cubinator

I did some stuff with ridiculously high trajectories a few days ago (trying to get high reentry velocity, managed 18km/s), and I think it always says t- 230ish years. I don't think that craft is ever going to reach any apoapsis. It is possible to slow down and orbit if you have enough fuel though, even at those kinds of ridiculous altitudes. For the sake of staying on topic: in my current career save, Bill Kerman was stranded in solar orbit shortly after I started the save due to a Munar gravity assist. I will one day go out and save him...I'm also not deleting anything, in the hopes that I might one day take a bunch of Klaw-equipped ships around the system, retrieve everything, and bring it all back and make a giant pile of spaceship parts near/at KSC. The island airfield might be a good place for that.

There was some magic dust on the launchpad. The KSC has moved to the other side of the mountains.

10/10 it looks like a giant microprocessor had wings strapped onto it. Hmm, let's see about another spaceship, spaceshipI, SPACESHIP!

I tried looking at Uranus today, but couldn't see anything due to light pollution. I'll have to try again some other time of year, when it appears in the clear east instead of the hazy west.

because it had

I excavate the charred hill and use the material to rebuild my Io hill from the other universe. My relocated hill.

...floating in the stratosphere via weather balloon. The new building is a castle...

Of course the chance of any one of these things actually happening is far, far less than that of someone solving a Rubik's cube by randomly turning the sides. (I remember calculating that that would take something like 100 trillion years at 1 turn per second, but I don't remember the exact number.) You know you're a nerd when you calculate that sort of thing.

Well, it's definitely not a hoverboard, because the only 'hovering' it does is from atoms repelling each other...I'm going to start calling them handless segways too!

It was totally an impact experiment! Yeah! Definitely not an accident! All the KSC ground vehicles are on top of the VAB one morning.

You know you're a nerd when you can't take any space movie seriously that doesn't have extremely good science behind it...and still notice the issues in the most accurate ones. (Interstellar, they could see a full Earth while leaving for Mars. The Martian, the Hab canvas flapped around in a storm when it should be highly inflated with 50 times pressure.) You know you're a nerd when you know where all the planets are, even when you can't see them.

So, I was playing KSP yesterday, and I noticed something that I think should be changed. The Mammoth engine cluster uses 4 KS-25 engines, supposedly. However, the single KS-25 engine added in 1.0.5 has a different look to it than the ones on the Mammoth cluster. Mammoth: Single KS-25: NASA RS-25: As you can see, the new single KS-25 looks a lot more like it's real counterpart. I think the Mammoth should be changed to match. Shouldn't be too hard, right?

..that only delivers to Sealand. The next building is an observatory...

I finally upgraded my VAB to tier 2 in my hardmode career today! Now I can actually start building some proper ROCKETS!

I love how KSP can be modded so easily. That way, I can build my own playing experience that isn't ever quite the same as anyone else's because of the particular modset I use. I can take out and add mods at a whim, and the immense variety guarantees that it's not necessary to endlessly pester the devs about some arbitrary feature I want because most of the time there's a mod that does exactly what I want. Reading this thread has made me really happy; I'm going to go play some KSP!

They said they needed a lot... Your asteroid redirect mission latches onto a NKO, only to find that it is actually a space squid (relative of the Kraken, but not as magical). The squid is now very angry and disassembles your ship.

Which washes clothes in liquid hydrogen instead of water. The building is a skyscraper...

THANK YOU for not peeling the stickers! It always hurts to hear people say they peel stickers. And I might be able to one-up your LEGO closet with my shelves of boxes of bricks in the basement, and I also have some other stuff around the house like the Space Shuttle set, the Sea Cow, and a bunch of Star Wars sets including the giant Millennium Falcon. I don't know how big your closet is, so I can't tell for sure. If you have a *really* big closet, you might beat me.

Oh no! They're going to explode and break all my speedcubes! The object to the left of your monitor turns into its mass in mercury.

1382: You feel a series of powerful jolts, then see a massive chunk of building falling from above. You hope the rest isn't about to fall too...

This isn't due to Kerbin's flatness. The reason there are no tides is because the Mun is just painted onto the great blanket that the gods throw onto the sky-dome every night. It doesn't have gravity, it's just the eye of the Mun-goddess who looks over Kerbalkind. The stars are holes made by the Kraken trying to get into the mortal world, but the gods always prevent him. One time the Kraken did get through, but the gods stitched the blanket back together, and made the milky way.

The hat guy designed it... Your Duna rover stops responding to commands, and begins driving towards the SSTV mountain. It starts sending obscure, ominous messages back to Kerbin.

If Kerbin was round, its diameter would be too small to allow it to have such a large mass and surface gravity. If we assume Kerbin is flat, the diameter is like way bigger so it can fit all that mass in a bigger area.

Let's see. Besides KSP, I've been playing...uh...um. Wow, I need to play more games.

We're not talking about gravitational lensing (which is next to nothing on Earth), we're talking about atmospheric lensing which is much more significant and definitely noticeable. The atmosphere curves light which can lead to strange side effects such as being able to see the Sun for a little while after it's actually under the horizon because the light curves around the atmosphere. It's the same reason that things look funny when underwater viewed from the air. I don't think this would affect your view of the curvature very much, and even if it does it would probably have the opposite effect, actually making the horizon seem more distant and the curvature less because you can see further, as if you were on a slightly larger planet.