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  1. Mister Dilsby
    Oh, it's real all right. Bill did do a "simulation" pass at 45km, which went pretty well until the bridge crew overheated and poofed, one by one. It was sickening. Really not too hard! Like I said I just had Kenlie set prograde, and let the ship coast through. When it got back above 50km, I warped it ahead to just before atmospheric entry. It all went really smoothly until the last pass--you'll see images from that one in the next update
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    Yeah--doors are closed, and both inline nodes are connected to a solid part. I considered ignoring the effect as being unrealistic but it was just too darn funny not to show Hey, maybe it's something else entirely--like, the heat making the plasma screen on the forward bulkhead leak...um, mini sunspots...yeah that's it...
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    "And no you cannot just binge-read it on the release day, we're making it up as we go along!"
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    You gave the all-powerful shipboard computer the personality of an adventure fiction author? Well, sign me up!
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    You might think that, but I take my cues from the in-game reactions of the Kerbals. Everyone on the ship was fine--even Clauselle, who is normally the first one to start freaking out. I think that the algorithm that determines Kerbal reactions primarily considers the situation the craft is in. Then it applies the "brave/stupid/badS" values of the crew to determine their reactions. One of the more important situation bits is "Crashing/Not Crashing". In this case the ship was "suborbital" due to the fact its periapsis was inside atmosphere, but it was on track to pass out of the atmosphere--hence, not "about to crash". If its periapsis were below ground or if it was spinning like crazy, I think all but the most badS would have indeed been freaking out. As it was, SAS was sufficient to hold prograde, and despite the visuals no parts had even gotten hot enough to show temperature gauges, much less explode. So, as far as makes sense in the world of KSP, everything was fine. Yes, but-- Indeed I do, @DarkOwl57 It would clutter the pages beyond belief if people quoted the panels, and it really does mess things up for anyone trying to read by scrolling through. I do appreciate that you snipped all but the page you were referring to. If anyone does really need to quote a page to make their point, then OK, but then please put it in a spoiler tag It did get a little hot, yeah--but really, it was fine. *slurp* *melt*
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    ^I do appreciate a reader who knows his meme. ETA: Whoops, though Jeb is not on the bridge--that's Kenlie. I should have made it more obvious.
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    Fleet carrier KSS Intrepid aerobrakes at Laythe in preparation to launch a floatplane to the surface. Tylo visible below starboard quarter.
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    Holey moho! Two full pages of comments in two days since the last update? I'm glad I started a new thread for the moon pronunciation discussion! As always, I appreciate very much every post that is relevant to the topic of Kerbfleet's mission to Jool. That said, here are more pages! And yeah, around Laythe it's kind of hard to NOT make every page a splash page Right, so we did that. Actually we did that a lot of times. After completing the capture burn KE indicated 1400 m/s left in the tanks. I dragged a node to estimate how much it would take to reduce the apoapsis from about 3000 klicks down to something more reasonable for landing and recovery operations...and yeah, that was a few hundred I did not want to spend if I didn't have to. So, basically for the last two Earth days Intrepid has been braking in the background while I do other stuff. I lost count, but it took over a dozen passes to get to my target apoapsis of 800 klicks. I didn't want to go too low, as I would have to pay fuel to climb back out of the well no matter what. Hopefully I've calculated the correct sweet spot and we'll have enough in the tanks to accomplish all we set out to do on Laythe, then eject and capture at Pol. Skimmeroo launches next
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    Oh, I like this VERY much! Put that IVA in the front and this may well become a Kerbfleet part Or, if I may suggest--create an inline version with open ends fore and aft. Not sure if that's possible with a crew space, but if it is--then instruments, viewscreens etc could go on the fore and aft bulkheads when the bridge is assembled in line with fuel tanks, cargo bays etc.
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    Yeah, it sure is an odd one. If only we had someone around here who knew linguistics...better still if they knew how to embed those cool special characters that leave no doubt as to the pronunciation--oh! Ah, you're right! I hadn't thought that through with sufficient precision, or I'd have made the second one a poll option. And speaking of 'poll', I went with the 'pollen' option immediately on reading the science reports comparing Pol to a grain of such.
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    Yeah, mostly he uses it to troll Jonathan Frakes (and others who I will not name on this Forum), but sometimes he talks about his actual job:
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    ...um, yeah. So before the thread devolves into a discussion of "what's on the telly right now where I live", let me just say that the mission is continuing, with some spectacularly white-knuckle moments on my end. Everyone who follows Dilsby's twitter feed already knows what I'm talking about
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    See? I do plan in advance
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    You mean, if the Ghost's ship were orbiting Kerbulus bearing west not east? Nope, I don't think so. For convenience of orientation let's call the continent Kerbin's KSC is on Kerbafrica. In the shot we can see the large knob projecting westward, where "Morokko" and the "Kote d'Ivoire" are located. The Kiberian penninsula is north of this knob. The orbit is irrelevant: the Ghost's ship could be going west-to-east, east-to-west, or polar for that matter--the planet still looks the same. So on Kerbin if the map is oriented such that north is up then Morokko is to the left and KSC is to the right. Look at the statue's right eye (which is on your left)--to put the Morokkan coast of Kerbulus on your left, as it is in the shot with the Ghost, you would have to rotate the whole image such that the Kape of Good Hope would be toward the top of the page. You can see in the picture you posted that it's not. Anyway, before this gets way out of hand, that's Kerbin. I have spoken. /wordofgod
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    No, not exactly; east-west are reversed, as Wernher learned when he visited a strange monument in the desert (in spoiler tag so as not to duplicate comic pages and disrupt the flow of the thread )
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    Well yeah, but I've heard professionals say both meh-thane and mee-thane. (That last one is just silly, sort of the way shoppers at a certain US big-box store put on airs and call it "Targét") I'm sure we English speakers have half a dozen different ways to pronounce "See-Aitch-Four", if you want to get technical
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    Nope. We can't even decide among ourselves how things should be spelled let alone pronounced. Some favour one spelling, while others favor another. And then we have the debates involving how things are spelled now as opposed to the way they used to be spelt. And if you understand that all right, then consider the innumerable alternate spellings that were once errors but, through frequent use, are now alright for all but the most formal situations.
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    That, and the fact that no one could give more than a few reps in a 24 hour period made each one REALLY special. Also, getting reputation used to be one of the very few things that would light up the little "Notifications" tab (the others being a PM, which is sort of rare, and an infraction/warning which oh-my-what-have-I-done!) So when you logged on and saw that you got an immediate thrill of positive goodness.
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    Yeah "buddy", I like you too.
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    Wrong. **BZZZZZZZZZTTTT!!**
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    For your continued discussion and amusement, and since I can't seem to attach a poll to an existing thread, I opened one up over here
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    An amusing little poll (or is it "pol")? based on the most recent pages of Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey ETA: and if you're wondering why there is no "something else" option for Pol, it's because there ARE no other reasonable options.
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    Pfft. If i wanted to read comics when I was in school, all I had to do was sneak a copy of X-Men inside my social studies textbook. Lots of text this time so a transcript might be inconvenient; don't worry, it'll be here when you get home
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    Well. At first I was sure you must have moved a decimal point, but of course you haven't. Kilotons and megakilograms, indeed!
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