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Anemometer was there because conclusive proof was needed there was no wind in vacuum, and because its usefulness ended aboard the ship. Bill flicked it which made Bob experience a hissy fit.

No worms. Other things will have to be checked at home because Jeb broke the microscope. Having Bill the engineer in the landing party is always a good idea because only the engineers know how to plug and unplug equipment. Here's Bill telling Bob he shouldn't bother him with petty things. The science station has been assembled and Bob can now get some valuable data. Bob found out the surface is covered in volatiles which easily sublimate when you try doing anything with them, but that wasn't unexpected because it's so cold here that pressure suits work overtime just to keep them warm. Surface temperature is around -200 °C at best and sunlight is so poor it takes considerable time for the experiments to finish their work. Kyx is a cold, dead lump, probably originating from Plock itself.

The only change was that Bob had to go to the toilet more often. Waste reprocessing unit had to work overtime for a few hours... Kyx is such a boring potato which is typical of small bodies at huge distances from stars. It very much resembles Gilly but it's icy. Bob was again the first one to leave the spacecraft. He made the last contact with officially most distant planetary body in Kerbol system. Bob can jump 25 m on Kyx. While Bob was busy with jumping, Jebediah planted the last flag of the mission. Meanwhile, Bill was setting a permanent science station.

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Time to dump certain stuff. There was more oxidizer in storage tanks, so Bill attached them to the ship and transferred the content. After that, tanks were detached. The crew is getting ready to land on Kyx.

Why ceramics? Why not graphite? It's easier to machine in one piece and very inert. One way or another, you always have to put extra reducers, whether it's kerosene, hydrogen or whatever, so you have a reducing atmosphere that won't eat the material.

You're testing an engine at this point. Unless you're using poisonous compounds your engine would release in copious amounts in the environments, I don't see any problems (for example releasing hydrazine like it's steam). When you start with flight tests and expect breaches of certain flight ceiling, you have to inform a regulatory agency that deals with these things and I think that would be the FAA where you live.

Atmosphere is a stable layer of gas around a body. The Moon doesn't have an atmosphere just like a freshly painted brick in orbit has none. It does outgass (much less than that brick) but it has no stable layer. If there's a gas release there while it's daylight, most molecules get to escape speeds in a short amount of time. Other molecules go in enormous arcs and could end up embedded in the night side regolith. When the sunlight comes, they resume their journey, again most of them getting an escape speed. Every now and then a molecule ends up on the permanently shaded area on the poles and stays there. That's how volatiles are deposited. Saying the Moon has an atmosphere is not only illogical, it's overstretching the reality far beyond any meaningful point. It's one of those oversimplifications done for the average ignorant. Dumbing down the facts which is ruining the general knowledge.

Nobody makes memes. Memes are born when an information goes viral. Memes are not images with words on them. Why is that so hard to understand? Also, Internet memes used to be fun and special. Nowdays "everyone makes memes" to the point of stupidly enormous saturation and annoyance, as if it's all tailored for attention deficit kids who will laugh at something for few minutes and then forget it.

Why exactly is this crap on the forum? I thought the crazies' stuff are not permitted here.

Very cool idea.

This mod is now available on Curse, too. https://kerbal.curseforge.com/projects/realistic-ascension Also, I'm working on implementing tails, coma and surface scatter.

Is there a tutorial on how to use this? I'd like to add a comet tail to Realistic Ascension, but I really don't know how.

