Whirligig Girl

Okay, I'll do that. Updating to 0.90 now. Finally I can do my science fair project in Realism Overhaul now. - - - Updated - - - I must've misplaced a zero. Or four of them. Will fix.

Someone definitely needs to try and make a 1% Scale config for this. KSC would be perched on top of a hill or something, but it would totally be worth it just to be able to hug Gilly.

These are the coolest trees I ever heard of in Sci-Fi. Thank you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade Hold your breath.

Look at the OP. I say there is some A.I. Controlled artificial selection process pushing for this.

1/100 Earth is what I said. The link goes to 1/10 scale Kerbin. - - - Updated - - - Not Earth mass, not Earth density. It's fine tiuned so that it's at 1g at the surface. That's how hypothetical rescales of planets work.

Imagine you have a world like THIS, 1/100 the scale of Earth. 6 Kilometer Radius. Would it be possible for biological creatures in such a world to evolve the capability to orbit their little world? Let's imagine it's based upon a hypothetical robot-controlled experiment which artificially selects for this type of thing. Perhaps it starts with a species of bird. Could a creature hypothetically come into being which could-of it's own accord-fly into orbit around it's planet? (Note that the point of this thread isn't about trying to ask whether such a thing is possible, but rather to explain how it might be possible. Basically, I want this, and I want it to be as realistic as possible given the unrealistic setting. The atmosphere isn't a problem in this hypothetical universe. Same as it isn't on Kerbin.) Let's take a little look at the facts. -The Delta-V to orbit for a largeish scale rocket in this world is about 1200 meters per second. The size matters, because a smaller object has more air resistance. This is why super-duper-tiny rockets aren't found on Earth, even though strictly speaking you could scale down a rocket and keep the same delta-v. -Orbital Velocity is about 750 m/s -Biological photovoltaics is possible. This could mean that a creature could drink a very large amount of water and then convert that into hydrogen and oxygen. But the Isp of a gaseous hydrogen-oxygen rocket is horrible. Perhaps a Methane-Gas Air-breathing Jet engine could push a creature to perhaps 50% of orbital velocity, and then it could use some other source to push it the rest of the way. -Biological matter is notoriously flammable, so that might be a problem! But, as the saying goes, "life will find a way." -The fastest Earth Bird can go about 83 meters per second. Orbital velocity is about 9 times that. Let's assume the creatures have a subaverage human-level intellect (Neanderthals, perhaps?), which would allow them to think, use tools, and do a whole lot of social stuff. Perhaps you could find a group of Rocketcreatures who have decided they want to go to their moon, so they try and use all the resources they have to get someone into space with the resources to push forwards to the Moon!

Oh, yeah. That'd be neat.

Mechjeb... Dangit. Near the end of the tech tree, perhaps you might get an insanely rare Kerbanaut, that of a copy of Jeb's Brain stuck inside a robot. It would be able to do more advanced stuff... NO! MECHJEB IS CHEATS!

Tier 2 to Tier 3 Research and Development Facility Upgrade: 3,180,000 Funds. Wot. None of the other facilities have that big a price increase, not even the VAB. Surely this was a misplaced zero. Surely. And if not, then it must be reduced anyway, this is truly just too much. I'm going to cheat through this, making sure to have the same amount of money I would have if I only spent 318,000 funds.

