cubinator

Welcome to our community! Here's a few things you should learn about eventually: Gravity turns: This is how your ship turns from vertical on the pad to horizontal in orbit. It should start soon after launch, and go gradually so that you are at 45 degrees around 10 km and horizontal around 40 km, but it varies for every craft a little bit and you'll just have to experiment a bit, eventually you'll get it right almost every time! Still, you'll most likely need to read up/watch some videos on this if you don't really know how spaceship trajectories work. Delta-V: This is how much your rocket can change it's velocity. In order to go places, you need to change your velocity. More fuel doesn't necessarily mean more delta-V! Often you can get even further with a rocket you could fit in the back of a truck than with one that barely fits in the whole VAB. The key to maximizing delta-V is fuel mass fraction. Basically, you'll get less delta-V from a fuel tank and engine carrying a large payload (like a big station module or kerballed lander) than you would from the same tank and engine if you used it to carry a tiny satellite. That's because it takes more energy to move a bigger mass. TWR: This is a number that says if your rocket can lift it's own weight. You need a bigger, more expensive engine to lift a bigger rocket because it needs more thrust to move. The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation: Fuel has mass too. If you have a rocket, and not enough fuel to get to where you're going, you need to add more fuel, which is heavier, so you need to add more rockets to lift the extra fuel, and you need more fuel to lift the rockets all the way, etc...When I designed my ship to do the first Jool-5 ISRU run (hide the quote in my sig to find a link), I had a lot of trouble with this. That's the reason it's called the "Super SSTO Mk10". There were nine others before it that didn't quite cut it! Be careful with your designs, and try to minimize your payload mass if you don't want to end up with a colossal rocket that doesn't fit on the launchpad! Isp: This is a measure of how much thrust a particular rocket engine puts out with a given mass of fuel. Higher Isp means your rocket will have a higher delta-V for the same payload and fuel mass than if you used an engine with a lower Isp. Note that rockets have lower Isp and thrust in the atmosphere. You will need to choose the right engine for each stage of the mission. For launch you will need one with high thrust (these usually don't have great Isp though!) and in space you should have a high Isp, but you can get by with lower thrust. Those are fairly advanced concepts, though, and for now I suggest just running through the Tutorials in the main menu. With those, you will be able to build and fly your own rocket, and even get it into orbit! As stated above, KER is a good tool for easily knowing important statistics about your ship without a calculator. You'll do great, it's only rocket science! P.S. A warning: You will notice every time a movie gets rocket science wrong once you figure out this game. Seriously, every time, and there are a lot of times. Even The Martian messed up, and half the plot was based on orbital mechanics!

Does this mean one could give EVA an IVA? I see potential here...The game now treats EVA'd Kerbals as ships, so it could be possible.

Yeah, it's kind of annoying sometimes, especially when only one part of the quote is relevant or when they quote a series of images. I do my best to snip all but the most relevant parts of the quote, and make a separate quote for responses to different parts of the post.

Happy birthday KSP!

Of course! Why aren't microwave ovens totally illegal?

It will still try to get out, and your body will swell and stiffen. If you don't exhale completely and immediately, your lungs will be severely injured too. Then there's the problem that the sun-facing side of you gets burned while the shadowed side freezes.

Then I stick with what I said previously: Find some way to counter bone and muscle degradation that involves less than 3 hours of exercise per day. Also if there were some way to make us more resistant to high doses of solar and cosmic radiation that would help.

Kitteh.

Make them not lose bone and muscle mass somehow, that would probably be the first and foremost thing. BTW do you mean "live in space" as in live in a space station in microgravity, or as in people who can literally walk down the driveway on the Moon in their pajamas to get the newspaper and be perfectly fine? The latter is a great deal more difficult, seeing as there's this oxygen thing we need all the time, and the whole "blood boils in vacuum" thing, and all sorts of radiation, and temperature extremes around every corner.

He looksss like Klungo.

YOU ARE NOT OFF TOPIC! This is off topic: Shurnarkabtishashutu!

If it's irradiated with microwaves, it is definitely unsafe and should not be consumed, breathed, or looked at.

...has a McDonald's. This police station...

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In Koviet Krussia, Hyperedit installs YOU! I let go of a helium balloon from the VAB roof with a picture of a rocket drawn on it with a marker.

Ya, der muskitwo do dun zibberifish. If my heart stops and then starts again, am I a zombie?

It was a fireworks show for the surface base below. A rocket is mounted on the pad sideways and launched, destroying the VAB.

I bet it's another quote. YUP.

Banned for yellow on black avatar.

Granted, but all other threads get locked instantly and no more threads can be made. I wish my RAM wasn't so finicky.

Coool! *press* This button has a picture of a portal gun on it.

Being three posts away from a palindrome is cheating.

BREAKING NEWS: Solid surface discovered under Earth's ocean, cliff-diver critically injured.

True, but with the amount of fuel in the Kerbodyne tank you'd get enough delta-V to go pretty far, at the cost of an incredibly minute TWR.

I've got my graphing calculator handy and I know the rocket equation, so I can manage pretty much anything without KER. It just takes a little longer. It's handy to see the live dV readout during burns, but I can calculate it before and after for the same knowledge.