Anachronda

'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the helmets of Kerbals.' -- Stuff Isaac Kerman Said, 3rd Revised Edition

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Decided to fiddle with flying a spaceplane. Obvious starting point: Me163. Solid booster because throttle control isn\'t Kerbal enough for an Me163. A bit squirrely, but I have managed to land it a few times.

Jeb might not need it, but the rest of the universe does. They\'re not distractions, they\'re Jeb Sanity Enhancers (JSEs).

Congratulations! You\'re a better man than I; I always get in trouble when I get close enough that I should be closing with the RCS thrusters. One of these days I\'ll get it.

That\'s when you have the crew open their *sealed* orders, which involve establishment of a Mun base.

Nice looking machine. I can honestly say that I have not seen a better-looking death ray.

That\'s why you need to put wheels everywhere!

Ideally, when you\'re close to the ground you\'ll be pointed straight up and sitting on the retrograde marker. Lateral movement shows up as the retrograde marker being off of the straight up dot on the navball. Lateral thrusts with RCS pull the retrograde marker around, because they change your lateral speed. You can use them to get back on top of the retrograde marker.

Oh, I\'ve had several good landings. Not routine, yet, by any means.

On my computer, there\'s a spot where the terrain behind the ship changes from fuzzy grey to a crisp field of boulders. That\'s when the adrenaline starts. One thing it took me a while to catch on to is that the dial next to the altimeter indicates your rate of ascent or descent. Very useful, but I wish it were down by the navball; my eyes are going all over the place during the landing to watch that meter, the terrain behind me, and keep myself on top of the retrograde marker on the navball.

Visited a stranded crew with a rescue rover. I might have gone a wee bit overboard on the wheels. Of course, in true Kerbal tradition, the rescue landing wasn\'t entirely successful. I only made it because I separated the lander just before the crash. Since I was in the neighborhood, I decided to go see the arch: But it was such a long, boring drive that even my intrepid Kerbonauts got bored.

A three hour tour. A three hour tour.

Not sure what you mean 'when I try it'. The game lets you attach fuel tanks to the side of other fuel tanks. You can put engines at the bottom of a fuel tank. Building a rocket this way lets you stack things sideways. You might need to tie the side-mounted stuff together with struts to hold it together. There are also side decouplers. You can put those on the side of fuel tanks and mount stuff on them.

So Kerbal technology hasn\'t invented the flapper valve yet? There\'s some fan fiction in there somewhere, but I\'m not clever enough to write it.

Huh. Interesting idea. Consider it stolen. I usually have to fire my RCS a few times to figure out which way things are pointing and get them lined up reasonably.

I had quite a bit of trouble until I adjusted the keys for the various movements. When I push W, it causes me to move up on the navball. S causes me to move down, etc. The default key settings have one of the axes different from the other two.

Perhaps the pod is a fruit with the kermen as the seeds.

Closest I\'ve come to a successful night landing on the Mun. When the smoke cleared, the capsule was sitting daintily on the surface of the Mun. The explosion of the command module must have exactly offset the landing speed. That parachute ain\'t gonna do them much good...

The thing goes downhill *real* good. Kept having trouble with hitting a bump and knocking my engine off, so I figured if I shoved the wheels farther back so they overhung the engine they\'d protect it. Yeah. Not so much.

Doubtless some sort of migratory bush.

But you also don\'t see dead astronauts climbing into new capsules. I\'m telling you, Jebediah Kerman is a *type* of kerman, not the name of an individual. Do you name your apples before you eat them? Or do you just think 'Oh, joy! Another Granny Smith!'?

I suspect that each variety has its own name. Kerbalus jebediahus. Kerbalus billus.

Mouth? No, that\'s where the stem attaches while they\'re still growing on the tree. When they\'re ripe, the area around the stem breaks off, leaving a dimple. The red you can see in the dimple when their 'mouths' are open are the succulent inner fruit. To protect from infection, the peel grows a transparent scab over the region that had held the stem: the 'visor' for the 'spacesuit'.

Those aren\'t spacesuits, they\'re peels. Like an orange peel with a window.