Kerano

+1 for the reentry orientation needing a fix. I've tried all sorts of different craft designs over several hours of playing, and all from the lightest to the most bottom-heavy always struggle desperately to flip around in the 25-30 km region. Adding more torque doesn't help much. Only solution I've found is to stack up parachutes on the narrow end and deploy them high in the atmosphere, since chutes are apparently impervious to heat effects unlike everything else in the game.

Yeah I wondered why Pol turned up so early. Went to the poles of Minmus within the first couple of hours. Good to know there's a fix coming.

Bedtime here, but if I check my phone and see 1.0 is out before I get to sleep I may just have to get up again.

We're within a matter of HOURS of the release of 1.0. Feeling as excited as a young kid on Christmas morning.

Not everyone is familiar with physics conventions. There's no shame in not knowing something, it's just an opportunity to teach. If you check my post I was correcting someone who believed that kilo prefixes would 'just cancel out'. If you already know that isn't the case, no problem. Not everyone does. University physics tutor here for the record.

They don't cancel, they multiply. Try a distance of 1 km and a force of 1 kN, see what you get for Work energy. Work energy = Force * distance Then try it converting to the correct SI units of meters and Newtons.

No - kilograms are SI units, but that's the exception. SI units allow you to do physics calculations using standard formulas without any adjustments. For example: Work energy = Force * distance This equation gives Work energy in Joules if you use Newtons for force and meters for distance. If you try to put in distance in kilometers and/or force in kilonewtons, you'll no longer get the correct answer in Joules. Physics is full of equations like that which are very easy to solve if you stick to SI units, but which won't work if you use non-SI units like kilometers and kilonewtons. (Unless you know what you're doing and adjust both sides of the equation accordingly.)

Yeah the SAS system looks like it doesn't handle the new aero well at all. Lots of nasty wobbles where it's turned on. WinterOwl commented on that during his video too. On the plus side it looks like launching with SAS off seems to work pretty well as an interim solution (judging from WinterOwl's launch).

Yep... required a lot of determination and many, many quicksave backups. (EDIT: Reply was to a comment that apparently has since been deleted.)

Hmm, still only 4 preview videos? Kind of expected more by now. I'd really like to see a video showing an in-depth look into the resource system. WinterOwl's video was good for most things but definitely lacking in the resource department.

Yes, asteroids have finite fuel reserves relative to their size.

The Hype Train is coming, better ...

It's official, April 27 is Kerbal Day.

Take 19 across for instance. There are a lot of Russian cosmonauts with 6-letter surnames ending with V. I count at least Ivanov, Leonov, and Volkov. Any of those could be right - and that's assuming it's people not missions. When there's more than one valid solution and no other hints provided, it doesn't exactly make for a solvable puzzle.

If 3 across is Curiosity, 1 down could be FobosGrunt. Hard to say though. Problem with this crossword is that there seem to be multiple valid solutions and no real way of determining which is the "official" answer.

I presume 12 down is ESA, and the nonexistent 12 across was supposed to be 16 across?

3 down maybe CassiniHuygen(s).

Bet 3 across is Curiosity.

No 16 across?

On a second look, I suspect you're right. Not to say that the devs won't tweak the terrain at some point, but that shading effect can be generated in beta without any hills. I wish we didn't have to keep guessing about things from twitter links though, would be nice if all the official news/screenshots were updated regularly here by someone from Squad.

I enjoyed watching the videos nominated by others... so I thought I'd share a few of my personal favorites from the last couple of years. I'm afraid I can't narrow it down to one nomination though, so if anyone else wants to nominate some of these great videos please go ahead! Comedy - , , , Entertainment - , , , , , , Educational - , Artistic - , , Showcase - , , , , ,

I believe the official word is asteroids = finite, planets/moons = infinite.

No, I'm saying it because the imgur link with the caption that says the terrain around the KSC is no longer flat comes direct from the Maxmaps and KSP twitter accounts.

I'd missed this news about the runway - check the caption! http://imgur.com/tby5gyY

Does the mass of asteroids decrease as you extract ore?