Longsok

I had a Luney Kerman, who was Jeb-like. He was a hero to us all, until I landed Munlas Kerman while Luney was doing his own landing. When I discovered he went awol, there was a bit of a panic to secure the SRBs.

From what I understand, most indie games don't bother with getting a rating. Anyways, mods aren't factored in, as you can see by Minecraft's E10(I think) rating when there are really disturbing mods out there for the game. So I think a E rating would make sense, as there isn't violence, and the game is centered on exploration.

Maneuver Nodes. I kept trying to dock, but i was spending tons of fuel just trying to get a rendezvous. I kept thinking that there had to be a way to see what a certain maneuver would do to my orbit, and Lo and behold when I watched Scott Manley do it, I saw the maneuver nodes, and suddenly everything became much easier.

The first time I started KSP, I built a pretty ok rocket, and went to go launch it. Cue me hitting every button on the keyboard trying to find the "Go" key.

I upgraded my KOSMOS parts, and my mun base made with it wouldn't load, so I had to downgrade. I could load up the base in the VAB, and I was able to fly by the base, but loading the base up didn't work. That is the base.

I name my ships like so, (name of design)+(destination)+(descriptor). For landers, the name is some sort of tea that is related some how to the destination. For orbiters, names relate to their purpose. For example, My Pisces orbiters are a knock off of the Gemini Missions and I named my recon satellites after the roman goddess of wisdom.

Ones that stood out to me are Laythe, which seems to me to sound like litho, the root word for earth, Eve, which makes sense because Venus is the evening star, and Minimus, because it is tiny.

This. Especially the cool names like Florence and Clara. The rest of this whole argument is silly.

Dres, because dwarf planets are awesome. It is one of the few planets I am absolutely sure of colonizing.

I landed my mun rover on the mun, which was quite a nightmare. First, I landed on the side of the crater Jeb's "base" is in, 15 Km away from said "base", on a wicked steep slope. So I took off, and flew closer to Jeb. Touched down about 1.5 Km away, drove the rest of the way. Well, Jeb wanted to take it for a spin, having spent the past 4 days sitting in his capsule. That was a bad idea. First, I turn too hard, sending Jeb flipping end over end soaring above the Munar terrain, but somehow, with the magic of reaction wheels, he only pops a few tires. All is good. THEN, as I am driving at ~22 m/s, there is suddenly no ground below my rover. Jeb drove, at 22 m/s, into a crater, dropping 100 meters, and the only damage was the popping of 6 of my 8 tires. Either Jeb is a wicked good driver, or my rover is invincible.

That was just Jeb getting revenge for you running him over.

It took me three attempts, first I couldn't rendezvous, then I put the thrusters wrong so I spent all my fuel spinning all over the place. The third time, perfect rendezvous, aligned my craft with the other, moved in, and presto, docked. No setting targets after the rendezvous, just some good old fashioned eyeballing.

My first landing went perfectly, until I loaded a quicksave where it never happened. So, then I sent a second mission. Everything looked great, the nuclear brake section detached, and exploded on the mun, and I was a few meters above the surface descending at 2 m/s, when boom, the engine exploded. Didn't stop me from getting Jeb out to take a picture. In game time, that was an hour ago. I already have the core of my rescue mission/base project in orbit. Now just to learn precision landings and get the rover, habitation module, resource module, kethane factory, fuel block, kerbal capsule, and lander on that. Good thing I dug up an old Rockomax design from before I wrote them off as "impossible to fly".

More like this seems so over their heads, what with the whole forum topic about gross misunderstandings about basic physics laws, that they view it as techno-magic. So they hear "asteroid" and think "boom", then immediately assume that is what would happen, because in their minds, Asteroids are rocks in space that fly about unpredictably.

Exactly, plus if we do want to colonize Mars, it would help to build a base on the closest celestial body to earth in order to learn how to set up a base in space, and how to send resupply ships and everything. That way, if something goes wrong, you don't end up with colonists at best 3 months away from help.