Theories on Mystery Goo?

[Hummingbird Aerospace]

3 hours ago, RealKerbal3x said:

The goo container looks very similar to the monoprop tank but is much smaller. Interesting..

Well... now that you ring that up, I was relying on the size to be the same as each other. Okie, so just half my math...

0.2 kilograms per unit. For comparison, a single unit of monopropellant is 4 kilograms, liquid fuel is 5kg per unit, oxidizer is also 5kg per unit, ore is 10kg per unit, and xenon gas is 0.1kg per unit, and to clarify, the goo is a solid or liquid, xenon gas is GAS. So it is always going to be lighter than anything

BTW Thank you @The Aziz for that conversion. I was just too lazy so I kept it in tons.

Edited June 23, 2018 by Hummingbird Aerospace

[Klapaucius]

As someone who grew up in the 1980s, I always figured it was simply a form of Slime, one of the better toys of my youth.  I reckon the Kerbal scientists have a secret contract with Mattel (who is secretly still producing it and shipping it across the galaxy), buy vats of the stuff and stick it on rockets so the astronauts feel like they have something to do. It distracts them.

https://www.completeset.com/slime-a-history-of-mattels-grossest-toy-plus-tips-on-how-to-make-slime/

Slime combined with He-Man: doesn't get more 80s than that:

 

Edited June 23, 2018 by Klapaucius

[avengerki]

Ahhh, the slime covered he-man toys. I thought of slime also but I stick to my sentient green jello theory, that may or may not be radiated kraken larvae that "volunteered" to sneak into the kerbal space science program in order for them to become an even greater formidable force on which they plan to eventually unleash upon kerbal kind.

[Fraston]

1 hour ago, avengerki said:

stick

Haha

[IAmSeamonkey]

i always thought it just someones lunch of bananas and avacodos gone rotten and stuffed in a container

[The Flying Kerbal]

You guys don't know this?  I'm a bit surprised to be honest, it isn't exactly a secret.

"Mystery Goo" is really the stuff they put in the bio-neural gel packs used by the federation in starships starting with USS Voyager.  How it got to Kerbin isn't entirely clear, the standard explanation that it "fell of the back of a lorry" doesn't really cut it somehow... 

[Aeroboi]

On 6/23/2018 at 6:37 AM, Hummingbird Aerospace said:

I compared the goo containment unit to the stratus-v cylindrified monopropellant tank and did the math...

... it turns out that, according to my math, a unit of Mystery Goo would weigh only 0.0004 tons. That is some lightweight stuff, man.

Maybe that tells us something that can partially explain the mystery.

Given the dimensions of the Goo container it would be acceptable to assume that the casing of this device itself was made out of carbon fiber. For reference, the light road bike frames are around 500 grams. I think a goo container made out of carbon wouldn't weight much less or more. 
Whatever the goo container is supposed to be holding it probably can never add up so I say that the mystery goo itself is weightless which is what makes it mysterious.

Edited June 28, 2018 by Aeroboi

[Lisias]

On 6/19/2018 at 5:17 AM, ARS said:

Here's something interesting:

1. Set game's resolution to maximum

2. Go to VAB/ SPH and attach a mystery goo container to something, then open it

3. If you zoom really hard on the tiny holes, you can see "faces"

Theories?

They were hired by Squad when people stopped playing "World of Goo".