In Honor Of The Late Whackjob....

[Tidus Klein]

In honor of MR, whack I give him my omega Launcher....The most whackjobian creation i am willing to build ( Any bigger Im positive my computer will slap me in the face, call jeb, run away, and then an SRB lands on my house piloted by you know who.

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[brdavis]

It's his enthusiasm mostly that catches people. He doesn't give up on his insane constructs until he's absolutely certain there's no way to get it to do what he wants it to do.

To put it another way, Don Quixote is clinically insane and delusional, and yet still an inspiration. I'm never going to even think of trying to build the things Whackjob has… but I still get a kick out of seeing them (even when my personal style is exactly the opposite - what's the smallest[i/] mission to Duna I can manage, etc.)

[Levelord]

I believe his PC finally imploded from his "small" craft designs

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

How I imagine Whack's Day Night-Cycle.

Getting up early:

Launching the Rocket he build last Night.

After an one-hour breakfeast:

Doing a Gravity-Turn

After 8 hours of Work:

Jettison the external Boosters and doing a Circularization Burn

After everything fell apart:

Redesigning until late Night.

[Togusa]

NASAFanboy wrote:

I want to cover Moho in solar panels.

Kinda like the Shimizu Corporation's "Luna Ring" project?

http://www.shimz.co.jp/english/theme/dream/lunaring.html

Edited March 20, 2014 by Togusa
Forgot attribution and quote. Sorry.

[SuperBigD60]

NASAFanboy wrote:

Kinda like the Shimizu Corporation's "Luna Ring" project?

http://www.shimz.co.jp/english/theme/dream/lunaring.html

Count me in, fellas

[Whackjob]

if no one minds my asking,

what exactly happened to Whackjob?

My computer heralded the clearing of launch clamps by a ship with a little over six thousand parts with a puff of mystic blue smoke, leavened by a touch of ozone. She's dead, Jim. I can now only internet while I office. And then mostly only during breaks.

But new machine put together soon! Hopefully! And I got a processor with a higher individual core clock speed and over-clock-able. So maybe when back, more bigger parts launching happens.

In honor of MR, whack I give him my omega Launcher....The most whackjobian creation i am willing to build ( Any bigger Im positive my computer will slap me in the face, call jeb, run away, and then an SRB lands on my house piloted by you know who.

Awesome! I love that you had a rocket, launching something inside the fairing, which turns out to be another rocket! It's like the Kerbals discovered Matryoshka dolls!

Edited March 20, 2014 by Whackjob

[Redrobin]

My closest thing to anything Whackjob makes:

[Starwhip]

Awesome! I love that you had a rocket, launching something inside the fairing, which turns out to be another rocket! It's like the Kerbals discovered Matryoshka dolls!

I made a rocket, which I called the Christmas Rocket, which used KW and Procedural Fairings. It was a cylinder, and about half-fairings. Inside those fairings nested another rocket smaller but identical to the first, being half-fairings. On and on for five stages more, until a Probodyne Q-BE popped out the top.

[Whackjob]

My closest thing to anything Whackjob makes:

Nice! I've made custom boosters that look sort of like that. I like clustered engines! If you put med trusses on the outside, attach the engines there, through a mainsail in the bottom center, then rotate the trusses...

Boosting happens. With vigor.

Craziest booster I ever made had thirteen mainsails under one stack of rockomax-32s. Trussing them on and rotating them so they'd clip was easy. Keeping the stack above from shredding from insane compressive forces was not.

(I believe there were only 8 engines that test?)

[Redrobin]

That is more intense clustering than mine. Mine are 8x of LVT-30s with 4x LVT-45s in the middle.

[Tidus Klein]

WHACKY! your back!

Awesome! I love that you had a rocket, launching something inside the fairing, which turns out to be another rocket! It's like the Kerbals discovered Matryoshka dolls!

HA thanks!

ya that top part can pretty much go to any planet and come back if done correctly, she has been my jool craft for the past 5 launches, but she has taken me to duna, ike, dres, and gilly.

I use FAR and DRE so that big fat fairing between the escape rocket and the tug is an inflatable heat sheild, and thous small engines with fuel lines to them on the universal lander are the deorbit engines. Thous burn up on reentry or if the body doesn't have an atmosphere, get lost in space.

But in all honestly (and no offense by the way) Whack jobs like the village idiot, hes just fun to watch. I really don't think we should praise him as a god just because he has more patience then us, and has a thing for the absurd. That's my $00.02

Edited March 21, 2014 by Tidus Klein

[Whackjob]

Back and not back. No machine at home yet. Posting while office. Checking in, seeing how things are going.

[problemecium]

My half-assed Whackjob tribute - of course my inferior engineering skills resulted in it exploding within two seconds of launch. That and I was apparently attacked by the Roc. I presume it's a relative of the Kraken.

Edited March 21, 2014 by parameciumkid
I have verified that spoiler tags are NOT back. Sorry, I know the image is big!

[Tex_NL]

My latest creation in the category 'go nuts or go home':

(Room for 672 Kerbals !!!)

[thomasjkenney]

My latest creation in the category 'go nuts or go home':

(Room for 672 Kerbals !!!)

"So ... BEAUTIFUL! They should have sent a poet..."

[Whackjob]

My half-assed Whackjob tribute

Nothing half-arsed about it. A great build! I don't recognize some of what's on there, but I see big booms!

My latest creation in the category 'go nuts or go home':

I'm jealous! I've tried once or twice to do a can-ring like that, and I could never get them to form up right and stay rigid.

[Zuni]

My god, Tex, That's pretty impressive!

[Whackjob]

I wanna see how he launched it! Truss method?

[problemecium]

I don't recognize some of what's on there

You mean parts? It's all stock.

[Whackjob]

You mean parts? It's all stock.

I don't recognize those narrow grey cones above the engines. Or are those the tail booms under the aerodynamic parts?

[GusTurbo]

They are the aircraft tail parts. Pretty versatile.

[Whackjob]

Ah-ha. I've seen them before, used like that, and never realized they were tail booms. I figured they were some custom sort of rocket motor plus self-fairing. I know they only connect on the wide end... so I'm trying to figure out how they're being connected in like that. I do like how the narrow point is above a good distance... would make for good reinforcement with struts.

[problemecium]

There's kind of a trick to holding the tails next to the end of the fuel tanks and then flipping them over so they stick "sideways-upside-down". And I also have hardpoints next to the tips, in case those look like part of the same part.

[Tex_NL]

"So ... BEAUTIFUL! They should have sent a poet..."

I'm jealous! I've tried once or twice to do a can-ring like that, and I could never get them to form up right and stay rigid.

Whackjob jealous? Wow, I didn't expect that.

Check my signature for how I build my circular stations. (Current technique has not yet been covered in the tutorial)

My god, Tex, That's pretty impressive!

I know.

I wanna see how he launched it! Truss method?

I wasn't launched the conventional way. Launching anything like that is nearly impossible.

I 'launched' it in a single piece with Extraplanetary Launchpads.