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We don't know at what time of year each photo is taken, so the variations might be seasonal.

It's been explained several times in this thread. Edit the .cfg of the part like this: Replace: part = MuMechJebWhatever => part = Part or part = CommandPod Add: MODULE { name = MechJebCore }

Have you tried deorbiting from a lower altitude? I noticed that it behaves differently when deorbiting to the Mun from 150km than from 50km.

In Google Earth, you can go as far back as 1948 when Las Vegas was one hotel and an airstrip.

Are you sure there are kerbals inside it?

The A-10 was designed during the cold war for shooting up close range hardened ground targets with a big machine gun. Nowadays, you don't need to go up close and personal with a depleted uranium rounds to kill a tank. Most modern conflicts involve assymetrical attacks against soft targets. An F-35 wouldn't need to go up as close as an A-10. It would fire it's Hellfires from several miles away based on intelligence provided by ground troops or AWACs. Other aircraft that are in a similar role to the A-10 for ground attack are the AC-130 or AH-64.

Why would you want to ride on the X-51? It's not even a plane, it can't even fly! As has been said, the only thing it can be used for is a missile. A very expensive missile, with a very small payload. If you want a suborbital ride, you can get a ticket on SpaceShipTwo.

In recent months, fighter aircraft have been deployed in active combat in several countries over the World, so yes, they are still useful. Even when you're going through peaceful negociations, military capability is part of a country's persuasion power and credibility. Humanity is far from being a whole big family, unfortunately. On the topic of drones, aircraft like the Global Hawk can only be deployed when you have air superiority. They don't stand a chance in areas where the enemy has basic air defense or old Migs. In 2002, a Predator was shot down by an Iraqi Mig. Global Hawks can sort of replace ground attack aircraft, equivalent to an A-10, but there are still no dogfight-capable air superiority drones equivalent to an F-22. That's what the X-47 is for, but I think it will be a while before an operational air superiority drone is deployed.

You can really only mod parts of the game that are meant to be modded. For the moment, planets are hardcoded, so to change them would require hacking the game, not modding.

Instead of trying to add capacity to your existing rocket, try building an extra stage underneath it that would lift the entire rocket. In theory, it will probably be 3 or 4 times bigger than the entire rocket.

If they were going to buy last generation off-the-shelf, there's already a lot of options in the NATO inventory, like the Rafale, the Viggen or the F-18. I doubt any of the Russian planes are interoperable with NATO weapon systems and consumables. Besides, the Su-27 isnt STOL/VTOL, which is the main reason of existence of the F-35. The F-35B is needed for the smaller carriers that are used by the JSF partners: the Cavour, the Principe de Asturias, the all-new Queen Elizabeth class, and a whole fleet of US amphibious assault ships. These ships don't have a catapult, so they are restricted by the type of aircraft that can be used on them. An aircraft carrier without aircraft is a bit laughable, and the only one available is the F-35B, so they are stuck with it, whatever the cost.

There's more to building a fighter jet that pretty 3D renders and powerpoint slides. Building a modern fighter aircraft for a single domestic market is not viable any more, as France has proven by going with the domestic Rafale instead of participation in EuroFighter. A single country like Canada (or France) can't maintain the critical number of fighter jets for which it becomes economical. Once the planes are built, you still need to maintain assembly lines and tooling for spare parts, which means that you have to keep ordering parts from the contractor companies even if you don't need them. This is viable when there are thousands of aircraft of that model, but when there are only 200 or so, it ends up way too expensive. France recently had to order 100 more Rafales, not because they needed them or could even afford them, but because the Rafale has been a failure on the export market and if they didn't, the contractors might close down, which would cause supply problems on some vital spare parts. The one advantage of the Rafale is that it is truly multi-role. There is a carrier version, an air superiority version, a nuclear strike/ground attack version, electronic warfare version, and so on... Therefore instead of maintaining several aircraft types, you only have one type and it costs less. The US has the F-22, the F-18, the A-10, and still lots of F-15, F-16 and a few others. Although it's nice to have specialized aircraft, it costs a lot to maintain a supply chain for all those different aircraft types. This was also a major appeal of the F-35. As for the F-35, most participating countries have spent so much money on it, that it will now be cheaper to go ahead and get the planes that to cancel the program and get nothing. Besides, there is no other option. The Harriers are outdated and falling apart. The UK, Italy, and Spain need a new multi-role fighter for their carriers. These are non-CATOBAR carriers, so they are stuck with STOL/VTOL unless they are converted to helicopter carriers. To start a new program for a replacement for the F-35 would cost even more billions and take another 15 or 20 years.

Classic Shell is free.

Once you have your Mun transfer node, in Kerbin orbit, adjust it BEFORE doing the burn by pulling back the yellow marker. This will raise the Pe so that your trajectory doesn't slam into the Mun. You save fuel by doing the Pe adjustment in Kerbin orbit. erbin

KSC is on the equator, so just launch east and you will get a pretty good equatorial orbit. Causes for exploding stations are wobble and sometimes clipping parts.

Let me guess: you have a touch screen? For email, web and watching videos on a tablet, it's fine. But for anyone who uses a good old desktop PC for productivity (meaning, you are using the desktop most of the time, with a keyboard and mouse), the Windows 8 Start screen and all those secret corner zones just get in the way and interrupt the workflow.

I would suggest you rather point your ISA Mapsat towards Tylo instead... The Munoliths are only to be found in the Kerbin-Mun-Minmus system. However, there are interesting things elsewhere...

If you look in the cfg files for probes, you'll see that they have 10 times less torque than a pod. I suppose this is because probes are usually much smaller than manned spacecraft. You can always edit the cfg files to improve their torque.

It's not just different. It's a notoriously badly designed UI. However, it is more stable and faster than Windows 7. You just have to get rid of that annoying schizophrenic tablet UI.

That's not what hypothetically means I wouldn't downgrade to Windows 7 because Windows 8 is actually much faster. It's quite impressive if you give it a try. It's really just the Metro UI stuff which is crap, but you can easily bypass it with Classic Shell: http://www.classicshell.net/

RCS is really only useful for docking. You don't really need it for anything else.

Put wheels on them and dock them on the ground.

You would have some more turbulence in any fluids due to the Coriolis effect, which would translate into stronger winds and ocean currents. It wouldn't affect gravity, because the mass of the planet would remain the same. The centrifugal force might cause a slight bulging around the equator. The day/night cycle would be much shorter, which might translate into less temperature variations. Not sure what effect that would have on the climate.

This should go into the Off Topic > Science Labs forum.

I hardly ever use any of the stock parts. Mod parts are much more interesting, as long as they are properly balanced.