TheEpicSquared

You don't, you use a trebuchet to hurl it into the next block. How do I formulate a stupid question?

I was thinking about that, we're going to return to our regularly scheduled rocket launches next chapter

CHAPTER 23: A DISCOVERY Caldos Kerman was in trouble. The plane he was on had suffered an explosive decompression, a hydraulics failure and a fuel leak from the wing. Also, Caldos had an alien being speaking to him from inside his mind. Ignoring this, he slipped off his seatbelt and struggled to the cockpit. "What's going on?" he yelled over the noise. The captain, Barger Kerman, replied, "Decompression, fuel leak and hydraulics failure. Kirk, the flight engineer, is hurt pretty bad, could you pass me the first-aid kit?" Caldos tossed the bag over to Barger, who slipped out of his seat and went to tend to Kirk. In a silent agreement, Caldos, being an experienced pilot, took Barger's place at the controls. The instruments showed that the plane was in bad shape. At the moment, there was still some hydraulic fluid left in the system, but that wouldn't last. Also, fuel was leaking out of the damaged right wing, posing a fire hazard. Soon, control surfaces started failing, and the plane banked wildly. First the ailerons cut out... And then the vertical stabilizer. Caldos realized that the only way of controlling the plane would be its engines. He watched as the hydraulics fuild meter counted down to zero. However, he was still getting pitch control. Barger, noticing this, said, "The K-200 has an emergency hydraulics tank dedicated to only the front canards, in an event like this. However, it looks like that's leaking as well. It won't last long, so you better be quick with landing!" Quickly, Caldos descended to an altitude low enough for kerbals to breath. For now, the plane was stable, but soon would come the dangerous process of turning around to land." Caldos only now radioed ATC. "KSC ATC, this is KWA-556, mayday mayday mayday. We have suffered an explosive decompression and hydraulics failure and we are leaking fuel. We're going to come around for a crash-landing, we're requesting fire and medical services on standby." "KSC ATC to KWA-556, roger, you are cleared to land at Runway 09. We will have fire and medical services on standby. Krakenspeed, KW-556." With the transmission over with, Caldos now concentrated on turning the plane. Carefully, he lowered the thrust on engine 1, resulting in the plane banking to the left. He then lowered the thrust on both engines to reduce speed, as the plane was coming in way too fast to land. Feeling more confident, Caldos put the plane into an even sharper turn. However, the sudden bank caused the plane to become temporarily imbalanced, resulting in an almost 90 degree bank to the left. Barger yelled, "Full thrust on engine 1! Kill engine 2!" Caldos had already started the action when Barger had said that. But the plane was already dropping fast. Caldos had no choice. He would have to use his limited pitch control to pull out of the dive. The emergency hydraulic fluid meter dropped to 1/2 as the plane recovered. Caldos radioed to ATC, "KSC ATC; this is KWA-556, be advised that we may not be able to line up with the runway. Do you have fire and medical services ready?" "KWA-556, this is KSC ATC, roger, we do have services ready and waiting." "Thank you ATC, we are beginning landing procedure now," Caldos replied. He carefully turned the plane to the right to attempt to line up to the runway. The plane completely missed the heading of the runway, but the flat field of grass in the surrounding area would have to do. The K-200 neared the ground as Caldos killed almost all thrust... The plane straightened out just meters above the ground. Caldos pulled back on the yoke, using the meager amount of hydraulic fluid to attempt a flare, but the lift of the canards wasn't enough to conduct a full flare. Instead, the plane ended up parallel to the ground. The plane hit the ground hard, and bounced back in the air. Slowly, it stopped bouncing and gently rolled along the grass. Caldos cut thrust on both engines. It looked like the landing was a success, but without any hydraulics, the brakes couldn't operate. The plane would roll into the bay before it would stop. But there was a more pressing matter. Directly in front of the plane was a road, elevated off the ground by a concrete wall. The plane would crash into it at full speed unless Caldos did something, fast. It was Barger who found the solution. "Pull up! There's a road in the way!" Caldos complied, wrenching the yoke back. The plane slowly lifted off the ground. "Dammit, we're not going to make it!" Caldos shouted, as the plane neared the road at blistering speeds. At that moment, the last of the emergency hydraulic fluid ran out, and the canards went back to their default position. The wheels just barely cleared the road, and the plane would have been fine if it was not for the light pole. The left wing impacted the light pole, bending it. The plane swung to the left as the outermost aileron disintegrated... And continued down the grassy plain, skimming along the surface. The left wing impacted first, sending the whole plane into a spin. It flipped over, destroying the tail, before finally coming to rest upside-down. The gears had retracted due to gravity, as there way no way of keeping them locked. It had been pure luck that ad stopped them from collapsing until now. The crew wasted no time in evacuating the passengers. Soon, everybody was outside the plane, waiting for the rescue services to arrive. A recovery vehicle was quickly sent out to recover the passengers and crew. It pulled up next to the plane and extended its ladders, inviting the stranded kerbals inside. Inside the cabin was a very nice treat: the world-famous Bill & Jeb's Duna Berry and Bill & Jeb's Minmus Mint ice cream! The perfect treat after the ordeal. Once everyone was on board, the recovery vehicle sped back to the KSC. It came to stop at the Astronaut Complex, where the passengers would stay for the time being. Later that day, in the evening, Caldos Kerman was lying down in his room at the Astronaut Complex, reflecting over the day's events. He had just arrived from the infirmary, where he had learnt that Kirk, the flight engineer, was on his way to a full recovery. Caldos sighed and reached out for his koffee. But then he heard something. From within his mind. "Caldos Kerman, you have done well... we are awaiting you. Come to us, Caldos Kerman... come to us..." Caldos shuddered. His sleep that night was full of nightmares. *** The next day, the scientists at R&D were analyzing some soil samples from the Gilly Ex-1 mission. Scientist Gildrin Kerman had just taken out some crushed Gilly powder from the Rock Sample Pulverizer (RSA). He gently sprinkled a pinch of the powder on a slide, and put it under his microscope lens. "Oh SQUAD..." The material was unlike any other ever discovered. "Hey, Advin, come and see this! I've made a, um, discovery of sorts!" Advin, another scientist, came over and peered into the eyepiece. "Oh my... what's that?" "I don't know. It appears to be some type of... I don't know... stone?" "But it has traces of organic molecules on it as well... a stone-organic hybrid element? This.. this is amazing!" Gildrin replied, "Well if it's organic, I'll run a DNA test on it, I guess." "Yes... yes, do that." Advin was still peering through the eyepiece. Gildrin hurried off to another section of the lab, to conduct the DNA tests. A few minutes later, he hurried back to Advin and showed him the piece of paper. "Here we have the DNA code for this... organism. As you know, all DNA known to kerbals is made up of four nucleobases, A, T, G and C. Of course, all these bars should line up with each other, because they're all the same four bases." "But they don't..." Advin said. "Exactly. There are some bases missing from this DNA graph..." "But that's not possible! Everything we know is made up of the four bases! There are only four bases on Kerbin!" "On Kerbin," Gildrin replied, "but not necessarily in space. By definition, this stone-organic hybrid substance we saw under the microscope... is extraterrestrial."

