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  1. Here\'s a picture of me when I was younger I have this weird hair that apparently turns red under bright light but always looks brown to me.
  2. I actually searched both terms and my screenshot results were the only ones that showed up. When I went to Advanced Search, however, I found the thread... and I didn\'t even specify which forum category it was in.
  3. Some plants can only take an hour or two of sunlight, other plants don\'t have a limit on how much light they can receive at all. Really, there\'s probably a plant species that can fit almost any criteria you throw at it.
  4. Go ahead, download the .craft and try to land with the front wheel touching down first... I dare you. edit: Uploaded my Delta II craft. It\'s based on the Delta I, which is the VTOL Experiments .craft without the RCS. Much, much more stable, both in flight and in landing. If you haven\'t seen it around the forums yet, here\'s a screenie or two: Protip: the Delta II in its current configuration is not intended for horizontal landings. You can put wheels on it if you\'d like, I\'ve gotten it to land pretty decently using wheels, but personally I prefer VTOL and skids seem to work better for me.
  5. Multiple mun landings on a single flight?
  6. This topic is for all gliding discussions and to determine meaningful data about gliding, as well as comparisons to the designs of others. Post your craft and information about its gliding ability! My Delta II can glide stably (without pulling up/stalling) at approximately 40 m/s relative to the surface, with a vertical airspeed of approximately -1m/s. This test was done at 1800-1400 meters altitude. I did some more extensive and scientific testing. Set FRAPS to take a screenie every ten seconds; the result of a solid minute of gliding indicates a vertical airspeed of -1.033 m/s. The average airspeed of this minute of gliding, from 1740 to 1678 meters altitude, was 38 m/s. Any slight variations in the screenshots are undoubtedly due to the turbulence which caused the Delta II to drift slightly off course and the corrective action taken to keep the craft straight. For a more practical application of these numbers, imagine this hypothetical: I am coming down from reentry, completely out of fuel. I regain control of my plane 5 km above the ocean, dozens of kilometers away from shore. If these numbers held up at 5 kilometers altitude (I\'m sure they don\'t, but roll with me for a second) then I could glide 183,930 meters, roughly. That should make it to any beach. Since the numbers will not hold up at that high altitude, however, let\'s just cut it out of the equation. From two kilometers altitude I could still fly 73 kilometers distance. That\'s pretty damned impressive!
  7. Arr! Welcome to the forums, Outlander! - Captain cardgame Happy Launching! doing it right
  8. I made it to Mun at 6500 m/s on my first day playing, but with Down Under parts. I made my first safe landing a day or two later.
  9. You know, Kerbin doesn\'t look nearly as small as I thought it would.
  10. Herpaderp States-sider here. Specifically, Missouri
  11. To put it simply, this is the place to dump carefully place your absolute favorite music videos. Please, no more than three per post. Hmm, indeed. No YT tags. is my first favoriteAnd is my second
  12. Lasting longer isn\'t really a selling point to most people, because computers need to be replaced/upgraded (you can\'t upgrade a laptop, and an iMac is probably difficult as hell to upgrade) by the time one will usually fail. New RAM, new processors, new GPUs, etc.
  13. I love image macros, but I do try to not spam them everywhere. Some are simply perfectly relevant, though...
  14. That\'s an awesome airburst artillery barrage you have there, sochmer.
  15. I could kill that mothership so easily with my much more nimble Delta II, though. And that craft lacks railguns. Three munitions for the railgun, two missiles that actually fly straight, and one dumb bomb, all mounted on a very maneuverable craft capable of vertical or horizontal landings.
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