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Something about that game makes me very, very suspicious, but I'll keep my thoughts to myself. By he way - if anyone ever wants to 'fly' Apollo using the AGC software you can do that right now for free with a copy of Orbiter and the latest beta version of NASSP. As for KSP being 'unrealistic' I couldn't care less. I have been interested in astronomy, spaceflight and rocketry for nearly 40 years and have a library of books on the subject which runs into a couple of hundred volumes. I'm a hardcore geek really. But KSP gets the basics correct, and it's FUN. I like having fun.

I think I'll call this answered seeing as you are all laughing at me now - that's a good thing though

I love those cartoons Johnno It's probably sheer luck, but my ascent stage returned to Kerbin just by burning straight up, and with much less delta-V expended than 1500 m/s I'm confused now...or rather MORE confused... Sadly the Mun samples were lost when the parachute failed to open. This was because Hero Of The Revolution Chief Designer left the RTG behind on the bit that stays on the Mun instead of putting it on the bit that goes back to Kerbin.

Aaah thanks guys, I'll have to check the ascent stage delta-V Just tried a test flight in Kerbin orbit and discovered that Chief Designer Of Glorious Soviet Socialist Kerbal Space Program ( i.e. me ) forgot to give the re-entry vehicle a parachute. I suppose I'll have to send myself to Siberia for that

Mechjebs 'return from a moon' will do that ? I'd sort of assumed - for no good reason -the probe would need to be in orbit...

Luna 16, if you didn't know, was a Soviet moon landing probe which drilled into the surface and returned samples to Earth. I want to give it a go in KSP ( without the drilling, obviously ) I've built the probe but I have no idea how to calculate the trajectory of the ascent vehicle. Due to fuel ( and realism ) considerations it will have to launch direct from the surface of the Mun to Kerbin without going into orbit first. Any of you rocket scientists got any bright ideas ?

Not sure about mine, but it would involve :- Belt fed full-auto machine guns A Harley Davidson XR-750 flat track race bike A Lockheed F-104 Starfighter or an English Electric Lightning Seeing Jimi Hendrix play live ( may require invention and use of time machine ) Sending every politician and bureaucrat on the planet to low Jool orbit, then going " Whoops, we don't have the Dv to get you back home, but we'll send a rescue mission ASAP, enjoy the radiation in the meantime " Watching 'Happy' become the President of the Sons Of Anarchy MC 'Hunting' an Iberian Lynx with a video camera Build a liquid fuelled rocket motor of 'flight weight' and then maybe strap it to a go-kart Live in a remote rural area where you don't even have a street address and the government can't find you to boss you around and make your life a misery* *Got that one covered already

You people are REALLY starting to worry me

That's not actually mom, he's a neutered tomcat called Feegle and no relation to little Fugly ( she isn't so little now ) I found Fugly lying abandoned at the side of a Spanish country track, dying of dehydration with her eyes just barely open. I didn't think she'd live - but she did Sorry for off topic, but cats are people too

Explodium and Catastrophium ?

Nice timing, I have just started a KSP 'Russian' series of launches. I called the save 'Kerbalski' which was about the best word my ignorant brain could come up with...

Brilliant work - I can experiment with some Soviet style designs now. I'm not going to ask for a 30 engine cluster so I can build an N-1 though

I REALLY like cats...

Yep, it's not a horror movie at all. Not that I dislike sci-fi horror, but realistic movies about space travel are a rare and precious commodity. If hard SF is your thing then Europa report won't disappoint you.

I like building 'old school' rockets, so mods are a great help with that. FASA Gemini is my favourite, a really nice piece of work.

I'm not using Windows 8. Whenever forced into using Windows I usually choose the oldest version that fulfills my needs. I do hate Microsoft, because they make lousy products and somehow not only get away with it, but actually turn their mediocrity into a good profit. In my previous job, if I designed and manufactured something as awful as Windows then there's a good chance someone would have died. Quite noisily and messily, sort of Kerbal stylee

I think one of my favourite examples of that is the 'beep' noise which Windows XP had built in and used the computer speaker. I cannot honestly think why they did that, except to annoy the end user. It sounded like someone stamping on Donald Duck, except not funny. And it wasn't trivial to switch off, I think you had to find it hidden somewhere in the system properties to kill it. I hate Windows with a passion - it is bloated, slow and assumes that I am a moron who can't be trusted to operate my own computer.

I absolutely love weapons in the real world - I'm a gunsmith, knifemaker and hunter - but they honestly don't do anything for me in the virtual world. Especially in KSP, where I spend most of my time ensuring things DON'T explode I don't reckon KSP is a good base for a space combat sim anyway - it would be like trying to train a horse to be a dog. There's no AI or multiplayer to provide an opponent for one thing. I like the building and exploring aspects - I hope the developers and modders keep creating new things to find and new places to go.

Oh, I know that NOW I don't see why it was turned on by default though. Every time I have to install a copy of Windows I end up spending ages turning off it's half witted security, it's notifications and all the 'helpful' features. I thought I'd tamed it, but apparently not. My rule for any software is " don't do what you THINK I want you to, do what I TELL you "

Found my first Munar anomaly today and sent Jeb and Bill to check it out. It was 4km from their landing site and I got very bored with pressing "W" to get Jeb there. So I used my EVA autopilot - which is a 3/8" drive socket ( like us mechanics use, if you don't know what a socket is ) which I place on the key in question while I go and do something else... But even that was taking too long, so I decided to use Jeb's rocket pack. It was going OK until that awful chugging noise came from the hard drive, the one which always signifies that Windows is about to do something idiotic - the screen went blank, I was returned to the desktop and presented with a dialog box telling me that because I had pressed left shift 5 times did I want to turn on 'sticky keys' for disabled users ? When I managed to sort the mess out and alt Tab back to KSP Jeb was about 500 metres in the air and on a trajectory that would have ensured a 'non survivable landing' even for a Kerbal. Thankfully I saved Jeb, by sheer luck. Is there no end to the stupidity of that pestilential Windows operating system ? It reminds me of some know-it-all 'friend' who you don't really like and is always coming up with superfluous or redundant comments which are no help whatsoever and just make you want to give them a Muay Thai elbow strike to the throat. I really need to figure out how to run KSP on my Linux partition. I have to keep Windows around because some of my engineering software won't run on anything else, but it's a pain in the fundament.

That's very similar to what I have just done with Munar Surveyor. I don't play KSP stock, but I'm using 1960's - 1970's technology as near as I can - it's just what I personally enjoy doing. Munar Surveyor is an unmanned Centaur upper stage with the Ordan telescope mod and one really, really simple lander that I can release to mark the spot for a later manned mission. IF I ever spot anything that is

Thanks everyone, time to build 'Munar Surveyer' then...

I haven't been playing KSP for very long, but I have spent much of that time flipping rovers on their backs Here are my thoughts ( for what they are worth ) :- The small wheels seem very overpowered even for 1g - you can help things a little by arranging a really low centre of gravity - I've found you don't actually need much ground clearance. Use a self righting mechanism, CP Airbags are great for this. Or you could use the rover body which comes with the AIES Aerospace mod ? - it's very stable and a really neat piece of design.

Whats the best way to conduct a search for these anomalies\easter eggs ?

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