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  1. Quote of the day:

    "It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

    Carl Edward Sagan
    (Nov 09, 1934 - Dec 20, 1996)
    Quote from his work, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

    Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect. (Wikipedia Commons)

    1. monstah

      monstah

      I pretty much hear his voice in my head as I read this :) 

    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      So did I when I was trying to select a quote for today. It is hard to believe he's been dead that long - twenty years!

      I always thought he would make a great visionary to have as the head of NASA.

  2. Quote of the day:

    “It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”

    Alan Shepard
    (Nov 18, 1923 - Jul 21, 1998)
    Astronaut, test pilot, and naval aviator


    Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett "Al" Shepard Jr. was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and businessman, who in May 1961 made the first manned Mercury flight. Shepard's craft entered space, but did not achieve orbit. He became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space, and the first person to manually control the orientation of his spacecraft. (Wikipedia Commons)

  3. Quote of the day:

    Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

    Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
    ( May 30, 1908 - Apr 02, 1995)

    Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics. He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. He was originally trained as an electrical power engineer and later moved to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics and electrical engineering. He made many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the behavior of aurorae, the Van Allen radiation belts, the effect of magnetic storms on the Earth's magnetic field, the terrestrial magnetosphere, and the dynamics of plasmas in the Milky Way galaxy. (Wikipedia Commons)

    1. monstah

      monstah

      This one is sad :( 

    2. adsii1970
  4. Quote of the day:

    Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

    Valentina Tereshkova
    ( Mar 06, 1937  -           )
    Soviet (Russian) cosmonaut and politician.

    She is the first woman to have flown in space and was whom Valentina from the Kerbal Space Program was named after.

  5. Quote of the day:

    "If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades."

    Freeman Dyson
    ( Dec 15, 1923 -          )
    In an interview with Raw Science, 26 November 2014.

    Freeman John Dyson is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering.

  6. Quote of the day:

     "Well, nobody remembers the second and that was why I said what I said. It was based on a bet I had with somebody who felt that Neil's words had been propaganda and not written by him. And I tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. And so it was in August of '69 before the fight when I made this bet: that I would say something that they would know that the United States government wasn't Big Brother telling us what to say. So I said, "It may have been small for Neil but it was a big one for a little fella like me" and it came out close to that. And I was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. And the only bad thing was the person that I made the bet with didn't pay off."

    Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr.
    (Jun 02, 1930 - Jul 08, 1999)
    Quote taken from an interview on PBS in 1971

    He was Commander of  Apollo 12 and the shortest Apollo astronaut, and the third man to walk on the Moon, 19 November 1969

     

  7. Quote of the day:

    For when I look at the Moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end.

    David R. Scott
    (June 6, 1932 to ----)
    As quoted in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 144, No 3, September 1973.

    He is an American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut. He belonged to the third group of NASA astronauts, selected in October 1963, and served as the Commander of Apollo 15. As an astronaut, Scott became the seventh person to walk on the Moon.

    1. Atlas2342

      Atlas2342

      Awesome quote! :D

    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      Thanks! I have several sources I use. I decided a few weeks back that I wanted to make a difference on the forum. I'm a little tired of seeing the increased sniping, complaining, and general downgrading some of the forum members do. So... why not counter it with some inspirational (and sometimes funny) space and science related quotes?

    3. Atlas2342

      Atlas2342

      Agreed. There are enough negativites in the world...

  8. Quote of the day:

    I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black… the feelings which filled me I can express with one word—joy.

    Yuri A. Gagarin
    (Mar 09, 1934 - Mar 27, 1968)
    As quoted in Life magazine, 21 April 1961

     

    Yuri A. Gagarin  was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.

    1. monstah

      monstah

      Soviets were very Kerbal-minded: Don't bother with sub-orbital tests, just let the guy orbit already :D

  9. Quote of the day:

    It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

    Wernher von Braun
    ( Mar 23, 1912 - Jun 16, 1977 )
    As quoted from 'The Jupiter People,' Time magazine, 10 February 1958.

