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states it\'s to increase the length of the window for entering the Mün\'s sphere of influence, reducing the chances of a total miss, at the expense of delta-v. Maybe other people felt the same. Giving up the eastward boost really isn\'t that big a deal; the explicit goal in choosing Kerbin\'s day was to make the free boost a nice little bonus, but not prohibitive. OTOH giving up the extra delta-v at the Mün from orbiting the wrong way...my view is that you can do a lot of midcourse correction for that much juice, but that\'s just me.I hit Münar orbit and returned on my first try on stock parts, sleep-deprived, paying attention to potential timewarp bugs I was testing for, swinging my nose all over the sky on every burn, disoriented, several degrees off on everything, learning the cameras, having read/watched nothing but that a Hohmann\'s transit time leads by about 60 degrees. But the pioneers making those videos had no way of knowing it would be that easy .

Dumb question, but did you turn the ASAS on? It\'s the T key by default, and it will light an indicator on the upper right of your NavBall.

As, of course, did the real thing. They were 'free' return trajectories in the sense that the main engine was not necessary for midcourse corrections. If you can do a single burn into a free-return, I\'m scared of you.

Everybody knows about Orbiter. One one-word search (Upper right? Where it says 'search'? On the button?) would have shown you the various debates about whether to bring in this or that MFD from it, comparisons of the orbital calculators and the reasons KSP is not trying to be Orbiter. I think you are not ready for this forum.

Just ran across this, had to post it somewhere, this was closest. Afraid not, Mr. Young. Not in Murrca. Not anymore.

PICNIC\'s always been my favorite. (Problem In Chair Not In Computer)

Hm! I\'ve made some posts I\'m not proud of in retrospect, but mine upthread wasn\'t one I would ever have expected to be deleted. FWIW it was not written in anger or with any attempt at presuming authority.

Reflector. Yeah, seems right.

Classic high-school BS session fodder. You only start from zero if your surname is Coyote. Jumping only helps if you can jump at, say, 100m/s, or equivalently to a height of 500m.

I know. But if you hadn\'t discovered nuclear, or didn\'t have fissile material, or were bound by treaties or regulations not to launch a nuclear reactor...

You\'re correct; that is the perception, and the perception is quite accurate. America\'s got a bad case of imperialism, and we may be in the death throes at this point. 'How would you feel if it were happening here?' is a fine message. However, I assume you\'re familiar with 'dog-whistle' politics? I\'m pretty confident there\'s another payload on that ad. For the past three years I\'ve worked in a small room with, no way around it, a neurotypical nutcase. If it\'s contrary to what liberals, scientists or THE GOVERNMENT says, he\'s in. Young-Earth Creationist. Bircher. Takes his colloidal silver, his patented herbal heart drops and his megadose omega supplements every day. Most relevantly he plays the Genesis Communications Network (wink wink) all day, particularly his favorite show, Alex Jones... where Rand Paul drops in every few weeks for a long chat as one of Jones\' favorite guests, alongside such luminaries as the Loose Change guys, the Christian Dominionist politician of the day, professional Holocaust denier David [Ed, derp] Irving, rich hobbyist climate change denier Lord Monckton, and a pump-and-dump precious metals merchant. Also every few weeks, Jones finds some way to mention that the National Guard is running roadblock checkpoints in Texas - always in Texas - in cooperation with ARMED MEXICAN TROOPS to practice for the implementation of MARTIAL LAW axross America by the ZioniJst tnEternaWtional baSnkers and their military body, the UN. Keeping Texans worried about foreigners entering illegally much? Dog-whistle messaging isn\'t about persuading the target audience that something is true, so the ad can be explicitly fictional and still achieve its purpose. The method is to repeatedly state that something is true, then move on. You can admit it\'s false a second later. That one second of shock is what matters. Invasion invasion invasion. Commies\'n\'Jews. Fnord fnord fnord. Internet Anarchists don\'t like to admit that that\'s Paul\'s crowd. Yes, he\'s for withdrawing from Iraq and reducing our ridiculous military expenditures...as one facet of eliminating the Federal government. He and his fellow Jesusland wranglers are in the business of saying things that are 95% reasonable, then covertly applying that final spin into reverse. Yes, the invasion of Iraq was a war crime that must stop. Yes, police forces inevitably abuse their power sometimes, and have recently been allowed to do it more. Yes, a small cartel of banks have a corrupt Congress at their heel. You\'re right, Rand Paul, what shall we do about that? Repeal the Civil Rights Act, give all law enforcement power to local warbandsmilitia, eliminate the SEC and all corporate taxes, and change our currency back to the gold standard that a much smaller cartel can control completely. ...What?

