The Yellow Dart

I'd hardly call 30 days on Mars worthless, and suggesting that a single man's last ditch 3200km drive across Mars with no backup or contingency plans be the "standard" that NASA should shoot for seems silly. Also, the 30 day time frame is based on the fact that the less time they spend after arriving, the less DV is required for return, and the shorter the trip is. That part isn't just a plot tool, but a side effect of a nuclear/VASIMR powered Mars mission.

Uranus' mother/wife (yeah, that's weird) was Gaia, so how about the Kaia probe.

Dyson Station, after Freeman Dyson. He dreamed big.

Man, you've got a toughy here. Could it be stuck arrow keys? Have you tried any other games since this started, or noticed any other weirdness besides in KSP? If not I guess I'd try a fresh install, no mods, and a new game and try it out, then try transferring your save file over.

Personally, I don't see why people love Steam so much. To me it is a middleman, a program on my computer that, at best, does nothing I can't do myself (does it do anything important besides installing games/mods?), and in some cases would prevent me from doing things I otherwise could do due to DRM. I prefer to cut out middlemen.

One mission I built a Mun lander with no probe core/SAS, and a scientist to land it, which would normally be an annoying-but-doable task, then realized that I had placed only one Goo container instead of 2 symmetrically. I had to fight rotation due to the center of mass being off the whole way down and up. It was inefficient and a nail-biter but I pulled it off, then sent that stupid lander down for a nice satisfying lithobrake at ~600 m/s.

I find this post very exciting. Thanks for sharing. And I'd have to choose SLS because it seems like it will be more flexible in terms of payloads with the different blocks.

Just updated OP, KSP is now also up for 3 Unity Awards from Unity3d. FYI, You have to register before you can vote. Check it out here:https://unity3d.com/awards/2015

I agree, it is stupid that they require an email, but the internet is full of stupid websites trying to get your email and info. All the more reason to have a "dummy" email setup for this, and many other such occasions.

Oh, I think I saw that too. All the voting is on one page. For me It just flashed the "thanks" image for a split second while the page was still loading. Maybe the page got stuck while loading, or your browser had a problem.

You ought to have a spam email. Any time I have to give an email and name for something when I don't want to, I give one of my spam emails and a nonsense name.

Eh? I voted using the exact same link, which I got from Ted's twitter, and I had to manually vote for all twenty-something categories, as the other people above have done, so I'm not sure what you are talking about, but I can post a different link just to make sure. Edit: Also, that link was actually the one given by the official Golden Joysticks twitter account. Ted just linked to it, so I don't know what you mean. https://twitter.com/GoldenJoysticks

Think of the children. The children!

KSP is up for Golden Joystick awards in multiple categories here: http://www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoystickawards/vote/ Also I understand you can get a digital copy of Bioshock Infinity for a dollar or something, if you are interested in that. Go Forth and Vote Kerbal! Note: The Golden Joystick site will ask for an email, name and birthday in order to finish voting. *Update* KSP won 2 Unity Awards!!! Way to go Squad & KSP Community!!

The Storm Petrel

Wow that looks awesome, good work. I would go there in a second!

Yay! I love the idea of really starting at the bottom. The only problem I would have is with the look and design of the building itself, as others have said. I would like a real barn, not that monstrosity that is neither a barn nor a VAB. I would like to see something that, as Fearless Son said, looks like it was there when they got the land and didn't have the budget to build something for their purposes yet. Also, the appearance of the old barn just raised lots of questions for me, like why is it so tall if the lowest tier has a height limit far below that size? And since it is obviously supposed to look vaguely like it was there beforehand, what with the presence of silos, etc., why does it have a VAB-like door on it? and what farmer would ever have a barn that tall? I think what we should have at tier 0 is a mishmash of old world and space age things. A real red, wooden, large-but-appropriately-sized barn that actually looks like a barn with perhaps a hastily added rocket-shaped 2nd door above the main door to allow a small rocket to be rolled out vertically. Next to it could be some modern, spherical fuel tanks that would have to be added. As for the rest of the stuff in that imgur album, I'd say it goes a little to far. We get the point that it is the bottom tier. We don't need loads of trailers and wrecked cars and an observatory that would be more at home in a Zelda game. Designers...Make it work!

I am allergic to instability. I had 8 or 9 until recently. Then I had 2 crashes in a row, so now I have 5.

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html This is a website but it is a great way to learn just how much space there is in space. Not an app or program though so maybe it doesn't belong here.

Great idea for a post! Suggestions: You could add NASA's Eyes app/program to the list. It's the program that we used to "watch" the New Horizons flyby and it also lets you follow other spacecraft and missions and explore planets and the solar system. http://eyes.nasa.gov And another good one is plain old Google Earth, which lets you also look at the stars and Mars and the Moon if I remember correctly (not at my computer right now). I feel like there are more I have found before but can't remember right now. I'll have to think about it.

The only way I see Air Cars ever being used on a large scale in the world would be a "peak oil" crisis situation, where the entire world would experience a huge and worsening fossil fuel shortage. Air Cars would be a quick, cheap, simple, and effective way to keep world economies limping on without oil. Electric cars are better, but the price could only go down so much, and there isn't much of a second hand market for lower class people to buy at cheaper prices. Small Air Cars could be mass produced, distributed, and sold very cheaply to keep people going to work, keep goods moving, keep things working. In the long term, I think they are just too inefficient and as it is an extremely simple, mechanical technology, you can only increase its efficiency by a small bit. Just curious, not trying to ignite a debate, but what are your personal reasons for supporting hydrogen over batteries?

Oh, maybe. I have no idea, other than always seeing the first post of half the mods on here being "You're gonna need a license for that".

Interesting idea, eagerly awaiting pics to see how exactly it works. BTW you need a license for for this or the forum mods will block it.

Awesome! Thanks for the info! Just sent off my suggestion. - - - Updated - - - Also, FYI, that copper plate shaped charge sounds exactly like the P-IEDs that we learned about in Iraq. Congrats Japan on your super sweet space bomb!

Yay! Gogetchasome aliens!