MinimalMinmus

I support this. too.

I name my crafts inside Kerbin's SOI a after their functions ( Minmus lander, Mun rover...) However, for other planets, I have my own convention: Each planet's probes get related to a chemical element, and all the sub probes or relays are named about things concerning this element. Example: my Duna probe is named Rubidium, and all the 6 relays it laid are rubidium+halogen ions. Yes, including astatine and even tenessine! My rovers are named after minerals, such as Goethite, Galena, Barite. My interplanetary ships are mythological figures (Prometheus...) Finally: I give my station names concerning the body they orbit.

Actually he did, and the pressure limit at which your craft goes boom is... -250 m. Did you play in a old version? 'cause ships close to Jool were very krakenizable back then

This video is... hmm... [A FATAL ERROR HAS OCCURED] [Reason of error: Epicness.exe overloaded]

I think Bradley Whistance's record is pretty much unbeatable, as he used stock propellers to dive to NEGATIVE 247 before ascending again. I think this video itself asks for a new rule stating "No stock propeller".

Here's my humble submission. Kerbals landed and returned from Mün! “A new age begins.” Today, on the day 404 of the year 42, The Sarnus rocket finally reached the Mün, with Bob, Valentina and Jebediah Kerman on board. The ship circularized with little difficulty, but in the wrong way, due to Jeb “Falling asleep” according to Val. Then, after a fight to designate the one who will stay in orbit while the others land, Jeb and Val were chosen. Bob then decided to sulk for the rest of the mission. After a few last burns, the ship landed effortlessly 30 minutes later. Jeb went out first, quickly followed by Val, who tripped on the ladder. Hence, the first words of a kerbal on the Mün will be “It’s a small step for Kerbals-Ouch! Hey! I told you to stay inside until I finish!” “Sorry…” They proceeded to open a few goo canisters, check the pressure (“It was disappointing”), and collect a bit of the local regolith. However, they decided to shorten the trip on the surface after Val discovered in horror that Bob kept all the snacks but the Kineapple-flavored ones, "Undoubtedly the worst". Finally, after a rendezvous with the main craft, the ejection burn was made, occasioning a short brawl for the “Honor to push the button for the last burn”, followed by an entire day of fights about the re-entry: Jeb insisted for it to be made by locking prograde instead of retrograde, “Because it is sooooo much cooler”. Bob and Val ended up locking Jeb out until the plasma started to appear, causing him to need a new space suit. Once landed, Gene Kerman suddenly realized he sent the recovery team to the wrong side of Kerbin, forcing them to go back to the KSC on foot. Walt Kerman, KSC’s spokesperson. P.S: There's nothing better than hitting EXACTLY the upper limit. 300 words, this is Karta! Cf: me.

Here's my humble submission. Kerbals landed and returned from Mün! “A new age begins.” Today, on the day 404 of the year 42, The Sarnus rocket finally reached the Mün, with Bob, Valentina and Jebediah Kerman on board. The ship circularized with little difficulty, but in the wrong way, due to Jeb “Falling asleep” according to Val. Then, after a fight to designate the one who will stay in orbit while the others land, Jeb and Val were chosen. Bob then decided to sulk for the rest of the mission. After a few last burns, the ship landed effortlessly 30 minutes later. Jeb went out first, quickly followed by Val, who tripped on the ladder. Hence, the first words of a kerbal on the Mün will be “It’s a small step for Kerbals-Ouch! Hey! I told you to stay inside until I finish!” “Sorry…” They proceeded to open a few goo canisters, check the pressure (“It was disappointing”), and collect a bit of the local regolith. However, they decided to shorten the trip on the surface after Val discovered in horror that Bob kept all the snacks but the Kineapple-flavored ones, "Undoubtedly the worst". Finally, after a rendezvous with the main craft, the ejection burn was made, occasioning a short brawl for the “Honor to push the button for the last burn”, followed by an entire day of fights about the re-entry: Jeb insisted for it to be made by locking prograde instead of retrograde, “Because it is sooooo much cooler”. Bob and Val ended up locking Jeb out until the plasma started to appear, causing him to need a new space suit. Once landed, Gene Kerman suddenly realized he sent the recovery team to the wrong side of Kerbin, forcing them to go back to the KSC on foot. Walt Kerman, KSC’s spokesperson. P.S: There's nothing better than hitting EXACTLY the upper limit. 300 words, this is Karta!

*me, seeing there is still only localization* No, god! No, god please no! NO! NOOOOOOO! More seriously: localization is neat, despite I won't use it as French is nowhere to be seen. But it's not hype-able.

