Ultimate Steve

@Tristonwilson12? Yes, I totally know what you mean... I've got at least two designs (not counting the bad ones). All I need is money (not too terribly hard), time (that got harder, but doable), and a permit (okay, not going to happen). EDIT: Okay, it seems like the answer to my original question is "only future astronauts."

But I was going to answer him with Granted. You get orange text. Oh, well. Because you didn't wish for anything, I guess I'll take it. I wish for my RO KSP to run fast enough that I don't have to measure time in seconds per frame.

A Kerbal is obviously 42 (but 43 is more awesome IMO). How can I earn a pilot's licence? (Please quote me in your response so I don't have to dig through the thread)

Kevin Macleod - Call to Adventure (for a short time it was my favorite song and I found it from Danny).

Wait... Does that mean that the Voyage: The Final Warning universe exists? And in order to make Ethan Edwards and his friends I just changed names and places... So that means I'm in space in a universe far, far away... Plan Kappa exists... those poor Kerbals... Project Intrepid? Yeah! Gigantic 1000 person spaceships! Kuzzter's universe? I'd certainly want to go there! Wait... If this happens for every story, then this is about to get complicated. Just of the stories I've written, there's a universe where: An asteroid hits earth and creates a megatsunami that wipes out basically everything... My high school used to be 15 stories tall but then spirits got in the way... The world successfully redirects a planet killing asteroid... Two scientists discover a substance that can interact with both matter and antimatter without it exploding and semi-accidentally make a bomb that destroys Earth but there's a kid with a time machine that saves the world and another kid who escapes a video game he's trapped in but there's this guy that's going to nuke the world so they steal the time machine to stop everything and then a weird country called Liki Liki nukes the world anyways but three kids from the US and Liki Liki make a spray that can reduce radioactivity and sort of save the world. Pieces of paper are sentient The universe was made by a guy out in the desert with a bunch of rocks to encode atoms in binary (yes, I stole that from XKCD). There was a steampunk space race using Solid Fuel between Britain and the US. The universe suddenly got 1000x smaller and if you touch a celestial body it shrinks, leading to cities being built on giant metal plates and the solar system eventually dying (I never finished that one, I barely started). A universe that is nothing other than the word TACOS over and over again... I'm pretty sure that our universe isn't a story, however. If it is, it would be a pretty bad one. The world accomplishes something... the world goes to war... future plans are cancelled... repeat.

I completely did this without realizing that my probe was 1.8-ish tons and not 4, but if you don't mind I'll post this anyway (mine is in RO/RP-0). Part 1:

Thread is old, but hopefuly relevant. When you're in a car and shift into retrograde, see that it works, and then shift into Prograde (P) and wonder why it doesn't work. When you play RSS/RP-0 so much that instead of measuring velocity in meters per second, you measure in meters per frame...

Heh. I remember one of my early KSP rocket designs had four engines, three around one (but three were SRB's, so it doesn't really count). Rocket Lab should watch out for these guys. If (big if) they're flying within the next 3-5 years, can maintain their advertised price (found on Reddit somewhere, 20-30% less than Electron) and payload capacity (slightly more than Electron), then Electron could be in trouble.

Maybe the field that makes up matter is moving through some weird compression anomaly? I just spit a random word salad out of my mouth and it almost made sense.

Two things: 1. @Parkaboy is undoubtedly busy in real life (all authors know this struggle) and will get back to this when he has the time and motivation, so don't bug him too much. 2. I'm just as eager for the next installment as you are.

Yeah, I was looking that way a few days ago (mostly to see Saturn one last time while Cassini was still there) and I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary (although my telescope wasn't working so I had to use my binoculars). @ChrisSpace YES! I was somewhat close!

Sort of math follows: Earth orbits at ~30km/s. Solar escape velocity from 1AU orbit: ~42km/s? Max velocity of Nibiru relative to Earth: 12km/s. Average angle of approach: 75% straight on? So only traveling at an average of 75% of 12km/s - 9km/s 5 days = 120 hours = 7200 minutes = 432000 seconds. Ans*9= 3.8 million kilometers. That's about 10x further away than the moon. Although I can guarantee you the math is probably nowhere near accurate. Assuming the object in question is about the size of the moon, it would definitely be visible in the sky at this point. But I've got bigger problems to worry about - Homecoming just became an end of the world party/dance thing. Nah, just kidding. 99.9% chance the world will not end.

