MircoMars

is there actually a way to get a legit hard copy of the game. not for playing, just for the shelf

Jebediah got the handle and this train it won't stop going, no way to slow down.... dadada dat dat daamm

the last button is broken, every time I wanna go to "last", there are more pages behind it...

if we take a look at the planned features, there's way too much new content that's added for 1.0. I believe they should have gone to 0.5 instead of .90 and implement the new features until they are satisfied with how they fit into the big picture. Then 0.9 as beta and "content polishing", then 1.0 "game complete". I was afraid that they wanted to get to 1.0 because they wanna clone the cash cow by releasing expansion-packs and stuff. but I reread the terms of service, saw that I'm with the folks who bought the game early enough to have them included and stopped worrying.

I was watching your vids and my girlfriend unknowingly played "the baseballs - candyshop" with perfect timing I laughed sooo hard!

"hold hold hold, no go due to weather conditions"

all stations report go t-12minutes and counting

e1ns (10char)

I just built myself a simple camera obscura and it's amazing! gave my girlfriend instructions how to build some with her kindergarden kids, hope they'll enjoy it

1. you can always check the part.cfg (gamedata/KAS/parts/winch1/winch1.cfg). there you'll find that winch1 is in "advConstruction". just change the TechRequired to whatever suits you. 2. AFAIK you can't have two part at the same time, so you have to let go of 1 cable to grab the other. but you should be able to grab a ladder before you disconnect the first cable, so your kerbal can't float away. important notice, a cable connection between two vessels makes them join into one (as long as the cable is connected) be careful with crazy cross connections.

for me the trick with docking and 0g-eva navigation is to be patient. short burst are enough if you take your time and let the movement happen. other games teach you to hold the button to keep moving in the direction, but in ksp you just keep moving and only press the keys if you want to change how you move. for docking it's pretty easy to approach from the right side, have the ports +/- normal or align them in flight and get closer at a snails pace. but eva is a whole other story. first, there's a patch for the "go eva and fly off"-bug! this bugfix is very essential for me, else I would ragequit all the time. but sometimes you need to be eva and free flying and if you start flying off spinning wildly... yeah I guess we all know the panic. I can always recommend practice in situational awareness and flying skills. do some test flights (F5 and F9 are your friends) in which you only EVA and try to keep your input as minimal as possible. getting off the key is more important than getting on it. building bigger is also a workaround, as the time slows down with high part counts. and there was a slowmo mod once that could just give you more time to think and act. regarding more time, I learned to first press F3 and take a breath if anything wierd happens. I'm almost sure I don't understand your limitations in using a keyboard correctly, but are there any tools you could use? like pressing the buttons with a pen or so? or using a specially big keyboard, dunno bout the gaming capabilities of these but it could be worth a try. the tethered by KAS idea is a very good one and I'm curious about the solutions you'll come up with, please share! edit: ah and there are mods that add rails etc., so you can build eva routes more easily than with ladders alone. just google for them

hi, how does the media cope with this astronomical phenomenon in your country? In Germany I saw one paper saying "Oh my god, the power drain could be to much" the other featured an interview with an eye specialist, like: "don't look you'll turn to a salt figure damage your retina and if you come to me afterwards, I'll be like 'told ya'. but with some luck it's cloudy and rainy anyway..." I don't even want to know what the BILD wrote about this or if they just put the headline on their weekend edition: "Sun darkened unforeseeably, Salafist's or Russia?" what the actual !? can we have some professional journalism in our times? why are newspapers THaT stupid and useless? argh, sorry for that rant. enjoy your eclipse with the proper eye protection of your choice. don't let your teacher or boss stop you from watching it!

Hi, I also have some questions about relativity and time dilation. how much time differential is there between the planets of our solar system? I mean mercury is deep in the gravity well of the sun and moves quite fast, neptun is far out and moves slower. how do i calculate this and what do i need to take into consideration?

I meant these because of the poles being on the same side and you can do a click and run

okay guys, back to topic please (mods you're free to delete off topic answers): no answers on and c), yet? and no, this is not a cat/dog poll. I'd like to have a discussion please.

for me then "when" is irrelevant. we don't have artificial gravity in space, yet. the problems of having a partly rotating structure in space seem to be harder than imagined, otherwise we would have a grav-module on the ISS for health benefits of the people up there, won't we? I'd like to know how animals would be like after some generations in space. this is not only for "the comfort of having domestic animals", but for science. how important is gravity for the development of a creature? how will the organism adapt over generations? what are the implications for possible human reproduction in space?

here on earth we have these combined fish and vegetables farms: the fish somehow live off the plants waste (+extra feeding) and the plants live on the fish waste. such a system should be possible in space, too. I guess we could help our fish stayin sane by making the water flow in one direction, so they have at least a forward. Since this current tank has to be accessible for maintenance and fishing, it could also be used as extra fitness facility for the cosmonauts. wow, this would be huge and all those pumps and filters and stuff, let alone the weight of the water. I guess a fish tank is only somewhat practical for orbital stations or other structures you don't need to accelerate that much...

