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  1. Leaving aside the funds and rep, for lko -> hko not much. The ground stations will cover much of that volume. Though if you do not have multiple station enabled the reason for satellites is obvious. For munar and minion orbit, the reason for sats is to cover the darkside. As for kerbbed vs unkerbbed… I've always gone with unkerbbed. I save my kerbals for ships, stations and bases. As grammatical aside... is it kerbbed or kerbed?
  2. I've tried a couple of drops down from 1500km to 180km. But every time I enter a flak-storm and "land" at about 183km. I climb back up to 250km still landed and in a flak-storm. It's like I irritated some isolationist Joolian civilization.
  3. My current blueprint kit is Kronal Vessel Viewer, Paint Shop Pro, Blogger Sans (for the font), a blueprint PNG i picked up somewheres on dem der intertubes thing. As for the bird herself. right she's going to be tricky. As for the wings I'm going for style and cool.
  4. I'm trying to design a craft that can dip down into Jool's atmosphere, do Science!, and fly back up again. Am I on the right track with this bird? And how low should I aim for?
  5. The Shadow knows. <insert theme chords> The eight ball says "Outlook uncertain. Insert cheese and try again." Google says "Between August and September. But I am not familiar with the strain of date palm called KSP2." BRENDA says there is no listed enzyme with that code. [redacted by order of O-5] some guy on the street says "when it is ready." some other guy on the internet says "before it is ready."
  6. KER, KVV, Snacks!, Hyperedit, and I think one more but I can't remember what it is.
  7. Yes, and gameplay besides... except the Gull. That one is story only because of mechanics.
  8. The ARC-22S, Hopper 2-Sierra. An extended cycle version of the Hopper. This craft was designed to achieve two bursts to 20 km altitude from 3 km. The scientific instruments were controlled from the second seat, allowing the pilot to focus on controlling the craft during missions. A single seat variant was produced (ARC-21S) with a simpler scientific suite and usually used for high-G flight training. Seen in Chapter 4: The First Payment
  9. You have the speed set for orbit. The contracts look at surface speed. Though for screenshots it is better to go with F1, or the Mac equivalent rather than using a phone. Unless you're on the console version and it's whatever works.
  10. You are probably doing nothing wrong. There's a reason why rocket science is well rocket science. But if you could focus your question a little bit we might be able to help better.
  11. Chapter 50 Margo sighed with frustration, exhaustion, and a small bit of fear. “Sure,” she thought. “A shortcut through the Vaults. Faster and I won’t have to wait for the shuttle in the rain.” She looked at her watch. “A ten minute dash has turned into a three hour tour. And we all know how that ended.” She looked up, checking again for any signs. There was still only the old-style conical sheet tin reflectors around old incandescent bulbs dangling down. The ceiling itself lost in the shadows untold meters above. She looked down at the floor, bare, sealed, dust-free concrete with regular metal spacers. Again, she saw no markers. “It’s like a labyrinth,” she thought not for the first time. She turned around looking for a signpost or something familiar, and again didn’t see anything. Her walls were large pieces of equipment covered in thick, yellowed dust covered sheets of plastic. The dust hid whatever details the plastic failed to obscure. She walked over to one of them and pulled aside on sheet of plastic. It exposed the end of a large piece of pale enamel green equipment. The black and steel plate pinned with rivets identified it as an “Integrated Derivatives PID-10 Electronic Computer.” “It doesn’t look like any computer I’ve ever seen… even in the movies,” she thought. She opened the access door underneath the plate. Inside were neat loops of patch cables and several boxes of resistors, capacitors, and inductors according to the labels. She looked at the manufacture date on the back of the door. “This is from the early days. I didn’t think computers had been developed yet.” She looked at the cables and components. On the section marked “Bank 1” there as a large switch and holes where the cables could be plugged in. There were smaller switches between the several pairs of holes. She opened one of the boxes of inductors. They looked like they would fit into the pairs of holes and could be stacked. She put the box back and picked up the book inside. On the first page was an advertisement, “For best results interfacing Integrated Derivatives computers with E.G.O. Industries products use our Super-E line.” She flipped though the book. Most of it was circuit diagrams and differential equations. There was nothing she recognized as the parts of traditional computer. At the back were tables of KaPlace transforms. “Electronics was a fly-by,” she thought. “And I barely passed differential equations.” She turned suddenly when she heard a pair of taps of wood on the concrete floor. “Hello little one,“ an old kerbal said as he leaned on his cane. “Sorry if I startled you. Usually this thing give a bit of warning to people as I approach.” “No, I was …” she said. The old kerbal chuckled. “You got lost trying to take a shortcut. “ He walked over, each step marked with a tap of the cane. “And wondered what you’ve been walking by all this time.” “Yes.” “Ah. An ID PID 10. Katherine never understood the electronics part of these things. But, she did think of them as an elegant solution, and appreciated their place. Some of her computers thought these tin spaghetti boxes will put them out of a job. It just ended up changing it for those that could change.” “How did it work? I don’t understand anything in here.” She tapped the book. He