Kerbalsaurus

Well, we always lose a few victims willing participants in early career mode, but it’s the failures we learn from. Just curious, what did the rocket look like that you had a crew module on two different stages?

But then they might have to pay for shipping.

It think it'd be cool if you uploaded this to KerbalX.

As far as you're concerned, you never saw this.

Eww, books. Who uses those anymore? As would be expected from a community of literal rocket scientists and astrophysicists, many of us on the forums appear to be quite well read. I feel like it's a shame there's no dedicated thread to talk about the books we read. To share our thoughts on them, and discuss with other people what they think of the book. Maybe there was a dedicated thread at one point, but it probably hasn't had a reply in like 5 years, so it'd be pointless to dig it up. I'll start this with the most recent book I've finished, Escape from Earth, but Fraser MacDonald. The book's about the unknown fathers of rocket science, the scientists and engineers who came before von Braun. The book mainly focuses on Frank Malina though. It's a really interesting story that evolves from this small passion project between scientists. It follows the many trials and hearings that Malina and his colleagues went through, during the beginning of the Red Scare, and the constant questioning from the U.S. government and officials in their lives simply because they were part of the communist party like ten years before the trials even began. The parts about the actual engineering on the rockets were probably the best though, at least from my perspective. I like it goes in depth into the largely trial and error process that was trying to find the right propellants for rockets. Many rocket engines simply blew up before they even ignited, and after a while it really started to annoy the scientists. I'd go into further detail about the book, but it's like 10:00 at night at the time I'm writing this, and my eyes are burning. I'd rate the book an 8/10. It was good, and as a sucker for drama, I enjoyed reading about the conflict that emerged between the scientists.

Wow! Can't believe this thread won !

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1) ELON Makes GROUNDBREAKING Discovery, Shakes Space Industry

2) This singer did WHAT?! *insane*

I like Kerbals, and I like dinosaurs. Plus, it sounds cool.

I've been playing Cities: Skylines pretty much exclusively recently. I've been working on a vanilla city, of which I've called Vanillaton. There's a whole story and stuff behind it because that's just how I do, but I'll spare you the sermon. I'll just show some cool screenshots.

Banned for saying exactly what I just said.

Banned for not having an inchworm in their profile.

No it’s Kerbalmonde. I mean Vanasaurus. Wait, I mean Kanamondus. @TwoCalories

Looking at your career log, you have a really good success rate. Didn't you set test flight to give you more failures though?

Better luck next year @adsii1970, what is your take on this season?

I second what TwoCal said. In game scenes show that you’re dedicated to your thread, and also add a little homemade sense to them. AI also seems to kind of suck the life out of a thread, it’s like a 3D version of the corporate art style. Plus, it kind of clashes with the original style of thread so far. I liked the photoshop jobs of the promo art. Although I understand you’re short on time, and I’m very nitpicky, so do what you want.

I to think Glushko is funny, especially considering the fact that IRL Glushko kind of sucked.

No, Mr. Kerbalsaurus. @Kimera Industries

To be fair, I’ve seen that your writing style is more tailored to exposition than to dialogue. My advice for writing dialogue is to first establish the characters and their traits, which is a given. Then, act out the scene in your head, almost like a movie scene. Make sure that the dialogue of the characters matches with their personality, or else it’ll kind of seem unnatural.

I ain’t gettin rid of the watermarks

Caught me just as I logged on. @Eclipse 32

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