KAL 9000

Again: That REALLY sounds like Gravity Falls

What can I say? We're all insane.

I'm done.

Please, no more nested spoilers. SO ANNOYING! The LDBW causes the Weirdness Magnetism. Wait, so like flying eyeballs with bat wings?

Precisely! According to my research, certain places across the multiverse of infinite possible universes experience a phenomenon known as "Localized Dimensional Barrier Weakness" (LDBW), or, in layman's terms, "Weirdness". There, spacetime is pretty much broken, and lifeforms and phenomenon from different universes in the multiverse seep through. The LDBW is confined to an area typically less than five miles from end to end (approximately the size of a small town), and objects from different universes cannot escape the confines of that area due to creatures from different universes not being able to survive in the universe containing the LDBW pocket due to slight differences in the laws of physics and quantum fluctuations. The LDBW pocket can sustain them, though. LDBW pockets are stationary relative to the largest gravitational force in the area of the pocket (i.e. LDBW pockets inside Earth's SOI will stay there, because Earth is the dominant gravitational force in its own SOI). LDBW pockets can be destroyed, causing the rest of spacetime in the host universe to go all screwy, but that requires energy levels equivalent to 8 petawatts (or approximately 6,611,570 times 1.21 gigawatts, the amount of power needed for time travel), or a Reality Warper.

Belladonna Cove is getting more and more familiar... OF COURSE! Weird towns... I present to you, the other winner of the title "Weirdest Town Ever"!

-The First Landing- TheDoctor strapped himself into the cockpit of the SSTO, and pushed the powerup button. His fingers prepared to type in commands at the terminal. There was the sound of the computer starting up. Booting... 100% Bootup complete! Preparing systems check on N7 Aerospace SSTO Type D... Thank you for choosing N7 Aerospace. Beginning systems check... Structural Integrity: 100% Heat Shielding: Intact Hull Breaches Detected: 0 Mainframe Computer: Online Autopilot (AR202 MechJeb personality construct): Online Renewable Carbon Dioxide Scrubbers: Online Internal Heater: Online Internal AC: Online Thermostat Internal Temperature Controller: Online Toilet and Water Reclaimer: Online, Online Snack Pantry: Online, Filled Water Tank: 100% Oxygenator: Online Batteries: Online, 100% Charged Docking Port: Online, Extended, Connected Deuterium: 0% Tritium: 0% Helium-4: 0% Deuterium-Tritium Fusion Reactor: Online, Shutdown (relying on external power) Charged Particles Electric Generator: Online Inline Radiators: Online Cargo Bay: Online, Closed Crew Cabins: Online Monopropellant: 0% Atmospheric Intakes: Online, Closed Liquid Hydrogen: 0% RCS Thrusters: Online, Shutdown Thermal Turbojet: Online, Liquid Hydrogen Mode, Shutdown Misc. Systems: Online Systems check complete! All systems online. WARNING: Fuel Empty Console: Initiate Fuel Transfer Fuel Transferred! Console: Seal Docking Port Bulkheads Sealed! Console: Undock Docking Port Undocked! WARNING: Power Low! Console: Switch To Internal Power, Fusion Reactor On Power levels stabilized! Console: Switch From Autopilot To Manual Control Manual Control activated! The SSTO entered the atmosphere of Proxima b. Plasma enveloped the craft, slowing it to Mach 3. TheDoctor gripped the controls tightly as the plasma disappeared, to be replaced by the normal atmosphere. Expertly piloting the craft, he brought it down to a hundred m/s, touching down on a flat strip of land and deploying the airbrakes. As it slowed to a stop, he shut off the engines and radioed a message back to the ARC Destiny. "Destiny, this is N7-D18. Touchdown confirmed." The bridge of the ARC Destiny erupted in cheers.

Step 1: Get Von Neumann machines/probes Step 2: Demolish Inner Planets (after moving everyone on Earth to temporary Stanford Toruses, O'Neil Cylinders, or Bernal Spheres) and use the resources to build a Ringworld Step 3: Move everyone to the Ringworld Step 4: Demolish Outer Planets and use the resources to build a Dyson Sphere outside the orbit of the Ringworld Step 5: PROFIT!!!

How are they only getting this kind of launcher now? Didn't they send a probe to Mars? Oh, wait, they hitchhiked...

