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EVE does not have the oxygen need for jets, but a rocket powered plane will work.

" Their plan failed. They made Kerbals. " LOL!!!

This from the master plan from 2013: Indications are that the SSTV was suppose to be a puzzle, but the puzzle was never finished.

This was brought once before some years back, but I thought I would revisit it. I thought I could grab the Kraken's eye and bring it back to Kerbin, only to discover that Easter eggs are not movable. They seem to be part of the terrain. I think it would be cool if there were a special class of Easter eggs that one could move around and collect. Maybe something in the lines of a vessel that does not show up on any maps or the control center. Sort of like souvenirs or trophies you can put in your very own Kerbal museum.

I have probably been doing it the hard way, but I use Flickr and here is what I do. (note: I changed the 'p' in https to a 'd' to purposely break it so you can see the text.) Here is what the embedded code looks like from Flicker. I copy and paste this to notepad or and other text editor. <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/105254422@N04/32938412346/in/dateposted-public/" title="karin2"><img src="httds://c1.staticflickr.com/1/455/32938412346_d800c57d27_o.jpg" width="667" height="448" alt="karin2"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script> The part you want to put in the 'insert other media' field is in bold. It is the url in quotation marks after img src= httds://c1.staticflickr.com/1/455/32938412346_d800c57d27_o.jpg

Okay. so the Kraken is a little larger than I thought it would be. Getting it back to Kerbin is going to be a harder engineering feat than I thought. I was thinking i could just grab it with an Advanced Grabbing Unit, but that was based on early reports that had the Kraken in a small cage. That is not what I found. Maybe I should just concentrate on bringing back what i think is a detached eye first...

The Kraken is not in a cage anymore. Can it be brought back to Kerbin? What could possibly go wrong with that? Jeb went missing when he got close to the Kraken - and I am not sure why...

Welcome aboard! Did you know that the Vanguard 1 is still in orbit?

One thing I found very helpful is that you can limit the thrust of your engine. " the application is so sensitive as I increase the projected orbit near the Mun that I instantly "pop" into a totally different orbital arrangement" In what I call the default view, i.e. not the map view, you can right click on your engine and limit the thrust. This allows you to get just under the target obit, and then limit your engine to like 12% or even lower, giving you much finer control of the thrust. In general, you are better off starting out a bit late than too early. If you get there after the target has passed, there in no way to recover. But if you get there a bit early, you can always go above the target orbit and catch the target as you come back down from your apo. By limiting the thrust of your engine, you should be able to fine tune the approach enough to crash in to Mun if you wanted.

They have often been used as blast for submarines. Maybe that has something to do with it. But in general, they are the only tanks that starts out empty, and ore is heavy, so maybe it is just a means of returning the tanks to their default state to make it easier to jettison any remaining ore before launching something like a return ship.

I completed my tour of the Kerbol system! I have now visited all the major planets and moons. Here is Bop and here is Tylo.. I used the last two legs to try out a new simplified equation for ejection angles for Hohmann transfers. It works great if the target and your orbit are close to circular. It uses a constant (1/(2*SQRT2)) which equals ~0.35355, I am not even sure what that number is, but it is amazingly useful. I got me to Val... And Pol My diversion has been fun, and I am not sure I want to stop. I think I might go back to Kerbin and explore the "?" hovering about the planet before getting serious again. :-)

As I understand it it is not based on any type of national borders, but rather lose allegiances to junk yards. While it tends to be regional, affinity for a certain junk yard can be spread out over a large geographical area, much like sports fans here on Earth,

I was getting a bit overwhelmed with KSP with a game I was playing and it was becoming a bit of a chore instead of being fun. So, as a break, I decided to make it a game again. I strapped a fuel tank and LV-T45 "Swivel" on to a Mk1 Inline Cockpit. I turn on infinite fuel and electricity - and set out to tour the known Kerbol system. To date I have been of course to Kerbin and Kerbol, just by default, but also Mun, Minmus, then in to Moho before heading out to Eeloo (I plan to go back to Eeloo with a lander and visit the Kraken). From Eeloo I went back to Eve and Gilly. The trip from Gilly to Dres was surprisingly uneventful. But I did take time to plan that one. Which leads me up to today's trip from Dres to Duna... Maybe I am getting sloppy, but my encounter with Duna had a periapsis of close to 4 million meters after my first burn. (I did not want to wait forever, so I lowered my periapsis to somewhere between Eve and Moho for an encounter with Duna in about 3 years.) No big deal. As I approached, I endeavored to lower that as I got closer - when suddenly the display went haywire. How could I go from 3 million meters to crashing into the planet? It took me a minute, or actually two, to realize it was not Duna - it was an encounter with Ike... Pure dumb luck actually. My angle was not particularity good, but it somehow took me with in about 150,000 meters of Ike, Anyway, that is what I did today.

