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Anything practical with your spare time for at least the first six months after discovering the game.

It's never survived long enough for me to try. The temptation to get up some very high speeds and then fly around with the RCS has been too much

Wait, there's a new update coming? Blimey, they kept that quiet didn't they.

Tomorrow is the day I pack my computer for a house move to another country! Let's hope I get it installed before i have to pack it so at least I have it during the inevitable wait to get broadband.

I love that rover. It's so much fun for driving around the flats of Minimus and doing some very silly things with the RCS

Wanderfound, this thread and your work has finally got me into spaceplanes and I'm loving it! Thank you

The dinosaurs need feathers.

Why are lots of people complaining about a film they haven't seen yet?

What about the holiday special? Does that count?

Can we have a death scene for Jar Jar? I'll forgive Abrams for that last Star Trek film if he puts that in.

We have a winner!

I'm convinced you know the answer and are just playing word games after reading that line

Here's another clue. I chose my words carefully when I said her "home" rather than her house.

Like the first one it's a very famous film, but more recent.

No, it wasn't the Terminator.

Boy meets girl. Girl's home burns down. Boy fights man who burnt it down.

Total Recall?

Thanks for all the advice, what I have found is that not moving to other windows while things are loading makes a huge difference. I tend to do other stuff while playing with Kerbal in a window that isn't full screen, so knowing not to jump to other things has made a massive difference and the game is playable again!

I wonder why it's taking ten years? That's longer than it took Apollo to land a man on the moon.

This is a problem that's appeared for me in the latest version of KSP. When I start a career game, everything is fine for a while, but as I get further through it and have a few landing sites & space stations something odd happens. The first sign is that the controls freeze when I switch to a new ship. I can't change the view, control the ship or move to the map mode but I can return to the space centre and when I do I get this view of it: When this happens I have to close the program through windows as it's now almost frozen. I can revert to the main menu but then it's completely frozen with no way to close it through the game itself. By this stage in the saved game it takes five or six times to load it as when I open the saved game it usually goes straight to the screen above, meaning I have to quit out and start again. Other saved games load first time until they too get too big and lock up. I've tried to track it down to one mod but I played a game with just mechjeb, Kerbal alarm clock, precision node and Docking Port Alignment Indicator and it still happened. Log file is at https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxuvro57bjpqo3c/output_log.txt?dl=0 Any help is greatly appreciated as the game is almost not worth playing now.

It's a failure when your probe burns up in a place that's been visited many times because there's been confusion between imperial and metric measurements. It's not a failure when you land on a completely new object even though not everything worked perfectly. By some definitions going around here Apollo 11 was a failure.

Live briefing about to start http://new.livestream.com/ESA/cometlanding

And the Mash delivers again today: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/comet-landing-is-empirically-cool-so-shut-up-say-experts-2014111392741

We've already had photos of the descent.