GreeningGalaxy

My Laythe mission finally arrived at Jool, captured into Laythe orbit, and made a successful (if stressful) landing. I notably did not do this today, but it still bears reporting because it's probably one of my coolest missions to date. The GGSS Aranaié, carrying the Aerulia lander. Both names are planet name random generations from my good ol' Spore days. Bonehead moment 1: While wingless landers might work fine in the stock game, FAR is a different story. To be honest, though, I'm not sure how I would have built it differently, though; its centers of drag and mass were lined up just fine for an engine-first descent, but trying to fly it horizontally across the surface with any maneuverability is nearly impossible. It did make a perfectly satisfactory SSTO ascent from Kerbin prior to docking with the Aranaié, though, so that much should definitely be possible from Laythe. Issue number 2: Turns out Laythe doesn't have a flat surface on it. I took the recommended landing site of some guy on IRC, but it still wasn't great. In the end I had to turn on infinite fuel - I mean, grab some water off the surface and electrolyze it into fuel real fast - so that I could use RCS to keep the blasted thing from falling over like it so badly wanted to do. The Aerulia lander works well enough, but I think it's going to need a big redesign - maybe more along the lines of a VTOL plane than a rocket - before it's doing any real exploring of Laythe's landscape. In the other news, I also built a new super mighty power transit vehicle with KSPI stuff, this time powered by antimatter and fueled with a combination of ammonia and hydrogen (either-or, not at the same time). I calculated the total stage delta-V last week- it's over 68 kilometers per second! Maybe I should be looking into doing a grand-tour type of mission. I love antimatter-powered ships, especially this one. It might not turn very fast, but that doesn't stop it from accelerating at over 2 Gs on full throttle! More pictures: All those big radiators still only dump about 1/5 of the heat that the reactor can put out. Good thing I'm just using it for a thermal rocket and not trying to convert that all to electricity for an Alcubierre drive or something! Unlike the Aranaié mission, this vehicle uses a fission reactor for auxiliary power, which will run for a much longer time than a similarly-sized fusion reactor on much less-volatile fuel. The hydrogen tank pictured is almost only there for structural reasons at this point; if the ammonia in the surrounding tanks is used first, it will give the ship its first 53 kilometers per second, with the remaining hydrogen adding just over 15. As is standard on all my antimatter-powered vehicles, this one comes with an emergency separation system which will cut the entire propulsion section loose in the event that antimatter containment is compromised. Unfortunately, doing this would leave the ship hanging dead in space with nothing but RCS for propulsion (maybe I should put a few NFT plasma engines on the aft ends of those ammonia tanks for backup?), but 9 out of 9 kerbals agree that nearly anything is a better situation than finding oneself at the center of a multi-megaton antimatter explosion. Antimatter is scary. At the moment, the first prototype for this vehicle lives in a slightly-inclined Tylo orbit to survey the surface. It's barely made a dent in its fuel, though, so it could easily hop over to Laythe to pick up the Aerulia lander in place of the original Aranaié transit vehicle that carried it out there. Finally, have a picture of my very fast fusion-powered plane dispensing spent shells at high speed as I fire the machine gun:

I pull out a handgun and shoot at the flag. The bullet streaks out ahead of me, gaining most of its Tylo-relative velocity from my already considerable suborbital speed. The bullet impacts the flag's base at over five kilometers per second, blasting a crater in the top of the hill and launching the flag onto a neighboring hill. You can have that one. The crater-topped hill is mine.

8/10. sure, it works. Alemagno - A trollface? What is this now, 2008?

You flew all the way out there just to find that? Disgusting. Laythe spontaneously pops back into existence. I grab a vial of its seawater and wear it around my neck for good luck, and also because it clearly has magical properties. I also claim a hill on Tylo because hey, why not. My Tylo hill.

I make it down by dropping Giant Tungsten Block In Space into the atmosphere with a lot of very tough parachutes attached to it. Giant Tungsten Block in Space makes it down in one piece, minus ablation. 6000 Gs though? Seriously? No planet of that mass could possibly be anything smaller than a gas giant. It would probably at least overcome the electron degeneracy pressure if it were made of rock, if not fall beneath its Schwarszchild radius. I strap the next poster to a class-A asteroid, fly it all the way to Eeloo, and deorbit it.

500. New rule! Following (but not including) this post, girls now increase the number, while boys decrease it. This of course also means that boys win if it reaches 0 and girls if it reaches 1000.

