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  1. Mister Dilsby
    Oh yes, there'll definitely be a bit of 'shore leave' and elective fuels production in the ISRU. Hard to tell how big a ship is, but if the long Mk3 LF tanks are about 6 meters (I really don't know!), then the ship is about 50 long. Fueled it should probably mass about 0.4 Emikos. I'll try and make some measurements on the ground, maybe I can have Sarge drive around and plant flags at the corners for something to do. At his duty station in the LSO cupola, on the hangar deck. Also not pictured during the landing: Lisa was in the lab, Tedus the fantail cupola. Nimzo and Sarge were of course in main engineering as shown, and with seven crew pictured on the bridge I think that accounts for everyone
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    If I were planning to land the ship anywhere with gravity stronger than 0.5 m/s2, I probably would have a few more Thank you! Those two minutes of landing were some of the toughest hours of my career. You mean, what Kooty Lenlie said? I'll have a talk with him later. I don't think it'll take nearly that long to refuel. Bill in the Qwammer, converted a net ~5 tons per hour, after losses for running fuel cells. And now we have all the Qwammer's equipment, plus six more drills and a second ISRU, powered by the nuclear reactors so no losses for fuel cells. I'm thinking we'll be filled up and ready to lift off in a week or two. Will try to come up with some good surface shenanigans to entertain us all while we're waiting
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    And you even had time to snip images! Thank you!
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    I should have said PBS, Planetary Base Systems, by @Nils277,. The habs and science lab come from there also. And now, without further commercial interruption--the attempted landing on Minmus, to its thrilling conclusion! So it was actually even a little more exciting than this. About 20 meters off the deck the Qwammer's engines cut out unexpectedly! I haven't checked yet to see whether they ran out of LF or OX. But anyway, the slow framerate gave me plenty of time to enable the two forward ventrals and save the ship. I have no idea what the thrust angle was when I did that, but it was low enough that I could slow down from over 3 m/s to my target landing velocity of 0.5 and not tilt too much (and this explains why the back wheels touched down first.) Well, if you were one of those who said it couldn't be done--turns out, it could
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    That emerald spire area looks like the perfect 'fortress of solitude' for whichever undead crewmember has the most Chris Reeve Superman mojo.
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    Hmmm! Interesting! Which part? Dilsby taking command? Bob's purple bippy? "General Order 34"? Ha! Glad you found that, better late than never It can be excruciating--but I did have a bit of an unplanned event during and was grateful for the extra time to react When there isn't an active emergency I find that a physics warp of 3x makes things a little more tolerable.
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    Yeah, I've been meaning to collect my various Kerbal covers into one thread... hey, I even used staff paper once for Also Sprach Jebediah, I still have the template somewhere! But having all the songs from everywhere would be a great add to the general Fanworks forum, @Crystal_Mace why don't you go ahead and start it? I can give you mine as transcripts, or post just those comic pages as you (or whoever ends up being the OP) prefers.
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    aww poor Jim! It's less a question of "someone notices" than one of "the software works and @endersmens has time to make an update" But stop by the club any time for a cocktail or complimentary backrub, I'm pretty sure I can get you in
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    This kind of space explosion has been unscientifically proven to give the biggest dV boost.
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    Last teaser, or maybe this is a very slow live stream. At the instant I click 'submit'...range to surface, 168. Speed, 2.4. All hands, this is the Captin--prepare for landing! That means YOU, Mister Nimzo!
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    Fully fueled (which, Kraken willing, will be happening shortly) Intrepid masses in the same range as a Class-E asteroid.
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    Teaser:
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    Good on you, kids! Well, who could resist a ride in a ship as awesome as the Diamondback?
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    Top to bottom, this was is one of the most epic comments in the history of comments. Sir Sarjint, I salute you. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say a *clink* is in order, happy Friday. And just because I liked it so much and you asked so nicely, here's this from my screenie archive uncluttered with dialogue:
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    Minmus Flats I'm not too worried about. For Bop or Pol... well, finding a flat spot big enough is what the Gumdrops are for If it comes down to it though, of course I can shuttle using the Qwammer. Anyway, the attemped Minmus landing is the Very Next Thing for me to do!
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    A perfect opportunity to add delta vee in the most epic way imaginable.
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    It was a Class C. Prior to Dwagonfly getting the order to start mining it in preparation for the rendezvous, it's mass was 137.3312 tons. So yeah, we pulled over 110 tons of rock out of it for the Intrepid's tanks. And we still need to land on Minmus to finish fueling.
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    Thanks! I have to admit I still geek out when I get views like that one from Val's cockpit, or when I fly something into the hangar. And at 5 fps, I really get to savor those moments! (Unity-5 don't let me down! ) Well of course what the Qwammer brought can stay on the Qwammer if it comes to that. I don't have the game open right now but looking through screenshots, at the point the asteroid was drained and before the Qwammer docked we showed 19280 units of OX aboard, and 1326 ore still to process. At that point I think I actually switched the ISRUs over to make LF, as there wasn't enough aboard Intrepid to actually use all that oxidant! Plan is of course to drop lower, then go suborbital on the main (LVN) engines, then transition to aerospikes for a belly landing on the flats. It worked in sim! (mostly)
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    Think, "super Tugbot"
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    As long as the Kerbol system never runs out of rocks, I can keep going Besides USI-LS I also have PBI installed, which includes an algae farm that can make new fertilizer with an input of ore, mulch and electric charge. If it weren't for that I would have modded an ISRU or science lab to do the same thing--if you can make LFO and booze hydrazine you can make nitrates, right? Intrepid has almost infinite endurance. There is enough recycling on board to support all 12 crew with 75% mulch-->NOMS efficiency, and of course we have greeenhouses to run the fertilizer+mulch --> >>>NOMS cycle, and the aforementioned algae farms to turn mulch back into fertilizer when we reach Bop or Pol and mine some ore. The one thing she can't recycle is enriched uranium to power it all, but I think she'll be good for a few decades before we have to do a refuel.
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    I'm not really sure. I had Alan retract the drills, then let the claw go and BOOM! At least one drill was probably still in the rock, but that hasn't mattered before--I've landed and taken off from Gilly lots of times with drills extended. Dwagonfly just lost the parts you see gone, it still has all its engines, RCS and more than enough LF to get to LKO--and yeah, I'm retiring the whole Kranefly class of haulers. They're pretty much obsolete now that I'm running life support--two weeks isn't nearly long enough to go get an asteroid from the belt and drag it back, or travel between planets. The next class, which I will start building in earnest after 1.1 drops, will be designed for infinite duration voyages and will have capability to tow class-E rocks as well as land on some planets and moons. Planning to do this with a (stock) extensible boom... should be pretty cool.
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    I'm feeling an unexpectedly sad sadness at the prospect of 'billions' of kerbs who I've never met and don't even show up as terrain scatter being wiped out. C'mon Artie, you can do better than that! And Kappa Jeb, I have faith in you. Hopefully you know all about the "no--win scenario", and like a true badS you believe there's no such thing.
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    Can you believe it? Just passed 100,000 views on this thread. And it feels like we just started! Probably because I've been stringing this along for over 200 comics pages and we still haven't even left Kerbin's SOI! But here's 5 more pages anyway
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    Oh yes. That was good for a snort every time my wife and I watched an episode. I always thought it odd that the n00b prisoners got to wear orange, then wore a different color once they were veterans
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    Fantastic, So much good stuff in here--really feeling it when Jeb pleads with Artie. And then absolute perfection at the end: "...I always wanted to fly an SSTO." That's our Jeb as he should be, in any S.A.V.E.!
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