Whirligig Girl

*regulator, not throttle. Anyway, if travelling at a googol times the speed of light isn't fast enough for you... *throws lever up open full, fills firebox with Karbonite-infused hype versions of Doc Brown's Prest-o-logs* Bumpy ride ahead!

Guys I don't know how you did it, but we are still ACCELLERATING and have broken warp factor 6.6. We are travelling at billions of times lightspeed! It's going to be a heck of an accelleration when we stop. Who's that HypeTrain nosecone guy? Worior or something? Be prepared to ablate in Kerbin's atmosphere! Helluva aerobraking ahead. We are breaking out of Plaid speeds. We're going to hypergridic speeds. We're almost there. If plaid is going orthagonal to spacetime, hypergridic speeds are so fast they are going orthoganal to hyperspacetime.

Well, We're all Hyped, how else would we be doing?

It's still Monday in Mexico and America and other places too. - - - Updated - - - HarvesteR's bedroom is in Mexico. That's really far away from Kerbin's hypeTrainStation of maximum1.0Hype. Incidentall,y though the hype is still increasing and we would be well on our way to Plaid Factor 5.5, I'm going to start slowing the train itself so we don't crash while going millions of times faster than light. Now, we don't have brakes, because I accidentally broke them. So I'm just going to put the wheels in reverse, and that should work. That way we get to keep using all this Hype Energy.

Mirror Shields would be pretty cool. Incedentally, with the awesome new heat system, WHY DIDN'T THEY GIVE MOHO ITS HOT ATMOSPHERE BACK?

Maybe then it might be part of atmospheric ISRU if stock ever decides to use that. Certainly mods will be able to use ocean and atmosphere.

We were going to add a covering like the A4, but we couldn't get a light enough alloy in time for the HypeTrain's voyage. But really, do we really need to go much faster? We're at Plaid Factor 5.4!

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/33ys4s/we_are_the_team_behind_kerbal_space_program/cqpmv4n This is the only part of the AMA that I care about. - - - Updated - - - Wow! It would be awesome if you could make a replica of our HypeTrain, which is actually a Gresley A3 pacific (similar to The Flying Scotsman) You're awesome at this, it seems. We're back up to Plaid Factor 6 again!

Plaid Factor 4.9795, and will be back up to 5.1 soon enough. I meanwhile have to go to sleep, so i'm putting the train on Meccanopilot. Hopefully if it releases while I'm sleeping the train will stop instead of crash.

I think he was joking.

We are now at Plaid Factor 5! This has previously been thought to be impossible to reach!

Since when are you the hypeTrain conductor?

*casually places hand near the brake lever* Would be a shame to remove the Plaid Factor 4.63 velocity, wouldn't it? Nah, JK. It's fine.

*immediately imagines wet workshops*

Well, making Xenon is a bit unrealistic, because it's a noble gas so it is hard to come across.

Did... Did Kenbob remove my post from the OP?

No, it's about what seems to be some accidental launcher update.

The Hype Train is now reaching Plaid Factor 4.6!

I thought I told you that Plaid Factor 6 was almost impossible! Keep in mind it is really really exponential.We're at Plaid 3.5. That's about 20000 times faster than Plaid Factor 1.

We all still have to wait the same amount of time for it.

The Fuelswitch system in Atomic Age allows tanks to switch between LFO, LF, and O. That should be done. Has the Isp of the NERVA been increased so that the mass ratios of the emptied tanks aren't crap? Alternatively, we might should be given a way to fine-tune the ratio of LF to O.

Launchpad smoke. I saw it just as Das was launching. EDIT: Ninja'd

We've passed Plaid Factor 3!

She's never been this fast. Upper limit assuming optimum levels on everyhting, probably Plaid Factor 6. That's on paper though. real-metaworld physics would never allow such speeds. Plaid Factor 5.2 at most. EDIT: WE'VE BROKEN PLAID FACTOR 2! Expect a small decrease in speed, then a faster accelleration! Get to KSPTV NOW!

We will be breaking the Plaid Factor 2 barrier in about 15 minutes.