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New patch is out! I'm just gonna do every contract that comes up don't know what all this new poo poo is on the space center screen  sure I'll go into space or whatever
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Terrible AIDS Pogrom.
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Jul 18, 2014 01:36
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 babby's first rocket.craft should be able to knock out at least three of those contracts  I underestimated how much I'd need to get out of the atmosphere, so I fell short by 15k 
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Jul 18, 2014 01:44
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 ok that wasn't too hard to knock out with staging. moving forward though I gotta be a bit more careful about design so I can maximize part recovery  unlocked some new science  there's a lot more contracts available, too!
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Jul 18, 2014 02:06
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Space games are dumb.
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Jul 18, 2014 02:18
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it's you
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Jul 18, 2014 02:18
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Almost every game takes place in space somewhere if you think about it.
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Jul 18, 2014 02:19
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once you get radial decouplers & a couple sized of engine you can start making really complex rockets and start to tackle stuff like munar or interplanetary missions. the whole system is your oyster really. this is around where I start to use mechjeb though so you're in for some disappointment if that's not your bag
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Jul 18, 2014 02:20
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launch a manned rocket into the sun for me
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Jul 18, 2014 02:28
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that's a lot harder than it sounds, because of physics
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Jul 18, 2014 02:33
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i'll give it a try when I can though. haven't actually tried before!
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Jul 18, 2014 02:34
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 ok we're getting into more "serious" rocketry here. nothing huge yet but this'll get to orbit reliably. the lander legs are so I can recover the engine instead of smashing it to bits on touchdown. this is about the biggest rocket you can send up with just one of the LV-T30 engines, ok you can go a little bigger but not much. if I used boosters I could probably get the top stage to minmus and back.  gets to orbit and there's even fuel left over to get home! unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to complete the LV-909 test contract during the same mission.
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Jul 18, 2014 02:47
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 this mission was successful beyond my wildest dreams
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Jul 18, 2014 03:00
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i don't think flying around lifeless rocks in a shoddy space sim is very fun people
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Jul 18, 2014 03:33
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kerbal space program does a great job at demonstrating why we shouldn't have a space program irl. space is mad boring.
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Jul 18, 2014 03:49
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 there's other space companies?? 
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Jul 18, 2014 03:53
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Silver Alicorn posted:
Well Kerbal is going to be crushed under the wake of Star Citizen, so they have to aim for realism in this game about tiny green midgets.
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Jul 18, 2014 04:06
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star citizen aint got poo poo on kerbals
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Jul 18, 2014 04:33
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Silver Alicorn posted:star citizen aint got poo poo on kerbals Star Citizen is going to revolutionize gaming. I mean look at all the money they spent on lifelike asteroids you can't get textures like that for free. oh wait that's exactly what they did, they got most of their texture for free off of google
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Jul 18, 2014 04:34
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Silver Alicorn posted:star citizen aint got poo poo on kerbals launch a rocket into the sun
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Jul 18, 2014 04:35
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well I saved that guy in a rocket built for two Omally posted:launch a rocket into the sun soon
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Jul 18, 2014 06:37
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Ok I decided I'd see how hard it was to fly into the sun @ my current tech level and it wasn't that hard with one weird tip discovered by a rocket scientist. here's the rocket: it's unwieldy but it gets into orbit alright.  so here's the deal. once in orbit we can just burn straight for the sun, which is alright, but I didn't bring enough fuel for that.  however, we can do something called a bi-elliptic transfer and use less fuel!  the reason this works is because of something called the oberth effect, where a rocket engine is more efficient when it's already moving at a high speed. when we're in orbit around kerbin, we have kerbin's orbital velocity, PLUS the orbital velocity we get from being in orbit around kerbin as well. pushing our orbit out past jool's takes less energy than transferring to a very low orbit, because we're essentially already pointed in that direction, from a physics perspective. and once we get there, we have a lot of orbital energy to work with, so it's cheaper to cancel out our orbital velocity there than it is near kerbin's orbit  so now jebediah's fate is sealed  this is closer than I've ever been to kerbol  this is too close to time accelerate!  MISSION COMPLETE
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Jul 19, 2014 02:50
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Contract Assist rebels with Ukraine take over Agent Putin Prestige Significant Objectives Take out Malaysian Flight MH17 Remove all evidence of Russian assistance Reward Advanced руб 1,000,000 Completion руб 750,000 Failure Death
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Jul 19, 2014 03:09
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i hope you collected a lot of useful data about the sun
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Jul 19, 2014 03:31
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it's really loving hot is what
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