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True. Zubrin's plan, not mine, I was just trying to find his logic, which just exposes more flaws :shrug:

Ah, but the waiting Dragon can do the docking while the returning lander just holds steady. But hey, I'm just spitballing just as Zubrin was

It avoids the hassle and equipment required for LOR. But hauling LH2 to the Moon and back is the difficult part, keeping it liquid. Unless they use ACES tech, or lots of insulation.

Yeah, I've never actually done a "Challenge Forum" forum challenge, but I have done several of the "official" challenges in "The Daily Kerbal" subforum, and even authored one. But I have no desire to go creating missions since I think that should be Squad's job, but certainly others would want to. But more parts are always nice. I would have rather seen a DLC based on a "Rocket Factory Tycoon" concept, getting all the parts needed to produce rockets in the pipeline, which would also incentivize recovery and reuse. And an actual kerbonaut skill tree instead of the current passive system. But that's just me.

Yup, but logic rarely has anything to do with planning these things

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Enterprise to Ceti Alpha V: KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

I kept an eye on the patch feedback and decided there was no point in upgrading yet. Never mind waiting for mods to update, it sounded like too many bugs! And it sounds like this latest patch put some lipstick on the worst bugs and created a pile more. So I'll stick with my 1.3.1 career, thanks, it seems to be working fine with some mods to fix the odd bug here and there. Or maybe I'll just keep playing Civ 6. But I gotta admit, those new parts do sound tempting.... Not that I really blame Squad for this debacle, aside from maybe rushing out 1.4.2. I'm running on the theory that T2 ordered Squad to push out MH when it did to boost their bottom line for the fiscal year, showing a return on their investment in the Kerbal IP. If Squad had been allowed to follow their recent pattern of putting out a pre-release, most of these issues probably would have been solved before the official roll-out. But it would have been too late for their overlord's liking. But I have to say, not having an in-game way to share missions is totally amateur; I thought Squad had grown past the amateur stage. But then, T2 probably didn't want to shell out for that... So yeah, Squad sold their soul to the, erm, to T2, but I guess they didn't have much choice if they wanted to continue development. In T2's quest to make a quick buck from it and not taking the long view, they fumbled the ball. I think fear maybe 1.4 and MH has made things way too complicated under the hood, and making everything play nice with everything else is much more challenging than expected So Squad, the fiscal year is all but over. Take your time with 1.4.3 and get it right this time, if you want me to buy MH. I'll be playing 1.3.1 until then. Sorry to see you go, @monstah, hopefully they will fix this mess soon so you can come back. Maybe dig out your 1.3.1 game/save in the meantime. Re the mismatched engine with 1.25 tanks: wouldn't that slightly bigger bell causing a bit of extra drag make the rocket that bit more stable?

Scotty to Kirk: "I'm giving it all she's got Cap'n!"

Yeah, I figured as much. I was once in a small plane (think it was a Cessna) with an Air Cadet instructor, and we rode the headwind rising over Quadra Island to a standstill relative to the ground. After enjoying that phenomenon, we banked away out of it. I've seen many other videos of Cubs STOLing, sandbars in rivers seem to be popular, like this one...

Hmm, can they specify the max number of flights on their booster? Soon satfleet operators will just buy a specific core (and fairing) and SpaceX will provide the launch operations service, including recovery and maintenance.

Yeah, like this....

Long Way to Tipperary

STS, aka the Space Shuttle. It had its flaws, but had more capabilities than anything else. Also, that's what was flying while I was growing up.

Well, there was this early rescue rover, back before I got more precise with my landings. I also didn't realize I needed a control point pointed in the direction I wanted to travel, so controlling it was.... challenging. But the rescue was successful, for once. This is also one of my oldest screenshots on imgur.

Calvin & Hobbes was a great comic, it was a sad day when Bill Watterson retired back in '96. Zits is a worthy successor, but I don't think I've seen any comic with Calvin's level of imagination. Baby Blues is another good one, that should resonate with many parents. It sure did with us.

"Magnetohydrodynamic" reminded me of a Clive Cussler novel (featuring his favorite protagonist Dirk Pitt) called Valhalla Rising. Magnetohydrodynamic thrusters became a favorite ocean-going ship drive in the Dirk Pitt universe. From that Wiki: Following the MHD link leads to another wiki page, which had this to say about drives: But there was no mention of any spacecraft drive...

Red Five to standing by.

Does anyone know if there’s a specific issue preventing a third flight of the Block 3 and Block 4 boosters? Or does it basically come down to refurb cost?

Sweet! Good Friday for a launch! I should be up by then, although I believe they're launching on an experienced booster, so I imagine it'll end up in the drink. I wonder if they have any fairing recovery or extreme velocity landing tests planned....

I imagine the Bond franchise probably had something to do with that. And do they really want to put an expensive satellite aboard an airplane that has a license to kill?

Fight fire with fire....