I may be slightly pedantic, but it hurts when someone refers to "Kerbal" as the planet, "Kermin" as a Kerbal, or "Jeb Kerbol" As a specific pilot. So here's a list of translations to help you know what you're talking about with all these Ker- words, in real world terms. Kerbol=The Sun (Strictly speaking it's a fan name for the Sun, the Sun is what the Sun is called in-game) Kerbin=Earth Kerbal=Human (Kerbal can also be an adjective that means "Like or Similar to a Kerbal", usually stupidly awesome) Kerbonaut=Cosmonaut or Astronaut. It is not an official term, in game it's the Astronaut Complex, but we use it all the time anyway. I like to think that a Kerbonaut is a player of KSP. Exploring Kerbals. Kerman=Williams (A very common last name) Kermen=No such thing. Kirmin=No such thing. Kermin=No such thing. Kirman=No such thing. Kerbo="Man" As in refering to all humans, it's an old term from before the game was even started. Don't use this term. Kerbalkind=Mankind or Humankind All of these are not things. They are mispronunciations and incorrect spellings and all the bad stuff. They are also not words. So there's all the Ker- words explained. But what about the other words that you don't know? Well, here: Moho=Brown Mercury Eve=Big Purple Venus Gilly=A tiny little rock that orbits Eve. Kerbin=Earth The Mun=The Moon (Mun can be pronounced "Myoon", "Muhn", or even "Moon") Minmus=A second Moon for Kerbin. Minimas=Not a thing. Minimas is not a word in KSP. (In Latin, I think, it means "the smallest of a group", which is interesting.) Duna=Mars Ike=Another planet that orbits with Duna (Realistically, the two would be a double-planet system). No real life analog, except perhaps Charon, which orbits Pluto. Dres=Boring Ceres Jool=Green Jupiter Laythe=Ocean Moon of Jool. (Gravitationally it's orbit resembles Io's orbit around Jupiter) Vall=Mountainous blue Europa Tylo=Giant White Ganymede Bop=A Small moon of Jool. Pol=An even smaller moon of Jool. Eeloo=Cracky Pluto. (Well, we don't know if Pluto is cracked or not. We don't have any good pictures of it yet.) What about other phrases that are applicable in the real world and moreso in KSP? Aerobraking=using the air to slow down. Air pressure and shock heating may cause problems. And it's prnounced "Air-Oh-Braking", not "Air-Ee-Oh-Braking" (I'm looking at you, Andrew Hansen) Lithobraking=Using the lithosphere, (the ground) to slow down. In KSP, this is usually a destructive process that leads to Rapid Unplanned Disassembly. Delta-V=Delta V is the Natural Logarithm of the Mass Ratio, multiplied by the exhaust velocity. (It's how much speed you can change, or how much you can fire your rocket) Note, I don't actually expect you to know the above formula, that was a joke. In KSP, it's measured in Kilometers per Second or Meters per Second. Delta-V is not a unit of measurement. You can not have 2,340 Delta-V. You have 2.34 Kilometers Per Second of Delta-V. Specific Impulse=Also called Isp (Impulse that is SPecific), it's like your car''s mileage. It's the efficiency of a rocket engine measured in seconds. For a bit of awareness as to what this means, because you don't have any reference point, 400 seconds is at the limit of chemical rocket efficiency, while anything below 120 seconds is practically useless. 340 seconds is the midpoint for high-thrust, medium efficiency rocket engines. Liquid Fuel=A mixture of Gasoline, Alcohol, Acid, and anything else that will burn. Or maybe it's whatever fuel your engine needs to burn. Point is, it's a fluid that burns readily in the presence of oxygen. Oxidizer=A compound made of oxygen and maybe something else. Dinitrogen Tetroxide, perhaps? Maybe it's just Liquid Oxygen. It's what makes the fuel burn, because there's no air in space. Monopropellant=Also called a "monogolic fuel", it's a fuel that decomposes with a catalyst instead of burning with another chemical. Hydrazine or Hydrogen Peroxide are good examples. It's used in RCS thrusters, but they have bad efficiency. There are also some neat-o Kerbals in the world which we all love, here are their names, roles, and if applicable, their real-world counterparts. Jebediah Kerman=Our number 1 astronaut. Be he Alan Shepard, Yuri Gagarin, or Neil Armstrong, he is our most beloved and most badass Kerbal. Bill Kerman=He's the engineer. He is also very stupid. BILL is the STUPID one. Bob Kerman=He's the Scientist. He's rather smart. BOB IS THE SMART one. Seriously please stop mixing the above two up. Valentina Kerman=The first female kerbal of the list, and the only one in-game with a non-randomly-generated name. Her name derives from Valentina Tereshkova, first ever woman in space, launched by the soviets in 1961. No woman followed her into space until almost exactly 20 years later, when Sally Ride became America's first woman in space. Wernher von Kerman=The chief scientist at the Kerbal Space Center. He's a reference to Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who invented the V-2 missile and later the Saturn 5 moon rocket when he worked with the Americans. Gene Kerman=Gene Kranz, head of mission control. Not to be confused with Gene Cernan, who was Apollo 10, 17 and Shuttle astronaut. Bobak Kerman=He doesn't appear in the