StrandedonEarth

Oh, I Know where (one of) my model rocket landed with its crew of lego'nauts: About 40 feet up in a tree, 15 feet out from the trunk. The crew capsule and 'chute is still there 18 months later. Of course, the rest of it disintegrated in the rain.

Thanks for the suggestions. A little more about Munbert's situation: He's at the South(?) Pole of the Mun. The lander is stuck on its side in a gully between two hills, nose downward. The RCS blocks are at the bottom of the lander, near the Cg, so they don't have enough torque to right the lander. Besides which, the lander is out of mono (apparently the RCS and SAS were left on while it was sliding downhill). Retracting the solar panels lets the nose sink down, while retracting the gear brings it up. I haven't played at all since posting this morning, so the next thing Munbert will try is pushing the lander around to face uphill, as the reaction wheels can't manage it (I've done it before with other ships but the gully is keeping the lander wedged in place). If I can get it facing uphill it'll be no prob getting it off the regolith; Jeb has done that sort of thing many times already. I have tried (and been able) to power it off the ground, but I haven't been able to get it upright fast enough before it hits the 'lith again. I'm sure if I quickload enough times I'll get him back into space. But that's all beside the point. I sent him there to plant flags and was not planning to bring him home anytime soon. He may wait for a science lab rover to come get him, if I ever create such a beast. But getting him to do some science hopping would be nice. As you can see, when the EVA report says "just above the Mun's Poles," he really is just above the poles

I found this guy hanging around the Astronaut center and thought he'd be perfect for planting flags on the Mun. He looks quite happy to be there, .which is good because it looks like he'll be there awhile with that landing job

I think it would be great if KSP could get a product placement on The Big Bang Theory, much like how it's shown the gang playing World of Warcraft and other games. It would be even more appropriate since the storyline is calling for Wolowitz to go back to space next season, IIRC. I can just imagine one of those final minute zingers, Sheldon or Wolowitz saying "But it worked in Kerbal Space Program!" Extra twist: Have Penny be the first to master KSP:cool:

It's Kolonel Klink!

I haven't built many rovers, mostly for rescue missions, since pinpoint landings are pretty tricky. Here's one of my first rescue rovers, crashing into the crashed lander(barely visible under the navball) Then I graduated to a Tylo Rescue Rover (test flight), which drove over 100km across Tylo (with many krakups) to rescue a stranded kerbalnaut

Contract: Sp..., er, comsat network Agent: KSF Task: Place a constellation of 10 "comsats" in LKO Reward: 50,000, +rep Contract: Capture and land the KSF "comsats" Agent: Kommunist Party Task: Bring the captured comsats to KSC 2 Reward: 500,000, -rep

Isp is the measure of how efficiently a rocket engine uses its fuel. It'll get you more dV per unit of fuel than any other engine except ion.

Nice Head, I'll have to check it out. Today I explored the Mohole: With predictable results:

^ what he said. Also, the ability to do experiments while IVA

Well, if your PC has a tv out port, there's your second screen.

But Jool has a system of moons, so the phrase "Jool system" is appropriate. When one goes to Jool it's usually to visit the moons anyways. I had quite a collection of almost empty returned tugs, labs, and heavy landers built up at my Kerbin orbit-to-surface taxi depot, waiting to be refueled and sent off again (I had simultaneous Jool, Eeloo, and Dres missions going) . But then a new update came out and... they're still there

Ever go to light a campfire and the wood is a little damp, or want to coax some embers back to life? Use a battery-powered (4D or 6C) air-mattress pump supercharge those flames. Aim it at the right spot and it'll be like aiming a jet engine into the fire.

In an act of desperation, he hit the Jeb button which activated the super-luminal drive

I certainly agree that it would be very nice to be able to configure the RCS to only work for translations, or at least make translation RCS "always-on." It never fails that you turn RCS on for translations, and then you want a rotation and it uses RCS because you haven't toggled it off yet. A lot of unnecessary toggling IMO

SpaceX and Scaled Composites were hiring and possibly still are...

Built my heaviest lifter to date, and managed to get 300+ tons to orbit, including the core stage full of fuel, twice. It was sub-assemblied onto a probe core that was jettisoned in orbit. I thought I had put other probe cores on these monster interplanetary drive units. It seems I hadn't. And even though my debris persistence setting allows 25 debris pieces, my map views show absolutely zero debris. They're gone. My manned HabLabLander assembly that went up on another flight won't be going to Moho anytime soon....

Paradox? Not a problem, I can do whatever I want.

That big long button at the bottom of your keyboard Why do clouds look like cotton candy... and what flavor is grey cotton candy anyways?

A little Comet should scrub them out

Roughly 1.38 Gigaseconds

I pretty much gave up on solar panels after forgetting to deploy them on a Jool-bound tanker. It died outside Kerbin's SOI and I sent another tanker with a small rcs-powered battery pack to catch it and jump-start it. Pretty tricky docking with a drifting, slowly tumbling tanker. In hindsight I should have sent Jeb to pop open some solar panels, it would have been easier. Now I just slap on a couple of RTG's and a big 4k battery pack and forget about power.

I agree. The other thing I thought would be useful is if adapters were hollow so you could stuff them full of batteries, RCS, avionics (probe cores) etc. Yes, I've clipped probe cores inside adapters, but then it doesn't quite sit right on the next piece due to the attachment nodes.

Ah, are we going to argue like parents of teenagers then? Parent: "No, don't use nuclear. nuclear is bad, don't do it" Teen: "Nuclear! Gotta have nuclear! Can't live without nuclear!"