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They are the explanation for why the Kerbal is Euclid/Keter level instead of Safe. A Kerbal on its own straight from the game would probably be put straight into Safe. After all, stuff only blows up around them because of Kerbin's poor Health And Safety regulations.

Werebals. Sounds like a Kerbal's name.

I didn't think this spacecraft had enough delta-V to reach Jool. It didn't so I disconnected the first habitat and communications unit from the stack. The I realised that I could cheat and used infini-fuel [because damn do I not want to have to send up all those rovers again...] so I had to get the habitat and comm's back attached to the rocket. When I put it on the side dock, the centre of mass had changed too much for ASAS to hold course. So, I changed the activated NTRs from two that were opposite each other to two that were next to each other - in particular, the two that would make up for the imbalanced mass. It worked.

The TX-2 Sentry was developed as an answer to the problem of how to move habitats on the New Safiran Laythe colony, after the habitats of Laytheshot 1 and Laytheshot 2 landed 3 kilometres apart with no way to move them closer together. After adding docking ports to the undersides of the Laytheshot 3 habitats, a long and arduous development program began for a vehicle that could pick the habitats up and relocate them. After many iterations, this was the eventual solution. [These two rovers had already been dropped with their carrier from 14,000m to test their parachutes.] A battery pack had been shorn off after the vehicle jumped onto the runway at full speed. No other damage was received. One test had involved jumping it off the rocket launch pad. It survived with no damage despite swerving to a halt after landing at an awkward angle. The Laytheshot Test Vehicle simply flies up to 1Km, tilts over and drops a habitat. It was decided to make use of the Laytheshot Test Vehicle by moving it to the KSC Anomaly Research Base. Obligatory photo of the final position. Download for launch vehicle: http://www.2shared.com/file/OTairxGZ/Construction_Rover_Carrier.html Tips: Whilst the vehicle is pretty stable unloaded [capable of full speed turns on flat ground], it is recommended that longer, slower turns be made when carrying a payload. Vehicle has an internal Probe Core. Can be driven without a pilot.

I'm sending a spacecraft there with two habitats, two Lilith-class SSTO spaceplanes, and four Sandhunter-class rovers [including one Command Rover which is fitted with extra solar panels, batteries, scientific equipment and communications systems.] I'll probably put a mission log up later. Nice work so far, Zokesia. I like your jet lander, though I prefer spaceplanes since they can work without intake spam. The 'hair raising' Laythe aerobraking was pretty funny, kudos to your engineering that it stayed together.

These may be about things in KSP, or the Jeb meme. Here's my two, see what you can come up with.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts

Why would you put an asteroid in Low Earth Orbit? We don't want to put something that took a lot of effort to bring home in a place where A) It could eventually deorbit and there is space junk all over the place. An asteroid doesn't have the ISS's ability to move around, and even if it did, it would probably be slower and more cumbersome. Both moon bases and asteroid mining are important. A moon base would be more useful for reaching Mars. I'd prefer we brought the asteroid into Lunar orbit first, but there aren't a lot of candidate asteroids, and there aren't many windows to reach them. As such, getting a space station into an Earth-Moon Lagrange Point, then building a moon base should take priority.

Wow. It's like the B9 space-truck-cab-thing but more streamlined. I'd definitely use this if it were stock. Would it fit to Mk2 spaceplane bodies?

I see what you did there, fellow British person. Nice Duna lander. Perhaps it would work better with radial engines?

Did they miss the "1" from the countdown?

This was for a roleplay. http://www.wikiupload.com/CNSTZMTE8S4K5ZF "The Flare Star left FTL above the planet that had been broadcasting the signal. It used its RCS to flip around so it could burn retrograde, turning an escape trajectory into a close eliptical orbit. The Commander told the communications operator to send a narrowband television signal over the omnidirectional radio system. Hopefully, the civilisation below would know how to decode Slow Scan Television."

Some awesome spacecraft there. I really like your Pollux vehice. I was going to say it was 'too big', then I remembered the size of my Zulu transfer stage. And the Zulu carries smaller payloads with no Kerbin return capability. So your design is practical, too.

Rotate the cockpit so it's vertical. It will let you do normal symmetry then. Once you're done with symmetry, put the payload horizontal again before sticking the completed stack under it.

Woah. What does it look like inside?

I use my Alfa interplanetary stage for almost everything [unless I'm using the Zulu Heavy Transfer Stage], including Mun shots. With twin NERVAs, a senior docking port [as well as smaller ones for refuelling], and a Rockomax Jumbo 64 tank, it's probably the most reliable stage I use. If I wanted to build a Mun base, it is what I'd use for a bus. [That's not to say I might change where the docking port goes.] [This is an early version. Note the decoupler instead of a senior docking port, and the lack of refuelling ports. This stage is intended to deorbit the payload and slow it down for landing too.]

This is an awesome looking vehicle. Looks kind of like the DC-X, except two-stage.

The wings are for control, not lift. It will usually take off with VTOL at 2/3rds throttle.

This is a great feat, Brotoro. Your rover is well designed. My first Duna rover, which was sent to Duna to look at the pyramid easter egg, landed in the wrong crater. I needed to drive across a quarter of Duna's surface to reach my destination. It took me about four hours to get the tiny vehicle out of the crater, and another four to drive 10Km. I eventuzlly gave up on it and snt a new rover, which overshot its landing site. THEN I sent a spaceplane which was able to land, losing an engine in the process, and drove that to the pyramid. Rovers are tricky buggers.

The Veto Aerospace Duna Ascent/Descent Vehicle Experimental version 3 Magpie is a rocket-powered VTOL craft capable of basic manoeuvring in Kerbin's atmosphere. It has not yet been tested on Duna. The craft is intended to be capable of both VTOL and STOL, though STOL landings are recommended. The Magpie follows after the Sparrow (abandoned for falling over sideways) and the Robin (Fuel balancing issues.) Action Groups: 1 - VTOL engines 2 - Main Ascent Engines 3 - Interplanetary/Deorbit Engine 4 - Wheel gear 5 - Landing legs http://www.2shared.com/file/GY-rhodH/Magpie.html

I wonder if there will be a Pluto-Charon like co-orbital binary dwarf planet system with multiple small moons.

Good. I know there are American firms working on this too, but apparently Air Fuel Synthesis, a British firm, has already suceeded in producing petrol from air. This from 19th October 2012.

India is working on Molten Salt Reactors if I remember correctly. Though most everyone else is working on fusion. As we use the last of our fossil fuels, we will see a decline in their use - though maybe not if that project being worked in to literally make petrol from air pulls it off. Solar generally doesn't have the energy saturation to work, same problem with wind, which is why I think Germany's decision to shut down its nuclear power plants [remember, Germany's plants were statistically the safest in the world] was silly. Nuclear suffers from political problems and had bad connotations [unjustified in modern times] in the public view. Whilst I'm pro-nuclear fission, I don't see it becoming more popular with the enviro-sheeple any time soon. Nuclear fusion has the potential for very high energy saturation with no carbon emissions. It will probably continue to be used up until antimatter surpasses it as an energy storage means [think most powerful rechargable battery you can make]. There is someone who is working on making antimatter easier to work with by adding electrons to it or something that will make it inert to matter by balancing its charge or something.

Is that "Alphan" as in Moonbase Alpha? It looks sort of like an Eagle.

This is Kerbal space program. If they aren't worried about spacecraft exploding on the pad because they forgot launch clamps, they probably aren't too bothered about someone's hair getting trapped in their helmet-suit locking ring. Then again, it might explain why all the Kerbals have the same haircut in-game [aside from Squad not having given them distinctive features yet.]