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1/10... Bragging about nonsense means nothing.
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One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
Fr8monkey replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
DLCs make games more awesome... KSP should have them! *ducks behind couch. -
Got the mod and love the look. Not good with SSTOs yet; but working on it. Flipped through the pages and cant find the answer to one problem I am having... How exactly do you use the bay? I try and put docking ports and other equipment onto the attachment in the bay and I can't get it to line up. It just flips around and sticks in weird directions. Thanks.
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One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
Fr8monkey replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
Han Solo shot first... Doctor Who is a rip off of Bill & Ted... -
Top these... Big Bang is a stupid show about smart people I don't play Minecraft because the graphics suck. Tolkein clearly just copied everything from WoW. Why is R2D2 trying to kill the Doctor?
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Beware the Space Kraken!!! 9/10
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What is your Least Favourite Movie/TV Show/Game?
Fr8monkey replied to ShadowMasterZ's topic in The Lounge
Any "reality" show... Reality my patooty. -
I have to admit... Not my doing. I just saw the picture on another site I frequent.
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Yeah... That is a problem a few people (including me) are having.
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Oops... That was supposed to be 2 hours. Stupid fingers...
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Didn't have a chance to read all the pages; But I have played for 32 hours (with and without mods), and my game seems to run slower in x64.
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Need to save at a critical point... ALT + F4.
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On Sunday, New Horizons will be 1 year from it's pass by Pluto. I have been watching this since launch. Pluto is my favorite planet... Dwarf or not! http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/
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I want a plush Jeb figure...
Fr8monkey replied to ZooNamedGames's topic in KSP1 Suggestions & Development Discussion
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OK. You wished for all the money in the world...
Fr8monkey replied to Fr8monkey's topic in The Lounge
Actually, it was a rhetorical question... You have all the money, everything becomes worthless. I was just posting for the infographic. -
What are you going to do with $241 Trillion U.S. Dollars? Infographic
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OK. Let's fill out the list... 1. You want to put RCS thrusters on your car because it will help you parallel park. 2. When you get off the freeway, you say you're in your destinations SOI. 3. You call the place you work "Mission Control". 4. You call lunch "Snacks" 5. Going out to get the mail, you say you are going on an EVA. 6. Whenever you have a streak of bad luck, you blame the Kraken. 7. You go home from work and you tell your family; "Honey, I'm home from the mission!" 8. Your low fuel light comes on and you wonder who you can call for re-fueling. 9. You are exhausted and you tell your significant other that you don't have the DV to get up off the couch. 10. You changed your last name to Kerman.
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From Mental Floss http://mentalfloss.com/article/57240/11-things-you-might-not-know-about-international-space-station 1. It’s fast. If you’ve seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, you probably imagine things in space to be slow, and to move at the same tempo as the Blue Danube. Not so for the ISS, which is zipping around at 5 miles per second and orbiting the Earth every 92 minutes. 2. It’s slow. Because of something called time dilation, time moves slower on the International Space Station. Not by muchâ€â€astronauts don’t get there and find out that we suddenly have flying cars and jet packs back on Earthâ€â€but it is measurable. Astronaut Ed Lu, who served on the ISS as science officer for Expedition 7, got curious and attempted to measure time dilation directly, because when you’re on the ISS and are also a genius, that’s just the kind of thing you do. He writes about it here. The upshot is that at the end of his 6 month stay, he was 0.007 seconds younger than those of us stuck on this mudball. 3. It’s big The thing about space photography is that it’s difficult to work out the scale of celestial objects. For comparison’s sake, for example, if the Earth were the size of a basketball, the Moon would be the size of a tennis ball. (How this worked out by coincidence is probably worthy of a healthy philosophical discussion.) To scale, the distance between your basketball and tennis ball would be 24 feet. There are no sporting equipment comparisons for the Sun; in its occupied space, you could fit 1.3 million Earths. The International Space Station is 357.5 feet (119.167 yards) longâ€â€a hair under the width of a football field, including end zones. 4. It has the same mundane IT issues as we Earthlings. Computers on the ISS have been infected by viruses more than once. The first reported virus was W32.Gammima.AG, which, according to Symantec, “is a worm that spread by copying itself to removable media. It also steals passwords to various online games.†5. It runs Linux. Last year, the ISS dumped Windows and Scientific Linux in favor of Debian 6 for its network of laptops. According to Keith Chuvala, who manages Space Operations Computing for NASA, "We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliableâ€â€one that would give us in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust, or adapt, we could." To ensure stability, they plan to run one version behind whatever is the latest version of the operating system. 6. It’s busy. The ISS has a lot more traffic than you might expect. Two days ago, Progress M-21M departed the station. Next week Cygnus CRS Orb-2 is scheduled to arrive (the second Cygnus resupply mission since its successful test docking last year). At present there are three spacecraft docked there: Soyuz TMA-12M, Progress M-23M, and Soyuz TMA-13M. SpaceX has a resupply mission scheduled for August and a new crew will arrive in September. The complete flight schedule can be found here. Every couple of weeks from now through the end of the year, something is slated to arrive or depart, making it more Deep Space Nine than Empok Nor. 7. Astronauts there can smell space. Mike Hopkins, an astronaut who returned to Earth earlier this year after spending 166 days at the ISS, recently participated in a Reddit AMA. He was asked what surprised him about space, and offered this intriguing answer: “Space has a smell. And I don't mean inside the space station. When a visiting vehicle docks with the space station, there is 'space' between the two vehicles. Once the pressure is equalized and the hatch is opened, you have this metallic ionization-type smell. It's quite unique and very distinct.†8. You can watch it. The ISS is the third brightest object in the sky, and can be seen with the naked eye. (It looks like a slow-moving airplane.) NASA has a service called Spot the Station which allows you to sign up for text messages telling you when to look up, and where. (When the crew is on duty, you can watch a live internal video feed of the ISS here.) To read more, please go to the Mentalfloss article, post truncated due to copyright/fair use concerns.
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With KAC, you will never overshoot an encounter again... Engineer is good when building craft. Helps get the right amount of Dv for launch and all the other info you can get doesn't hurt. I can almost encounter and dock with engineer from the cockpit!
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Kerbal alarm clock and Kerbal Engineer are 2 I always use.
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KSP Banished Crusader Kings II Civilization V Plague Inc: Evolved
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I like a serious challenge in the games I play. KSP gives me that challenge.
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Ten Commandments for KSP beginners
Fr8monkey replied to EasyPlayer's topic in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials
1.Have fun: KSP is a game. If repeated crashing stresses you out... Take a break. 2.F5: Quicksave is your bestest friend. 3.Power up: Batteries and Solar Panels. Nothing worse than running out of power during landing... Well, not much. 4.10 and 2: Gravity roll at 10,000 M or 200 mps... whatever comes last. 5.Parachutes: Don't need 'em on the Mun; but you may need them on Kerbin. 6.Check your staging: This will prvent many headaches during launch. 7.Strut your stuff: Doesn't hurt to slap a few struts to prevent unplanned dis-assembly... Just don't over do it. 8.Design your mission before your ship: Going to the Mun..? Don't use Ion engines. 9.K.I.S.S: Keep it simple, stupid. Over building causes more points of failure. 10.Snacks... but in moderation.