Whackjob-sanity: Gigantic rockets and you!

[bigyihsuan]

What is the closest you've ever been to becoming a pseudo-Whackjob? (1000+ part craft to get 4 orange tanks into orbit, for example)

This think is about the largest launcher my computer can take: (300 tons to 80x100km orbit)

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[Whackjob]

I'll provide a quick baseline.

Not my largest by about half, but the highest part count included in a screenshot.

[r4pt0r]

I'll provide a quick baseline.

http://i.imgur.com/oDy3c1B.png

Not my largest by about half, but the highest part count included in a screenshot.

ha, makes me chuckle everytime

[problemecium]

That would have to be the time I tried out NovaPunch.

...Or perhaps the time I imported a ship from Space Engine:

Edited July 10, 2014 by parameciumkid

[SuperWeegee4000]

Is the OP playing KSP on a netbook?

[Xacktar]

That would have to be the time I tried out NovaPunch.

...Or perhaps the time I imported a ship from Space Engine:

*Double snip*

Good geeping kraken, man. That is crazy.

For myself, I never really built too many gigantic monstrosities, but I do have fun seeing just how much you can do by keeping thrust stabilized over your craft... even breaking the confinements of the VAB by doing so.

I have to try attaching one of these arrays to an actual ship someday.

Edited July 10, 2014 by Xacktar

[cantab]

I decided to deflect an asteroid from hitting Kerbin using bombs made from decouplers. This was my ship, the Nobel 1. It's not on the same sheer scale as Whackjob's builds, heck it's not even my bulkiest or most massive ship, but in terms of both part count and sheer audacious insanity it blows away anything else I've done.

On the launchpad by cantab314, on Flickr

941 parts on the pad, 700 or so once I got into LKO. Each of the four "bombs" has 57 stack separators mounted on 57 small fuel tanks, along with a few ancilliaries, so that's over 450 parts already, and add on a fair few for the core ship. And then I stuck the thing on my Saturn-V analogue launcher, which was not built with part count in mind, making matters even worse. It didn't quite reach slideshow level, but I was running at below 20% normal speed in the launch, up to maybe 30% normal once in space.

Then I had to ditch two of those bombs I'd spent so long getting so far when I realised I otherwise wouldn't have the delta-V to match speeds with the target asteroid. That was a wrench.

If you want to know if it worked, you'll have to see the full mission album to find out: https://www.flickr.com/photos/52548818@N05/sets/72157644216243082/

(Or I could just tell you.

It did.

)

[Pecan]

That would have to be the time I tried out NovaPunch...

That (first) picture is excellent - the shadow up the VAB really makes it.

[Whackjob]

Well, if we wanna go launch towers... hehe...

/predates part link strengthening patch

[metaphor]

This is the ship I used to get into orbit from Jool's surface.

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Still on my list of things to do is to build a bridge over the Dres canyon.

[federicoaa]

Well, if we wanna go launch towers... hehe...

http://i.imgur.com/a9zT1Fc.png

/predates part link strengthening patch

It's fun the "Lite" in the name

[Whackjob]

It's fun the "Lite" in the name

The "Senior" version was going to have seven central columns instead of one. However, the parts tree singularity ate the Light.

[Vanamonde]

This exchange of spacecraft designs has been moved to the Spacecraft Exchange.

[Camaron]

Andromeda-M is my most whackjob-like to-date.

Capable of about 100km round orbit as an SSTO, or 550km-600km round orbit if stages are dropped as intended.

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[Boomerang]

Andromeda-M is my most whackjob-like to-date.

Capable of about 100km round orbit as an SSTO, or 550km-600km round orbit if stages are dropped as intended.

http://imgur.com/a/IbAmL

If you scroll very slowly through that with the right arrow key, it's like you're watching it live!

[vitekc45c]

Well i gues i might have some big rocket somewhere.................

Yup here:

[Assault Bunny]

I really don't have anything on that scale... Biggest I have is the launcher for the Longbow:

Which ends up being just this when it gets to orbit:

[Dakitess]

Sooo basically this is all about gigantic rocket ?

Fine! Here is my contribution, the DC - Steel Hell :

You get the objective of such a big thing : put in one launch and at 1000 circular, beautiful star refuel station.

Am I in?

[kmMango]

Andromeda-M is my most whackjob-like to-date.

Capable of about 100km round orbit as an SSTO, or 550km-600km round orbit if stages are dropped as intended.

http://imgur.com/a/IbAmL

Now THAT is an SSTO!