shrugged. “I never did either. I was a pilot before my last flight.” He tapped his leg. “And an administrator afterwards. But, I’m certain there are still some that do.” He closed the door and moved the plastic back into place. “Bring it with you. You can internal mail it back to Vault admin when you are done.” He turned back to her. “Where you were headed miss…” “Margo,” she said. “The Computer Complex.” He chuckled again. “I could have guessed. Come I’ll show you the way. The Vaults can trap the unwary or the unprepared.” They started down one the corridors between the equipment. “The gravitas of technological history twists space from what we expect,” he said. “It gives even me some trouble from time to time.” She gave him a puzzled look. “Well,” he said. “It is better than I’m losing my memory or these old things are moving on their own.” “Yes… I can see that,” she didn’t really. But, given her wanderings she couldn’t discount it either. “You mentioned Katerine’s computers earlier,” she said. “I didn’t know the program had computers that long ago.” “Oh? We’ve always had computers. We had about 200 between the corp and accounting. They… “ He paused and chuckled. “Right, right. Back then, computer wasn't a device, it was a job description. Not a bad one either.” “So why is all this down here?” “Storage against need, either academic or practical.” He chuckled. “Institutionalized pack ratting other have called it.” He gestured around. “But, here deep under Direc’s Prairie we have lots of space. So there is little harm in keeping the odd bits and bobs.” He paused and turned right. “Ah. Here we are.” He gestured straight ahead. “Keep straight and you’ll come up under the complex. The cafeteria if I recall correctly.” She looked down the corridor. “Thank-you. “ She turned back. “I didn’t get your-“ she stopped. He was gone. She hadn’t heard the tapping of his cane as he left. She realized she hadn’t heard it when he arrived either.
  12. first guess: looks like a loading screen in a "standard" resolution with a bar for performance/debug info glued to the side. second guess: that is not a standard screen. looks like something like a Wacom Tablet, https://www.wacom.com, so it might be relared to tweaking the image and/or sound levels in the debug environment. It isn't a Wacom that I can quickly find on the website. But tablets are not something I have looked into very much. So it could be a different brand name. third guess: there appears to be some artifacting in the image. While it could be from having grabbed it from a video file, my guess is that the devs have put something in there to poke fun at the community's endless analysis of whatever drips of info they decide to release.
  13. It really does sound like your landed is running out of electrical power during the warp. If you are on the console edition getting pictures is very difficult I am given to understand. Failing pics however, if you could post a parts list of just your lander we should be able to point you in the right direction. As well as where you are sending your lander. But, absent either of those; we will be hard pressed to help you based on the information you have provided.
  14. With DRM there are no new ideas under the sun. Well, there are when new technologies mature. So let's run the list of stuff that I've encountered over my computer life that spans two centuries: -"feelies"/merch based - install media based - physical media based - serial number - activation based - "check-in" based (including constant connection and occasional phone-home) - dongles, heh heh heh dongle [*facepalm* - ed.] - software based I'm not against DRM. I understand where the desire for comes from. But, I also understand the arguments against it. Though some of them are weaker than others, the determination of which shall be left as an exercise for the reader. I favour a light touch style of DRM. There has been much said, in great depth said about DRM. The research of which is left as an exercise for the reader. Back in the early days media was expensive. You'd drop 15-20$cad(1983) for a box of ten disks. Sure, it's half the price of a game. But, you also needed the copying software, which could be difficult to find. Then you needed to know somebody that had a copy and was willing to share. It was often faster and easier to flip burgers to earn enough to buy it than to track down a copy. There was DRM then, either based on the disk itself, based on feelies included with the game, or a serial number. Higher end software used dongles, or its usability was tied to specialist equipment. There was the early precursors to the internet around back then. But, it was a similar, and additional problems, you had to find a BBS that had what you were looking for, wasn't long distance, and that nobody picked up the phone while you were hunting or trying to download it. These days it is easier to find and get. Though finding a clean source, and clean supplemental software can range from tricky to difficult depending on the software and how deep you're willing to dive. So we ended up with the software based DRM which caused more problems than it solved. And the "check-in" based which varies from every few weeks to once a second or so. As a side note, one game fired a clear shot at piracy. They released into the piracy channels a slightly tweaked version that rendered the game unwinnable through a slight change in game mechanics. The change was something that clearly, and drily funnily, pointed out the pirates when they complained about the problem. Well where does this leave us, aside from an eternal tension? 1. Tolerance of DRM is like salt. Somebody can't stand even a little bit. Others are in empty the shaker territory. 2. Regardless of philosophical arguments we are stuck with DRM in some form. 3. If it is to be added the less obtrusive and the higher the fault tolerant the better. 4. Buy the merch.