I think a lunar outpost is far more realistic than a round-trip to mars. the moon is way closer and the perfect test-bed for technology that will be used to go to mars. we may find out that 1/6g is enough to keep humans healthy and decide that we don't need to generate more perceived downforce for interplanetary travel or whatever. But I'm really wondering why you guys write about building upwards. my gut tells me to go down. the hard and cold part of the moon is much thicker than earths crust. there is not that much gravity which lets really large holes on earth collapse (talking about meteor hits, not man-made holes). the radiation shielding was already mentioned. we could perhaps get to build a gravity-elevator there, find out about the inside of a celestial body first hand (not that seismic waves hearsay) and, if I read correctly, the really interesting raw materials (e.g. REE) are there. which brings me to the why. and for now the why of a large scale operation like colonizing any place is either survival or money. (jajaja, curiosity could be named here, but isn't "knowing more" most often a survival- or business strategy?) I guess we would have to be very desperate to be motivated by the first, which leaves the latter. so, how can we convince the fat cat corporations of earth that going to the moon is evil profitable enough to put loads of money into this?

so if I connect two 9V batteries directly, it goes click, smolder, boom?

okay, the topic took off. thanks guys all animals need gravity for various reasons. we (living things) all are born in gravity and our bodies are adapted to that. humans experience the same disorientation as the cats and birds in these videos do. the men in the plane surely did many parable-flights before and are able to anticipate and cope with the effects of low and high gravity. I suppose the animals are exposed to these conditions for one flight and that's it. main difference between cats and birds in the example above is that the cats aren't able to grab anything whereas the birds can "grab some air" and thus control their movement. they just don't really know what to do with this control (yet?). also these are animals in which the sensation of free falling trigger a natural reaction, for cats it's "rotate 'til feet point to ground", for birds it's "flap or fall". but I'm not asking about short time exposure, but of the lasting effects on a population in micro-g. and I think evolution of domestic animals is a mix of selective breeding and natural selection (perhaps better indirect selective breeding?). men can only see and control some changes, other happen in the background. fish for example would grow a small swim-bladder and evolve some other sensory and motoric tools to cope with their new environment. the decision which ones are allowed to breed would be based on how good they move and how well fed they are. in most cases the price would go to the fittest and not to the ones which are about to develop a promising gyro-organ or something. cut short by real life, but I will continue. meanwhile: pick your favorite orbital animal and try to predict how it looks after some generations. have fun!

if we start having pets in space and breed them in micro-g: a. what pets would be best suited? b. how would they evolve? c. how could they be useful? d. what would be a better title for this thread?

hmm, didn't pay enough attention then... how did I miss that?

you can "hack" your persistence (or quickload or any other savefile) with the notepad. Save that file before you change anything or you'll regret it! use ctrl+f to open find and look for your kerbal under "ROSTER": ROSTER { KERBAL { name = Bill Kerman type = Crew brave = 0.5 dumb = 0.8 badS = False state = Available ToD = 0 idx = 0 CAREER_LOG { flight = 1 0 = Flight,Kerbin 0 = Suborbit,Kerbin 0 = Land,Kerbin 0 = Recover } FLIGHT_LOG { flight = 1 } } now it should work if you just copy the "CAREER_LOG" and "FLIGHT_LOG" of your best kerbal to your engineer. save and load into game. all of the above can be done while KSP is running, just Alt-Tab out. load from KSC overview for good measure. hope this works for you. if you want to level your kerbals without hacking, go in small steps as only the "best" achievement of the flight is awarded. i.e. if you go straight for a minmus landing, flight/orbit at kerbin, mun-flyby, orbiting minmus etc are not counted.

we have a desktop pc and a laptop. the desktop is cleaned very easily with a vacuum. clean outside grills, take off cover, take out cpufan, clean inside, put it all together. with the laptop that's a whole other story take out loose stuff, ease out keyboard, unscrew and take out peripheries, unscrew and open case, take out cableconnectors, unscrew and fold back mainboard, look for that one screw you missed that now locks all pieces in place and prevents you getting to the heat exchanger, unscrew and take out fancover, clean heatexchanger, put it all back together. meanwhile worry about warranty, look for lost screws, ask yourself whether a magnetic screw driver should be used to unscrew your harddrive... you get my point. for me it seems like laptops weren't build to be cleaned. but, how to build a laptop that is easy to clean?

having a species that attacks them to take and completely fill their niche, would be the most ecofriendly. the extinction would take a while, though and you would be stuck with the substitute cockroaches afterwards. (tribbles anyone?) the most effective would be a virus (or other parasite) that only attacks cockroaches and makes them highly contagious and hungry for their own eggs . but then you would have to somehow fill the gap their extinction left. for household use, get a pet that eats cockroaches. two that come to mind are crazy cats and chameleons, but I guess a dog could also be trained to catch roaches and trash your place in the progress...