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This has probably been mentioned so many times, but when the propulsion system of a space vehicle (like the warp core in Star Trek) fails, the ship stops. In space. Without friction. THAT'S NOT HOW PROPULSION WORKS!!

Scottsplaining.

Sunset! Why do older cameras have to be so noisy? :(

That does make sense...

Probably not. What the photo is showing is the upper stage. Why is the engine bell so tiny!? I thought that an upper stange engine should have a nozzle that is as big as possible.

Not today, actually a few days ago, but I did some integration and found out the the area between a secant and a parabola, given some distance d, is always d3/6. It's one of those equations where the steps result in massive terms that nicely cancel each other out, with just one term remaining at the end.

It was a still of this livestream, which is structered very differently, by the way. If you're used to the modern presentation of their rocket launches you're not going to recognize it (aside from everyone's favorite, John I.)!

Completely doesn't fit into anything said before, but SpaceX, I've just realized, has come a very long way. From this... ...to this... ...to this! If someone had told me that the Falcon 1 in the first picture would one day lead the way to the most advanced series of rockets to date I would have laughed at them!

Yeah, 2:45 for me. I'll have to sit this one out.

First landing since deinstalling Trajectories! (it caused problems - in the form of crashes) It took me soo many attempts to get it right! Mostly I was running out of fuel, with a decently hit helipad. Even this attempt was just 10 units shy of failing!

Here's the config file for liquidEngine3 (Terrier). Perhaps something crucial is missing? I've noticed that the Swivel's file is a lot bigger and defines more variables. @PART[liquidEngine3]:AFTER[RealPlume]:NEEDS[VenStockRevamp] // LV-909 "Terrier" Liquid Fuel Engine { @PLUME[Hypergolic-OMS-White] { @flarePosition = 0,0,-0.5 @plumePosition = 0,0,0.1 @fixedScale = 0.25 } } For comparison, here's Swivel's entry: @PART[liquidEngine2]:AFTER[RealPlume]:NEEDS[VenStockRevamp] // LV-T45 "Swivel" Liquid Fuel Engine { PLUME { name = Kerolox-Lower transformName = thrustTransform localRotation = 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 flarePosition = 0.0, 0.0, 0.2 plumePosition = 0.0, 0.0, 0.3 fixedScale = 0.5 energy = 0.6 speed = 0.6 } @MODULE[ModuleEngines*] { %powerEffectName = Kerolox-Lower !runningEffectName = DELETE } }

The changes made are still there after closing and reopening the file. However, notepad (as I am too lazy to download anything else like notepad++ and it works well enough for my purposes) expresses the configs in just one single line - that includes comments. But other files, such as EVE config files are shown perfectly fine and every other file works exactly as intended. And I checked them - they're also single lines. I'll see what happens after copying the template and adjusting the values in a correctly formatted file if that helps.

Yes. The only thing that remains open between edits is the config file I'm editing, but since I saved and since ModuleManager reloads all patches (rather than loading from cache) I seriously doubt that has any effect.

I don't even have CKAN. The main problem I have is that editing the config files for the corresponding engines does not seem to have an effect.

Strangely it's not the Mainsail I have problems with. I only have problems with four engines: The Terrier, the Swivel, the Reliant and the Poodle. The flame is inside the Terrier, the one of the swivel is a bit too far out (doesn't begin at the nozzle), the Reliant is a bit too far in and the Poodle's is too small in my opinion.

Some VSR plumes appear a strangely positioned. I tried editing the config files for the Terrier (liquidEngine3) and the Poodle (liquidEngine2-2) and it doesn't seem like anything is happening to the plume position. Even at really exaggerated coordinates, like 0,0,15, which I could image to be quite far away from the fairly small Terrier.

@Jacke Are you sure you aren't over water? If I understood it correctly, water doesn't respond to ambient lighting yet. As for me: My KSC, as well as all land, in perfectly well-lit, even at night.

Actually it would be near (since no special relativity) impossible to reach orbit as you're inside the Schwarzschild radius. You'd need a dV of over c.

KERBIN TO SCHWARZSCHILD!

6km? That's smaller than stock Gilly, which would be a mere 150 meters in radius!

So... this just came to mind. Realism overhaul... and 1/10th scale Kerbol system. I suspect that may be more difficult than it seems...

Mars One, now valued at 0.000 Million dollars.

Is he absolutely sure about that? Or do they simply look similar? I'm just saying, there probably isn't just one model of a Saturn V (or any other component of an Apollo mission).

I never realized that as well. Just to make you better about yourself, @CatastrophicFailure.