Whirligig Girl

Kerbals are simple. Yet they are so fun. They are funny, they have personalities, they live, they die, but they are SO simple. They are a very simple set of rules and that's ALL they are. This defines Kerbalkind in all of it's glory. Rule number 1. All Kerbals like feeling weightless. Rule number 2. Kerbal pilots enjoy high speeds, their passengers don't. Rule number 3. Kerbal pilots don't mind spinning craft as much as their other passengers do. Rule number 4. Stupid kerbals enjoy spinning to a certain extent. Rule number 5. All kerbals panic at extreme spin. Rule number 6. Brave kerbals regain their composure faster. Rule number 7. Stupid Kerbals are quick to excite. This defines a specific Kerbal. Is he a "Recruit" or a "Crew"? What is his name? On a scale of 0 to 1, how brave is he? On a scale of 0 to 1, how dumb is he? Is he a Badass? Is he Dead? When will he sign up? And here's a random name generator for the Kerbs if you don't want the game to make one for you. Kerbals all have randomly generated names with pseudo-randomly generated stats, with a 10% chance of having the badass stat, except for the three starting crew whose names and stats are fixed: Jebediah Kerman, stupidity 50%, courage 50%, badass Bill Kerman, stupidity 80%, courage 50% Bob Kerman, stupidity 10%, courage 30% 1/20 chance of having a 'proper' name, chosen from a list 19/20 chance of name being prefix+suffix all last names are Kerman additionally, names containing the following are immediately rejected and a new name will be generated: "Kerbal", "Kerman", "eee", "rrr", and "Dildo" --- LIST OF PROPER NAMES --- Adam Al Alan Archibald Buzz Carson Chad Charlie Chris Chuck Dean Ed Edan Edlu Frank Franklin Gus Hans Jack James Jim Kirk Kurt Lars Luke Mac Matt Phil Randall Scott Scott Sean Steve Tom Will --- END OF PROPER NAMES --- --- LIST OF PREFIXES FOR RANDOMLY GENERATED NAMES --- Ad Al Ald An Bar Bart Bil Billy-Bob Bob Bur Cal Cam Chad Cor Dan Der Des Dil Do Don Dood Dud Dun Ed El En Er Fer Fred Gene Geof Ger Gil Greg Gus Had Hal Han Har Hen Her Hud Jed Jen Jer Joe John Jon Jor Kel Ken Ker Kir Lan Lem Len Lo Lod Lu Lud Mac Mal Mat Mel Mer Mil Mit Mun Ned Neil Nel New Ob Or Pat Phil Ray Rib Rich Ro Rod Ron Sam Sean See Shel Shep Sher Sid Sig Son Thom Thomp Tom Wehr Wil --- END OF PREFIXES FOR RANDOMLY GENERATED NAMES --- --- LIST OF SUFFIXES FOR RANDOMLY GENERATED NAMES --- ald bal bald bart bas berry bert bin ble bles bo bree brett bro bur burry bus by cal can cas cott dan das den din do don dorf dos dous dred drin dun ely emone emy eny fal fel fen field ford fred frey frey frid frod fry furt gan gard gas gee gel ger gun hat ing ke kin lan las ler ley lie lin lin lo lock long lorf ly mal man min ming mon more mund my nand nard ner ney nie ny oly ory rey rick rie righ rim rod ry sby sel sen sey ski son sted ster sy ton top trey van vey vin vis well wig win wise zer zon zor --- END OF SUFFIXES FOR RANDOMLY GENERATED NAMES --- And yet we can be as connected to the Kerbs as one is to their Sims or Norns, despite a complete lack of intelligence. What do you think?

Jebediah Kerman -Vallentined with 20 children. -Test Pilot for Kerbal Aeronautical Force. -Owner and Founder of Jebediah Kerman Junkyard and Spaceship Parts Co. -Plays Acoustic Guitar. -grows out beard and 'stach. -TOTAL BADS Bill Kerman -Older Brother of Bob and Jeb. -has a weird inter-species crush on my IRL friend Tiff. -Head Engineer at Jebediah Kerman Junkyard and Spaceship Parts Co. -Bisexual, once was boyfriend of James. -Looks after Jebediah and tries to keep him from his badS-ness. -Author of the bestseller book "Derptober Sky" -hates Mundays. -Has a KerLorean Motor Car. Bob Kerman -Younger Brother of Bill and Jeb. -Total Nerd. -Teacher of Mathematics at Kerbin City High -Was once the scientists at Jebediah Kerman Junkyard and Spaceship Parts Co. -Atheist -married Vall-entined (It's the same thing for Kerbals) to Desley Kerman. -a low amount of only 5 kids. Desley Kerman -Socially awkward due to bullying from siblings. -part of an EXTREMELY large family of 148 siblings, consisting of 4 pregnancies. Desley was in the first group, and she had only one sibling from that group who later died from hydrazine poisoning. -third female in a cockpit of any flyable kind. -first female in space. -Vallentine of Bob. -Designer of the space suit. -only 5 kids, very infertile. James -creepy. -white facial mask and red misapplied lipstick. -omnisexual. -might be a disguised alien. -used to be normal. Gregby Kerman (any name similarity to that of the CEO of Gregrox Inc. Bar, Grill, and Rocketry is purely coincidental, this was a randomly generated Kerbal that I had nothing to do with.) -*** change operation. -hates Bill. -stuck in geosync observatory. John Rockomax -CEO of Rockomax Conglomerate. -Kerbal Elon Musk. -Bill Gates Rich. -Vallentined to Londo Kerman with 34 kids. Jim Kerlington -CEO of Kerlington model rockets and paper products inc. -Not much is known of him. Chad Sven -Owner of C7 -is totally not a primate from an alien planet called Earth who created the universe.

