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    Voyage - The Final Warning (Chapters 34-36 And Epilogues)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

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    1 hour ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    The most interesting thing that has come from the engineers so far was some sort of reaction wheel powered centrifuge. I should add one of those to the Mun's amusement park.

    :D 

    1 hour ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    Dear John,

    DA ERTH IZ ROWND!

    -E

    SO IS KERBIN! :) 

    1 hour ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    "Nuclear accident? Like an act of war?"

    "No, silly. My ancestors never even considered using nuclear devices as weapons. The accident was this giant spaceship that hit Kerbin."

    "Ah. That would make sense."

    I blame Project Intrepid! That totally wasn't my fault! :D 

    1 hour ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    "What is this called, it sounds AWESOME!"

    "It's called "The Final Countdown." Some people love it, some people hate it."

    I'm one of those people who love it. IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!! 

    1 hour ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    But it's biggest problem was that it wouldn't fit inside of the fairing. Until I said that, none of the engineers appeared to notice.

    Are you sure the engineers are Humans and not Kerbals? Humans never forget that kind of thing. Kerbals forgot that, and struts, and fins, and aerodynamics, and a few dozen other things pretty much every single launch. :P 

    1 hour ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    I heard another large explosion that shook the entire warehouse. I quickly undid the complicated locking mechanism Oliver had devised and exited to see the long arm of the rocket powered merry-go-round (Or is it merry-go-centrifuge?) firmly embedded in the wall of the hangar. You could actually see another hangar through the hole - wait, was that team two?

    "Nothing to see here!" announced a Kerbal from over the loudspeakers as they removed the arm. A large metal panel appeared out of nowhere, obscuring our view of the other team. I later learned that the rocket centrifuge was undergoing a (thankfully) unmanned test.

    Something tells me that you've already somehow made the rocket powered merry-go-round part of your actual Jool 5 attempt... Maybe a rocket jet propeller merry-go-round for Laythe? :cool: 

    1 hour ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    In other news, I got messages back from Andrea and John. Andrea told me how much she had missed me, and that she had indeed found her family and Winter. John was all like "This is all a hoax, you idiot. This is a government conspiracy to make us believe in aliens. Even your message was a fake scam!"

    Plbbh. I'm not wasting any more of my time on convincing him the Earth is round.

    THE WORLD IS ROUND! ALIENS (probably) EXIST! PUT HIM ON THE HYPE PLANE 2.0 WITH SOME KERBALS AND SHOW HIM THAT THE WORLD IS ROUND! Or just try to make him explain how orbit works. :P 

    The "Complain About Your School" Thread

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    48 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    I've been lucky enough to be placed in a school system that is not terrible. Fortunately.

    My school system also isn't that bad. 

    49 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    Fortunately, I don't have to worry about that. Also, there was that one "confetti cannon" incident, and that one "final countdown" incident that both sort of upgraded my social status from "total nerd" to "cool nerd."

    UMMMMMMMMMM... 

    51 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    But the one thing that really stinks about my school?

    THE INTERNET.

    I TOTALLY AGREE. 

    52 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    My school's internet is worse. Our school had the absolutely brilliant idea to split their one working wifi network into three smaller ones that didn't have the capacity to service hundreds of devices at a time. You get on-and-off access, changing every few minutes, and it frequently takes more than thirty seconds to load my email page. At our school, we have these things called chromebooks - they are, to say the least, not very fast.

    We have iPads... :/ 

    53 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    In math class, we often use Kahoot to do review stuff. Today, the lag was so bad that I literally got the message "Your network connection is too slow to play Kahoot." Which stunk, because I had to start over and I was in first place!

    Oh hey! We also use Kahoot! :D 

    53 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    I wish you all luck in solving your school problems!

    *defenestrates my homework*

    Voyage - The Final Warning (Chapters 34-36 And Epilogues)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    I'll admit, the solution in my head was much lower tech and less cool than yours, so if it's alright with you, this is my new explanation. :D

    Way cooler than "solid iron parts with embedded copper coils."

