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  2. Moondog, welcome aboard first of all! I do hope you'll become an active and enthusiastic member of our community!

    --snip--

    KSP is, in my honest opinion, something that you can never play to exhaustion, and never has just one "right" way to play it (kind of like Minecraft- but much, much better). --snip--

    those are kind of just what I play. minecraft and ksp. they just don't stup producing new things.

    [TABLE=width: 500]

    [TR]

    [TD]minecraft things to do

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    [TD]ksp things to do

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    [/TR]

    [TR]

    [TD]survival

    [/TD]

    [TD]make a new career

    [/TD]

    [/TR]

    [TR]

    [TD]fight enderdragon

    [/TD]

    [TD]do a grand tour

    [/TD]

    [/TR]

    [TR]

    [TD]create a castle

    [/TD]

    [TD]make a re-useable rocket

    [/TD]

    [/TR]

    [TR]

    [TD]make a windows 8 computer

    [/TD]

    [TD]make a mac.

    [/TD]

    [/TR]

    [TR]

    [TD]eat cake

    [/TD]

    [TD]send up life support to your station

    [/TD]

    [/TR]

    [TR]

    [TD]make a map

    [/TD]

    [TD]make a space station

    [/TD]

    [/TR]

    [TR]

    [TD]play adventure maps

    [/TD]

    [TD]play challenges

    [/TD]

    [/TR]

    [TR]

    [TD]..do it again

    [/TD]

    [TD]make much, much, more!!!

    [/TD]

    [/TR]

    [/TABLE]

  3. I've come up with a Kerbal technique to handle multiplication and have built a demonstration device that will multiply any two numbers from 1 to 6. It consists of 36 two-stage rockets (arranged in six groups of six) that are clamped to the launching rig by their upper stages, and works like this:

    1. All lower stage rocket motors are lit, but no clamps are released.

    2. A key press from 1 to 6 will shutdown from 1 to 6 lower-stage motors in each group of six, leaving the others going.

    3. Lower stages are separated. In cases where the rocket motors are firing, they simply rise up and push against the bottoms of the upper stages. In cases where they have shut down, the lower stages fall away and are destroyed.

    4. All upper stage motors are lit. Clamps are still not released.

    5. A key press from 1 to 6 will again shutdown from 1 to 6 of the groups (i.e. not the same assignments as for the lower stages). The lower stages that are already firing are not affected, because they have already been separated.

    6. Rockets are released. Any rocket that has a lower stage or an upper stage firing will be lifted up and away, and are eventually destroyed.

    7. Any rocket that has neither the upper stage or lower stage firing simply drops onto the launch pad and is counted.

    8. Count the total upper stages on the pad... that's your answer!

    I have tested it many times and it works (aside from the occasional stray upper stage that tips over and explodes. Pics below:

    Here's the craft on the pad before "calculating":

    http://i.imgur.com/Y8KTR7n.jpg

    We will multiply 3 x 5. Here the first stages have been lit, and 3 in each group have been shut down by pressing the "3" key:

    http://i.imgur.com/4XfszhT.jpg

    All stage separators are fired and the upper stages are lit, leading to some mayhem as three lower stages in each group (no longer running) fall away and are blasted into the ground by the rocket wash of the upper stages. The remaining lower stages continue to burn, but are now disconnected and won't respond to any more keyboard input.

    http://i.imgur.com/gMkPAls.jpg

    Next, the "5" key is pressed, shutting down 5 of the 6 groups of upper stages. (Note that the lower stage engines are still burning as before because they're not connected and don't respond to keyboard input anymore.) After pressing the "5" key, we release all the rockets. Some that have no engines burning fall to the pad, while others depart for destinations unknown!

    http://i.imgur.com/CYzR2bq.jpg

    Once the smoke clears, we count and find exactly 15 upper stages on the pad! (Well, actually one of the 15 fuel tanks exploded, but we still plainly see the three wings and engine of the 15th upper stage. So if we count sets of wings, or if we count engines, we get 15.)

    http://i.imgur.com/EhlnvGS.jpg

    that looks really, reeeeeeaaaly cool. can I have one?

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