LordFerret

Absolutely. I see this constantly with people up on the beach (IBSP and southern tip of LBI) with their dune buggys. There are even re-inflation stations at the visitor centers. Back when I used to dirtbike (motocross) in the sand pits up in Saxton Falls NJ, tire deflation was a must in the sugar-sand (also very common in the Pine Barrens as well)... way different than riding dirt.

Is it attached to the axle/hub? Doesn't look like it. My first impression is that they're 'curb feelers', found on old cars... a fad which seems to have worn out. On the other hand, maybe they're some kind of water sensor? A better picture would help... or stop one of the drivers and ask.

I had one of my guys ready to go, but he'd rather wait until we do a mission to planet Treats.

No, no fights, no arguments. Not worth it. Definitely agree with the world view. For sure. Snowflakes need to melt already. As for payload, water or sand would have worked just as well... or ice.

Well, I have two shuttles that I use, one built of MK3 parts, the other of MK2 parts. Both have minimal powered flight ability during re-entry... like for an emergency. I pretty much have the procedure down (for me anyway) where I can just glide in. I don't know if this will work for you, but you can try it. I start with a circular orbit around 75-80km. I have a course set where, when I'm over the desert, where the Ancient Ruins are, I initiate the retro burn; The course plot ends in the ocean just off the shores of KSC... pretty much in line with the Old Airfield Island. I keep the nose 10 degrees up during the descent, with airbrakes deployed. Once the atmosphere thickens (no more plasma fire), and the airspeed drops to around 500m/s, I disengage the airbrakes and RCS and fly (glide) the ship into position - line up with the runway. I'm usually able to bleed speed off enough for a reasonable touch-down, but if not the airbrakes are used. At gear drop, I set the brakes. At touch-down, airbrakes and drogue chutes a enabled. Home. Good luck!

Tesla's financial report came out 2 days after the launch; Once again, he showed a large loss. This time the biggest loss in the history of the company. "Do not look at that man behind the curtain." I wouldn't call this a PR stunt, I call it a joke and an act of desperation. How fitting, launch a piece of junk car into space. He'd have done the world better had he hurled it into the sun.

Of course, I was only kidding. That you went and attempted it?... points... lots of points! Kudos!!! Bad enough the world condones and let this idiot launch a car into heliocentric orbit... yea, I've got issues with it... having it crash anywhere would be an even greater disgrace. Who knows what the future will hold for it. We just recently plunged an exhausted probe into a gas giant over fears of the possibility of contaminating the environment of one of its moons, or did we forget all that already. As we all know, those lithium-ion batteries are completely non-toxic and environmentally safe... among many other things. In my world..... Damn. Just. Damn. 'The Little Rover That Could' is now history, sadly. Pilot Orhat attempted to set a lander down near the rover, to pick up the driver and bring her home. The lander tipped over, and began a slow roll down the side of a hill. Melthy, the rover driver, attempted to use the rover to stop the lander from rolling... to no avail, and bad idea at that. Melthy was thrown from the rover, and the rover flung away and exploded into the hillside leaving only wheels as evidence of existence. The lander survived and continued its roll down the hill until settling level ground. Melthy got up and managed to board the lander with Orhat. Orhat went EVA and planted a flag in memory of the rover; And then, returning to the lander, together they tried to fire the engines and slide/fly their way up off the surface. Another bad idea. It didn't work. The lander suddenly exploded, complete destruction, leaving only lander legs and some ladder parts behind. Orhat and Melthy lost their lives. Very rarely do I lose Kerbals... this is one of those rare times. RIP Orhat and Melthy. (just before the takeoff attempt, the rover memorial flag is seen in the foreground with debris, and the lander off in the background laying on its side)

I seriously resent that.

The banked turn idea sounds good, but what I really want to see is a loop-the-loop! lol RTGs. All of my SCANsat satellites are ion powered using RTGs. Only in the very beginning, before unlocking the needed parts of the Tech Tree, did I use batteries and solar. Wha?!? No. No, they're not! They're great! Pretty mushroom clouds and all that. Oh, wait, wrong nukes. I rely on nukes (NERV) and ions for just about everything off Kerbin. I do however at times wish the NERV engines were 'shorter'. Yea... and they're sharing the hell out of you too. Enjoy! lol j/k

Long shadows behind us, tonight we finished our Duna trek. 'The little rover that could', did it. Here we are at the 'Mysterious Mountain'... place is quite noisy. I find myself contemplating a continuance of this mission... a cruise to the southern polar pinch. Do I? Do I? Do I? Anyway, this is basically the route taken.

A little catch-up with promised pictures..... Up on Dres rovering to its sole anomaly, in complete darkness no less... Nightvision is definitely handy! Without it, I would never have seen the mother of all seams ("It's full of stars!")... As it turned out, I ended up flipping the rover later on. This rover is a bit bigger and heavier than 'the little rover that could', and so I wasn't able to right it (flip it back over). There's no damage to it, which is a real shame because of the lost science collection potential it had. I've another drop-rover mission under way to rescue the driver, which should enable him (or was it 'her') to make it to the anomaly. We're so close! And up on Duna, the assault continues. 'The little rover that could', I think should be renamed to 'the little rover that did' at this point. This rover, now piloted by a different driver, has driven one quarter the distance around Duna... and in combined total since its start, has driven enough to equal half the distance around Duna. I'll have to put a map of its track up later, once it reaches its final destination... We've reached the second to last destination on this trip (finally), a monolith just slightly north of the southern polar ice cap. This, 'the little rover that could', has turned out to be one tough little buggy. It has survived over 10 flips thusfar; having lost 2 headlamps, 1 RTG, and 1 antenna. I've been very lucky to right it every time so far, without any major damage! It's a shame I didn't think to add science packages to it, or a science collection container. Next version I will... I want to note here, that it literally took me 3 days to drive this buggy from my Duna 'base' to this destination... as in, it's all I've been doing for the last 3 days (on and off). It would take me just as long to drive from here at home (NJ), to visit family I have in Austin TX! LOL! One more anomaly to go, then a rendezvous with a rescue ship. The focus, as far as this Duna mission is concerned, will turn to expanding the base. 'The little rover that could' will be left behind, a testament and memorial for future explorers to discover.

