DonLorenzo

I uploaded a rendez-vous tutorial just yesterday: It's not in RSS, but the principles don't care about planet size

!!UPDATE 24-05-2014!! This one is about to be back! After more than a month of mucking about in the Kerbin Sized Solar System (check out KSP Contracting! If you haven't yet) I'm preparing to get back to properly sized shenanigans. I've got my new PC, 23.5 and (several) updates to all the mods that I use for this. Things are looking to be good! I'm setting up Twitch and am preparing to do a foray into streaming territory, it's all very barebones at the moment but go on over here: http://www.twitch.tv/donlorenzo42/ and 'follow' me to get notified when I'm actually streaming. I plan to do preparation and testing on stream, with lots of viewer interaction (if you care to interact, that is). Then if I can make it work, I might fly the actual mission on stream as well, and edit that down to a youtube video. If I can't make that work, I'll do the YouTube videos separately as I've always done. Dedicated [sTREAM] topic will pop up when it's time END OF UPDATE Hello happy launchers, Today I launch my new series (after 'A Mission a Day') in which I'm going to have to completely re-learn the game. Courtesy of RSS, Deadly Reentry and FAR nothing is the same and things that were once easy, are now hard. As our favourite president once said though: '...we choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' So watch and see how much easier KSP's smaller scale makes things and conversely, how I manage in a more authentic solar system. Watch the first episode of 'KSP to Mars' UPDATE 2!!! It's taken SEVENTY-ONE episodes, but holy yes yes yes we made it

Always wondered how to get those shiny space station parts together but never been able to figure it out? Rendez-voused once by chance but can't do it again? Too afraid to ask for help since all your friends can do it so you'll look like an idiot in front of your girlfriend? Worry not! In this video I explain what's important for meeting another spacecraft in orbit and how to go about it. You can't go wrong!

I just happen to have uploaded a rendez-vous tutorial today. Go have a look at it

I do gameplay and general space/rocketry concept videos. Also the occasional viewer request or question. Find them here: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCthnowvTh3rdofgvXgcs5YQ

After a delay over the holidays the final episode is here! See if and how Bob and Bill get back home from Jool, Vall and Pol. Excitement guaranteed!

I tried to put an argument forward in my reply addressing that

Without going into specifics consider the following Phones, microwaves and such are used ubiquitously by huge numbers of people. Any deleterious effect of any magnitude at all would therefore be exceedingly easy to the point to be obvious to find and identify. Sometimes you hear people say the effects are long-lived and small, so they shouldn't necesarrily be quick and easy to identify. That's somewhat right, but still, statistical effects (which cancer, which is the one that's often mentioned and feared, is), even small ones, will be visible soon with a sufficiently large sample size. And the sample size is large. It's all of us. They will retort and repeat ad nauseum; perhaps the effect is SO SMALL that it will still not be apparent! In that case we're well into the likelihood territory of direct-on-your-head asteroid strikes, and indeed there is always room for such levels of danger, in everything, because it's unmeasurable (try measuring the likelihood of direct-on-your-head asteroid strikes). Those levels of risk I choose not to worry about. Except asteroid strikes, because those are preventable

I daresay this is the best episode so far. If you've seen this thread pop up every now and then but haven't yet watched, do so now

Exploring the moons of Jool until the inevitable happens

I have noticed an increased occurance of these 'carryovers' as well. A map-view line here, a black box or a stray button there. No definite reproduction steps unfortunately

1. YES IM GOING!!! AWESOME. MOON HERE WE COME BABY 2. Oh **** I'm not going to land on it, shucks 3. Oh well, at least I'm not going to crash on it either

That's looking awesome! Here's hoping the real thing will shine as bright. I did a plug for you guys on my youtube videos

There's no need to 'make it big'. That's terrible advice. Here's an old video i made about orbits, and getting there

Unmanned stuff is hugely useful for assembling stuff in orbit, or to send provisions to kerbals somewhere. Or one could imagine a landed science lab and some unmanned rovers with experiments that drive around to the different regions. Unmanned probes with one or two experiments are still good as cheap (they can be made very small and thus require only a tiny/cheap booster) one-offs to distant targets as well

With unmanned ships all control is lost when power runs out, not so with manned craft. That could be the difference?

For me the easiest disqualifier would be size. I'm too tall (about 197cm), at least some mars-mission-simulation I wanted to sign up for had the height limit at something like 180cm. I suppose it makes sense, but that was a bit of a downer

Jool, population: 2

Apart from some muddled terminology you're completely correct. Consider this, aerobraking at Duna after a hohmann transfer isn't really braking.. it's the planet crashing into you, speeding you up to its orbital velocity. You just use the atmosphere as a cushion because the rock is too hard

Setting off for Vall

Spacestation/Interplanetary ship Complete!!

Take away from this that you need more energy per fuel unit to attain the higher Isp

I like how quite often, on many different topics someone DOES show up that has a deeper understanding of the subject than everyone else and then takes the time to educate the rest a bit. It's not always a case of textbook lessons, but interesting and helpful pointers are often given. Which is great!

After a week long hiatus we're back! 'Season 2' of A Mission a Day kicks off with a solid session of space station building!

Spaceship interior design. Not all movies are (as) guilty, but I cringe when I see a ship intended for zero-g operations with smooth floors and ceiling lights. Or any vessel that's super large and has lots of creature comforts yet is still billed as a pioneering frontrunner (ie. Star Trek gets away with it because they're SUPER ADVANCED, Europa report not so much- have you seen the SIZE of the thing in that...)