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Was launching a rocket. Got a phone call... When I came back I found a pile of fire and rubble... Luckily Jeb survived, because my early hard career could not have continued.

I am trying, but with so many mods it takes a loooooong time to start KSP, lol. On top of an amazing mod, great support, @Shadowmage. I can already see this mod becoming a must for me. Edit: Yes! Everithing works fine now. Thanks a lot, @Shadowmage!

Trying GitHub now...

Yup, I am having the same problem as @MrMeeb. No TextureReplacer installed. I thought it might be interfering with ProceduralParts, but I just noticed it was not installed either. I am sorry to say I am unsure as to how I can produce a log... Noobme. Also, I should point out that I am running on a Mac. Thought that could be the problem, but since MrMeeb is clearly not...

Yeah, I did put them both in the GameData folder, but no textures show up. Any sugestions as to what I could try?

I am having a problem where quite a few parts appear invisible. They will not show on the parts-menu, the R&D tech node selection or on the VAB. I suspect I installed something wrong. Do textures go on the SSTU main folder? Thanks.

It was planed for 1.1, now it's delayed. But, you know, "soon".

I am really not sure if I should continue using RT. I love the mod, but with telemetry coming to stock soon (ejem...) I might want to drop it for the sake of not having so many mods in my install. But if I take that path after I have started a new career, I might loose all ships using RT antennae. I don't really expect a solution to this, I just wanted to vent my indecision. RT really has made KSP a better game for me so far...

I used this simple craft to show my girlfriend how orbital mechanics work, after she asked how NASA had sent Voyager to "all the planets". She still thinks the main objective of KSP is bringing tourist's to space, since I am always taking space planes filled with tourists to LKO. EDIT: I also think she would have been more impressed if 1.1 orbit's weren't ALMOST INVISIBLE!

What mod are you using for engines? KW? Cool mission report, too bad about the kraken atack.

The Eve drama is really great. And I can't say no to a HGTTG reference...

Sad to say EVE is not running for me. KSP 1.1.0.1183, on OSx el capitan. Not sure if you need additional info. Thanks for your great work, anyways. I am looking forward to play a 64bit ksp with some nice clouds.

I think that was one of the best chapters yet, from an art style and storyteling point of view.

I do worry about my kerbals spending too much time in space, I try to get them there and back before they get a high radiation dose in interplanetary space. And I did once ger a 280 days transfer to Eeloo...

Holly mulch, that was great. Really, really great cliff hanger. And great effects. And... sad kerbal is sad.

As Adams would say, "Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does". if you really want to read some more Lem, I would definitely say go for Fiasco, a truly great novel, or Tichy's Star Journals: as funny as insightful. (""Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does. The easiest way to fool a completely logical robot is to feed it with the same stimulus sequence over and over again so it gets locked in a loop. This was best demonstrated by the famous Herring Sandwich experiments conducted millennia ago at MISPWOSO (the MaxiMegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious). A robot was programmed to believe that it liked herring sandwiches. This was actually the most difficult part of the whole experiment. Once the robot had been programmed to believe that it liked herring sandwiches, a herring sandwich was placed in front of it. Where upon the robot thought to itself, Ah! A herring sandwich! I like herring sandwiches. It would then bend over and scoop up the herring sandwich in its herring sandwich scoop, and then straighten up again. Unfortunately for the robot, it was fashioned in such a way that the action of straightening up caused the herring sandwich to slip straight back off its herring sandwich scoop and fall on to the floor in front of the robot. Whereupon the robot thought to itself, Ah! A herring sandwich...etc., and repeated the same action over and over again. The only thing that prevented the herring sandwich from getting bored with the whole damn business and crawling off in search of other ways of passing the time was that the herring sandwich, being just a bit of dead fish between a couple of slices of bread, was marginally less alert to what was going on than was the robot". Mostly Harmless. LOL)

