Nibb31

Version numbers are not decimal. After 0.9 comes 0.10, 0.11, 0.12... and after 0.99 comes 0.100, 0.101, 0.102... The first number increments when the devs consider it's a major release, not when the minor release number reaches 100.

Why would you do that? One dish is enough. Adding dishes won't do anything.

The hard part is rigging up some ramps. I did make a landing stage from the LK landing stage and a pair of Kosmos tiny radial monopropellant engines, but it was a bit clumsy. A purpose built landing stage for the Lunokhod would be great.

KSP isn't finished yet. Crew roster management is scheduled for a later update. And you don't have to maroon them, just send them on a long duration mission and bring them back later.

Crash him. Once he's dead, you'll get a new one... Alternatively, just land him somewhere or leave him in orbit without ending the flight and launch another mission. Or you can use the Crew Manifest mod.

Click the orbit, not the planet.

LG had supply problems that delayed the Google Nexus 4 for at least 2 months. Nintendo delayed the NDS for 3 months, missing the holiday period. Samsung is late in providing the Galaxy S4 GTA V has been delayed from "Spring 2013" until september. This is what you are looking like right now BTW... Try typing "Apple delays" or "Sony delays" in Google, and you will see that delays are common in the hi-tech industry. Although frustrating, they are usually a good sign, meaning that the manufacturer is confident with releasing a quality product rather than rushing it just to make deadlines. Now if these companies, with their thousands of employees, can screw up product launch schedules, imagine how hard it must be a few dozen geeks in a startup company with no experience and no logistics network. I don't know how old you are, but you've lived all your life without an Ouya. I'm pretty sure you can survive another 2 or 3 months without one. Plus, you don't even know if it will be any good. At first view, it's the price of a Wii with nowhere near the capabilities or game library. Though I might be missing the point, buying into a new console (like any new technology) without any reviews available or seen any of the games, is risky.

So Bobcat, does that mean that you will make a variant of Fregat with legs to make landing stage for the Lunokhod ?

Get ISA Mapsat and start mapping the solar system looking for "artefacts".

It very rarely happens that hardware is shipped on schedule. Even companies like Samsung or Sony screw up sometimes, and this is a small startup company with no experience. Hardware design is one thing, but logistics and manufacturing are totally different jobs. You can't put them to the same standard as multinational companies with thousands of enmployees that sell millions of units and have 50 years of experience. As an "investor", not a "customer", you should know these things. You chose to invest in a project because you believed in it. It was an informed decision, and a gamble. You haven't been screwed yet, because it's just a minor delay of one or two or maybe even three months. But when you invest in this sort of thing, there is always a chance that you will be screwed, and you are supposed to accept that risk.

Looks like a structural failure. Look at the flight log to find out which parts break first.

I was referring to the scanning ray from the satellite to the ground, which forms a cone. You can generate high resolution bitmaps from the command line based on the data points you have scanned.

Is there a 2.0.8 planned with a fixed landing guidance autopilot?

Try the Haystack mod.

The demo is limited so that mods (or cfg edits) don't work. You need to purchase the full game if you want to mod it.

Starfish Prime:

It pretty much is. Sure, it will probably be improved over its lifetime, but the basic concept is a technological dead end. At the apex of its ballistic flight, it is only flying at 700km/h, which is slower than a regular airliner and only 27300km/h short of reaching orbital velocity. To reach that speed, it would need a booster in the range of two or three hundred tons, which would be impossible to carry on White Knight, or even on Stratolaunch (if that ever flies). So if Virgin ever goes orbital, it will be on something totally different

Duplicate thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/26752-Virgin-Galactic-SpaceShipTwo SpaceShipTwo is not really a spaceship. It only goes to 100km altitude and falls back down. It's just an expensive rollercoaster ride or a glorified vomit-comet.

Have you noticed also that in movies, even the most primitive computers always speak and never use a mouse? And car seats never have headrests (that one always bugs me since the day I noticed it)... Hollywood is dumbed down entertainment for the masses. 99% of it is implausible or unrealistic.

