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4th option: Yes, but I will use a Windows VM until then. I feel this should be an option.

https://twitter.com/badnewsbaron Thanks again to @NoMrBond. He posted it in my other PAX west thread, but I felt this deserved its own thread since it's important. Go like their comment, not this one:

Check this post out.

You should post this in it's own thread. Title in "PAX West Info dump" to get people's attention.

You just @ one of the mods iirc. @Vanamonde

That is highly inefficient.

I had to look this up. Apparently the moon does indeed have large quantities of Helium-3 due to the solar winds.

I understand why they're focusing on one platform. They are a team of 30+. They want to make sure their product works before bringing it to other platforms.

Oh, I thought we were talking about IRL the whole time. Well, we don't have to worry about atoms, yes, but in game KSP's atmosphere can be two layers I feel. The 'Hard' layer and 'Soft' layer. The hard layer goes up to the 70KM line and the Soft layer goes up to around 200KM to 300KM, where at 200KM you can gain tons of elements per hour and at 300km you're basically scooping up 0.01 of a tank per orbit.

Look in my post. I put a link to the master post where they said it.

Atoms can get anywhere but Nasa scientist call it a part of Earth's atmosphere and therefore the atmosphere extends to or past that atom. https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-atmosphere-is-so-big-that-it-actually-engulfs-the-moon

IIRC, the devs said there would only be launching on windows at launch, but they are not against bring Linux/mac support in a future update. Right now, the best way to play KSP 2 on Mac or Linux is to do a Windows VM. Edit: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/187315-kerbal-space-program-2-master-post/

I know, and that analogy doesn't really work in my mind. The atom is a part of the atmosphere, and therefore the atmosphere extends to or past that atom.

Scientists called the single hydrogen atom they found part of earth's atmosphere... so... your statement is invalid. You should always trust the scientist, especially the Nasa ones.

This is true, plus the atmosphere theoretically extends way past the moon, which is just bizarre to me. Like, you can find earth oxygen atom just floating several hundreds of thousands of miles from the planet... kind of makes you wonder how much atmosphere the earth loses in a year for it to be that far out. It was just a spitball answer, not intended to e taken seriously.

Actually, they thought the atmosphere cut off was at 480KM, the ISS is around 350KM, but they recently found that the atmosphere actually extends past the moon. How? A satellite detected a single atom of hydrogen or something. Just a single atom. How far was this satellite? Just inside of the moons orbit iirc. That's crazy. Of course, this single atom could have come from the sun, or from Jupiter for all we know, but scientists are convinced it is from Earth. Anyway, I wouldn't mind Star Theory putting a high atmosphere around Kerbin or any other planet. 70KM is the hard limit, but I would say put in soft limit up to 200KM. at 70KM, your station will stay in orbit, but it will continue to collect atmospheric gases like oxygen and nitrogen in large amounts. Go up to 200km and you'll basically be collecting a gram of atmosphere every hour, I feel would be a good compromise.

First time insinuates its brand new never before seen. Let's hope ots new gameplay.

Helium makes up less than 1% of Earth's atmosphere. In fact, it's less than 1% of 1%. 0.0005%.

If only gas giants can hold on to it then my point is proven. It's only present realistically on or in gas giants. I doubt kerbin would have any as Earth has probably less than 1%, so Kerbin would have less than 1%

You never know. They might surprise us with a entire gameplay trailer.

No. Helium is only present in gas giants.

I just realized, Pax West is this Friday. Do you think we'll get more info or a new exclusive interview?

This is true. Plus, there's a rumor that they've been working on this since August of 2017. That's 2 years 7 months at the time it will launch. I believe this is a good amount of time for a game like KSP. Especially when you figure they could have been working on both code and models at the same time. 30+ people work at Stat Theory according to the interviews. Even if they split the work 50 to code 50 to model and textures, that's still a lot of people working to get the code done. And if we go more people to code, 75/25, that's 22 to 23 people working on code. I am confident that they will have a finished polished product by March 2020.

It will probably be able to be turned off or configure in the menu.

Jool's atmosphere is 200K, and the physically body of it is around 100K? (Impact with the plant's model). The station would have to be far enough down that it got a good vacuum of Helium and Hydrogen. Probably around 120 to 150K at least I would think. 190K could work, but the atmosphere would be thin there. Alternatively, instead of being inside the atmosphere, the station could sit at 201K and send down a carbon nanotube attached vacuum well into the atmosphere. But this is KSP, not some sci-fi station simulator. Best bet would be have a space station at 201K with a VAB attached to itself. Launch a rocket that can withstand the heat and pressure down to 120K, then have it return to the station with full tanks.