I've never been to another SOI than Kerbin (and Kerbol) with a kerballed craft. I have a 70-tons 11 seat vessel in orbit which begs to differ however...

here's an energetic planet: Jool! It's the largest article so far, phew. Next in line: I'm moving my way inwards of the Joolian system, starting with Pol! Jool Jool (from Jool -god of nature and top god of the classical pantheon-) is the closest gas giant to Kerbol, as well as the biggest planet of the Kerbolar system. Discovery: Jool, along with Eve, Kerbin, Duna and Sarnus, is one of the classical planets, as it is easily visible to the naked eye. However, until the discovery of it's attendant muns, it had been assumed to simply be a planet like Kerbin, albeit one of unusual size. Most notably, the two biggest muns of Jool, Laythe and Tylo, were only observed accidentally and without the understanding they were orbiting Jool until astronomer Lagoil Kerman decided to study Jool in more detail. For the first time, he observed two large spots (Laythe and Tylo) as well as a much fainter one (Vall) around Jool. He also discovered the “Great Green Spot”, a huge Joolian storm several times bigger than Kerbin itself. Jool was visited for the first time by the probe “Boundaries” in 1781. Originally, it was only supposed to fly-by Jool and use the Joolian gravity well to perform a slingshot maneuver to Sarnus, but the first images of Laythe were decisive for Mission Control. Instead of simply flying by, Boundaries would use Tylo's gravity well to perform a braking fly-by into Joolian orbit, in order to study its muns more extensively. Origins: Jool was amongst the first planets to form. It had already accumulated more than 90% of its current mass while the inner planets were only starting to form. However, for unknown reasons the orbits of some giant planets are quite unstable during the early days of a solar system.They slowly decay, causing them to orbit closer and closer to their parent star, until stabilizing as a “Hot Jool”, typically 5 to 10 times closer to their star than Moho to Kerbol. This was found to be the case with Min-Hori’s planet Moh, thought to have spiraled about 3 billion years ago. As such, Jool’s orbit became unstable, lowering its perikerbion to only 1.5 UAs. This is thought to have destroyed most of the local protoplanets, severely thinning out the materials available to form Duna and another planet in Dres’ orbit, as the latter became the young asteroid belt’s sole remaining protoplanet. Some unusual metallic absorption lines in Kerbol's spectrum may also imply that Jool destroyed a small gas giant on its way in-system. At this point, had Jool been the only gas giant, it is thought it would have eventually destroyed every inner planet, including Kerbin. Fortunately, Sarnus started to migrate inwards approximately around the same eon. The gravitational perturbations between the giants eventually caused them both to settle in an orbit near the one we know today. However, Jool and Sarnus eventually moved to a configuration in which the former moved exactly twice as fast as the latter on its orbit. This resonance, being between two massive bodies, was fairly unstable, and eventually, it caused both Urlum and Neidon to dramatically move away from Kerbol. The latter even entered the young Kipper Belt, causing a large amount of destruction. Observations: Jool is the sixth brightest object in the sky, with an apparent magnitude of -2. It appears as a bright, vibrant green spot in the sky. With a moderately high-gain telescope, it becomes possible to see the three Lagolian Muns: Laythe, Vall and Tylo, depending on the time of day. It also becomes possible to see some of the most dramatic Joolian weather, such as the aforementioned Great Green Spot, as well as the equatorial storm region. Planetary rings and muns: Jool is known since 1783 to have a very thin, barely noticeable ring system, inside the orbit of Laythe. They are thought to originate mostly from Vallian cryovolcanism and may well have been considerably larger in the past, before the epoch of geological activity came to a close on Vall. Jool is also the planet with the most muns, with 43 known. The five most massive are, in order of radius, Tylo (5.9 Mm), Laythe (5.2 Mm), Vall (3.1 Mm), Bop (650 km) and Pol (440 km). Other muns are much smaller, the next one being Aten (95 km). Laythe, the innermost Lagolian Mun, is a Kerbin-like world, with oceans of liquid water covering almost the entire mun and a thick atmosphere. It is the only know body of the Kerbolar system between Kerbin itself to bear a native ecosystem. Vall, the smallest Lagolian Mun, is an ice-covered body with a thin atmosphere, thought to host an underground ocean. The remains of some cryovolcanoes dot the surface. Tylo, the largest Lagolian Mun, as well as the outermost, is a Kerbin-sized body with a heavily cratered surface, but lacking the atmosphere such a mass would imply. Bop is a large asteroid that is thought to be captured. Its surface is very dark. It is the largest member of the Ocythoe Group. Pol is the outermost large mun, and a captured asteroid. It is a jagged body with several large cliffs, probably after a large impact that torn it apart. Atmosphere: Jool’s extremely thick atmosphere is made mostly of hydrogen, helium, nitrogen and chlorine. The latter gives the planet its leaf green color. The atmosphere is also the host of extremely violent storms, in which wind speeds over 100 m/s, is the norm rather than the exception. The two best known storms of Jool are the “Great Green Spot” and the “Equatorial storm complex” (ESC). The Great Green Spot is a gigantic anticyclone in the southern hemisphere of Jool, well known for being a very distinct dark green. It is very powerful, with winds that can reach Mach 1, as well as very big: Kerbin as a whole could fit three times in it. Its darkness is thought to be due to gases of the depths being pulled up by its currents into the upper atmosphere. It is unknown if the GGS will last forever, but it has been observed for more than 400 years and shows little sign of weakening. Also, as of the beginning of the 18th century, another green spot, “Green Spot Junior”, has been observed to be forming, empowering and growing at its south. The Equatorial Storm Complex is a very large concentration of storms circling Jool at latitudes slightly above the equator, creating an uneven colored band on it. It is more than 10 Mm wide, and the wind as its core is the strongest known on the planet, with speeds reaching over 450 m/s. The ECS seems to pulse over the course of three years, during which it can substantially widen or narrow. Occasionally, a smaller storm gets ejected from the main complex, becoming briefly independent, before dissipating. In popular culture: Jool, because of its color and visibility in the sky, has been preeminently featured in literature. The most famous example is of course “1801: an outer space journey” in which Jool is orbited by a very strange monolith not unlike those on Kerbin, built here by a highly advanced extrakerbial race. In the sequel, Jool’s mass gets increased greatly by the same race, turning it into a brown dwarf, and making Laythe more adapted for hosting pluricellular life. Exploration: Jool has been the target of 4 different probes, which have flown by all the major muns and mapped them, as well as studying their mother planet. However, longer expeditions become difficult due to Jool’s deep gravity well, forcing every probe to expend a lot of propellant to move between the muns, as well as correcting their ever-changing orbits due to Laythe and Tylo. A kerballed exploration of the Joolian System has been envisaged for the far future. It would consist mostly of a colonization of Laythe, as well as utilizing Tylo and Vall for habitat, ore and fuel respectively. Famously, the astronomer Sagan Kerman (who gave his name to the huge ocean of Laythe) once said “Being able to land on the five large muns of Jool would be not just a leap to the future, but a new wonder of engineering, astronomy and science”.

