Matuchkin

1. We need an easter egg with rescue contract with a pod in deep space, with a kerbal named Tom in it. 2. At least Bowie wasn't 27... That sucks, he wouldn't be able to hang out with Alexandre Levy, Louis Chauvin, Robert Johnson, Nat Jaffe, Jesse Belvin, Rudy Lewis, Joe Henderson, Malcolm Hale, Dickie Pride, Brian Jones, Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Arlester "Dyke" Christian, Jim Morrison, Linda Jones, Leslie Harvey, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Roger Lee Durham, Wallace Yohn, Dave Alexander, Pete Ham, Gary Thain, Cecilia, Helmut Köllen, Chris Bell, Jacob Miller, D. Boon, Alexander Bashlachev, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pete de Freitas, Dimitar Voev, Mia Zapata, Kristenfaff, Richey Edwards, Fat Pat, Freaky Tah, Kami, Rodrigo Bueno, Sean Patrick McCabe, Maria Serrano Serrano, Jeremy Michael Ward, Bryan Ottoson, Valentín Elizalde, Amy Winehouse, Richard Turner, Nicole Bogner, Soroush "Looloosh" Farazmand, and Slađa Guduraš. Oh, and there's this guy named Kurt. You may see he keeps holding that shotgun. We don't talk about him.

Would you like to know you're going to die, reentering and accepting your death or staying in LEO until your air runs out? Or would you like to have a "successful" mission, have a good reentry, then suddenly black out and not even feel or know what happened?

I'm quite sure we can do something about the smaller asteroids, but we can not do anything for the average-sized ones in the next 25 years. Protecting ourselves from a Los Angeles sized rock is not quite possible.

It's a Zenit rocket second stage, launched on December 11th, 2015. Its orbit decayed, burning it up over Vietnam.

A very, very, very kerbalized Soyuz (Not saying that's bad). I actually kind of love it. You shouldn't resemble it to a Soyuz though, as it looks more like a blend between N1 and flattened Shenzou. Call it your own design- be proud of that. I'd like to see one for Realism Overhaul, so that I can nail solar panels to it and use it as a crew lifter.

I'm not quite sure you guys understand how terrible, unreliable and "WIP" drone technology is. I'm answering to wumpus here, with the MQ-1 Predator as an example. To start off, drone and unmanned tech started with a complete *CRASH*. Really, the idea for drone tech originated in the Vietnam War, with Task Force Alpha and an operation called Igloo White. Basically, sensors were dropped across the jungle surrounding the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The info from the sensors (troops passing, etc) was fed into an IBM computer. There were many horrible mistakes, and Task Force Alpha was disbanded by John Boyd long before the end of the war. The idea was dropped for a looooooong time, before precision weaponry started to come in production, after which practically all following drone proposals were scrapped. The Predator MQ-1 got through by some near-accident. It was even classified as "ineligible for combat" in a 60-page report on the drone. There was a test conducted on the cameras of the drone with marks ranging from 1 (ability to identify a large airliner) to 9 (ability to identify a human face). The drone was expected to score a 6, but it scored less than a 2.5. Operators were unable to identify more than two thirds of all their targets. A reporter once commented on an accident that happened because of the camera (involving at least 20 vaporized women, boys, and children [2-5 yrs old]). The reporter talked about an image of the civilians praying and washing in a river after stopping for gas (the drone operators associated that gesture with an imminent attack, and identified all the civilians as Military Aged Males). He said that, when he looked at the drone image, "they could have been taking a [liquid]". Another man, a drone operator, was questioned on the drone camera "the SRI?!" he exclaimed, "the SRI?! Look at that rug over here, sir! That's what an SRI looks like!". Drones are never going to be interceptors. They aren't even useful for COIN/ Reconnaisance, as pyrosheep put it. Read this book, please. Then, you'll understand: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1857-kill-chain Anyway, I vote on the f-18

If we somehow found a way to step and work on Venus, then it would be preferable to Mars because: 1. I'm interested 2. We actually planned that at some point. The main proposal is to use a hydrogen filled balloon to hover a small colony somewhere 50km above Venus's surface, conducting research on the atmosphere (very plausible, if we find a way to stabilize the colony in the air because of the hurricane winds at that altitude). Another proposal is to terraform Venus and change its day/night cycle (downright idiotic). I guess we can get some good research on Venus like that. 3 (MAIN REASON). "We're heading for Venus (Venus)" "And still we stand tall "'Cause maybe they've seen us (seen us)" "And welcome us all, yeah." "With so many light years to go" "And things to be found (to be found)" "I'm sure that we'll all miss her so." "It's the final countdown..."

Did you just quote the whooooole post that the OP made? This thread became two times larger all for the sake of a small sentence. Not blaming you, I also do that sometimes.

Hold on. I'd want to see some internal shots of the crew pod and lab. Can you do that? Thank you.

Soldier on boat- "Clear the ramp! Thirty seconds! My God be with ya!" Miller- "Move fast and clear those murder holes." Horvath- "I wanna keep plenty of beach between men. Five men, you use the opportunity. One man, it's a waste of ammo." Miller- "Keep the sand out of your weapons. Keep those actions clear. I'll see you on the beach." *The ramp opens...*

Finally! Someone who understands my mod suggestions! Thank you, thank you.

Well done! You are the only one I know who actually knows about the Battle of Hampton Roads! There were way more ships there, though I know your computer would have turned into a black hole if you tried to put anything else that detailed into the game.

Ever played Beam NG Drive? Then you know what I'm thinking about this. We just need collision effects and an AA turret.

I want to see this beauty shot down with collision effects. Been long since I've seen any detail in KSP crashes, especially plane crashes. If you ever played or watched Beam NG Drive, you know what I mean by "detailed crash" and you know how awesome they can look. I'd especially want to see a failure in one of the DB-603s, with the cowling ripped off (or somethin') at a high altitude. The fireball will look awesome. Also, are you thinking about adding some internal detail to the fuselage? I know I might sound like I hate this aircraft, but I don't. I just like to see things slowly break apart in a fireball as they plummet from massive heights. This is a great candidate.

I made orbit somewhere in 0.21, in a gemini capsule from FASA. That was after I realized that I could just achieve orbit by burning sideways.

We need a KSP top gear show.

Wow, tell OP he actually has to do that.

A crater named after me...

I usually start to lag around 80 parts...

@The Flame Cat I don't really know why you liked my comment. Looking back at it now, I was quite rude...

When you highlight text from wikipedia to copy and adapt it into a paragraph for a powerpoint presentation, and get surprised when "quote this" doesn't appear. You think about how to copy it now that the "quote this" feature's gone, then, a split second later, realise that you can just Ctrl-C+ Ctrl-V.

I think mods such as Dmagic and Scansat should be required. They have the actual science tools that can actually track anything (if data for that is created in the contract pack).

I completely lost track of time. I got it in 2012-13. So yeah, that doesn't count. Did I mention I get a slight feeling of fright when I post something and a moderator replies? I'm way too paranoid sometimes.

I think that, to get somewhere close to 6000m/s we won't need a rocket. We'll need more of a wedge-shaped plane. The HTV 2 managed to get 5833m/s, but that was gliding from Earth orbit, where the orbital speed is 7.2km/s. I guess, then, that I will create a flat, wedge-shaped plane like the HTV2, deorbit it from minmus orbit, give it a looooooooong boost before reentry, then dip into Kerbin's lower atmosphere to do this challenge. I can't however, post anything here. That is because I'm not spending my time uninstalling and reinstalling RO, so I'm just giving suggestions.

What, the hypersoar?