Brotoro

So, for those of you who DO use Deadly Reentry, does a Jool aerobraking destroy a ship? Does it do so if you use a more gentle aerobraking in multiple steps? Is it a matter of not having good heat shields yet, or is a ship toast no matter how you try to aerobrake at Jool? I certainly enjoy my world so far with no aerodynamic heat damage, but I try to think ahead a little (which is why I include token heat shields and avoid direct-to-Laythe aerobrakings) so I'm keen to know. But not keen enough to implement Deadly Reentry myself.

The longest-lasting signs of humanity may well be our high-orbiting satellites. Geostationary satellites will drift out of position after their fuel is gone, but such high orbits will last a VERY long time.

Do you have enough oxygen for ONE kerbal to survive? Maybe the other two need to say, "We're just going outside for an EVA and may be some time."

Perhaps purple pigment.

Blutonium.

You wouldn't lose consciousness immediately... Titan's atmosphere is mostly Nitrogen, with a maybe 5% methane at the surface (both of with are odorless gasses) at approximately 1.5 atmospheres of pressure. You don't die immediately on Earth just by breathing in gas that contains no oxygen (such as pure nitrogen or helium)...but you'll get lightheaded and pass out, and then die within several minutes. The problem on Titan is the very low temperature of its atmosphere (around 92 Kelvin), so unless you have some way of warming up the "air" you are breathing, you'd get very severe frostbite damage to your lungs and freeze them quickly. It would not be very pleseant, with terrible respiratory system pain before you lose consciousness.

I don't understand why people keep saying Kerbin has no animals when they can hear that wonderful cacophony of birdsong in the view of the space center at the start of the game.

Intakes sucking in air when no air could possibly reach the intake (because it's located behind another intake or other airflow-blocking part) is silly. Spreading out lots of intakes so each can get airflow and paying the price in increased drag is much less silly.

I would use MechJeb on death...BUT THAT'S NOT CHEATING!

Maybe all the life in the Kerbol system has a common origin, and microbes have moved around to the other planets riding on impact ejecta. The compact spacing of the planets and relatively small amounts of delta-V needed in the Kerbol system would make this much more likely. And then the devs don't have to worry about anyone saying that microbes in Laythe's oceans or floating around in Eve's upper atmosphere or found in subsurface aquifers on Duna are "aliens".

I've never seen the appeal of doing a Grand Tour to land on all of the planets. Since it's not something that would make sense to attempt in real life, I assume it's just a challenge to show off your game skills. Whether you use the kethane mod to refuel along the way or pre-position fuel tanks at each location seems about the same to me. And if you are going to send out fuel ahead of time to each stop, why not send out the customized lander for each place as well? Then your crew just hops from place to place and uses the stuff you sent ahead. And if you wanted to do it with just one ship leaving Kerbin, I'd just send off a giant ship to escape from Kerbin into orbit around the sun, then immediately split it into parts and send the different parts (containing landers and fuel) off to each target, and the crew just transfers around to each place to do the landings. But I can't see the point myself.

Oh... And I'll see if the new ASAS makes it any easier for me to land a VTOL without doing the occasional backflip-crash. Does anybody know if the new ASAS changes will change the way the avionics package works?

Nah. Volcanoes primarily emit water vapor, carbon dioxide, and smaller amounts of sulfur dioxide and even smaller amounts of other gases. Laythe won't keep water vapor in its atmosphere as a gas (it will condense out into the oceans). You will get a small amount of oxygen from the photodissociation of a little water vapor, but not as much as you find on Laythe (all but a small fraction...maybe 2%...of Earth's oxygen comes from photosynthesis). Neither carbon dioxide or sulfur dioxide are going to provide you with much free oxygen.

Search for signs of life (currently existing or extinct).

Oxygen found in the very tenuous atmospheres of, for example, the Jovian moons, comes from the photodissociation of water molecules. The hydrogen atoms escape very quickly...the oxygen atoms take longer to escape. But these are very tenuous atmospheres (Europa's atmosphere has one trillionth the surface pressure of Earth's atmosphere). But to have a dense atmosphere with a sizable percentage of oxygen (as Laythe obvious does, since jet engines work there) would be very difficult to explain without that moon having photosynthetic life in its oceans.

Apollo style... After transposition and docking maneuver: On the münar surface: Münar orbit rendezvous: Ocean landing on three parachutes:

I will check to see if Magic Boulder has be restored to the game.

Indeed he did. That's why I have four islands named after him on Laythe.

The craters look strange...because of the too-uniform size or spacing. And really strange because they are on the maria (dark smooth areas).

Those craters look funny..I'm not sure if the size that looks too uniform, or the spacing. But it certainly looks funny to have lots of craters all over the maria.

In the demo? I broke the lander into several pieces. Much was learned.

I haven't mined resources from another planet or moon yet.

Most recent astrophotographs... Comet PANSTARRS, 2013: Venus transit, June 2012: Annular Eclipse (projection method), May 2012: Comet McNaught in broad daylight, 2007:

Sorry...didn't see your post that was sandwiched in between my posting 11 & 12. I've written up all my major KSP missions. Some are posted here on the forum, but all of them can be found using the "Brotoro's KSP Mission Pages" text link in my signature.

The Moon can be used for practice, with Mars as the final goal. Better to check things out close to home initially. Build a lander that can land on the Moon with rocket power, and that can also handle Mars with additional parachute systems. The liftoff capabilities of that lander would be overkill for getting off the Moon, but that's OK.