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It is, but I need more specific.

Here's one of the control moment gyros, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS_gyroscope.jpg#mediaviewer/File:ISS_gyroscope.jpg The mass and torque output of this is actually comparable to what KSP calls a "reaction wheel", which in reality is a different and much less forceful bit of kit. The ISS also uses gravity gradient torque, since it's quite a large structure.

There can be corner cases, but generally any time you jettison engines that's a staging event.

None of those. Coming close yet kind of far Boiling up but kind of cold Not on a house nor railway lines No water source or steel entwined Seven watch from land and sky But even now they wave goodbye

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Errr? I thought Intel put the integrated graphics on the CPU now?

Landed on Bop Jetpack landing, used more than half the fuel so hoping I've got enough left to make orbit. But first I need to bring another Kerbal down so I can exploit the science behaviour to take extra surface samples.

Typically four. Two stages to orbit, one transfer stage/orbiter, and a one-stage lander. The Apollo missions used six stages. Three stages to trans-lunar injection, a one-stage orbiter, and a two-stage lander.

Well, here's a quick filler one Coming close yet kind of far Boiling up but kind of cold Not on a house nor railway lines No water source or steel entwined Seven watch from land and sky But even now they wave goodbye

You shouldn't actually need much power in a laser pointer used for stargazing. After all, it's an activity done in the dark. I'd still recommend not using one under a flightpath though.

Tethers for EVAs would be a good addition, but I'm guessing a bit CPU intensive. Making Kerbals stay on ladders unless you either hit space or they're forcefully ripped away might help too, rather than just being able to climb or even passively drift off the end. Oh, and KSP has that panic button: space. On EVA if the jetpack is active it should automatically set the Kerbal upright facing away from the camera.

LOL. Anyway, I'm guessing luck and/or experience. You just happened to hit a working design on your first try. Incidentally, SSTO's long been easy, technically. But some people insist on adding oversized fins to good rockets

Evidently the devs found it annoying having to keep track of the EVA fuel and its relationship to the craft's fuel, and having EVAs limited. Of course, that was when you had to EVA to get from one pod to another.

Yeah, it did that to me.Once you've got there, landing on Eve is about as easy as landing on Kerbin. Getting to other planets, though, is harder than getting to the Mun or Minmus. And I don't mean in terms of delta-V, but rather setting up the transfer burn is much more complex.

Diversity in general, and particularly atmospheres unlike those in our own solar system, would be the unexpected result.

"A small deep-space correction burn" Several enormous pillars of flame But yeah, that is pretty epic. I've seen Kerbin-Eve-Kerbin-Eve-Kerbin done with rendezvous, but to do it without is something else.

The biggest I've captured, indeed the biggest I attempted to move, was a 500-ton D class. The tug was quite modest - twin NERVAs and a half-orange tank of fuel. I met the asteroid in solar orbit and only had 100 m/s of delta-V with it clawed (not helped by wasting some in a muck-up earlier), but that sufficed to aerocapture it into Kerbin orbit. Not a neat orbit, but that was deliberate; I probably could have got a much lower inclination if I'd tried. It's the Macbeth 3 mission in my albums.

Is what you have actually just a modem, or is it a router? (Hint: If you have wifi in your home you almost certainly have a router somewhere.) If what you have is a modem (only) then you'll need a router as well to connect more than one PC to the internet at the same time. Usually home routers have four ethernet ports for your local network. If you have a router and it only has one ethernet port, you'll need an ethernet switch to connect more devices.

Wasn't it the other way round - you'd encounter it if you tried to make a close flyby of the Sun?

Yeah, Intel have AMD licked at the high end at the moment. If you're going to overclock the i5 4690k will do practically as well as anything, if you really want to stick to stock speeds the i7 4790k has a noticeable edge.

If you get KSP through Steam, just install Steam on Linux. You might have to do the "SteamGuard" stuff, then tell Steam to install KSP and wait for the download.

Yes, the Space Shuttle Enterprise was named after the starship Enterprise. But the real and fictional Enterprises were from the same country, and the starship Enterprise was in turn probably named after one of the real USS Enterprises (most likely the carrier that served in WWII). And Star Trek is light-years more famous than KSP.Also, this contest is not a vote. Spamming the same suggestion won't guarantee it's chosen.

It might be a good subject for a youtube video or a KSP stream though.

Except they didn't. (Which might have been your second sentence to annoy.) Mod Making is Killing Gaming.