    Although also BNNTs are really light and BNNT parts wouldn't make sense if you look at the parts weight in game, so maybe they're just iron. :( Or maybe Kerbol just makes no radiation and it's the only star in the universe. Because we don't see any solar flares or auroras, right? Also, if they were solid metal with a magnetic field then ships would stick together without docking ports. The magnetic field also might mess up the antenna a little bit. I DON'T KNOW! ASK GUS! HE'S THE GUY WHO PUTS THE ROCKET TOGETHER! OR ASK ROCKOMAX! OR KERBODYNE! :/ 

    7 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    Coming soon! :D

    MOAR!!! :D:D:D 

    7 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    I wanted to get chapter four out yesterday, but life happened. It's about half-ish done. 

    What's a life? :) 

    7 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    So, it should be done by the end of today, unless something else comes up again!

    YES!!! GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR BIG ROCKET THINGS! DON'T DROP THEM! :D 

    Voyage - The Final Warning (Chapters 34-36 And Epilogues)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    I was literally rolling on the floor laughing while I was reading the part where the humans were trying to figure out how the Kerbal's parts work! :D 

    1 hour ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    "I... think this is a jet engine, but I'm not sure."

    "Ethan, look on this side. The plaque literally says "J-33 "Wheesley" Turbofan Engine." Manufactured by the C7 aerospace division. Stationary thrust, 120 kilonewtons. Hey, they converted their values into metric for us! How thoughtful!"

    "Hmm. What does this do?" I pressed the button marked "reverse thrust." A giant cone moved backwards and the contraption made a strange sound. "Uhh... I think I might have broken it."

    "Hey, look at this cool thing!" Evelina was now on the other side of the aisle in the "ground" section. "Rove-max model XL3. Hmm. Wait, it says something on the back of this... "The RoveMax Model 3 was developed in total secrecy by Kerbal Motion's R&D team over the course of a year and a half. When it was finally revealed to the company's chairman, he stared in shock, screamed 'WHY', and subsequently dropped dead on the spot." Uhh... Okay, then. Ooh, what's that!" Evelina then ran over to the next section, utility, and proceeded to observe the plaque in front of another pallet. "Mark sixteen parachute. Manufacturer: Found lying by the side of the road? What? That sounds, uh..."

    She kept running around, with that grin on her face. Like a kid in a candy shop, or like a space nerd at the Kennedy Space Center, or, well, like an engineer in a rocket parts warehouse.

    Then, something exploded over in the coupling section. It was really loud and echoed for quite a long time. Whatever it was shot up towards the rock ceiling, hit it, and knocked out a few of the lights. But then it fell downwards. It was heading straight towards Evelina.

    "EVELINA!" I ran towards her. She was engrossed in reading another plaque, and had jumped at the explosion but had not looked up. Just as the thing was about to hit her, I slammed into her and knocked her out of the way. The thing - whatever it was - slammed down in front of us with a very, very loud noise. All was silent for a few seconds.

    "Excuse me, but did I just almost die?"

    "Yep. Now, we're even."

    "Oh, so that's what a "hydraulic detachment manifold" does!" shouted a voice from across the hangar.

    I shakily stood up and offered my hand to Andrea, who took it and started giggling again. Soon, we were both laughing our heads off.

    ======================================================================

    Well, 45 minutes later we were done collecting all of the part information. Some of the nine, uh, I'll call them "commanders" from now on, decided to write down some of the funnier quotes they heard.

    "But that's impossible! A 2kn ion drive?!?!? What sorcery is this?"

    "What drugs are these reaction wheels on? These are impossibly powerful!"

    "What is this, an engine for ants?"

    "This yellow sewer pipe is pure magic."

    "Why is this command pod so darn heavy?"

    "An actual NERVA? I am in HEAVEN!"

    "Dude, don't touch that! It's radioactive!"

    "Bro, you've got that song stuck in my head now!"

    "I have no idea what we're ever going to use this micronode for."

    "What the heck would you need RCS thrusters this powerful for?"

    "These aliens have force fields, but can't figure out how to make a battery that will last for more than half an hour. Logic!"

    "Mystery goo? Can I drink it?"

    Wait... 

    1 hour ago, Ultimate Steve said:

    7. Every part had a terrible mass fraction, but had electromagnet fields for radiation protection and nanocamera suspension (neat!), extreme structural integrity, and the ability to transfer fuel through itself, which was the neatest thing ever, and made in-orbit refueling simple enough.

    So is every part made of hydrogenated boron nitride nanotubes with carbon nanotubes in between them which generates a magnetic field? :) 

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