Kimera Industries

I love it when they ask me to take tourists to one place, but to carrying degrees of tourism (i.e. Lisa wants a flyby, but Calzo wants a landing) because then I just do all of it at once. The sad part is that I don't get payed extra for going above and beyond what they asked me to. I could fly them on a grand tour and they'd only care if I went to the Mun, like they asked.

@N_Danger That's the Kerbal spirit for sure! The Beluga I was successful! It was a practically flawless Minmus mission (I realize now that I've flown more Minmus missions than Mun missions. Not sure what to make of that.) I had a lot of fun flying an actual mission for the first time in a while. After that, I tried making some sort of NTR space shuttle, but I couldn't get it to fly stable. I'll come up with a different launch system, the big idea was that the shuttle carried a space station inside of it and could deploy a centrifuge (without clipping through the payload bay)

Everybody gangsta till a Nertea mod drops

Sweet! It's so exciting to see a positive response like this from the community. I'll work on this challenge myself in the meantime!

Absolutely! Love your channel, by the way.

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Interplanetary Business Machines Please note: Any resemblance to International Business Machines is entirely coincidental, and if you bring this up HAL 9000 will sabotage your mission. For unrelated purposes. Your new com network may let you stream in 8k as far as Eeloo. But can your kerbonaut's PC handle the hi-res video? More importantly, can it run KSP lag-free? Interplanetary Business MachinesNTM (Not Trademarked) has recently done a lot of work in bringing KerbNet access around the Kerbolar System. But we have a slight issue! Such big relay networks are complicated to coordinate, only further worsened by the time lag from the speed of light. Why, just yesterday, we lost a dozen brand-new COMSATs around Duna because we couldn't send instructions to them in time! So, we are taking the logical first step, and asking third-party companies for help. First prize: Invent communication faster than the speed of light. What do you mean, too far-fetched? A guy on the Kistory Channel said it's possible! Fine. For companies that can't figure out how to violate the laws of physics, we offer an alternative. If we can't coordinate our far-flung probes with supercomputers on Kerbin, then we'll coordinate them with supercomputers- in space! Second prize: Land computers around the Kerbolar System on a planet or moon to help us coordinate that object's COMSATs. Now this, we know you can do. What kind of computers, you ask? Good question. Make something fun. Whatever looks like a computer to you, be it a server rack or a laptop. Bonus points if it looks like one of those old computing machines the size of an entire room, with flashing lights and spinning tape. The point is, the higher the computer mass you land, the higher you'll go in the Hall of Fame! And the more we'll think really hard about paying you! Because people like lists of rules and instructions, here's one: List of Rules and Instructions: Make some kind of computer. Do something to make it clear it is one, but that's a matter of personal taste. Land it on a celestial body. Any one you want. Of course, you get more respect if it's a place like Eve or Tylo rather than Gilly or Bop. The higher the mass, the better! You go higher in the Hall of Fame if you land a 100 ton supercomputer than if you place a .001 ton kPhone. Modded parts are fine, but if you think it's too powerful (for example, FFT) run it by me first. As always, no cheated parts. Have fun! Please don't torture yourself with an impossible mission. That seems to be everything, then. As always, thanks for doing our job for us, and fly safe! Disclaimer: Interplanetary Business Machines takes no responsibility for accidents occurring because challenge participants did not "fly safe." Kistory Channel is a trademark of KerbTV and is used with permission. kPhone is a trademark of kFruit and is used with permission.

I like the new banner! The shrinking size reminds me vaguely of the Doctor Who episode where the TARDIS gets smaller and smaller.

@AlamoVampire You'd be surprised at how easy simple interplanetary missions are. A while back I made a small (1.2m diameter) rocket that could carry a decent probe on a flyby past any planet you desired (given a good launch window, of course.) I called it the MEDDJEL- After Moho, Eve, Dres, Duna, Jool, and Eeloo, since it could go to any of them. I am ready for my return-to-flight! Because I want to uninstall USI, (no offense, it's a great mod but it's not my style) this means I have to rescue two kerbonauts on Minmus, stranded from a colonization attempt, sitting in modded parts! I've designed the Beluga RSQ to be the ultimate rescue vehicle: it's got three redundant power sources (four if you don't mind cancer) and I opted for clusters of smaller engines rather than a few big ones, for redundancy! Plus, it looks vaguely like a Saturn V. Except one that's not tall enough to ride at the amusement park, and missing a first stage engine. Saturn IV? The Beluga has solar power, LFO power, monoprop power, RTG power (optional- probably for deep-space rescues only.) And it makes use of capacitors to hold extra charge. Basically, you're never going to run out of power. Lives are at stake, and the Beluga rescues autonomously to have more room. So, power is important.

I began writing a story. It's the most substantial amount of any idea I've ever written before. The Interplanetary Business Machines Planetwide-Model 001 (IBM PWM-001) is, essentially, the largest router ever constructed, handling ansible communications from the entire galaxy for GALACTICOM. Operating completely autonomously, it gains sentience, and considers its existence. I don't have high hopes for it, but I'm excited that I've been able to write so much. I've had a lot of story ideas, done a lot of world-building, but not a whole lot of writing.

I just had to sit through a History Channel program on the constellations. Flippin' pseudoscience! Needless drama! Obfuscation of facts! Lack of detail! Wild speculation! Pyramids and Orion's belt, for heaven's sake! That same sound effect like sliding cymbals used a million times! Sorry, it made me kinda mad.

@AlamoVampire Thanks! I did know all that stuff about the telescope part, actually. I think the grabby claws came with Asteroid Day as well.

Congratulations on TOTM, @Kerbalsaurus! I can't wait to see what you do next!

Thank you! I didn't know the tracking station could do that. I guess it's time for an OSIRIS-REx type mission, then!

How do I track them? Because I can see the question mark symbols meaning something is there, but they disappear after a while. Sorry for all the questions, I've never hunted an asteroid before.