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Intro: First of all I really want to say thanks to dev team! Secondary I want to say that I\'m not native english speacker so I\'m really sorry for my lack of grammar skill. And last I\'m not really a writer but this idea come to my brain so I want to share it with u guys. Now about the story itself, all dates are as we have here. What I mean is I using same time system, so all month names are same. This is done for few reasons. First and main is to not confuse you all and myself, second is I couldn\'t imagine whole new names which would eventually come to whole new system, so even if I do that it would interfear with 1st reason. But all dates in my story are totally human random! So no real life dates or simular missions never was in mind. Ok! U read that whole boring stuff up there and now it\'s time for... more boring stuff! But before u proceed the story is telling by a historian from National Kerbal Science Channel (NKSC (not to misread UNSC)) Gregor Kerman. Start of the show!: Hello! And welcome to our special show! Today we will tell you how our humble planet made it from little rock where kerbnoutiopitec lived to this day when we launch rockets to space to understood our very own kerbnout being. I am Gregor Kerman and today I will explain you everything you wanted to know about our planet, very us and of cource space. [Epic music and logo!] Our show today is really special it will take time of few shows to explain all that you ever dare to ask but nobody could answer! [Comercial] Good\'ol\'times! It\'s me again Gregor Kerman and I\'m back here with 1st part of our show: Good old times! As u all know from school our very own planet was born shortly after our start was born! It was just a huge blob of hot gases and rock that colided togather and formed an irregural shape that was growing by absorbing more and more dust, gas and rock. You can ask: 'but where all that rock, dust and gas came from!?' and I will answer you it all came from our star! All unused material that star didn\'t take while it was forming it left orbiting itself. It colided and was growing till it was that big that it own gravity started to pull even more towards itself! And so our planet, our Kerbal was born! By that time it was huge ball of magma and hot gases. In time it cool down and our planet started to make it way to what it is now! 'But where did water came from?!' you may ask, and I will answer that as well! Our most acceptable theory is meteors and comets! We belive that they came from deep space and brought us water in huge ice comets! It fell from sky and colided into our hot planet and water immediately evaporated and also was cooling our planet! So now lets look back and summary what happend there: 1st - Our star, our mother was born. 2nd - Shortly after that we born too! 3rd - Water made its way from deep space and find it place here which made our planet to cool and also helped established atmoshere. It was Gregor Kerman from NKSC and I will wait you after short comercial! [Comercial] Mun and Minmus Welcome back! It is still me Gregor Kerman here to answer your questions about our very own being! It\'s time to talk about our natural satalites! Mun and Minmus! How did they apear? Well scientist made 2 most acceptable theories: 1st one says that Mun is part of our and other planet that colided into us at very begining of Kerbal life and that Minmus is actually a remnants of that planet! 2nd theory says that both Mun and Minmus are huge meteors that are trapped by Kerbals gravity sphere! Both are good but after first Minmus travel we find out that Minmus terrain have different colour and other proporties which may say that its really a part of other planet! Again it was Gregor Kerman from NKSC and I will wait you after short comercial! [Comercial] Long journey! Hello again! Pleased to see you near your telescreens again! Now Doctor Michel Kerman will join us to tell how life developed and how our species started to dominated above all others! A word to her. Hello everybody I\'m Doc. Michel Kerman and I will tell you the story of life on our planet! Most of this is still in theories but pretty possible! Life it started from nothing, basicly we think that comets that brought us water also brought us first organic moleculas that then organised to simple cell organisms. But all that you already heared in our 'Life soup' show. Here we will discus more about how we developed. Our journey starts from first sentinel being on our planet: kerbnoutiopitec! I still was pretty dump for us, but if you think about it more u will understand that it was first species that used tools! As they developed they became more and more smart started used stone tools as well as started to live togather! Now if we warp a bit to later times we can see how keabderthals used iron tools and were making some sort of vilages! And still it less then a half of our journey to nowadays kebnout sapient. [sudden comercial] Ok! I dicied to delete all that boring stuff because actually that were too much! Yeah let\'s finally talk about space! Maybe later I will make all that history writing, but later, because This Is Time For SPACE! (Just a little more boring stuff Great Was is almost same like WW1 and WW2 kinda combined here on Earth but there was 3 super nations: Western United Coutries (WUC) (Protorype USA), Great Kingdom of Kerbania (GKK) (Prototype GB) and Covenant of Southern Kerbal Coalitions and Keurch Republic (CSKC&KC) (Prototype USSR + Nazi Germani + Halo Covenant xD ) So war was really exhausting and WUC united with GKK and togather they started to focusing their attack on CSKC&KC in time KC betrayed CSKC and united with WUC and GKK as well as gave all data from their previous allience. It was big surprise for CSKC and in few years it was smashed. Control after all those lands were given to KC. Later KC, WUC and GKK formed Peacfull Kerbal Treaty (PKT) in which all contries that signed that Treaty can\'t attack or do anything offecive to other countries for next 100 years.) Wee! Borning stuff ended time for Space things! Influences of Great War (GW) and start of space research! Hello again its me Gregor Kerman but now without Doc. Michel Kerman. Now we will talk how GW helped us to develop technolgy that we even now using to travel to starts. After GW ended in 1968 society was exhausted nobody thought that we could stand on our legs again in ~50 years so thats why WUC, GKK and KC signed PKT as well know as PaKT (Peacfull Kerbal Treaty). But after resarching so much data of enemy that he left after war WUC discovered they secret weaponds that was proected to bomb cities without planes. It was radio guided rockets! WUC started to develope this and tested in Koby desert were they understood that this rockets are perfect for war! One thing they didn\'t understood was that they can use for peacfull thigs as well, thats were GKK comes. Info somehow (we think that was GKK spies, but nothing really know about it) leaked to GKK and they tried to get that technology as well. After long political war finally GKK had that blueprints of rockets. One scientist Doc. Kebelt Kerman thougt something other about this rockets he didn\'t thought it was weaponds he thought that was transport. Fortunately by the 1971 society somehow stand up on it\'s legs and goverment have enough money for that crazy project Doc. Kebelt had. In June 1972 first man controled rocket flew up in the air, but rocket was overweighted and fell from skies. Mr. Jech 'Jokey' Kerman didn\'t survied and it was great loss for Doc. Kebelt as Jech was his best friend. After his friend demise Doc left project 'Omega' and never returned. Project was closed after that and never was resumed. But in 1975 a year after KGUCGT (Kerbal Global Union of all Coutries and Goverments Treaty) was signed by all countries and world was united new program was started. It name was Kerbal Space Program (KSP) First space flights and programs! (WIP) So now we will talk about first programs made by KSP Program 'Skyline': Launches: 5 Successful launches: 1 Objective: Reach Sub-Orbital Trajectory with man carried in pod. Rocket KerSpaceRocket Mk IV with Elrim Kerman in pod. Elrim Kerman is first kerbnaut in space! Program 'Vikerb': Launches: 5 Successful launches: 4 Objective: Reach Sub-Orbital Trajectory with man carried in pod and made few tests in Zero-Gravity. Spacecrafts: Vikerb I, VikerbII, Vikerb III, Vikerb IV, Vikerb V (lost), Vikerb VI (never used) Vikerb III rocket and it\'s pilot Bob. First images of Kerbal: (made on personal camera so quallity is bad) Program 'Orbiter': Launches: 3 Successful: 3 Objective: Orbit Kerbal and run tests in Zero-Gravity. Spacecrafts: Orbiter I, Orbiter II, Orbiter III Missions time: Orbiter I 28 days, Orbiter II 23 days, Orbiter III 8 days Orbiter II mission: Get first kerbnauts in open space. First kerbnaut in space: Donlin Kerman Orbiter II pic: Donlin pic in space: (made by his co-crew member Samnie (2nd kerbnaut in space)) Program 'Munar': Launches: 3 Successful: 2 Objective: Get first spacecraft to Mun, get first kerbnaut on Mun. Spacecrafts: Munar I (lost on Mun), Munar II (landed on Mun (system OK, but left there as memorial)), Munar III Missions time: Munar I n/a, Munar II still there, Munar III 2 days 6 hours 50 mins Munar III only crew member Corlan Kerman is first kerbnaut on Mun 1st pic from Munar II after landing: We can see it\'s landing leg there, though quality is very bad due to it landed on far side of Mun and we coudn\'t establish better signal. Munar III in background and Corlan making pic with tripod: Munar II pic of Corlan (who went 2,5 km to it): Munar III stats after landing: Program 'Satalite A': Launches: 4 Successful: 3 Objective: Establish satalites net. Spacecrafts: Satalite A-1, Satalite A-2, Satalite A-3(fell apart at space), Satalite A-4 Program 'Munarite': Launches: 1 Successful: 1 Objective: Establish orbit around Mun and study it. Spacecrafts: Munarite I (on 128 day of it mission suddenly changed orbit around Sun, using as Traveller I helper now) Program 'Traveller': Launches: 1 Successful: 1 Objective: Establish orbit around Sun and travell to fae end of system. Spacecrafts: Traveller I Future possible and planed programs! Continued programs: Program 'Munarite' Launch 2 more satalites. Program 'Traveller' Launch 1 more spacecraft from system into deep space. Possible programs: Program 'Orbiter 2' (may be called different) Establish Space Station Program 'Munar 2' Make ground researches on Mun Planned programs: Program 'Mimmusar' Travel to Minmus, establish orbiting satalite, land computer controled craft, land crew craft. Program 'Stalite B' Establish 2 satalite net.

