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Granted. You're the healthiest, wealthiest and happiest person on earth. You're the only person on earth. I wish I always had the exact amount of cash in my pocket that I needed.

What did I do today? Easy: as little as possible.

I have no real problem with part clipping. To a certain extend that is. For example I would not clip batteries, RCS tanks and things like that into a fuel tank but I have no remorse clipping them into an empty fuselage section.

Never heard of it but the ANN reviews aren't bad at all. If I can get my hands on a few episodes I'll definitely watch.

I can't enter my favorite, infinite distance, light weight plane. Electric Firespitter push-prop powered by a large array of PB-NUK's hidden inside the otherwise empty tail fuselage.

You obviously didn't read the OP closely enough. Yes, you could solve this problem in the VAB/SPH by running a fuel line however SgtElis clearly stated he has docked the two vessels together. If you, HoY, know a way to run fuel lines after docking please let me know.

The converter needs to be directly coupled to a fuel tank, it works like an engine in reverse. Just like an engine won't run on fuel through a docking port the kethane converter can't fill a tank that way.

This totally explains why I had some small gaps left near Kerbin's equator. I expected to be it something like this but was never totally sure. Read the OP more carfully and you'll find:

How about playing through the training scenario's in the game? One of them is a Mun injection.

Patience has the nasty habit of running out at the exact moment you need it most.

There is indeed a chance you enter another planets SoI but it could take a long, long time for it to happen. But it will never enter orbit around another planet. To achieve orbit you'd need to perform a braking burn at the correct moment to slow down.

You don't want your CoL too far behind your CoG either. Making a plane 'nose heavy' is just as bad as 'tail heavy'.

Nice one! I knew I could count on you to do this.

Seriously? Nobody done a Kerbal Skull & Crossbones yet?

MBobrik has a good point. The engines might be trying to push the plane in the exact opposite direction they should. Looking at your video gave me another possible clue. Your plane has a lot of drag and is quite heavy and you fly full throttle. Try flying your plane a bit slower at low altitude and only speed up when you get a lot higher.

Screenshot #6 probably explains best why. Having your CoL that close to your CoG isn't necessarily a bad thing, iIt makes planes easier to fly without (A)SAS/avionics. But yor CoL is not slightly behind the CoG, it's on top of it. You might want to lower the CoL to bring it in line with the CoG and LoT.

An "unflippable" rover does not exist. Giving it a wide wheelbase and a low CoG is your best option. Next thing you might want to consider is re-mapping your controls. Regular rover controls are mapped to WASD but this also controls you your gyros. Re-mapping rover controls to IJKL enables you to controls steering both the rover and the gyros independently. In case your rover does go turtle, RCS and/or landing legs like those in Klajan's design get you back on your wheels with ease.

If Read's method of using a docking port doesn't work I sometimes simply take part of my ship apart, add the payload and re-assemble.

You honestly need a .craft to copy such a basic vessel? It's not much more than a cockpit, crew- and fueltank, engine and a few wings.

That's like saying all circles are round. ALL known life is carbon/oxygen based. Sentient life is a sub-set of that therefore those too are carbon/oxygen based.

Even temperature, atmospheric pressure and gravity are similar. Would be great it Duna would one day look like that.

Back to the original question: Why do we assume aliens will need (roughly) the same conditions as us? Answer: Chemistry, plain and simple chemistry. To have any chance of life evolving you'll need a neutral reaction medium, something to dissolve the reactants. On earth water does this perfectly but any liquid would in theory be fine. Even sub-zero liquid methane or scorching hot molten lava. As long as it allows dissolved molecules to flow freely and react. But extreme temperatures do come with a draw-back. At low temperatures chemical reaction speed is severely reduced. This would mean your creature will not be able to rapidly respond to outside stimuli. At high temperatures on the other hand reaction speed is increased but again there is a catch; complex molecules start to disintegrate the hotter it gets. For life to evolve you'll need a temperature somewhere in between, warm enough to sustain fast chemical reactions, cold enough for complex molecules to be stable. Our human body is a perfect example, 37.0 °C (98.6 °F) ensures rapid reactions but deviate too far either way and we're in trouble. Below 32°C (89.6°F) the body starts to shut down and above 41°C (105.8°F) proteins start to break down. Assuming alien life is DNA based is short sighted. DNA is an earth 'invention' and there is no way to know what alien life uses. The only thing safe to assume is that it needs some sort of complex molecule to store information. And those can only be formed above and are only stable below a certain temperature.

Check out this topic.http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/28301-can-someone-explain-delta-v-to-me IT'S LESS THAN TWO DAYS OLD!

Congratulations on achieving this major milestone. Just keep observing what MechJeb does and keep practicing. Sooner than you think you don't need MechJeb anymore and you'll be docking by hand.

It might not support shuttle style launches. But it can handle Hermes Style launches with ease. Hermes, canceled like many great ideas, was designed to ride on the top of an Ariane V rocket. Korhonen's small orbiter (and mine) is ideal for this. That is possible but that way you'll be hauling a lot more mass into orbit then you need. Instead of strapping another orbiter to the other side of the rocket it makes more sense to sandwich the orbiter between two rockets.