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Related to this old comment, what will happen if I try and use the grid fins - or any control surface really - without a FAR configuration and with FAR installed? Will they work as stock control surfaces with all the attendant AoA/infiniglide issues? Will they do nothing at all? Something else?

Nice design. Were you able to link the yaw control to A/D correctly, or did you have to work around it somehow?

Granted. Unfortunately it's the Iranian space program, and while it runs well for a decade you are assassinated by Mossad before the end of the first year. I wish I was less of a slowpoke in this thread.

Granted. It's several versions behind the Windows release, development having stalled on it. And you had to buy them separately, you couldn't pay once and play on both OSes. I wish for no heartburn.

I don't know of any cooler that has the fins solely on the intake side, but there are certainly models that put the fan in the middle with fins both sides, and models that have two or more fans in a push-pull arrangement.

Here we are, this was my first orbiter: Speed and g at SRB burnout by cantab314, on Flickr

My first orbiter was lulzy. About 18 boosters at launch, because I didn't know the whole not breaking terminal velocity thing. Also, it was spin stabilised, with angled fins on the boosters.

I find the diameters good enough.

Dingdingding! We have our winner. And great, it's you again.Explainy: The title backed up by no tests, - It's a "Dr" but it doesn't have a degree Loved by our teacher nonetheless. - KSP streamer DasValdez is known for it Invented down south in Texas, - Obvious For some time now it's been pointless. - Quite literally. 'Dr' originally had a point, ie a full stop/period, after it, but that was removed It looks like some much better known, - Coke and Pepsi But looks do lie, for it's its own. - It tastes different Just make a guess! - filler What is the worst that could happen? - Nearly verbatim, the drink's advertising slogan in the UK. Let's end this verse. - filler

7/10. Zathura meets Space Engineers? I'm surprised nobody's put this one yet:

Clever design. Putting the ETs and boosters above the low wing eliminates the balance problems that plague shuttles in KSP.

There's some interesting ideas there. Much as on the desktop, they're forging ahead with their own UI ideas. The "scopes" look interesting, and in theory they'd help the problem I find with phone apps that there's a lack of commonality, everyone wants to do their own app with their own way of doing things. But I think that everyone will still want to do their own app with their own way of doing things, otherwise we'd already see more good mobile websites and fewer lame pointless apps.

Xubuntu. XFCE is a lightweight interface, leaving more memory free for your actual programs, and it's stuck to a familiar layout rather than doing goofy stuff.

Purely considering classical physics, a negative mass moves in the opposite direction to an applied force. This means that charged negative-mass particles would clump together electrostatically, easily overcoming their gravitational repulsion. I'm not even sure what the nuclear forces would do, but whatever happens you're going to get dense balls of negative mass and high net charge. These, though, would then attract positive mass particles of opposite charge. From a distance, that would reduce both the net mass and net charge of the agglomeration. I wonder if the end result wouldn't be something that has zero net mass and zero net charge, despite being full of particles of both signs of mass and charge. (On a sidenote, as far as gravity is concerned then assuming gravitational and inertial mass are equivalent, a positive mass attracts all masses, while a negative mass repels all masses. This is unsurprising considering general relativity's view of gravity as a distortion in spacetime that thus affects everything equally.)

FAR doesn't seem to respect the physicsless flag - I've found the OX-STATs have drag in FAR. Not much, but enough to make a rocket veer off course if it's got them down one side and not the other. I don't think they'd do much to your plane though.

Keep in mind that FAR doesn't consider whether or not parts are clipped into each other. If you're building replicas and they're heavy on the clipping, you'll have a shape that looks sleek but FAR will consider it draggy.

AMD crossfire setup...yeah, I can see that being a problem. For AMD cards on Linux, the proprietary drivers underperform compared to Windows and don't have a great reputation for stability, while the Free Software drivers perform a little worse still, but are nonetheless enough to handle less demanding games and are much more stable. You could try a different distribution. The latest version of Xubuntu would be a good bet. Steam recommend *buntu; the X variant has a more traditional interface and uses less RAM than regular Ubuntu. Try the Free Software driver, it might well manage KSP alright especially if Xubuntu has a newer version than OpenSUSE did. If you want to use the proprietary driver, install it using the Ubuntu Software Centre or similar, rather than downloading it from AMD's website.

Nice! Ike is relatively straightforward, pretty much like the Mun. Duna, though, Duna is my nemesis. The atmosphere lures you into thinking you can use chutes, or powered land with modest delta-V, but then your hopes are dashed against the surface as the air is too thin to help you.

It's nothing to do with Texas Instruments. Other things have been invented in Texas.

None of those so far. Newpage repost The title backed up by no tests, Loved by our teacher nonetheless. Invented down south in Texas, For some time now it's been pointless. It looks like some much better known, But looks do lie, for it's its own. Just make a guess! What is the worst, that could happen? Let's end this verse.

Episodes 6 and 7 were spent putting the KAX electric propeller to good use to do temperature scans and visual surveys around Kerbin. The Make Science Not War 1 drone: https://flic.kr/p/qLS8BV The Icarus 2 one-Kerbal plane: https://flic.kr/p/q8G23v With the contracts, and some other part tests and the like, I have almost all the 90 point science nodes unlocked, and we are ready to go kethane mining next episode! I'm also catching up doing some highlights, which I will edit into the first post.

Fair point. I made a variant though, adding a reaction wheel and removing the elevons and increasing the sweep of the wings by 10 degrees to get the CoL just behind the CoM. That showed one red number in the longitudinal stability (bottom left), but was stable and controllable in flight just as the one with elevons was.

Well, we'll see how hard it is. This one at least shouldn't be as prone to anything-fits-syndrome as my last. The title backed up by no tests, Loved by our teacher nonetheless. Invented down south in Texas, For some time now it's been pointless. It looks like some much better known, But looks do lie, for it's its own. Just make a guess! What is the worst, that could happen? Let's end this verse.

Granted. Unity 5 is out and has excellent Windows 64-bit support. KSP, though, remains on Unity 4 as Squad shift development resources to a Kerbal-themed first person shooter. I wish for inspiration.

My home partition is 96% full. I've found data expands to fill the space available. That still leaves more free space than my first PC or my first laptop, both about a decade ago, had in total.