No, no... I didn't make myself sufficiently clear: mode of birth is irrelevant (mammal, reptilian...), all that matters is that reproduction is sexual. Lem's argument, which I find extremely sensible, is that asexual reproduction, be it bacteria-like mitosis or vertebrate parthenogenesis, does not generate sufficiently large and random mutation for life to evolve into any kind of complicated form in a reasonable time. Intelligent life is, therefore, bound to reproduce sexually, because the chances for intelligence to come up without sexual reproduction are close to zero. On the other hand, Fiasco is a novel about anthropocentrism and mammalocentrism as much as anything. I recommend it wholeheartedly to any science-fiction lovers, tho it is a bit dense. Lem is, in my mind, the undisputed master of science-fiction, and no one comes even close to his mastery of the genre. Consider also that sexual reproduction has appeared not once, but many times here on Earth. Vertebrates and plants, for example, reproduce sexually without having a common ancestor that did that. The kerbal-spore theory, however, I find extremely interesting, and it has good empirical support, with the "puff" element and all... But you will note it still implies sexual reproduction. (Since I touch on the subject of science fiction, I must also recommend The three body problem —a title that should catch the attention of everyone who plays KSP—, by Liu Cixin. I just read it and it is won-der-full, really amazing. The third volume is not yet out in English and I can't wait. And this is not the Hunger games kinda "science-fiction" that you can't wait for because of the fiction more than the science; truly, the science on that novel has me completely hooked).

Of course, if in the kappa-verse they also happen to lay eggs -as any reasonable kerbalist would argue-, taking a bunch of eggs is no trouble at all...

As long as it remains... Uh... Un-graphical... I would say it's ok to mention it.

Awesome!

Good points, but I would argue that mode of birth is quite inconsequential. Of course, it is my learned opinion that kerbals lay eggs, so it would not be entirely unlikely for them to be able to reproduce asexualy, or even to change sex according to ambiental factors. However, we can be absolutely sure that their main mode of reproduction is bi-sexual in nature, as indeed that would be the preferred way of any (if-any) intelligent species (cf. Stanislaw Lem's wonderful novel Fiasco for details on this reasoning), nihil obstat to however frequent cases of parthenogenesis. In fact, it has been observed in populations of fish which can choose to either reproduce asexualy or bisexualy, that those populations where asexual reproduction prevails are more susceptible to parasites and desease. In other words, if kerbals are doomed to reproduce asexualy from now on, you can bet they wont last more than two or three generations due to lack of gene re-combining. Now, the addition of inter-dimentional kerbals does ad something new to the equation. Time-traveling kerbals, not so much, I think, but from the moment we can introduce an entirely unconected gene pool to the kappa-verse, the chances are much better for our 46 kerbals to reproduce sexualy without the complications of a small genetic diversity. It is, after all, a well known fact than the entire population of our world, outside of Africa, in fact descends from a rather small group of individuals who left the continent (making any non-african individuals more related to each other than two african neighbors), so it is possible to re-grow a population from a small group if the gene pool is varied enough within that group.

But not enough, I am afraid to say, genetic diversity to keep kerbals going on. Still... Good for them.

She did get into the munar SOI before the Mun, so that was not possible. Actually, if I had just let her keep the initial orbit, she would have returned just fine, but I forgot that by getting close to it the ship would gain a lot of anti radial speed relative to Kerbin.

Mostly updates. My last one ended when I sent all my best kerbals on a mission to Gilly and they ended up not having enough Dv to get captured at Eve due to partly misscalculation and partly a bug. I had invested too much in that mission, so I was too frustrated when it failed. But since now I am doing a comic about my current career, I guess I am forced to stick with it even if something fails. That's part of the reason why I started doing a comic-mission-report, to get more involved.

I think it's great how you guys worry about Val I will say, she did explote once because I was too busy taking pictures. When the story is a little more advanced I am going to be willing to let kerbals die explody deaths, but at this stage it's kinda pointless. By the way, I have decided that from now on not every mission is going to be featured in a comic, since it would be hard to make another simple orbit (I have a contract to orbit for two days) exciting. To compensate, I am going to start mission logs on the excel, with descriptions of what happens. Not sure if they are going to have any relevance to the story. Also not sure if you guys would like me to post them on this thread: would that be too spamy?