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How the hell do you stay awake enough to play KSP?!?

Everything that doesn't violate the laws of physics. How much money is it?

Probably Alicia. I don't remember the actual storm, but I remember damage in the area afterwards.

Makes sense. I imagine there will be a zone of turbulence at the edge of the ring though, so not every plane would get sucked in. Some would end up get tossed around. It's still not going to be a good day to be a pilot nearby. Aside from the rotor/solid disc difference, would the difference in scale affect the situation? Gravity manipulation would have it's own interestingness. Does it affect just the ship? Does the effect extend beyond the ship, and if so, what would happen to an aircraft entering the affect?

What about the great rush of air out from under the ship? What effect would that have on the planes? Or on the vacuum? To keep the ship airborne, it would have to exert a downward force. Anything below the ship would have been destroyed before they even fired their weapon.

This looks interesting. Going to have to give it a try. Would it be possible for these to be set these independently in the future? I'd love to be able to see knots and feet for aircraft.

Well, once that bit of gear has done it's job, you don't need it. Any extra stuff you don't need to lift back to lunar orbit would be a waste of fuel. Also, if something were to go wrong during the landing, the crew could use the ascent stage as an abort. Build everything in one stage, and you don't have that option.

Houston, Roger

Just for you, the next time I use it, I won't jettison the side pods.

Real names or fake names?

It depends on how you define "stage". My recent landers have had a central core with the engine, fuel, and pod. Radial decouplers on the sides hold extra fuel tanks and the science modules. I'll land, do science, then hop to another location and do some more science. Once I'm done, I jettison the side pods, leaving them at the last landing site, and return in the central core. So how many stages is that?

Yes, but it's just right for planets and moons.

How very unimpressive of a concept. What's the point in a competition to see who can use time compression the most?

But you didn't do it in real time, you did it with time compression. What was your MET? I've seen a video of Kerbin to Mun and back in less than an hour. It was a while back, but I recall that it used a lot of SRBs.

Define "not advanced". Every spacecraft we've ever used has been advanced enough not to be vaporized, and anything less advanced isn't really a "spacecraft".

I'm sure Robert Scott will rejoice at the news when he gets back. He's only 102 years late checking in.

Too many times I've had this conversation: User: "I submitted my form, but now the system can't find it. Me: "Ok, what happened?" User: "Well, it popped up some error message, and I clicked ignore, and now my form isn't showing up." There is an undo. It's called quicksave/load.

So you didn't bother to check that the craft you are deleting is the one you want to delete? That's the purpose of the confirmation pop-up, to give you pause to make sure you are doing what you intend. I get tired of users not paying attention to the message that appear. I put those words in there to be read, because they give useful information. That said, a little checkbox that makes a ship not deletable would be useful.

We have. We will. Many times over, probably. We have. We will. Many times over, probably. It has. It will. Many times over, probably. Get used to the idea, or get out of the game. People will die. Columbus lost one-third of his ships on his first voyage across the Atlantic. A one way trip may be our best option for the foreseeable future. If people are willing to accept that, why do you insist that they be stopped? What risks are you willing to accept? If you want anything even close to Columbus's two-thirds ship survival rate, you're going to be waiting a long time, and spending a lot of money. There's never going to be any certainty of making the voyage, much less the return trip.

I could get hit by a truck walking out to check the mail. What are the chances the astronauts would be stranded with no way back on a one way mission? I'm guessing it's about 100%. If they go to stay, they know they're going to stay. History has shown that some people are fine with that.

I've not really been following development since the original author disappeared, so I wanted to check. Is the wiki still valid/up to date? Is there a better source for command reference for the current kOS version?

If your willing to pay, I'll sell you the one that's siting on my desk right now.

Third costliest hurricane in US history, $37.5 billion in damages. Have you ever seen someone paddle a kayak through your yard?

Spent an entire week without power after Hurricane Ike back in 2008.

Because private companies do things for profits. Governments don't need to. And there's just no profit in going to Mars yet.