Xeldrak

Just realized, that the Twinblade has a tail rotor....thats nonsense...

I would like to hear some update from our OP on her ^^ By now she should be somewhere beyond Eloo...

Well, lets see, thats not enough for base point and you have 40 dead kerbals...so about -800?

Actually, we germans have realized by now, that militarizing ourself is to expensive. So we now militarize other countries! Therefore: No, don't but the F-35 - buy the Eurofighter Typhoon! It's incredibly awesome and incredibly expensive - just what American should like. Also, get rid of your Abrahms Tank - get a Leopard! We also sell incredibly quiet, fuel cell powered submarines! And of course, Heckler&Koch sell everything you need in the realm of small arms.

Why bacon if you can have a steak?

Hm, well, the Space Lounge is for "Off-duty chatter on any topic except KSP" - since this threat is specificaly about KSP I think it's quite misplaced here...

Well, I love the concept and I think it has a lot of potential. But right now its a little tedious at times - and I had to load the landing-sequence with my first medium rover three times before it landed without breaking off wheel. On of it's wheel still got stuck after a few hundred meters

Well, right now I'm not realy satisfied with the format, too. Additionaly the stock Orbiter itself was kind of a mystery to me, it could basicaly land, hat tons of rcs but a really weak engine and no docking port. Basically all I could derive from that was, that it should be something that could orbit I'n my mind I though of it like a Apollo CM - but that's only my conception.

Yeah, this actually sounds quite good, although I could add 5 engine first stage for another 10 points - I'll think about this.

Actually, spinning it up for the burn, then loosing the angular momentum by extending and then sheding two weight is just an awesomly simple and beautifull solution ^^

Well, this sounds awesome, batchinson - you should make your own challenge

mmh....it pains me to watch this video....no, really...physical pains....... As it was said before this guy has not the slightes idea what he is doing...

No, this video is about the Spirit rover. You can stabilize a satellite by letting it spin: Spin-stabilized satellite Think of a spinning top, as long as it rotates it will stay in the same orientation. This way you can make sure the satellite is pointing in the right direction. For example solar panels towards sun, antenna towards earth.

Submissions are closed! Start voting here! Well, one week is over, entries are closed. You may now beginn voting. Sadly Captain Sierra and Kenobi McCormick did not finish their crafts in time. You can find the poll here. Please vote! Also be so kind, to post who you've voted for - so the threat gets bumped up once in a while. The poll will close on Sunday, 11th August 11:59:59 p.m. (GMT+0) I for one voted for JamesClonk's Dragonfly Orbiter - it's a nice, compact design with everything an orbiter needs. I like the docking lights and the remote controll unit

yes, yes I know - you can read it up on the first page...

@Tw1 Maybe he is undercover and allready entered the challenge? @esinohio yes, yes - we had that discussion somewhere between page 1 and 3

Sad Foodnote: Most of humanity died while returning form their glorious victory against the Xortan Hegemony because no-one mounted a heat-shield on their ships.

Well, I'd love to have Scott Manley in this challenge - but he will have to post it and count his points himself

False. The user below me is a Dachshund.

Well, if stuff like this interests you, you should visit the nearest calculus lecture. The you will get a better understanding, why it breaks and what this means

So, all questions answered?

Well, it depends on the sitiuation. What do you want to inject into? For trans münar injections I tend to use a skipper or a poodle. A skipper has the best looks and the high thrust simple make the burn less tedious. A poodle is also awesome if you want to land on it, because it's short. From an engineering point of view, a LV-T30 on a large tank tend to create a wobble-point, so I try to stick to engines that fit the tank they are attached to.

Again, it's not a mathematical paradox. And no, while I see that there are some kind of similarities in the imagination of superposition and (nonexistent) solution of Grandi's Series, there is no actual connection. Look at this: For every "n" it has a definite solution, wich is either 1 or 0. If we "plug in Infinite" (wich actually means we look at the limit n->infinity), this thing has no solution. It kinda breaks. The expesion never has "two superimposed solutions"

Well, it's not a paradox. This series (-1)^n simply does not converge. (I'm seriously missing a formula editor or LaTeX support) The solution to 1+1-1+1-1+1-.... simply does not exist, the series fails the so-called Leibnitz-Test for example. Also, watch out when traslating thoughts like this to reality. In reality, the switch has to remain in a certain postion for a minimum amount of time, the so called Planck time (yes, time is "granular". This is also your way out of Zeno's paradoxes). Therefore the switch is in a definite postion at every point in time. No infinity here... Also, mathematics never prove that something exists in reality. It is possible to show mathematicaly, that something may exist in reality. But the test if reality "decides to actualize" something is not in the realm of maths. With maths and physics you can show, that the Higg-Boson MIGHT exist. But we needed the LHC to see if it's really there.