Aethon

K, watching out my bedroom window for meteors and wondering : How long do I hafta stare at Mars to ensure I've received a photon reflected from MSL "Curiosity"?

That's what she said.. Sheesh. You save a guy what he admits is 1000km/s ( and I would say a well engineered multi-stage balloon launch saves more than that ), to LOE which is half way to anywhere, and get nothin'. Rough crowd,... no esteem.. no regard. :^)

... and gyroscopes/reaction wheels.

Couldn't we launch a much smaller rocket (essentially an upper stage) by balloon to Baumgartner height. With an equatorial launch and a stiff prograde breeze, some reaction wheels to point it- heck, you could rig a tiny camera to broadcast real time on board instrumentation...get a couple of KSP ham radio operators around the globe to help track...get some of the players who build their own mission control rooms... Hmmm.

Hey. There's a new space documentary soon to be released. http://vimeo.com/92046183. Here's the main site. http://thelastmanonthemoon.com/ Looks pretty cool.

Cool. Thanks specialist. See the monkey took his own picture.

Thanks for the welcome. K, I give... How do I get my profile picture to come up when I post? I tried customizing but no luck.

Typical rocket scientist party doctrine. I suppose somebody'll "prove" it was the light of Eve reflected off swamp gas or some other such nonsense. I've seen some strange things out there too leeham. One time Jeb disappeared, and when he came back he made strange entries in his mission report about a "probe", something about a "ring around Uranus" and Multi- player??. I believe we may, one day discover "others" out there! To paraphrase The Bard, there are stranger things in heaven and earth than can be dreampt of in your philosophy Horatio. Keep looking to the skies leeham, the truth is out there! Discounting a theory simply because of it's long association with crackpots gives crackpots entirely too much credit. :^)

Steam says I'm at 620 hours, but I've heard that Steam lies, inflating that number, but I still learn something new every day. Possibly my favorite game ever, and I had a brand new Pong when they first came out. :^\

Best answer would be to launch into a polar orbit, keeping in mind it will take more dv than an equatorial pro grade orbit. Were I already there, I'd extend my apoapsis out as far as feasible and change my inclination at AP. Hope that helps

Yeah. Taking it down is almost a crime. It is and should be an enduring part of recorded human history. If in a thousand years, they can watch videos of our time, I hope it's stuff like that from which they take our measure and not most of the other CRAP that stays on youtube ... forever?

You tube. 5 minutes. Contains: Astronaut Chris Hadfield, Music in space ( I wonder what mod they use to make the clouds on Kerb..er, Earth look so fabulous? ), Coolness, AND hardware assisted, litho-braking. David Bowie allowed this video to be on YouTube for one year. Today is the last day. See it while you can.

So my carefully crafted view angle didn't convey all the info. Damn! Fuel lines are a roger, tho I forgot them on the Mk.I. Since you asked...It's actually a very crude joke cleaned up for family viewing. Let's just say she's so ugly I don't want to look at her, so I want to put a paper bag over her face so I can't see her while we're... er, flying- and I want to put a bag over my face, so if her bag falls off- I still cant see her. Sorry, I'll let myself out. Ahhhh Ninja'd

Yep Taki. That ship is definitely a two bagger. A bag over her head and a bag over mine... In case her bag falls off.

Tsup. The story so far... I recently started a new career after losing my last hard drive. I"m lowish in the tech tree- Kerbin's pretty well covered. I did double flybys of Mun and Minmus (high and low sci.). So I'm prepping a couple of flat Minmus landings with all sci finally unlocked (but not the claw,) when into my SOI, falls this silly type A asteroid who thinks he/she's some sort of a tough guy. Hrmph. Comin' in over the poles-ish (no orbital influence from Mun or Minmus so it'll be stable) and all he/she needs is a love tap to put 'er/'im into a stable orbit, to be plundered later in the tech tree. So I cobbled together this piece of fecky to do just that. Don't laugh! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=259234922 Angled for viewing purposes I've played the game a lot for six mo. or so and have discovered many things that were hidden, but I'm not sure I know where center of lift should go in relation to center of thrust (on a rocket). I usually use fins to put the purple ball exactly on top of the blue ball. What say Ye?

