How tall would a kerbal be in real-life?

[Piv]

I've been wondering this for quite some time now and I'm just wondering how tall a kerbal be in real-life both with the suit on and without the suit on. This could get interesting.

[Whackjob]

The answer is forty-two inches.

[Whirligig Girl]

2 ft or so.

[Whackjob]

2 ft or so.

The answer is ALWAYS 42!

[NotParadox]

They're certainly less than 1 metre tall. Maybe 42cm tall. Probably a bit more.

[NovaSilisko]

They are 1 meter tall. Not sure if that includes helmet though!

[AustralianFries]

They are 1 meter tall. Not sure if that includes helmet though!

Ah, thanks for the clarification Nova.

[babbo]

Wait a second - "real life"? What are you trying to imply here? You mean... Oh God...

[RocketTurtle]

Wait a second - "real life"? What are you trying to imply here? You mean... Oh God...

I have a pet Kerbal, he's 1 meter, pretty awesome, always helps me make model rockets, I got mine at buyakerbal.com

(That's not a real website)

[Geschosskopf]

Here's a way to determine the answer....

Go to the VAB. Select a probe core of known diameter, and hit W to tip it up on edge, and lower it to ground level. Then wait for one of the Kerbal rocketsmiths* to wander by. Move the part so the Kerbal walks right through it and eyeball where the top of his head come out relative to the part's diameter. I've done this but I'm not into spoilers so I leave this as an extra-credit exercise for the interested student .

* Kerbals don't have scientists and engineers, they have alchemists and smiths, respectively.

[Autochton]

(That's not a real website)

That sound you just heard was the sound of a thousand hearts breaking, a thousand dashed dreams...

[Agent30632]

Compare a kerbal with Jool/Compare kerbal with Kerbin, then Kerbin with Jool

Done

I think the size of an ant at most

[dazhat]

I have a pet Kerbal, he's 1 meter, pretty awesome, always helps me make model rockets, I got mine at buyakerbal.com

(That's not a real website)

It should be......

[Voyager55]

I read on the Ksp Wiki that Kerbals are .7 meters tall.

So converting that,Kerbals are about 2"3 to 2"6 feet tall on average.

Edited July 6, 2013 by Voyager55

[astropapi1]

That sound you just heard was the sound of a thousand hearts breaking, a thousand dashed dreams...

You can grow your own kerbals if you know how: Create KNO3 + Sugar balls and plant them on your garden, water them constantly and add a LOX/LH2 mix as fertilizer. In a couple of weeks you should have a trio of fully grown up Kerbals.

*Sigh... I wish it was true.

[bsalis]

I read on the Ksp Wiki that Kerbals are .7 meters tall.

That sounds right. They are 1m tall with suite.

In fact the whole game was re-scaled around 1m tall Kerbals in .16. Since when EVA was being done, they found out that the physics didn't handle objects so well if they are under a meter. "Insect physics" i think Harv called it. So everything was made larger, such that the 1m parts are actually wider than 1m.

[Rocketscience101]

I was thinking around 3 feet, being that they are just below 1 meter tall, or lying down, are almost as long as the diameter of the 1m parts.