cubinator

Rubbers would not handle the extreme temperature shifts on Moon and Mars. They would deteriorate and fall apart. The rocks and sand on those planets are not smoothed as much by rain and wind, so every rock and piece of sand is extremely jagged and sharp. Moon dust is like broken glass. You need something that can drive over that kind of material without tearing itself apart on the first turn.

I hope they have many more successful flights to come! It's always great to see smiling faces in space.

The toaster handles we printed have lasted years longer than the original injection molded ones.

Crickets have a feed mass conversion efficiency of 60%, twelve times higher than cows.

Looking to upgrade your mountainside? Suit yourself...I love crispy and crunchy things. Bugs go well on pretty much anything.

My god, if he's right I'm going to make a living as a bug farmer on Mars

"Oh wait, we actually COULD colonize Mars this whole time!" -The aerospace industry in ten years

Usually I am just inside the video game, rather than playing it through an interface. Sometimes I still do hold the controller in my hands, though. I did have one dream right after a solar eclipse where I used my Steam library on an actual computer to play a cursed game. Sometimes my pre-sleep musings involve imagining I'm looking through a monitor at something rather than experiencing it myself. When this happens, I have a much harder time falling asleep. I do have a red emergency stop switch in my dreams that I can use to wake up.

This page gets a lot of content for being locked.

Picked some berries. Worked on some documents. Solved my Gigaminx and Megaminx.

-A brown dwarf. -A multi-star system, or several of various sorts. -A nebula (either planetary or star-forming) -A white dwarf/neutron star/pulsar/black hole (noneuclidean orbits would be a must for the latter three, however) -A tidally locked planet -TRAPPIST-1 analogue, lots of Kerbin-size planets in close proximity -A rogue planet -Actual asteroid/iceteroid belts in solar systems -A protoplanetary disk, or maybe just a very young solar system -A wormhole? Just one! plz

I seem to recall seeing it in the video. I know the canyon on the Mun is still there.

This looks like the coolest Where's Waldo page ever.

Even worse than that shuttle SRB thing?

Alright folks...I think I need some bigger rockets. The "send a Class E asteroid to Laythe" contract is not going well - the asteroid is out of resources to mine, and I need to give it about 1000 m/s if I want to get it to Laythe. Otherwise, I can intercept Duna and have about 200 m/s left to get into orbit of Ike. Actually pushing it to Laythe might be so expensive that it negates any actual profit from the contract. (Maybe if I had built in nuclear engines instead of high-thrust SSMEs...?) CLOUD-ONE was ambitious. I am now looking for mods that will let me go even further. Tweakscale, station parts, base parts, nuclear engines...I didn't need it before, but I do now. We are going to have to build something new, and something big.

It looks like there's a light right above it, that could be washing out the color or messing with the camera exposure.

Kerbals are born in caves from pools of liquid created by a Kerbal "queen" which looks like a sprawling fungus. The Kerbals themselves are mostly uniform inside and have only a few differentiated organs.

Today I read "submarine to Enceladus" as "submarine to Eeloo" Two days ago I right-clicked a KSP video to move it around...

Ooh, you know what this is useful for? Put one fin on the outer side of each side booster. When you separate them the fin's drag will guide the spent booster away from the rocket. I do this all the time, usually negates the need for sepatrons except on really large boosters. Also, actually, if you had something called a "tube fin" that went all the way around the body there would technically be only one fin.

No that's the cubinator family insect farm within the extraplanetary city. Get your interplanetary roach tortillas here!

More fins mean more drag. Less fins means less stability. Usually triangular "delta" fins are good for supersonic flight. When you make something supersonic, you want to limit the locations where air vortices can form (like corners and edges) because they are really problematic as you cross the sound barrier (when SOME parts of your ship have supersonic flow, and OTHERS have subsonic) As long as your center of drag is a little behind the center of mass, you can fly pretty stable. The rocket body has a certain center of drag even without fins, so if you balance it right you might not need any fins. Hobby rockets usually do need fins.

The janky axial tilt workaround in RSS is the single reason I can't play it. It just hurts to look at the solar system all skew like that.

I think it should just be a new kind of musical instrument. Anything else we're not responsible enough for.

Other Missions While the crew of CLOUD ONE were exalted to be exploring Laythe, the issue still remained that they could not return to Kerbin or indeed go anywhere else until some kind of mining rig was sent to them. The engineers at Kerbin had a few ideas of what to do... Would this giant lander work? It probably had enough solar panels, but wouldn't lift off Kerbin on its own...was it still too small? Kerbal astronauts were now standardly trained flying the Mini Plane to Minmus. Gilian 1 was launched and crashed into Gilly. An asteroid was attempted to be moved to Laythe, but there was not enough fuel to do it. Should we try to move it the rest of the way, or backtrack to Ike with droplets of fuel remaining? All the while CLOUD ONE pressed on with science at Laythe, having faith that they were not forgotten on Kerbin.

Shores of Ash A mixture of what appeared to be sand and ash covered the surface. It was probably safest not to breathe it in, but luckily something about it made it wash out pretty easily in the water, which was easy to come by. The air clearly had oxygen, even enough to breathe. It also had trace chlorine and carbon dioxide in greater amounts than were present on Kerbin. This probably contributed to the warming effect allowing the moon to remain oceanous. Long term effects of breathing the air unfiltered were probably not optimal, but a few Kerbals wanted to take the chance with a few minutes of alien fresh breeze on their faces, starting with Sanster. The air was humid, and smelled like salt and faintly of acid and sulfur. It did not smell of plants and life as Kerbin usually did. The Kerbals wondered what kind of salt was in the water, and set about on their long stay to wander around the nearby area looking for anything interesting or new. Of course, literally everything was new, so they had no trouble with this. With Jool and the other moons in the sky, the Kerbals made themselves at home on a planet that looked very much like where they came from. As they stayed, they would find out whether Laythe was really habitable...