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Jupiter is larger than all other planets in the solar system combined including the other gas giants. It really is much larger than Saturn.

docking with multiple ports is possible but hard. I've never been able to do it. You have to line everything up just right so that all the ports on the 2 ships connect at the same time. Even slightly off and not all the ports will connect... even though they are right next to each other... It's because they are now part of the same ship. Using the robotic arm as you describe won't work because the ports are part of the same ship.

be a power cable to connect to the power station landed on the next flight. oh and it didn't work. The mun is just too... not flat... and the game loads everything as rigid first... which resulted in my base being thrown about when I connected the power station...

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Depends... Usually it's just however it has to be to work. I don't pay attention to how it looks. I'm 30. If I'm making something for looks then it's usually making something from a Scifi or something from history. X-wing Star Fury I built a Hammerhead too but can't seem to find my pic of that. I need to build a Saratoga to carry them anyway before go any further with that project. But I hardly ever do stuff like that... mostly it's what ever works... like... That was a test flight... Here it is attached to my Mun base.

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Laythe is just like a Europa that's been warmed up a bit. Discussing what would happen if Europa was slightly warmer is discussing one possible way for Laythe to be the way it is.

There isn't an atmosphere. You just need enough heat to get the ice to sublime and or melt and boil away to then create an atmosphere and thus atmospheric pressure to stop the subliming/boiling. Once you have an atmosphere then the heat from the sun can be trapped... There is still quite a lot coming from the Sun even out at Jupiter. You just need a green house effect to capture it and water vapor is one of the better gasses at doing that. The main problem for Europa is the radiation environment and its lack of a strong magnetic field to counteract it. Things would have to be just right to get a Laythe but it is feasible for such a moon to exist.

you have been away for a while. They've been tweaking the SAS for the last 2-3 updates. welcome back.

The part in Red is completely wrong. I'm sorry but you need to go back to physics class if you believe that.

Europa doesn't currently have an atmosphere. It's far enough away from the Sun for ice to remain solid in a vacuum. If Earth's atmosphere would have a little different make up then Earth would be covered in ice. The greenhouse effect is very important to keeping us warm and not an ice ball. Europa only needs to be a little warmer and the oceans would be warm enough to not have ice over the top anymore. Only a smidgen closer to Jupiter and it'd be there. There's a "Goldilocks" zone where the tidal heating would be just right. Not as hot as Io and just a little warmer than Europa and we'd have a Laythe like moon in out own solar system. Exposed to vacuum the water would boil off some... and form an atmosphere of water vapor... Then comes the question of radiation... If there is just the right amount then some of the water vapor could be denatured into Hydrogen and Oxygen. Even our own gravity isn't enough to hold on to Hydrogen. It would get lost to space and leave a mostly Oxygen atmosphere behind. Water vapor is one of the stronger green house gasses. If the radiation wasn't too strong then a fair amount would also be present and you'd have a moderately warm surface.

Citation needed. To my knowledge we have never found any silicon based life and the idea that it is possible is still only that.

In our own solar system we have Europa. It's covered in water ice which is floating on top of liquid water heated by the heat generated from the tidal forces from Jupiter. Io which is closer to Jupiter has so much heat that its volcanoes resurface the moon in very short time periods. It is not inconceivable to me that a moon could exist in a zone where this tidal heating was enough to have a warm surface with liquid water and an atmosphere just like Laythe. The problem as I see it is the radiation environment that close to a Gas giant like Jupiter. The moons of Jupiter do not have their own magnetic fields like Earth. They do have weak fields induced by Jupiter's field. Given that I doubt they are strong enough to protect the surface from the radiation. I don't see why a moon couldn't have a strong magnetic field though ... and we have no data on Laythe's field... so ... It's possible. For all of the above I'm ignoring scale. None of KSP would work in the real world without scaling it up to real world sizes.

Right now I think they have some effect on facial expression and nothing more... also the stupidity gauge is inverted... a full bar means they aren't stupid. Not that it matters... yet.

It's always bugged me a little that they aren't.

I'm having a hard time imagining a set of "features" I'd want less than this. Edit to add: The only part I agree with is "easy-carreer and sandbox don't need this."; as adding such a set of features (in a way where I could not avoid them) would destroy any enjoyment I could get out of the game. Make it optional... Make it a Mod... I don't care how you alter your game... But please don't suggest it be added to the base game.

No. The feature of being able to spend "all the time in the world" to design what ever the heck I want is wonderful. It's one of the pillars of game play for KSP I'd say. This is not the real world. This is a game. This is not a full on simulation. Heck you can even reverse time in this game. This also isn't a real time strategy with build times to manage... There is no game play balance reason to include time in the VAB. There isn't anything time sensitive that the game is going to throw at you. Adding time thus won't increase the challenge or prevent you from doing anything in particular... You can always just time warp until the next opportunity. All it would be is an annoyance. Annoyance is not good game play.

Love em. Especially for those far away places and small probes... such as the Sun and Jool and Eeloo.

Low altitude rendezvous over the Mun. Making slight changes can drop your path below safe altitude... not having enough battery can cause your vessel that just adjusted things to be below safe altitude for a short time... to become uncontrollable. Had to use the other ship to get to it before a collision and raise the orbit back to safe levels.

In the 3 person pod... The center seat is Jeb. IVA as Jeb. There are no windows for him to look out of. The other two had windows. Somehow the code for when Kerbals had any particular facial expression always had Jeb smiling like a mad man. This became popular among the community and they have since added code to ensure Jeb continues smiling in almost all circumstance.

At the moment? In Sandbox or unlocked tech tree Career? Looks? Challenge? Early in Career you wouldn't have the parts to build big... And latter on when Money and such get added then that will limit size... But for now... the only reason to do anything is the reason you make for yourself.

Thank you!

Looking for 9 now... and it's not there again... and this time just to show I'm not crazy... screenshot. The afterparty videos are there... but why not Sqaudcast 9?

There is an issue... You can't get them going above a certain relative speed or they'll clip right through each other. EnterElysium's World War K youtube series demonstrated this over several episodes as he tried to drop some things from orbit onto a target only to have the Kill vehicle pass through the target and explode on contact with the ground... leaving the target unharmed. I myself have gotten so fast that I've clipped through Kerbin. There's a recent Danny video featuring that one. So there is an upper limit to the relative velocities where the physics steps get wide enough for things to pass through each other. Things in prograde and retrograde orbits for example will be going too fast relative to each other to hit. In another World War K video he makes a "flack" device to throw up a bunch of debris in the path of an incoming ICBM... which passed right through it. No damage.