Ultimate Steve

"local" "middle of nowhere"

I can never tell if he's joking or not. If he's serious I'd imagine the regulatory framework would kill it... I've looked into trying to make a tiny liquid fueled or solid fueled rocket by myself but there are dozens of laws that prohibit it.

I wouldn't know how much would have to be changed to make the parts RO/RSS/RP-0 compatible, but that would certainly be nice seeing as the tree currently lacks a good late game small probe core, or a small probe core with 2 stack nodes at all.

Futuristic cavemen make an attempt at saying sorry.

Tourists are expendable.

Tourists are just shapes made of compounded chemicals.

Donuts made non-organically!

Not all parts did, but some things did, especially the boats. The Olympic's "serial" was 400, and the Titanic's was 401. This number was printed on many parts and has been found in parts in the wreck.

Plus different serial numbers on the parts, they found Titanic serials on the sunken bits.

Mr Steven is probably moving forward to reduce landing velocity, but I'd guess that the fairing is doing most of the maneuvering.

I don't have the qualifications to answer this, but it would probably be okay if you drained 50-70% of the center tanks to "make room" for the engine.

I recently did a speedrun of KSP (career, land a Kerbal on everything and return) and I did a Jool-5 ish mission as part of that and will be uploading it to YT soon. However, as far as clipping goes, I have a bad habit of taking FL-T100 tanks, rotating them, and attaching them, so about 30% of the tank ends up inside something else, usually another tank. Given that this only slipped in for the Vall lander, where it wouldn't really matter as far as aero goes, would this still count as a valid entry? The Vall lander is the thing on the end.

If I recall correctly.

It's either 6 million for a set of two or 6 million each, I forget, but IIRC it's the former. They are carbon composite, which means they take a long time to make (the size of a bus) and they use a lot of it. Since large scale composite technology is still fairly new, they are pretty expensive.

Will you pay for my trip west?

Four fairing halves are outside the building that will be next to the BFR factory, presumably there due to lack of storage and future drop testing. There's $12m dollars in rocket parts, just sitting there...

So... I did my run, but I'm afraid it doesn't count, both for the speedrun.com entry and for this thread. This thread's issue: I did not plant a flag on Laythe. I splashed, went EVA, swam around, and got back in, but I did not plant a flag. The speedrun issue: 2 things, the Laythe thing. Quoted from the rules, "Land at least one Kerbal on the surface of every celestial body with a solid surface and return them safely to Kerbin." The key phrases being "land" and "on the surface." Land can be taken as "MUST BE LAND" or "Water landings are a thing," and on the surface can mean "Solid surfaces only" or "liquids have a surface as well." I reached 0m ASL and returned to orbit and swam, but did not touch anything solid. The second issue is: "-Time ends upon recovering the last Kerbal from the surface of Kerbin." I thought it was just landing back on Kerbin, and that's when I stopped the timer. It was another minute or two before I actually recovered Jeb, and I stopped recording for that part. Which means, I have no proof I ever recovered Jeb, and it's impossible to prove my time with any accuracy. It's also impossible to prove I planted a flag on Kerbin, but I did, and that's a thread only thing, the official table doesn't take flags into account. So it probably doesn't count officially, but I'll check with the moderators of the KSP entry on speedrun.com first, once I have the videos edited. That being said, time from creation of the savefile until Jeb stopped bouncing on Kerbin was 7 hours, 50 minutes, and 39 seconds, in career, visiting every landable planet and moon. Even if the recovery/flag planting took 5 minutes, that's still 7:55:39, so yay! Videos coming within the week, hopefully. Screenshots (I didn't take too many to conserve time): Again, videos coming soon-ish, although they might not count for the official leaderboard. With optimization, below 6 hours is definitely possible, although it will probably take a better player than me to pull it off. Another note, I turned on advanced tweakables, but that's the only real settings I changed. One last thing, I used one exploit, although it shouldn't break the rules here, and it shouldn't break anything on the official leaderboard. Unless you have "allow negative funds" checked (it's off by default) then you can accept contracts, launch an expensive ship, cancel contracts, and recover vessel for infinite money at the cost of reputation. I only did it once for about 100k, though, early on because I had been going faster than the explore contracts, so I went almost broke (that and the building upgrades, those aren't cheap).

More interesting, but slightly worse IMO, most of the experience with Indiana I have is watching my dad drive through Gary, I think we almost died a few times.

Note, this only seems to effect Microsoft Edge, I guess I'll have to switch to Chrome for writing now. So... when I write mission report chapters I usually do them on the forum itself, which involves going to an album on imgur, right clicking an image, pressing copy, and ctrl-v ing it into the forum. Except it's not working right now. I've copied an image, and it should show up here: It just says "pasted as rich text, place as plain text instead?" and doesn't show up. There is a faint grey outline clipping into everything else on which I cannot select EDIT: What the what? After I post it it shows up, but not while posting. Hmm. Still an issue, and it's too small. I can copy the link, and it will show up like this: BUT it's width limited, I cannot make it any wider, and on my monitor it's only half to 2/3 the width of the screen, so it makes it weird trying to read my own stories when the text goes beyond the image. I found a way to make them bigger by going into google drawings and repasting the picture here, and I can make them big, but on small monitors they distort because the height and width are no longer linked. So is there anything doable about this problem?

Good gravy... That's a long time, very few things IRL would last that long, although that's only about 480 Earth years. Realistically, three things would have happened. 1. The ship would stop working 2. Kerbin would invent warp drives and rescue the crew of the mission before they got there (or home) 3. They would land back on Kerbin and find a futuristic civilization 4. They would land back on Kerbin and find a post-apocalyptic wasteland and nobody on the planet would remember the mission

NSEP is taking another break, I'll ask him when he'll be ready again. This will be finished eventually! Edit: It appears that it's going to be a while.

There's a small chance that the vessel type in the bar at the top of the screen isn't selected, meaning the vessel is there, but it's not visible. Try toggling it.