LordFerret

I tried the suggested tips, but they didn't solve the problem. However, the information led me to the Stock Bug Fix Modules, by Claw, which did the trick. Yes! Thank you Claw... that's twice now your bug fixes have saved my butt.

How did I miss that? Grrrrr. Thanks for passing that on.

Running Science_sandbox, SCANsat & Lazor mods. I was driving on the Mun, on my way to the Polar Lowlands, when I went off the rim of a crater (in the dark, didn't see it) and fell and flipped the rover. The rover got trashed, and the driver thrown out. The driver is standing next to the rover, helmet lights still on. I can Right-Click on him, but all that shows is his EVA propellant level. I can't move him at all, he's completely unresponsive. Picture... I put another rover into action on Kerbin, with Jeb onboard, and then made Jeb get off and stand next to the rover. I then exited the program and went and edited the Persistent file, comparing "Doodton" (stranded on the Mun) to Jeb's settings, and I changed a few (true/false) settings ... but to no avail. I still can't get Doodton to move or respond. The rover on Mun shows as 'debris', and Doodton a 'part' in the debris listing. I'm quite sure if I terminate the debris, Doodton will disappear. How do I restore him?... I want to send a recovery mission and bring him home. Any ideas?

It's 12'F/-11'C here right now (wind chill = -7'F/-22'C). NOAA is calling for snow too, but Base Reflectivity on Doppler radar shows nothing yet all the way out into eastern PA.

Running Win8.1, KSP v0.90 Science_sandbox, with SCANsat v10 and Romfarer Lazor v35 I downloaded the new version, v10. My previous version was v8.1 (updated for KSP v0.90). First thing I noticed was a change in all the colors of the maps - no big deal, I like it. However, I did run across some weird behavior. Note: I did not reset any of the map data previously gathered with v8.1. With the new version installed, I put a rover up on Mun. I was trying to grab science from the last biome I'd not been to - Polar Lowlands. Putting my rover & its science complex down a bit south of my intended target, I thought I'd been misled by what I was seeing in the SCANsat map, but I wasn't sure. No big deal, I landed safe on good level ground. In driving to my target however, I did find a rather serious problem ... SCANsat, with the BTDT scanner on (the rover), was reporting my position about 80km southeast of where I actually was. I found I couldn't rely on it for position, and had to resort to zooming out and up to get bearings. At one point I exited out to the Tracking Station to check on things, then I went to the rover's science complex (lander), and from there switched back to the rover... I discover the position being reported was now correct. I don't know if this is an issue with the new version, or related to the fact I didn't reset the old data, or what(?). Another thing I've noticed, being I'd been rovering around the poles, was when you're in the Big Map with a Polar projection and you right-click to zoom in, the zoom in view is distorted as it would be in the Rectangular projection. I found that a bit cumbersome to deal with in navigating, plus the fact that depending on what 'side' of the pole you're on the zoomed-in image ends up inverted (and maybe rotated 90 degrees?). It's quite disorienting.

I recall a rather nasty 'wall' just south of the Armstrong Memorial on Mun... almost went over/down it in my rover.

Did you catch the link I posted in a reply to Red Iron Crown? Go one page back. Interesting read. The comments are funny too. Note the date of the article. While I didn't touch Tops-10, I did use CP/M and the rest afterward. I still think VAX VMS was great, I did a lot of work on Micro-Vax's in my day... VAX MACRO (assembly), Dibol. VMS in such an environment, while NT being derived from, was a very different animal. The MC68000... remember it well. The 6809E was one hell of a chip as well. HP was equally elegant, IMO. I began when RTE-III first came out, on up through RTE-6VM... the 1000 series was an amazing machine, a true piece of lab equipment... real-time data acquisition in a number of applications. Very cool, very fun stuff.

KSC Press Release: RIP Ronbart Kerman, pilot, who perished on reentry to Kerbin today when the chutes on his science lab module failed to deploy. Returning from a failed Mun mission, he had made the decision to return in the lab module rather than attempt a rendezvous with the mission's command module. Command module pilot and mission commander, Gilwell Kerman, the only one of the mission's three Kerbonauts to make it back home to Kerbin, stated "I told him it wasn't a good idea... I guess Ronbart forgot he had no way to control his chute deployment riding inside that thing." The third member of the mission, pilot Doodton Kerman, is still missing and presumed lost as well. Having flipped his rover coming over the lip of a steep crater; His last radio transmission was "Oh no!(censored)!", and has not been heard from since. Telemetry from a mapping satellite, picked up by the KSC Tracking Station, has identified the location of the rover and indicates a large debris field. KSC officials are investigating, and have promised to send a search and rescue mission to find and (hopefully) retrieve Doodton. Opponents to the KSP claim that KSC officials are "full of it", that they don't give a damn about Doodton and that they're only going back to collect more science. This marks the death of the fifth Kerbonaut since the program began.

