Kirbypowered

Looks to me like a successful launch.

An attempt to recreate the ship from Race the Sun. Because it's pretty cool and why not. Vertical take off required, unless you prefer exploding into a million pieces on the runway. Surprisingly effective at flying, with only a small tendency to nose down. It's made from a remote guidance doodad, a few fuel tanks, some rectangular strut things, basic jet engines, and about 250 wing connectors. Doesn't quite look like the original thing, but I'm satisfied. I had to make it without symmetry after creating the body, since the wing connectors aren't very symmetrical (realized this the game crashing way), so it sadly tends to lean ever so slightly to the left. Still totally flyable. Edit: and by recreate, I mean make a gigantic version of. I'm thinking of making a smaller version using two ion engines, as I could make it properly rely on the sun that way. We'll see.

An attempted runway launch of my giant model of the ship from Race the Sun went horribly wrong. Silly debris, please don't ignore physics.

You can't please 'em all, eh Squad? Questioning why bizarre things might happen in a game, especially one like KSP, can lead to us making unique observations of our own reality, so I think it's still fair to wonder about why such and such is how it is. On the other hand, I would love it if Squad gave absolutely ludicrous reasons for things (like the grape soda one someone mentioned) because it would honestly fit perfectly in the Kerbal universe. No reason we can't have both either. On Eve, I personally think it's pretty cool. Love the purple. We can all give our input on it in it's current state, but no doubt it's planned to be something quite different as the game becomes more complete. It may just yet become much more venus like, or maybe they'll develop it in a completely different direction. Probably not, but who knows. Well, Squad probably. =P

Very nice tutorial, gave me quite a few good chuckles whilst successfully being clear overall. =P Pretty much how I worked it out, minus the end where I got a little out of hand with the RCS usage.

Docking was one of my first real attempts since getting back into KSP, so I wasn't (and still am not) especially efficient at or knowledgeable about Kerbal rocket science. I just had what I thought was a cool idea for a space station after watching someone else doing their first time docking, creating a rather crazy looking piece of work. ...My design, as it turned out, was questionable at best. I got the first two pieces up fine and had little problem aligning their trajectories, but RCS was set up terribly for docking. Using docking controls, the module would just start spinning at the slightest correction burn. Extremely frustrating stuff, that was. Eventually (about an hour or two later), I'd pretty much given up careful precision and was just about out of monopropellant fuel, so as I drifted around at an angle with the ports facing, I just launched at it desperately. Unexpectedly, the two parts pulled towards each other fairly quickly (as I said, next to no knowledge here) and started rolling around dangerously close to flying off from each other. I just stared, wide eyed (quite a feat considering I was half asleep and it was about 2 AM) and scared to do anything in fear that I'd ruin it, and watched. Slowly, the scene calmed before me and suddenly the view rotated and zoomed out a bit, informing me that there was a successful connection. So what if it was horribly lined up? So what if it turned out to be horribly unstable and hard to maneuver? I was so full of accomplishment at the time that I could barely care the least for that stuff. That sort of feeling is not something I think I've gotten from another game before, at least that I remember, and it's definitely something that makes Kerbal Space Program special to me now. Hopefully the first in a number of successful achievements. Edit: Err....so yeah, time. I'll say a few minutes to get them within 500 m, two hours after that 'til they were officially docked.

I just pulled off my first non explosive Munar landing myself, with a whole 0.09 units of fuel to spare. Sure is inefficient, landing in the dark. >_> Got to see a solar eclipse afterwards though, courtesy of Kerbin. On to...maybe a manned lander! Or another probe to Minmus. Maybe even try to figure out how to launch a functional rover somewhere.

Okay, got my new laptop, ready for space exploration for real this time, honest. Just need to get into space mode. Honestly, I've been thinking pretty hard about switching over to linux. I was mostly waiting until I got my own computer first though, so now I suppose I could get started. I'd prefer trying to do the dual-boot thing or one of the other methods of keeping both OS's for now...(it's been awhile since I looked into this stuff >_>)

Hello people, been a fan of KSP since late last year, mostly enjoying it through others' videos, considering my computer (1 GB of RAM...). Still, I've been playing a bit. Had the most satisfying feeling of accomplishment from a video game since I can remember when I was able to connect two poorly made pieces of a space station together after hours of frustration. When I get my new computer I hope to have more impressive accomplishments (and explosions) to be proud of, and hopefully less lag based frustration and more legitimate problem based frustration. =P