and nope. Obvious? I don't know, it's always hard to see one's own riddle from a solver's perspective. I tried to take some inspiration from vexx when I was writing this one.

Well as I see it I'm uneasy with adding new parts specifically to get a design I've already started to work, it smacks of moving the goalposts. If I'd been using PWings from the start it would be another matter. And it's not like I'm out of things to try with the parts I already have. Letting the elevons overlap is in any case motivated by looks not performance.Speaking of things to try, I've seen people put elevons on the leading edge. What kind of things are they set up as, is it good for control or just as leading-edge flaps/slats?

Plenty of nice guesses, but all wrong sorry.

An excellent breakdown...but wrong. As was 747's guess.

None so far. Newpage repost. Stores of knowledge no-one may see Abutting spacetimes; energy Is needed yet to make them real As the strings the present must feel. That present may elude our grasp When what's to come we spy in glass. Week foll'wing week, day after day, A year or more to maybe stay. I've not tried to make this easy But I do hope it is not cheesy.

So, I finally managed a Basic Jet spaceplane in FAR. https://flic.kr/p/rwAvu9 The whole thing is loosely based on the Avro Vulcan. I climb steadily to reach 19 km and Mach 0.9, then light the rocket engine and accelerate and climb to around 30 km, through the aeroplane-spacecraft transition, then carry on much as for a rocket. Re-entry has yet to be tested. Still needs refinement of course. My biggest problem throughout has been getting enough pitch control authority. The built-in trim on the wing trailing edge helped but it still struggles. And a question. What effect will overlapping elevons have in FAR? Not major control surface spam, just small overlaps to avoid leaving gaps.

Finally got my Basic Jet FAR spaceplane, the Curtis Special, to orbit! Only just, but it's there. Curtis Special in orbit! by cantab314, on Flickr The whole thing is loosely based on the Avro Vulcan. FAR heavily nerfs the basic jets, they max out around 330 m/s, so the flight profile is to climb steadily to reach 19 km and Mach 0.9, then light the rocket engine and accelerate and climb to around 30 km, through the aeroplane-spacecraft transition, then carry on much as for a rocket. Re-entry has yet to be tested. As a method to put cargo in orbit this is dreadful, and for launching Kerbals it's not great. But I managed it.

Be careful what you wish for... Stores of knowledge no-one may see Abutting spacetimes; energy Is needed yet to make them real As the strings the present must feel. That present may elude our grasp When what's to come we spy in glass. Week foll'wing week, day after day, A year or more to maybe stay. I've not tried to make this easy But I do hope it is not cheesy.