Kimera Industries

Well, this isn't quite something I did in KSP, so I'm putting it here instead. I finally organized a timeline of my alternate history thread on the forums. I had to change a few of the launch dates to make things fit. But now they do! And now I'm pretty sure that the thread is currently in the month of October, 1971. I love how if you were to look at how Venera (meaning Venus) is spelled in Russian, in the English alphabet it looks like it says Behepa. But, it does indeed say Venera.

IIRC they went so fast that the physics didn't have time to kick in. The good news: the Eve SSTO made it past a 100km apoapsis! That's a very good sign, and is a great indicator that getting into low Eve orbit with this vessel may be possible. The bad news: the heating on ascent was so bad, the nose and several nearby parts exploded. I have two potential solutions to this problem, one of which I have tried: Throttle down during the period of max heating, like a rocket throttling down for max-q. I tried this and it worked, but the extra time spent in the atmosphere robbed too much of my fuel. Take a steeper angle on ascent. I've previously been going for a 30 degree AoA when I light the engines at 15km. But I may have to try a higher angle to climb out of the atmosphere quicker. I made a Huygens-alike probe and dropped it into Laythe with cheats to test it. I tried making a panorama with Neptune Cam, but I'm going to need something better than Microsoft Paint 3D to stitch it together. Speaking of which, does anybody know why my computer refuses to open pngs? My only option is to edit them instead. My computer tries to find an app to open them, whereas before it could just view them like normal.

I made a Cassini-alike spacecraft as well as a Huygens-alike one. Currently, I am facing problems with the screen remaining black after I launch a vessel.

I have completely rebuilt the Eve SSTO from the ground up (but I still kept the old wings) for the nth time. This time, I hope I can make it past the 80km mark now that the ISRU equipment is mounted externally and removed for the Eve landing.

Speaking from experience, whenever a situation seems like the worst that could have happened, there are usually many unseen advantages to being where I'm being. Those factors are outside of your control, yes, but there may be even larger-scale factors that could result in your position being the best place for you to be. There's no way to know for certain. I hope you find some greenery (metaphorically, but in Texas finding it literally is nice, too) to look at and enjoy.

I love your mod idea. There's not exactly anything else quite like it entirely. If I may, certain planets have been known since ancient times- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Perhaps something similar for KSP? You can only see the major planets in the map view, though without detail, and moons, dwarf planets, asteroids, etc. are the ones that have to be discovered.

Go home, Bazhenov, you're drunk! Chapter 1: Discovery has been given a new intro to add some flavor to the missions and to get you excited for Myatnyy 1's redo! It's got a fun surprise, and it's more than just Minmus-colored...

Congratulations! And great job being smart with the finances too, that's impressive!

Once you start retconning, you can't stop... Whatever you do, have fun. That's really the point of any thread on the forum once you get down to it.

Woah, I can really respect that! Honestly, if I were the diver, I would have done the same thing.

Heavy clouds in my area for the entire night. Sigh... someday there will be an eclipse that I don't miss.

My back hurts (I have good posture, it's not related to that) and I still have a cough, but I've been doing well otherwise. I finally picked up a beginner's textbook for Russian. I can sound out words! It's an odd experience because I've never learned another language before. It was cool making the connection between the letters for the D and L sounds and the Greek letters delta and lambda.

"I would like it neither popply nor pepply."

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.

Anaerobic is without oxygen, not air in general. Star Wars is something we need more of. (More good Star Wars, anyway.)

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.

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.

Hooray for anaerobic life!

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.