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I'm actually quite partial to Canadian whisky and ginger ale. In fact, maybe that's what I will have tonight for the experiment. I guess I should only do unmanned missions.

I'd like an airbag landing system like the Mars Pathfinder mission used.

What is this heresy?

An inch is all it takes.

Another positive bonus for getting younger people into the game: It might just inspire some of these young ones to be our future astronomers and astronauts. I know it has rekindled my interest in the universe, but I'm starting to become too old to pursue that field.

I don't think that's really a good attitude to have, personally. KSP is a great game, so why deny access to people just because of their age? There is no multiplayer function, so we aren't going to have to deal with the people that plague the CoD games. If that behavior spills over to the forums, well, that's why there are forum mods.

Same here. I'm going to substitute beer for the martinis. I don't like gin. I'm going to take an educated guess and say it won't end well.

You know, I was thinking the other day what the game would be like if Squad implemented different difficulty levels. Like "Novice" for people just learning to play the game and then "Normal" and "Scott Manley" modes.

I am willing to bet we have someone in the Navy who plays.

So, today I was at JFK airport with a long layover. I have KSP installed on my laptop, so what better way to pass the time than play? While playing,* a group of 4 kids (probably about 12 years old) started watching me and asking what the game was. So, I explained KSP to the best of my ability, and I am pretty sure they've been bugging their parents to buy the game for them the rest of the day. So, I'm going to wager I'm doing my civic duty and spreading the good word. *At that point I had been awake for approximately 30 hours due to a cross-country red eye flight prior to landing at JFK. This proved to be quite an interesting experiment on the effects sleep deprivation has on spacecraft control (and mission planning. And spacecraft design). Needless to say, KASA now has new strict regulations on the amount of rest required prior to missions and maneuvers. Anyway, that's a totally different story, I guess. Sorry, no screenshots. They weren't exactly on my mind at the time.

That station was turning out to be pretty nice-looking. Well done!

I always will take on an eccentric orbit and then fine-tune my adjustments until I get a decent encounter. Then, what Dr. Muttonstache said.

Well done! I like the appearance of that craft and lander.

It's beautiful! How long did it take you to assemble?

I would say I'm a purist pilot by your descriptions, but like anything else, it is difficult to be entirely within a label. I like to try to play with as few mods as possible. I have never even touched MechJeb, for example. I have used things like fairings mods and the Kethane mining pack, but that's about the extent of the modding. Since I don't use MechJeb, I obviously try to manually fly everything (the exception being SAS if you want to count that as non-manual flight). I always try to test my creations on Kerbin before sending my Kerbals into space, but I since I manually fly, more times than not I send them to their graves on some celestial body. I get more satisfaction when things go right than I think I would if I did not fly the craft myself. That's just me, anyway, and I certainly to not criticize other people's ways of doing things.