I really, really don\'t like the whole 'america is flawless, go america' viewpoint that a lot of people have nowadays...no country is without its flaws, and the united states is no exception.
2 m/s is nearly 5 miles per hour, the Apollo landers touched down at speeds of under 0.5 m/s - so it\'s actually more realistic to have them snap off at speeds like that.
This thread is about mars in general, but the mother thread this came from was about a version of mars in KSP - the unrelated posts were moved here to form this thread.
I am to blame here. I set the values of the tank before giving them to Harv (I just quickly made it along with the lander leg/small engine) and it looks like my rounding of numbers got a bit carried away...
That far away you\'d be able to see stars. It\'s only in bright places like low orbit on the day side that they wouldn\'t be visible (due to your eyes adjusting to the super bright thing right next to you) If you looked away from it in a dark area for long enough then they\'d show up, although I don\'t expect KSP to have that level of HDR anytime soon.
The hinges and cameras are still only half-working. Hinges don\'t resume from the SFS properly and cameras don\'t render distant objects. There\'s still lots of work to do...