101+ Impossible/stupid requests

[Whirligig Girl]

671: Launch Music.

[Kinglet]

672: Turns fuel tanks into real tanks.

[TheCardinal]

Minable planetoids which can (eventually) be changed into giant generationships.

[Spartan125]

673: Have planets and moons affected by gravity of others and are damaged on collision with anything (only really noticeable when hitting another planet or moon).

[Seret]

674: Make the game free to download, but fuelling your ship requires micropayments.

[minimuffin]

675. Make the game integrated with The Sims, so you can play The Sims with kerbals, use rocket ship environments, and make custom kerbals! (Two in one!)

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

677: I wantcongress su we cun hve buget coots

[Commissioner Tadpole]

678 - Sell KSP to EA.

(I've always been wondering what horrible things would happen to KSP if it was taken over by EA)

[ArmchairGravy]

678 - Sell KSP to EA.

(I've always been wondering what horrible things would happen to KSP if it was taken over by EA)

*screams then hides under bed sobbing*

[AntonioAJC]

679. Remove many core functions and make my rocket to have to point at the Mun in order to get there.

680. Weapons of mass destructionz pls.

681. Add a zombie apocalypse mode into the game.

682. Add genocidal aliens into the game. Their sole goal is to exterminate all of the Kerbal species.

[tygoo7]

683. Put a Starbucks on every planet.

[Richy teh space man]

684 After the government is added, allow for bribing and lobbying politicians to get more funding for your space program

685 Allow you to honey trap those that can't be bought

[Dragon33688]

686. Put a VAB in LKO so we don't have to waste fuel trying to get to orbit.

[Justin Kerbice]

687. add the ability to make a great chain of Kerbals to go to Mun or farther without any rocket at all

688. add the force, the dark star, Kerb Vador & Luke Kerbwalker and Karb Karb Bins

[Skyler4856]

689. Parachutes don't work on the Moon. Please fix this.

[Captain Sierra]

690. Jet engines don't work on Eve. Please fix THIS.

[tygoo7]

691. Why does my ship start on fire when I try landing on Kerbin! That is so unrealistic my ship should not randomly start on fire like that! FIX THIS!!!

[Wesmark]

692. Why doesn't Jeb clean his teeth with a dog shaped aerospike?! Totally unrealistic.

[likke_A_boss]

Edit: the OP, had the same idea as me, carry on.

Edited February 1, 2014 by likke_A_boss

[Richy teh space man]

693 Electrical generators that use hamsters on a wheel to generate power.

[Arctodus]

21. Why can't we build a ring around the whole planet?

.....possibly a daft question but actually....why can't we?

[Padishar]

.....possibly a daft question but actually....why can't we?

Well, there are a few things that would make it difficult. The length of a 70km Kerbin orbit is over 4200 km (the radius includes the 600kn radius of Kerbin) so that would involve a very long ship indeed. You would have to construct it in orbit by docking lots of ships together (and I do mean lots). If you made each "ship" out of some girders 100m long with a docking port on each end (and that may be too big for the VAB) then you would need 42000 of them to circle the planet. However, once this was constructed, the centre of gravity of the ship would be very near the centre of gravity of the planet and this would probably upset the gravitational calculations (gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance). The large gravitational force might serve to steady the object in orbit but I suspect that the engine would have a fit and the whole thing would just collapse and come raining down on the planet below...

Also, it would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to keep the partially constructed ring in a stable orbit while each new section is sent up.

Another problem would be the part count of the "ship". If each part is somehow only 10 parts (for a 100m long ship that is strong and stable enough to actually launch to orbit it would probably need 100+) then the total for the whole ring would be 420000 (or over 4 million if 100 parts per ship).

It might be interesting to knock something up in hyperedit, maybe make it out of just six pieces that are 1000 km long each and stick them in a high enough orbit that they could be joined to form a hexagonal ring. I've not played around much with hyperedit (or manual editing of the save file) so I don't know what is possible but doubt that KSP would cope with 400k parts in a ship.

For a hyperedit test, maybe we could make a special mod part that is a very long girder (10, 100 or even 1000km long). Then I'm thinking a round tank of some kind with a long girder attached radially. Then have a docking port on the end of the girder and one on the tank (at the correct angle to the girder) to attach the next section to (and a couple of other docking ports so other things can dock). I think I'll knock up a small scale example to show the principle.

In theory, if this were made big enough to circle a planet and you flew it directly at a planet (round it) then it would be able to achieve an oscillating "orbit" just going back and forth...

Pad.

[Pecan]

1. Nothing over 2.5km is modelled.

2. 'Ringworld's - and similarly any ring-orbiter is inherently unstable. http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/41254/why-is-larry-nivens-ringworld-unstable

[N8.8]

71) Can I single stage to Eeloo?

Someone already has:

Stochasty's attempt: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/11214-The-K-Prize-100-reusable-spaceplane-to-orbit-and-back/page78?p=585643&viewfull=1#post585643

The Challenge Thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/61042-SSTO-to-Eeloo-Can-it-be-done

[Sigma117]

678 - Sell KSP to EA.

(I've always been wondering what horrible things would happen to KSP if it was taken over by EA)

674: Make the game free to download, but fuelling your ship requires micropayments.

That would happen, along with real time building.

Kerbals meet the human race.