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Sticklyman

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  1. Personally, I am a fan of DJ Sasha's work, particularly the "Northern Exposure" series of albums he did with John Digweed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb_RW1YqK60 Also, "Koyaanisqatsi" by Philip Glass. Anybody who has seen the movie will appreciate the pairing with a game so heavily reliant on time acceleration as KSP.
  2. I also had no idea what docking mode did until I already had enough successful rendezvous...s under my belt that it seemed pointless to switch. Though I do like the sound of using it for rover control. Maybe that's why my rovers are always such unmitigated disasters.
  3. I decided to fly a bunch of Kerbals to the Mun one day. Try as I might, I could not get those little so-and-sos to sit still for a picture... classic Kerbal
  4. Cerberus is correct, the Science Jr. and the Goo Cannister need to be cleaned out. The other experiments get a boost to their transmission value (10% I think) if they are processed in the lab before transmitting.
  5. May I suggest, perhaps... Kerbits? Or Kerdits? Too weird?
  6. So what's the deal with that thing, anyway? I think I saw a different thread about building it. Is the wheel of death just for looks or do you have other plans?
  7. Decided to try to do a big landing on the Mun with a large crew. It was a bit of a disaster. I managed to work out launch issues and keep the thing from falling apart and wobbling all over the place. Then I found out that I didn't have enough fuel to return from the surface of the Mun. That and the lander's terrible instability meant a rough landing. So even if it had enough fuel to return to orbit. Somebody would have to be holding onto a ladder as the cupola had fallen off. Then I tried to line up the crew for a group photo, but then wouldn't behave and kept falling off the ship. So I guess now I've got a full compliment of crew (11 to be exact) on the surface waiting for me to build a base for them to live in.
  8. Today I finished the flight of my single person, 1.25m Duna lander. I was inspired by a thread here of somebody else working on a similar design. I wanted to combine an Apollo style lander where the descent stage engines are discarded before liftoff, plus I've only ever done cylindrical landers with a single engine and wanted to try something new. The idea was that the three outboard engines would be used to kill velocity in the final stage of the approach. On liftoff, the three pods detach and the central engine lifts the capsule back to space. In the end, I had so much fuel left in the landing engines that I used them for the beginning of the liftoff. The separation still looked cool though.
  9. I'm working on sending a 1.25m lander to Duna and back. I spent a few hours just trying to get the lander to work right, and then getting it and the command section into space. Every time I tried launching the two together, catastrophic disassembly ensued. Here's a shot of the two parts just after docking. I flubbed my first attempt at setting up a Duna encounter (wasted a few tons of fuel) so I reverted and will try again after the holiday.
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