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For all those tasks except maybe the Mun landing 0.5g will be fine. (And it would be adequate for a Mun landing but I'd prefer more). Enough that burns won't take ages but not excessive engine mass. Ships using the LV-N or PB-ION might run somewhat lower.
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.23 was my first paid version, and I've spent most of my time in .23.5. (Only fired up .25 for the first time today actually). So pretty modern really, though I do recall having to add a lot more struts, and launch clamps being essential for everything. My old playing might be more amusing. A lifter that kept clobbering its middle engine so I just removed said engine and ran on the outers. And my hilarious first effort at a "heavy lifter".
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Granted. The feathers are heavier and you go insane trying to work out why. I wish for bread.
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I've rarely used it for launchers at all. I've never met anything I couldn't launch from Kerbin with simpler staging methods. Asparagus proliferates part count giving less payload per part, adds a lot of complication to the build, and proliferates hazardous staging events. When I wanted a crazy amount of delta-V on a transfer stage, then it became essential.
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How can we terraform Venus' atmosphere?
cantab replied to Everten P.'s topic in Science & Spaceflight
First up you're probably going to need a sunshade. Venus is a little too close to the Sun to maintain a good climate otherwise. Then you need to remove something like 99% of the atmosphere. I'm happy to rule out freezing it for obvious reasons. Shipping it into space would work but be a phenomenal amount of stuff to launch. Preferable would be to lock it up in rocks by silicate weathering, a reaction that is important in controlling atmospheric CO2 on Earth. Water with dissolved CO2 reacts with silicate rocks to produce carbonate and bicarbonate salts which can then precipitate out as limestone. Of course this requires some water to get running. Said water could be obtained initially by distilling Venusian air; there's not a lot of water vapour but it would suffice to get started. I'm not sure what temperatures the silicate weathering reaction can take place at, but if it will work at Venus surface temperatures then the water could be pumped through boreholes in the rock, and the carbonates subsequently precipitated, freeing up the water for repeated re-use. It's going to take a long time and a lot of equipment, with the challenge compared to Mars that closed-environment surface settlements are unlikely. But I think this "surface based" approach is viable and will need much less energy overall than "space based" approaches of shipping bulk atmosphere in and out. -
I don't really like any of the brassicas much. Broccoli is tolerable, cabbage and cauliflower are horrible, and sprouts truly disgusting. Spinach, on the other hand, I enjoy.
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Granted. You live at the nouth pole. But spacetime itself is so twisted that though it's always cold, it never snows. I wish joints in KSP were more realistic.
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Granted. But it's moving away so fast it has no effect. Edit: Darn I'm a slowpoke. Granted, but you lose it on its first unmanned test flight and it cannot be built anew. I wish for Earth to be rescaled to the size of Kerbin so it would be easier to get into space.
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Jeb was sacrificed to the Church of the Holey and Undivided Intake. Jeb being Jeb, the little blighter survived. Jeb wants revenge. He wants to see those intakes suffer. He wants to hear them wail as they suck on the poisonous fumes of Eve's atmosphere. Send a plane to fly on Eve that carries at least one intake. Make it do a stunt to show it's a plane not a brick.
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Oh dang it. Beaten to it again.
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How do you fight Lander Tipping Disorder (LTD)?
cantab replied to Vallius's topic in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials
Yeah, hitting the ground with horizontal velocity can tip over even a wide flat lander. So watch the navball. Using RCS to fine-tune horizontal velocity can help too. -
Jet boosters?
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Granted. It doesn't even start at all. If it won't run it can't crash! I wish Jeb would land on Mars.
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Granted. You are the only remaining human alive, and are in a minimally-conscious state sustained by robotic life support. I wish I had a yummy sandwich.
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The world is peace and equality, but no humans are on it - they're all in space, which is free to be filled with brutality. Indeed the absence of humans, and potentially of any lifeforme, on the world is probably why it's at peace. Granted. But you're unable to pronounce the ee sound shorter than five minutes long. I wish for a washer-dryer that's quicker and not worse than the one I have.
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Great. That pretty much self-corrupts. I wish the neighbours would be quiet.
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Gran-LOGIC ERROR #FFC03EB2AC57BC IN UNIVERSE.EXE. PRESS GOD-ALT-DELETE TO REBOOT. I wish I knew how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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I built a mobile bridge. Now the top Kerbs at Mission Control can stroll over to their private spaceplanes in the SPH without having to mingle with the hoi kolloi on the ground.
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Likewise, got beaten to it but decided to carry on with my bridge. Links Mission Control to the SPH. More pics: https://flic.kr/s/aHsk5baBXL Are there any mods to allow longer struts.
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fractals? the Mandlebrot set?
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Granted. Like King Midas, everything that it touches turns to gold. You were holding it with bare hands. I wish for about a hundred kilos of gold.
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The celestials are on rails. Even if they weren't, as Manley explained moving them noticeably would be impossible in the stock game. Of course mods can rearrange the system.
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I think for a KSP2 Squad will need to consider their engine choice, and it may even warrant a custom engine. After all, general-purpose engines target game worlds the size of buildings, towns, maybe planets at most, not the sheer scale of a solar system, and it's from KSP's scale that a lot of the issues and kludges arise. Not to mention there's more choice now. When Squad started developing KSP, Unity was one of very few off-the-shelf engine options that didn't cost a bomb just to get started with.
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Granted. But you need a 16K HyperHD screen to see the whole resources panel. I wish for a GTX 970.