greenTurtle1134

Banned for repetitive ban reasons.

So, water is a very good radiation shield, no? Pick a comet. Any one will do. Intercept with it. Drill into the core. The habitation module is going to be a tiny speck in the center, surrounded by liquid water, molten from heat by a nuclear reactor. Reactors generate heat, so this is going to be way more efficient than microwaving the thing. Since the hab will be surrounded by a few meters of water, that should absorb any ionizing radiation. The drilling craft can be very light because the water can then be hydrolysed into fuel and oxygen for the crew. Grow plants if you wanna, or just bring food. The comet itself will already be on an eccentric orbit, and you can even choose one that is going to intercept Jupiter on its own. If you have too much mass, remove some ice from the outside (there's more than enough). Stick some nuclear nozzles at any angle, and you now have a laughable comet-ship. Send said comet-ship to Europa (again, helps if you already have a Jupiter intercept). Once you get there, exit the comet-ship and drill into Europa quickly. Same deal, the molten sea will protect you from ionizing radiation. Playing some tricks with gravity assists might let you capture the comet-ship so you can go home. If you can't, just live out the rest of your life on Europa. It's probably better there, considering that those in domination of Earth just sent you on a suicide mission. Chuck the comet at the Board if you can. How do we detect a Jupiter-grazing comet? Throw Steledith out with a telescope and a chair. Bring coffee every hour, come back in a munth for results. Steledith is badass, by the way. I'm loving both the insane astronomical abilities and the couldn't-care-less attitude toward more terrestrial concerns. She almost sounds like one of the interstellar robots herself. It is my opinion that pure science beats pure bureaucracy, any day of the week. I expect her to come up with the location of all the datacores and the ways to retrieve them safely and make all the Resource Companies beg nicely for her to tell them.

Well, the way I see it, a region with a ship would have more gravity than expected (ambient field from nearby planet or star). This field is carried by negative gravioli. Now, positive gravioli is created to mask this slight increase in gravity. However, the positive gravioli is not consumed in this masking, because it can be detected in and of itself. That one panel, they mentioned that they could not detect negative gravioli anomalies but they could detect some positive gravioli. I guess negative gravioli is what really carries gravity in this universe, and positive gravioli just destroys it whenever they come in contact.

Just going to point out, the positive graviolis were mentioned as cancelling out the inevitable negative gravioli radiation (i.e. gravity waves) caused by any large mass. The positive particles were produced especially to inhibit production of negative particles, which would have given the ship away. There is no indicated that positive gravioli is necessary for the operation of the bloak, they probably only block that particular spectrum of radiation.

@Hotaru probably has enough on his/her/its plate at this point, no need to add another dozen or so celestials that the program has to visit. By the way, I haven't read much, just the first page. P.S. - @Hotaru, I might need to steal that "There/Back Again" table from your OP...

I too see no reason to dispute the previous posters. My other hill.

Mao. My hill. Penalty for talking! Penalty for obscure reference! Penalty for utilizing metagame!

...fits in a locomotive This server farm...

...turns out to function as a building. This Klein bottle...

...is completely dry and home to the last few Pinta Island Tortoises. This space station in orbit around Eve...

Known for replying to a lot of forum games. Now, have fun with me.

Just going to throw out there, there should be a separate category for "flies on any two". Because obviously if the engines taken out are around the centerline, it's much too easy.

Is that a good or bad thing?

Proposal! Smallish planet, with a smooth surface and deep ravines, so that the highest points are snowy, low-atmosphere, and barely habitable, while the bottom of the ravines have around Kerbin atmosphere and gravity (maybe a little less) with liquid water. Introduce it as an icy dwarf planet that has recently been captured by Phoenix, and has begun to thaw, creating ice crevasses. Basically two planets in one, Arkas on the top and Laythe on the bottom.

Contract Configurator does about the same thing as the mission editor, just requires a boatload of code, right...? Someone's probably going to go replicate the expansion's features in a third party tool. Then you're paying for the UI and donating money to Squad, which is... not that bad, actually.

I wanted it (in the stock system) to be at the L4 Kerbin because that seemed a bit more realistic and balanced but your pictures of Rald in the Kerbin SOI convinced me otherwise. I did put it in the "far orbit", because that way I don't have to handwave away tidal effects and orbital distortions and whatnot. Hopefully I can still see it, I haven't really tried.

Rald... is really beautiful. Can't wait to send an expedition there in my save...

To tell you the truth, I can probably write the rest of the poem. For want of a strut, the stack was lost. For want of a stack, the engine was lost. For want of an engine, the booster was lost. For want of a booster, the payload was lost. For want of a payload, the NERVA was lost. For want of a NERVA, the carrier was lost. For want of a carrier, the colony was lost. For want of a colony, the planet was lost - All for the want of a two-meter strut!

For want of a strut, the booster was lost!

... (slowly begins to clap)

As I am not a patient person, I made a set of configs that change the system to another star rather than replacing Kerbol. Copy these into your GameData and you should get the SLIPPIST system around 4 light years from Kerbol. Do note that this is unofficial and once 0.3 comes out with @GregroxMun's location options, you should use those.

Meta discussion! In theory any post is allowed, because this thread is a game about repeated replies, so if X is allowed in this game and you use this game as the game where X was from then X is allowed in this game because it is allowed in this game... Thread: Derailed.

Oh wait, did I get the composer instead of the scientist? Tsiolkovsky, eh?

The planets might get sent to system center (i.e. Galactic Core) so I'll have to change references to the Sun. Luckily, I still have Kerbin as center and haven't made orbit yet in the save I want! Install it quick!

Preemptive shame for pointing out my lack of a profile picture.