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In terms of how the players treat it, maybe. Then again, I started playing in .23 and put most of my playtime in .23.5. Also KSP is a very different sort of game to the likes of League of Legends. In terms of how Squad sell it, well Squad *aren't* providing a service in the usual sense. When you buy KSP you have the right to play the then-current version indefinitely.

What about Valdez as in Das? The game is crying out for ingame tutorials and DasValdez would be a leading candidate to write them.

Yet another idea. A V formation is a way multiple planes can fly. So something to do with multiple vessels. Maybe controlling them all yourself, maybe it's multiplayer?

For mass back in orbit, my old exploration/mining ship. Designed to cruise around low gravity moons hovering on the ions, and also fully capable of flying back into orbit. I don't have the exact mass to hand though. Just thinking about fuel, the grey tank stays empty but there's 13 tons of xenon (hidden in the adapters), six tons of monoprop, and I think 30 or so of kethane when full. For mass landed, my Tylo lander: https://flic.kr/p/qK65LP Even down to about 2 1/2 tanks full per column it's still a heavy thing! Unfortunately it didn't quite make orbit afterwards because of a delta-V miscalculation; Jeb proceeded on the jetpack but the lander slammed back into Tylo's surface.

Ah yeah, setup time can be a problem. I've heard that even just having a fixed pier can help. You still need to take the mount out and bolt it on each time, but it means quick good alignment.

Indeed. I've mentioned previously, why use KSP to work out interplanetary flightpaths individually when you could use a program to consider all possible flightpaths within a range and automatically find the best, for example. KSP just isn't design for mission planning or optimising, and in any case it only covers a tiny fraction of what spaceflight involves.

Comics? They're for kids!

Regarding this issue, you can pitch in a direction other than east you know

You appear to have no wings at all. That means the centre of lift is undefined, and it just gets shown on the bottom of the VAB as a "default" location. I can't see where your propulsion is, but if it's flipping in flight the design looks sound so I'd suspect pilot error.

These are all awesome. It's a fine demonstration of what I've normally advised people - a telescope is unimportant for deep-sky astrophotography, you just need a DSLR with the kit lens and a mount. What are your sky conditions like?

Everything gives off heat. Maybe not a lot, but everything gives off some. In the absence of the Sun, Earth's internal heat flux would warm it to around 35 K (depending somewhat on the surface albedo), and its emissions would peak around 80 microns in the far infrared. Various space telescopes have been capable of observing such wavelengths though I don't know if any were large enough to detect such a planet. Figures from messing around here http://www.spectralcalc.com/blackbody_calculator/blackbody.php

I don't think it changes the lift, just the wing mass and strength.

On the Linux side I strongly recommend an nVidia card. Their proprietary drivers are reliable and perform just as well as their Windows counterparts. AMD cards by contrast underperform on Linux, whether you use the proprietary or the open source drivers. I have a 750 Ti and it's easily up to running KSP. Heck, it'll handle most games on decent settings at 1080p, but don't expect to game at ultra HD res on it. It's also very power efficient so all but the most miserly PSUs will handle it. I would say that a 2 GB card is worth getting, many current games will have issues with 1 GB. All 750 Ti's are 2 GB but if you're considering a cheaper 750 or even 740 some of them are only 1 GB, I'd avoid those.

Absolutely I think they warrant a rework. The Isp issue is well known to be buggy, making that work properly should be fairly straightforward. The speeds are also too high. If we were going by realism I would put the "basic jet" as not going much above Mach 1, and rename it the turbofan while I'm at it. The turbojet maybe Mach 2-3, so fighter jet or getting on for SR-71 levels of performance. The RAPIER needs to sit around the same level even though its prototype is expected to run on air up to Mach 5, unless one wants the jets to be totally uncompetitive for spaceplanes. One more big issue that hasn't been mentioned much: the jet engines have way too high a TWR. They need it to push through the current soup, but it means they're as good as the rockets (which have a poor TWR compared to reality) and thus see use in vertical launchers. With the new aerodynamics hopefully being much less draggy the jets can be given a TWR nerf. Aircraft will still fly similar in level flight, but building vertical jetrockets will be much harder.

I'm not very good with planes, because I never really spent much time with them, because I knew how dodgy the stock aerodynamics were. I didn't want to put effort into building unrealistic planes, and I didn't want to break all my rockets by switching to FAR. Now I have switched to FAR - a new update and a new main savefile made that a much easier step. I find it much more engaging for rocket launches, but I still haven't done that much with planes.

If life is in some objective sense "advancing" over time, it's not too surprising that species go extinct less easily. That's a very big if though. Mind you the oceans at least have gone the early Cambrian where much life was on the seafloor and much of that was non-moving, to today where much more life swims actively.

Granted. They were last week, and you failed them. I wish Windows update integration would just work.

I've been thinking about streaming for a couple of months now. I've done a total of one stream.

Granted. In Australia. I wish I had a self-loading dishwasher.

I would expect the default to be to pull in only actual dependencies and not "recommended" stuff as well. But I'll try and remember that option the next time I look at it.

I tried CKAN. It needlessly pulled in the entire Firespitter package, tons of parts I didn't want, when I tried to install KAX. Buh-bye CKAN!

Granted. Have you ever seen your boss land? I wish adequate computer security was distinguishable from paranoia.

Granted. It arrives at the surface of Duna at a thousand m/s. I wish for an intact fence in my garden, in the same place as the broken one.

Granted. The One Ring exists and would give great power to any who hold it. It's on Sauron's finger. I wish for a Covenant- and Flood-free Halo.

Got it in one