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I'm thinking something like this would be most structurally stable. I don't think I've ever seen a piston that big, so you might have it actually move with cables, but you can still provide the normal force against the ground like this.

Better yet, make it a big ring so that the booster doesn't have to worry about being at the right roll angle. If the gridfins extend out significantly beyond the extra width at the bottom of the booster, this shouldn't be a problem.

That would be fun.

In KSP 1 you can edit the properties of a Kerbal in the text file that is your save game, change their name and other aspects. I think the same abilities will be present in KSP2, and it's probably possible to make a mod which allows you to edit these in game.

Meanwhile, in the Dark of Space... J24 05 55 08 RS1 CLOUD-ONE is preparing to receive the transmission...We are ready to receive. J24 05 55 30 RS2 OK, we seem to be getting data. Telemetry rates nominal, -- J24 05 55 40 RS2 Stand by. J24 05 58 01 RS1 Kerbin, the data transmission is in progress and seems to be going well. We should have a full report on the first set of data transmissions in a few hours. The probe landed in a region of the moon which is about to go into darkness, and we estimate that it will not have enough time in sunlight to transmit all the science data from the landing and the first hour on the ground. When the sun rises again on Pol we'll resume the transmission, but in the meantime we'll get to work on the initial batch of data. =========== The probe, pointing its antenna at the station near the planet, began shouting the secrets of this moon after touching down and peering about at its surroundings, in its own mechanical way. Temperature was nothing unexpected from this location in the solar system, pressure was nonexistent...But the seismic scan showed that the moon had a very unusual layering. The surface was made of loose, light rocks, and the interior seemed to contain a slightly denser core. There was enough power on the probe to leave the seismic scanner on overnight, and...was that a rhythmic pulsing, or...? No, it must have been some other part of the probe settling or contracting in the cold. When the sun rose the probe made contact with the station again, proving that it had survived the night, and completed its data transmission. The information was relayed to Kerbin and both teams would study the results. It was decided that Pol was the first destination for CLOUD-ONE, and the station would maneuver into orbit around it and send the mining module down repeatedly to gather fuel. While that was going on, Kerbals could use the landers to drop down to multiple places on the moon to study it - there was more than enough delta-V to perform all the hops they needed on this odd little ball.

I thought something had 'escalated quickly' to SN9 and got scared for a moment. Then I realized what you were talking about. Looks like SN9 did some RCS tests today and is still standing tall, looking sleek and shiny! I guess my prediction that more than the fin got crumpled might have been wrong! Then again, you never know when a rocket will suddenly gain the will to be in a million pieces...

I always enjoyed how Mario will fall asleep and murmur about spaghetti and ravioli in his games when you leave him sitting for a while. Seeing the Kerbals do stuff like that would be funny, perhaps they can lie down together and point at the stars, or have complex animations when digging or picking up rocks.

That's awesome!

Ok, this one's really good.

What, you mean you've never calculated a transfer maneuver by hand?

Joolian Adventure The crew of CLOUD-ONE celebrated their long-awaited arrival at Jool with a gravity assist from Laythe, which would put them in orbit of the green giant and treat the Kerbals to some otherworldly closeup views of the moon which had thus far been but a blue speck on television eyepieces. It had been theorized that Laythe had an atmosphere, that it might support ice or water of some kind, but this. This is the world the Kerbals saw with their own eyes. This world was covered in water, there was no doubt. There was an atmosphere. There were islands on which they could land. Perhaps they could even live there. Obviously Laythe was the most habitable of the worlds now surrounding them, but they couldn't stop now. They had a job to do. Their mission is the exploration of the Jool system. CLOUD-ONE still had fuel in it, but not enough to go stopping at every moon willy-knilly. The gravity assist at Laythe was executed such that CLOUD-ONE would be placed into a high elliptical orbit around Jool which crossed the paths of all three moons. This would allow them to send probes out to gather some intel about their prospective destinations in order to make a constructive decision on where the station would be sent first. As the station swung away from Laythe, the crew made preparations to send the first probe, aptly and uncreatively named Explorer 1, to Pol. Pol is the third and smallest moon of Jool, and therefore the most likely prospect for mining fuel due to its convenient low gravity, the Kerbals decided in a bustling meeting. However, there was no rush and there was no good reason not to precede the relocation of CLOUD-ONE with a probe landing on the moon. The probe would send back useful scientific and navigational data which would help our Joolian explorers to decide what would be the best course of action in travelling to Pol themselves. Explorer 1 had a navigational glitch immediately after undocking, but the issue was resolved by rebooting the probe's computer remotely. Then the little lander carried on to Pol. A few burns later, and the probe made it to Pol and began showing the Kerbals what to expect from the presumably rather average speck. The color was yellowish, rather unlike any asteroid they were familiar with. Pol was lumpy, as was expected for an object of this size, with high mountains characterizing the surface. The mountains were revealed to have ridges resembling folds all across the surface. What unusual geological process could have caused those to form? Approaching the surface, Explorer 1 revealed large spikes protruding from the ground. These were irregular in shape and very large, most of them several meters tall. This certainly was an exciting discovery, as the Kerbals had never seen anything like it.