It's conical from the spacecraft to the ground, but you don't have to aim the dish.

Kerbals are not plants.

Thanks, that's a great tip !

No way can it be turned into an orbital vehicle. To go orbital would need something much larger, like twice the size of Stratolaunch.

I can't believe I'm actually defending Orion, but: Whether the SM is made at Lockheed or at Alenia Aerospace has no bearing on its capabilities. The requirements for the service module are the same: to ferry crew to the Moon or EML-1/EML-2 with consumables for 21-days and to perform a TEI burn to get home. The Orion Main Engine is unchanged and will still be made in the US, supplied by Aerojet, and integrated into the SM. This means that the Orion SM is pretty different from the ATV one and is actually quite similar to the Lockheed version. It's designed for 21-day missions as a standalone spacecraft, so I'm pretty sure it has the consumables for 21 days. Dragon does not because it is only designed to fly for 7 days. Orion is planned to have some sort of shielding capability to provide temporary shelter for solar flares. When a solar flare warning is recieved, astronauts would evacuate the DSH and set up a shelter inside the Orion. I'm not sure of the details though, but that is part of the requirements. I seem to remember reading that the shelter would actually be constructed inside the cabin with removable high-density shielding panels. I don't know. It would require some sort of foldable high-gain antenna, plus some extra equipment. Extra mass anyway. Orion has a requirement to decompress for EVA, like Apollo. This means that all the internal equipment and electronics must be hardened for use in vacuum. In addition to the depress/repress equipment, it also means that the pressure vessel must be capable of multiple depress/repress cycles and the hatch must be large enough for EVA suits. And there must be stowage room for EVA suits for all crewmembers. The latest design of the DSH doesn't have an airlock, so EVA capability would be provided by the Orion or by the SEV. We don't really know the specifications of DragonRider yet, so this is really all just conjecture. We don't even know if the LEO DragonRider will have a trunk, but a DragonRider modified for the same missions as Orion would need a service module instead of a trunk. To fill the same NASA requirements, it would need the same amount of delta-V, and therefore a similar amount of propellant. The Orion SM is 3.5t empty, and carries 8t of propellant. Add that to a 8-10t loaded Dragon and you are in a similar weight range as Orion.

Let's say that I don't have a blind faith in Humanity's ability to get together peacefully and fix all the World's economical, ecological, and demographic problems. Yeah call me a pessimist. I'd love to be proven wrong. The future is unpredictable, and we are living in a time where the economical and demographical challenges are unprecedented. Many people put a blind faith in science and progress to solve all of our problems, because that's how it has always been. However, we can't simply look back at what we have accomplished over the last 200 years and assume that the party can last forever. 200 years is a blink of an eye when compared to the 200 000 years we've been around and the 4.5 billion years the World has existed. In those 200 years, we have changed the face of the Earth forever and burned most of our easily reachable resources. There are no lessons to be learnt from the past, because a situation like this has never existed before, and there is no reason to beleive that life is always going to be so easy. We can increase productivity and efficiency through science and technology, but there are laws of diminishing returns at work here while our population growth and resource consumption are exponential. The first technological improvements (the agrarian revolution, then the industrial revolution) were cheap and easy, and the gains in productivity were massive. But the more productivity gains you squeeze out of the system, the harder and the more expensive it becomes, until you reach the point where the economical, social, or ecological cost of squeezing exceeds the relative productivity gain. There is a race going on between technology opening up new horizons and our demand for growth. In a world of finite resources, it is going to take a lot of sustained effort for our productivity curves to keep up with the exponential demand curves. At some point in the future, those curves are going to intersect (if they haven't already), at which point we start losing the race. At some point, growth is going to have to slow down (it already is in the more developed countries), but our entire civilization is based on infinite growth, which is simply not possible. If we want to survive, we are going to have to go through a serious rethinking of how the economy works, how we share wealth, and how we maintain a decent quality of life. I don't see how that sort of revolution can happen without a major conflict between those that want a better share of the wealth and resources and those that don't want to give up their share.