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    Grand Tour under construction (wish me luck)
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    My name is going to Jupiter on Europa Clipper!
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    Me as a kerbal is Andrew W. Kerman, named after Ender's Game. I play the trumpet. I play KSP, I wish KSP2 had been playable, and I'm waiting for SFS2 to go on sale and KSA to be developed.

    Quotes:

    Kimera's Law: The number of 5XX errors the forums will throw is directly proportional to your desire to perform an action on the forums.

    We live in a world where dead dinosaurs are thrown at the propulsion units of flying machines to see how well they can survive live dinosaur impacts. It's a good world.

    ¡ʇɔǝɾǝ 'ʎןʇɔǝɹɹoɔ sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟI


    "You call them victims. I call them kerbonauts."

    "Those aren't mountains- they're more boosters..."

    "76 engines in the upper stage- 110 boosters in the first!" (Reference to The Music Man)

    Don't shoot for the Moon, shoot for a free-return trajectory around it. If you miss your orbital insertion burn,  you'll return to Earth for another shot.

    Friends, Romans, countrymen, associates, acquaintances, enemies, miscellaneous citizens, frenemies, people, humans, Frenchmen, lend me your ears!

    I don't always fantastically mess up a mission, but when I do, I always forget to quicksave at a useful point in time.

    Every day's an adventure- full of adventures we want and adventures we don't. It's always the ones we don't that are the best.

    "This quote was taken out of context." -Randall Munroe

    I found Generation 1! (It's on another forum but still.)
    https://imgur.com/1vxrHjC

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  1. Kimera Industries
    "I would like it neither popply nor pepply."
  2. Kimera Industries
    Agree! I watched The Empire Strikes Back for the first time in a while the other day. My observations included: Wow, this really is the best Star Wars movie! And, The practical effects are amazing! These models win hands-down against the "best" modern special effects. I particularly liked that they were there to complement scenes and not be the focus.
  3. Kimera Industries
    Anaerobic is without oxygen, not air in general. Star Wars is something we need more of. (More good Star Wars, anyway.)
  4. Kimera Industries
    I wish you luck! My first Mun landing was quite the adventure. Trial and error was how I got it, but Matt Lowne may have something.
  5. Kimera Industries
    Like, an honest-to-goodness physical model? I just wish people could realize that models have the potential to look 100% better than any CGI you can come up with. It has the advantage of really existing in real life. You can't beat that.
  6. Kimera Industries
    Hooray for anaerobic life!
  7. Kimera Industries
    Hold up, wait a minute, they ARE! How did I never notice this? Eve SSTO has been progressing very slowly. I need more thrust, and haven't been able to test the new design (now with: a Vector!). I had one breakthrough, which is to have the ISRU equipment removable and land it fully fueled instead (this should gain me ~500 m/s of dv, which will be crucial in getting those last dozen km for the apoapsis), and one setback, in that I need to design it to be able to remove the ISRU equipment. Just now, I thought of an idea which may help me with that.
  8. Kimera Industries
    I've already seen Saturn, I think @cubinator is referring to Uranus, which is visible at certain times of year in very, very dark skies. So's the asteroid Vesta, I've heard.
  9. Kimera Industries
    I remember an experience where I got to camp in the middle of nowhere and the sky was amazing. But that was before I learned that the sky is full of interesting things to look at...
  10. Kimera Industries
    I used to live in Texas for a few years, though not in as urban an environment as you now. One of the first things I learned about Texas is that it's so, so big. Anyway, I wish you luck! I checked this morning to be sure, and I have now seen all 5 planets visible to the eye! At last, Mercury has been added to the collection. If the weather is good today, I'll try to check it out in my telescope. Recently, I saw the crescent of Venus, though badly obscured by glare.
  11. Kimera Industries
    I started building the Eve SSTO from scratch again. The real bottleneck in the design so far has been that it needs to be able to hide behind the inflatable heat shield, because anything peeking out, even the heat-resistant space shuttle wings, will go ka-poof. Going ka-poof is not an option. Gene Kranz said that. I'm paraphrasing.
  12. Kimera Industries
    Today, in celebration of my birthday, I briefly recreated the Venera 13 mission. March 1 is the anniversary of both the Venera 3 and 13 landings, which is pretty cool.
  13. Kimera Industries
    Today definitely counts as "funny/interesting" for me because it's my birthday! Don't worry, none of you are obligated to get me anything. "But today is my birthday. And it's a special one, because you told me... you once told me that by the time you came back we might be the same age. And today I'm the same age you were when you left." Of course, I'm not that old, yet.
  14. Kimera Industries
    Well, I won't give up hope yet. It certainly has enough delta-v, and the TWR should be adequate. I'll have to test it though. Tylo is really hard, but not as bad as an Eve SSTO. Thanks for the advice! That may be the source of the problem, but some double-checking revealed that the CoL was ahead of the dry-CoM.
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    The Eve SSTO is getting much closer to SSTOing! Why, just now I passed a 60km apoapsis and 1.2km/s. The biggest problem right now is learning when and how much to throttle, and figuring out why it keeps flipping out of control at high altitudes. But this is promising! I believe once I have the Eve SSTO aspect of the mission down the rest of it will quickly fall into place. Because if you can escape Eve, you can do practically anything.
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