I had some issues with the station being much too laggy, but I seem to have fixed it by giving KSP "real time" priority in Task Manager (but I think BetterTimeWarp can make it laggy again if I go too wild on the physics warp). So now the game is playable, the station controllable, and the story continuable! KSP 1.11 has come at just the perfect time, as it gives our Kerbals lots to do on the moons of Jool. Once they've scouted the system, refueled their station, and charted the moons, a shipment will be sent from Kerbin consisting of as many parts and habitats as I can afford (and the science returns from early Jool exploration will certainly fill the old barrel!). The Kerbals will need to improvise, and they will use the shipments to construct whatever kinds of bases they decide would be most useful to them. Fuel refineries, science outposts, rovers...The parts will be sent from Kerbin, and the crew of CLOUD-ONE will decide what to do with them!

I have a handy little clip-on work light which is nice, but it had three white LEDs and I like to use it in the dark, so I took it apart and de-soldered the white lights and replaced them with a single red LED. Now it's much dimmer and I think it'll be much nicer to use in the dark!

Re-Flight by Test Shot Starfish is playing in my head constantly as of late.

Yeah, for me it decreases visibility in the car enough (I wear glasses) that I find it safer to remove mine while driving. But I can see how certain masks could be comfortable enough for others, and I agree that it's nice and warm for our northern latitude winters.

Sometimes it's more work than it's worth to take off your mask just to drive a short distance to someplace where you will have to wear your mask again anyway. So I don't think they are all unaware that they are in no danger of breathing pathogens alone inside their own vehicle.

I'd love to visit rogue planets in KSP2. As many types of objects as they can add, I want to see. I also wonder to what extent they will make interstellar debris a danger to spacecraft, as travelling at high speed can make shields a requirement.

I understand that the details of Kerbal biology are left mostly ambiguous, but as a pillar of Kerbal is teaching people about real human spaceflight I would suggest that there be some quips about bugs or bug-like creatures being farmed on Kerbal colonies in KSP2. Bugs are a valuable source of food for humans in space and (as a university student conducting research on the topic) I think that we should be eating a lot more insects in the future. It would be wonderful if KSP2 would show Kerbals to have not just a completely vegan diet, but an insectitarian diet too. Also, in real life insects are major pollinators of plants and they are great decomposers of soil, their byproducts act as an amazing fertilizer and the indigestible chitin from their exoskeletons can be extracted and processed into chitosan, a building material. I think that Kerbals should have similar bug-like creatures to accompany them on their space adventures, so that KSP players can learn what insects can provide us in real life space exploration!

A couch. I can make dust masks and a parachute, or a fabric cover for something like an air filter. There's also pieces of wood in the frame that I can use to make new structures. There is also plenty of thermal insulation inside.

Luckily my mealworms technically count as farm animals rather than pets.

I dunno how many pieces it's gonna be in when it does, but I'm still leaning towards 'more than one'. If they can pull a flawless flight with a Starship that was dropped I'll be impressed.

My hope is for a fully interactible and functional IVA in VR, then I could make dummy control panels which don't actually need much functionality but provide tactile feedback in VR for a fully immersive spaceflight simulation, with the cool views all done in the helmet. This would be less costly and complicated than building a functional real-world cockpit.

I think Kerbals are biologically related to the Mystery GooTM.