Gargamel

Moved to KSP2 Suggestions

We’ll get this straightened out.

Moved to Mission Reports.

Yes yes yes.

That’s a link to your hard drive. Won’t work for the rest of us. Host your log files on a site like Dropbox.

Ok... I just squeeed at the end of S2 of Mandolorian. Ok. And the after credits just got a bit of an ooooooh too. I think I’ll give ep IX a try tomorrow, with the full expectation of being very disappointed. That way I won’t be let down.

We’ll merge this into the news thread when it’s done, but I wanted to post it in the open so people know about it. https://apnews.com/article/8c518d66e7ecc9236000652cd5358f26

And I forgot about that one

The issue I see, as mentioned, is the survivability of a balloon in re-entry. You'll probably need a heat shield of some sort, and when the vessel slows down enough, you can then inflate the balloon and drop the re-entry vehicle and gas storage tanks. I have trouble believing any already inflated balloon capable of providing any meaningful lift would survive re-entry. Also, the gas giant's atmospheres are mainly hydogren, with Neptune being the least amount of H2 at 80%. This doesn't leave a lot of payload left for the balloon to lift. Even if you descend to a level where the atmosphere dense enough to lift a balloon, I think the winds and turbulence would not be our friend. Even if we do have an envelope capable of surviving in these conditions, get transmissions out might be be an issue, and possibly even power. Although perhaps a wind generator would work. I think that leaves Venus as our only viable target, as Mars's atmosphere is too thin. The topography of Mars even extends above the atmosphere, which would probably prove both exciting and disastrous. Venus though, would require in flight, post entry, inflation, as we obviously can't land on the surface, and even if we could survive landing there, I don't think we'd carry enough stored gas to overcome the surface pressure. Now.... all that said, the back of my mind is screaming that there are multiple projects on the board with this concept, so I'm not one to rely on. But I don't think an inflated balloon could survive entry and provide usable lift. I think you have to pick one. I don't think Hydrogen on the gas giants presents the safety issue that it does on Earth, seeing as they are all at least 80% H2 already.

Moved to modded tech support. To me, this seems like a giant red flag. First step should be to update all your mods to the current version.

Moved to Add-On Discussion. A lot of people run multiple installs of KSP for this very reason. They'll have a stock unmodded install, an install with mod set A, and another with set B, etc.

Andrea Ghez, and she won a Nobel for it.

Your post has been merged into the proper test thread.

Let's keep the crossposting to a minimum. A number of posts have been moved to moved to this thread: Further Off topics posts might be subject to removal completely.

But you’re on a forum dedicated to rocket launches.... how do you not know what a countdown is? I’m intrigued too.

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Moved to mod dev help

There's also the thought that one could re-enter and look like a meteor just streaking across the sky, with a good solid single massive retroburn to possibly resemble an explosion, and then a soft powered landing when you are in a location not covered by radar etc. Having the craft ditch flammable solids to give the appearance of it breaking up.

Having used to work with > 50 troy ounces of iridium every day.... I'm not that impressed. Ok... I am I am...

Well, heck, the Universe running on Linux does explain a lot.

Did _not_ realize the first images from this telescope were that old... seems fairly recent to me https://www.space.com/milky-way-monster-black-hole-first-image-eht Sag A* first pics.

Well, then I’m not sure how else to interpret your post: The "free everything forever" is a problem only because KSP failed on expanding the userbase beyound the initial sell, as it appears. Please explain.

Let me get this straight. You are saying that KSP has almost zero sales after March 2013, when they chose to list it on the world’s largest games retailer, whereas previously they had zero marketing and the game was purely word of mouth. And then due to the near zero sales after release, because the player base already had the game, they decided it would be worthwhile to release a DLC, and then a follow up DLC, neither of which would generate any significant revenue since the majority of the player base was “free for life”, and then one of the world’s largest game publishers decided it would be a good idea to acquire the title and release a sequel based on no sales after 2013. I’m just stating this for clarification of your position before I respond.

We have multiple threads arguing over who’s guess about the release date is best. We do not need another. Let’s keep this thread strictly to the upcoming earnings call.