The Moon orbits the Earth-Moon barycenter, as does Earth. The geometric point that is the Earth-Moon barycenter orbits the Solar System barycenter (mainly the Sun-Jupiter barycenter ). However, the Earth-Moon barycenter is inside Earth. I'm going to define "moon" as "an object that orbits the barycenter of it, a planet/dwarf planet/asteroid/comet, and any additional moons, so long as the barycenter is inside the planet/dwarf planet/asteroid/comet itself. And it has to be natural, and not a ring particle." Technically, the Solar System barycenter is outside the Sun, but that's a story debate for another day. Pluto and Charon are not a dwarf planet and a moon. They're two dwarf planets orbiting their barycenter (which is outside Pluto). What exactly Nix, Hydra, Styx, and Kerberos are is for another day.

NO! DON'T LEAVE US FOR THOSE TWO-BIT RTS HACKS!

THE PLOT THICKENS!!! Off-Topic: I was rereading this an hour ago and realized something: Sanny the Ghost is borrowed from @Geschosskopf, right? Where the heck is @Geschosskopf (the forum user, not the First Mate)?! I haven't seen him in, like, a year!

MOAR NAO!

I predict that mint ice cream exports will generate billions of annually for the Minmus colonization industry, enabling it to pay for itself within ten years of the first base being established.

You want me to remove the resource scanners, radar altimetry terrain mappers, biome scanners, magnetometer, orbital science equipment, and most importantly the Mystery Goo? NO, SIR! Fine, much larger tanks it is.

Only 3 million m/s!

No, 0.5%c. As in, 0.005c.

*Switches to Kerbstein* *Adds a crapton of LithiumDeuteride* *Looks at KER* 0.5%c... 0.5%c... 0.5%c... I WENT FROM ∞ TO 0.5%C! COME ON!

Now! Hendessa has six planets. Three of these planets are slightly larger than Pluto: Large enough to be a planet, but not large enough for their gravity to cause most of their metals to sink to their cores. There is one planet large enough for a mainly metallic core, and two gas giants. The planets are as follows (arranged with increasing distance from Hendessa): 1-1 F8V 312 Hendessa: Hendessa itself, Class F8V star, 2.7 billion years old 1-1 F8V 312 Hendessa b: First planet out. Orbits too close to be in the habitable zone; Class I Planet (metallic core); 1.5 Kerbin masses; Super-Eve 1-1 F8V 312 Hendessa c: Second planet out. Orbits in the habitable zone: Class H Planet (gas giant); 1.3 Jool masses; Warm Jool; NOTE: Largest moon is Kerbin-sized. Due to the planet orbiting in the habitable zone, liquid water oceans exist in this moon, and simple life (single-celled life, primitive marine ecosystem of seaweed and herbivore fish that eat it, primitive land ecosystem of plants and plant-eating insects) is abundant. Traveler 07 subprobe image of 1-1 F8V 312 Hendessa c and its largest moon. Image taken on final approach to 1-1 F8V 312 Hendessa c, one day, five hours before atmospheric entry: 1-1 F8V 312 Hendessa d: Third planet out. Orbits on the outer edge of the habitable zone; 0.9 Jool masses; Warm Jool; NOTE: Larger moons are quite similar to Duna 1-1 F8V 312 Hendessa e: Fourth planet out. Orbits outside the habitable zone; 1.3 Mün masses; Superdres 1-1 F8V 312 Hendessa f: Fifth planet out. Orbits outside the habitable zone; 0.5 Duna masses; Superdres 1-1 F8V 312 Hendessa g: Sixth planet out. Orbits waaay outside the habitable zone; 1.2 Plock masses; Superplock

It's... PLANCEPTION!

No, the EM Drive is for the Dart probe.

If someone on the KSP team ( @Badie, @UomoCapra, looking at you) could deliver this message to Take Two, that'd be great: Take Two, KSP, for me, is more than just a game. It's creativity itself. It's brought so many people so much joy. I myself, despite many, many hours in this game, still cheer whenever my periapsis rises above 70 kilometers. It's still fun when my missions fail catastrophically and explode. Not many games can give you that much entertainment. It's educational (it basically teaches rocket science so well that players know it intuitively) and accessible to everyone, with no inappropriate content whatsoever. Its community is the nicest and smartest I've ever had the pleasure of interacting with. The mods are amazing, diverse, and, in many cases, hilarious. I may be just a guy with a PC and a Jeb plushie, but I know this: KSP is awesome. KSP is educational. KSP is fun. Please don't screw it up. Best wishes, - @KAL 9000

Got the Dart's design done! The EM Drive provides constant thrust. We can do a trajectory where we accelerate for the first half of the cruise, and then decelerate for the last half. Even with the EM Drive's low thrust, we can achieve a significant fraction of the speed of light. The antimatter reactor has enough antimatter in the tanks for a hundred thousand years (I went waaay overkill). With the collector, we'll never run dry!

100 to 500 years? We can cut that down! MOAR POWAH!!!