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Dropping to 20% of normal sunlight is going to reduce generation capacity, but I very much doubt it will cause any real issues. After all a solar eclipse is the ultimate in predictable events and will give a very gradualy dip in generation capacity. Other plants will be brought online to fill the gap, or power could be imported from neighbouring countries.

Ironically I'm in the other camp - KSP will probably encourage me to spend money. On a new PC (postponed until next year mind) and maybe a new graphics card before then, but more than that it's got me interested in PC gaming in general again. I plan on checking out some of the Total War games, and I'll probably get Minecraft at some point.On the dead horse that is the realism debate, I think many aspects of realism wouldn't make the game much harder or less accessible (though to be honest it arguably has a steep learning curve as it is). On the flipside the iffy aspects of the physics don't detract that much for a novice player.

A spinning top?

Although, it occured to me in another thread, maybe he is destroying KSC after all - in 0.24.

Inb4 Danny manages to do this challenge in .24

Well, it's easily one of my most-played games ever, if not *the* most-played. But when I first bought it, I'd played tge demo a bit and £20 was no issue to me. £30 or £35 would still have been fine I think. But £40 would have me thinking it's pricey, and £50 might have made me choose not to buy it.

A new glitch drive would make sense actually. He claws the Kerbal, makes it glitch out which starts screwing with the orbit, then unclaws and WAHEY! the craft is on a crazy fast escape trajectory.

The normal speed the OP gets is tolerable, but the dips of 8000 bytes (or bits, it doesn't really matter) per second is indeed that bad. Slowest internet I used in recent times was when I tethered my old GPRS phone to my PC because the broadband went down. Speed was about the same as dial-up.

None. When I was at uni I used to cook a fair bit, but after a day in the office I don't want to be messing around in the kitchen, so I just stick a couple of ready meals in the oven. Half an hour later and dinner's ready.

A toilet???

Ouch, that's bad. You'd be best off asking your provider. But possible causes include congestion since the satellite has limited total bandwidth, weather or other interference with the signal, the satellite being in conjunction with the Sun (which is a special case of interference) or otherwise poorly placed (if it's a non-stationary system)

Agreed, 0 and infinity I would assume. Not least because suppose humanity builds a space elevator, then it's a sedate (if long) climb. But even in today's rockets I don't think g-forces would be fatal in normal operation. A "passenger" unlike a regular astronaut would not need to be fully conscious all the time either. But I doubt we'll know on the young end any time soon because it would be unethical to put a baby in a centrifuge.

Britain here as well. We do seem to be in a (lunar) eclipse drought these past few years, why is that?

My Duna rover. This was part of one of my big missions, I sent that, an Ike lander, and an asteroid to the red planet. Tons of dockings, complex orbital manouvres, the works. Just designing the rover took ages of work and testing on Kerbin. Disintegrated on parachute opening. I do not (usually) revert.

Kerbal Space Program?

The claw stuff is just eye candy. What he's really doing is launching the mother of all spaceships. 1 second in-game-time until ignition.

A waste disposal unit?

I wonder if you haven't got a little bit of internal strain, showing itself as the gaps between the docking ports. The precision needed in the position of the docking ports to get perfection is probably beyond what can be done in the VAB. You'll just have to see if it flies stably.

Either he somehow managed to uproot the ground scatter, or There's A Mod For ThatTM.

Hmmm...a debugger?

My first rocket to orbit did that. I kept getting close but not quite enough so I kept adding boosters, think it took about 18 on the first stage to get a 1-man capsule up there.Also, I knew that it was best to launch with the rotation of the planet, but I got mixed up and pitched over west.

Is it the fossil record?

Well 92 atm is survivable, we know that from Venus landings. I suspect the main issue is how deep can the probe go and still have the atmosphere above it be radiotransparent.

The VAB can be annoying, but to be honest all 3d editors are to an extent. If you (think you) put a booster on a radial decoupler and it fails to decouple, you probably missed the decoupler and attached it directly to the central part instead. When attached to the decoupler the booster will be slightly further out, it can be tricky to see though.

The Last Post? (the military funeral bugle call) Or just a funeral?