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Banned for being at a nonexistent Lagrange point.

Two men walk into a bar and the third one ducks.

Tell him the truth! They'll have to find out eventually.

You can't be a potatoroid! Only Dres' asteroids can be potatoroids! Cheater!

Banned for [REDACTED] [PATENT PENDING]

8/10 erratic capitalization

Banned for no reason.

Do not expose Magic Boulder to nuclear weapons or other sources of high energy electromagnetic radiation. If Magic Boulder has been exposed to nuclear weapons or other sources of high energy electromagnetic radiation, dispose of it in your local black hole within 24 hours to avoid accidental time travel/vaporization.

7/10 pretty cool @A35K FINE. My definition of an aircraft is it has wings, but if you want jets...

I thought it was pretty good. One thing that I thought funny was: Spoilerish: More spoiler:

Woo! Bringing it down once more to -51.

Found the article. Under "Applications" it states that an EmDrive satellite launched into LEO could spiral up to geostationary orbit in 36 days. If it kept on "burning," it could go on to the moon.

Actually, the size depends on the wavelength you're using. If you use a shorter wavelength, you can make a smaller drive, just like a smaller bell makes a higher pitch sound. This one sure looks like it could fit on a cubesat. Also, the thrust from a drive would apparently be enough to counteract the atmospheric drag on the ISS. I think that would be enough thrust to go someplace with a small satellite.

I wish I could get KSP to look like this without crashing...

The drives tested have had cavities made from conductive materials like copper or silver. This allows the microwaves to bounce around in the cavity and increasing the net forces inside. The conductive cavities have a low "Q," basically the amount that it resonates. It's like a bell that you are trying to ring as loudly as possible. Apparently, if the cavity was superconducting, it would increase the thrust enough to do something with on Earth. That's the point of making it superconducting, because then the thrust (if working as expected) would lift the thing right off the ground. That would totally remove the "experimental error" factor and prove the device working (or not). The other way to prove/disprove it definitely is to stick a standard non-superconducting one on a satellite and try to fly it to the Mun Moon. That should be fairly easy to do, all it takes is someone to put it on a cubesat or something. If no one does it, I'll become an astronaut and toss the satellite out the airlock myself if I have to. The people in charge are just too skeptical right now. Someone needs to do it.

Granted. You have no sfs files. I wish for the scene change crash to go away forever.

Do not find the magic boulder. If you do, you are not running the correct version of KSP and your spacecraft's warranty is void.

-48 [-] [Insert interesting fact about the number -48]

It was just an idea, it's very improbable that I would actually play with these things until I become a rocket scientist or something. It might be a project for years from now, but at this time I don't have what I'd need for any major experimentation. I do think that somebody should rig up one of these things to a small satellite, launch it into LKO LEO, and fire it up just to see if it really runs. That seems to be just about the only way to prove/disprove it, as all the Earth-based tests have been so controversial.

Looks like it's a non-KSP related version.

InPersistent Thrust: Rocket engines randomly shut off and turn on whenever they want. Intraplanetary Launchpads: Moves the KSC underneath Kerbin's surface. Good luck getting to space without getting shredded! KSP Simulator: Adds a computer part that you can play KSP on. KSPception! You can even download this mod on the simulator part, and play KSP inside KSP inside KSP!

"Heavily inefficient?" The Mammoth is actually pretty darn efficient. It has an IsP of 295 at sea level and 315 in vacuum, so I don't have to worry about atmosphere and fuel efficiency, and it has colossal thrust. I actually tried a lot of different designs, including aerospikes. The problem I found with the aerospikes was that I needed a lot of them to produce enough thrust. The Mammoth was a good trade off. The part that made it really hard to find a good design was the ISRU. I found that it's not that hard to get a ship with enough delta-V, but it is really hard to get a ship with enough deltaV and have a heavy ISRU unit and drill. The Mammoth had enough thrust to lift all the fuel it needed to have enough dV to get to Minmus without staging. That's the trick, if you can land it on Minmus and refuel, you can go anywhere. That's actually the idea that started the whole project. Here's one of the earlier prototypes, I think it was Mk8 or something: Yeah, the designs got pretty radical. If I had simply gone with the "moar booster" technique, I would have had to make it much, much bigger to have enough deltaV and TWR. The end design had just enough to do it, recall that when I started out I needed two aerospikes for a few seconds to get my TWR above 1. Nah, I'm happy to help with questions.

I launched a ship to complete a few contracts, went to Mun orbit, left, got another Mun gravity assist to "escape" Kerbin for another contract, then map view told me that the force of the decouplers from the contract have put me back into an orbital trajectory! So I timewarped up to apoapsis to do a retrograde burn to get back closer to Kerbin to deorbit, and then the game says *nope* and ejects me into solar orbit anyway. I used all my fuel trying to get back an encounter with Kerbin, but *just* ran out. I decided to load my last quicksave, which happens to be in the middle of the last mission where I was rescuing a Kerbal in LKO. I re-finished that, deorbited, landed safely, and pressed recover, and the game crashed. I doubt I'll have any time tomorrow to do anything, but Friday I might redo today's mission with more quicksaves and a nice, big retrograde burn after testing the decouplers.

CliftonM. Remove the 2 capitalized letters. We get: lifton What do we lift things on? Boosters. We always need moar booster. This means +1 boosters. This is confirmed in CliftonM's signature as well. Coincidence? I think not. 2 capitalized letters plus 1 moar booster = 3. 3=triangle. CliftonM is illuminati confirmed.

You use too many gifs, cheater!