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  1. Mister Dilsby
    If you did see a potential violation of the Forum Guidelines I hope you would report it, whether it's in one of my posts or someone else's. I do my best to follow those guidelines and keep the rest of the thread clean as well. Here's the section on Forbidden Content, available any time by clicking "guidelines" in the page header: I don't believe that Rule 2.2c is meant to prohibit the mention of legal alcoholic beverages, consumed by adults in a responsible fashion. Long-time readers will note that while this (and many other threads) make reference to kerbals consuming "hydrazine" or another beverage with similar effects, Kerbfleet always models responsible behavior. Nobody, but NOBODY stands a watch or pilots a craft under the influence! But as for after the flight--well, we need look no further than NASA and the US Navy. If you visit USS Intrepid you can see on display a prescription for 'medicinal' whiskey, written by the ship's surgeon for recovered astronaut Gus Grissom.
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    Well! I made something a little bigger and landed it on Minmus, but that sucker is definitely not returning to the surface of Kerbin in one piece. Well done!
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    If I were making one at home (and later i might) it would be, 3/5 measure gin (preferably something with a good clean taste like New Kamsterdam or Khendrik's... maybe not Kanqueray, which I think would compete with the other ingredients) 1/5 measure dry vermouth (none of this super-pretentious "call somebody in France and ask them to hold the bottle up to the phone" junk. It's in the recipe for a reason.) 1/5 measure Midori, for green color Shake with ice (Methane ice if you can get it, H2O if you can't) and strain. Garnish with, what else, a sprig of mint. Obey all local laws and ordinances, and be sure to choose a designated pilot.
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    Yep. I couldn't shed that tear on the forum myself, so Jeb did it for me. This was the end of my first book here. I couldn't believe I was never going to fly that ship again! ...but since this is Kerbfleet, we didn't weep for long Jeb dried his eyes, we cashed the funds, and moved on.
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    Dunno, look for a <3 shaped button that says "Like This". I have no idea what the mobile site looks like on your device, but there exists such a button on my iphone. Kudos for wanting so much to give rep though
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    That depends. The surface temperature reads -40 right now, but we're not sure whether the gauge is in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
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    Wonderful video. Epic audio for takeoff, and I lol'd at the Airplane track for landing. Sure, there have been other tiny shuttles, but this video makes yours an 'entirely different kind of craft altogether'. Have some tiny rep!
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    Oh my. I had heard about that, but never read all the details. Thanks for the link! Finally got things squared away well enough to post a few pages: And before we have a discussion on evaporation in vacuum that rivals the infamous "kerbulan gun recoil problem", let's just make it canon that standard-issue Kerbfleet cocktail glasses are pressurized, and feature a convenient port that interfaces with the EVA suit
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    Here: I'm going to get back to making the comic now. Very slow going trying to get the crew shots I want using the actual ship rather than stunt doubles.
  10. Mister Dilsby
    Great one by @Mad Rocket Scientist! And here's another from the Kerb In Black. I used it as traveling music when Bill drove his rover to the Dipperkraft crash site, on Eve. From "Folsom Prison Blues", Johnny Cash. Eve Midland Blues I hear the rover comin, it's blastin 'round the bend And I'm seein' purple sunshine since I don't know when I'm stuck here on Eve Midlands, and time keeps draggin' on But that rover keeps on rollin' on down to bring me home When I was just an enzin Gene done told me son Don't ever play with boosters, Don't ever launch with Thuds But I shot a kerb to Eeloo Just to watch him fly When I hear those engines firin', I hang my head and cry
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    Small, but I'd hate to trip on one--those little dudes are heavy! So I don't think this is a resolvable argument. Humans are bigger than kerbals, but then again so is Earth to Kerbin. It seems like what @Dman979's after is an answer to the question, "If i encountered Intrepid in real life how big would it be?" while @Geschosskopf may be wondering, "If Intrepid were built for humans, how would it compare to real-world spacecraft?" I can't answer the second question, at least not definitively, but I can definitely answer the first:
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    Well if you're going to compare me to Saturn V, it should be with Intrepid's boosters on. The part that's 56.5 meters long is just the orbital/landing vehicle.
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    If you like graphic novels mine (links in sig) are an attempt to create a 'stockalike' backstory. We even have canon! Chronologically the stories start with the Duna book, the last part of which overlaps the first part of the Eve book, and we are now working on the Jool book. If you're interested in writing your own stories in any format, may I suggest the Thread for Writers To Talk About Writing for advice, help and always-friendly criticism
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    No.