game, but he does appear in the official short animated trailers. He's the mission control guy with the mohawk, just like Bobak Ferdowsi on the Curiosity rover team. Mortimer Kerman=The old wrinkly money guy at KSC. "He's an accountant, called Mortimer. He doesn't have many friends, but he likes things to be under control and arranged in right angles. This job is pretty stressful for him." Linus Kerman=Wernher's intern. "Linus is Wernher Von Kerman's Intern. Because Wernher himself is too important to be bothered with these boring strategy meetings. He sends his intern in his stead." Walt Kerman=PR guy for the Kerbal Space Program. He wears the hazmat suit, which was originally an alternate space suit model that Squad scrapped. "Walt Kerman is the spokesperson for the Space Program. He wears a hazmat suit. Which isn't strictly required for his job, but it seems appropriate for someone working in such a toxic environment." Gus Kerman=The head of engineering and operations. Think Scotty from Star Trek. "Gus Kerman is head of Space Program Operations and all-around repairs guy whenever something around here breaks down. We hope nothing catches fire while he's here." Perhaps based on Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom, a Mercury/Gemini astronaut and Apollo astro... oh my god I just got that joke at the end and that's horrible, Squad. Yeah, Gus was the guy who made Gemini less like Mercury and more like a proper fighter plane type ship, and also one of the astronauts who died in a fire on Apollo 1. That's just... Wow. I'd heard people mention the fire joke and how bad it was, but I didn't see why until just now. Squad, you have to remove that. Okay, so on a lighter note, but still very serious, VERSION NUMBERS!!!! Yay! 0.90 is NOT 0.9. 0.9 added struts among other things, 0.90 added giant spaceplane parts and upgradeable buildings. Numbers are not decimal. 1.0.2 is NOT 1.02. There was never any version 1.02. 1.0.2 is NOT 1.2., etc. It works like this: 0.21.2 Major Version Number (Alpha/Beta) Minor Version Number (21st since development started) Revision Version Number (Revision Patch two) Some people don't quite know what SAS and RCS means. Here's a bit of help. RCS=Reaction Control System. It's the little attitude thrusters. Almost every manned spacecraft use this system. Saying RCS system is redundant for the same reason saying ATM machine is redundant. SAS=Sickness Avoidance Scheme. It got more complicated in version 0.21 when SAS was overhauled. It became an automated system inside tha capsules, and Advanced Stability Augmentation System units became Inline Stabilizers/Reaction Wheels. It got even more complicated in 0.90 when only pilots were allowed to use it. So it became not a computer program at all, unless you are using probes. So in the current, 1.0 version of the game, this is how it works. When there is no pilot, probe core, or fly-by-wire module installed=SAS is a dark grey light on the Navball that does not work or mean anything. When you have a pilot=Sickness Avoidance Scheme (The pilot himself is actually holding the ship stable, not a computer module. Turning on SAS is just communicating to Jeb, "please stabilize the ship. You can do it buddy. You're a pilot!" When you have a low-tech probe core.=Such as the Stayputnik probe core, where SAS is a dark grey light on the Navball that does not work or mean anything. When you have a probe core.=Stability Augmentation System. Turning it on is giving a computer command to the device to stabilize the ship. When you have a Fly-By-Wire module=Stability Augmentation System, but the kerbal thinks it's a Sickness Avoidance Scheme. Turning it on is telling the Kerbal to input a computer command to stabilize the ship. FBW modules are only used when you have no pilot and you want your ship to be flyable. Note that Reaction Wheels and Inline Stabilizers are NOT SAS modules A gentle reminder on the most mispelled simple words. Your=Something that belongs to you. (I believe this is your Turbopump design, Dr. Von Kerman?) You're=Short version of You Are. (You're a pretty good pilot, Jeb.) Two=The number 2. (One Two Three) To=expressing motion in the direction of a particular location. (I am going to fly my spaceship to the moon.) Too=More than what you want (I was going too fast for orbital insertion!) They=Those people. Their=The stuff they own. They're=Short version of They Are. Kerman's=Something that Mr. Kerman owns. Kerbals=Multiple Kerbal. Kerbal's=Something that a Kerbal owns. Do not use Apostrophes (') when making things plural (multiple/more than one.) And a bit of a thing from ParameciumKid: SSTO: Single Stage To Orbit. This means nothing about which way the ship is facing on takeoff or landing or about whether it has wings. Spaceplane: A plane in space, but not necessarily an SSTO. The Space Shuttle is an example of a spaceplane that rides a rocket to orbit and is then able to fly as a plane on the way down. SSTO Spaceplane: A spaceplane which is also an SSTO. VTOL: Vertical Take-Off and Landing. Synonymous with VTVL (Vertical Takeoff and Vertical Landing). Thanks a lot ParameciumKid! Hope this helps. This has expanded further than I had originally thought back in late 2014!

