[02:28:40] <flayer> kerbals are comfortably cruising down some slopes at 32m/s in my rover/hopper
[02:29:58] <flayer> parked 8 km from the polar landing site, now in the midlands
[02:31:00] <flayer> a crater biome looks to be about 30 km away, that should be easily doable
[02:31:23] <flayer> i've not even used any fuel yet, got 12 days of snacks
[02:32:29] <raptop> hop or rover?
[02:33:11] <flayer> i've got 4 wheels and 6 thrusters
[02:33:43] <raptop> I'll take that as a "yes"
[02:34:02] <flayer> i can even parachute down from a hop
[02:34:20] <raptop> whee
[02:36:01] <flayer> it's a very wide-base
[02:36:10] <flayer> makes it very comfortable to ride around in
[02:36:25] <flayer> i got two thrusters on hinges for forward and backward acceleration, if i want it
[02:36:34] <flayer> and 4 thrusters for hopping
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[05:02:57] <Althego> hirys
[11:32:16] <flayer> i think i can even reach the polar crater
[11:41:26] <darsie> hm?
[12:13:42] <flayer> darsie, i landed on the edge of the polar biome on duna, right between a midland crater and a polar crater
[12:14:01] <flayer> gonna drive/hop around in a rover/hopper to catch all the science
[12:14:21] <taniwha> PokeSci?
[12:14:33] <flayer> i dont know what that is
[12:16:09] <darsie> ic
[12:16:53] <taniwha> take on pokemon, gotta catch them all
[12:18:15] <darsie> When I complete teh tech tree on Minmus, I send one scientist ahead to find the exact location of a three biome border.
[12:18:47] <darsie> Hmm, electric airplane on Duna?
[12:20:28] <flayer> i'm playing without orbital body multipliers and 30% science
[12:20:47] <flayer> so i've done most of kerbin, mun and minmus and only unlocked about half the tech tree
[12:21:07] <flayer> and that's the easy half
[12:21:22] <flayer> i'm hoping with the return of this duna trip i can unlock my first 550 node
[13:58:14] <flayer>   ok, 55m/sec is too fast to handle
[14:03:10] <Althego> kikkerikii
[14:03:37] <darsie> .
[14:04:00] <Althego> 55 m/s too fast for what? landing?
[14:04:08] <flayer> driving around
[14:04:16] <flayer> i crashed on a hill
[14:04:18] <Althego> ah absolutely
[14:04:21] <Althego> never go above 25
[14:05:11] <Althego> that is 90 km/h on a rough terrain, rover can flip or be damaged instantly, just because of a slight bump
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[14:32:29] <darsie> Why are the mount points of motors vertical and those of prop blades horizontal??
[14:33:41] <darsie> More lightweight and large blades would be better for Duna.
[14:36:50] <darsie> Hmm, should I use a helicopter blade?
[14:37:15] <Althego> i really wanted to build an electric plane for duna
[14:37:31] <Althego> but it was really hard to generate enough thrust and lift
[14:38:59] <darsie> Before I got the expansion packs, I flew with a RW with wings.
[14:39:03] <darsie> on Duna
[14:39:26] <darsie> Heh, I could use wings as propeller blades :)
[19:04:10] Action: darsie flew a plane with helicopter blades or Kerbin.
[19:07:25] <raptop> autogyro?
[19:08:25] <darsie> Replacing prop blades
[19:11:47] <raptop> ah
[19:27:36] <Althego> i havent thought of that. maybe i could try it sometime. with a tiltrotor
[21:26:27] <darsie> KSP crashed.
[21:30:39] <Kerbonaut> Hello.
[21:35:38] <darsie> .
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[21:38:07] <Kerbonaut> kromer
[21:38:35] Action: raptop x_x
[21:39:24] <Kerbonaut> rocket in pieces
[21:40:13] <FLHerne> Evening
[21:41:36] <Kerbonaut> afternoon
[21:41:58] <Kerbonaut> cool matt lowne is returning to ksp content
[21:44:08] <FLHerne> Did he stop?
[21:44:21] <FLHerne> I've seen KSP videos from him fairly recently
[21:46:20] <Kerbonaut> he stopped for a month or so
[21:46:28] <Kerbonaut> he's been doing space this week
[21:48:33] <FLHerne> Ah
[21:49:01] <FLHerne> Half the youtube channels I follow post videos less than once a month anyway, so I didn't really notice :p
[21:53:37] <Kerbonaut> ah
[21:57:13] <FLHerne> Watched his video, makes sense
[21:57:40] <FLHerne> tbh I agree with him that "oh yes it's another cool-looking SSTO" was becoming a worn-out formula
[21:58:17] <FLHerne> especially now there are no new releases, so no new parts or physics changes
[21:58:45] <FLHerne> I imagine KSP 2 will inspire a huge wave of videos whenever it arrives!
[22:02:29] <Kerbonaut> likely
[22:03:33] <Kerbonaut> yall wanna play gartic phone
[22:17:23] <Kerbonaut> nvm
[22:17:53] <FLHerne> It's almost midnight here
[22:18:07] <FLHerne> I'm going to sleep instead, I'm afraid :p
[22:18:42] <FLHerne> #SpaceX is a bit busier than this channel, they're arguing about ISRU and cyborgs
[22:31:42] <Kerbonaut> just joined
[22:33:52] <FLHerne> well, now the conversation is different again :p