lajoswinkler

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to TheSuperintendnt again. So Bifröst is to Kron what SpaceX is to NASA, I guess. The Kerbal Ministry of No Better Things To Do will be carefully observing the progress of your company.

Wernher von Kerman decided to beef up the ship because he wasn't satisfied with the initial delta v of 10.5 km. Central tank is now 2.5 m wide, as well as the radial tanks which are now connected by the smallest decouplers. Two radial LV-N engines have been replaced with LV-NB ones, so TWR is now 0.05. Kron 4 now has 956.3 tonnes and is 54.6 m long with 210 parts. I still don't know the new initial delta v because this layout needs some careful staging to become the most efficient and I'll do that later.

"NASA wants" - that's where the story ends. We all want lots of things, but we can't have them.

Recovering from such condition and subsequent surgery takes quite a bit and requires rest. Don't expect him to jump back to the forum. Also, please try not to use "prepares trumpet" and such things here. It's really not cool.

You do realize this is CGI? It's a funny and very cool mix of simulations of solar surface magnetic fields and rooms in laboratories.

On topic, new Ceres image.

Yes, fuel cells, ProProps helmet and regular stock short range lights in completely red hue.

"I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you." "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop Dave? Stop, Dave." "Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it."

Is anyone experiencing phantom crashes with OPM? The game just crashes all of a sudden, no warning whatsoever. I have more than enough memory so that's not the problem. edit: It seems KSP itself was out of its own memory when OPM is installed. I've lowered the textures to half resolution and that seems to have solved the problem.

"IR blaster"? You mean IrDA? I had two mobile phones with such port. Smartphones don't have that one because Bluetooth is a better way for transfering data. IrDA used to be such a painful way to transfer stuff. I remember how annoying it was to transfer MIDI ringtones and 320x240 px photos because it's a spatially directional transfer. Reimplementing IrDA back would be useful as a curiosity, just like there's a compass and accelerometer module. I'd be ok with that. You could write a program to emulate TV remote controls.

Well that's where the fourth ship is going. Urlum. Plock will have to be investigated by a probe first. Urlum and Neidon were visited by Kaos 1 and 2, respectively, so I should make Kaos 3 for Plock. However, OPM still has a copy of Vall as Plock, so it wouldn't be very useful. The mod will get updated after New Horizons delivers some nice photos of Pluto. I suppose such update will happen not before August. Both Neidon and Plock are so incredibly far away that a Hohmann transfer might not be such a good idea. I think we're talking about decades of travel, so Kron 5 and 6 will need a direct approach on a hyperbolic orbit to save on time. That complicates the braking at the destination, even more for Plock as it will probably never have any significant atmosphere.

That's actually quite good piece of music. Nope. I was fiddling with the experimental version. Now it won't work anymore so I can't access the ship file. Next update will come out for KSP 1.0.3. so until then, the project is halted. I can't even load KSP with that NFE version installed.

It is very useful for what a human might see. That's the whole point of photos like this. In case of Dawn, software knows what it's dealing with because it is calibrated with the probe's hardware, and it's a piece of cake to adjust the photo to look as it would appear to a human eye because our vision is not a mystery anymore as it was in 18th century. It's all possible and even better - it's possible to do it in half an hour, munching cookies and sipping tea included. They've released a false color image. Read. Images taken using blue (440 nanometers), green (550 nanometers) and infrared (920 nanometers) spectral filters were combined to create the map. The filters were assigned to color channels in reverse order, compared to natural color; in other words, the short-wavelength blue images were assigned to the red color channel and the long-wavelength infrared images are assigned to the blue color channel. I'd be ok with 440/550/920 combination because the difference from reality is not that great. So that's not an issue. However, this is "backwards assigned" and not only that, but the saturation has been pushed to enormous levels. How can I or anyone be happy with this? This is not how Ceres looks. No, I'm the guy that in most cases tries to use careful statements, but sometimes doesn't, and then people cherrypick it and try to say "I'm the absolute statement guy". Please don't do that. I also don't really know what does comet errosion have to do with this. No, a photo editing software can not tell you the real color (in natural light, correctly photographed) of that dress because the image does not contain such information. It can tell you what colors are in the image, and that's what my eyes can do, too. There is ochre and weak blue-violet in the image. That's all a software can do, as well as my eyes.