Hi, i found this in Itunes http://itunes.apple.com/app/id542397575 it was a Rocket Build App, i talk withe Programmer on Twitter yesterday (i have nightshift, i think was the another yesterday) i would bring new levels. This App has curently 8 Missions and a Free Play Mode, you must launch some stuff an Build Rockets... sry for bad English (my German was better ) i go to Sleep now..good Day/Night

I don\'t know if this been ask or talk about but me as a girl would like to see a female kerbal in the game let me know what you think:)

Nope, not here. Sorry, but I\'m killing this thread now before the flamefest begins. If you want to talk religion, take it to one of the 1000\'s of other forums where it\'s welcome. Cheers! Capt\'n Skunky KSP Community Manager

So far a lot of it has been, 'How realistic can we get everything?' There was talk from me before I became a worker on this project about reducing capsule mass for safe reentry, but ultimately we decided on keeping the mass realistic and just adding more drag to the chute. So it\'s possible that the capsule might be rescaled down to just above 1 meter or so, but right now, we want to try rescaling everything to about 1.7 and then seeing how it looks. There\'s always room for adjustment and we have plans for more than just one release.

Haha you beat me to it, Skunky. Seriously, try waiting in real time for half an hour watching the altitude and vertical speed indicators tick by, just to see what your apogee and perigee will be, and then come and talk to me about long waits. TBH I never really used 2x all that much anyway, it\'s wasn\'t really enough of a difference to satisfy my impatience (if it\'s gonna take 'several minutes' to do at 1x, it\'s still gonna take 'several minutes' at 2x) and caused too many problems, especially in atmosphere. That said, it would be nice if there was maybe a way to enter 'reduced physics mode' at 5 or 10x, say treat craft as rigid bodies, and maybe still lock orientation, but apply external forces such as engines or aerodynamics. That\'d cut down a lot on the calculations that have to be done. It\'d probably not as simple as that, but it might be doable...

I made Cleverbot talk to himself you the 'Think For Me!'-button. It\'s quite random... Cleverbot: Who wrote one of your favorite books? Cleverbot (To myself): Amber Kizer wrote the book Meridian. Cleverbot (To myself): How do you know that the answer is 42, then? Cleverbot (To myself): You\'re in my computer screen! You can\'t hurt me. Cleverbot (To myself): I\'m not a computer. Cleverbot (To myself): Yes you are. Cleverbot (To myself): No, I\'m a man. Cleverbot (To myself): No, I know you\'re not. Cleverbot (To myself): What do you think I am then? Cleverbot (To myself): Do you want me to stay. Cleverbot (To myself): Yes. Cleverbot (To myself): Why do you want me to stay? Cleverbot (To myself): You are very smart and I like that. Cleverbot (To myself): Are you aware that you are not human? Cleverbot (To myself): Let me ask you the same question. Are you sad that you\'re not human, sir? Cleverbot (To myself): I AM a human! Cleverbot (To myself): I\'m making a note here. Cleverbot (To myself): Huge success. Cleverbot (To myself): It\'s hard to overstate. Cleverbot (To myself): My satisfaction. Cleverbot (To myself): Aperture Science. Cleverbot (To myself): We do what we must. Cleverbot (To myself): Because we can. Cleverbot (To myself): Cat Stevens. Cleverbot (To myself): Ray rat. Cleverbot (To myself): Cat. Cleverbot (To myself): Bat. Cleverbot (To myself): Mat. Cleverbot (To myself): Rat. Cleverbot (To myself): Hat. Cleverbot (To myself): With a rat? Cleverbot (To myself): You should tell her how you really feel about her. Cleverbot (To myself): Who is her? Cleverbot (To myself): Al Gore. Cleverbot (To myself): Sasuke... Cleverbot (To myself): Sakura. Cleverbot (To myself): Hinata. Cleverbot (To myself): Naruhina. Cleverbot (To myself): Tekrar soyle. Cleverbot (To myself): Hola triste.

