January 10th will involve Kerbals, apparently

[Streetwind]

A little nugget of interest, perhaps, for those who don't follow it yet...

There's this small but impressive little weekly newscast named TMRO (formerly spacevidcast). They stream live on most Saturdays, and generally get just a few thousand views per recorded episode put on Youtube. But they've still managed to consistently snag very impressive interviews with people in the Newspace movement. Just to name a small subset of examples: Mads Wilson from Copenhagen Suborbital came all the way to California to be in the studio (for a few thousand views on youtube...!); they've had Dave Masten talk very candidly about his passions and projects both in the show and in a completely unscripted after-show session; they've had firsthand eyewitnesses report from Mojave after the SpaceShipTwo crash; they at one point (years ago) even had Elon Musk on the show; and in the most recent episode had the CEO of Mars One personally speak a little about how he thinks they can totally pull it off after all. The show covers a very wide range of spaceflight related topics, and it's well worth to go through the archives and watch (at least) some of the 2014 episodes if you're interested in that kind of thing. Which I assume you are, because you're playing Kerbal Space Program.

Which brings me to the purpose of the post: the first episode of 2015 has been teased to, and I quote, "be a little Kerbal-based, hopefully". The host was going to say more, but actually stopped himself, saying "I'm not gonna ruin too much of the surprise".

So I dunno about you guys, but I personally like Kerbal-based surprises Whatcha think it might be? One of Rowsdower's under-the-hood dealings he mumbles about in every Devnote Tuesday but somehow never is ready to reveal just yet? Might we possibly see Maxmaps or even HarvesteR join the TMRO people in the studio? Or perhaps something entirely different, like a community event? I don't know, but I do know I'll try and catch the livestream this time, even though I normally watch on youtube.

[Bill Phil]

GP-2? Nah.... Can't be.... Right?

[Whirligig Girl]

I don't see why that would lead to be GP2.

[r4pt0r]

GP-2? Nah.... Can't be.... Right?

I too would like to see how you reached this hypothesis. I'm not against it or anything, much in favor on fact, but....what?

[Bill Phil]

Well, anyone remember that Eeloo was a surprise update? Maybe it's coming late and so they wanted to put out on a day where it gets press coverage. I don't know really. Just a guess.

[r4pt0r]

Well, anyone remember that Eeloo was a surprise update? Maybe it's coming late and so they wanted to put out on a day where it gets press coverage. I don't know really. Just a guess.

Potentially. 18.2 was released December 20th 2012, and .18 and .18.1 were released on December the 1st and 3rd, respectively.

The thing though is now with career being their big spiel, adding a new planet will almost certainly mess up some saves. If you have a probe orbiting eeloo, and a lander on the way, and suddenly eeloo is not there that might upset things.

I don't think they would to that to players.

[Bill Phil]

They might leave Eeloo there and add a planet beyond Eeloo. It's make for an interesting solar system.

[Streetwind]

I doubt that this is in scope for the next update. If they do appear in the show (which is as of yet a wild guess), and they do talk about their plans (which is as of yet a wild guess), I'd say they would talk more about revamped aerodynamics and resources than a new planet.

[NeatCrown]

The thing though is now with career being their big spiel, adding a new planet will almost certainly mess up some saves. If you have a probe orbiting eeloo, and a lander on the way, and suddenly eeloo is not there that might upset things.

KSP players would be warned that (a) new bod(y/ies) would be added, so why wouldn't they speed up their mission and complete it before KSP gets updated? (Unless it's a surprise update)

They might leave Eeloo there and add a planet beyond Eeloo. It's make for an interesting solar system.

I believe that it was confirmed that Eeloo was confirmed to be the innermost moon of gas planet 2.

Edited December 20, 2014 by NeatCrown

[Bill Phil]

Yes, but that was a long time ago. They could have changed plans, or theg might make a decision about it soon. Although, if Eeloo becomes a moon, we'll need a new Pluto analog.

[Streetwind]

It's also possible that the episode could deal with KerbalEdu, which just officially released. https://twitter.com/KerbalEdu/status/545997218805985282

[Moesly_Armlis]

Thanks for posting. Always looking for something interesting about Kerbals and space.

http://www.tmro.tv

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

Yes, but that was a long time ago. They could have changed plans, or theg might make a decision about it soon. Although, if Eeloo becomes a moon, we'll need a new Pluto analog.

No, we wouldn't... KSP solar system =/= Our Solar System

[Bill Phil]

No, we wouldn't... KSP solar system =/= Our Solar System

Well, considering that's what Eeloo currently is...

Anyhow, who's to say there wouldn't be some fairly massive trans-GP2 objects?

We already have trans-jool objects.

[Streetwind]

Okay, so we were all wrong.

They've just announced that Scott Manley will be live in the studio to talk about astronomy (which is what he does for a living) and Kerbal Space Program.