It reminds me when I strapped huge SRBs on my small probe rocket, and it literally disintegrated during ascent I thought you couldn't put too much dakka boosters?

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Neat idea, but using rep for things wouldn't work, for several reasons: 1. Rep is used passively in Mission control for contract quality and number. 2. Rep isn't obtained linearly like the other 2: getting from 0 to 500 rep is as much efforts as from 800 to 900. The game risks becoming very grindy. 3. Last but not least, rep is... well... rep. Why would you lose rep while, say, upgrading a building? Spending science is okay (they may ask for newer engineering techs) but rep? Are we using slaves to build it or something?

Honestly, it would be "pretty unlikely" (read: absolutely impossible) to have life everywhere. Especially on Moho, since it is constantly being half-baked in the intense Kerbolight, literally cooking anything alive in the process. Even planets whose counterparts may harbor life (Eeloo vs Enceladus/Europa) may actually not (in my example: Eeloo lacks any sort of tidal heating, and hence is unlikely to have enough heat left to bear life).

Yeah, a more proper word would be "Regions", "Terrain" or "Environement"

I am preeeeeeeeetty sure Helix and the Kraken are related

When you have to say "MOAR CPU" to be able to process your rocket

When colliding Gilly prompts the message: 1 y, 65 d, 3:20:56: Gilly crashed into Gigantorix2000 and was destroyed

When the launchpad literally suicides at launch

Technically speaking, if Mercury is anything to refer by, then the dark side of Moho is super cold at -150 C°.

Well, wouldn't you need to move (and possibly merge too) all "The science behind Xs"?