Rescue a stranded planet? Planets like Kerbin are waaaay too big to move, sorry. Okay, fine, I'll be more specific. Here's the translation: Kerbin=Earth Kerbal=Human (Kerbal can also be an adjective which means "Similar to a Kerbal.") Kerman=Williams (A very very common surname) Kerbal Space Center=Kennedy Space Center Kerbal Space Program=NASA, ESA, or some other space agency. Kerbol=A Fan name for The Sun. Kermin=No such thing. Some people like to use this to refer to female Kerbals, though. Kermit=A Frog from The Muppets. Mun=The Moon Minmus=A second moon of kerbin Duna=Mars Eve=Venus Moho=Mercury Dres=Ceres Jool=Jupiter Eeloo=Pluto

The irony is that I still love playing TF2. OH GOD IS THAT WHAT YOUR BAKED GOODS ARE MADE OUT OF??? Whenever something horrifically bad happens in either sandbox or career mode, I feel like I can't just revert. That would be a major CheatyMcCheaterson. If I suspect something very bad is about to happen, I'll quicksave before it happens and try my best to fix the problem. If it doesn't work, I'll quickload and try it again/something different.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Remove the Toolbar dependency. We have the stock App Launcher.

I think we need the Mk1 Lander Can earlier in the tech tree. By the time you get it you already have 2.5m parts and the window on the pod is useless for landing. And it doesn't really make sense that we have to make our poor Kerbanauts use that tiny window on the Mk1 pod, when the lander can would be so much better. I don't even know HOW my pilots can land on the Mun in a Mk1 pod. They can't even look down! See the entry "Pilot View" Here: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/landing.php

Now that we have tweakables (since 0.23!), can we make Nukes burn fuel only?

The radially attached versions make no sense and are even LESS realistic than the stock reaction wheels. If reaction wheels are remade, you definitely must make sure you remove the aesthetics which make them look mostly like computers. The current Advanced Inline Stabilizer has a computer board looking top and bottom, and the Size 2 reaction wheel is completely hollow! It looks like it was modeled on a S-IVB Guidance Computer. The reaction wheels need to be redesigned to actually look like reaction wheels.

"I'm an engineer" Bill started. "And that means I solve problems. Not problems like 'what is the Mun', because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of astronomy." Bill took a sip of and then set down his Mountain Dew, and continued to play his arratiug. "I solve practical problems." Some meteors fell from the sky, showering the immediate area with debris. "For instance, how am I gonna stop some big mean meteroid from tearing me a structurally superfluous new backend? The answer:" A small rocket shot out of the ground towards a particularly large rock. "Use a booster." Then a particularly humongous rocket began falling from the sky towards the area. "And if that don't work..." A very large rocket with an Advanced Grabbing Unit swooped the rocket debris out of the sky. "...Use more Booster." "Like this: Tri-leg mounted little ol' rocket designed by me. Built, by me. And you best hope... It's pointed at a rock falling towards you." Bill was never a competent Kerbal. Nor was he as competent astronaut. Nor was he... competent at all. But for some strange reason he was absolutely genious at putting together rockets out of whatever strange junk and scrap metal Jebediah could find for him.