  10. Quote of the day:

    It all looked so easy when you did it on paper—where valves never froze, gyros never drifted, and rocket motors did not blow up in your face.

    Milton W. Rosen
    (July 25, 1915 – December 30, 2014)
    Quote from congressional testimony in 1956

     

    According to Wikipedia, he was a Navy engineer and project manager in the US space program between the end of World War II and the early days of the Apollo Program. He led development of the Viking and Vanguard rockets, and was influential in the critical decisions early in NASA's history that led to the definition of the Saturn rockets, which were central to the eventual success of the American Moon landing program. He died of prostate cancer in 2014.

  11. Quote of the day:

    Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role—that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

    Arthur C. Clarke
    (Dec 16, 1917 - Mar 19, 2008)
    in The Exploration of Space, 1951

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    2. Dman979

      Dman979

      I'm really liking these quotes recently, even if they're not comic.

    3. ISE

      ISE

      as long as we aren't met by our own dying sun, than I'm all for it! :) but i would rather be discovering, instead of the discovered. 

    4. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      @ISE: Essentially that is what Clarke is saying and it justifies the expense of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) programs. If we know they are out there then we do not need to be surprised when they show up in our galactic neighborhood. We can still be the discoverer without ever leaving the surface of the Earth.

      In reality, for us to discover them through space exploration and manned (or even unmanned) space flight will be at least three to five hundred years in the future. Right now, the technology, specifically propulsion, is not anywhere it needs to be. Faster than light (FTL) travel will eventually be possible, I believe - but we can't even get any kind of propulsion to the Near Speed of Light (NSL) neighborhood. I believe that once we do get it, then our first step must be NSL unmanned probes - until we can get the anti-radiation shielding developed for interstellar travel.

      If you want to help with SETI research, you can click this link and follow the installation instructions to install BOINC and then assign SETI as the project. Once you've done that, look me up, adsii1970 is my universal user name, and maybe we can create a KSP SETI group.

      @Dman979: Thank you. I wanted to do something different, to encourage others to reach for the stars - not only in KSP, but in real life. Who knows, one of our KSP forum members may be the ONE that actually steps their foot on the Martian surface or makes the trip to Europa!

  12. Quote of the day:

    Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All kinds of danger wait for him on the Earth… . We have said a great deal about the advantages of migration into space, but not all can be said or even imagined.

    Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
    (Sep 17, 1857 - Sep 19, 1935)
    from  The Aims of Astronautics, 1929

  13. ________________________________________________________________________

    It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and reality of tomorrow.

    Robert Goddard
    (Oct 05, 1882 - Aug 10, 1945)

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    1. Atlas2342

      Atlas2342

      It's amazing to think that the Moon is so close yet so much that we still don't know...

       

    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      Yes, you're absolutely right. So many of our "facts" are really just educated guesses. I'm always fascinated when I am reminded about how much we don't know.

    3. Dman979

      Dman979

      Neat article. But don't go reading the comics.

      DOH! I meant comments.

  14. With the new changes in KSP (1.2), is Kerbal Joint Re-enforcement really necessary? I've deleted the mod and things seem to be pretty tight. What's your opinion?

     

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    2. monstah

      monstah

      My huge modlist has been diminishing. I'll admit I never used KJR much, but now I won't even consider it

    3. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      @monstah: I deleted it this  morning. My list of mods is down to 46; the ONLY two mods I will download in the near future are OPM and Kopernikus - but those will have to wait until I upgrade to a new laptop.

      Most of the mods I have are basically parts mods...

    4. monstah

      monstah

      @adsii1970 I dislike part mods; they turn my save hostage to the parts.

      I'm currently using around 15-20 mods (used to be 60-70 around .90), and the only ones I'm waiting to come out are FAR and Strategia! I must say I'm pretty satisfied with 1.2 :) 

      (I don't have a RSS install, however. I've wanted to play one for some time, but really lazy about it...)

  15. Have no idea what happened. Cannot see any craft in the SPH nor can I save any craft there.

    Can load craft from the runway, not understanding this at all.