Imagine the scene: You've got three space pirates in a giant spaceship hurtling towards Dres without enough fuel to capture and another ship that's almost to Dres that won't make it there in time for a rescue. So, you'd give up and let the space pirates die, right? Or would you burn towards Dres, find an asteroid that happens to be a magic boulder, refuel quickly, and perform the most daring rescue you've ever done, sending two giant spaceships on an escape trajectory out of Dres? That is probably one of the most awesome screenshot's I'll ever take.

@Whovian!

Do I make music? Yes. Is it good music? Most of the time, no. Probably the best thing I've done (it only gets good after about a minute in): https://planetsteve.bandcamp.com/releases

"Sorry, what?" "That's what he calls himself." "And how do you know that?" "I speak baby."

@Skylon If indeed you do change your name, you might want to change your member title to something like "AKA Skylon" so people still recognize you.

As the title says, I'm curious as to whether any current or former astronauts/cosmonauts (or whatever prefix you prefer) have accounts on the KSP forum. I'm not asking so I can pester them, I'm just curious. I hereby promise I will keep pestering to a minimum.

Welcome to the forum, @milkface! I hope you enjoy it here! Also today I dropped a rubber mallet on my foot and then said "I just dropped a sledgehammer on my foot" forgetting that it was called a rubber mallet.

Welcome to the forums! A few RO/RP-0 tips: Always check your fuel tank types. I've lost a lot of missions to me forgetting to turn the tank type to "service module" for pressure fed engines. Same thing with RCS configs. If you have an RCS thruster set to Hydrazine, it won't work with tanks containing Aerozine 50 and nitrogen tetroxide. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT install graphics mods unless your computer can handle it. I made the mistake of installing them... everything is beautiful, but the game is running so slow that I lose hours of productivity in lag. Always play epic music in the background. Believe me, it helps. If you ever get to manned Moon landings, then make sure you have enough oxygen (I almost had Jeb die because of that once). For reference, the game clock starts in 1951 (or so I'm told). It's actually pretty easy to do the moon before '69.

Ahh, okay, sorry. The time switcher mod wasn't working for me so I just have "year 1, year 2..." but still, that means it's 1967!

So I decided to do a "mini-Cassini" mission in RO/RP-0. Unfortunately, this poses a few problems: This will be the first in a series of up to 10 probes and is testing out brand new hardware. Likelihood of failure is really high. I don't have the patience for gravity assists so this will be a direct mission. I'm already regretting saying #2 because according to one Delta-V map I'll need nearly 15 kilometers per second of Delta-V once I'm in orbit. The lifter I'm using can only put 60t into LEO. If I fly perfectly, 63-65 might be possible. The probe, Mini Cassini, is already 1.9-ish tons (granted, with 2km/s of fuel onboard) without a Huygens. It is rocket science. My game just crashed while I was writing this. I have to spend 15 minutes loading KSP again. That will probably happen five more times before I'm done. Well, wish me luck, I guess. EDIT: I used a satellite in orbit and placed a bunch of maneuver nodes (for planning only) and as it turns out, it's doable in thirteen km/s. However, with my 63t limit, I can only fit in 11.7 (12 if I make an unwieldy 4th stage). So close! Grr! At this point, I'm going to either A: completely redesign the lifter so it will be able to lift closer to 100t and carry a Huygens replica as well, or B: add some SRB's and extend the second stage of the lifter so that it will have 1km/s left in the second stage to complete the escape burn. Part of me doesn't feel comfortable with the small margins, though. Ideally, I would have 14km/s because I know I'll make mistakes. Also I forgot the ullage RCS... more extra mass! Yay!

I technically should leave my house at 7:45... But once I left at 8:09 and only was 30 seconds late to class!

You know, that sort of reminds me of another thing. I ride my bicycle to school now (I can get there in <5 minutes if I really need to) and I discovered something interesting: If I start in my driveway and push the pedals once, I can just keep riding without pushing until I reach the park, because the route is mostly downhill. However, then I get to a pretty big hill, at the top of which is the school. Also I can get all the way from the school's bike rack to the park in one push if it's not windy.

Okay, I can guarantee that I will be a while (if I ever finish this) but in my RP-0/RO save the next Saturn window is approaching soon-ish. If I'm incredibly lucky and the prototype hardware I'll be using doesn't explode (this will be only the second flight of new probe hardware and two new flight stages) then I might just be able to get something out to Saturn. I can't guarantee it will look anything like Cassini, and it may not even get into orbit, but I'll do my best.