Duxwing

I never use drogue chutes, instead deactivating my engines, flaring during re-entry, and flying home at maximum speed. I use FAR and DRE. -Duxwing

A historical note: Russian troops' massing on Japan's northern border, not the then month-old atomic bombings, caused Hirohito to surrender. -Duxwing

If they explode, then be a cool guy and don't look at the explosion: just turn around and walk away. I now understand. Thanks for clarifying! -I agree that sometimes "as" is better than "because" in describing causality; e.g., "I so foully farted as to clear the room". -Might the dictionary mean that replacing "because" with "as" would is the third best use of "as"? -I also agree that whatever the validity of "as," an error may have been intended. -Words that have nearly the same meaning have different meanings, which we should respect -Down with X, C, and Q! They are redundant. -*pirouhettes on one foot, arm outstretched and swinging* Daaahling, all writing is pohetray! The first counter-example uses a mocking definition of absolute monarch, which the King of France was. -Duxwing

FAR more impedes achieving orbit by requiring craft to withstand tremendous aerodynamic forces during their gravity turns and be so built as to minimize atmospheric drag than it eases achieving orbit by preventing drag from acting where it should not. If you want more realistically simulated joints, then use the Joint Reinforcement mod because it gives joints realistic strength. @Whackjob Your creative block may result from an unconscious conflict; e.g., too much ignored stress. -Duxwing

Therapy can break the fear. How would the number of necessary mobile nuclear reactors be prevented from causing proportionately frequent accidents? -Duxwing

Your polite insertions so confuse me that I see several interpretations of your point: -If you mean that "as" et al. commonly erroneously replace "because" et al., then I agree that they do, and I ask why the prevalence of this error makes it correct in the formal writing that I was correcting. -If you mean that "as" et. al always can logically replace "because" et. al, then I rebut that each word needs a unique purpose, without which we could delete it, and that synonyms have subtly different meanings that we must respect. Counter-examples: -In a traditional fairy tale: "Once upon a time France's absolute military dictator, who believed that in a second universe existed an all-powerful being that granted him legitimacy..." vs "Once upon a time the King of France..." -In a history book chapter on World War I, "Baron Von Richtoven, who was also known as The Rouge Baron..." I feel condescended to when people use "I" statements or try to preemptively soothe me because people do usually when they believe someone to be too unhinged or sensitive not to calmly respond to a simple retort whereas I feel calm, genuine, safe, and rational when advising. Please therefore instead say only what you mean: worry not about my ego. -Duxwing PS -Only by writing about myself in the third person could I have avoided "I" statements in my writing. -Commas are redundant when immediately before "because" because "because" alone separates a dependent clause.

*hugs* His mom is wrong, and being subjected to someone else's irrational fears sucks. I too have been. Ideally, his mom would calmly understand that Wi-Fi radiation his harmless, and he would therefore be allowed to play: work toward this ideal without compromising more important ones. If his mom cannot know whether your friend plays Dota 2 or will not undesirably respond to his playing it, then respectively hide his playing Dota 2 or ignore her irrational pleas; whereas if you cannot hide it and she will undesirably respond, then consider whether such other options as reasoning or calming will help. Below are some ideas that might inspire you: -Ask your parents to reason with your friend's mom, telling them about how important reason is to you -Ask your friend's mom how she feels about Wi-Fi: irrational fears may stem from underlying emotional problems -Try to reason with her: she may just be mistaken -Duxwing

*Knock Knock* MOAR! Moar who? MOAR BOOSTERS! --- *Knock Knock* Who's there? Back. Back who? Back off before I BACC you! --- Q: What's the difference between a Kerbal and a baby? A: I can drop a Kerbal on its head --- Q: What's green and white and red all over? A: Kerbal-claus! --- Q: Why did the Kerbal cross the road? A: Because his SAS was turned off --- Q: What's Jebediah's favorite vegetable? A: Asparagus --- Q: Where does KSC get electricity? A: The rolling-over of buried rocket scientists --- Jebediah once said to a Ker-girl whom he liked, "Hey, babe, wanna see my rocket?" The Ker-girl replied, "Ooh, yes! Is it big and long?" Jeb smiled, "The biggest and the longest!" The Ker-girl grinned, "Is it hard and strong?" Jeb beamed, "The hardest and the strongest! And now I'll show it to you!!" The Ker-girl sighed with delight! Jeb opened the doors to KSC, and there stood Whackjob, leaning on his latest creation: the Ker-girl leapt for joy. --- The Kerbal Chorus rang, "On the wind, on the wind, on the wings of the wind, is our vast shining fleet screaming in!" And Verner's tenor squeaked, "Hey! At tventy-four sousand meters, no vahn can heah you scream!" --- -Duxwing

Obviously it was from Mars, the origin planet of the Reptilians who are secretly controlling the Illuminati, who are secretly controlling the Free Masons, who are secretly controlling the world, which created Mars as a cover-up for this very event, rewrote history, and fooled you with chem trails! Wake up, sheep! I agree with the paper lantern hypothesis. -Duxwing