Becoming an astronaut is never easy. You just have to hope that once you're picked to be in a space program, you're going to a good one. Everyone wants to be part of Scott Manley's space program, and everyone wants to be on a KSPTV Streamer like Shimmy or Kofeyh, and there are a whole lot of space programs no one wants to be in. Xactar, for instance, can be rather cruel, but he seems to value us to some extent, if not only for some small amount of conversation. And he does apologize whenever one of his Kerbal astronauts dies. But there's one space program none of us want to be redirected to. One shudders to imagine what inhuman, unkerbal thoughts lie behind that screen, what dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty. I was once happy to meet the famous Jebediah Kerman. When I mentioned the Two Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty Second space program, his badass smile drooped. "I fear no director. But that... thing... It scares me." Throughout all of Kerbin Prime, The Director of that space program goes by many names. "The Torturer", "The Killer", "Xactar's Evil Twin", "Danny." This space program has never held a good reputation since Stardate Zero-Fourteen. Since then, he has shown not only disregard for all kerbal life, but a disdain for it. He once taunted his kerbals with a nice christmas tree. Of death. He once promised he wouldn't kill a bunch of us, then magic'd some Solid Fuel Boosters on top of the ship. This madman makes us all shudder. There's millions of astronauts, and only one Danny. My story is no worse than any other of Danny's Kerbals. My name is Kirrim. I used to be called Anbur. I went from Hero to Zero, just like that. I was once one of Scott Manley's Kerbanauts, one of the more prestigious in fact. I was a special agent, deploying a space satellite. One wrong touch of the wire... anyway I'm sure Manley would merely have used the power of Eff-Fiev to fix that. But instead of reverting, I was reborn at the astronaut megacomplex on Kerbin Prime. I was quickly shuffled into the Astronaut Line, and then... The horror of the moment made me drop down into tears as many Kerbals of this space program do upon being hired. I was chosen for The Two Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty Second space program. Worse of all, The Torturer cloned me, and would not hesistate to recreate me any time I died. And the thing about death in Danny's universe. I've seen the other side. I've been there. There's nothing there. But I've finally been respawned, and due to a glitch in the system, I'm back on Kerbin Prime. And there's only one thing I can ask before I have to be chosen again. Danny2462, Please don't pick me.

I was streaming on my own channel, launching a 32 Kerbal train to Duna. The launch failed, and I panicked to get all the Kerbals out of the ship before impact. They all got out, but eight of them died on impact. Seeing all the Kerbals standing there, horrified, and it was the first time when I really felt like Kerbals were real "human" beings. In a meta kind of way, they kind of are. People cry for fictional human characters in books or movies, so why not feel sad for the Kerbals? Even though their real intelligence is practically non-existent, this was the first time I felt sad for Kerbals. It's now hard to watch Danny2462. Maybe it was because these Kerbals were in vast numbers, and were merely passengers.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=139&day=2014-12-20 We're going to the North Pole of Duna in the HypeTrain. Starts at 12:00 EST.

Dadivan Zilef. My friend bought me a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool. And she made a special card and translated "Merry Christmas" into spoken Kerbalese. She did not realize until after I tried to translate the strange phrase myself that she didn't need to translate it from spanish. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

Aaaaaaaaaand now my Mk3 part textures are white.

For one, structural panel was missing. When he fixed that, the station exploded. The same thing happened to my shuttle. It was a re-enactment of gravity. To be clear, I still love this mod! And also, I think it's only ships with the extendable solar panels that explode. OX-STAT is fine. And it doesn't happen on all ships. I shall do more tests!

Not on KSPTV.