CatastrophicFailure

Because Krakens gonna krak. curse you, obnoxiously catchy pop music!

If you’re not using it already, Kerbal Joint Reinforcement is your friend here. It eases physics on load in so there’s not so much jolt, it’s worked well for me so far. But as you certainly know, sometimes Krakens gonna Krak (krak krak krak krak, and the... crap ).

So your power here is so great you can even manipulate the staff, eh? And you say you’re not out to conquer the galaxy.

So... when did @Darth Badie turn to the Dark Side, anyway? did... did I miss the cookies? I missed the cookies, didn’t I?

According to SpaceFlightNow.com, CRS-13 delayed till the 9th. Lets all just hope it doesn’t get delayed till the 13th. Very, very bad juju there!

This. That thing takes up a huge amount of space, which SpaceX does have a finite amount of. If it’s due for static fire this month, it’s a reasonable conclusion that they’re currently assembling it.

Are you using drooping wings there instead of flaps??

When the game scene first loads, or you approach within 2.2km of something, physics kicks in all at once and tends to give everything a nasty jolt. It’s not at all uncommon for things to break, explode, or just come apart right after loading. Especially if they’re wonkie to begin with, like those KAS attachments.

Well, given that you've been warned to attempt no landing there, I'd say artifacts are your biggest concern right now. Maybe some of that bacon could appease them...

Funny how art imitates life sometimes...

Just needed a coolant flush. Hope they at least included a complimentary tire rotation & pine tree air freshener...

I continue to operate under the theory that this is all just an incredibly vivid dream brought on by late-night snacking and PVC cement fumes, and that any moment now I'm going to wake up with a raging case of indigestion and the cats crushing my chest.

*poke* *poke*poke* Nope, it's still there. That's odd, I don't feel like I'm sleeping. I knew it wasn't a good idea to gorge on chicken wings and raw cookie dough last night. Strange dreams, man...

Are you playing with Kerbalism radiation turned on? If so, how nasty are the belts around such a big gas giant? What was the total mission time for that first Münar flyby?

Schrödinger’s Car.

Just saw this in another comment thread... if they’re sending something toward Mars, it means they’re no longer planning to attempt recovery of the second stage.

Heh, well I can canonically say the Narrator is not that Kommissar. Tho he's probably a Kommissar, being in charge of a major project and what not... if only out of circumstance. Maybe they've met a Kommissar Konvention or some such, tho.

Because this is 2017 and nobody can take a flarping joke anymore. Also, I am reminded of that Mythbusters episode where they tried to launch a car by strapping rockets to it. Guess it turns out all they needed was. . . . wait for it... . . . MOAR BOOSTERS!

This was entirely organic. Originally, I really did plan to send a rescue mission ASAP (really, I swear!), but the technology wasn't quite there yet. So first I had to keep them all alive for a little bit. And then a little bit longer. And then... well... there's some more science right over there... might as well have them do something useful while they're waiting... and over there... and over just there... and... wow that's an interestingly named biome, I wonder... Then @KerikBalm's little easter eggs began feeding into my plot so nicely, and suddenly: A ship! There's like 20+ gigabytes on board now still waiting to be transferred, and that's not counting the several gigs they've already sent back. There's a very specific reason for that skybox. @JadeOfMaar probably has no idea how much his skybox became the linchpin of my overall storyline. The why and when behind that skybox comes right out of my greater Kerbalverse (expounded upon in the ahem, ever-so-subtle links in my sig). I still don't know if I'll reveal the whole story, here, there, or anywhere; I like to leave the readers with a bit of mystery. And also, this particular story is tongue-in-cheek enough that I can get away with canonically denying inconvenient gags at will. Wow. That looks so different at regular scale. At 6.4x, the airport is completely flat, ScanSat can't even pick anything up. But the Ancient City is just awesome, the pix really don't do it justice. The way it just sort loomed out of the murk (with the clouds I had at the time) for the first time was creepy as hell. It gives a wonderful otherworldly sense to the place. Your tweaks to the Mars map have added a wonderful bit of story to what would otherwise be some nondescript science gathering... interspersed with epic views.

Are you using PersistentRotation? That way, you’d only need to get her spinning once...

Logic dictates there’s going to be more than just the car going, tho...But catching up on this thread this morning is like

Oddly enough, no...

Are you sure that’s not just a bit different? if that car ever does come back it will have to be thoroughly and carefully searched for little green balls...

Wait, is... is this still a joke or are they really going for it? (The Mars car thing). There's got to be some major regulatory hurdles there, the stage would be out of comm/control at that point, so there's a risk of hitting the planet with something not sterilized...

Year 8, Day 27... Hey, how bout that? It floats!