Schrödinger's Dres: Dres both exists and does not exist at the same time. In fact by simply asking the quest, you have probably changed Dres' state.

Gilly to Dres. I my attempt to visit all the major planets. Moho and Eeloo were hard, but Gilly to Dres was the hardest. I still have Duna and the Jool system left to go.

I am doing my grand tour of the Kerbol system, so I will visit Dres. In the past I have been to Mun, Minmus, Duna and Ike, Jool and Laythe and I guess technically to Kerbin and Kerbol. My resent expedition took me to Moho and then Eeloo, thinking if I was orbiting Moho I would not have to wait as long for a window to Eeloo. I am currently orbiting Eve and planing my visit to Gilly. I am thinking of approaching it more like a rendezvous with a space station than a Hohmann like transfer. Dres isn't the big mystery for me. I am still having problems figuring out how to reach the ? asteroids hovering around Kerbin. How can they stay so close to Kerbin, unless they are in orbits with the same period? Should I just tilt my inclination in relationship to Kerbol?

Welcome aboard. I too am an amateur astronomer, although it can be a challenge in light polluted cloudy Portland OR. I am using a Dobsonian that I built myself

I finally made it to Eeloo for the first time. Yeah! But I was surprised to find the dark side of Eeloo so bright. It does not have an atmosphere, so I expected it to be black as black can get. But the surface is very visible from orbit. Is there a reason for that? Or is it just sort of a game/video card glitch where the shader doesn't get it dark enough because it is so white to start with, or something?

I found this video of someone playing KSP 0.90 on a Mac Book Pro 13" circa 2014, which I think has the same Intel Iris Graphics 5100 as yours. I could be wrong, but I think the I5 should be good enough.

Sure it will run. Not at full graphics and you will probably start losing some frames if your part count gets too high, but I think you will not be too disappointed.

When you are landed on Mun, if you wait until your ship is on the far side on Mun opposite Kerbin and launch into a clockwise orbit, your ship is actually pointed retrograde to your orbit around Kerbin. The idea is to lower your Kerbin orbit to around 30-20 km and use the atmosphere to take you to your landing. It can save a lot of fuel.

Somehow this reminds me of that old movie Silent Running that ends with the garden being the last thing to survive...

Welcome aboard! Never hesitate to ask a question or post to the ubiquitous "What did you do in KSP today?" thread. It sounds like you are new to the forum, but maybe not new to KSP?

Riding along in my automobile ... With no particular place to go ... There is just some much to do in KSP that it is overwhelming at times, between space stations and Mun bases, and mining .. that I sort of forgot way it was that I loved my old Delta Glider in Orbiter. I sort of miss the carefree days when I could just tool around the solar system without worrying about fuel and what not. Looking for that really weird orbit around a Javoian moon, or the gravitational assist around Venus that would take you to Saturn. So I decided to cheat - and turned on infinite fuel and propellant. I built my "Mini-Cooper" to tour the Kerbal system and go on a road trip. You can't get much simpler. Four parts, an Mk1 Inline Cockpit, Rockomax X200-8 Fuel Tank and a LV-T45 "Swivel." I added a nose cone, because for some reason I felt I really needed to start from Kerbin, and I need it to get into obit - plus it looks more like a really spacecraft. The problem solving potential is not that trivial. How do you do i direct launch from a Minmus orbit to Duna? Then what is next? Do you go for Eeloo, or back toward Kerbal and Moho? Anyway, I just thought it would be fun to tour the Kerabl system in an open cockpit. It gives me the feeling that I really AM flying a spacecraft orbiting Mun...

Hmmm, a Duna Red Ale sounds tasty. I am not sure what would be involved in a mod like that, but I can imagine something like a miner, or maybe a science lab that turns mystery goo into beer? :-)