J.Random

Salami as solid fuel is probably better than corn syrup as liquid fuel.

Themartianception!

Starting the second Iraq campaign, US navy did exactly that. They've used more than 300 tomahawks for a simultaneous strike on all important infrastructure objects and air defence targets. Launching from multiple ships scattered around Persian Gulf and Red sea, aiming at different targets at greatly varying distances, they've had to time launches carefully to make hits more or less simultaneous, and they did. Not only cruise missile launches, but unguided artillery strikes can be done this way. All you need to do is to time it right, in accordance with distances to targets and shells' flight time to each other.

Same. My guess would be that they've confirmed a non-organic methane origin.

I'm pretty sure real rockets don't do that, the only valves left open at ignition are pressure relief ones.

HooliganLabs?

^ what he said. Hydrofluoric acid and other toxic or volatile stuff in a pressurized zero-g environment - what could go wrong, right? That's also why we can't have a self-sustained colonies in space or on other planets - at least yet. Making electronic components "in the field" is nigh impossible.

Pft. Easy. Payload is what you're paying for. Literally. If it's a LEO payload, it should reach LEO without using (or not having) its own propulsion means. Spaceplane is not a payload, unless it sits as a deadweight on a rocket. Saturn-V third stage (which was also a TLI stage) was not technically part of LEO payload, because it had to do a burn to reach its designated LEO. Breeze-M may be at least partially covered by payload fairings, but it isn't payload, either for LEO or GTO/GSO. If you're paying for transfer to GTO but intend to stay on GSO, the mass you've paid for includes your own propulsion system, and it's part of the GTO payload.

WUT? o_O

No. It may work as part of a tech tree progression, with parts receiving functional upgrades ("this fuel tank receives an upgrade, it's just as strong as before, but lighter because of new materials, improving its dry-to-wet ratio") and changing their visual style as well (with an option to "downgrade" part to match the rest of the craft via tweakables). However, I doubt it will ever be implemented.

Well, at the moment it's not just two styles. There's Porkjet's clean style, Roverdude's USI bulky-dirty style and there's Squad's I-don't-know-what-to-do "style" (including spacetech clean NASA pack) which kinda works as an intermediate between former two. After more revamps (which, I hope, are planned), it will eventually converge into just two conflicting styles. It may become nasty at that point, when Squad will finally have to decide which one stays and which one goes.

You're not alone in this feeling. I also fear of the possible future clash of these two design approaches.

AIES author does it better:

Here's constructive criticism: when I look at this antenna, I imagine imperial TIE fighter instead of any KSP craft I've made _ever_. It would probably look better if dish was a wireframe, but AIES variant still has better animation with its double 90+180 degrees hinges. The "broomstick handle" comparison, I guess, comes from the lack of detail in the area where support beam connects to the dish. Other dishes have either thick transceiver supports (in one case they're doubled which looks incredibly ugly) or, say, a commutotron-thingie sticking outwards of the focal point, looking useless. On the code side, I expect that the bug with antennas folding themselves and locking in the folded state after science transmission will never be fixed.

They all look ugly, bulky and dirty, the latest one isn't an exception. It's like a disfigured brother of the AIES set.

From the "In orbit" video: "time to next delta-vee is one hour". o_O Does anyone actually use this term in this context?

Drones are already being used for drug trafficking across the borders and for prison contraband, afaik.

Would "negatively reinforced" be a better term? At the moment, most of the education on accident prevention while operating a drone is kinda darwinian. Like, people remember that you should switch your transmitter on first and then switch the drone on only after it tries to chop their fingers off.

Well deserved. Idiots flying drones in populated areas should be punished. Especially if the drone in question has open blades, but even if not, this thing falling on your head from, say, 20m will probably put you into hospital.

FTFY

Are you saying that all of them were successful? Including 1.0.1 and 1.0.3, which had a lifespan of a mayfly? Or the one which left us with an impressive memory leak for two months? Again, just curious.

Which one out of five of them? Just curious.

Oh, we're talking calculators now? Behold, Elektronika MK-52. And it already has several KSP ports, made back in '80s. It was a series of programs tied with a story of a spacecraft called Contiki, published in a "Technika Molodezhi" ("Tech for Youth" or something) and I've played most of them after finding dad's old calculator in late '90s and spending a lot of time in local libraries hunting for old magazines. 105 command registers, 15(?) data registers, and you could land a craft on the Moon with it.

This theory exists because some radio operators picked up voice transmissions from early soviet spacecrafts. In fact, those were recordings played on test unmanned crafts, intended to check the comms quality. When curators of the soviet space program heard about these theories, they seriously considered using opera/orchestra/choir recordings in the future - read it in some (Kamanin's?) memoirs.

Commodore 64.