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Daily Mirror attributes Kerbal joke pic to NASA


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  On 2/5/2016 at 4:16 PM, sal_vager said:

We have one of these so I'll keep things tidy and merge them :)

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Sadly, most news agencies have the same problem. With the onslaught of internet news and people preferring speed over accuracy, most editors simply do not have the time to exhaustively check every and all sources. Even previously reputable news sources need to do more in less time. The only solution is to reduce quality.

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  On 2/5/2016 at 7:44 PM, insert_name said:

pretty sure it uses an Apollo capsule on top, although if you shove kerbals into the lem you can get the 5 kerbals

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It looks like the Orion. But due to the size of Kerbals, you could probably fit 12 of 'em in there regardless.

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  On 2/5/2016 at 7:49 PM, worir4 said:

I see no struts on the design, surely it will explode on launch pad. Also with the budget cuts to NASA, i don't think they can revert to VAB any more.

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:rolleyes: Jeb won't mind

  On 2/5/2016 at 7:50 PM, fredinno said:

Orions can actually fit 7 humans (which was done for constellation), and Apollo could hold 6 if you squeezed them in and removed the cargo holds.

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I'm updating it to 12 then.

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At least they had the good sense to copy the image to their own servers.  A lot of people have stolen Cracked articles, and Cracked will just redirect the images to mess with the plagiarists.

  On 2/5/2016 at 6:25 PM, Frybert said:

Welp, I think there went the rest of my afternoon.

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Please give us videos of this magnificent beast.

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  On 2/5/2016 at 7:46 PM, Spaceception said:

It looks like the Orion. But due to the size of Kerbals, you could probably fit 12 of 'em in there regardless.

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Look on the part behind the capsule and you see that it looks far more like the upper stage of Apollo including the moon lander.
And rocket is scaled up from KSP scale so the 3.75 meter parts is the same size as real world SLS 
Makes me wonder if the ship is an real KSP craft or just an photoshop. 

Now, this is kerbal. 
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Single launch to Jool "surface" and back in 0.9.
 

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  On 2/6/2016 at 3:57 AM, tater said:

The moral of the story is not that the DM is a bad news source. The moral is that reporters are a bad news source.

Read any technical story that you know something about... and you'll find errors.

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Not only technical ones, if you read foreign news from your country it can be pretty entertaining. 
Experts helps, remember news about computers back before they got dedicated tech reporters and it was pure entertainment. 
Finally does any reporters at all know that m2 bradley is not an tank :)

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  On 2/6/2016 at 3:57 AM, tater said:

The moral of the story is not that the DM is a bad news source. The moral is that reporters are a bad news source.

Read any technical story that you know something about... and you'll find errors.

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No, I've seen worse. WAY worse. 

*looks at Gawker Media's sites*

*Shivers from horror*

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  On 2/6/2016 at 3:50 AM, magnemoe said:

Makes me wonder if the ship is an real KSP craft or just an photoshop. 

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Isn't it pretty clearly a photoshop composite of the smaller craft to the left from the original image?

  On 2/6/2016 at 4:35 AM, magnemoe said:

Finally does any reporters at all know that m2 bradley is not an tank :)

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It sounds like you're referencing a common gripe. What is it? I see a heavily armored vehicle with treads. Is there some technicality around the definition of "tank" that disqualifies this vehicle?

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