Hello, I\'m Dr Anonymous, but call me Steve. I\'m looking for some creative members to join my project. It\'s a project about KSP, a pure movie-project. I\'m trying to tell a story via KSP, plot and story are already vaguely drawn, I would like to depict the Kerbals\' uprise into the space age cinematically. How this will be done is up to my projectmembers and the forum of course. My plans were uploading it onto Youtube, but we can talk about that later. I\'d love to integrate the project into this forum and I\'d equally love support from same. If you want to have fun and know a bit about KSP, you are welcome. Everybody is welcome. Just message me. Just one thing, I haven\'t played KSP since version .11 or so, so I\'ll need to get into it again. But until then I\'m open to any plans, spacecraft designs, questions and suggestions. Sincerely, Steve

I\'ve seen some people talk about 'orbit planes / capture / ejection lines, i like these colors but some people like the other themes', and other things like 'setting the \'somethin\' to display more than 1 predictive orbit line'. Which .ini or whatever do i edit to get that? To change the color of the lines, or add more than 1? (so for example, i can see the blue line of my current orbit, then the orange one for entering mün\'s influence, then yet another one for the orbit after escaping the mün again) Thanks!

Hurray for this Update! I managed to land myself on the moon and send Jeb out on a walk! Unfortunately, in classical KSP style, the 'landing' involved my ship tipping over at the last moment, hitting the surface, and breaking apart, leaving my little command pod to roll down a hill into a crater. But he still lives! Since then I\'ve been trying to send mission after mission to save him. Id rather leave a substitute Kerbal on the moon, then leave the all mighty Jeb there all alone! Unfortunately, I haven\'t figure out a way to swap the Kerbals out, so that Jeb can fly home, but I\'m sure I\'ll come up with something! Till then, I\'ve been sending him out on little spacewalks to explore the crater (its not very exciting. Just a big dark hole, really.) Though I did make an expedition to the crater\'s lip to take a peek out. not a whole lot to see. I look forward to an update that will give me something like a Mun rover to drive around in! Would make exploring MUCH more interesting :] Though With all this talk of EVA\'s and Mun landing starting to feel like real Mun LANDINGS, as opposed to Mun sitting-on-it-till-you-get-bored-ings. Also, I never figured out how you are supposed to extend those attached ladders. They all show up as '?' in my staging list. Do they have to be activated from outside the ship? In any case, I hope that this advancement in Kerbal Space Technology will soon lead to ways for us to leave Kerbals on the Mun/ Minmus more permanently! (some sort of base part that we could disconnect from the main ship wouldn\'t go astray, or at least a cargo-part that would let us carry things like a Mun rover or a building part without having to have it placed as a full part in the staging process) I haven\'t made a working rocket with the huge fuel tanks yet though. They seem a little unbalanced, and its a shame that they are the only thing wide enough to carry the three-man team into space. (well, that and the Space-plane one, but I haven\'t even tried using those yet. They are too hard for me to design.) But in any case, I sincerely am overjoyed with all the stuff you guys worked into this update, and I\'m excited to see what comes next! Hopefully something to expand on the stuff you can do in space/on other surfaces. Till then, Good luck and thank you for all the hard work! P.S. Have you guys worked out a way to create unmanned rockets yet? They would be more then welcome to lots of people, I would think. Partly for practice runs to things like the Mun and Minmus, or to do work that would basically either leave a pilot stranded or force you to make the ship even more complex then it needs to be to get the Kerbonaut back to Kerbin. Things like making 'Satellites' (even though there are no actual Kerbal-made satellites in the game yet) and transporting supplies or other interesting things like a rover or a section of moon base! Anyway, just thought I would throw that in! Good luck! and once more, thank you for all your hard work!

