StrandedonEarth

The lower the fins the more stable. Putting fins higher moves the Center of Pressure higher. The CoP naturally wants to stay below the Center of Mass. CoP above CoM will make the rocket want to fly bass- ackwards. Note: the editor calls CoP "Center of Lift," but they're really two different things.

Congratz! Soon all the worlds will be yours, (except Europa. Attempt no landings there...) Soon you'll be romping around the Jool system, wondering why you waited so long....

I got a Big Bang tourist! Funny how the tourists wear red shirts.... I bet Leonard has wished he could blast him into space many times

I tried to launch a rocket without enough TWR to lift off, and I couldn't shut it off since it was an SRB, so I recovered it while the engine was still lit... The smoke was still drifting around the launchpad....

As my wife found out: "1 tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila, floor!"

You know that if that was a KSP test Jeb would have snuck aboard and yelled "Yeeeeeeehaaaaawwww" during the burn. The spirit of Jeb probably cooked that SuperDraco

They should have quicksaved first...

Harv probably decided it was necessary after watching their awesome so-kerbal 1.0 trailer.

C'mon already, let's light this candle. the waiting is very bad for my blood pressure, or sanity, or something important like that

Kanada standing by. C'mon, light this candle already! Go-fever anyone?

Gah! I get a half-day at work because water got into an electrical panel during a storm last weekend, and KSP is still not out yet! What a waste of a sent-home day! And no, I had nothing to do with the malfunction. The hyped-up wait is killin me!

The Hype pressure is off the scale! The Hype boiler is leaking hype at the seams! She can't take much more of this cap'n! It's gunna blow! I gotta wait till after work tomorrow. Hopefully the servers have calmed down by then.

Man I so want one of those little guys. The hard part would be deciding which.

Everyone knows all the cities are underground. Having them on the surface is too dangerous with all those asteroids falling. 1.0 is supposed to be feature complete. Destructible buildings is the framework feature to add cities of destructible buildings in the future, with loss of reputation for buildings damaged by falling objects. If they added cities that couldn't be damaged first then people would have complained about that. Just like multiplayer... "LaterTm"

Finished my last mission before 1.0: The 9-crew-capacity Tylo Mobile Base!

A metric tonne is 1000kg (~2200lbs), which could be written as Mg. kN is 1000 newtons. A Newton is equivalent to kg(m/s2), so both kN and metric tonne are SI or SI-derived units.

My brother went to KSC a few years ago. I was soooo jealous!

From the Earth to the Moon

Why wouldn't I? Actually no, I won't update. I'll just have a fresh install from a fresh download and leave my 0.90 install to languish beside my older installs in MyCloud

Water/Ocean? Air? the sky?

It also seems ludicrous that Valve takes more than the modder gets.

The slo-trans engines on the hype train are cycling up! Why Monday? Why can't they release on a Friday so we can play all weekend? If I were to take a day off for this, it'd be Tuesday, so I can have it all downloaded, installed, and ready to launch at my normal work-wake-up time of 3:30 am Tuesday morning. But alas, I can't afford a day off. Besides, my wife would find something around the house I need to do instead

I'd say they should focus more on asteroids, unless they can justify a continued presence on the Mun, er, Moon. As much as I'd like to see a Base on the Moon, and people going beyond LEO, I'm not sure how to justify it, especially to start with. These days, I just don't know what people can do that robots can't, with remote human guidance. The project I hear is best suited for the Moon is a Far Side radio telescope, shielded from Earth's noise by the bulk of the Moon. Again, I don't see why that can't be built by robots, from lunar or 'roid mined materials. Technically challenging, yes, and requiring a Dextre-ous robot, but that's what would be required to assist and support humans in the unforgiving environments of space, the Moon, and Mars. It would make more sense to create stockpiles of materials (metals and water mined from asteroids) in orbit, whether it's around the Moon, L1, or even LEO. If it's visible from Earth, it would be more inspiring to the general population. It should be easier to mine 'roids (once we anchor the machinery) because there is no appreciable gravity well to lift products out of. Once we have materials, we can use them to create Moonbases and Mars vehicles, and it would require much less upmass to support a human presence. If we can find decent quantities of platinum and rare earths to ship down, it would give high-tech devices on Earth a boost in capability and affordability. The only reason I see for people on the Moon is to perfect life-support and other technologies with an eye to establishing colonies farther out in the solar system. The purpose for colonies is so that all of humanity's eggs are not in one basket. Having people in harsh environments will drive innovation. Sorry about the rambling, I tried to minimize that