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The challenge is simple: post topic ideas that are as off-topic as you can get. Here are my ideas: Toothpaste comparison thread What typeface do you use? ------------------------ What are yours?

Darn cute little shuttle. Can't wait for a release, and this kind of stuff needs to be on the KSPSP.

This is an awesome original idea. I'll take this up and be back in 6 hours. Anyone up for a flying Rockomax?

I built Lee Hart's Elf Membership card a few weeks ago... 8-bit processor (RCA CDP1802) with 32k RAM. I've been writing quite a few little programs with it. 1969 was still a whole 28 years too early though... It's a shame It's been so long.

I'm confident I will see a Moon landing during my lifetime, as it is more than possible to send a cubesat capable of landing there for under 500k. Thus, out of sheer probability one of us will become wealthy enough to send something there.

I must say, that not only looks somewhat like an orange, so it BETTER include orange-flavored orange paint.

I believe there is sewage there. That would explain it being labeled "Not Food", to make sure nobody mistakes it for food...

I started work on a 1-bit microprocessor built out of stock parts.

I don't have anything to show as of now, but I must say that this ought to be pinned. Pics of my cute little probe spaceplane later. Might modify the launcher to be SSTO...

I would vote for Grissom and Collins Grissom practically designed the Gemini Capsule and Collins was the CSM pilot during Apollo 11. Neil and Buzz are overrated IMHO

I (and probably many) weigh the fun of "NOW" to be more than that of the loss of saves. It has been said that they could be edited to work, so I imagine someone will (because there are a lot of members of the community) write a program to convert it for us. Problems would likely be run into if you use clones (AKA multiple pilots with the same name)

You could attach a hardpoint, then attach a structural mount and some mainsails with fuel lines and drain it that way. I imagine it might be a minor feature when the big resource update comes around.

That's estimated hardware costs. You see a 1U costs ~15k with a launch, so reasonably assuming massive hardware costs it should be around there. I saw a design that used 1U for a lander and 2U for an ion-engine based booster.

Do want; will be buying.

This is more of a thread I created (for science!) my own amusement. The forum rules do, as of when I last checked, prohibit discussion of politics for obvious reasons. This thread is here to discuss what we would discuss/discuss politics at all if it WAS allowed. This thread is not a protest against forum rules or any Squad volunteer/staff decisions. We have this rule to thank for keeping the Junkyard more of a scrap heap than a Junkyard.

If so, wouldn't thinking about paradoxes kill us? Even if we were a simulation, who really cares? We're still sentient life forms. Nothing really changes except how we perceive our home. if we were people might start blaming those who created us for all of their problems, no doubt.

HERE is the economical way: wait (something will surely destroy it given time....)

Actually, in Arizona, there exists a nonprofit facility where you can pay 200k and a membership fee and have yourself frozen, hen revived at a later date, when you die. I plan on hiring this facility.

Getting a 1U cubesat to the moon could cost as little as $200k I estimate. What I really want to see now is docking for cubesats. Space Stations, anyone? (perhaps amateur satellites are in their .17 days still...)

The SASSTO was a nice design. It could have made it too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_SASSTO If only I could replicate it in KSP.... IMHO the Skylon is a bit complex, but that doesn't mean it will fail. But if it does, that means it will be something Jeb would be proud to see. I still think designs like the SASSTO would be more practical for their simplicity.

Without staging? Yes, but you'll need a (very) big SRB. Something you should take a look at is the SASSTO, an SSTO That would have used an S-IVB with a Space Shuttle Main engine that could have delivered a Gemini Capsule into orbit. While SRBs are useful, they do require a lot of quality control, so hopefully your proposed SSTO would have one nozzle for engineering convenience.

We could measure it with no attachments, and you should have no problem using those numbers to calculate what it would be with your weight/equipment.

This is pretty much Apollo with artificial gravity. Isn't that cable still a bit short at 60m, even if you're only generation .4 g's? Wouldn't you be going way over 2 RPM, and thus create some load problems?

Thank you for not naming the thread Cupola 2. Next time please use Imgur to upload images. Clicking on them gets you a lot of popups. other than that, interesting design.

I think TWR should be listed for landing requirements, as my ion probe can't land on Laythe without a parachute but has the dV.