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  • HapyMetal
    15th May 2017 Member 1 Permalink
    A few more rules in KSP i've learned the hard way:

    - Always check your staging twice!!!
    A funny thing happened to me, as i accidently decoupled and ignited the SRBs at the same time. The SRBs flying off into all directions, leaving the main-rocket motionless behind on the pad.

    - If you think your craft is symmetrical - check again

    - SRBs can't be used as AAM or AGM.

    - Low gravity need a low center of mass
    I've lost a uncountable number of rovers caused by flipping over, while driving on a low gravity body.

    - No matter how small the odd are, there is always the chance of an 'in-space-crash'
    What do you think are the chances of hitting a 20X30m object, orbiting in 150000m around kerbin, during launch.? One in a million, maybe one in a billion? That's exactly what happened to me, hitting my spacestation while launching a mun-sattelite, clipping a solar panel of the station and damaging the sat seriously.

    - Don't try to land asteroids near the space center

    - Low gravity requires a soft landing
    My first mun-landing looked like a drunken kangaroo jumped around.

    Most frequent Words: Jebediah....Nooooooo!
  • docRoboRobert
    15th May 2017 Member 1 Permalink

    Never underestimate the power of time warp! Pray to your god - KRAKEN or you and your EVA suit will be horribly spaghettified and you body will turn into strange anomalies floating everywhere!

  • coryman
    15th May 2017 Member 1 Permalink

    You managed to accidentally hit another object in orbit? You really must be playing too much!
    Scott Manley, a fairly famous KSP youtuber, made a video on it, and even intentionally trying to do it, it took a while.

    As for me... It's a great game, but for some reason I haven't bothered playing lately.

  • docRoboRobert
    15th May 2017 Member 0 Permalink

    What? :,v 

    Just imagine how big is space around Kerbin, how fast your ships are moving and how big they are in comprasion to space... It seems like impossible thing... I can't believe. Just look at numbers...

  • HapyMetal
    15th May 2017 Member 2 Permalink
    @coryman (View Post)
    I've watched the video, the difference is that he tried a head on collision, my missions starting almost every time into the same direction. So the time window of the engagement is 'slightly' different, from a few miliseconds in a head on engagement to 1-2 seconds when both objects moving in almost the same direction.
    And launching satelites is my favorite way of earning money in KSP

    Couldn't happen again. because i changed the inclination of the station a little bit.

    @docRoboRobert (View Post)
    I know that the odds are very small, that's why i get shocked about it. Imagine that i also used headphones that evening, and it was almost on a maneuver node, suddenly BOOOOM. I almost jumped off my chair.
    Edited once by HapyMetal. Last: 15th May 2017
  • docRoboRobert
    15th May 2017 Member 1 Permalink

    @HapyMetal (View Post)

    Imagine this situation:

    You back to Kerbin. Your great mission to EVE is almost finished. You have the best Kerbals in your crew. You will get bilions of money after all. Tons of science in your capsule. You're going to enter the atmosphere. Only few minutes left. Nothing bad can happen. And then... BOOM! YOU'VE JUST CRASHED THOSE ONE NASTY SPACESHIP ON LOW ORBIT. This was almost impossible. One in a bilion chance... But you crashed the only vessel in the endless space! You mission is ruined... This game never stops suprizing me...

     

  • HapyMetal
    16th May 2017 Member 1 Permalink
    @docRoboRobert (View Post)
    I have a couple of unmanned... erm unkerbaled missions that are running since 3 in-game years. It's planned that they making their experiments, leaving a relay antenna behind and than return to Kerbin. ETAs: Jool-mission, 9Years, Eeloo, 15Years. I imagine loosing one of them 8-(
  • HapyMetal
    19th May 2017 Member 1 Permalink
    Why Kerbin couldn't exist:

    Earth:
    Radius: 6328km
    Mass: 5,974*10^24kg
    Gravitational acceleration: 9,81m/s²
    Volume: 4/3*3,14*6328000m³ = 1,061*10^21m³
    Density: 5,974*10^24kg/1,061*10^21m³ = 5631,15155kg/m³ = 5,631g/cm³
    So, the density of Earth is a little larger than that of Ti (4,5g/cm³)

    The gravitational acceleration of a body is depending on its mass, so Kerbin (9,81m/s²) must have the same mass than Earth.
    Lets do the calculation for Kerbin now.

    Kerbin:
    Radius: 600km
    Mass: (Same as Earth) Mass: 5,974*10^24kg
    Gravitational acceleration: (Also same as Earth) 9,81m/s²
    Volume: 4/3*3,14*600000m³ = 9,0478*10^17m³
    Density: 5,974*10^24kg/9,0478*10^17m³ = 6602710kg/m³ = 6602,71g/cm³

    So the density of Kerbin is about 345 times larger than that of U (19,16g/cm³),
    I think Kerbin Couldn't exist because it would simply form a black hole
  • docRoboRobert
    19th May 2017 Member 1 Permalink

    Yes, KSP star system can't exist in real life. Kerbin probably wouldn't form a black hole. You can calculate it by using this formula:

    R.schw = (G*M*2)/c^2 this is Schwarzschild's radius. 

     

    Also, Kerbin, Eve, Duna, Moho are smaller than moon.

    Jool has similar size to Earth, so it can't be a gas planet 

    Kerbol is also too small to be a star like in game. 

    Kerbol has similar size to Jupiter, so it can't be a star like Sun.

     

    PS. Someone made a video where he's trying to build Kerbol System using Universe Sandbox^2.

    Edited once by docRoboRobert. Last: 19th May 2017
  • HapyMetal
    20th May 2017 Member 1 Permalink
    Hey, that was a joke. Even the calculation isn't 100% correct, it didn't include the surface distances to the gravitational centers, or the gradual curvature of the space, near masses.
    It was just a moment where i thought: Hey, the thing must be incredible dense.
    A cube of 'Kerbin matter' with a edge length of 1cm has a weight of 6,5kg (0.39in - 14,33lb)
    My coffee-mug filled with it would have a weight of 2275kg (5015lb), that's twice the weight of my car.
    Edited once by HapyMetal. Last: 20th May 2017