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If they're struggling to find those right people, they might find the forum is actually a fertile recruiting ground.

<rant mode> Part of an industry standard way (ITSM) to govern the running of a service is to document every change, ideally in advance. The idea is to be sure to note what will be changed and how, research and consider all potential impacts and how they might be mitigated, who may be affected and if they should be warned, determine the level of risk, the urgency, how you will be checking if the change is successful and that it hasn't negatively impacted service, how to back out of the change if needed, and how much time is needed for each step. You then record if the change was successful and if there were any unexpected problems and how they were overcome. Using this formalised method not only gives your peers/management the chance to evaluate and be aware of the coming change, but also prove to them and your customers that you've applied due diligence. I suspect this kind of method isn't being applied here, otherwise the problem would have been immediately noticed and a backout plan put into place. (ie - have backups at the ready, or even better don't destructively change stuff!) I'm starting to think this is almost being run as someone's hobby or as a favour rather than with serious professionalism. </rant mode>

The red marker you've probably seen used is the Trajectories mod. Other descent predictions are available in mods. It is possible to do it without mods, but how reliably depends on your piloting skill and how much TWR (Thrust to Weight Ratio) and Delta-v (ie how much fuel) you have available. The general technique has been covered many times before, I'm sure, but I've outlined my take on it below... Good luck and happy landings!

Sorry guys, it seems me using the CSS caused it to cease to be CSS. (facepalm) I actually prefer the dark theme anyway

lol Good job I didn't talk about it, just wrote it within the confines of the club. I'm sincerely hoping it's not a Schrödinger's cat!

So how do we all perceive the Forum is doing for stability and availability now? I've not noticed any issues for what seems like weeks now. (I'm really happy about that!)

When the game is paused, it continues to give your GPU a workout. On a laptop, this will often continue with toasty temperatures and cooling fans even though the game is "not running". Fortunately, with Linux we have absolute control over our systems. I suggest quick saving and leaving your game paused, as misuse of these commands may be fatal to your gameplay. Then from a linux console, terminal, or run command box, you can simply type: killall -STOP KSP.x86_64 This assumes your KSP process is called "KSP.x86_64". If you need to confirm that, run: ps -ef | grep -i ksp That stops execution of that process, but leaves it ready to continue from where it paused. The GPU will hopefully now no longer be burdened with KSP's machinations in the background while you get on with surfing the KSP forum or improving your latest KOS script. To resume execution simply run: killall -CONT KSP.x86_64 This of course gives your GPU (and CPU) time to cool from the intense heat of reentry (or whatever), preparing it to be in optimal shape for it's next bout of simulating impact explosions at a less thermal throttled speed! I've added these commands as application commands in my KDE plasma desktop and made them available as QuickLaunch buttons on my taskbar next to my KSP button. For Windows users, there's also a similar solution I haven't verified if there are long term effects of pausing the KSP process in this way (ie - if it or a mod freaks out due to an apparent sudden time delta) but considering I've not had issues with KSP after suspending to disk, I don't anticipate this would be a problem to leave KSP stopped for a long time on an otherwise active machine. Enjoy your cooler laptop!

The way I've always done it, right or wrong, is using https://imgur.com and hit the "New Post" button, upload image(s) and then right click on them to get the image URL. I've not signed up to an account, so don't log in. What I don't know is how long these uploads persist, and what restrictions there may be on their use, but as yet haven't found time to find out. Constructive criticism welcome.

Assuming you aren't only talking about Blackrack's project, Spectra looks interesting. I haven't tried it though. I too am tempted by the the Blackrack project though. Thinking I may sign up to his patreon for a time just to try it out as from what I've seen it's fantastic. I hope you'll find a way to pay, it's a relatively small amount considering how good the mod is.

Did you work out what was wrong? Off balance vessel, or off-centre "control from"? Or was it just random floating point trouble? Once I've tried reverting to save and repeating a few times, if I can't attribute problems to bad design or bad piloting, I would give myself a break and with clear conscience break out the cheat menu in such situations. I tend to think if one has put in the effort there's a time to move on to the next enjoyable bit. Either that or have fun with a rescue mission. Sounds like in your case you were able to self rescue, with no need to call out the "Blunderbirds"!

In case it helps, I'm going to attempt to visualise the problem using vecdraw to hopefully point to the next AN or DN. At that point, the challenge is to work out how to get time to that intersection with my orbit.

I am not clear about what you are asking. Are you able to re-phrase your question? I think the essence of your problem is that you are trying to get started on a plugin, but aren't able to get it to be loaded by KSP. Am I right? This is not something I've attempted yet, but there are many expert modders around here like @linuxgurugamer that may be able to point you in the right direction to get started. The only relevant resource I know of is this:

Does this mean living in urban environments outside of temperate latitudes simply isn't sustainable? I could see how that would be controversial. Sounds awful, and I wouldn't advocate it. In the relatively temperate location I live in, we're fortunate that winter doesn't mean constant sub-zero temperatures. I suppose we need the right balance of energy provision at not only the right times, but also in the right places.

Check out Stratz' kerbol 0 video, that's where I got the inspiration from, although my booster is perhaps 50% larger and more powerful (if not as carefully tailored to it's payload). I must have watched that about 200 times to reverse engineer his design! (and thank you! I love it too, but very much borrowed the aesthetic from Stratzenblitz )

To a certain extent yes. I'm a bit of a tyrant like that and we subsist with about 2 hours heating per day, aside from wood burning stove. There's negatives to the wood burning, but the advantage is that it keeps me warm three times. (A standing joke ) Our cooling systems are windows and shade. Admittedly we only usually suffer such temperatures for a few weeks a year. Our solar is usually at peak output at such times, but I do appreciate that monocrystalline silicon still suffers with higher temperatures, I've found that effect negligible in practice Absolutely not, which is exactly why we need energy storage and a mix of supplies. Please understand that I can't see any immediate future without nuclear and even occasional fossil fuel generated power, but I'm hopeful that we can find a way to store energy and use it in a smarter way than we have. Agreed. Unless there's some huge breakthrough in technology, that's not going to happen on a industrial scale. On the individual scale, it's conceivable that the cost motive can encourage individual homes/premises to consume smarter and store as necessary, if only we could find ways of bringing the cost of those technologies down. This is what makes them better for small scale. I understand Q-turbines and possibly other recent designs are a lot better for low speed yet tolerant to higher speeds, however it seems they just don't scale up.