Whirligig Girl

Yes but someone stole it from me before I could get to it.

Wernher was sleeping, sweet dreams about krakensbane and snacks. *KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK* Wernher woke up. "Come in." Wernher groaned. Jeb entered. "Since when do we sell out payload capacity to this mystery junk experiment that they won't talk about?" Jeb confronted. "Ever since we needed the funding for a space probe mission 10 times greater than any other mission in the past 50 years. We're pulling Sarnus-Fives out of mothballs but we still needed to develop the science hardware and the spacecraft and the lander. We're selling payload space and Dr. Zephram Kercrane payed for a lot. We're not going to risk that contract by being too nosy." Wernher explained. Jeb was fuming. "I am NOT going to risk the mission on a contract to test something that needs a metric crap-tonne of nuclear power! It could excite the anomaly, we don't know what it will do!" Wernher rolled his eyes. "Bob and I both agree it is safe. Bob is the scientific adviser for the Astronaut Corps. He's the authority on this matter. You'll have to bring this up with him." Jeb fumed away.

I am a supporter of Dres and all things Lumpy, so I like the runway. I'm kidding. I hate Dres.

Wernher was tired. He had just gotten back from a meeting with Rockomax Launch Conglomerate. He was keen on taking a short nap at his desk before his next meeting. Unfortunately, this just wasn't his day. A knock on his door, three knocks followed by a kick to the door. "Come in, Linus" Wernher sighed. "Good afternoon Dr. Von Kerman, how was your--" Linus started. "Get to ze point please Linus." Wernher was too tired for small-talk. "The United Kerbin Space Probe Agency's Joolno probe has found evidence of an entirely new type of anomaly in orbit around Jool. They've asked to schedule a meeting as soon as possible, their sensors seem to suggest it's going to be some pretty big news." Linus placed an envelope on Wernher's desk. Wernher looked at it, and decided to go through with the meeting. The press conference at the Kerbal Space Center was held inside the Astronaut Complex. Walt, Wernher, and Bob Kerman were sitting at a panel, a crowd of photographers and news reporters eagerly awaited the announcement. "Greetings Kerbelles and Kerbalmen, we have exciting news today about a new space probe program." Walt began. He motioned at Wernher to begin his announcement. "Last week, the United Kerbin Space Probe Agency discovered a new type of anomaly. It was found near the Joolean moon Bop, and has been presumed to be a result of Kraken activity strong in the Boppian area of space. As we all know, anomalies have been a major curiosity to the Kerbal Space Program and its related agencies for the past half century. They have ranged from mysterious spacecraft to magnetic abnormalities to SSTV transmitters. In what was thought to be an unrelated phenomenon, the Deep Space Kraken phenomenon has caused spacecraft mysterious problems related to some manner of spacetime distortions in physically stressful situations. For the first time a link between these two phenomenons, the Anomalies and the Krakens, has been found. A spherical object wandering around Bop has been detected that emits strange radiation. We are now ready to unveil the latest Space Probe Program, the Inversion Program. The Inversion Program will attempt to make up-close observations of the anomaly and try to identify what it's relation to other anomalies is. Unlike any other Space Probe program since the Munar and Dunar explorations nearly 40 years ago, the Inversion Program will be crewed." "Any questions?" Walt asked the audience. One of the reporters stepped up to a microphone. "What is the current theory as to what the new Anomaly is?" "The best explanation so far is that it is some kind of gravioli-funnel like a black hole or a neutron star, but much much smaller and less massive. But this is all hypothetical. The Inversion Program will greatly expand our knowledge on the subject." Wernher answered. Another reporter stepped up. "Who will be the astronauts for the Probes?" Bob stepped up to respond. "The veteran Astronauts Jebediah Kerman, Bill Kerman, and myself Bob Kerman will lead the first expedition, followed by a second crew led by Valentina Kerman, Halnie Kerman, and Kirrim Kerman." A particularly angry sounding reporter then charged up to the mic. "Are you aware of the possibility that perhaps Space doesn't WANT to be Probed? Maybe the Space Kraken is INTENTIONALLY trying to keep our devices out of space? Have you and your United Kerbin Space Probe Agency ever considered that? What if..." At this point security escorted the man out of the complex. 4 months until launch date, Jebediah was at the Horizontal Integration Facility inspecting the vehicle. It was an otherwise conventional rocket, the front end of a Kerpollo Command/Service Module welded to a large LV-N Powered transfer stage, with a nuclear reactor attached haphazardly to the rear between the fuel tank and the engine block. Jeb did notice a peculiarity. Two large nacelles hung off of aerodynamic struts on the reactor. He pulled an engineer aside. "Hey, eh, what exactly are those two thingamabobs on the side of the rocket?" The engineer was just as puzzled as to the function. "I don't know, some part test contract from some Zephram guy who's paying high-dollar for a test near the Anomaly. They're not telling us what it does, just how it needs to go on. Needless to say, it's hard to work with something you don't understand." The engineer wiped his brow. Jeb was flabbergasted at this. "In my day" he thought to himself "We knew exactly what greeble was stuck to the side of our probes and ships!" He decided to find Wernher and confront him about that.

