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  1. tater
    Or Three Body Problem and The Dark Forrest by Cixin Liu.
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    Looking forward to testing when I get home tomorrow!
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    Jupiter next to a moon rocket (took it last night at Disneyland)
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    Yeah, wasn't your post at all. My "fatherly" reply was also deleted because it quoted the perp. People need to realize that mods are free, and people have real lives... being demanding of a modder is remarkably childish, instead, be grateful they spend the time, and have the skill to do what they do!
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    My comment above is directed at a comment which the mods (sensibly) removed because it was rude (not humorous).
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    Yes, stock, I don't have real plumes (I'm waiting for 1.1 to bother with visual effects mods, I'm more concerned about functionality). I want to say the diameter was the stock starting diameter, so 1.25m.
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    Raendy, some people are childish, take your time.
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    The other nozzles seem to exhibit this behavior as well, but as they are wider, it is less noticeable.
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    The SRB has an exhaust issue with this nozzle. Need to test the others.
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    Venus is blueish white to me... color can be pretty subjective, though.
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    You can also tell by the orangish color it is Jupiter, at least if you live someplace decently dark/clear. Saturn is similar (maybe a little more yellow to my eye), but never nearly as bright.
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    My state ponied up the money for the dumb spaceport, not Virgin. Governor Richardson likely had a buddy in the construction business down there, that was how he rolled.
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    Did you see that my lack of SAS functionality was in career, not sandbox? I was trying to figure out why---SAS parts on a capsule require a pilot, perhaps, whereas sticking a probe as a different part (even if not root) negates this... No idea.
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    Lunar ISRU is pretty industrial. The methodology is cracking regolith, which is mostly oxides. The thread is "moonrise on a budget," and once you start heading towards delivering bulldozers, etc, it starts being A budget, but not a small budget.
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    A reusable tug is a not inconsiderable expense, then of course you have to haul propellant up to the tug.
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    If you are imagining a base that is occupied for periods of time, the logistics of supporting the thing seems like it would rapidly outpace the expense of setting it up in the first place. It doesn't cost substantially less to resupply and rotate crews than it would cost to land the thing initially. Less, yes, but not hugely less. It's sort of like SLS, you can have the program in place, but maintaining it becomes the issue.
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    Here's an idea that occurred to me for landed bases within your "variant" concept. Inflatables are certainly a current "state of the art" idea, but they lack proper shielding... The variants of a landed inflatable could be "Mun variant," "Minmus variant," Duna Variant," etc. The Mun variant would deploy, and end up looking as if it was covered with munar regolith. The Minmus version would be covered with green, minmar regolith, dunian regolith for the Duna variant, etc.
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    Fuel depots launched by SLS might make some in Congress have their heads explode, since the people who are for SLS tend to be vehemently against orbital refueling for some inexplicable reason.
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    Turns out it was not the old version... I get the "no SAS or pilots" warning in career, but not sandbox, even in the current version. I'm trying to figure out why it would work in sandbox and not career. probe cores have code like this: MODULE { name = ModuleSAS SASServiceLevel = 2 } and the avionics nosecone adds: standalone = True The crew is required generally for SAS to work for anything with a minimumCrew = 1. OTOH, vesselType = Probe, maybe that matters in career?
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    Sort of. General public interest is, and won't result in anything at all, because the public has little influence on government spending, anyway. If some of those who become interested go into space science/engineering, then that impact is not temporary---or is exactly as temporary as any career is. The next von Braun might be Indian for all we know, and his first excitement about space could be seeing the Indus team fly their robot to the moon. Again, this would be a tiny chance, so it's certainly not a cost-effective way to pursue that goal, I'm just saying that this project costs the participants exactly nothing except their time (they secure funds from industry, etc), and has a real payoff for the winner, and nebulous, possible plusses for some people that might be inspired by it. I'm not supporting OP's notion that it will encourage more funding for space, because as I said, public interest has exactly nothing to do with it, anyway, won't happen.
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    I didn't say anything about budget, I only mentioned public interest. I suppose in a populous country like India, a bump in public interest, particularly the type of project that involved students could at least have the positive goal of getting some kids to decide to head to aerospace instead of computer engineering. I'm not saying it would have a profound impact, but it might have some impact, and certainly more than in the West where things like this are sort of assumed by anyone who thinks about them. Regardless, public opinion would;t drive funding anyway, jobs/pork in particular districts drives funding.
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    I wasn't sure if the craft got confused with where the controlling part was an if it cause "jitters" (for #1). For 2, I know the SAS and reaction wheels are different. My career game is 2 versions back (vs my testing) and I would have an Orion with no pilot aboard saying there was no SAS, which was what was confusing me. The current version seems fine.
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    Yeah, I can get them to work with the setup you show, above. I was using a mixture of LF and other tanks for a Duna/Mars vehicle because I wanted a more streamlined look (even if it doesn't matter in the game as is). The SAS stuff is odd, and I think my issues were not being up to date on SSTU on my career save (I have a pure, SSTU test build as well). One thing is that if the upper stage tanks and SMs have SAS, and the command pods have it, then it sort of defeats the purpose of having a SM. Of course in that case you still want SAS for reentry, etc, so redundancy is OK as long as they don't fight with each other. From a play balance (stock feel), I can see some point in the pilot vs sci/eng kerbal distinction, though I end up throwing probes on everything anyway. One interesting idea for balance that leaves all the "probe" stuff intact is very low, or nil torque SAS, so that the pod can steer, but MUST use RCS to do so. Then maybe the SM has the flywheel... just throwing stuff out there, I have to go for a hike, will post more tonight.
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    Will do, shadowmage. Another option might be an MFT-(D?) that would be the tanks without the aerodynamic shell, but perhaps with a fairing option for the whole tank...
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    If any of the teams outside the "First World" could manage to actually fly, I think that those could actually really spark interest in their home countries. In the US, EU, etc, I don't see it as being particularly interesting to most people (we have an SUV sized robot on Mars driving around, and I'd wager 99% of people walking around don't even know it exists). If the Indian team managed to land on the moon, everyone in India would likely know about it.
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