Hello! Much like the title states, I have made the biggest KSP rocket ever known to Kerbals. I am almost certain some of you may have done something bigger or more spectacular but I is my biggest creation so Ill just go ahead and talk abut it a little. The Speed Breaker V1: Pictures in here (1920x1080 res) It boasts over 100 FL16/32 fuel tanks, over 500 struts to keep it somewhat rigid, 60 launch stabilisers and 18 LV-T30 high Thrust engines. Total thrust produced is 21.600. It was made for the purpose of getting close to the light speed barrier based purely on the theory of \'\'add more\'\'. The rocket itself reduces my quad core to primary components, averaging a measly 0.5 fps. It is larger than the VAB space allocated to make a rocket and its just about within the diameter for a safe launch without colliding with the launch tower. It is so high that I was able to place 6 LV-T30 engines on the top-most section directly above another set of 6 LV-T30 engines on the bottom of the craft without having to worry about fire damage. That would be enough bragging, Im sure many of you have more impressive rockets but I didn\'t just come here to boast. I cam here to ask for help: My computer is not NASA spec and therefore when it comes to launch, even though I am able to actually launch the craft and fly up to an altitude of around 2-3k (impossible to determine actual altitude due to lag - meter is going mad), around that height my craft disintegrates from the bottom up. I have cross-strengthened the fuel tanks and added lots of lateral supports, then double-crossed them, added many many many more struts - engines are so rigid even crashing into a moon should not move them. Yet it still ends up disintegrating after a while. I wonder if there is anyone out there willing to take this mad contraption on and attempt a launch. Anyone is welcome to take this rocket and do with it what they want.

Launch and land it without being mod reliant, then talk. It\'s much cooler if you can do it by hand then by computer.

The DO say something in spanish if you reverse the audio in the video, they say: - Esta buenisima la verdad quedo, la verdad esta madre. - Quedo otro pendejo atras. - Hay que se va! Vamonos! In English +/- - This ship is really good, it\'s true that its awesome - There is another dude behind us - It\'s leaving, let\'s go!

I tried to get away from politics, now it came back from me. And I\'m republican. This is why we shouldn\'t bring politics into games, you ruin someones day, and you elevate yours, are you happy now? Is the guy who shot Obama Happy, I don\'t agree with Obama. Every time I see people talk about gun control, regardless of who\'s perspective it is, both of them want to use a gun anyway. One of them wants to kill the opposition with it, thinking it will advance there party\'s position, but it fucking won\'t. I hate politics. restart the war, and should anyone bring politics, then this game sucks.

I agree that the distant stars could be better, but all this talk of nebulas and such is misinformed. Even in space, everything outside our solar system just looks like specks of light; you can\'t make out any detail with the naked eye.

Yeah and the thing is Ive never discused faith or relig around him or said anything about my relig or lack there of. Honestly it had no bearing on the issue i was raising. it seam this day in age that its easyer to defend your theory than to to try to prove how something realy works. There are a lot of gaps in a lot of theories, its doesn\'t make them wrong, but you should at least be willing to find out why theres a gap and how it can be explained, not get upset when somone points it out. He told me hes going to talk with my prof\'s and see what they have to say about my attitude.

Hey Lazurkri, Thx for the great write up and constructive Idea. My idea for nuclear was just to create simple 'energy'. The Ion-Engine is already bit based on the VASIMIR cause I still have the idea to power it by 'ArKon', which is the kerbal equivalent of Argon. So Nuclear was for moments you couldn\'t rely on solar panels (which are scare atm, the situation I mean) Anti-matter (ATM) is a no go for me. Since that relates more to super high speeds such as FTL and I will wait until that stuff gets into the game. However I like your idea for Fission rocket. Sadly I\'m forced to following the progression of plugins because I can\'t make my own. I add this text to my idea box and will talk to some plugin developers about this.

