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  1. Commander Zoom
    Are we still doing Firefly quotes? "Well. Here I am."
  2. Commander Zoom
    "Imagine you were dying and a long way from home and in terrible pain. And just when you think it couldn't get any worse, you look up and see the face of the devil himself. Hello, Dalek."
  3. Commander Zoom
    "Just get us on the ground." "That part'll happen pretty definitely."
  4. Commander Zoom
    I'll see your .12 and raise you .10 (I think... hard to be sure, this far back), with some of my very first shots - before there was a Mun. (that's an old modded Mk I capsule, made to look like our current single-kerb Mercury knockoffs)
  5. Commander Zoom
    You all need to STOP. Right now. This is Just Jim's story, not yours. Some of you have already been told this. You should not have to be told again.
  6. Commander Zoom
    *watches gifv* "My god, Bones... what have I done?"
  7. Commander Zoom
    "when suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack--" "urk!" *thud* "--and the cartoon peril was no more."
  8. Commander Zoom
    ... again, I regret that I have but one 'like' to give to one of your posts. But no regrets for giving you the perfect intro line.
  9. Commander Zoom
    Whenever I see a surface-navy vessel in the weight class of a battleship - or a carrier - taking to the skies, there's one musical theme I always think of.
  10. Commander Zoom
    Anagram. Otherwise correct, and good catch.
  11. Commander Zoom
    War. War never changes.
  12. Commander Zoom
    Anyone else old enough to remember what happened when the similarly, ah, intrepid crew of the Znutar picked up "a strange rock" on an alien world? (For those who aren't,here's a primer.)
  13. Commander Zoom
    What they said. Priorities are important, and real life should always come first.
  14. Commander Zoom
    As I've said before (elsewhere, I think?), good ol' H2O is actually pretty amazing/terrifying, as solvents go. We just don't think about that much because we ourselves are mostly made of it and stuff dissolved in it.
  15. Commander Zoom
    Now I have a very clear mental image of the pointy spires lighting up in sequence, smallest to largest, as each note plays - in different colors, per the CE3K board - and the last, as the beam bursts from it, sounds more like a VERY LOUD tuba (again, per the movie) or electric guitar note than a mere synth tone. re mi do do BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
  16. Commander Zoom
    (Not an actual translation ) (And put me down as someone else who saw this back in the day, and recognized those five tones without even being able to read music (much).)
  17. Commander Zoom
    On my first Duna mission, one of my ships arrived with only a few liters left in the transfer stage. I hadn't been watching the outbound burn that closely, so that was a bit of a surprise. Fortunately, this was a ship that was being broken up for parts that would land on the surface; it didn't have to turn around and go home.
  18. Commander Zoom
    Yup, I've used similar expressions for my trips to and from Duna - forex, the aerocapture/braking burns (at both ends) were also the first time in most of a K-year that they'd been under a full g.
  19. Commander Zoom
    "God was knocking, and He wanted in bad." -- Larry Niven and/or Jerry Pournelle's description of an operating Orion drive, Footfall
  20. Commander Zoom
    'ZOMBIES'? Really? Some people have no appreciation for the classics.
  21. Commander Zoom
    And again, if you look up at the top of the page, you'll see the current T30 has already had its look changed - I'm guessing by NS, back when he was with SQUAD, and making everything look the same (and good) was his job. Between him, C7/bac9 (the first spaceplane parts) and now Porkjet, I believe that every part currently in the game is the work of one former-modder-turned-dev or another. (I could be wrong, of course.)
  22. Commander Zoom
    A fearful malady, with no known cure, which reduces its victims to stick figures who babble only nonsense and the simplest of words.
  23. Commander Zoom
    This mod has most of the old parts, including the original pod (set to unmanned, since there's not really room in it for three kerbals, and even one might be pushing it); it doesn't look like it's been updated since 1.0.5, but it might suffice? Curse link
  24. Commander Zoom
    "Oh, mulch. There goes the planet."
  25. Commander Zoom
    I'm just giggling at the idea of the Mainsail, or the orange Jumbo, or any of the 2.5m parts being "original". Back in 2011, KSP looked like this. Massive stacks and bundles of 1m grey-and-black-and-yellow-striped "firecrackers" - and that was it! If you wanted anything bigger, or any plane parts at all, you needed mods (like the capsule shown here, a replacement for the old stock Mk1). Otherwise, you were stuck trying to build a Saturn V out of Estes "D"s. One of the modders, back in those days, was this guy called NovaSilisko. You may have heard of him; he did pretty good work. Eventually SQUAD brought him onto the team, and on July 20, 2012 - almost a full year after the screenshot above was taken - 0.16 was released, with lots of new parts that looked nothing like the previous stock parts, ruining the aesthetic FOREVER. (Note that the SRBs on the bottom are visibly misplaced. We didn't even have automatic symmetry, let alone fancy stuff like a spaceplane hangar or persistence or other planets and muns to travel to... oh, and those engines are all -30s, because -45s weren't invented yet (engines that can gimbal, imagine); but when they were, they used the exact same model.) Clearly this is the classic, original, authentically Kerbal visual style that we should (still) be following, five years and almost fifty releases later.
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