Starwhip

Banned for not using enough Duct Tape.

I think it's a diamond. Taken from the ground, diamonds are uncut and "raw", dull, etc. EDIT: If not so specific, perhaps gemstones in general

Yes, I suppose this is true. If the TWR is less than 1, then the more engines there are the worse it gets. Now wait a moment. I realized something. Landing on Kerbin might be impossible, but how about somewhere where Ions have a TWR > 1? Someplace like... Gilly, perhaps?

Lots. And lots. And lots. Of trusses. Hundreds of meters of them, strutted and cross-membered and RCS-ed and reaction wheeled... WAIT A MOMENT! WHEELS! Make giant wheels, if for no other purpose than fun. Have trusses as axles and structural plates as treads, RCS or reaction wheels to roll them... The world's largest and heaviest rover.

Still, the number of engines would be astronomical. No pun intended. Perhaps a Kraken Drive is in order... but let's not go there. This is for Ion Engines, not mystical mythical anti-gravity game-breaking awe-inspiring really-long-description part-clipping lag-inducing engines like the Kraken Drive.

I made a rocket, which I called the Christmas Rocket, which used KW and Procedural Fairings. It was a cylinder, and about half-fairings. Inside those fairings nested another rocket smaller but identical to the first, being half-fairings. On and on for five stages more, until a Probodyne Q-BE popped out the top.

[KSC] Jeb, are you still there? We haven't heard anything for the past fifty years. Yeah, this would create a new definition of a long time. EDIT: "Hey, what's the deal with the gigantic blue glow on the horizon over there?" "Oh, don't worry, Bob! That's just the five thousand ion engines stopping the asteroid that's going to hit the KSC..."

First and foremost, this is not a challenge which I am posting here. I am simply speculating something. Read on, friend, to see my newest crazy idea... What if... one landed an asteroid, at the KSC, with ONLY ION ENGINES?!?! Could it be done? No parachutes, just ions... post your thoughts.

You're so close... in fact, you'll probably be back up and running before the Asteroid Update. I'm still making a deorbiter, though. [spoilerS FOLLOW] I'm thinking of, at least to see if it's even possible, to send up a large rocket with about 20 individual probes with Claws and 2 parachutes apiece. Then they latch onto the asteroid. The rest of the rocket attaches and diverts the asteroid into an aerobrake. Once the 'chutes are low enough, they deploy and slow the asteroid. Eventually, I'm just going to make a thing that attaches to the asteroid and has an s-load of landing legs on it. And just a few mainsails.... [spoilerS END]

I know that it takes 30 seconds for one to die in space, and I also happen to know the odds of a spaceship finding me before that time has elapsed. Therefore, the Heart of Gold arrives and saves me at exactly 29 seconds after I was thrown into space. The IID (Infinite Improbability Drive) turns the next poster into a pot of petunias a few thousand miles from the surface of a planet.

Yep. This is true. The user below knows what and how and Infinite Improbability Drive is and works.

Banned for being a difficult piece of cake lost in space.

Dat one... 10/10

Banned for an ellipsis in your post.

Seems to be something like a planet. The "rough and raw" surface would be the crust. And the peers would be the asteroids or clumps of dust that built the planet. And all the talk about breaking or beating would be beings extracting materials from the planet, metals or minerals they need.

Hey, Whackjob? You hear that? Once your computer is back up and running... NEW KRAFT! (and perhaps some kind of never-before-beheld-Kraken variation. We could term it "The Whack Kraken")

What... is it? Even if I don't know, it's still a 6/10 for just plain awesomeness.

QUANTUM MECHANICS says SHUT UP. I fire FTL protons from my hand-held particle accelerator of 10000 years in the future that you should not ask how I got. They irradiate your body. You die. My hill.

Banned because I was recently attacked by the mythic Hell Kraken.

Getting kind of old... 9/10

It exploded?! Woah. What the heck did you build?! I will try. [execute start of massive built-in-orbit asteroid de-orbiter]

Banned for being on the roof of the VAB.

10/10 You monster...

Banned for a Rainbow! Now banned for ninja-ing

It appears you have spontaneously created an Infinite Improbability Drive! I calculate the odds of the next poster becoming in danger of imminent death via a rouge wormhole sucking them into space. A rouge wormhole sucks the next poster into space.