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    Truly amazing. Bonus points for such good use of the Round-8 tanks
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    This dilemma reminds me of one faced by legendary comic artist/writer Steve Ditko, who along with Stan Lee created Spider-Man and (Kuzzter's personal fave!) Doctor Strange. Ditko was (and is, last I heard) an objectivist, who believes that the sole moral purpose of life is rational self-interest. But Ditko's Marvel characters are not what we would call objectivist heroes in the mold of Howard Roark. In fact, Spider-Man is exactly the opposite: a hero who believes above all else that "with great power comes great responsibility". Which is why Peter Parker's life is so completely miserable most of the time--no good deed he ever does goes unpunished! Contrast this with Ditko's somewhat lesser-known (OK, pretty much completely ignored) comics work after leaving Marvel. Mr. A believes in only good or evil, nothing in between. If you're good, you'd better be 100% good--because otherwise, Mr. A will drop you off a building. If you haven't heard of this guy you may have seen him re-imagined in The Watchmen as Rorschach. So you could go either route--the first one, where characters don't follow your personal philosophy (and get punished for it), or the second, where they do. I think you've already decided that the second route doesn't make for as interesting a story. It certainly did not in the case of Steve Ditko.
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    I may or may not have been the first to dock a Mk2 SSTO plane inside a carrier ship's hangar, along with various other landers and support craft, then land the entire thing on Minmus to refuel. (after first consuming an entire Class-C asteroid to make sure I had enough oxidant for the landing engines)
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    Oh yeah, I forgot about that! In the VAB with the boosters and launch clamps removed it's: 56.5 meters long 15.7 meters wide 15.6 meters high Part count with nothing docked is 432. Mass of the ship itself (again, no boosters) at launch was 847.8t. Fully fueled, still without landers (and assuming I clicked on all the tanks) it's 400 tons more. So with everything aboard, liftoff mass from Minmus should be something like 1360t.
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    I believe we've already done that one.
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    Nope, just measured it. Tedus is standing on the lip of the aft ramp, and Jeb is on the edge of the forward one: Distance from Tedus to Jeb measures 53.1m. Seeing as they're not quite at the edges, and seeing as there is still the tail boom behind Tedus, I think we can call the "official" length of Intrepid 55 meters. And yes, that object in front of the ship is Sarge in the rover! He had to chase it when they detached it uncrewed and it fell down the ramp and flipped, but all's well now. Meanwhile, the ore flows! Noting MET timestamp and resource window. I have the Qwammer's ISRU making LF and OX (separately, not as LFO) and the ship's ISRU making LF only. Bill will stay aboard to maximize the rate--and everyone else gets some shore leave. Will put it in a comic in due course: things will take a bit longer as I cannot use the stand-in "playset" for exterior shots of the 800-part lagbeast that is Intrepid (n.b.: I reported 808 parts before, but it looks like kerbals in chairs count as parts! The count with everyone in an internal crewspace is 804.)
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    Would a mildly military brass band do? I've got one of those, and will at some point contribute the various songs of Kerbfleet's proud branches of service But for starters, I think this one might be of more general interest. It first appeared in Duna, Ore Bust! along with a crudely shopped picture of "Simon and Kerbfunkel" as the crew of Hummlebee were completing their historic mission and burning for home. The basis is of course "Homeward Bound", by Simon and Garfunkel. Kerbin Bound I'm up in solar orbit, high Got a year 'til Kerbin SOI, mmm... On a tour of airless lands My spacesuit on and stick in hand And every orbit's neatly planned For a spaceship and a four-kerb band... Kerbin bound I wish I was--Kerbin bound Home! Where my ship's escapin' Home! Where I'm aerobrakin' Home! Where the runway's waitin' Silently for me Every sol's an endless stream Of year-old snacks and hydrazine, mm-hmm... And each world looks the same to me The craters and the gravity And each maneuver node I see Reminds me that I long to be-- Kerbin bound I wish I was--Kerbin bound Home! Where my ship's escapin' Home! Where I'm aerobrakin' Home! Where the runway's waitin' Silently for me Tonight I'll EVA again I'll get the science and pretend, mm-hmm... But all that data does for me Is fill up someone else's tree This emptiness is killin' me I need to feel some gravity-- Kerbin bound I wish I was--Kerbin bound Home! Where my ship's escapin' Home! Where I'm aerobrakin' Home! Where the runway's waitin' Silently for me
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    There's a list of General Orders on the Kerbfleet Canon Reference, link in sig. Though if you did reread those books you might well find I did mess up and re-use 35
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    Downhill's a great place to be sometimes. Amazingly, sometimes you have to climb a ladder to get there. Well, speaking as a member of the (up until now anyway) secret conclave of skalds, I'm very glad you went this route. I think it adds a lot to what was already a very entertaining set of tales. As you've said more than once in the past, all the tropes we'll ever know were written down long, long ago and there is nothing new under the sun. But the sun isn't new either, and yet it never seems to get old.
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    So much dramatic awesome, thank you! Also--PLANAR SHOCKWAAAAAAVE!
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    "Life imitates trope" indeed. Love the lore about ladders--yes, of course that's a sacred object in a culture motivated by altitude, and of course anyone who's been playing this game through a lot of version knows that Strange ThingsTM often happen when you're on a ladder.
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