Yes, we have established that. Meanwhile, to prevent computer fires, I suggest we install a liquid cooling system.

No, sir, that appears to be a Staples Easy button, sir. I'm afraid the buttons to ban patrons exist only in the moderator booth, on the other side of that bulletproof semisilvered glass wall. Waitress! There's a male-dominated society in my soup!

A(G,G) Where G is again Graham's number, because for some reason subscript doesn't work.

Pain & Suffering

1. Build 2. Click launch 3. Mash space How I, a macaroani learned computer???

5057: New experiments in high-energy theoretical physics reveal that the universe is not running on a computer that could produce comprehensible error messages (or copypasta error messages, for that matter), if indeed it is running on a computer at all. 5058: Dresses become fashionable attire for kerbals of all genders, particularly on null-gravity space stations. 5059: Kerbin grows cooler, and kerbals notice their hair becoming thicker. This is an awfully fast change to be natural selection, especially since it occurs in individuals who previously had short, thin hair. Soon, Lamarck Kerman is discovered seeding the troposphere with hair growth agents, and the phenomenon is explained.

For the seventh time running, you fail to delete the next poster. The aforementioned meta-computer does not actually exist, so its jurisdiction over the timeline is, shall we say, 'limited'. The next poster is locked in a room with deadly lasers and Wheatley, who has somehow made it home from space and is really excited to tell you all about Homestuck, which he downloaded to his brain just before being tossed out of Aperture and spent his time in the void reading.

Aw! You've upset Jupiter. Maybe oxygen is a bad idea, huh? Ever think of that?

It's taken. Not our moon to land on, unlike the other three Galileans. Nice, but a bit stretchy. 7/10.

Mach 9, when fired from a respectably adequate railgun. Why pepppper hot?????

....no? Why. That doesn't even make sense for this forum game. Pressing this button will: -Allow you to control the weather in a 5-kilometer radius to suit your mood. No one will question why a tiny section of landscape has all the wrong weather. But: -You cannot consciously control the weather, only your emotions can. -If you are not already between the ages of 20 and 12, you will gain the emotional instability of a teenager.

I'm so rain, I can make it tough by clouding seeds from a specially planed airmodify. Welcome to the Salt Spit, how tough are ya?

Breakdown: Name- easily seen to the left of your posts. Full name slightly relevant. 1/4 Join Date- Can easily be seen to the left of your posts. What do you mean, you "don't remember?" 0/4 Favorite Weapon- "Big Red Button" is arguably not a weapon, but could easily be seen as a euphemism for nuclear explosives, which are both overhyped and made light of excessively. Your repeated deployment of 'the big red button' in forum game threads is getting a little tiresome. 1/4 [Line of dashes]- okay, good enough as a separator. 2/2 something- What's this? Points for mystery, but less for suspected unnecessary space filler. 3/10 Total: 7 / 24 (29%) - F

Looks like you got 1-up'd, alemagno. 0/10 for no avatar. p.s. this post has to be responded to by someone with an avatar.

No way. Floor 957: Vigilante justice appears to be established here. Masked men with guns wave you past and tell you that they're letting you go this time, but if they see you in here again, you're dead.

GreeningGalaxy becomes ZombieGalaxy! Space decays around me. A fissure in the continuum stabs you through the toe and you die of vacuum poisoning. A tear in the temporal stream becomes a closed timelike curve, resetting the timeline to a meta-point at which you are dead but I am alive in my non-Zombie form. ZombieGalaxy has never actually existed and becomes GreeningGalaxy! I hold the next poster upside down by their ankles and shake them out over the edge of a very tall building to dislodge all the frivolities from their person.

Sure, I'll take it. It's not like I'm likely to use it for more than a few seconds at a time, and the accelerated perception of time which I'm going to assume it gives me as a function of making me age faster will improve my reaction time. Pressing this button will: -Prevent everyone who posts on this thread from responding to a button proposition with just "no" and not elaborating. But: -You can't answer "no" to this button proposition without elaborating. What now!

This isn't Survive That Attack. Floor 956: Light does not appear to work on this floor, as everything beyond the stairwell door is pitch black; you feel your way across it and into the stairwell to the next floor.

The ISM is far too diffuse for air intakes like that to function. And I don't buy that they're magnetic field projectors either - what's with the shock cones?