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You need Kerbal Alarm Clock. People who don't have Kerbal Alarm Clock have the exact problem you described.

I think he means abusing lift so you don't lose as much vertical speed, and benefitting further from the Oberth Effect as you have a higher orbital velocity. So I believe he means the opposite of aerocapturing, he means to use the atmosphere to get an even better gravity assist. As for the topic itself I'm not sure you can generate enough lift at don't-vaporize-instantly altitudes to offset the friction and benefit from the whole ordeal. Can you please provide proof that this is possible as to abide by the challenge creation rules?

Why don't you just pretend AC/BC stand for After Counting (or caring)/Before Counting respectively?

No. We indeed must recognize pioneers in their fields especially when science wasn't such a unified effort back then, but the current state of science demands people work together, in teams to achieve anything at all. Those names you mentioned get enough recognition, changing the names of the months would, in my opinion, be against the spirit of science as it is now. It's an effort of massive groups of people, not individuals pushing it bit by bit. As for our current calender, well it works so don't fix it. Its starting point really doesn't mean much.

I'm flabbergasted by the mentions of Skipper and Swivel here; I almost always use them over their closest counterparts, namely Mainsail and Reliant. Swivel's higher ISP and gimbal make it far superior to the Reliant to the point I never use the latter (especially early in the game the gimbal is more important with no control surface or proper SAS/RCS) as soon as I unlock Swivel. Skipper on the other hand seems to be very, very adequate for most of my payloads though it may have something to do with the fact that I usually use those large SRBs from SpaceY, maybe with a LFB KR 1x2 Twin Boar if I need the extra punch, so Skipper usually fires as a middle stage at around 20-25km anyway. There's no reason you can't replace the inefficient Mainsail with Kickbacks and just stick with a Skipper though. But I guess that's why we have a lot of parts, the parts that some people consider useless can be another's staple; I can't remember the last time I launched something without a Skipper on it. Heh.

Ditto, it's female Kerbals everywhere. I have like 14 and I have only 4 guys.

I sure wish they would reliably allow a Jool aerobrake even with full ablator though.

You can make all your buildings the highest level in your persistence file. Level 1 is 0 in game, 2 is 0.5 and 3 is 1.

Was simply pointing out how in the picture SLS seems to be outside the atmosphere with no staging parts detached, still flying on solid rocket boosters, with ISS and an asteroid "nearby". The image is obviously funny to people who are the least bit interested in space travel, and I placed it on the Kerbal Network to begin with, a mod chose to move it here.

The title, "39 days to Mars possible now with nuclear-powered VASIMR." is highly misleading as there's no clear cut demonstration that it actually is possible. For all we know the power requirements are going to remain unrealistic for at least another decade.

Do you even stage bro

Oh so you'll have a better chance if your equipment is better? Because that has nothing in particular to do with this situation and everything to do with just about everything. Of course you should always try to avoid a fair fight, but that is about tactics and it has nothing to do with the speculative military applications of the science we either currently have or are close to. What I'm trying to get at is that moving away from the enemy isn't specific to lasers; it's not a limitation of laser technology as it is a tactic adequate for the purely hypothetical situation you didn't share with us earlier. Not sure if it's viable to discuss such a specific what-if as your point can be applied to everything and such points usually don't carry the discussion further.

Well, I would recommend a different option list based on the expected curve, such as: Up to 8 9-12 13-17 18-25 26-35 36-45 46-50 51-60 61-70 80+

What exactly are the problems we currently face in making a fusion reactor anyway?

Aha, that's how we all begin. Pretty soon you'll be farming Minmus for science and pushing your spacecraft on EVA because you ran out of fuel during return.

I personally don't see the point in adding any more jet engines. It's Kerbal Space Program and jet engines that can't be used to get to orbit have very limited applications that can't be the focus of development. I'm not asking for them to be not added at all (like feel free to port Atomic Age as it is directly along with that nuclear gimmickjet), but I believe we have bigger priorities for stock such as: - Better/more solid rocket boosters, both small and large. - 5m parts. - 3.75m pods - Better landing legs

It's no star, it's a space station built by Nazis after they time traveled to the future and built it before travelling to the past and placing it in an orbit around the sun. It's a hump of metal at the size of a star so that's why we can't detect it.

I've read this a few times and I still don't see the point. Are you talking about ranges where the laser beam (pretty focused) would be scattered? If yes, those ranges are ridiculous on the order of another system. (Granted you'd lose most of your impact well within the Solar System) You (should) have your own lasers, assuming equal effectiveness on both sides, there's not much of a reason to stay away. If your enemy is using missiles and you're using lasers, keeping away is actually bad for them as they increase their own reaction time while not changing yours by much, so you really need to clarify your point here unless you're talking about FTL weapons in those few hundred billion for R&D.

It could however form something in the inner zone of the solar system later ejected to a higher orbit by any of the giant planets (would have to have a perihelion close to the outer planets but it spends more time far away from them than near them to begin with), though such a planet probably indeed wouldn't be larger than Mars. Now I'm not sure if we could detect Sedna even if it weren't so close but assuming we'd have trouble spotting such an object at a higher point in such an orbit, there's no reason to assume that smaller planets/dwarf planets aren't out there, though I would assume not even an Earth-sized planet would be very feasible after all it would not be geographically dead, again assuming having a magnetic field and such activity makes a large difference in the detectability of a planet though it may be far away from the sun enough that it cooled off much faster than the Earth. Another interesting thing however is that Sedna has such an eccentric orbit with a very high perihelion (peanuts compared to its aphelion but high compared to our main planets) and I'd assume it got there by a gravity assist; if that is the case, what gave it that gravity assist? It doesn't seem to be in an orbit that would allow any of the giant planets to slow it down from escape velocity if it were to come from outside the solar system either.

I still vote for unmanned probes equipped with an oversized (for their size) laser cannon, launched in dozens from a central assembly carried to the orbit by a rocket.

Right, well there is no power generation, no parachute and no engine/fuel tank. None of that is necessary unless you meant to return. I wonder what those landing legs are though, they aren't stock now even if they were at some point.

Any kind of DLC would be suicidal, people never really let that go (OMG GAME UNFINISHED PAYING FOR WHAT I ALREADY BOUGHT) unless you're an AAA publisher in which case people still whine and moan with nobody listening to them. I've seen this happen and I'd rather KSP move on straight to KSP 2/mobile spin-offs/whatever than get any paid DLC; the modern person is too entitled and too whiny to not spend hours upon hours upon hours whining about something that is still far superior in price performance to just about anything else you can get in real life. And if someone refuses to buy a sequel to KSP because console ports happened (lolwut), then the door is there. Such unreasonable people aren't as common as they are loud, and they won't even have the cliched excuse that is "b-b-b-but the main game isn't being developed!" as the port is handled by another company.

Fredcan Kerman, which amused me because -can is a common suffix for given names in Turkish and the word "can" itself means life.

As I said the one from Atomic Age seems to be very balanced by its massive cost and horrible, horrible TWR.