I certainly hope this story hasn't gone to crap, if it has please tell me!

Receives wax and paper Inserts candle

Hi @Tristonwilson12, did you receive my PM?

6.8/10 Who knows what's lurking behind that brown paper bag...

Today is the 19th December 2016. I got KSP exactly a year ago (actually, right to the hour at the time of posting ) and so far, Steam says I've logged 543 hours. However, I've probably logged at least 800 hours, since I had multiple other saves that are unrelated to Steam. I'm not far off

I'm sorry, I've never heard that before in my life.

So I've got roughly 80% of the screenshots for chapter 23 done, so expect a chapter by Tuesday. Also, school ends on the 22nd, so after that, I should be churning out chapters roughly every 2-3 days! I can't wait!

Banned for misspelling "referring".

You have to go to settings and enable advanced tweakables (I think it's called that). Hope that helps.

You think you have a bad computer? I have a lenovo g580 I wish I could get an upgrade...

That is absolutely AWESOME!! Thanks!

Norrköping. Oh, and when I first commented you had Zhangzhou

Udomxay

I couldn't find a non-cliché picture of an alien on google.

Another question: have there seen been any cases where a thread was closed, and then re-opened for whatever reason? If so, are you allowed to give us examples?

That is a really good idea

I spent a good two hours fighting horrendous lag while trying to get a mission to Minmus. I eventually endured the slideshow until I got to LKO, then closed KSP and finished my science report on modeling gravity assists.

No, I didn't. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

Not sure whether you're joking or not , but the unlike button appears when you like a post. It's at the same place as the like button. Also, I just answered my second question by liking and unliking your post. It appears that unliking a post descreases the rep count.

I'm just wondering, why are we allowed to only give 25 likes per day? Forum software limitations? EDIT: Also, if someone unlikes a post that you made, does the rep count decrease or stay the same?

Banned for talking about liquor. There's kids here, y'know?

Banned for being here since Nov 2014 and still not having a profile picture