"Is it practical? No, who cares."

[RandomName101]

Hey guys. I've discovered in the type of player who often times has to ask himself "Is it practical?". My answer is usually "no, but who cares". This is a thread for like minded engineers to come and talk about their dumbest and weirdest inventions from ksp. Pictures optional. Insanity mandatory

[Feradose]

Like my quad turboramjet powered rover, who cares if its not practical?

[Scotius]

I have a jet-propelled hydrofoil It can also drive on land - quite fast i might add.

[samstarman5]

Buckaroo Banzai put a rocket on a Ford F-350 pickup truck and broke speed records with that. He wasn't worried about people's opinions on "practical."

[Sharpy]

Yesterday I built a tiny SSTO that takes good 20 minutes to reach the orbit, and carries no payload - but spends good 17 out of these 20 minutes covered with flames. And I built Kerbal Fireworks to celebrate Eve landing. These involved four turbojets on engine nacelles with fins added in such a way that their flight paths would be most erratic.

[Sputnix]

... I built Kerbal Fireworks to celebrate Eve landing. These involved four turbojets on engine nacelles with fins added in such a way that their flight paths would be most erratic.

Hah! I love this idea of fireworks. What the heck inspired you to do such a thing?

[mythbusters844]

This thing:

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and possibly this thing I made a while back:

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and this ..thing...

[Sharpy]

These in particular - I experimented with jet (plain old, not turbo) boosters that would be discarded upon reaching some 300m/s, and I liked what they did after discarding, flying all around, adding to excitement "will it come back and hit the rocket?"

[selfish_meme]

I am building an SSTO that carries other SSTO's to do the Jool Grand tour challenge

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[SkyRender]

Eventually I refined it a bit more to look even more like a squid. I was on a bit of a Splatoon kick at the time.

[Xyphos]

a 12-engine nuclear tug destined for a class E asteroid, what makes it not practical is the fact that I have no idea what I'm doing.

[FancyMouse]

a 64-engine Ion tug with no drills/ISRU towing 4000t class E. really fun fighting against krakens.

[Gargamel]

Search "WhackJob"... jaw drop. That's not practical.

[annallia]

I am preparing to build an elevator to the roof of the VAB using KAS/KIS... Does that count?

Still a little stuck on the cranes though... Anything big enough to use to lift my frame to where it needs be seems to be too big for the open area on the VAB.

Thinking of doing away with the crane entirely and just going pylon/probe core/battery/winch but that just feels a little cheap to me.

[cantab]

You know, maybe I could have used a smaller lander, but this is a Tylo lander!

[Arsonik]

Yesterday I built a tiny SSTO that takes good 20 minutes to reach the orbit, and carries no payload - but spends good 17 out of these 20 minutes covered with flames. And I built Kerbal Fireworks to celebrate Eve landing. These involved four turbojets on engine nacelles with fins added in such a way that their flight paths would be most erratic.

Did someone say fireworks?

How about a hang glider flier?

Edited July 7, 2015 by Arsonik

[Geschosskopf]

Did someone say fireworks?

You grew a Kraken Tree

Edited July 7, 2015 by Geschosskopf

[Arsonik]

You grew a Kraken Tree

LOL @ Kraken Tree, I like it. Gonna have to caption the pics now

A few versions ago I was out of ideas for things to do, and took a liking to strapping as many SRBs on decouplers as I could without crashing [the game]..... I've since updated my CPU, might have to try this again

[Geschosskopf]

LOL @ Kraken Tree, I like it. Gonna have to caption the pics now

I made some fireworks once. It doesn't work anymore thanks to the different heat system in 1.0.4, but it looked cool. Sepratrons can't blow up tanks like at the end of this show anymore.

[Arsonik]

I made some fireworks once. It doesn't work anymore thanks to the different heat system in 1.0.4, but it looked cool. Sepratrons can't blow up tanks like at the end of this show anymore.

That was really cool. I'm imagining multiple setups like that and a bit of post processing on your favorite video editor to make it look like a real lengthy show, but that would be way more work then I could ever commit to. Half way through I'd have some other crazy idea. That is unfortunately my curse with Kerbal I'm definitely an engineer at heart. I will labor tirelessly over a rocket/plane for HOURS only to test fly it, have everything go perfect, grin, and delete it. Lmao I literally don't keep any copies of stuff.... I guess I play mostly just to challenge myself.

[Geschosskopf]

That was really cool. I'm imagining multiple setups like that and a bit of post processing on your favorite video editor to make it look like a real lengthy show

Thanks! There were no post-production tricks here (I'm too lazy and not good at it anyway .

I'm definitely an engineer at heart. I will labor tirelessly over a rocket/plane for HOURS only to test fly it, have everything go perfect, grin, and delete it. Lmao I literally don't keep any copies of stuff.... I guess I play mostly just to challenge myself.

I have something of the same problem.

Here's another very impractical thing. I mean, how practical is it to destroy KSC? That's kinda shooting yourself in the foot. But it was fun making the hardware to do it. This is all stock, too, apart from Chatterer.

[Xacktar]

The height of impracticability.

[Vanamonde]

Moved to ship exchange: the place for showcase threads.

[pTrevTrevs]

Missile submarine

Not practical because it can't dive, can barely move, and is nearly impossible to put in the water without Hyperedit/KerbinSide.

[RandomName101]

I didn't expect this thread to progress so quickly, I guess I should share 1 of mine. It's actually a project in currently planning. I'm gonna put a fully stocked space station (apart from kerbalnauts) in sol orbit. For no other reason than to just say I did it. I'll add pictures as soon as I've completed it.

Edited July 8, 2015 by RandomName101