Delete! Delete!

Don't forget the NASA pack that comes out right after it.

Nevermind I found it. It's PartCatalog What is the name of that mod-sorting plugin shown in the VAB in the first image of your post? I can't find it.

Yeah, while Squad's resource idea may not have worked for end-game, I think the ISRU it waaaay too important to not be implemented in some form, even if it's as simple as Kethane.

Sorry, No Mechjeb, but since the US government cannot do Ex Post Facto, neither should I. Add to the part count 5, just to be fair to future entries. All further entries may NOT have any mods, or they shall be disqualified, although it may still look cool.

I know it may seem like a great opportunity to find in-universe reason instead of out-of-universe reason, changing the scale that Kerbals use when they refer to meters will not make such a big difference that planets would be scaled down to 11%.

But why is it the same length as the Mk1 pod diameter? (no longer in debate mode, now in learning mode) Perhaps, since you are no longer a dev, they decided to round it off to smaller scale, or maybe they just made a mistake.

The new gui when you mouse over a part on the part list in the VAB has a line that says "1m" on it with a line that indicates the scale, and if you take that length and make it sideways, it is exactly equal to the diameter of the size 1 part. I think the problem is in inconsistency with part sizes in game and units in mods. This is evidenced by Ferram's testimony.

Rules are simple: No mods, build an orbital rocket with the fewest parts you can that uses only the White Radial Engine (Mark 55) and no Rockomax fuel tanks. The goal is to go as far as you can with the fewest parts and the lowest weight. I got to orbit with this. (73 Parts minus the pod and monoprop tank.) You must also use the 3-man pod and a full large RCS tank with no Thrusters (These are not in the part count, exclude them, but the parachute is in the part count if you use one.) This is to give an unneccesarily bigger challenge. You must also return safely to Kerbin. Remember NO RCS Thrusters or SRBs are allowed!

Wow, that's cool. But I can't help but think there's got to be a better way to build a Kerbal papercraft than pasting together hundreds of strips. As an ex-papercraft enthusiast, I would never build something that tedious.

It is actually in game that shows that the parts are 1 and 2 meter parts, NOT 1.25 and 2.5 meter parts. I'd like a dev to prove me right or wrong, either would be good, but the ACTUAL GAME says that the Mk1 command pod's diameter is 1 meter. EDIT: so my response clearly indicates, Lammatt, that there is a debate.

The sun also needs an atmosphere. It would be superheated like Moho's used to be, and you could not go very deep before overheating got you. This would provide another biome, and if you have sufficient heat radiation, you could get down very low for HUGE science boosts. If they implement Painting The Map, then mapping the sun should get huge boosts.

[EDIT] DISCLAIMER: Upon recent evidence, I am now even more confused, and it seems that there is a great inconsistency in the game versus out-of-game programs. Take everything further that I say with a grain of salt, and be sure to read throughout the rest of the page. The debate on what to call different sized parts has come to an end. If you haven't noticed, the part viewer window in the part palet shows a scale of 1 meter. Sonce the parts are drawn isometrically, no perspective, then from looking at any size 1 part it is evident that the part sizes are 1 and 2 meter, not 1.25 and 2.5 meter as previously thought, and CERTAINLY not 1 and 3 meters. If I'm not mistaken, the conception that parts are based on 1.25 meters comes from when people had to size their parts to 1.25 units. Clearly the meter in KSP equals 1.25 BasicUnitsâ„¢ for some reason, even if stock parts don't follow this rule. In the end, though, the KSP wiki states that they are called size (not meters or feet) 1, 2 and 0 parts, along with MK1, 2, and 3 fuselages. But if you have done math assuming that the diameter of parts is 1.25 meters, you might want to fix it.

Is this dead? I'd love to see continuation! EDIT: Didn't see the last post from February, I guess it's not dead then.

I only see one image.

Keep it up, this is awesome.

I like this. But I feel that a civil war is coming with all of the rebels on Kerbin, perhaps Jebediah doesn't like being a space-slave.

Can the sun's texture be changed? Not just the flare, but the actual texture that is seen when low over the sun.

I feel like I'm in zero-g when at school and I grab on to things and fling myself. Sometimes the straps on my backpack are jetpack handles.

Spaceplane hangar. Boats can not go to space for any practical reason, and it would simply clutter up the parts menu.

THe inefficiency comes from the dead weight that the engine has.

I have the same problem.

Funny how sarcasms and jokes are not transmitted through text, huh? I was just kidding.