What would cause this Kraken bug?

[Targa]

Trying to set up a mining operation on the Mun. Landed a couple of unmanned ships. When I went to re-visit them, this is what happened:

You'll notice everything is fine at first, then the solar panels start to oscillate for some reason...

[smjjames]

It sort of resembles the kraken that you can get with MKS kontainers.

What are you using for the central support beam? I can't really tell.

[ColKlonk]

I'll stand corrected but it seems that KSP/Unity real number calculations use maximum significant digits instead of reducing the number of digits.

There's a way of doing calculations, that prevent 'run-away' numbers.. which is probably what you're seeing.

[Raptor9]

This has been happening on one of my designs too. I have Gigantor XL solar panels surface-attached to the longest I-beams (M-beam 200 I-beam) stacked in a series. Without SAS or anything turned on, the I-beams will start to build up a rotational wobble, like they're twisting back and forth like a washing machine. This causes the solar panels to wobble on them, and as the shimmy builds it will eventually cause the solar panels to break off violently.

I have the solar panel arms mounted with OKTO probe cores and RCS thrusters on the small docking ports so I can undock and reposition the solar arrays directly into the sun. When I undock the solar "arms", the shimmy will go away if I momentarily tap time warp. As soon as I reattach, the shimmy will begin to build eventually.

[MalevolentNinja]

Trying to set up a mining operation on the Mun. Landed a couple of unmanned ships. When I went to re-visit them, this is what happened:

You'll notice everything is fine at first, then the solar panels start to oscillate for some reason...

Are any parts clipped into other parts?

Edit: And I would also verify the ship does not span two Mun surface tiles.

Edited November 6, 2015 by MalevolentNinja