lajoswinkler

It's all BS. If you have a certain amount of digital photo information, that's it. You can't reveal more. I've cropped and resized the crater in question. First with basic pixel resizing which doesn't add information, and then with one algorithm. Remember that even the original image I was using wasn't original raw image. Claiming you can reveal more detail is absolute crap. It's impossible. Nutters use these techniques to claim of "walls" and "structures" on Moon. It's all lies.

Indeed, I will try to do it if the phases are appropriate. If not, I will not wait because my RTG units are decaying and they need to operate until I'm at Jool's distance again, following the return. They only let him use Mk1 capsule and Kron 3 doesn't have small docking ports on it. On the positive side, he needed some practice with tethering. No harmonic wobbling reported yet. Engines were never on. May I see your design?

Status turns to illegal when a certain degree of the bill is ruined and that depends on the each country's laws, I guess. This is still a minor adjustment of the bill, although more serious than writing a phone number or a name. This is very cool.

Usually some awful, stupid song or chorus. It's horrible.

Oh, come on, give the guy a break. The man is in love, let him be.

Dawn should be able to take true color images because it has a lot more filters than usual space probes do (usually it's UV, green, NIR; or similar). If anything, photos of Ceres should be a lot more realistic than photos made by Voyager 1 and 2. Why we get grayscale images is beyond my understanding and if NASA fails to release true color photos, it will be a great failure of their PR department. For god's sake, even amateurs take the raw data and produce more realistic stuff than NASA probably ever released.

Nope, that's just a measure of how shiny things are. Albedo is about reflected versus impacted radiation, not whether it is reflected in a diffuse or specular manner. Not true. Enlarging it using anything other than pixel resize introduces new pixels. New false information appears. It's a popular nutters' trick when they examine "UFOs", enlarging bugs, stars, birds or planes in the sky and causing all kinds of artefacts in the picture and then claiming "halos" and "energy fields". They do the same with Martian surface photos, where they see goblins, Jesuses, Marys, guns, etc. in the rocks.

Why the hell would anyone want an Instagram account? What do people use it for? To make lousy hipster fake crossprocessed images of their pouty lips, water heaters in bathrooms and lunch plates? Geez.

Not at all. This is all there is to know about the difference. Compare with sugar. Sucrose in its pure state is a transparent, colorless crystal. Crush it or just pile it on one place and you get this. Not so transparent anymore, eh? It's the same thing white flowers' petals do. They don't possess color, only structure which disperses light.

I remember when it first started being popular online few years ago. That's sort of a communist utopia. Great thing in theory, impossible to create (might only be naturally reached in distant future). These things happen when people don't educate themselves and try to sound smart. As Santayana said: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Quite frankly, we don't need to repeat artificial creation of communism or socialism. Its practical application had by far the worst death toll we know of.

Just as the ship was about to leave, last scientist in the ground crew, Pepe Kerman, was working on a cheap probe to deliver one last crucial instrument for measuring albedo that just got approval for flight. He quickly realized the connection between radiance and radiators. Ships can't function without them, so Pepe quickly assembled some using broken refrigerators he found at the KSC.

Each arm is an RCS maneuverable vehicle and will be detached, rotated and attached to the service module forming a centrifuge module. All that will happen after the ship sets in an appropriate orbit somewhere in Sarnus system. As with earlier ships, the centrifuge module will be left docked to the lander at the end of the mission, forming a station. The ship itself will be formed by joining the propulsion module with the command module, so that's where extra ÃŽâ€v comes from. Hm, I've never thought about this. Why is that? I'm curious, because I design these things from a functional standpoint. Fuel tanks are silvered and crew compartments white to minimize radiative heat transfer, heat shield is dark gray to increase it. Of course, it's all decorative, but looks real. Now that I think about this... I will try to add radiators from Near Future Electrical. They are not heavy and will add a decent sense of realism. Hopefully they are KAS compatible, so I could use Bill Kerman to position them. I've also found out DMagic Orbital Sciences has been updated and now contains a must have Global Orbital Radiance Experiment Satellite.

There is a centrifuge there, but it's incorporated into the ship's main axis. Those thin identical modules in the middle. I can't aerobrake with its arms sticking outside, and Kerbals don't need it during cryo-sleep.

I will just shamelessly promote my flagship here which you can see in the banner. It is finally ready and about to depart to Sarnus.

Crew boarding has finished. First three Kerbals (let's call them redshirts) boarded and froze themselves in the cryonic chamber. Next, one redshirt, Jeb and Bob came. Ship was strutted completely. Here's Jebediah, watching his home planet one last time before going to his temporary tomb. He won't see it for a long, long time. Last one to arrive was Bill, the engineer who did most of the work. The government commissioned a fairly nice rocket for him. The crew is frozen, so they can't see it, therefore no bickering will occur. Bill is pleased by his government's decision. By the look of his face you can see that he's delighted by what he sees through the window. He transfered some of the fuel to fill up the ship, which now weighs a bit over 493 tonnes. Later he pushed the arriving ship away and boarded Kron 3. He will remain unfrozen to monitor the burns that will put the ship on a Sarnus intercept trajectory, and after that he'll go to sleep, too.

Then we'd have stacks. But a board is a neccessary evolution.

You can't do that in current KSP. With FAR, yes. That's not skipping. Skipping, as Apollo did, creates lift. What you did was to delay the total reentry.

11 cm/px, Rosetta's shadow in the photo taken on February 14th. http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/02/14_February_close_flyby

So it has been done. I've docked the two heaviest vessels I've ever launched in KSP. As said before, the propulsion unit was left without fuel in the third stage which brought it there. To remedy this, I've sent a refueling probe which also served as an extension of the RCS, to make rotation easier. You can see it here, docked to the propulsion unit, heading towards Kron 3. Even with mutual cooperation of the ship (which is by the way behaving like a very rigid object) it was a pain to finally dock them. Several minutes have passed during which the vessels were trying to grab onto each other even though their angle of approach was very small. This is the result. Few more adjustments need to be done, including the undocking, performing a roll maneuver and redocking. It needs to be done to align the strut endpoints. The leftover third stage will not be removed, as every m/s counts, which is also the reason why I'll try to use Mun's gravity as a slingshot. But before that, Kerbal boarding and freezing must begin.

Very nice. I like these real life missions done in KSP.

Amazing. I didn't assume it will be this tall. Now we know what it is.

After several failures, the propulsion unit has been launched into orbit. Kerbals never actually considered to launch it anyway other than 100% full, so many explosive events occured beforehand. The vehicle was slightly influenced by the Soviet N1 rocket with its tapered tanks and lack of interstage fairing. It tightly fits into the VAB. Final launch was successful both in stability and performance. A set of Vernor engines was used to stabilize the flight. Wings were not needed at all because of the shape of the rocket. First stage had a central core with 6 KR-L2 engines. Four boosters with identical engines were attached to it. Second stage firing consisting of 5 Mainsails. Final, third stage, was one KR-L2 engine. Only the topmost and wide tank in the actual propulsion unit was depleted to achieve orbit, so refueling will be needed to reach and dock with the actual ship waiting for it. This seems to be the heaviest thing I've ever launched at once in KSP. It has some 328 tonnes. Recently I've launched 2 small probes with fuel and resources towards Sarnus where they will rendezvous with the ship.

I think you're mistaken. What are they supposed to be carried in? Unobtainium-mithril alloy? LOL

Well I don't know, but that thing seems to be imaged using long exposure. I don't think it glows very bright but then again I'm just looking at the photo...

He's been awfully quiet and still lately. I might have to take him to a vet. I suppose that's ok for his age. He's so cool he's glowing.