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Hey! You're not a planet!

Granted, they're all spam and you get banned. I wish for a Cessna.

Let me freeze that for you...

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Tell me when to get my warp drives ready!

You could make it a really big unstable star like Eta Carinae, that would make it interesting and you don't need to get KSP to somehow model even MORE complicated physics.

How are you going to model the relativistic effects? If you're not able to do that it's about as interesting as a regular star.

Does this involve Kopernicus?

I don't use Signal Delay because I didn't feel like learning how to use kOS. From what I've read in this thread apparently the RT flight computer is enough to do stuff like capture burns and atmospheric landings, so I might have to try it and Mechjeb for landings.

I've been to the southern hemisphere, and the moon is upside down there. How would you explain that besides "We're on a really big sphere"? I also saw only the tops of clouds over the horizon very clearly out an airplane window at 9 km altitude only two days ago. It's pretty clear and easy to test. Also, sextants work. And explaining the loop-shaped orbits of the planets, where the loops are 1 AU wide, the distance from Earth to the Sun, would be extremely hard, since the loops are exactly what you would expect to see if Earth was revolving around the sun with them. You can test these theories of motion with equipment that isn't out of reach. Plot the motion of the planets and their moons for a year, and you can discover the Copernican model, plus the speed of light. Do the same with the stars and you'll find that they have varied distances, meaning they aren't painted on a black dome but are part of an immense sea. You can look at the nearby galaxies, see their shapes, and connect them to the band of light in the sky and realize you are inside something like that. You can even find planets light-years away with a home telescope! Not even the strange world of quantum mechanics is out of reach of testing by commonfolk; Point a laser at two close slits in a piece of aluminum foil and observe the particle-wave duality of light. There are people on Antarctica; they would know if it was just an ice wall. Likewise, there are people who work in particle accelerators and space stations and other places, and they know what's up. And it's not hundreds like you say. It's the other way 'round. Millions of people from many different international organizations, not all government funded, need to see the same data and work with it as part of their jobs. If something was amiss, someone in those millions would say something. They are scientists, their purpose is to educate the general public. If they find out a theory was wrong, even if it's their own, they'll revise it until they find the right one, and they'll tell us about it so we can learn more about our world, our universe, and our life. You wouldn't see books about orbital mechanics, relativity, and string theory if science was so secretive. That said, I would try out a Flat Kerbin mod, just for laughs.

It could have been spinning pieces of space debris, or head-on meteors.

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No, show us the RUD on landing too!

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Granted, it hits you in the face at Mach 3.5. I wish to into space.

Here, I'll set it on fire for you. Waiter, there's a negative gravioli detector in my soup!

This device should be able to tell you where you are to the nearest degree. Not as accurate as a proper sextant, but it's a lot less work to stick in your luggage when you go somewhere, just in case you end up on a deserted island and need to find your way home. You use it by holding it vertically so that the keychain ring hangs down, looking along the edge of the protractor at some reference point in the sky, then checking the angle made by the string and subtracting 90 from it. That gives you the height of the reference point in degrees, just like a sextant, so with this and a reasonably accurate clock you can tell where in the world you are with enough precision to make it back to the nearest continent or large island. Anyone else made any interesting devices out of common items?

You know you're a nerd when you build a navigational instrument out of stuff that's sitting on your desk. I'd try to find my location with it, but it's going to rain all day.

I hope Thomlock doesn't go crazy...at least he probably knows how to dock, right?

You'd die a lot. Have I always been rotating?

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But which half??