    1. Dman979

      Dman979

      Bug report? Bug report.

  16. I have a question for all of you out there...

    Should I wait until all the mods are available that I use in the Kerny Kerman series or work around the ones I still need?

    An inquiring mind wants to know...

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    2. Dman979

      Dman979

      IIRC, most of the thread was saying to start early. Did you get any helpful tips about what to emphasize and what to speed over?

      The Marxists were great. Loved watching their

      I'll take you one better.

      Image result for buster keaton

    3. Just Jim

      Just Jim

      I think it depends on what mods you're working around. I'm waiting on 2: OPM/Koperikus and Texture replacer. I could work around OPM, but I just made a bunch of new suits, so I have to wait on Texture replacer.

      And I'll call all of these great comedians and raise all of you a... Duckfather!!!  :sticktongue:

      uSY95GE.jpg

    4. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      Yes, it did. I just replied to the thread and am thinking about assembling it as a two course spread. I don't like the idea of popping into manned spaceflight without any sort of pretext. Many of the comments were really moving and I could sense the passion of many about space exploration.

      The only problem is the disconnect most have between space exploration and spaceflight. These go hand in hand and in my mind, you cannot have one without the other.

      Oh, and got you back...

      ddn072211adcomedyGa_981059a.jpg

      Jebediah needs a sledge-o-matic!

      Mainly Fengist's Maritime Parts mod. I could go forward right now in 1.2 but would have to recall my ships. I currently have five out right now... with two crewed with 10 Kerbals each. I do have 1.1.3 on the desktop, so I could still do it in the previous version and simply wait for the mod.

      OPM is later down the road in my narrative. I will say that 1.2 has some really nice things going on, although most of my aircraft fly pretty crappy now.

       

  17. Hey, folks -

    Hang in there with me. I am having to take a trip out of town for research purposes. I'm sorry I have not been on line as much here lately, but when you teach one online class that has 73 students and two regular classes with 45 each, the job demands can get a little rough.

    I'll be back next week... and will even share a new chapter of Kerny with you then!

    1. Dman979

      Dman979

      Research is cool!

      As a US History teacher, was Grant drunk at Shiloh? My teacher said yes, but I disagree with her. What's your view?

  18. _______________________________________________________________________

    The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

    Marcel Proust
    ( July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922)
    French novelist

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  19. ________________________________________________________________________

    It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.

    Gherman Stepanovich Titov
    (Sept 11, 1935 - Sept 20, 2000)
    Soviet cosmonaut and second man to orbit the Earth

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  20. ________________________________________________________________________

    Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

    Edwin Powell Hubble
    (Nov 20, 1889 - Sep 28, 1953)
    American astronomer

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  21. ________________________________________________________________________

    Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

    Carl Sagan
    (Nov 09, 1934 - Dec 20, 1996)
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author

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    1. monstah

      monstah

      'Morning, dude :) 

    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      'Morning. On my third cup of coffee this morning, so feeling great!

    3. monstah

      monstah

      Same here :D 

      Had a helluva week at work, arrive today to find out that a file I sent yesterday had a problem and will have to be re-generated for like, the third time, and the people who are to receive and evaluate it aren't doing business today... So, coffee and reading is on our menu for the day.

  22. It's been a delight seeing you on the forums and watching what you do. Best wishes for your future endeavors.

  23. The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

    Alvin Toffler
    Oct 04, 1928 - Jun 27, 2016
    American writer and futurist

     


    1. monstah

      monstah

      Being where I am right now, I think the next major change mankind needs as a whole is sociopolitical :( 

      ...Learning to play the ukelele? Seriously?


  24. I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

    Elon Musk
    ( Jun 28, 1971 -                )
    Canadian-American business magnate, investor engineer and inventor.


    1. Dman979

      Dman979

      You post one of the quotes every day, don't you?

    2. adsii1970

      adsii1970

      Not every day. I figure why not... :D

    3. Dman979

      Dman979

      My turn.

      We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.

      Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.

      (Jan 20, 1930 -                 )

      American engineer, astronaut, author, and second man on the moon.

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