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Just trying this out. Very nice. It brings life to the game. I have to agree with this. The lights were very dim compared to higher orbits. It's as though they just became splotches of color, and lost whatever quality it is they makes them look like lights. The other problem I had with LKO was the cloud layer. It does look good from higher altitudes, but in LKO, it appears as though the clouds are sitting on the top of the atmosphere. Edit: I think the issue is that the cloud layer seems to be moving very fast.

Submarines are not interesting because they can go under water. Any ship can do that. Submarines are interesting because they can come back up.

It's called "reefing". Run a line around the base of the chute and it will keep the canopy from fully opening. Once the line is cut, the chute is free to open. This allows the reefed chute to slow the vehicle somewhat. Allowing the chute to fully open a too high a speed would provide a sudden deceleration, resulting in damage to the chute, the vehicle, or more likely both.

I want to see them fix all those bugs they introduced in 0.22. It's completely unforgivaeable that they left us with the complete broken feature of... hold on, I'm just getting some new information... yes, I see... not released, you say... very well, then. Based on this new information, I would like to see 0.22 before I provide useless speculation on 0.23.

I've no problem with this, as long as it's an option I can turn off. It doesn't make a lot of sense to shake a camera that doesn't exist.

I think that's utter crap. The next crew to go to the moon should be the best applicants from the pool. By taking one of each country, we're not showing that we're dedicated to working together to get stuff done. We're showing that we are dedicated to creating the best photo-op possible. By taking the best qualified applicants, we're sending a message that we're doing it to get it done. We did the political moon mission in the '60s. Let's do the scientific missions now. As for the flag, does it really matter? How about we use the UN, or make a new one? Or, we could just skip the damn flag next time.

No, they were made of nylon.

This is odd. print "a" + eta + "b". works, but print "a" + eta. doesn't. Very strange and inconsistent. We may just need to wait for version 0.90 to level out. It might just be that we are looking at a transitional point in the way expressions are parsed, and the author needs to finish a half done job before everything starts making sense again.

This is working for me: print "Apoapsis in " + eta:apoapsis + " seconds". The two problems I'm noticing now are using "throttle" in a loop control and steering. "lock steering to prograde" no longer follows prograde, but keeps pointing in the direction prograde was when steering was locked.

Try (in a program): lock steering to heading 90 by 90. lock throttle to 1. [i]wait until 0 = 1.[/i] See if that acts any differently.

Is the program ending?

Kerbals don't use kash. They use kredit kards, of kourse.

If all variables have global scope, you don't need to worry about passing anything back. You just have to be very careful with variable names.

Because it costs money to maintain. If we're spending that money on an outdated station, we can't spend that money on the brand new <insert politically popular project here>.

Because space tourism is a thing that happens now, but space manufacturing isn't? However, I do see cheap tourism developing after industry brings about a reduction in launch costs.

Have you taken into account the environment it's meant to be used in? Insulation, cooling, heating, hardened electronics, redundancy, over-engineering for safety, etc?

Current #1 reason that KSP is not like NASA: I'm still able to play KSP...

It affects a lot more than national parks. Government agencies are running with only "essential personnel", with everyone else sent home. No business is to be conducted, except for work that ensures safety and health of people. http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/09/politics/government-shutdown-impact/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 It's like two spoiled children, fighting over a toy. Each one realizes that he can't have it to himself, so to keep anyone else from playing with the toy, they burn the place to the ground.

I'm going to work in a bit so they can tell me to go home. The last email we had yesterday said that our company might allow us to use our vacation time to cover hours.

What got me interested in spaceflight? Nothing did. I have no abnormal interest in space. I grew up a stone's throw from Johnson Space Center. My mother worked for a contractor. My father was a civil servant. He started on Apollo-Soyuz, and moved on to Shuttle. I had to learn the Orbiter Vehicle numbers, because he didn't know them by name. There were always friends and coworkers around talking shop. Our entire neighborhood was NASA people, except for the college professors that lived across the street. Shannon Lucid lived one street over, so I went trick-or-treating at an astronaut's house. Our house was full of pictures and artifacts. I remember the piece of Columbia's tile encased in plastic; there was also a large chunk of title sitting on the shelf. During a mission, the TV was tuned to the NASA channel. I was nine when we lost Challenger. Onizuka was a friend of my father, and his daughter was on my sister's soccer team. T-38s were a constant sight in the sky, and a constant sound. I remember that we'd have a fire drill every time one of the shuttles was being transported through so we could all go out and see it. It made sense; nearly all the kids a school were NASA kids. And now, after going away to college and moving back, I am working for a contractor at JSC. So, yeah. Spaceflight isn't something one has an interest in. It's just what people do. It's as natural as breathing.

0.15, I think. They're on the surface, and they're still alive:

Nope. Look again. The set.. to commands are in the log file you are modifying, so you are never trying to print a quote, you simply append a command that tells it to print a concatenated group of variables. The variables just happen to each contain a string of length 1, so you are building your string without ever using a quote. Yeah, just tested it. testmod.txt contains: log "print h + e + l + l + o." to log. log.txt contains: set h to "h". set e to "e". set l to "l". set o to "o". >run testmod. <Program ended. log.txt contains: set h to "h". set e to "e". set l to "l". set o to "o". print h + e + l + l + o. >run log. <hello <Program ended. As I said, it's a pain, but it is doable.

If it's labeled stock, it should be stock. Not knowing what you're talking about, though, is it possible someone forgot that they had a mod part on it? Honestly, no offense meant because I realize that we all play this game differently. I just cannot fathom why you would build something that you don't intend to fly.

It's a pain, but: In the modifying program: log "print h + e + l + l + o." to modified. In the modified program: set h to "h". set e to "e". set l to "l". set o to "o".

I stick a couple Sepratrons on my lander. Bind an action group to decouple the port and activate those engines, point the stack in the right direction, and be done with it.