cubinator

I hope to see you there! KSP is great for learning about orbital mechanics and basic rocket design. As stated above, however, real life is much harder. I've been quite fixated on the goal of becoming an astronaut since I was very young (it's not a dream, because dreams aren't real. Goals are real and tangible). While I've always held a profound interest in space (read books about planets, stars, and their history since age 5) KSP has nurtured my interest for the more technical aspects of space travel. For instance, a few weeks ago I learned how to calculate a Hohmann transfer myself because I'd forgotten a part on my ship that would've told me when to eject. It's far from real life where you need to worry about ullage, cryogenic fuel, radiation, orbital decay, life support, signal delay, launch weather, solar weather, and random malfunctions, but it's still really fun while keeping a good chunk of realism. As for wanting to work at NASA, there are plenty of jobs there that aren't related to rockets. Having played lots of KSP won't have been a big deal there. But if you want to be one of the ones that flies in a giant rocket, that sees the curve of the Earth, that watches the sun rise and set in less than an hour, that hovers in weightlessness, that ultimately sees the pale blue dot accompanied in the sky by Phobos and Deimos? That takes a lot of work, and having shown considerable interest in spaceflight and engineering at a young age might be a little advantage over someone who didn't show that interest.

Summary of the summary of the summary of the summary: Too much "ugh."

I tried installing plain old RSS today, but I ended up playing Kerbal Space PowerPoint. I can't imagine what RVE would do to it. I don't know if it's the mod combination or if my rig is just too old or what. As stated above, RVE is not up to date yet. It will be awesome when it is* ** *for those who know how to set it up right with all the other mods needed. **only when it's not glitching out.

sci·ence ˈsīəns/ noun the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Forgive the weird font (mobile editor strikes again), the portion below is mine: If you can observe it, you can perform science on it. Right now there are lots of things that we are theorizing about which we have no way to observe currently (i.e. string theory, dark energy, multiverse, etc.). So does that mean it's not science because we can't observe them? Technically, yes. If you can't observe something then you can't know for sure what it's like. So we call those fields regarding things we don't yet have the technology to observe "theoretical" fields. One day we might make a dark energy detector, and then we'll be able to observe, and gather actual information about what dark energy is really like. But just because we can't observe it yet doesn't mean that developing ideas about dark energy isn't important; Someone needs to figure out how to build a dark energy detector, and that will only happen if they have an idea about how dark energy could be detected that just happens to be correct. I've got nothing against theoretical fields and I think they're important to the advancement of knowledge, but unfortunately there's a lot of stuff we can't actually test yet.

Huh? What science? I only hear technobabble.

Granted, he agrees that the highest mountain is in Nepal. I wish RSS works correctly once it finishes loading.

Wait, you can actually simulate the movement of the bands?!?!!!!! Beautiful, just absolutely jaw-dropping. Good luck on brushing it up for 1.1.2!

The asteroid itself wasn't visible, but the impact was. In reality, it would be visible and it would be almost the same size as the moon.

Granted, it downloads instantly, breaking the rules of the universe which promptly ceases to exist. I wish @max_creative and @Galacticvoyager would quit arguing everywhere about Dres.

Gets *THIS MACHINE DOES NOT ACCEPT $1 BILLS* Inserts volcano.

You know, there are mods actual tools designed for that.

I asked for a sextant for my birthday (or maybe it was just implied I wanted one?) so if that happens I'll be able to plot the positions of the planets. Reading about the planets' orbits and playing a game involving them is not enough; I must discover them myself! I don't think I know enough math right now to do it, but as the planets take a long time to orbit I'll do it for more data points. Wow, I've never seen Jupiter rotating that fast before!

Yes, that book. (1) Yes, it would, but in the book there is no mention whatsoever of the moon changing in apparent size periodically, so it's safe to presume that it's orbit is circular, because everyone would notice if it got bigger and smaller over time. Also, when it first comes down it does so over the course of maybe a minute, tops. Even if it was in a highly eccentric orbit it would have an orbital period of four or five days (based on knowledge of Apollo transit times). That would mean the asteroid hits and then a couple of days later people notice that the moon is getting bigger, then they panic. In the book, it happened right away. (2) Yes. (3) Probably about as close as it would need to be for it to appear the size it does on the book cover. (4) Hence why I put "asteroid" in quotes. It is called an "asteroid" in the book, but really to drop the Moon's orbital velocity that much would require something that can be called a dwarf planet, and not one whose mass could be underestimated. It would have been discovered long ago, and would already be a major cause for concern due to it's Earth-crossing orbit and large size. If it was a large one like Titan, it could stop it's orbital velocity entirely. Then you just need to shoot one of the Galilean moons out of your giant celestial potato cannon at the right time to circularize it's orbit. Unfortunately, when you impact two large moons you don't get one moon, you get a cloud of space lava, which is not a fun thing to be directly under. 370300 km/min = 6171666.67 m/s = 2.05% c. That's a fast moon.

But you can't have a discussion with Google or Wikipedia. That's why we have the forums. Asking a community about a question or an idea might provide the same answer, but repeated in different ways that might be easier to understand for some than what they find from a Google search.

I think I read a book like that once. The plot started with a huge "asteroid" which would impact the Moon and be visible on Earth. Unfortunately, scientists "miscalculated" the mass of the "asteroid" and the Moon falls towards Earth. Everyone sees it getting bigger and panics, but it stops just before hitting Earth. Then it causes a bunch of catastrophic tidal effects like flooding coastal cities, and volcanoes that create a worldwide ash cloud that causes a global winter. IT STOPS I think there was a series, but the science was so cringe-worthy that I stopped. Conservation of momentum schmonservation of momentum.

...made of Atari 2600 cartridges. The particle accelerator is...

I do this too. All the time.

I've only got two parakeets, and that bone couldn't be from anything smaller than a dog. Granted, but you accidentally get Chucko-Tacos, and they are not for eating but for throwing. I wish I owned a spacesuit.

But what kind of KSP newbie would be already hacking persistent.sfs? The Boss is Illuminati confirmed!

Granted. You can build ships that go from Minmus surface to orbit in one stage with ease. I wish I knew what the bone fragment I found today is from.

Ooh, cool! Would you like some trigonometry on the side? Waiter, there's a bone in my soup, looks like from a large animal.

Don't worry, he will always find a way to break everything.

So, Jeb, basically.

Pretty sure there are tiny black holes popping up and disappearing everywhere, in space, in the sun, inside us. The LHC is nothing to worry about, the only bad thing I've heard it's done is kill a weasel.

I'm not surprised at all that the Vectors sink. They're quite dense. As stated above, the water mechanics were made better in 1.0.5, so some stuff sinks, most stuff floats, and seaplanes are fairly easy now.