Actually it\'ll still 'work'. It was so obvious that it\'d become tidally locked that I initially assumed that was the intent. You\'d then have the sidereally-fixed gyros rotating relative to the satellite once per orbit. Net result, you\'re using your satellite as a flywheel, slowly deorbiting it for a trickle of energy. Insane in the inner solar system, it could make sense for a planetary orbiter farther from the sun, though the need for heavy gyros and heavy counterweights makes me skeptical even of that.

You will get back some fraction of the energy you put into blasting the thing into orbit.

WASDQE are also controls for the RCS . Rotation, translation. Six axes, baby, welcome to SPACE!

Ooh, good detective work,

In general you should pick and choose parts that you want, to improve load times and reduce the odds of exactly this problem. With that kind of part assault it could be that it\'s not even hung, just taking 24 hours or so to load. If I\'ve misunderstood or it still hangs after reducing to a reasonable number of parts, 1. Open <KSP directory>/KSP_Data/output_log.txt . 2. Look for the last successfully loaded part. For convenient searching part loads, and only part loads, begin with '>> '. 3. I don\'t have any failures to work with; presumably there will either be an error message within the loading method, or the next part after the last successful one is the problem.

In the meantime here y\'go. http://www./?q16o6ie30l6gi18

You might also like to cast your eye over Starfarer: http://fractalsoftworks.com/blog/ I\'ve been following it rabidly for half a year-ish. No, it\'s not Angry Houses That Stomp, but it\'s based on the same chassis-matching, weapon-linking, heat-watching gameplay loop that Mechwarrior is. Also gorgeous and smart.

Good, can\'t think of a better place for them to be.

Yeah, I eventually got fed up waiting for the new store system and just donated under Paypal. Just, take the money out. Every day, as part of your chores, transfer any money that has come in out of the account Paypal controls. Using Paypal can be fine, but do not leave money where they can touch it. Not 'just until the end of the week'. Take it out, please!

Sigh. Symmetric as in time-reversible. They obey conservation of energy. No points.

I read about T-17 Tanky on RPS last week and finally fired it up today. I think it\'s very good, and I\'m sad that it\'s received so very little funding. If people don\'t like it that\'s fair enough, but I hope people simply haven\'t heard of it and this is the only forum in which I\'m at all active currently, so here we are. http://closedchamber.com/download.html - Be warned, Windows only, needs XNA4 and .NET4 It does a similar thing to KSP, in what I\'ve just now dubbed the booming genre of indie 'goofysims' - applying serious principles and depth to a simulation while artistically severing ties to tedium and historical happenstance. Specifically it feels (and looks, in the air vehicles in the trailer) like my countless hours of skirmish and coop compstomp in Battlefield Desert Combat\'s tanks and IFVs and choppers, except with bots that have the remotest idea what they\'re doing. The suspensions are great, the ballistics are great, the terrain\'s great, even the sound and environmental feedback mechanisms are pretty great already. One aspect that\'s not shown in the trailer: When your vehicle is destroyed you become a cartoon bird avatar who can fly around watching the battle in the most charming way (or enter another friendly vehicle). Also the quit key is ctrl-q, documentation obscured behind the debug console by default, naughty dev. Thanks for your time.

Because, as mentioned, sooner or later heat and G-forces will be implemented.

Sorry, no. Gravity fields conserve energy; you do not get 'more energy', then 'less energy' around periapsis. Slingshot effects only work by stealing orbital velocity, not within the frame of reference of the parent body. Also, the apokerb was never claimed to increase; that would be an immediate 'Houston we have a problem' scenario. It was perikerb. I\'m in a similar boat, of course. That induction from instantaneous effects is obviously superior to my reasoning, and shows my model justification up for the halfbaked nonsense that it is. I went halfway to calculus when I should have gone all the way. If perikerb increases, it\'s a bug. I still intend to help test the response to capsule orientation, but I haven\'t had time to fly for a week. I\'ve stolen a bit of time to try some things with Cheat Engine which may allow better accelerated testing. We\'ll see.

Again I don\'t necessarily disagree, but this is begging the question. The whole point is that a pass through the atmosphere cannot reasonably be treated as a 'brief' impulse, and that this may mean it cannot reasonably be treated as acting purely along the secant/mean/whatever orbital velocity vector.