CatastrophicFailure

Seems a bit... um... short-legged...

Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

C’mon down to CrAzy ElOnS used rocket lot! Prices so low, we’re practically givin’ ‘em away! Starting this month, save even more on our huge INVENTORY BLOWOUT SALE! We’re overstocked and need to clear out space for next year’s model!

Confirming that I have, indeed, deplorably forgotten something, I went and searched thru old chapters. I believe I may know who this “Samantha” is, and all I have to say is:

Feel free to. I may have found just the perfect thing, but... I may have need for more than one, too.

someone might want to check that thing for an eyeless Sam Neil... or better yet, nuke it from a higher orbit, only way to be sure...

Today I found an interesting... and exploitable bug with my dinosaur 1.2.2 save and Kerbalism. Apparently if a Kerbal dies from a Kerbalism thing (ran out of O2 at high altitude, here) while on EVA, they leave a corpse. She's dead, Jim... However... If one somehow returns the body to the homeworld... ...and recovers it... ...the dead Kerbal is reanimated! Bigger problem: undead Kerbelle wandering around loose.

Greetings thread! So, I'm mostly here for the Estonian, and need to get it to work in my dinosaur 1.2.2 install. As I understand, it's just parts so shouldn't be a problem. That being said, what version of DSEV should I actually download to pilfer it from, since it wasn't around back then?

Hadn't he said at some point they were going to to SSTO test with the spaceship, specifically the first test article(s)?

@NewtSoup, @LordFerret, @Just Jim Looks like it just needed a different link... not stuck i n my head, no sir. I’m still dealing with ten hours of Circus Afro...

BFS grasshopper. So, does that make it a... BFG? They’ll need to come up with a better name for the test mule. Or, maybe not...

Possibly relevant information: *sniffles in a manly, I’m-not-crying-you’re-crying way* Also: BulgariaSat plz.

It’s worth a watch, if you can tune out the clichés and preachy tone. Just look at the pretty animation. Ooooh! Aaaahhh!

Hmm... I could use a big test mass... but where to find a suitable statue? Anything aesthetic I tried to craft would come out looking like Picasso’s been huffing hydrazine fumes.

Cool, I just saw it! Along with about half a dozen other things my app couldn't identify. I'ma have to bring the camera out next time, that was an impressive light show. This was also the first time since we bought the place last fall that we've had all the lights off. Damn. My property is like the Hanford of light pollution. Need to get some shades.

Heh, I didn't even realize this. This long, strange trip celebrated its one-year anniversary almost a month ago, on Valentines day. 'spose I had other priorities at the time... And now, back to monotonous part snipping...

Ninja’d.

Hi!-Bye! -Falcon Heavy core, probably

Someone is going to regret that.

So the Grand Kerbal’s Name is Samantha, eh? I wonder if there was a nose wiggle involved in this edict. Wait, Kerbals don’t have noses. The plot thickens. But poor Gene... ETA: Wait, acting Grand Kerbal? Has there been some succession crisis I’ve deplorably forgotten?

Because they're sooooooo last year. Like, literally. SpaceX has an excess of old boosters sitting around at the moment (what a time to be alive, eh?), they need to get rid of them to make room for the Block 5's that will be the Falcon 9's FINAL FORM. Might as well dump 'em in the ocean which would otherwise be illegal... Presumably, they're also using them for high-risk landing tests.

<PSA voice> Negative Space Wedgie. It can happen to you! So, who would win in a fight, plucky blue-skinned hippie aliens or blue-eyed worm-rider Guys? Check out Flyby Finder, it’s an external program specifically for these calculations. As long as you’re running a stock system it can probably find a solution. ETA: Ok, read the relevant posts. A Duna->Dres transfer would be simpler, or you could launch a “booster” stage with a big engine, tanks, and Klaw, klaw onto the back and use that for an extra boost, 200m/s should be easy that way, but... ...would you have enough Delta-V left to stop at Moho (or even Dres)? It’s a small world and you tend to come in pretty hot.

Any word if they’ve started prototyping for New Glenn yet, now that the factory’s finished?

Could you see it at all between flashes? There’s a promising looking pass over my place Sunday night, but it’s listing the magnitude as like 4.5, which is barely visible to the naked eye.