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[Sheb]

Can you drill for Kethane on an hexe you haven't surveyed?

[Girlinhat]

Can you drill for Kethane on an hexe you haven't surveyed?

Blindly, sure.

[Sheb]

And I take it you need to be around for your rig to drill...

Well, I found a neat patch of Kethane (480k) at the Mun Equator. As soon as I've got the refiner part, I'm gonna send a semi-permanent colony to survey all of the Moon's biomes.

[BigD145]

Jeb? Why did you sneak onto this mission? It's a one way mission...probably.

[da_nang]

He's Jeb. Resistance is futile.

[BigD145]

This is basically how I got all my immortals off-planet. They sneak onto a permanent installation in space.

[Girlinhat]

Anyone know of a good way or mod for 4-way probe adapters?  Basically, there's already the 3m->1m quad adapter, but I'd like a 1m->.5m quad adapter, so I can more easily put things like ion drives onto vessels...

[LoSboccacc]

Yeah, managed my first round trip to another world! Since the Mun is obviously cursed, it was done on Minmus. The sweet, sweet science let me buy the Kethane detector, and I now have one satellite orbiting Kerbin and another around the Mun. Now, I have one question: do the satellite only detect when it's the active ship?
[snip image]

another dramatic back light shot.
yep. can't see a thing in this one, like in the others.

[BigD145]

I got Jeb home on a little more than just fumes. I fail at KSP.

[WillowLuman]

Alright, tried testing on the Mun, but got distracted by trying something absolutely insane:

Trying to intake air on the Mun? Otherwise I don't see it...

Trying to use radial intakes as lithobrakes. On Kerbin they're good for at least 50 m/s impacts, in the right configuration. But I got distracted by doing an extremely low orbit.

[Girlinhat]

I got Jeb home on a little more than just fumes. I fail at KSP.

Sounds like you're doing very well.  If you return with no fuel, then you've made a perfectly balanced flight!  If you've got spare fuel, then you're pushing around more weight than you need to.

[Sensei]

I prefer to think of having extra fuel as "room for fuckups".

[TheBronzePickle]

I prefer to think of extra fuel as 'still not enough' because I usually end up spending it all making mistakes then trying to fix those mistakes and failing.

[BigD145]

I got Jeb home on a little more than just fumes. I fail at KSP.

Sounds like you're doing very well.  If you return with no fuel, then you've made a perfectly balanced flight!  If you've got spare fuel, then you're pushing around more weight than you need to.

Jeb was not supposed to come home at all. My lander was a 5 engine deal, with one central and 4 side. The side ones, with small tanks and landing legs, were on radial decouplers so I could shift fuel to the central column and leave the dead weight behind. I wasn't sure I had fuel for Jeb but I did.

[Greiger]

Was making a second attempt at a Duna or Bust mission.   It ended up with bust when I figured it would be a really bright idea to manually decouple spent fuel tanks while the engines were on.  Naturally the ship went unto a tumble when the center of mass suddenly shifted, smacking the main engines into the spent fuel tank blowing them both up and scattering debris like confetti half way through the kerbin escape burn.

Fortunately the lander was unharmed, so I just decoupled that from the smouldering remains of the transfer engines and used the lander's engine to cancel escape velocity and get back to kerbin.  I thought it was a disaster averted.

Then I figured, "Huh I still have half a tank of fuel left, I might as well adjust my trajectory so I land near the Space Center."

So I did the stupidest thing ever.  I brought my orbital speed close to 0 over the space center and let her drop.  I came in waaaaayyyyy too fast and too steep, I was still hurtling straight towards the ground at mach 1.5 at 2000 meters up.  Pulled the chute in desperation but it was just ripped off, and Seegan "landed" at the space center at roughly mach 0.9. 

I'm sure the impact buried him for me.