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Whirligig Girl

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  1. Oh, come on. It's supossed to be stockalike, I think it should go all the way.
  2. I think it would be cool to use scientific instrument data, where you have to go ot the body in question, and send a probe to get the correct gravitational readings, as well as atmospheric data. Then you could send your craft into a room that looks like a very old 3D vector graphics game with variable terrain, and gravity and atmosphere set to what the probe's data sent back. The craft's height could be adjusted, and you could set the amount of fuel the ship should have in it.
  3. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/44540-Rockomax-Mainsail-and-Poodle-art-pass-and-new-Rockomax-Twins-Engine-%28W-Pictures%29/page1 Here you go.
  4. The thing is, Rockomax Conglomerate is a real company, but Jebidiah Kerman Junkyard and Spaceship Parts Inc, literally uses junk, yet the rockets look more advanced.
  5. When I was a kid, I watched over and over and over a documentary called "If We Had No Moon" (narrated by Patrick Stewart! although I didn't even care about Star Trek when I was a kid) If the Theia (Called "Orpheus" in the documentary) impact happened differently, we could have had two moons... For a few million years. a moon formed from a single Theia impact can not create two stable moons. One is either flung out, collides with earth, or collides with the other moon. But, it's possible to imagine that two different impacts with different parameters occurred, which might create two stable moons if they are in a good resonance that doesn't flung each other out. It's possible the Apollo Missions sent spacecraft to the closest moon, then a totally different program sent missions to the other moon. Even more fascinating is if the Apollo missions visited each moon in the same mission, or perhaps there were steps, like Apollo 11 landed on Moon1 and Apollo 13 or so landed on Moon2. The most fascinating idea were if two bodies capable of sustaining intelligent life in the same orbital system. Imagine if the Moon really did have oceans. While Galileo is pointing his telescope at the Moon, Neil Moonstrong is climbing aboard the Command Module to land on Earth with an Earth Excursion Module. You'd only really need a Saturn IB Rocket to get to Earth, as de-orbiting from the Moon would be much easier than transfering to the Moon. I am assuming for the purposes of a thought experiment that both planets have humans on them, and similar histories.
  6. Great! I think the cone should be longer, and the pipe going across the nozzle is tapered like the Saturn V engine. See how it is sort of getting thinner towards the front?
  7. The Mainsail has not been changed visually since it's release in 0.16, and it kinda looks bad compared to other engines. My design makes it a sort of combination of the SSME and F-1 Engines. The Poodle also has only had a texture pass, which is good, but I think it should look more like what many people use it for-a Service propulsion Engine for a C/SM. Of course these engines would stay the same size so craft wouldn't break. Then, sometimes you just don't have enough TWR for stages with a Skipper, but too much and too inefficent work for a mainsail. So a Twin-Engine could bridge the gap, which is ironically what the Skipper already did. It would have 1.7 or so times the thrust of the Skipper, in Twin-Engine form. In addition to bridging the gap between the Mainsail and Skipper, It could also serve an aesthetic purpose of being the only stock Twin Engine.
  8. I think the hatches on the inside need to be the same as the ones on the Lander cans, the Crewtank, and the Cupola.
  9. Potassium is green. Forgot about Carbon Dioxide Tinyum is a made up element, it's a joke because Gilly is tiny. Space Pollen is also a joke.
  10. ... what are they made of? More specifically, what gives them their color. Moho: Carbon, Iron, Silicates Eve: Iodine, Silicates, lead ocean. Gilly: Silicates, tinyum Kerbin: same as Earth Mun: Silicates, may have Helium 3 Minmus: NaCl (Sodium Chloride, salt) Duna: Same as Mars, but the Iron is apparently much more oxidized. Ice caps have CO2. Dres: Same as Ceres, with Carbon making the dark colors, or perhaps hardened lava. Jool: Potasium, Hydrogen, Helium, Water, other Hydrocarbons Laythe: Water, Silicates, Silicon Dioxide, for instance. Vall: Water Ice, silicates under the possible ocean below Tylo: Same as Mun. Bop: Same as Moho Pol: A grain of space pollen from interstellar space, captured by Jool's gravity. Eeloo: Water Ice in the form of rocks, silicates, and Nitrogen Ice.
  11. I think it's more important to make it so that ships with deployed chutes: 1: Don't unload 2.5 km away. 2: Are "recovered" when velocity relative to surface reaches 0. 3: Model unloads at 2.5 km, but not physics. 4: A special staging part and action that allows the vessel to stay loaded until switching back, when it unloads.
  12. I'd much rather have something as good as skipper, almost, but size of LV-T series.
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