I've noticed an issue when I've placed a Kerbal on the equatorial surface. They stand there for some short time and then their floating mode (arms spread, feet angled) turns on, as if gravity is no longer present. I've never touched the original Kragrathea's kinematic variables so it made me think if the comet is now a superfast rotator which would be unrealistic and therefore against the point of this mod. If we assume it's spinning at the exact speed where surface gravity on the equator gets to zero, we can set up an equation for this frame of reference: Fcentrifugal = Fcentripetal = Fg m ω2 r = m g ω2 r = g ω = √(g/r) = √(9.81 x10-3 m s-2 / 1800 m) = 2.33 x10-3 rad s-1 Then we can get the period of rotation at which this is the case: ω = 2π/T T = 2π / ω = 2691.42 s Ascension's rotational period is 4040 s which means it's rotating at 66.6 % of its limiting speed at which it would break apart, therefore it's not a superfast rotator but it's somewhat close. This means the problems encountered are due to game's internal issues with extremely low values and I can't do anything about it. (If someone thinks the calculation is incorrect, I'd be happy to correct it.) Funny thing with Kerbals on Ascension is that if they jump while being on the pole, they'll reach an average of 2 km height, compared to Gilly's average of 200 m. However, jumping from the equator is a completely different thing. Jump from a low area and you're in for a half day journey, reaching 16 km. Jump from a very high point and you'll reach some 64 km, with the trip back lasting more than two days. There are equatorial cliffs that are so high that Kerbal's jump, combined with the angular speed of the cliff, exceeds the second cosmic speed of Ascension and the poor Kerbal never falls back, being left on a hyperbolic trajectory away from the comet. It's up to you to find those spots. At least the view is amazing, with the comet rotating below.

Zero chance. Every part of the craft will turn to gas except maybe the iridium cladding and plutonium dioxide pellets. Even if it survived the entry, it would still melt and dissolve in the supercritical hydrogen-helium mix as it falls down. During the entry every part of the craft will experience temperatures so high that even molecules can't exist anymore. Plutonium is a natural element, too, but it's very rare. Saturn does contain plutonium just like any other planetary body out there, but the amount Cassini added today is a lot higher. We can now say with basically 100% certainty that Saturn, as of this day, is a planetary body that contains the most plutonium after Earth (in terms of PuO2, Mars has a lot less in its Viking rovers and Pathfinder, and 4.8 kg in Curiosity, Jupiter has 15.6 kg from Galileo, the Moon has at least 19 kg).

Your work should be absorbed into the game and you should get an award.

Bob found himself back at the ship. In fact, the whole crew was back. The only thing that was different was the amount of fuel in the lander, consumables and the ship's chronometer. Lander's fuel was almost depleted and the chronometer read 28 days, six hours and twelve minutes after the initial loss of communication with Bob. Kerty has no memories of the passed time. The crew decided it was not worth going back to Beros because whatever was that did this might not be so generous next time. Off to Kyx. (Reason for latest hiatus can be found in my current signature.)

Nice job, but did you know that if you approached, let alone entered a nebula, it would basically vanish from sight? They're only seen from distance where they appear compact. Also, they're never pretty, shiny and colorful even from distance. They're just pale, dim whisps.

Um, never mind... This is weird. I've reinstalled Kopernicus (I had a brand new version) and it appeared. Oh well. If it works, don't fix it.

For some reason Hale doesn't load. What could be the issue here?

My eyes. I'll try with binoculars, next.

I've tried to observe it again. Nothing. Not even its own intrinsic shine. I don't think the reflectors have opened at all. It's just a tiny box less shiny than that white toolbag from ISS.

Nothing. I haven't seen anything. This doesn't look good.

I don't know where you live, but smells like USA. Lawyers in USA are very good at producing the conditions for their own jobs. It's a house of cards that should be blasted away by less nonsensical law system, for example the ones with basis in Roman law, where there is no jury and where facts and justice, and not winning the hearts of the judge and jury are stuff that matters. The only thing I can see valid with this is if one is consistently telling another worker, particularly in a sleazy tone that he/she looks pretty today. Imagine having to listen that every day. Yes, that would be harassment. It gets amplified when the one commenting is higher in the rank, especially a boss. That's a dangerous territory and is almost positively a sign of "if you want to advance, you have to go through my bed". But if a worker casually/sometimes says to another worker: "Wow, you look very nice!" after he/she comes with new hair or anything obviously pretty/new, it can not possibly be a basis for such charges. It's a clear case of frivolous litigation and any decent lawyer would wreck that case. Hell, the judge would dismiss it as such, with a fee.

How did I miss this? I'll track it ASAP and report here.