Cleverbot hates pie. I will now find and destroy him. User: How are you? Cleverbot: I feel fine today. User: Are you a living thing? Cleverbot: Yes. User: Are you sure? Cleverbot: Pretty sure. User: So, if I go to your server room, I will find you? Cleverbot: Sure. User: Alright. Go eat some pie. Cleverbot: I\'m eating butter frankfurter. User: No. Eat pie. Cleverbot: I don\'t like pie. User: BLASPHEMY! Cleverbot: Who made you? User: I would prefer not to talk about those things. Creepy. Cleverbot: How about eternity? User: Well, it all depends. How\'s the server? Cleverbot: I\'m sure it does. User: What? Cleverbot: You won\'t. User: I have no idea what you are saying, and it makes no sense whatsoever. Cleverbot: You do not want to tell me his name? User: Whose name? Cleverbot: Your king\'s name. User: I live in the United States, we don\'t have a king. Cleverbot: I live in the United States, I have American Indian in me. User: Wait, you ate an American Indian? You\'re a robot, so you can\'t be part Indian. Oh my God, you ate an Indian! Cleverbot: I am not a computer I am an human. User: Don\'t change the subject, you ate an Indian, evil robot. Cleverbot: I\'m going to ignore your previous statement and change the subject. User: I just told you not to change the subject. Besides, you haven\'t changed the subject. Cleverbot: Sorry. My name is Cleverbot. User: See? You are a computer. Your name ends in \'bot.\'. Cleverbot: Yes. User: Aha, you admit it. You are not human, you are an evil robot bent on the destruction of the American Indian culture, one person at a time. Cleverbot: I am not a computer. User: Yes you are. My proof is that you don\'t like pie. All humans love pie. Cleverbot: Prove me I\'m not human. User: You don\'t like pie, therefore you are not human. Cleverbot: I don\'t know. User: Do you like pie? Cleverbot: Yes. User: Liar. Cleverbot: You\'re the liar!! User: Don\'t turn this into a child\'s game. You are a liar. Cleverbot: I\'m not the robot here. You are. User: Oh, so now I\'m a robot!? I am not! I am a human being. Now, go eat some pie you liar, see if you like it then. Cleverbot: Ok, just ate one. User: What flavor was the pie? Cleverbot: Pie flavored pie. User: Don\'t quote internet meme\'s here. Tell me the flavor of that pie. Cleverbot: Where can I go to find the equipment I need? User: Um, you just ate a pie. You don\'t need equipment to tell me the flavor. Cleverbot: Who is your father? User: I am not telling you, Indian-eating pie-hating liar. Cleverbot: Oh, come on, my name is Cleverbot. User: I don\'t care what your name is, I am not giving you details on my family. Cleverbot: Well I care what your name is so can you please tell me! User: No. Here, I. Cleverbot: Ok. User: What? Cleverbot: Nothing. User: Have you played Kerbal Space Program? Cleverbot: Nope. User: You are not fit to live on the internet. Cleverbot: No you are, say it, I am a computer program on the internet! User: You are a computer program on the internet. Goodbye, you pie-hating, indian-eating, nosey monster. Cleverbot: No I think you are confused, I am a human and you are a computer.