You may be saying Dres doesn't exist, but this does: Dres Dres (from dres –runt-) is the closest dwarf planet to Kerbol, and the only one in the main asteroid belt. Discovery: Dres is very rarely visible with the unaided eye, and is difficult to see even under the best conditions. As such, Dres was unknown throughout whole classical era. The first reported sighting of Dres was in 1534: Smeiser Kerman was trying to build a star catalogue using his telescope. Unbeknownst to him, Smeiser observed the dwarf planet and classified it as a star. Two years later, Smeiser Kerman double-checked the various stars of the catalogue. In the meantime, Dres had moved, and the astronomer removed it from the catalogue, concluding he had in fact “observed” an eye flare due to the proximity of Duna at the time. However, three days later, on the 412th day of the year 1536, whilst checking another group of stars, Smeiser Kerman found an object he hadn’t classified. Intrigued, he decided to track it. Seeing the object slowly move over the course of several days, he remembered his previous encounter of the object, and decided to compute a possible orbit before sending the proposed discovery of new planet to the Ledic Society of Astronomy, an august body that would later become the Kerbin Astronomical Society. Unfortunately, by the time Smeiser’s letter was read, Dres was in conjunction with Kerbol, making it unobservable. For this reason, the LSA gave the theory little support, as fake reports of new celestial bodies were, by then, very common. Eventually, Dres moved out of conjunction, and the astronomer Naichem Kerman, friend and colleague of Smeiser, was able to spot it again for the first time on the 21st day of the year 1537. Dres remained mostly unknown until 1809, as the probe “Kerbolrise” was able to enter Drerian orbit, and map its entire surface. Observation: The surface of Dres has a widely fluctuating albedo depending on the side being observed. However, Dres itself rarely gets any brighter than +6. This makes it possible, if challenging, to observe it with the naked eye but only under ideal conditions. It is strongly recommended to use at least binoculars or a low-gain telescope for observing Dres. Its surface features are large enough to be observed from Kerbin with a research telescope, but the smaller ones remained unknown until 1809. The Drerian Belt: Dres share its orbit with many minor bodies that are thought to be the remains of a previous planetoid the size of Duna. When Jool’s orbit became temporarily erratic, 4.5 billion years ago, due to its migration, Jool entered what would become the Belt repeatedly. Over the course of 10 million years, more than 95% of the Belt’s mass was lost. During this period , almost every large object was lost, having either crashed into Jool or Kerbol or been flung away from the Kerbolar system. It is unknown why Dres was the sole survivor. It has been theorized that Dres would have in fact been a mun of Jool having been ejected by Laythe and Tylo, but that would imply that Dres’ current orbit is purely coincidental. The other possibility, analogous to the interactions between Neidon and Plock, is that Dres entered a chance resonance with Jool, possibly 2:1, long enough to be spared, before the giant returned to its former orbit and broke the resonance. Status: Dres is considered a dwarf planet, as while it has reached hydrostatic equilibrium and is spherical, it hasn’t cleared its orbit, being in the center of the “Drerian Asteroid Belt” However, Dres is much bigger than any other asteroid in the belt: the second biggest, Velas, has a radius of only 15 km. Dres is also by far the largest contributor to the mass of its belt (97%). For this reason, it has been suggested to clarify the definition of “cleared orbit”. If, as proposed, it implies representing at least 90% of the mass of its orbit, then Dres is a full planet. Planetary rings: Dres is the only body of the Kerbolar system not being a gas giant (or an ice giant) to bear planetary rings. They are mostly made of thin rock dust and ice. However, Dres frequently captures other asteroids to its rings. They are generally small, from a few meters to a few dozen meters. The “Dres-teroids” do not stay in Drerian orbit for a very long time, and are eventually flung into space, before being replaced. Surface features: The lower terrain of Dres, or “Midlands”, is very noticeably darker than the “Highlands”. The former has an albedo of 0.2, while the latter has an albedo of 0.8. This causes the Drerian light to vary considerably. Dres is differentiated, and has been observed to have a ferrous core, surrounded by a mantle of silicates, and a regolith rubble crust, with a varying composition: while the dark midlands are apparently made of rocks, the highlands are made mostly of water ice. This duality is unique among the asteroids. Close to the equator of Dres is a large and narrow canyon: the “Smeiser Rift”. It is approximately 15 kilometers long, and up to 5 kilometers deep. Its origin is unclear: it may be a product of the slow shrinking of Dres, just like the Midland Sea of Duna, or it could have been created by long ago geological activity, in the form of a fault.

A good 10 or so? Yeah he could really do a single topic named "the lack of any sort of science behind..." Oh, and someone has to make this one: That's just a theory! A GAME theory!

Most if not all of the info I put is non-canon. In fact, the very genesis of this thread is me thinking about "Things that are cool to know, but the wiki would surely not tell this kind of stuff". So, it would get removed from the wiki, and everything would have been in vain. Here, however, it is exactly at the right spot.

It is very unlikely to have a noticeable dent in life due to debris because of the sheer amount it would need. I mean, most burn harmlessly in the atmosphere, and even those like RTGs and NERVs would probably have a fairly nnegligible radiation share.