That is a shame, because such a thing really could bring a major change to the people as far as jobs and opportunity. You need more voices, and you need to be positive about the potential, otherwise you're basically closing the door before it even gets a chance to open. Very fitting!

Saw this on Facebook today. Funny... and true!

Speaking of diamonds... they do occur naturally eh?

Very cool. Any speculation as to what it's outgassing?

A project such as this could bring jobs, and with those jobs a boost to the economy... not to mention schools for training for future generations. Wouldn't you like to see that? They mentioned building a spaceport... but they didn't say exactly where, or whether or not they would use and convert existing facilities. Switzerland is land locked, Croatia is not. The fact Croatia has sea lane access to the Mediterranean Sea could be a factor. You could write to S3 and ask them about this ... considering their involvement with schools and student programs, you'd likely get an answer. Very good point. Also, the places where Russia launches from, and China.

You say it's BS... but I wouldn't rule it out just yet. The fact the Swiss were willing to step into the venture (along with others) says there's more at play here than you realize. http://www.s-3.ch/en/home http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Space_Systems http://spacenews.com/startup-spotlight-swiss-space-systems-s3/ http://www.parabolicarc.com/tag/swiss-space-systems/ http://space.epfl.ch/page-93446-en.html

Some young woman? Oh!... you mean our Presiden....... .....never mind. I didn't say that. You misheard me. You misunderstood me. I was actually discussing Gingerbread.

Maybe you should re-read the article? "... is exploring how to make an entire vehicle, not just designing automotive software or individual components, the auto industry source said." If there is anything big to come of it, I'm sure at some point I'll see some manner of mention on CNBC. Follow the money.

After completing visiting all biomes on Mun (Except one, which I can finish off with my v5 lander, or maybe my rover? Don't know yet.), I brought my Mun station back to Kerbin and deorbited it. The mobile lab & cupola assembly made a nice soft landing via chutes and unlocked landing legs, although it did tip over at the end... but nothing broke. All 3 crew survived the 41+ year mission. Talk about a 'life of service'! What's the life-span of Kerbalites anyway??? Next, just to give the guys a break, I'll rotate out my Kerbal station crew. They've been up in orbit 41+ years as well. I can't help but wonder if future versions of KSP with female crew along with male crew, in a mixed long-term mission, will reproduce - given the provision of additional crew expansion storage. lol Something for the devs to mull over.

Just wait and see what happens when you stop filing and paying your taxes lol!

Not quite in time for OS X Yosemite. [h=1]Apple studies self-driving car, auto industry source says[/h]

You could do something similar with a very small rover. Does it have to be manned? If you don't have the parts available in your tech tree that I used, you can still accomplish it another way... which I've also done before. I created an earlier jet which, when over my target, could eject the entire nose of the jet with all the science experiments attached, and would float down on chutes (manned mission). Of course, the rest of the jet was sacrificed and crashed, but I got my science. You could try the same thing with a small rover on/as the nose of the jet... just put rover wheels and chutes on it. Might be worth a try if you don't mind sacrificing the rest of the plane. As far as mods, I've not used it but Remote Tech might be what you're looking for... others here could probably tell you better.

I don't play Career mode, I play a Science_sandbox mode, but I had a similar problem in wanting to obtain science from the nearby KSC mountain tops. I tried launching a capsule, tried driving a rover, even tried driving a rover near and hiking a Kerbal pilot up ... took forever, and many of the slopes encountered were impassable. So, I designed this jet... As seen in this second image, the cargo bay holds a manned science package payload... After flying low and slow recon and finding a suitable flat spot, I made one final pass and ejected the science package payload. Due to the way KSP handles such things, the caveat is that you must fly circles around the payload not exceeding 2km until it lands. Once landed however, you can return the jet to base and land, then switch back to the capsule and run your science experiments.

There may be no need to melt/drill ice to reach Europa's oceans, as discussed in a number of research papers and book (here). There are daily fractures which appear on Europa's surface, which flush with fresh liquid water... this in essence could mean a direct pipe/path to the ocean beneath. Obviously more study and survey needs to be done here. All a probe would need do, is find such a fissure, either liquid, or with thin skim of ice covering, and it's in. - - - Updated - - - ...and as for communications, just as we've fly-by-wire missle control (TOW missle), a probe about to plunge the depths of a crack could eject and drop an anchored antenna at the rim of the crack, and unfurl its Comm wire behind it on the way down.

It will be interesting to see what they come up with... same for any Europa mission. Now, you mentioned there was no oxidizer present (on Titan). But there is. Titian is composed mainly of water-ice and rocks, and current speculation has it there is a liquid saltwater ocean beneath the crust. That tells me the potential for it exists. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/02jul_saltyocean/

You're a busy man! Kudos! - - - Updated - - - There's a lot one could discuss about that. My days with VMS began years before Windows existed, and ended around 1993. 1998 article (the comments are worth reading too lol) - http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story

Oh how I wish it had. VMS is awesome!