101+ reasons why we are not NASA

[brooksy125]

122 We dare to bother the magic boulder...

[Rage097]

123. We launch astronauts across the solar system by exposing them to large engine exaust.

(Holy crap, I got sniped BAAAD.this was #58.)

Edited May 22, 2013 by Rage097
Woah

[Itsdavyjones]

108: We kill people in absurd ways just to amuse ourselves. Much like Mars One, actually.

We'll see about that

[Rage097]

123: we irradiate our planet with nuclear engines.

[Tataffe]

We restart our engines when we notice that our space plane doesn't make it to the runway.

[cypher_00]

124: KSC has more craters around it then the Mun

[RoboRay]

Lets start a list of 101 (+?) reasons why we are not NASA:

I'll start

1 - We build manned ICBM's

I'm sorry, but you blew it with #1. NASA did just that with the Mercury and Gemini missions, launching the capsules atop ICBMs.

[satcharna]

To some extent, the Germans actually beat even NASA to putting people in ICBMs, with their manned rocket concepts.

Anyway!

125. We manage to make functional rockets that look beautiful as well.

126. They then proceed to do a few flips and crash into the launchpad.

[The Jedi Master]

127: Our space shuttle replicas tend to flip, crash and burn.

[llamatoes]

127: Our space shuttle replicas tend to flip, crash and burn.

Didn't the Shuttles do that?

128: Ramming a kerbal upside-down into an experimental launch vehicle then subjecting them to 7.5 g is a regular experience.

[Nobody]

128: Landing gear/parachutes to let us safely get the crew onto the ground are optional.

[PDCWolf]

130. (there are 2 128) We do lithobraking with full big orange tanks and steel platforms.

[LeonG17]

131. We will soon be putting seats on SRBs

132. All the Kerbalnauts have the same last name.

[The Jedi Master]

133: If we miss we miss the encounter but get another one, we go for that.

[LeonG17]

134 . We can restart our flights moments before they explode.

135 . We have no budget restrictions.

[satcharna]

136. We don't crash valuable satellites because of a mixup between scientific units and a local, archaic system of units.

[Deadpangod3]

137. We have an astronaut that the kraken fears

[The Jedi Master]

138: We can set up bases on cold, dark planets.

[Deadpangod3]

139. We have the means to totally destroy a planet/moon/asteroid if it is on a collision course with Kerbin

POKE IT WITH A STICK!

[Orphican]

76. We "accidentally" destroy things.....

106. We "accidentally" things.

140. We on purpose destroy things!!

0.3c. WE put kerbals into Space. In vehicles we designed, built, and launched. Ourselves.

∞. We had a SPACE KRAKEN PROBLEM HERE!

299,792,458. Lol we no longer have a space kraken problem. Mostly.

[LeonG17]

140 . We are the only space program that has to worry about lag

141 . We have the Kraken

142 . We have crashed UFOs, Munar arches, Moholes and dead krakens in the system.

[paulram16]

If big space agencies like NASA planned missions the way we do, built rockets the way we do and/or did anything the way we do in this game, countless things would go wrong (unless they hired Scott Manley)

Lets start a list of 101 (+?) reasons why we are not NASA:

I'll start

1 - We build manned ICBM's

2 - We strand kerbals on other planets

3 - We crash kerbals into the sun

4 - We try to land on gas giants

Please continue... (I'd like to see some funny ones)

To be fair Nasa were prepared (apparently) to leave Armstrong on the moon without even a rescue attempt...

[Ninjadude501]

To be fair Nasa were prepared (apparently) to leave Armstrong on the moon without even a rescue attempt...

Say whaaaa?...

[RoboRay]

It's not so much that NASA was willing to leave astronauts on the moon, it's just that everyone was fully aware that no rescue would be possible. The rescuers (it would have taken two more landing missions, with one LM pilot each, specially trained to fly solo without the help of the second pilot), to get a crew off the moon, and it would take months to get them ready. The astronauts would be dead within days.

Even if two more Saturn Vs were sitting on launchpads ready to go, they would almost certainly not reach the moon and land in time.

And if they could get there in time, they were just as likely to experience the same problem that stranded the first mission.

There wasn't the remotest possibility for a rescue.

Edited May 22, 2013 by RoboRay

[Guest]

It's not so much that NASA was willing to leave astronauts on the moon, it's just that everyone was fully aware that no rescue would be possible.

Exactly. The LEM would have run out of oxygen and power long before any rescue attempt could be mounted.