Canopus

since you spend so much time in space in KSP i think you see this Galaxy far more often than any mountain or river on Kerbin. But maybe that is just me.

I am a little bit surprised that this thing doesn't have a Name yet, since it is quite a prominent Feature in the Sky.

That is some grade A Elitism, but you play KSP too so you must be smarter than everyone else . You haven't been noticed by the media because nobody knows what Ingress is. Pokemon on the other hand is an already known Public phenomenon which i am sure many more people play, and the media therefore has found an interest in reporting the many "tragedies" it has caused. Just look at these http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/life-is-a-living-nightmare-without-him-online-gamer-died-on-nighttime-mission-at-poolbeg-lighthouse-34709182.html http://readwrite.com/2012/12/11/augmented-reality-game-gets-player-arrested-the-first-of-many/ So basically the same things have happened with Ingress. The Problem here is the Media which blows everything out of proportion as always.

"Hackers". Also please give us a source for those 5,000 dead people.

Because white Space suits are iconic. Also the other Kerbals wear a blue-gray suit inside the capsules.

The Japanese IKAROS Spacecraft controlled its attitude through changing the reflectivity of LCD panels in the Sail. Maybe they will use a similar method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS. Gram scale probably means that it weighs no more than a kilo. As for communication i think they said that the probe will use a small laser that can be picked up by the Laser emitter on earth which can be used in reverse as an optical telescope.

I would never have thought that i could potentially see pictures of Planets in another Solar system in my lifetime. This is pretty exciting.

I personally don't know how the mod you are using works, but i'm sure you were supposed to find the monolith around Jool. Some kind of spawning error maybe.

I wonder if one of the Devs knows someone at Flying Tiger.

Map View is cheating.

Yeah thats not really how MechJeb works though. Still i agree that it wouldn't be a good idea to have an autopilot in the game, not because the game would become to easy but because using Mechjeb is little bit to technical i think. What should be in the game though is the ability for five star Kerbal pilots and the most advanced probe cores to complete maneuvers automatically.

I personally don't like the soundtrack that much and for me it is one of the weakest parts of the game. I like the theme and the credits track because as far as i know they are original but the Kevin Macleod stuff always felt a little off. It doesn't sound terrible but it feels a little disconnected from the game.

MechJeb 2 does use maneuver nodes though. If you tell it to circularize at periapsis for example, it creates a node and then executes it.

Docking alignment and Kerbal Engineer? Thats pretty cheaty of you.

It can hold a heading and altidude and theoretically land your plane at the runway though i haven't had to much luck with that. It can give you an ILS like landing guidance on the Navball which is very useful.

Nah, its not good enough for the stock game. Makes little sense to have an autopilot if it can't fly all the ships you could theoretically build.

I think thats a little bit besides the point since most challenges are stock only anyway.

What if he didn't clip fueltanks? You all make it sound like flying is that big of a challenge which it really isn't unless your rocket is crap and in that case MechJeb won't fly it better than you. I use mechjeb mainly for the maneuver autopilot. Without it KSP would be considerably less fun for me.

Docking to a Space station or another ship.

You are annoyed with frequent updates because they break mods that you use? What is the difference?

You installed the mods and i am sure you knew very well that there are always compatibility problems between versions. Squad isn't responsible for mod compatibility.

Why should they delay updates just so modders can keep up? I don't really get that. Also what do you mean by new graphics?

Finally you don't need to build mosaics out of the OX-STAT panels anymore. Don't get me wrong the other parts are great but i think the large static panel is really something that was missing from the game.

How long have you been away?

Right now every planet is different and unique in some way. Wouldn't a second Gas giant be to similar to Jool? I would like to see things like clouds before they add new Planets that are basically just more of the same in a different color.