Hey, I'm wondering how the heat mechanic on Pol works exactly. I'm trying to get Moho's heat back to it's old glorious burn, but my messing around with the temperaturecurve stuff yielded nothing. And yes, I did actually add an atmosphere to Moho.

The HypeTrain already runs mostly off of the hype of people on the train.

Exciting new theories on stellaronomy!

Yes. And much more. We're in metaspace, so SHUT UP AND ACKNOWLEDGE IT.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/115194-New-Imgur-album-embeds Yep.

I regret transferring to steam. There's more freedom from the store. But, the Store has no price cuts on steam sales.

This.

It's small and ugly and I hate it.

I would like to see someone try different equations for gravity. In addition to invers square, how about exponential, cubic, or even constant? Are orbits possible in constant gravity?

Wal orbits Urlum. (Sorry for the nitpick)

Actually, I have a better idea. Save Tal for Neidon. Put it around a Moon that's at the edge of Neidon's SOI. Triton-like captures tend to kick higher orbits much further out and keep inner orbits more stable. This means that you would find moons at the edge of Neptune's SOI very very far out. If you were to put a moon there, a subsatellite would be stable around that if the moon was large enough.

I think KSP would increase in awesomeness hugely if, when 64x Windows is stable, they dropped primary support for windows 32x. No one should be using a 32 bit computer by now, when 64-bit computers are ubiquitous. Obviously, don't just stop having a 32-bit version, but if we can get huge amounts of extra memory from 64-bit, so we could have awesome new parts or features and even new planets, then this is progress. But if loading textures as required can also do this with no major downsides, do that. Especially if you do have a 64-bit and you want to keep 32-bit.

64 bit KSP is unstable in 0.90 [snip] But seriously, we should not mourn the loss of 64 bit. It will no doubt come back with Unity 5. If you REALLY want 64bit you can still do the same thing that was done to make KSP 64-bit in the first place around 0.23.5. You go and download some files for 64-bit unity and replace the 32bit versions in your KSP files. I don't remember WHAT files, or where to find them, but I'm sure someone will find them soon enough.

There's a buldge there on the top... Is it supposed to be nonspherical?

No, we sped up by 32 kilometers/seconds

Please no. At the very least reposition Wal so it's much further away and therefore has a higher Hill-Sphere. At least run some orbital stability tests in something like Universe Sandbox. There's a reason there's no subsattellites in the real world (that are known). It's because they are nearly impossible to stay stable over long periods of time.

Of all the problems and not-problems of this idea, the one thing I have to nitpick is that Scientist/Pilot/Engineer stat is based on the Kerbal's name.

(Ahem) Unity 5 may have stable x64. If this is true, then it may eventually come back. But for now, x64 will not be stable enough to play with.

Twitter: @KSA_MissionCtrl has experimentals access. (Kenbob please add this to the Original Post under the other two pictures of Valentina Kerman)

How do non-mentioned mods fare in the tech tree? Does RLA Stockalike work with this pack? EDIT: which packs are needed from SXT? SpaceY takes care of Saturn V parts and TantaresLV takes care of N1 rocket, right?

If we could properly convert mid-travel that'd be great, in the meantime I've coupled a tracksewing vehicle to the back of the train so it can convert the track behind it to monorail, so any additional coaches can be monorail coaches.