Vostok

Looks awesome, although I wouldn't want to be the astronaut with a cigarette in an oxygen rich space-suit, but that kerbal is just too badass to deal with combustion.

Alternatively, rebind the rover keys to the arrow keys so you're not telling your craft to pitch and yaw at the same time as driving. It's not rocket sci- wait a second....

as gompasta said, you could have a 10m orbit if the moon was a perfect sphere. However the altitude is measured against a 'sea level' and some of the mountains are far higher than 10m. If you sent an expedition around the equator of the moon, and found the highest hill there, you could conceivably put a craft into an equatorial orbit just meters higher than the tallest hill. Likewise, if you knew the highest hill on the moon, you could put a craft above that altitude on a polar orbit. It's something I'd like to try myself, a perfect equatorial orbit around the mun missing the top of the highest hills by a few meters.

a very long time ago. I was particularly pleased with this landing though, especially due to how breakable the old engines were...

I lived through it. Woot woot, KSP forum elitism from now on in.

That Jeb and his attitude. He knows. Oh, how he does know. Even astronauts, especially when coupled with a raving lunatic, will oft get depressed.

I lived through it. I was there. I was there when the forums ended.

A t-shirt with "I'm a rocket scientist. If you see me running, try to keep up!" on the back of it.

I built an illegal solid rocket motor, and subsequently blew up a vegetable patch. The pilot, a snail, survived though. Maybe snails are related to kerbals?

Surely if the rescale factor is 1.25, they would be by default 80cm tall? But yeah, they're 1m tall to prevent "insect Physics" whereby the characters reacted strangely to small physics scales (I think)

no, it just uses one single vectoring thrust engine, embedded in the fuselage. I tried three, but it threw the centre of thrust awry, so I kept it as one. It also has RCS tanks built inside the fuselage with aplacement bug or something

Yes, I have. It needs a touch of RCS once it's out of the atmosphere, but it's fairly well balanced and can get into and return from orbit fairly easily. The craft file is here. Apologies for the awful image EDIT: Doesn't use solid boosters however. Nowhere near enough power

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/20828-Worst-day-ever?p=269824#post269824 If it's anything bad, may be related to that. possibly not the best reaction from him. But I hope he's still around, he is (was?) A good moderator and community manager. I'd hate to see him go though.

I think the munolith outside kerbin's SOI will be orbiting one of jool's moons. (since jool is the jupiter analogue) I'd expect it to either be ON val, or orbiting val (Val seems to me most like europa) although in the book 2001 a space odyssey it was one of saturn's moons I think. The films however had the moon as europa, so I'd expect the monolith to either be on val, or orbiting it somewhere. Get looking!

What does it say if you're in a circular orbit? Go straight on, or turn left? If you turn you're no longer in a circular orbit, but you can't go straight...

Just to throw a spanner in the works of all you conspiracy theorists, I found this at the south pole of Duna. Take a look at the symbol in the top left of this The Angled lines and that dot (planet, crater) seem to match. and at these ground markings near Duna's South Pole (where I believe there is a pyramid....?) If anybody wishes to say anything about this, or even validate the claim, feel free to land a ship there yourself It's probably just a texture related co-incidence. Probably.

I've heard of Kinetic Void, like KSP with guns and battleships.

you'd not get neutral buoyancy with a parachute. It would have to be some kind of inflatable balloon-parachute to obtain buoyancy.

What about the 'docking mod'? You could use that to build bridge supports and theoretically dock bridge sections onto each support, and join each section up with something like extendible solar panels. or massive explodey concertinas. Whatever really I guess.

I'm thinking something like a volcano... volcanic something, obsidian maybe, even a planet forming. But those are things, and I get the feeling that it's a more abstract concept again. Genesis? A planet? Evolution, geology.. Hmm. It seems to me to describe the creation of a planet. Ice calms fire and fire melts ice would suggest the ice cools the mantle, and melts to water to form oceans, eath halts air seems to be the planet collecting an atmosphere, Earth's core is made of iron, wrapped in 'dirt', then gold, not too sure about that (could be money and civilisation), and hurt would to me symbolise war and humanity, that sort of thing. It comes unravelled there, with darkness' stain taints lively glow.... Maybe it's the world dying out? The solar system forming? So maybe then, it's History, or past, present and future all at once. Time? The fourth dimension? but as for a shadow's wish... passing over clear black glass, which I thought might be obsidian, but I'm also wondering what a shadow's wish could be. To be lit up? as the world is dying, light may emerge from somewhere? So maybe it's Fate, but you used that in the riddle, so that's out. There must be a word for this sort of thing, everything that's happened, and everything that could possibly happen.

Go ahead, make my day.

I once built a lego single-cylinder engine with leftovers, I'll see if I can find a picture of it It ran at at best 60rpm. EDIT: found some images: The enormous mass of gearing runs to the flywheel which keeps the engine turning over, albeit slowly. Air is pumped in via a bicycle pump, and diverted by the lever valve (which is controlled by the crankshaft rotation) to the piston that drives the crankshaft.

The task is to create a shuttle (Not necessarily an SSTO) that has a orbiter that uses the least number of parts (or smallest mass), and that can be put into orbit and then safely land on Kerbin (like a plane, not with a parachute) I tried this myself, and I've tested an orbiter that uses 6 parts. I've yet to send it into orbit however. It can't do any manoeuvring, since it is a pod with wings and wheels, so in orbit it will need some form of RCS stage that detaches before landing. When landing, it probably can land without the chute, but I can't make it do that yet. The other one I've done, I made it look a bit nicer and also gave it an OMS, so it can de-orbit itself, and perform basic orbital manoeuvres. This is 16 parts (Pod, 3 wheels, 4 RCS, rcs fuel, 5 wings, cone section, landing chute) It flies really nicely on landing and, done properly, can land entirely without the parachute. So, challenge outlined, a few examples, go to it! I'll make a leaderboard here for further entries. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Special Commendation: Have fun, and good luck! (as requested, craft files added)

Hmm, Major tom is good I suppose. There's also Mars from Holst's Planets suite, it's pretty good.

Also Sprach Zarathustra or nothing.