ElectroMagnet

Today I launched my Mun Rawket at the Mun, in sandbox mode. I will freely admit that the design is obvious overkill but then again, why not? This is KSP! Lord knows how much fuel I consume getting this thing into orbit, it's as inefficient as heck but I can get to the Mun and back with fuel to spare. The jettisoned parts make a very nice bang on re-entry, I'm sure. I opted for a luxury Mun lander, with three batteries, a reaction wheel, monopropellant, two large antennae and four solar panels. I can probably generate enough electricity for Jeb to run the internal electric BBQ and have enough bandwidth to stream the Kerbal equivalent of Netflix to the astronauts. I'm using stock KSP 1.4, no mods, hand flying the thing the whole way. It took a few tries to land on the Mun but I made it in the end, by pulling a fairly crazy gravity loop to orbit the Mun. It was fun and for the first time I didn't explode landing on the Mun. Shame the lander keeled over on landing but then again it IS a little top heavy with all those batteries, which I hadn't considered. Still I'm going to try again with the same rawket and try to land the right way up. After all the Kerbal motto appears to be "try, try and fail repeatedly until you fail gloriously or succeed", or something like that. You just gotta love the way KSP allows you to throw stuff together to see if it flies, explodes or gets weird on you. It's kinda fun when a strange design manages orbit and you end up looking at the thing and thinking "how 'bout that? The danged thing can fly," whilst shaking your head at the sheer improbability of what you've just designed and launched. As they say "to infinity and beyond, or at least the Mun before lunchtime." I shall cease rambling and get back to KSP, after all there's many a failure ahead of me and just perhaps the chance of success. It's the Kerbal way.

But one more doughnut?

Maybe too much of a good thing is enough? Define a good thing? Not sure that I could.

I've always wanted to build a model ship but never quite had the confidence to attempt it. That's one complex project. Impressive. In my free time I read a heck of a lot of books and play KSP, Space Chem and Cities Skylines. Hmm, the theme appears to be building things, which kind of fits. Shout out to Scott Manley for getting me into KSP in the first place. I've never met the guy, but his YouTube channel was an inspiration. He makes it look so easy but then again failing to do something in KSP is just as entertaining as succeeding. You always learn something new.

I guess that's the Kerbal way, up, up and furthermore up. Do they dig tunnels?

Rain? Definitely had enough rain.

I'm here. You're there. It all kind of makes sense if you look at it like that. Oh yes, and hi.

I don't know what I've had enough of, but I've had enough. Maybe I shouldn't have eaten that extra doughnut? Anyway - enough's enough. Just needed to say that. I feel better now.