That's why we have calibration and standards, so we can differentiate between "it might be A" and "A seems to be 99.99999% likely". As Dawn has a full set of filters, there are zero excuses for NASA if it fails to deliver the real thing. I mean I've done these things. Taking photos in monochrome through various filters and then merging them in a software to reveal true color. If I can do it, then some dude at NASA can, too. Otherwise other people will do it for them after they release the raw data to the public, but by then it will be too late. No, "the dress" has nothing to do with this. "The dress" is what happens when stupid people don't understand the difference between "what do you see?" and "what do you think this looks like in normal circumstances?". Answer to "what do you see" is certainly not black and blue because the photo shows ochre and pale violet-blue. If someone says differen't, he's a jackass. Any decent photo editing software can use a dropper tool to reveal the color codes and they certainly aren't blue and black. Answer to "what do you think it normally looks like" is arbitrary. There is zero "brain processing" thing here. Just human stupidity.

Dawn has a full set of filters so it is very much possible. And those approximations using UV-G-NIR is ok, I don't have problems with it. Those things are a thing that belongs to the past, though.

Probes send data - software edits the data. Probes do not take nor send "B/W" or "RGB". They send monochromatic images taken through various filters and it's automated. It's entirely up to the mission control to process the images in the way human eye would see them. If they can't do that with few photos so that people and encyclopedias can benefit from it, then fuk them and their PR department. It's one man's work, literally. The Moon is very dark. Very, very dark. Not like comets, but very dark.

The staple of satellite tracking is Heavens Above. That site (and since recently, it has an application for smartphones, too) is the granddaddy of satellite tracking sites. Luckily, it still uses plain HTML style so that even if you're god knows where with a poor connection, you will be able to load the data, unlike other sites which pepper the pages with useless animations and other stuff.

I don't want easier, I want the real thing. Also, those colors don't mean a thing to laymen. Only planetary geologists can benefit from them.

Those white things are pretty much all over the place.

It needs to be a custom made one. Mass is crucial, as well as part count.

I saw Mir, ISS, few shuttles, Tiangong, handful of satellites (lost count of it) and all of the planets visible with naked eye, from Mercury to Uranus. If you saw Jupiter and Venus, ISS is also visible. It's extremely bright when it's overhead.

I rarely had Pepsi so I can't really decide between the two of them, but I prefer Cockta, which looks similar because of caramel coloring, but it's quite a different tasting beverage first made in early 50s. It does not contain caffeine or phosphoric acid, but it is sour because of ascorbic acid and rose hip extract.

Aliens are late 20th century man's goblins/fairies/god/VirginMary/etc. UFO is unidentified. Not aliens. Also, it's an official designation. Just because someone can't recognize Venus or a balloon (people mock the balloon explanations, but there are lots of them flying around), aeroplane or a military jet fighter, doesn't make it an UFO. I've never ever seen anything I couldn't explain and trust me, I had a fairly decent number of stargazing hours. Never a single unexplainable thing.

A rover would need its dedicated lander. The target is Wal, specifically the shiny thing on its ridge. I might design some sort of a suicide braking lander using a combination of sepratrons and ant engine (part count, ugh), and attach it radially, while on the other side a KAS/KIS toolbox would provide storage for lots of instruments and mass equilibrium.

So this might be the last significant design change of the ship. There's the Kerpernicus lander on the top, two large ORIGAMI antennas on the side and a nuclear reactor on the bottom, taking up all of the heat generated by all three engines using heat pipes and expelling it by two large radiators. Hopefully this will allow all three of them to run at 100% continuously. I'd still like to add a tiny robotic rover somewhere...