So is Duna! (Especially being it has claimed more ships, rovers, and crew on me than any other planet thusfar). I had similar problems with my shuttle, it wanted to come in ass-end first constantly. I re-balanced the weight a bit and added a forward canard, which helped greatly. Also, crazy as it sounds, one of my supersonic jets which had both an engine and atmospheric heating problem... I added cooling panels (radiators) which managed the issue. Might be worth a shot trying. Heh heh!... love it.

I had to Google Turner. Seems Turner was more a watercolorist?, Puigaudeau oil on canvas? Not that it matters, both seem to have equally pleasing works. Being I've seen neither IRL, I'll have to keep both names in mind and check their works out in the future.

According to the poster who uploaded the soundtrack, it's entitled "The Sun Setting" by Ferdinand du Puigaudeau.

...and Duna is her evil brother. I just bopped in to post, so I'll have to read all the previous posts later. Duna is proving to be a serious jinx as far as my rovers go. It's showing me just how poor my driving skills are... or rather, Trama's. Another rover has been trashed. Add to that, a seriously bad maneuver on a landing attempt has just now turned yet another rover (and its lander) to a huge debris field just west of the Duna base. I'm going to get fined by the Space Agency for parts littering. So now I've got time to kill. I still have 'the little rover that could' runabout parked at the base; Maybe I'll use it to push and gather the debris together while I wait for the next fleet of inbound ships.

The 'wave wash' technique... it would be interesting to know who learned it from who, as both (bottle nose) Dolphins and Orcas use it, and both seemingly have close IQ levels.

I watched the entire event unfold live on tv with my dad. I was allowed to skip school the following day... I think you mean Monday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11 Other events having an affect; Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, John Glenn ... not to mention assassinations: Kennedy(s), Jack Ruby, King. Live history is fascinating.

So an Orca can say 'hello' and 'bye bye'... you know what's next..... 'So long, and thanks for all the fish.' (They also apparently can speak 'dolphin') http://www.euronews.com/2018/01/31/orca-learns-to-say-hello-and-bye-bye- http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1871/20172171

Warning! Warning! Danger Will Robinson!!! Classic stuff. Yes, I'm old, too old... 61. Wow. You know, if I tried that the damned solar panel would break. Lucky! In my world: Driving up on Dres, day 2. I'm about 30km from the anomaly, and, Murphy's Law, I flip the rover on its side. No damage was done, but I'm not able to tip it back over. So, now I've got another rover on the way. The driver can't do anything or go anywhere, so now he waits... and I mean waits, it's going to take over a year for help to arrive. Also while driving up on Dres, I ran across the mother of all seams. "It's full of stars!" I had to drive a few Km's to find a decent spot to jump it.

I scoff at your goldeness! RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!

Rovering! Lots of rovering going on. Up on Duna, Trama is belted into a new rover (a new T-Bird, daddy felt generous) and about to embark on one more long trek... 2 remaining anomalies to visit. The little rover that could, is now assigned as a runabout for use back at base. The base is growing, although loosely in unit placement. Close enough... we've a runabout handy. Up on Dres, the 2 scientists of the crews are now in their lab, working diligently on eating snacks and being lazy... nothing to do yet, no science received yet. We'll be fixing that right quick tomorrow, so enjoy it while you can boys. With an engineer in reserve (he must be the Chief, because he's sitting at his console, feet up, swilling coffee); The other engineer is cruising in the 'mark 3' variant of my rovers, heading south to Dres' sole anomaly. We're halfway there. We started out close to sunset, not wanting to wait another day, and we've driven about half the night through so far (enough for me for today). Hullcam VDS Continued nightvision cameras make life easy. As soon as my first Eeloo crew is rescued, I'll be looking at a second attempt there; Full scale attack. For now though, I'll just work with the irons I've currently in the fire.

Let me help you... it's ugly... and scary looking! lol Up on Duna, everything is starting to come together. The fleet of ships are all entering Duna's SOI, and maneuvering into orbit... fun stuff. I've a landing site all picked out, with two ships already set down there. Trama has begun her long trek back from Impossible Rock, bringing science with her. Up on Dres, my two lander crews, waiting so patiently, now have a science lab to work with and a rover. Currently one of the crew is driving South to Dres's anomaly... only one I know of... to do some science and plant a flag. Driving on Dres is NOT like driving on Mun or Duna, it's not what I was expecting. It is going to take a lot longer to get to the anomaly. Still fun though.

Kerbonauts Garble, Dottie, and Jedtrey returned home this morning. Their initial mission a failure, we'll accept their return a success... nearly 4 years spent in orbit around Duna.

I am not referring to the parts or construction potentials of any vessel one might dream up, but the actual flight model - the physics/math of the aerodynamics behind it. Flying 'airplanes' in KSP is not very close/accurate to a flight simulator (such as FS or X-Plane)... it's not meant to be, and that point has been explained many times. So that's what I question about this new game; How rigid does it stick to actual flight simulation (as FS or X-Plane does). I guess maybe what I'm asking, using a broader brush, is: is it a game? or a simulator?

Oh I understand this. I'm just wondering about the intended direction, what its focus will be. Will it be more like an FS/X-Plane type of sim, or Kerbalish? I mean; no question, KSP is not an ideal (airplane) flight simulator.