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Sorry if this has already been posted. Also sorry I didn't get any screen shots. While landing my shuttle, which land vertically under parachutes, it broke apart. To be more specific, the shuttle began to spin about its lateral axis. It made 2-3 full rotations before break up, This not only ripped it apart, but it shot the capsule off at 500+ m/s. This after it was coming down at 8 m/s. Other than this bug, the mission was successful.

And once again.... KFME 271633Z AUTO 29012G23KT 10SM SCT060 07/M02 A2978 RMK AO1 When is this polar vortex going to dissipate?

I used to play that before my joystick... uh, failed. Its kind of hard to land an F/A-18 on a carrier with just the arrow keys.

Depends on what you put on it. Nuclear missile Dv: Absolutely no clue, nor do I want or need to know. ICBM converted into a launch vehicle: enough to get to the moon.

So it can only deliver one ton to orbit and may fail up to 1/3 of the time. The only advantage it would have going for it is that it is an SSTO. But, why make an SSTO with no recovery system and reenter it in such a way that it breaks up?

I'm the same way. I'm currently going after my PPL flying out of KFME in Odenton, MD. KFME had the cheapest flight school I could find, and since I'm a college student working about 15 hours/ week @ 7.25/ hour, cheap is good. Damn, I hate the costs of flying. Downside of cheap is that I'm learning to fly in a 152 with a whopping 110hp under the hood. And recently, the weather hasn't been cooperating too much. As far as watching for planes, I don't even need to go outside. I live right under the approach path for KBWI.

Its all about how you say it. Don't say "I play KSP for x hours a week." Say "As a hobby, I design hypothetical spacecraft and compute such vital statistics as TWR and dv, in addition to flight planning, in a (usually successful) attempt to send these spacecraft to various celestial bodies in a hypothetical star system loosely based on our solar system."

I logged in just in time. Something around T-15 seconds.

Dig out an area underneath the structures. Support them using I-beams and excavate the foundation. Next, bring in a MASSIVE shipment of Jumbo-64's, Mainsails, and struts. Proceed to strap -64's to the supporting I-beams, and Mainsails to the -64's. Reenforce with struts. Then add rover seat to the top with a parachute. Finally, put Jeb in the seat and RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!

I don't get this. Go rent a Cessna or Piper for a little bit if they are flown in Switzerland. Those have hard wired mechanical control systems. That being said, maybe you're asking this due to a limited budget of poor weather (I know how both of those feel.) If that is the case, you could try Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator. I've never played it, though.

Duct tape. Lots of duct tape.

I always use DR, FAR, and TACLS. No nuclear burns in the atmosphere. Any nuclear engines that return to Kerbin must survive landing Planes must have nav lights, beacons, and strobes (aviation light pack) Deorbit spent stages/ debris All craft need communications equipment (RT) Manned spacecraft have abort systems. All craft have RSDs. Rescue must be capable OR contingency equipment must be easily and quickly accessible 1000 extra dv minimum Kerbals always return home All landing craft have landing gear. No landing on the engine. Mech Jeb for information purposes only. No reverts except for bugs Kerbals sit in ejection seats (vanguard) Artificial gravity and twice the crew space for long duration missions All manned craft have docking ports Manned pods reentering Kerbin need impact tolerances of at least 20. All craft have radiators (KSPI) Minimize crew radiator exposure (KSPI)

If I don't recover them, I use the Mun as a dumping ground.

Or do it Call of Duty style and hit the big red button labeled "Abort," "Self Destruct," or "Explode."

IIRC from 10 grade AP World History, my teacher told me that tests were done in the 50's. Evidently, IIRC, if you were in a trench or behind a sharp decline in elevation, you would be fine. Evidently, one of the tests done had a bunch of soldiers positioned in trenches not too far from a nuclear detonation. Obviously, they were outside of the "fireball" created by the explosion. However, they were within the radius affected by the shock wave. Apparently, it rolled right over them, and other than mild exposure to radiation, they were fine. We never saw any visuals when he talked about this, though, so I may be misinterpreting what he meant.

I haven't played ghosts yet, but please explain the health systems in COD games. I mean, take Modern Warfare for example. How is it you can survive an RPG hitting the wall three feet from you, yet die after regaining consciousness after a nuclear detonation and helicopter crash? By COD's logic, you should have only lost consciousness after dieing.

The good thing about Black Widows, though, is that they spin a web and stay in it. No need to worry about rolling over onto one of them in the middle of the night.

IIRC, the problem with it was the high maintenance costs involved, as well as the requirement to produce a new ET for every flight. What I don't understand is why they strapped the orbiter to the side, where it could be hit by ice or superheated gases from the SRBs, rather than mount it on top.

False Widow maybe? I am not an entomologist, so DO NOT quote me on that. Maybe this website can help. If it is a False Widow, it won't kill you, but getting bitten by it would be far from an enjoyable experience. By the way, the "bulbous end segment" is called its abdomen. Edit: As far as releasing it outside, I think spiders are actually quite tolerant of cold weather. I live in Baltimore and almost got bitten by a Brown Recluse on Christmas (when it was 22 degrees F) picking up a can near the Jones Falls river. However, I have no clue what the temp is in MI right now, so your results may vary.

People whom I nearly rear end going 70mph who decide to pull out in front of me and slam on the brakes.

They didn't have ejection seats (on the shuttle,) but they did have parachutes. I'm guessing the idea was ditch the tank, blow it up, and establish a glide back to the runway. If they weren't going to make it, then trim the shuttle to maintain its best glide speed and bail out.

The airframe of an A-10 is almost indestructible (somewhat of an exaggeration.) Its engines, like all jet engines are remarkable fragile. Something as simple as a spring getting sucked off the ramp into the engine is enough to destroy it. Never mind a bullet. If a bullet went up the tail pipe or in through the intake, the engine is gone. However, since it is located in nacelles, it has protection from side impacts. Even if it did lose an engine, its got another one that will keep it up and can fly with half a wing, an engine, and a tail missing.

T-6 is used in primary flight training for both the USAF and USN. Regardless of rather you are flying fighters, bombers, transports, even helicopters, you fly the T-6 first.

Up to now, we've all been talking about using a human pilot in the event of an emergency to land the thing. What about other stuff such as life support failures and what not? If it turns into the equivalent of the airlines with untrained individuals going up, how are you going to talk them through improvising a solution to, say, an air scrubber? Its hard to get machines to improvise, never mind if some power failure means you have to save what power you have left for EDL.