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I read one of his books that he co-wrote with Arthur C Clarke, Sunstorm, and I quite enjoyed it. I'll add Voyage to the list.

The line between genius and insanity is indeed razor-thin. This is probably the most kerbal staging yet.

Allow me to counter with an entire album of Laibach side-project space-themed goodness: And then there's this, which was very much my rover-to-the-pole theme:

I think at the end of the day whether someone uses mods is down to personal preference. The more important issue to me is that people enjoy the game. If that means playing the game vanilla, that's fine, if that means using mod x y and z, that's fine too. The important question to me is 'did you have fun?' As long as the answer is yes, that's all that matters imho. The dev's would not have made this game as easy to mod if they did not intend for mods to be created, it's as simple as that. Of course, then we get to the point of challenges. This is the one place where I think any sense of 'how the game should be played' is valid.

Been having a bash at this. Best I've achieved so far is getting a probe to about 9000M. Most of my launches however have looked a bit like this:

Yeah getting access to the local filesystem is rather trivial as you say. The way I use my work laptop it's basically a dumb terminal, I'm more worried about what someone can do with my logged on credentials than what's on the hard disk tbh. And drive encryption isn't just for the paranoid. Every single person has something they would like to keep private. What if your pc gets stolen, just to give the obvious example. And that should go for your mobile phone too. A lot of nasty stuff is happening at the moment that is very much being facilitated by the 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' mindset.

At home, no. In work, always (I'm a sysadmin.) I've seen cases in linux where people set up scripts that check for their phone's bluetooth connection and lock the screen automatically when it's not present, but I've never quite gotten around to doing anything like that.

Meh I'll have a go at a few of these before bed: 2: 4/3 Pi * Radius Cubed 5: Both are valid names, moon is more popular 7: About 8 minutes or so iirc for mars (depends on the exact distance between mars and earth too), a few seconds or so for the moon 9: Po-tay-to poh-ta-to 10: Languages evolve, compare shakesperian english to modern english - bit of a difference. 11: Slow enough that you land safely. (It's subjective.) 13: you're bored? 14: Because the only thing we can be certain of, is our uncertainty. 16: Because they're very useful, and hold true for the most part. 19: Because awe is comparible to heroin. 22: There was this thing that happened in the 1940's, commonly referred to in Ireland as 'the emergency'. Hope that helped!

This has been the soundtrack to a countless number of my launches.

The question is, what have you made? You need to be developing a portfolio to showcase the skills you have acquired. Having a games course under your belt is not enough - the industry since year dot has been primarilly been fuelled by people who taught themselves to make games and then got published and these are the types of people you will be competing with. As others have pointed out mod-making would be a good place to start at the very least. Edit: I hope this doesn't come across as too harsh, I don't mean to discourage you, rather give you some honest advice.

I'm going to assert that it's Plan9. One look at the mascot should make my reasoning fairly obvious:

Epic, really enjoyed that, good job barrydennen12!

Richard C. Kerman One time science advisor to Walter C. Kerman, during the Mun landing. He became the first Kerbal to ever be involuntarily removed from the Kerbal Space Centre, after claiming "show me a picture of Duna, and I'll show you at least seventeen alien artifacts". He also believes the Joolian moon Pol is a parked alien spacecraft. He has advocated his ideas in two published books, videos, lectures, interviews, and press conferences. His views have never been published in peer-reviewed journals, but have inspired generations of Kerbals to go to space, in order to verify that his ideas are in fact wrong. The visual data collected by these brave Kerbonaughts is then analysed by Richard C. Kerman, whereupon he identifies another batch of 'artifacts', and the cycle begins again. Richard C. Kerman appears regularly as the "Science Advisor" for Koast to Koast AM, a late-night radio bedtime-story show for insomniac Kerbal children.

Yeah I hated school too. It only lasts for so long though, for what it's worth.

Quite impressive landing. Did someone forget to pack the snacks?

I've only seen one.

Not really, have you played it?

I'd have to re-watch the series to give you a favourite. For the moment I'll just say it's a great series and leave it at that.

Well I'm not British, but I'll take a stab at it anyway. First of all you need to understand that the British royalty are still pretty popular, and Diana did a hell of a lot of charity work. There was a perception that she was treated very badly by the royal family, and received a lot of sympathetic coverage from the press during her marrige breakup. Then you add a tragic death on top of it all, and you arrive somewhere near the reason for her popularity. As an aside, if you thought Freddie Mercury was interesting, you might want to take a look at Klaus Nomi. Mercury is often seen as the first celebrity to die of AIDS, but infact Nomi was earlier, and was almost completely abandoned by his friends - in fairness almost nothing was known about AIDS at the time, but it's still tragic watching the documentary 'the Nomi Song', where pretty much everyone interviewed says something to the effect of 'I should have gone to see him at the end'. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrxyxb_the-nomi-song-2004-documentary-the-klaus-nomi-odyssey-he-came-from-outer-space-to-save-the-human-rac_shortfilms

Yeah pity about the keyboard issue, but science bay! Looking forward to that.

Where is the proof? Extraordinary claims and all that.

I figured monopropellant was hydrazine. It's 'burned' by passing it over an iridium catalyst bed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopropellant

I was rather disappointed I couldn't see that in the cinema, great film. And Laibach on the soundtrack, what more can you ask for?

It's quite decent, and 40% off at the moment on steam.

Arguably yes, but they kind of tried that years ago with Active Desktop. It was horrible.