Yep thanks guys. The answer is to peel the Chatterer Game Data file down to the Chatterer file and place that into the KSP Game Data file. Thanks for the great mod!

Yeah, sorry about posting in the wrong place but I wasn't getting any traffic where I was. Oh man Taki thanks a bunch ( and for the PM. Its part of the give and take. ) We all knew the problem was between the chair and the key board. Did what you suggested and BINGO, chatter, beeps, heavy breathing, total nerdgasm. So cool. As an added bonus I did the same thing to Kerbal Alarm Clock and now the buttons have symbols on them. Thanks again! So the solution is to peel the Chatterer Game Data file down to the file that says Chatterer and put that in the KSP game data file ( with KAC its peel to the file called Trigger tech). And thanks to all who read or tried to help. I lurked for a long time... Nice to actually interact with you all.

I've tweaked it so much I feel guilty not asking it to marry me, also tried / and " to no avail. It works in sandbox right? You can see in the screen shot that there are no sound files in the sample selector, and all the sample sets have 0 cliips.

I wanted to put this here as well as on the Chatterer Forum 'cause I think I'm just missing something, as opposed to needing Mod support. Yesterday I downloaded my first mods and stuck the files in KSP game data. Kerbal Alarm Clock alarms but Chatterer fails to chatter, or beep. Volumes are up, frequency ( of occurrence ) is high, yet no chatter. Why no chatter?!? Why?!? It's like there are no sound files for it to play though I can see the sound files load in the start up screen and there are sound files in KSP's game data file. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198071909842/screenshot/3281181583594037282 Hopefully this screen shot posts ( you may need to cut and paste- Sorry ), wherein you can see that the sample selector is empty and all the chatter sets contain 0 clips. I'm doing something stupid here but can't figure out what. Meanwhile all weekend launches are on standby and my industry partners are up in arm over the delays. Thankfully they didn't get me to sign a contract. I can feel that day coming though and I'm getting a little keyed up. Later, at Mission control : K Deleted Chatterer files and re downloaded, unzipped it and put the whole Chatt. Game Data file into the KSP Game Data file, but I'm still not getting chatter or beeps. Do you have to be in space? Am I missing a part that needs to be on the ship for it to work, an antenna or something? Help us Kerbal community, you're our only hope. I'll monitor this frequency for your transmission. Out.

K Deleted Chatterer files and re downloaded, unzipped it and put the whole Chatt. Game Data file into the KSP Game Data file, but I'm still not getting chatter or beeps. Do you have to be in space? Am I missing a part that needs to be on the ship for it to work, an antenna or something? Disheartened.

So Chatterer game data has three folders in it : plugins, sounds, and textures. These all go in the KSP game data folder right? Or do they go in the similarly named KSP files? Anyone??...Buehler??

Hey. I hope this is the right place. Yesterday I downloaded my first mods and stuck the files in KSP game data. Kerbal Alarm Clock alarms but Chatterer fails to chatter, or beep. Volumes are up, frequency ( of occurrence ) is high, yet no chatter. Why no chatter?!? Why?!? It's like there are no sound files for it to play tho I can see the sound files load in the start up screen and there are sound files in KSP's game data file. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198071909842/screenshot/3281181583594037282 Hopefully this screen shot posts, wherein you can see that the sample selector is empty and all the chatter sets contain 0 clips. I'm doing something stupid here but can't figure out what. Meanwhile all weekend launches are on standby and my industry partners are up in arm over the delays. Thankfully they didn't get me to sign a contract- yet. I can feel that day coming tho and am getting a little nervous . Help us modding community, you're our only hope. I'll monitor this frequency for your transmission. Out.

My first post but I've been lurking, trying to avoid acquiring anymore passwords, but my lack of knowledge has made me realize I have questions that can only be answered by this great community. Rest assured I'll pay it forward, and post in the appropriate forum. You've all helped me so much already. Thanks