magnemoe

Problem with the shuttle was that is was more expensive to launch than normal rockets. Not sure how often they could have launched it anyway even if it had be cheaper. If access to space become far cheaper it would be far more launches, this is an overall trend for products. Yes it would take time but bot more and heavier communication satellites would be useful. it might be interesting to put up many satellites in low orbit and have them communicate directly with each other. next up might be manufacturing, some stuff is easier to make in zero gravity, however the cost has made this uninteresting. In short the guy in IBM who said the world marked was only for 6 computers was right for an set price. As the price dropped the number of computers grew fast.

Yes, but you can come very close, I had an strange encounter with Tylo, started out in orbit between Val and Tylo and did an burn for Tylo, the result looked like an capture and then entering Tylo SOI, I had an almost circular orbit with and enter and exit SOI marker next to each other.

Yes, kethane has to be mined and converted in the active craft, however this can be done under warp and take less than an minmus day for four orange tanks with fuel. Main benefit of kethane is that you can 1) get fuel from minmus to LKO, this let you reach orbit with pretty empty tanks and refuel, this let you get away with far smaller launchers. 2) Mine at destination, Gilly, Bob and Ike is perfect here. With an mine on Bob you can easy explore the entire Jool system. In short if you want to set up large bases and stuff mining make it far easier, not much to gain if you only uses small probes.

Hydrotech has the benefit that it rotates the target, this way it avoid the sideways movement. Mechjeb works nice for docking smaller ships but if you want to put 100 ton parts together hydrotech is recomended. However then using docking autopilots its recommended to do the rough part of the docking yourself, ships in same orbits and 0-0.2 m/s and ports aligned towards each other as close as possible before starting the automatic.

Why the background sound of an rocket taking off. But yes main difference between mechjeb and an real computer in an space program is that mechjeb is more user friendly and that it always get correct data. Not so easy to get an spacecraft exact position in real world.

Not much more than Eeloo, however it takes an long time getting where.

Bones breaks down far faster than even iron. The point is not to preserve the metal but have it turn into stone like fossilized bone. For aluminium this would probably be common as it last an very long time. The moon landings was the largest objects put on the moon. (almost writing mun) Has plenty of stuff in orbit but doubt it will stay for millions of years, in solar orbit it would be safe but hard to find.

Yes and for us players it all has to work for it to make any sense, just beeing able to scan without mine in 0.21, then add mining in 0.22 and adding the converters in 0.23 had been pretty annoying.

One option is to not make the smelter an rover but an simple lander, put fuel tanks and the small orange radial boosters on both end, as the ore deposits contains plenty of ore and the kethane deposits only holds 4-8 tanks with fuel it make sense to put the launchpad and smelter up as permanent structures, you only has to get it close to the launchpad once.

I almost only uses the probe asas and sas now, Put them on the small strut connector at the side of rockets. The 2.5 meter version is to heavy and I only use the 1.25 meter if I have an small probe lander and need more height to mount stuff on.

True, you has to keep position the same way you have to keep position if you fly two satellites in formation. However if you drift off you would have to spend more and more trust getting back on the top. Fun fact an asteroid is actually in orbit between Earths L4 and L5 points. Its a bit inside earth orbit so it catches up, however then it reach L4 the change in gravity lift it up so it goes slower and it fall behind earth orbit until it reach L5 and go inward and repeats.

Yes it would be safe but it cancel out the point with rovers, they are kind of supposed to stay on the ground.

Pretty much this, one thing I loved about the Rome series was how alien they was. Two examples, mother suspect kid had an gay affair with Caesar, she was very upset then he did not follow up. Multiple times couples had sex with servants in the room. Simple stuff but made them more alien then Klingon or Na'vi. Now how would society be in 1000 years. Yes it would be way richer unless you do something post apocalyptic, but mores has changes a bit the last 60 or 200 years. Even weirder with gene manipulation people would probably change more the next 2-300 years than the last 30.000. So make attitudes change, often in weird ways but make it logical. Yes and you can add pointed fingers as long as its done an fun way but don't preach unless its an info dump.

An satelite become tidal locked if the same part point towards earth all the time. It would rotate once every orbit. If you set up an rotation like this it would be tidal locked in practice, you might even want to design it long with heavy parts in the ends to let nature help you pointing the antenna against earth.

Yes comes from having cows for some thousands years. An kid able to drink cow milk had an higher chance of survival. Guess most native Americans and lots of other groups who never had cows are mostly lactose intolerant.

Lots of the old ICBM and even some current Russians used hypergolic, its nasty in multiple ways, as in it does not matter if its very poisonous and corrosive as it explodes with contact with air. However they are tested regularly on ground, pollution from an launch is small in the overall perspective so you just has to find an decent location. However I guess the lander had to low TWR to be tested as it is on earth. And you see the lander has RCS, it does not appear that they have separate ones on the decent stage.

The irony is that since most of Laythe covered with water and the rest is mostly to mountainous for an base Duna is far easier here. With the launchpad mod you would want to build it on an location with ore and skip in fuel with an miner lander doing an suborbital jump.

Sounds very practical for long missions like to Jool, you burn for Jool and after the burn the first fuel tank is converted to living space for the crew, I never send anybody on an year long mission in only an pod. Note that the home habitat modules are actually wet workshops. They contains as much fuel and weight as much as an medium gray tank.

And add one copy on each part you want to control, like forgetting both mechjeb, ASAS and SAS on an Tylo lander. And only on the Tylo one where its most needed, yes it had power.

ASAS is nice as it keep your rover level if you jump. Use the small kspx ones on the small struts.

I tend to remove power on back wheels if using the new wheels, they have so good grip they can easy flip the rover accelerating under low g, at least if you forgot to go to docking mode. The same apply to braking and front wheels, if you remove it the acceleration or braking will stop then it tilt up.

Nice rocket but perhaps a bit overpowered, I used the 3rd stage almost to landing so I could probably have returned the lander to Kerbin. However it lack SAS/ ASAS on the service / command module part. I did not notice this until I did the command module and turnaround and dock outbound for Mun. Luckily I was lazy and had mechjeb on it, pretty hopeless with an ship who rotates so quick and no asas.

You did that too If you have parachutes they can still land on Eve if you drop them on an reentry path. Tend to do complex missions myself. last was an unmanned sample return mission from Jool atmosphere and rocks from all the moons, from Laythe this is atmosphere and water to. Worked out except the Tylo lander who missed an engine, this was a luck as I got enough fuel to return. However the Tylo followup mission will just land collect samples and return, and yes deploy an satellite in polar orbit.

Do both, main downside with the launchpads is that my bases grows to large and crashes the game. Feel an pretty desperate need for an 64bit KSP version.

Bones have an chance of being petrified, something who breaks down magnitudes harder and has an decent chance of being buried. Now not saying that the steel or aluminum would survive however it would leave traces and decent chance for generating an fossil. Lack of advanced creatures so long ago I think.