Kerbal's with beards

[IWantSumCrusha]

now most of you wont know them, but a small group of people (3, TTlabambaTT, Mikeru94 and Cybutek (yes the modder behind kerbal engineer)) do a weekly KSP podcast, called KSPod ( www.kspod.com , www.twitch.tv/kerbalspacepod ). Now yesterday (05/05/13) the guest was the community manager Captain skunky. Now he is well known for his beard, which brought up the question, should kerbals ever have beards. This got me thinking:

doesn't Jeb look more bad-ass with a beard?

Link to full res version here

(PS. for any one who was at the stream #beardofskunky)

Edited May 6, 2013 by IWantSumCrusha

[Vostok]

Looks awesome, although I wouldn't want to be the astronaut with a cigarette in an oxygen rich space-suit, but that kerbal is just too badass to deal with combustion.

[NovaSilisko]

It'd be cool if they grew them during flight. Look at the Skylab 4 crew, they arrived clean-shaven, but look at them during the mission:

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

Very nice Now that you've mentioned beards i bet Chuck Kerman will start appearing in everyone's games, immortal and without having even been written into the code.

[IWantSumCrusha]

Very nice Now that you've mentioned beards i bet Chuck Kerman will start appearing in everyone's games, immortal and without having even been written into the code.

chuck kerman? will you even need a rocket to get anywhere?

It'd be cool if they grew them during flight. Look at the Skylab 4 crew, they arrived clean-shaven, but look at them during the mission:

Yeah thats one of things they were discussing on the podcast, i would like to see it get to the point where the little frame in the bottom right is filled with ridiculously huge beards.

Looks awesome, although I wouldn't want to be the astronaut with a cigarette in an oxygen rich space-suit, but that kerbal is just too badass to deal with combustion.

haha, didn't occur to me about the oxygen, i wonder if it would steam up. like all you could see is smoke swirling round the helmet

[Holo]

It'd be cool if they grew them during flight. Look at the Skylab 4 crew, they arrived clean-shaven, but look at them during the mission:

I'm going to imagine in my head that either NASA was performing a very scientific study on the growth of beards in microgravity environments or the skylab crew justified their not-shaving as "I'm the king of space, [EXPLETIVE REDACTED] you".

[NovaSilisko]

Well, shaving is dangerous in space. All those hairs will just drift around and be inhaled and stab your throat and lungs, not fun. They developed proper techniques for it later, during shuttle missions I think.

[IWantSumCrusha]

Well, shaving is dangerous in space. All those hairs will just drift around and be inhaled and stab your throat and lungs, not fun. They developed proper techniques for it later, during shuttle missions I think.

some really simple things are made very difficult. For example writing with a pen, because normal pens like Biro's use gravity to work they don't, NASA spent millions to make a pen that did but failed. meanwhile in Russia they used a pencil

[NovaSilisko]

I think that's an urban legend. Besides, a pencil is dangerous as well. Tiny scrapings of graphite and wood will drift up and, as with hair, be inhaled and do all kind of bad things. And don't even -think- about trying to erase something.

[nyrath]

I think that's an urban legend. Besides, a pencil is dangerous as well. Tiny scrapings of graphite and wood will drift up and, as with hair, be inhaled and do all kind of bad things. And don't even -think- about trying to erase something.

Yes indeed, that is an urban legend

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Among the bad things that graphite does is get into the wiring and cause short circuits. Conducts electricity, y'know.

[IWantSumCrusha]

Yes indeed, that is an urban legend

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Among the bad things that graphite does is get into the wiring and cause short circuits. Conducts electricity, y'know.

Really? Aw that was one of my favourite stories, i guess i never really thiught it was 100% true...

[Holo]

Really? Aw that was one of my favourite stories, i guess i never really thiught it was 100% true...

NASA spent millions working on a maneuvering system for their command pod. The Russians just covered it in heatshield.

[Wait- Was That Important?]

I can think of a few missions I've done that'd likely end with the in-vehicle crew camera just showing a wall of hair. 15 years of accumulated hair growth does not a fun mission make.

[MmPMSFmM]

After a certain length of hair, hair refuses to grow any longer, as long as you say it might become, will be more hair than physically possible.

[IWantSumCrusha]

After a certain length of hair, hair refuses to grow any longer, as long as you say it might become, will be more hair than physically possible.

woah there! since when were KSP physics realistic? may i remind you of the FTL egg? im sure kerbals however they work can have beards as long as they like!

[Accelerando]

woah there! since when were KSP physics realistic?

May I remind you of nearly every rocket that anyone has ever constructed in this game? I'm not talking about the extreme outliers and the crazy cubes to orbit, I'm talking about the rockets almost everyone has built a billion times over.

Having a limit to beards would be fun and good for me because I'm certain I would cease to find the whole "indefinite beard" thing more than ho-hum at best and gratingly annoying at worst once life support comes in and I, say, have to convince my Kerbals to shave.

[Elven_sword]

I'd love to be able to warp up to 100,000x and watch the beards go WHUMPF.