NovaSilisko

Hoppers generally stand as tall as a person, so the opposite is more likely. Terraforming will likely be possible. Bases can be jury-rigged with unmanned stuff til the mythic manned flight arrives, whenever that is.

It was Chad, in this case. But, considering me and B9 aren't on the team anymore, and Claira's been away for college, your list doesn't really present any other valid options anyway

New approach, using a KAS winch instead. God dammit Can't set it down near enough, cable isn't long enough. New plan. Screw the asteroid, let's just get Jeb out of here. Time to retract the winch. jebediah you FAT ******* Quickloading to retract winch ... AND SO ENDED THE STORY OF THE ASTEROID LOGOPOLIS

Time to bring home a sample... edit: no that's not worked

Methinks A-classes are a bit too light. That one only weighs 5.9 tons, I think it's made of plastic or something.

Calm down there, Korolev

Not sure if this counts, but it gets a roughly 10 ton payload to a 700 km orbit in a single stage:

Could be a nice use for the old clamshell resource detector dish model, repurpose it into a Portable Trackmotron to detect asteroids from an asteroid belt, kuiper belt, vulcanoid belt, or moonlets around Jool, or whatever you like. Looking at it, though, I think this would be quite readily accomplishable in a mod. The asteroids are just vessels with a specific type and part module stuck to them. If you can make a vessel on the fly in a radius around your current ship when the detector is on, taking into account the density at the current area, then you've already accomplished all you need for this.

Or perhaps it could be relegated to its own category a la debris, which is hidden by default.

Yeah, better luck next time... I remember that area. Can't recall if it was Fallout 3 or New Vegas, though. I recognize all the assets, anyway.

I have stolen two asteroids so far

That's been there forever...

Damn, I missed it. The obliteration of the letter K is a move I can get behind.

Let's keep the streak going Perhaps a more accurate visualization of the (near) future than bonking into perfect spheres...

I wonder if something like that could be done with a mod? We have mods to replace textures, we have mods to generate textures based on orbital mapping... why not combine the two? Add to that perhaps some manner of telescope (it would probably have to be simulated in some fashion, rather than just a camera with ultra-low FOV, since that's super glitchy) to assist in imaging and you can have a lot of fun. Mods have done crazier things...

Myths is a very wrong word. There are a number of theories for alternate objects that produce the same effects as black holes, but I don't think anyone short of flat-out conspiracy theorists who think the sky is a fixed crystal sphere thinks they flat-out don't exist. They are generally accepted to be gravitational singularities resulting from the collapse of massive stars, though. But there will always be alternate theories (and sometimes those turn out to be right, so who knows what we may learn) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#Alternatives

Gonna be funny when it actually does release and all this angst instantly evaporates as everyone goes to play with the shiny new update. It always does

Not sure what exactly I could really do...

Maybe. There were considerable issues with Ares I though. They really had no business developing a totally new vehicle for crew launch, they should've instead put their efforts toward man-rating the Delta IV, and then Ares V for cargo launch.

Note - I won't say that Gemini wasn't cool, it was damn cool. Indeed, Grumman really outdid themselves on the LM. The makers of the spacesuit for apollo deserve praise as well, IIRC they developed it on a massively tight schedule.

Because Apollo was far more ambitious. You can't do big things without having problems. It's just not possible. The only time(s) an Apollo mission* failed to achieve its goals was on Apollo 13 and arguably Apollo 1. I'm hesitant to include 1 in that though, because it happened during ground testing and not during an actual mission. *a full up manned mission, in particular. Interestingly that list earlier left out the issues encountered on the unmanned flights. The Saturn V on Apollo 6 could've exploded from pogo oscillation, and there were issues with restarting the S-IVB initially

No. Modular space stations like the ISS weren't really thought of much until the 70s - such as the plans to expand the original skylab. The rough plan there was to keep skylab in orbit til the shuttle could rendezvous and boost it up, then add bits and pieces to it over time. But the shuttle was delayed, and skylab's orbit decayed in '79. There was also a plan to reboost it during a normal crew mission, but that never happened either, despite a crew being trained for it.

There was a brief plan to send the backup of Skylab to lunar orbit, but it was decided there wasn't enough purpose to it to warrant the cost. Beyond that, I don't think so.