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It comes to a tie between improved aerodynamics/hydrodynamics and more/better planets. I am physically incapable of playing KSP without FAR installed, as stock aerodynamics make my head hurt. But... I've been everywhere. Most of the planets look pretty much uniform across their surfaces, so exploration is usually kind of boring. Either of these would be great, though.

I don't think so. Solar panels reduce in power output when you move away from the sun, but the visible light stays the same. If you hyperedit something an arbitrarily large distance from the Sun, it appears no darker than if it were right next to it. EDIT: Though the Planetshine mod does make the light extremely bright when near the sun.

Tons of good Eve attempts in this thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/95642-The-Eve-Rocks-Challenge

You need more struts

4/10 Seen you, but mostly in forum games.

I stand behind a mirror. The next poster is teleported into the center of the sun for one nanosecond. http://what-if.xkcd.com/115/

Welcome back! Just curious though, why a new account?

Is it possible to set up this mod to make the visible light from the sun fade as you move farther away?

It has (gasp!) a knife!

Exact text from the file: // Yes, I know this is wrong. NTRs don't actually burn fuel and oxidizer, but we don't want to jump into making separate tanks for the two yet. I assume that we will eventually get unique fuel tanks (containing hydrogen?) for the LV-Ns.

Faster than the speed of missile.

Really????????????????? I must confirm this. If this is true, this is the truly the greatest update KSP has ever had.

I time travel one minute into the future, after the explosion is gone. The next poster fall down a reeeeeeeeeeealy deep hole.

The functionality of this mod is in stock KSP, now. No need for the author to update it.

Did you know that the magic in Harry Potter is actually the result of genetic engineering by aliens? More wisdom of the Untrue Fact Telling Machine.

It has a built-in Iron Man suit.

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Stats of the LV-T30 Stats of the LV-T45 As far as I can tell, the only differences between the two engines are: Thrust vectoring Slight thrust difference Slight weight difference Slight ElectricCharge generation difference Cost As it is, they already feel very similar to me. Lack of gimballing is the main thing that differentiates between the two engines. If you add gimballing to the LV-T30, you essentially get rid of any reason to use the LV-T45, as all its stats are worse than the T30's except for gimballing. The two are fine as it is, I think. You can have gimballing and slightly reduced engine performance, or no gimballing with slightly increased performance.

Could you stop your heart for a minute? You're throwing off my aim.

So it would interact with regular mass normally? In other words, if I give a piece of negative mass a shove, it goes in the direction I shoved it? In case you can't tell, I haven't taken a physics course yet. I'm not sure what all those variables stand for.

Huh? The device has nothing to do with gravity. The magnets don't create perpetual motion, the just contain the negative matter, as it would not interact safely with regular matter. The perpetual motion comes when the negative mass interacts with the regular mass of the wall of the container. Am I missing something here? And I think you're right about that.

How so? How would this perpetual motion machine (supposedly) work with regular mass?

Hence the magnetic box in my example. The magnets apply attractive force from the outside of the wheel (or repulsive force from the inside), causing the mass to be pushed inward.

I'll explain the diagram posted on the previous page: I'm no physicist, though, so take what I say with a grain of salt. First thing though, negative matter and antimatter are NOT the same thing (but you probably knew that). Antimatter is essentially just regular matter, but in an opposite state. Negative matter behaves very, very differently from regular matter. The first thing about negative mass is that it reacts oppositely to applied forces from normal mass. In other words, If I try to push on a piece of negative matter, it will try to fly back into my hand. If you were to launch a piece of negative matter into a wall, it would accelerate towards the wall (And most probably destroy it.) Therefore, to safely hold a piece of negative mass, you would need some kind of magnetic box that can apply forces in whatever direction is needed to keep it still inside the box. Now, for the diagram. The purple ball represents a negative mass. The little hook on the bottom represents a magnetic "trap" that can hold the negative mass on the wheel (or else it would fly off into space if it hit the physical top or bottom of the trap). However, the box only applies forces in the up or down direction, allowing the mass to be pushed to the left side of the trap. Since the negative mass applies force in the opposite direction as the force being applied to it, it continues to push to the left, applying ever-increasing force and causing the wheel to turn. If you don't attach some kind of generator to the center of the wheel to disperse the ever-building momentum, the device will eventually tear itself apart due to centrifugal forces. Did I explain it good enough? As for the OP, we don't build an energyless flight-to-orbit system because we don't actually have any negative mass. We haven't generated any of it, haven't observed it anywhere in nature, and aren't even sure whether it can exist.