I apologize for my incorrect suggestions, and I thank you more educated people for enlightening me. -Duxwing

I propose the following changes to the metric system: -The base unit of mass should be the gram because base units should lack prefixes -Remove the liter because it is redundant -1 gram should be 1 cubic meter of water for the sake of simplicity -Replace all dates and times with seconds since the epoch, which is the moment at which these changes are effected -If the meter is so long as to make the metric system impractical, then so shorten it as to make it practical. Any ideas, comments, criticisms? -Duxwing

Grammar: -"but" is a conjunction that introduces a contradiction of the form "A, but not A"; when comparing use "whereas". -"are currently X-ing" or "are in the process of X-ing" are redundant and disturbingly popular: instead write "are X-ing". -"that's where" and "that's when" are wordy: instead write "there" and "then". -Paragraphs! Use paragraphs! -"as" is for comparison: when describing causality instead use "because" Style: -Details! Details! Details! Awe readers with the rumble and roar of a rocket rising from the pad and dazzle them with sunshine's glaring off its distant fairings tall. -Emotion: show your characters' reactions--even such silly ones as Jeb's jabbering about wanting to go again. -Novelty: we've all seen Scott Manley send a probe from here to Timbuktu. Show us something that we have never seen. -Framing: with your framing device of a letter create interesting and moving effects. Forewarned is Forearmed: -Instead of "is able to," "is capable of," "was able to," "was capable of," "were able to," "were capable of," or "capable of" when describing capability, respectively write "can," "can," "could," "could," "could," or "that could"; when describing difficult actions use such words as "overcame". -Use "ere" instead of "before" or "prior to," which respectively describe spatial location and are wordy. -Duxwing

Sweet Jeb-us, what are you lifting? A vault full of uranium? -Duxwing

I've downloaded the latest version of FAR, and my ship now flies beautifully! Thanks, ferram. I didn't suspect that my version of FAR was obsolete, and even though it was, I've only encountered this problem since 0.23. -Duxwing

I've already tried with a fresh, simple ship and all stock parts (except the parachute). Stage 1 Real Chutes Parachute Mk. 1 Command Pod 1.25 meter Stack Decoupler Stage 2 200L Fuel Tank LV-909 1.25 meter Stack Decoupler Stage 3 400L Fuel Tank LV-T45 1.25 meter Stack Decoupler Stage 4 BACC Solid Rocket Booster Launch Clamp I ascended to a 70x70km LKO with only Stage 2 remaining, lowered my periapsis to ~20km, pointed prograde, and decoupled Stage 2, which backward hurtled at hundreds of meters per second. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. -Duxwing

I've figured it out! Two Gigantor XL Solar Panel arrays were intersecting the last pair of boosters, and when the boosters decoupled, the collided thousands of times per second and thereby acquired tremendous amounts of kinetic energy that hurled them from their payload, instantly destroying it. I hope that moving the panels will help. EDIT: Or not. For some unknown reason or reasons decoupled objects want to zoom retrograde. -Duxwing

These solutions would be noticed, complex, and expensive: can they be hidden, simplified, cheapened? -Duxwing

Attach a powerful shaped charge to a large asteroid. Quietly put the asteroid on a near-miss course with the target planet. If and when the planet's population attempts to knock the asteroid away (or at an appropriate point in the trajectory) so detonate the charge that it propels the asteroid into the planet. -Duxwing

Copy Edit: Advice: 1 Detailing your scenes, especially your dialogue, can better immerse readers in your story and explain characterization details. 2 Avoid such cliches as standing in a heroic fists-on-hips pose because they are 'ugly' and break immersion. 3 Figurative language--e.g., metaphors, similes, and allegories--can better evoke than can direct description. 4 John F. Kennedy had an accent; John F. Kernedy is John F. Kennedy; therefore John F. Kerneddy had an accent. -Duxwing

I tried adding Sepratrons, and my rocket exploded when its fairings decoupled (long ere booster separation). Of note: booster separation occurs when all engines are deactivated. -Duxwing

After sleeping I will test your advice by adding Sepratrons to the last pair of boosters. -Duxwing

EDIT: This question has been answered, and I want to change the thread title. Dear Forum, The last two boosters of my asparagus lifter when decoupled hit and thereby destroy my Munar Orbital Station; they are without Sepratrons decoupled in a 70x68km orbit while the boosters are deactivated, and my only relevant mod is Kerbal Joint Reinforcement. Below are a picture of my mission log after my latest spontaneous disassembly and a picture of my whole craft in the VAB. How can I safely jettison the boosters? -Duxwing

Hibernation pods are not overpowered because they would by sheer mass greatly decrease their ships' dV on long missions, thereby balancing the reduction of necessary life-support resource mass; furthermore, life-support systems and therefore their mass would remain necessary while Kerbals are awake. I therefore support the creation of this part! -Duxwing