Wahgineer

Could you possibly make a single engine version of the clusters (I.e.; one engine from the small 5/9 engine cluster and from the big 5 engine cluster) for use on smaller rockets? I've seen a lot of mods where just one engine would be perfect for use on a smaller launcher, but I could only use it in a huge cluster.

What surprise's me the most is that SQUAD hasn't hired you yet, Roverdude. Will download when I get the chance. At this rate, your going to outdate/replace KSPI, Bobcat, and Kethane!

Do to my oewn understanding (not trying to force opinions), and do to the recent showcasing of the Tier-1 space center, I do not, nor have not, believed that the kerbals have not had air and land travel up until now. How could they have wing pieces, or jet engines, or landing gear, or trailer parks, or rover wheels without these technologies having already been developed? I belleive that, much like our space program, the Kerbals' space program is improving on this technology. Your thoughts, suggestions, and criticisms are welcomed and appreciated.

Maybe we could also add regular, fuel-and-atmo engines to use on our first planes on kerbin. Then we get jet engines and, eventually, the electric propeller. Also, they should throttle quicker than jet engines.

I'm going to guess that the Steadler Lifting Body aircraft is either the (or a precursor to the) Kerbal equivalent of the Space Shuttle/STS?

B9 isn't becoming stock, SP+ is.

Someone actually came up with a representation of a girl kerbal that is not sexual in any way. The only difference between the two genders is that the girls have longer hair, narrower, more angled heads, and a thinner body. The guy who came up with this representation also makes the Kerboom! comics.

Finish KSPX, then add SXT by lack, which adds 5m parts, plane parts, and a few extra NERVAs, as well as other assorted parts. Also, RLA stock alike should be added, so that the some what neglected 0.625m parts can be more developed.

I voted plane because new plane parts. Gonna wave good by to the hyp train as the hypeplane makes it way to 0.25

Hey lack, I don't know if this has been said before, but the An-225 doesn't have an appropriately sized tail piece.

The guy who makes the Kerboom comics thought of insectoid dinosaurs. Here are mine (note: they are extinct): Tyranomantis: A large predator, it looks like a praying mantis. It uses its rear legs for walking, and its middle set for grabbing hold of objects/prey. It uses it fore legs for attacking. It is not capable of flight. Trispike: a two legged triceratops with compound eyes. Brontoid: A large herbivore, walks on 6 legs, eats from trees. Slow and stupid.

I'm going to make an educated guess: the Windjammer is the kerbal equivalent to the Saturn V.

Nah, best to keep consistency.

Type: solid, rocky planet Name: Kerbin BC300000 GASL: 1.00 g atmosphere: mainly a nitrogen/oxygen mix, not unlike Earth Large Oceans cover 60% of the planet, several massive craters contain deserts within themselves. Life includes massive, insect like creatures, similar to dinosaurs, as well as a few medium sized reptiles and small mammals. Most intelligent creature is a small, green humanoid. Has three moons orbiting it: a large, gilly like object; a Moon like our own, and a small ice ball. This planet is, in fact, Kerbin in the year 300,000 B.C.

procedural doesn't mean random. Squad could set it up where all of the planets (except the kerbol system) are procedurally generated from a constant, unchangeable seed. That way, planets are unique, new, and random, but everyone would have the same planets to visit.

placing the center of lift inside of the center mass seems to me the best option: the shuttle will be very responsive, have less of a chance of spinning out, and less likely to pitch too far up or down.

I was kinda being sarcastic (and yes I understand that heat and ionizing radiation are not the same.)

1. when they do a poll in, say, the U.S.A, do they ask all 300 MILLION + inhabitants? The reason the 'in the middle' choice isn't there is because it's a yes or no question: even if you only want the dv readout in the Vab, you still want it, which equates to yes. Even if the your reply was 55/45, 55% is greater than half, therefore it goes under 'yes' (in your case). The poll is black/white because it is expecting a black/white answer to a black/white question. 2. Time and effort are worth just as much as money, hence why employees are paid. If I fail my heavily thought out mission because I unwittingly messed up a calculation, I've wasted my already limited time and effort. Now, if I have a built in Calculator that does this for me, the chances of my mission failing do to inefficient design drops to near zero: if the mission fails, it's on me. Knowing that in itself can save countless time wasted on fixing a design that isn't broken. Look at Scott Manley for example: he does all of these amazing things, yet he still crunches numbers/ gets assistance. In fact most of the stuff he does REQUIRES intense calculating.

Yes, the exhaust would be "radioactive": heat is a form of radiation (hence the "").

To explore, terraform, and populate (all three of which we are currently/somewhat capable of. Also why I don't believe in rapture: if God created this world/humanity just to destroy it, why would he create it in the first place (we may not know all of his reasons for doing certain things, but he certainly ain't stupid)?)

I actually wondered this too. I did some looking and found the one advantage, besides debris reduction, that decouplers have over separators: they're cheaper.

You miss read what I said: a warpdrive would cut the travel time to the nearest star down to 2 WEEKS, which is a round trip of about a MONTH. That's a third of the time it would take a VASMIR propelled Mars mission to just get to Mars. Even if it was just a simple land and return, that's all we would need to ignite the public interest. "first man to walk on another planet around another star" "(insert astronauts name), faster than the fastest man alive!""Star Trek: it's no longer fiction" All of those headlines have quite a ring to them. If we can build an FTL ship, no matter how expensive, it would still be more economical/feasible/practical then a Bussard Ramjet. Hence why i support NASA's development and testing of a warpdrive.

The question is if you can use it to your advantage (reverse gravity assist)

Career mode (will) balance the parts. Like the OP said, these parts are meant for rockets that will travel to destinations not yet born and across distances not yet conceived. The SLS parts are meant for the part of CAREER where what is on the rocket matters more than the rocket itself. These parts are signalling the end of the sandbox age and the beginning of the career age. Many thought this day would never come, but I'm sorry to say it has: the age of the orange pancake/asparagus HLVs is coming to an end.

But wouldn't it be nice to know "hay, its possible to build a working warp drive?" long before that? Also, who's to say we HAVE to be able to do orbital mining before we go interstellar? If we crack the FTL egg within a couple of decades (optimistic, yet possible), no one would wait for us to start mining the asteroid belt. The public, once informed of the possibility to get to the nearest star and back within a month, would most likely get behind a project to build such a ship. Rockets would carry materials into space, the ship would be constructed, and then depart. You could say that we need to crawl before we can run, but we aren't cavemen any more: we know how to walk (albeit unsteadily). To say that interplanetary travel is unbelievably far into the future is like saying it was impossible to go to the moon in 1969: we'd sent men around it, even practiced near it. To land on wouldn't take much more effort. We're at the same place with mars today: we've sent robots there; to send men there isn't that much harder: you'll just need a bigger, better rocket.