Paprika

All this talk of green gas is making me think of Timesplitters! No takers for the cloud-dwelling photosynthetic micro-organism idea? More on topic, just in case, Will it be easier to go to a planet closer to the sun than Kerbin, or to go to one further away?

Maybe it's floating clouds of photosynthetic micro-organisms (hence the greenness) that we'll need to go get samples of when all the story modes come about

Woah! I know where I'm going next time I want a tan

I wasn't trying to make a suggestion, I was trying to say what you said, but I went about it in a very garbled and incomprehensible way. I need to read what I write in future to make sure I don't spout any more nonsense, haha. Sorry for any confusion.

I get big lag when near to kerbin so I use it for take-off, it prevents unwanted manslaughter of kerbals. It's great for targetted landings too if I want to rescue a rare survivor, I can't figure out how it gets so close to the target site yet.

I think if it's something like that people will end up calling it 'Des' like it's a happy-go-lucky chubby bloke playing darts in an east end pub. I'm sure it'll be christened something wholly suitable and appropriate to the kerbal space program universe. If you rendezvous two craft, do you think we'll be able to IVA and wave at each other through the windows?

Not the gorram reavers! Awesome stuff!

is one of your mods MechJeb? There's a bit on that that tells you your thrust to weight, I think it's in the vessel information. I tend to do pre launch 'launches' just to check that and make sure it's going to take off ok. If not, there's an equation to work it out in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw0NyPWWP4U&feature=plcp < That video.

Thought that was going to be a 'It's ready!' thread for a second there. Now I'm sad.

That's not fear, he's shouting 'faster!'

I play this on my laptop so this would make me a happy bunny too, however I think they said they're focusing on making things work first, and then optimising later. I'm happy to wait though, I'm used to laggy games!

Brilliant, thank you!

Anyone know what "* Implemented dynamic walk cycle blending for EVA Kerbals under G levels between 0.17 and 1G " means? It's posted in the 0.17 thread by Harvester.

Time to recreate Sunshine!

Haha! Nice avatar on there! Romantically Apocalyptic is awesome. Back on topic we go! With the planets really close to the sun, or moons really close to each other or their planets, would it be possible to get an orbit in a figure of eight going round them both?

0.1.7 is bringing some time acceleration modes that keep the physics going, I assume that would enable speeding up time while burning the engines. Edit: Ninja'd by Spoot Knight

The challenge is this: EVA out of a moving craft travelling through the arch, and using the EVA pack jump over the arch (so the Kerbal goes over the arch while the craft goes through it) Then get back in the ship and land. I hope that makes sense, I don't think I worded it very well. If it helps, I was thinking of Bart Simpson jumping over a sign while his skateboard goes under it when I thought of this. I haven't tried this yet, I only just got to the Arch today (turns out if you try to stand on it you slip and ragdoll helplessly to your death) but may attempt it tomorrow if I can manage to repeat the feat. If I do I'll try to post before, during and after pics. Also, sorry if someone's posed this challenge before, although a brief search didn't turn anything up.

CoG is Centre of Gravity Edit: also, in the thread in the development bit, Harvester keeps updating it as to how far all the individual bits are coming along.

Does this mean there will be changes implemented to the categories and things? Surely it wouldn't have done that if nobody had been doing things with the code there? Props to you for this Hitchcock-style suspense building!

Google says "18 U.S. dollars = 11.4678899 British pounds" If you type (number)USD in GBP into google it converts Dollars to pounds automatically, I use it all the time.

Your ship's in one piece which is a lot better than my first moon landing! Do you have any RCS fuel left? You could try to get it upright with those maybe.

At what distance does the sun turn from the light source look seen in that rover-jumping picture to the gorgeous detail it now has close up? Would be awesome to have a planet with that looming over it. Also was that a picture of the prison planet from Chronicles of Riddick someone posted? That's exactly what I thought of when I heard about Charr, I like the way you think!

Do a crazy Ivan! I, too, have trouble moving them but I guess it's like boats, the bigger ones will always be less nimble.

Looking like I was right! (I said this back when only the red one had been revealed) Loving all the new stuff.

I tell you what, the day when I open up KSP and it tells me there's an update waiting's gonna feel like christmas morning! These pictures look awesome. Can't wait to accidentally strand people on all these moons and things!