Cokeblob11

I had the opportunity to look through a 36" telescope at Mcdonald observatory a year or so ago, absolutely unforgettable... M51 filled the whole field of view and looked like a photograph, I could even just about make out the relativistic jet in M87. The next night they had an eyepiece on the 2-meter research scope but it clouded out unfortunately. They sell tickets for a few nights each year so if you ever happen to be in the middle of nowhere west Texas it's totally worth it.

Yeah, I've had a 6" Newtonian since high school that I used to take my profile picture, constantly adding extra bits to it so its gotten a bit unwieldy to use but I still try to get out and do some imaging every once in a while. I was actually able to leverage my prior experience in astrophotography and post processing into my first position as a research assistant when I was a freshman. What about you? I'm guessing by your profile picture that you've done some astrophotography as well?

I'm a physics undergrad working in an optics research team at my university, we're building an instrument for 8-meter+ ground based telescopes that should provide much sharper views than traditional adaptive optics, hoping to test it on-sky next year!

As much as I like the idea of picking and choosing the various parts of a telescope each with their own properties and trade offs, I don’t think that really fits within the rest of the gameplay. Plus it’s a little too similar to my day job :p Id like maybe one or two telescope parts that discover new exoplanets in a manner similar to sentinel, I can fill in the details from there with my imagination.

I think the one from PAX is Eeloo, this one must be a new planet as I don't see why they would make Eeloo green

I think the new UI looks great, it’s much cleaner. I’ll have to get used to the new placement of certain things but that’s not a huge issue. Overall it looks like it will be more intuitive for new players, KSP’s UI is pretty awful for anyone unfamiliar with it, especially since most of the important stuff (staging and throttle) is delegated to hotkeys. I don’t really care about time warp being called “time zoom” now. It doesn’t say “time zoom” anywhere in the actual UI so what does it matter what they call it behind the scenes? I’m glad there will be a limited form of life support, I think this will be a great addition as long as it’s not too involved.

The things you see on the internet... I would suggest you do a little more reading on what general relativity is before you go trying to disprove it in your backyard.

If you look at most of the big interplanetary/stellar ships they've shown in trailers so far, most of them have these triangular containers, this could be ore but I'm guessing its something like "snacks" that are necessary to keep kerbals alive for long periods of time.