Extemporary

There's been some odd happenings at the NLR-M4 Vanguard Base Preparation Site on Minmus. First, three of my kerbonauts became suddenly and inexplicably paralysed during EVA. The EVA suit RCS systems were functional, but the Kerbals were not holding the handles to provide directional input. They simply stood there expressionless, arms out to the side. The fourth member of the expedition was able to move, but his expression never shifted from a maniacal grin. I flew this fourth crew member out beyond loading distance, to see if returning and forcing them to reload would trigger normal animation. It did, fortunately, but then I turned around to put the back in the Vanguard. And I saw this. I have no idea what could possibly have happened. It was most definitely not like that when I landed it.

The recorder is Kerbal Engineer Redux, and the antenna is Telemachus.

I can confirm, using the telescope mod, that they are present when orbiting at 85 km. Depending on the sun angle, they may be visible naked-eye, but I'm not sure. They are rendered though. I expect the distance they stop is when the terrain detail switches, which for the past few updates has been around 170 km. This image was taken from an orbiting craft, using the Ordan telescope mod. EDIT: Note that this was from 0.18 or 0.19, things may have changed in 0.20

"Where'd all you upstart youngsters come from anyway? I remember back when it was just the three of us; now I don't even know how many of you are trying to shove yourselves into my flight rotation. I used to get every flight, now I'm lucky to get back flying status after just every little capsule dis-assembly incident."

I'm also using a few MLP flags, though it's not obvious to those who aren't familiar with it. For irony's sake, I tested the flag planting not by putting the NLR one on the Mun, but the Solar Empire one.

So far there's only been one answer here, and it's not in SI units. The question was the weight, not the mass. On Kerbin, it's about 920 N. On Minmus, for the lander, it's 46.0 N.

I tried the Version 1.0 one, and I love it in-flight, but its build engineer isn't working. It gives the total ÃŽâ€v, but that's it, I can't use any of the options in the dropdown menu. I also noticed that the buttons in the dropdown only change colour when I release the mouse button, rather than when I press it. I'm not sure if that is relevant. For now, I'm using the version here for the construction, then the other version for the actual flights.

Following the invention of coloured rectangles of cloth, Jebediah took it upon himself to put one on the Mun at all costs safety was a secondary (or perhaps tertiary) priority. Indeed, shortly after landing it looked as though he may never return. Too much fuel had been spent in the landing, and he was unable to make the journey home! But Jebediah, being Jebediah, was not concerned. He had completed his mission, and now it was up to Bill and Bob to figure thing out from here. Only a day and a half later, the specially-designed M1X1-KM-L Jeb Retrieval Craft had landed a mere 2 km away. Jeb hooked up his RCS and flew for the first half, admiring the magnificent desolation around him. He then skidded on his face for the rest of the trip, having not been paying attention to the rising ground. On arriving at his saviour's ship (which was strangely lacking in landing gear), he was told by Bill to "Take a seat anywhere." Jeb, of course, did exactly that. Bill merely sighed, not even having to glance out the window to know why he had lost communications with KSC. Fortunately, Jeb was wearing his custom-made pure asbestos space suit, so he wasn't worried by re-entry. The parachute trip down to the surface reminded him of that one time he tied his lawn chair to a weather balloon. Safely back on the surface, as the two pose for a mission-successful photo, Jeb hangs back to hide the fact he ripped off the antenna getting out of his seat.

As well as my first mission to plant a flag on the Mun, this was also my first IVA landing. The interior on this thing is great.

I found a download a while ago of 0.8.2, I think it was. I have that one, 0.13, and from 0.15 on except 0.16. Not sure why I don't have that one or 0.14.

KSP is now the only game where you can strap a chair on a solid rocket and call it a legitimate spacecraft. That's unbelievably awesome.

Having been inspired by a previous post in this thread, I went ahead and testing flag planting with this one:

Without the logo it looks a bit empty. There needs to be something to balance the writing on the bottom, I think. I'd go with the latter option.

It seems one of the limiting factors on how plausible such a lemon would be is whether it is to be edible as well as combustible. Returning to the source of the idea, Cave Johnson says regarding life's lemons, "Don't make lemonade!" There are three possible interpretations that I see from that statement: 1. The possibility of making non-toxic lemonade from these lemons exists, but he rejects it for defiance's sake. 2. The possibility of a stable, albeit toxic, lemonade exists, but he rejects it for defiance's sake. 3. He was referring to lemons in general, and the combustible variety only occurred to him after that statement had been made. He rejects normal lemonade for defiance's sake. I consider the third possibility most likely, given the context with which the combustible lemons are then introduced. It is never clarified if these new lemons must be edible. Therefore, if a combustible plant is developed that is genetically very similar to a lemon, but not edible, it still fills the criteria set out by the original proposal.

I've sometimes been tempted to just launch a probe with dozens on dozens of radial decouplers, just to see how horrible it could get. Never done it yet, and I don't have time tonight.

Where can we find this audio?

I found the emblem somewhere online; if I remembered the artist I would credit them. I only changed the background and dimensions. I saw a flag a while ago, I think page 8, that inspired me to show my allegiance to the Solar Empire; can't have those NLR maniacs running around unchecked.

I honestly have no idea what I did to land this thing upside-down in the middle of the ocean.

Our First Steps is exactly what you asked for. As a bonus, their program has a degree of haphazardness that will be most familiar to anyone on this forum.

The U-K-O SLAG (Shiny Low-Altitude GOCE-inspired) Probe, currently orbiting at 69.6 km.

I agree. When I was decommissioning my Minmus Base, I decided to see just how much a Bobcat DEMV Mk II could plow through. Quite a bit, actually. I was too preoccupied to take many screenshots, but I did get this one.

When your prototypes are crashing because they hit the wreckage of other prototypes, you may want to rethink your testing strategy. I have at least five of these things littered around the KSC; they're more of a menace than my space junk.

This is my Type III Drone. It is by far the most reliable biplane I have ever constructed. Capable of speeds as low as 7.7m/s, I'm still not sure on it's Vne, but it is somewhere over 200. Maximum altitude is also unknown, as most testing has been focussed on the lower end of the flight envelope. Its stall speed is between 4 and 7 m/s, by far the lowest I've gotten a plane to stay stable. It's surprisingly manoeuvrable for its wingspan, capable of some pretty sharp turns. I was able to fly between the SPH and VAB, at about the level of the former's roof. I then shut down the engine, and was able to gain several hundred metres of altitude and maintain flight for a very long time. Its takeoffs are incredibly short, as can be seen here: I was able to maintain this inverted turn for three full revolutions, while gaining altitude. To top it off, the durability is simply absurd. It's flown with the entire top half sheared off by an earlier prototype. Here, I was flying it quite easily after an incident with a runway light. Adjusted the roll trim and it flew like a charm.

Keep in mind that KSP velocities are much, much lower than real life. The Galileo probe was 47.8 km/s when it hit Jupiter's atmosphere. It withstood 250g, or something ridiculous like that. Half its mass was heatshield, and it was 24% lighter when the main parachutes deployed.

I hate to point it out, but there were some Mass Effect ships posted a while ago that had to be taken down for intellectual property reasons. I hope this is in some way a different situation, but I'm a bit nervous about it.