  15. Most of my canon can be found within my Tales of The Groundbound. </plug> As for a more general overview pretty much : The general sociology is kind of like a TV version of the 50's in the west. That's 1950's not 2050's, now get off my lawn. Though many of the attitudes about race and gender are closer to modern. At least for the kerbals running my space program. I haven't though much about the rest of Kerbin, as there isn't a unified world government. I should really lay down some deep canon about that for the Greenfields series. The kerbals of the design arms of the program have a different design ethic, at least relative to ours. Best described as, from out side the game looking in, is this design contra-indicated by the game engine? The raison d'etre of the program, and probably some of the other ones, is to study the goo. There are some that suspect that it has non-Einsteinian field effects that are highly apparent in low-curvature space-time. As for the aboveground/belowground thing. Don't confuse the Acceptable Breaks from Reality required by the game engine and/or design with actual elements of canon.
  16. The usual unstated constraint is "unpowered" orbit. If we allow "powered" orbits it might be do able. Yes I know it will be _very_ dv expensive.
  17. And certain people in the community just said, "Here, hold my beer."
  18. Not as advanced as it used to be. Nor quite as daunting. My first video ever ran though about seven different tools to get what I wanted. Now it is down to three. (Two for image processing, (one of which is a specialized tool), and one for video) The speed change and text overlays are pretty basic edits, about half a step over splicing video together. It was the third video I crafted that I broke down and bought a teach yourself Adobe book. Though your local library should have a couple. Don't worry to much about the version the basics will be the same even if some of the available tools will be different. Give it run. Take your time and try. The worst that'll happen is you waste a few hours learning how not to do it.
  19. Now you are into heavier domains of video editing and not just recording. I've used Adobe products in the past for such things. But, there are numerous software of varying degrees of cost and usability out there to do such things. As for Shortcut specifically, you might have some luck with the tutorials on the website https://shotcut.org/ and the forums... fora.. forex... the online place where people post to communicate electronically as the successor technology to BBS.
  20. I've used OBS to record. There are several other options available as well. There are several options for uploading video. Youtube is the dominant one however.
  21. Just finished watching "SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY", which as of 2021-05-27 is available on Hoopla. Those of us that build videos, it is a suggested watch. It givens a flying overview by the masters of the OST of scoring a film. Yes, I collect bits and pieces about the craft. I have some delusions of epic grandeur that someday I'll somehow get that call from <insert major industry person> that it doesn't matter. You. Always. Say. Yes. Most days though it is just delusions of grandeur that I am merely mediocre. But, when I carve a piece out of that blank sheet of paper; part of what guides me is music, as the Groundbound: OSTs can attest. Sometimes it is the source that piece tells a story, what is it? Sometimes it is the framework for the story, this is the plot, this is the music, how can I align the beats of the music with the beats of the story? Other times, it is the polish that finalizes the piece. For example, "Last Flight of a Sow", queue up Audiomachine's Black Sunrise or Sacrifice as you read though it. That one was written from a single line "But, the project was not without cost." The music was the framework which developed the piece. There is Two Steps From Hell's Sungrazer, queue it up for the first six paragraphs or so of Groundbound 17.5 (chapter number subject to change). You will have to stretch the first paragraph for most of the track. I had the music for it, but not the text. Still not thrilled with that chapter. It's a triple translation of a 'Nam vet that I read regularly. So I know I have lost a fair bit in the translations. Lastly there is Approaching Nirvana's Love's Inclination for Groundbound, 26. Start it up when Kalerie walks in front of the panel. Since that chapter is from Linus's point of view the track works, or at least I like to think so.
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