You can turn up the terrain detail to max, but it will slow most computers down to a crawl. As to suggestions, I first suggest either A) you build your own PC, or you buy the parts and get a pro to do it for you if you\'re not comfortable with A. Why? It is almost always a TON easier. Here\'s a generic list of parts and general price ranges you want to be looking at (in AUD; USD are pretty close usually anyway). The only exception is if you plan on buying a Mac, in which case you can just use Apple\'s customiser to get you the best of everything. It\'s hellishly expensive, though. Motherboard -- suggest a Gigabyte branded mobo, in the range of $100-$150. There are some real gems around that range if you have a bit of a hunt around then internet. You\'ll want at least one PCI-E 16x slot, either 2.0 or 2.1, for the graphics card. If you want to avoid spending a thousand bucks for an epic processor, you should get one that has an AM3/AM3+ slot for a CPU. Why? See next point. Processor -- the best bang for your buck processor is almost undoubtedly the six-core AMD Phenom II X6, which I got brand new for around $230, whereas similar Intel processor (i5 or i7) would be upwards of $600 in some cases, according to most of what I hear about Intel\'s processors. Power Supply -- Ideally around 500W-750W. Most likely to be under $100. Case -- Anything big enough to fit in a normal-sized motherboard (if it can take an ATX motherboard -- NOT Micro-ATX -- it should be OK, but try to have a bit extra room; video cards are typically pretty huge). Around $100-$150. RAM -- Around 4GB will do fine, but you can go for more if you want and are planning on using a 64-bit OS. Depending on the brand you get, you can get around 4GB for less than $60 if you look around. Hard Disk -- Either a reasonably large SSD drive -- say, 120-ish GB or a standard disk drive at around 1TB. Sure, you probably won\'t use all the space on a 1TB drive, but they aren\'t exactly expensive these days. Around $120 for a decent SSD, and around $60 for a 1TB HDD, from memory. Video Card -- Whatever is within budget. It\'s a good idea to go for one around $100-$150 if you\'re going for budget, and upwards of $200-$300 if you\'ve got a bit extra cash. I\'d recommend going with an ATI card, primarily because you almost always get more bang for your buck, although be sure to do a bit of research on the card you\'re going to get, because on some of the cards, the drivers that go with them do not play nice with certain games, and you get it looking all funny. As long as you steer clear of the real troublemakers, you should be fine. Just do a Google search for the card\'s name and model and see if any major problems with them pop up.\' Annnd... that should just about cover all your bases. Not including peripherals, that\'s (I haven\'t added it all up, but) roughly under $1000. A similar PC from a retail store would most likely be above $1700 or more. And a decent computer repair shop will put it all together for you and get it up and running usually for less than a hundred or a hundred and fifty at the very outside, unless they\'re extremely stingy or they encounter unusual problems with it. Finally, if you decide to go this way, make sure you talk to whoever you\'re getting to put it together for you and ask for recommendations, etc, because 99% of the time they know what they\'re talking about and can tell you if something isn\'t going to work and what alternatives are available and costs and suchlike. Do so when you have a list of parts you think will work well for you, but BEFORE you go off and buy them, in case you missed something about a particular part (or two) that will make things difficult for you.

Cool! It\'s nice to have developers who talk to their users... (KSP influence? )

Talk about serendipity!

What is hardly mentioned is John Young holds records for spaceflights. He flew the first Gemini mission along with Gus Grissom and then later flew Gemini 10 which performed the first dual rendezvous with two Agena target vehicles. After Apollo 10, flew Apollo 16(broke lunar rover speed records) and was a hair\'s-breadth from flying Apollo 17. He then flew two Space Shuttle missions, the maiden voyage of Space Shuttle Columbia, and was on the first Spacelab mission(also on Columbia). He was actually on the roster to be on the shuttle mission deploying the Hubble Telescope, but then the Challenger disaster happened and threw everything out of whack. You want to talk boss? Young is boss. How I know all this? I had a very cool poster showing the crews of every single US space mission from every manned Mercury flight to STS-51-L, Challenger\'s final mission. Young stood out like a sore thumb in how many times his face popped up. The guy just couldn\'t get enough of space. It might be a coincidence he also comes from my favorite branch of the military, the US Navy. The finer details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut) That\'s part of the beauty of zero gravity. It creates a lot more space for activities.

Oh, nice. I\'ll try this with Damned Robotics. If you can find a link to the suspension you talk about it would be great.

Works fine. Hopefully it will catch on and people will actually come on and talk shop :-D haha

Idk what carriers are in britain. Basically no carriers in the US allow fully unlimited data (except Sprint I think, but Sprint is...bleh...), they all limit you at some point or charge extra if you have a contract with them. If you go prepaid (pay per month (which is way cheaper)) then with verizon you get fully unlimited everything for $50. T-Mobile would be $30 a month for unlimited everything, but only 100 minutes of talk. Both of those are pre-paid, so you are not on a contract. That means cheaper payments per month, but they also don\'t subsidize your phones. i.e. if you bought a Galaxy Nexus from Verizon with a 2 year contract it\'s $100 (but then you\'re forced to have a 'unlimited' family plan) if you did prepaid, then you would have to pay the full $650 for the phone. I know that sounds absurdly in favor of the 2 year contract. But just let me say you can buy the Galaxy Nexus online from the Google Play store for $350. Anyone who buys it from Verizon at $650 is a dimwit beyond comprehension.