Quirky achievements

[king of nowhere]

I'm asking about unique personal achievements: things that you have done and that probably nobody else has done.

i'm not talking of things to boast. great achievements, low mass, low parts, most landings. there are other places for those.

i'm talking of doing something so bizarre that after doing it, you muse "you know, I must be the very first person to do this exact thing"

let's try a couple examples.

here i was driving a rover on Tal. plenty of people have the outer planets mod. thousands will have landed on tal, and many of them will have used a rover for the task. nothing worth noting here.

i did bring a rover to tal to circumnavigate it. nobody else circumnavigated tal with a rover - at least, nobody else wrote in the challenge subforum about it - but that's the kind of big achievements and this thread is not for those kind of things.

i was planting a flag, and since tal has low gravity stopping a rover is annoying, so i sent a kerbal out while the rover was still moving, to plant the flag and rejoin the rover by jetpack. but I mishandled the maneuver and ended up with the rover running over bill.

and i wondered, hey, what are the odds that someone else went all the way to this remote moon to have one of his own astronauts run down by a car? it must be a world first!

I sent a rover to circumnavigate tylo. many other people have done it. i made a detour to reach the cave complex, and while there I climbed it, pushed the rover to the top. not very original. a lot of people must have landed near the cave complex, and surely somebody else already tested their rover mountaineering capacity by climbing to the top. but it just turns out that my rover has a cupola installed on a rotating servo on top - because i figured activating it and looking all around could help break the monotony of the long trip.

well, what are the chances that someone did this already?

surely others brought a rover on top of the cave complex. most likely someone else thought of putting a rotating cupola on top of a rover, though that's a weird enough idea. but using a rover with a rotating cupola on top to get a panoramic view from the top of tylo's cave is probably something unique.

i'm curious to see other bizzarre dealings

[DennisB]

On my actual mission I designed my communication network in a way, that allows for some of my vessels to establish contact to it, but prevents the surface deployed experiments to do the same. Normally, this doesn't make any sense, but the challenge rules made it necessary.