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Yes. The way it's depicted in the movie is not plausible. That said the debris could have been thrown into an elliptical orbit in some resonance with your orbit which would cause you to intercept them every so often. But certainly not once every 90 minutes (the time it takes to complete one orbit in LEO). And the debris "wave" would not be coherent - it would disperse after a few minutes into close but different orbits. Nobody said movies had to be 100% accurate, though. Let's say it's close enough

I agree with this. It's great to follow sensible software engineering practices, and new features are great, but ultimately there comes a point where the game runs so slowly or has so many annoying bugs that it becomes unenjoyable (sp?) playing it. People in this thread are not asking for an epic overnight rewrite leading to the most optimized game ever written by mankind, but there are definitely some issues that need to be resolved and which cannot be ignored at this point. I don't really know why I typed this up, though, I am probably just going to get flamed once more like I did last time in some other thread, but just my two cents.

I figure collision detection could perhaps be disabled for the OX-STAT solar panels and other flat parts. That way they will have much less impact on physics performance and we could actually afford having dozens on a satellite. I mean, who doesn't love the deep blue look of solar panels covering every square centimetre of their craft's surface? Just an idea to be perhaps expanded upon, of course, I'm sure there are situations where this does not make sense and would be undesirable...

Ram a booster into it. Deorbiting is for the weak

Oh, that's just Jeb going to work.

Or turn off the spell checker. Alternative solution, you know.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about hordes of fanboys blindly repeating "it's an alpha" as some kind of shield against any kind of suggestion that doesn't fit into their view of the game. Surely you have seen those all over the Minecraft forums, and I can see some signs of this happening here as well (though not on the same scale.. yet).

This is however true, and I see it all too often.

Mine was called Relativity, I think. Second was Thunderbird, third was uncreatively named "Ion Glider". Usually I suffix iterative revisions with roman numerals until it succeeds or I get bored (whichever comes first).

How far you can go. Basically if you don't have the dv to go from point A to point B with your spaceship, it's mathematically impossible for you to do so, no matter how clever you are. Of course the line between "can" and "can't" is rather fuzzy, since dv is hard to calculate exactly as Ninjadude mentioned, but it lets you make quick ballpark estimates such as "I can probably make it to such and such planet if I don't screw up" or "no, I definitely cannot go there" which is important, because you don't want to be 30 minutes into a mission just to realise you're not going to have enough fuel to finish your interplanetary burn and are shot into a wide solar orbit. Forever. With no snacks. And similarly you don't want to haul up more fuel than you need to for a given mission.

Agreed, that is really rude.

How is that "stupid"... it's pretty much the only way that makes any sense, I'd call it pragmatic. Computers can actually multitask, though fullscreen browsers may have caused some people to forget that

I know, right? Screaming through the lower atmosphere at over 2.5km/s tends to burn away the heatshield pretty quickly

I've always imagined that I turned out left-handed because I observed my parents write from across a table at a young age and tried to imitate them without accounting for mirror symmetry (so I thought their left hand was their right hand and vice versa). It's probably not it, but it's as good a guess as any as far as I'm concerned, since it's not particularly important to me. Interestingly I am right-handed for everything else, computer mice, ..

Our forefathers must've been pretty smart, they managed to FTL without knowing how to read, write, count, or even make fire (unless some aliens decided to picnic on our still-forming planet and left behind some biological stuff which became us... I could believe that, maybe) Honestly I don't understand the argument, and I DO believe we will discover a "miraculous" way to travel faster than light in the future. But to say that the existence of such a device would imply that aliens are everywhere is ludicrous. Though realistically it is likely there are civilizations out there that are millions of years old, we're talking about huge distances here. Maybe there is a fundamental speed limit which makes interstellar travel possible, but not intergalactic (for instance) so that civilizations don't have to be annihilated by the first one to discover the warp drive...

How is this new? I heard claims about a civilization-ending asteroid hitting Earth in the early 2030's years ago. It was 2033, then 2031, then they stopped talking about it. Is it a different asteroid?

Can't you separate the SRB's prematurely if something goes wrong? It's quite safe to do so in open space (in the atmosphere they tend to smash back into your craft) EDIT: if they are radially attached, obviously. If you've got them at the back of your ship you're boned.

Neptune. ... I like the colors.

Clouds and weather!

Yeah I made one of those, no parachutes though but pinpoint landing is a pain. I was thinking of using lateral RCS to sort of hover at a few metres above the ground, perhaps using mechjeb to stabilize vertical thrust, though that can be done manually, just a bit tedious. But I don't know how well that would work on Kerbin. I'm guessing this is where something like kOS would shine to help carry out the landing maneuver flexibly. The concept is sound though.

What's wrong with Hyperedit? It's kinda cool to be able to move planets around to create some interesting scenarios!

I doubt KSP actually models the atmosphere to this extent, though.

I have had good success with canards at the front of the craft and ailerons at the back for pitch control. But I have crashed more planes that can fit in a 64-bit integer, so you should probably not follow my advice

I don't doubt that it will happen eventually. Historically there have always been naysayers around to claim that such and such technology would never work or that it would not be feasible for several centuries or millenia. And history has taught us that these claims are usually misguided. Things are only impossible until they're not, and science is moving rather quickly today compared to the old ages. And even the so-called laws of physics, while arguably a lot more concrete and unyielding today than they were in the past, though they put limits on what can be done, have often been circumvented or cleverly worked around to meet some kind of goal. There are two kinds of people, those who pick up failed experiments and persevere to make them work, and those who say "it's impossible" and just give up. The moral of the story, I put very little stock in claims that "it will never happen", and am really looking forward to what scientists will come up with in the next couple of decades to make this technology feasible

This, I tried very hard to enjoy that MMO but every time I play I literally fall asleep