Salutations

[PUNiSH3R]

Hello, PUNiSH3R here. Long time lurker and I decided to finally make an account and start posting, mostly because I thought others might get a kick out of this:

Kinda reminds me of the concept animations of a cesium fountain clock. Would this be a sighting of one of the Kraken?

Whatever that was, it quickly ate half of Mun Base Ichi and thoroughly annihilated my carefully constructed platform crane:

If you can't tell, I'm in the throes of Mun base fever, with a Kethane addiction and ExtraplanetaryLaunchpads to boot.

So introductions-wise, I'm a staunch opponent of MechJeb, I like things that move (e.g., KAS, IR), I'm mentally planning the launch profiles and mission parameters for manned resource extraction bases on Duna and Eve and I've got a two YEAR orbital probe mission to the Jool system currently in progress (so much for launch windows...). And I've done orbital calcs for KSP on paper. More than once. Voluntarily.

Oh, and I've already burned through the entire techtree in career mode - legitimately. Finished that before 0.23: only took a [few dozen] series' of moon missions, three Minmus missions, a Duna landing and an Eve landing oh, the sleepless nights... It got so bad I started launching research landers in waves:

Great opportunity to get really good at manual landings... Landed this one darkside, on a slope:

So here's my ribbons thus far. As you can tell, I've been developing heavily within the Kerbin sphere and not much anywhere else. My intent is to use the Mun as a primary launch platform for manned, interplanetary missions:

IRL, I'm (old. Who uses IRL anymore?) a mechanical engineer that just started back at university. So, I'm a student when the engineer gig, KSP or sleeping aren't getting in the way... Good to meet you!

[Vanamonde]

That is a very weird explosion. Looks like you landed on a geyser. I haven't seen that before.

[PUNiSH3R]

It persisted for a good ten seconds or so, enough time for me to "[" over to it from my rover and snap the screenshot. And it really did look like a geyser; good description. The concentric circles around it were moving outward/upward as well.