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SRV Ron

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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.

In the old Microsoft train Simulator, which also had a 2.5k visual limit, I modeled the Fourth Rail Bridge in Scotland. Had to build it in seven sections due to poly limits for an object in that sim. As a result, you couldn't see the entire bridge, but enough of it to be convincing.

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As separate objects, it likely can be done, in theory.

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plaiddragon

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694. getting science from monoliths gives you like 9001 science, and warp drives and stuff

695. automatic ksp video generator

696. make ksp 2D

697. ability to jump on kerbals to save princesses

698. add micropachycephalosauruses (its my favorite dinosaur, how come you haven't heard of it?)

699. have kerbals randomly get bored and crash the rockets

901. screw certain numbers

902. experience levels to improve ease of control of your rocket

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Creeperchair

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So I thought we should have a thread on all the impossible/daft/stupid ideas we may have from time to time, I'm not expecting any solutions to these, it's meant in good humour.

With that in mind..

1 Why can't I land on the sun, I just explode, please fix this

2 I want a teapot floating between Kerbin and Duna

3 I want my Kerbonauts to be able to break dance depending on what music I'm playing

4 Can there be some kind of AI in game that malfunctions when approaching Jool?

5 Replicators that can make anything and only use sunlight as a power source

6 My space station of 3500 parts lags when I bring my 4000 part mothership close to dock with it, why can't it be smooth?

7 Why can't we have aliens

8 Can I build a tiki bar on Laythe? And stock it with beer and wine for my Kerbals?

9 Can my Kerbals get sunburn?

Feel free to contribute..

Perform a materials study near Jool, 4 is kind of implemented.

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Creeperchair

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694. getting science from monoliths gives you like 9001 science, and warp drives and stuff

695. automatic ksp video generator

696. make ksp 2D

697. ability to jump on kerbals to save princesses

698. add micropachycephalosauruses (its my favorite dinosaur, how come you haven't heard of it?)

699. have kerbals randomly get bored and crash the rockets

901. screw certain numbers

902. experience levels to improve ease of control of your rocket

Ksp started out 2D before it was released.

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