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There was a cartoon based on Pac-Man. It ran along with a cartoon based on Rubik’s Cube. I would think those are somewhat less plot fodder than KSP.

I remember seeing it, but I never played it.

All age categories are rather arbitrary. *shakes cane* Someday you younguns will understand that!

You weren't around in the '80s, huh? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_programs_based_on_video_games

"Well, of course. Would you get in that craft sober?!?

A couple of co-workers were discussing it at the office one day, so I found the demo. After playing that for a few weeks, .16 was released, so I bought it. They hadn't been following the development, so I got to see some great reactions when they saw a Kerbal on EVA.

Yeah. One of my favorites was the guy running a website, who told me to stop using "highly technical terms, like 'clicking' and 'dragging'".

You might want to check on that again.

I worked tech support for a while. I loved the work, hated the job. I work somewhere else now, and I find that I enjoy playing with computers again. Your guess may be correct in some cases, but it is wrong in many, as well. Some work there because it's the job that gives them a paycheck. Or it's something they once loved, but can barely stand now, but they can't find another job that pays well enough to make a change. Or hate the job, but are just trying to hang on another couple years to retirement. The idea of working somewhere is a lot shinier than actually working there. When I was in college, there were two kinds of students in the Computer Science department, with a very visible divide. Those who did it because they loved it, and those that did it because they heard it paid well. Yup. The ones that get moved up to manager. Growing up in this area of Houston, I've seen enough NASA folks move on to other stuff when they got bumped from "doing stuff" to herding people. I know Dad's a lot more laid back since he semi-retired.

Even if you like what you're doing when you start, even a great job can become "just a job". There are a lot of people working at NASA that neither know nor care much about the space program; they just do what they get paid to do. (Note: The tourists on the trams pay money to be there. The employees have to be paid to show up.) Because when you're doing the same thing for your job and as your hobby, you can get a little burnt out. Of course, there are still people that work in the aerospace industry and enjoy Kerbal. I don't know if the percentage is any higher than in the general population, though.

That depends on how exactly you want to define "land". I mean, they were still alive after all the pieces stopped moving/exploding.

Manned missions can also use SSTV: Also, the portraits aren't necessarily video feed to the ground. They're just there to let us see our Kerbals' reactions.

This is much appreciated.

That leaves the possibility that someone would fill the people tank with liquid fuel. Does this convert the fuel tank to a Hitchhiker type storage can or a command pod? Would it be possible to make two types of refit modules, to convert to either storage can or pod?

I'm glad to see this updated, but is there any way you can post this on a download site that does not try to download over 50MB to my computer?

Oh ***. There goes the planet.

Light speed is too slow. He's gone right to ludicrous speed!

As far as I know, it is planned. Great. Now I'm picturing the Kerbal's space stations as giant hamster habitats.

Monarchy. After free and fair elections, I counted the votes and discovered I had been elected their king.

I've been using the old one. It seems to work. (Although I haven't been playing much lately, so I cannot vouch for high levels of testing.) I am glad there is an official .20 version now. Thank you.

"The Evil Daystar" works for me. Oh, you meant the one in game. Usually "the sun" if I need to, maybe Kerbol. I usually don't talk about it, so I don't have a usual name for it.

That's the old version; how this originally worked. Currently, you have a "tank" full of a resource called "spare parts" that you transfer into another "tank" on your spacedock in the same way that you transfer fuel or monopropellant. Your original vehicle is not disassembled to provide the parts.

But what if the base is on Minmus, or Ike, or so forth? Munbases are a subset of moonbases, just like Mun is one of the moons in the game.

Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd, Bach, Joan Baez, Beatles, Wagner, and the Bedlam Bards make up the large part of my KSP playlist, along with the original game music.

If you do actually get RemoteTech to work with your beautiful piece of work, would you be able to control RemoteTech's flight computer?