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I endorse making Ore heavier! In real-life, ore is always heavier than the product it gets turned into. There're always losses incurred during the refining process. Impurities, etc. You can't create more from less (sadly:).

Hya fellow Kerbonauts! After I talked a lot about planes on the forums, I finally decided to post a craft of mine at last. It's the first one I've posted and, considering the imminent update, probably the last one until 1.0 hits. May I present: the Peafowl L1 Craft file: http://www.filedropper.com/peafowll1 It's designed to be a simple, stable, clean and well handling plane. Handy for retrieving a stranded pilot for instance. The fuel is perfectly balanced by default from full until empty. At ten tonnes it is, in my opinion, the heaviest a single engine VTOL can be. Parts: 53 Mass: 10.1t Action radius: 475 Km (confirmed) Some tips: Start up - Press "staging" once to engage horizontal engines. Horizontal takeoff - minimum takeoff speed: 45 m/s, rotate to 10 degrees pitch, tail strike angle: 20 degrees Vertical takeoff - Press "abort action" to switch between horizontal and vertical engines, hover is at 65% thrust (at full fuel load) Horizontal landing - Make final approach with about 10% thrust, vertical speed upon landing below 10 m/s Vertical landing - Make final approach witch about 55% thrust, vertical speed upon landing below 10 m/s Emergency parachutes - Press "staging" again to deploy the chutes when you panic and are too close to the ground to recover or are just lazy to make a proper landing... The reason for the "weird" action grouping and staging is that it makes it possible to use the plane in Career mode with a level 2 Space Plane Hangar. As always with Jet VTOLs be gentle with the throttle when using the vertical engine. Try to keep the throttle around the hover point (2/3 throttle). Slightly below for descent, slightly above for ascent. Anticipate what the plane is about to do and watch that vertical speed meter! If there are any questions, please feel free to ask! I hope you'll like it!

Thanks Squad! You devs prove again and again that you really care and listen to your userbase. Long live the ROUND8!

Currently, I'm watching season 1, but I will watch season 2. I'm halfway through but, from episode 1 onwards, I was already hooked! This is the mecha-anime I've been wanting to watch after Knights of Sidonia.

Please reconsider Squad! Think of the empty donut-shaped-holes this will leave in our hearts!

They did make models based on real life vehicles and still do up until today. Oh I can't count the many times the Space Shuttle was re-released from Lego. It must be about a dozen times now! Hmm.. now I feel like collecting them...

Today I finished Far Cry 4. It was every bit as fun as Far Cry 3 was, but better balanced. Original ending and funny (in hindsight) alternate ending! I haven't completed it 100%, but I'm not a completionist. When things become a chore and it's not meant to be (game!) then I'll pass. Sad that it's over now...

I suggest trying a live-CD-version of a distribution (Linux flavour) you have an eye on. Burn it on a CD/DVD-R(W). Boot from the CD, choose LIVE menu-option or something along those lines, wait for a while (longer than an installed OS) and try it out without installing anything. If you like it, you can install the OS with the same disk. Ubuntu, like you said, is not a bad choice. It's easy to use on the surface, under the surface not so much though, it has a big database of programs to install, but it's not the fastest running Linux. Linux Mint is my personal recommendation. Same database as Ubuntu, faster running, slightly less pretty.

Rather strange to hear this considering Google took over. Google makes money from datamining and personalized ads so shouldn't that cover the costs more than enough? Besides, most of the video's uploaded are from individual people not asking anything for their video's (most want to though).

In the beginning of a career, I usually build planes that takeoff and land vertically. A parachute is used for landing of particularly nasty flying bricks. By the time I can unlock the Landing Gear Bay, I will have enough money to upgrade the runway. But still, what everyone said, pretty ridiculous that everything on kerbin is smooth exept the T1 runway.

Guess I use an in-between-method then! I use an astronomy app on the tablet to look for something interesting above the horizon. Then I use the finder scope and finally through the scope itself. The Moon captivates me the most though. I don't know why. Perhaps it's because of the plethora of details to see. And easy to find...

It depends on what you want to do with it. Refractors are excellent scopes optical-wize but are pricey. Good if all you want to do is look at the moon and other not so distant objects. Reflectors are cheaper by comparison and give more magnification in relation to their size. Good for "deep sky" observation. Me and my GF got a real kick from watching Saturn through our scope and not some picture!

One free game on Steam I know of is, Gear Up! A multi-player "tank"-battle game. The free-version of the game has the rather serious restriction of having only 8 slots to store spare parts. That makes it hard to play around with the tinkering on your tank part. Other than that I must recommend getting Spellunky. Get the original classic free edition.

I don't think it will, but you can always try! Probably your best bet would be to use a Windows Virtual PC with XP or even 95 on it. But also know that, even IF it would work, such an old browser has a lot of vulnerabilities. Though running a VM should protect you some. Edit: I did a quick search based on a hunch. There's an add-on for Firefox called "Orthodox for Firefox 0.5.1" it gives a graphical Netscape-like overhaul. Up to version 39 (second latest version).

A Nine Eagles Solo Pro 4ch mini-heli. And an E-sky Belt CP being restored back to airworthiness. They are borderline hobbygrade, but if I get any good at it, I might buy an Align 450 whirlybird!

I mainly drink coffee because it's hot and to me tastes better than tea. It's for clearing my throat. And as a rule, I don't drink any for the rest of the day after my last one just before dinner. But if it works at keeping me awake, I wouldn't know. What I do know, is that I absolutely hate Red Bull. Even when some is offered to me while performing my previous job by two beatiful women by the side of the road driving a Red Bull themed Mini with a can on the roof...

What I like most about Half-Life, is that it's not some standard shooting-gallery-fest like most FPS that came before it. It has a good story and seamlessly blends that with the superb game-play. Plus, you're not some hulking marine...

I loved the first time I flew in an airliner to Turkey as a kid! Sadly, now I hate flying in airliners. No room for my adult body has a tendancy to destabilize my psyche. 6 years ago I flew in an aerobatics-plane with an instructor AND enough legroom, THAT was awesome!

Since it's 1 april today, I'm not even going to click it. Hah!

Yeah! The Ace Combat series are one of my favorite games. It may be a bit arcadey, but compared to Hawx, it's a downright sim! For instance, there's no drop of the plane when flying on the side. But my worst gripe with Hawx is when you want to fly the planes to the max you have to enter this RC-plane-like mode. That's fun in it's own way, but not when I just want to sit in the cockpit and feel like a pilot. Currently plating Ace Combat 6 and it's kicking my gluteus maximus!

My definition of a favorite band/musician/rapper is the one(s) from whom you like every song. Not only some, but all of them. If I follow that definition then it's Coldplay for me. There isn't a song I don't like from them!

A friend of mine used to make paper/cardboard models of planes in his youth. They were very detailed too. It's amazing what you can make with "simple" paper/cardboard! I'm looking forward to your future model!

I agree with doing a Carreer-mode. It's like the puzzle-mode of KSP, having to actually engineer your designs efficiently. You'll learn alot doing so. No cheating!

How about one (or more of course) of those railway artillery guns? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_gun There are some neat designs made over the years. Nice work by the way! What are they made from? Scratch-built?

Being friends doen't mean that people have to be/dance together the whole time, but it doesn't sound like she's interrested in you personally. It seems she's made up her mind about you two for now, though being friends she could still, in time, come around and see that there's more to you than she thought at first. I don't want to say it but I must though, be careful about people using you. That means, doing people favors but never receiving any back.