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Banned for having a sentient soup.

They launched 2 Falcons in 3 days! Granted, the LCs are nowhere near each other, but this is still impressive

How did you do the landing legs on the Falcon?

Yes!

Since when does Kerbal Space Program have- Oh wait, you mean the other KSC, right?

@PB666 Doesn't really solve the problem, though.

I followed this thread for a short time, but then stopped because the notifications were so frequent it got annoying.

Well... News stations have YouTube accounts...

@Raptor9 Didn't read the whole thing. Just quickly read some sentences here and there and immediately concluded that it must be a joke. I don't trust anything posted on April 1st until proven otherwise, whether it's in the news(-paper) or a forum.

Remember how I said on the "What interesting thing happened today" thread how I haven't run into an outrageous joke yet? I take it back. I mean, it was blatantly clear that this was a joke, because why in the world should the BBC care about video games? April 2nd.

Ha! Doesn't work for me! And by that I mean: The video is not available in my country. Phew!

Wow, that must be a really terrible joke then, when no one can see it.

Gilly: Where you can jump your way into orbit.

One thing that actually is interesting: I haven't seen an outrageous april fools' joke this year. But for me there still are 4.25 hours. Hopefully I didn't just jinx it...

"Don't worry, this was supposed to happen!" -Yours truly (If wiktionary is to be trusted today, that is the english translation of "Meine Wenigkeit")

@YNM They would never let you down.

That was funny! I hate you.

What a strange Falcon landing this time, after launching a satellite meant for Gilly into LKO... At least I landed at the correct longitude. The latitude, however... In other news: Two spacecraft arrived at Duna today! The first one being a lander. I took 3 attempts to nail the landing as something broke on the other two, but it became my first landing on another planet in KSP. I was slightly worried that I wouldn't make it back into orbit, so after I did my experiments and surface samples I immediately took off again and got into a stable orbit. With 1195m/s dV remaining, my worries proved groundless. The next mission will spend a lot more time on the surface of Duna, now that I know this vehicle can get back safely. The second craft was a simple rover, just because I wanted to have one there. But already in LKO it became apparent that I made some mistakes... Firstly, there are no reaction wheels. The probe core doesn't have any, so the vehicle was essentially uncontrollable. Luckily the Poodle has thrust vectoring, so there was a workaround. So I still managed to get to Duna. Then I realized that the parachutes are slowing the vehicle down a little too much. On Duna! The entire upper structure is decoupled after touchdown and then crashes back into the ground (turns out that the amount of fuel I had was enough for a suborbital trajectory. Oops.) Here's the rover with extended antenna. I was going for the biggest one available, once again because I was worried. About connection this time. It looks very weird, but it works! Another problem I realized is that the antenna is pointing forward and steering is reversed. One extra battery in combination with the one the core provides also turned out to be insufficient for both atmospheric scans as well as seismic scans. But goo, pressure and temperature work fine, so at least 60% is working properly. So, improvements to be made for a second rover: -Add reaction wheels. -Add more Batt men to insure that there is enough EC for the bigger experiments. -Put the antenna on the other side so that it isnt facing forward. -Reverse steering, somehow? I don't know how that can be done, perhaps it be done on the fly? -Go for a smaller antenna. Really, this one's to big. The first communotrons in the game are sufficient already, and they don't even run the risk of breaking! All in all I'm quite happy with today's accomplishments.

I like calling my generation "Idiots". Then again, this is applicable to all generations...

Where exactly do you expect this to fit? This music's great, don't get me wrong, but there's not a single situation in the game that would "call" for this kind of music. As for the game's soundtrack: My biggest complaint is that Squad still hasn't fixed this pesky bug that starts the music at a random place instead of playing it from start to finish. I want to listen to the complete VAB/SPH soundtrack, not just the last 50 seconds of each piece!

I know it's still 2 - 3 (Time zones) days until it happens, but I can't be the only person on the planet who absolutely loathes April 1st, right? I hate it. It makes me paranoid. It's a waste of my time and a dent to other's credibilities. Fortunately it's a sunday, not a weekday.

Are you sure that you haven't accidentally placed two tanks inside each other? Mirror symmetry does that. Because I can only recall there being a pipe on one side of the tank instead of both.

That was a problem, even in 1.3. But yeah, the new particle effects on reentry do need a overhaul (If you're lucky there is an angle from which they look okay). Everywhere else the new effects work fine, though.

DC-10? Airbus A380? B747?

@NSEP If I would ask anyone in my class about how to operate a record player they wouldn't be able to answer. They don't know about the past because they don't care about it. Granted, the oldest person in said class is probably from 2000 (the year, not the timespan) rather than the 90s. But sometimes (read: pretty much all the time) I feel like I'm the only sane person in the room, surrounded by 29 idiots, all with a mental age in the negatives, and a teacher.