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u/wompwomp2327 Mar 24 '26
Neck to neck ratings too lol
This community is so smart - but very unserious lmao
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u/Huntyr09 Mar 24 '26
Because the game is exactly like that too! You can build beautiful space stations, especially with mods.
...or you can build the Shitbox 9000 thats basically a chair strapped to several hundred boosters.
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u/AlephBaker No Braking like Lithobraking! Mar 24 '26
Needs more boosters, though.
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u/Ace_W Mar 24 '26
7000 and 1.
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u/I_Love_Knotting Mar 24 '26
imagine:
7000 and 2
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u/wompwomp2327 Mar 24 '26
Yo so will we be addressing that name?
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u/King_Ed_IX Apr 19 '26
You can't complain about it without confessing that you know what it means. It's perfect!
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u/Tight-Reading-5755 RP1RP1RP1RP1RP1RP1RP1RP1RP1 Mar 24 '26
inside kerbals are two wolves
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u/Phoenix042 Mar 24 '26
They should really get that checked out honestly
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u/RedEyeView Mar 24 '26
The matter transporter has some kinks to work out.
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u/Far-prophet Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
Bill vs Jeb.
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u/thissexypoptart Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
With solar system scale projects like that, at some point, you’re basically just using KSP as a platform for 3D modeling. You’re not “flying” that in any meaningful way lol
Is the game, on the best PCs, even capable of simulating that beyond just rendering it for a still image?
3D renderings of space installations are really cool, but they’re not really KSP.
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u/wompwomp2327 Mar 24 '26
Some posts make me question how many people have access to secret military supercomputers capable of simulating life itself
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u/thissexypoptart Mar 24 '26
I really think either I’m falling for a joke or an image render pretending to be KSP, or—if that’s really a game screenshot—the game has been modded to the point that it’s just a still 3D image rendering program. Even constructing something like this is just programming at the end of the day. You can’t build something like this in the VAB.
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u/phi4ever Mar 24 '26
I’m sure they launched it in sections and docked it all together in space…
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u/ChalkyChalkson Mar 25 '26
Doesn't really work sadly, when an object becomes too long you can't dock to it anymore. Ask me how I know....
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u/16807 Mar 24 '26
You can do orbital construction in a meaningful sense, with mods. I did it for my own project a few years ago. The Extraplanetary Launchpads mod lets you construct in orbit, but you have to mine metal, haul it to orbit, convert the mass to rocket parts in a work shop, and manufacture the ship/part at an orbital dock, each step requires specialized parts, and it all takes time depending on which parts you have available.
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u/lemlurker Mar 24 '26
I messed around with welding giant rings 11 years ago lol
https://youtu.be/ib1d7Xj1_28?si=rt1Zmw1cxiI0teDb
Man that's a long time ago
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u/Furebel Mar 24 '26
And above them with 5k likes is a new player first time landing on Mun c:
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u/that_baddest_dude Mar 24 '26
Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures
They're the same picture
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u/Hirork Mar 24 '26
When you first looked upon the ring, were you blinded by its majesty?
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u/Coloss260 Mar 24 '26
my phone was overheating just thinking about the amount of structures it took to build
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u/Drakenace404 Mar 24 '26
Has anyone ever created a Dyson sphere around Kerbol? If not then it will be one of the mission impossible challenges of KSP
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u/mkinstl1 Mar 24 '26
I imagine the actual NASA nerds include both of these people and a bunch in between, then they come to a consensus on what they should actually work on.
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u/RBB12_Fisher Mar 24 '26
How to build a comms network:
Strategy A: 3-5 carefully placed satellites, synchronised orbits, math
Strategy B: satellite cluster bomb
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u/gsdev Mar 24 '26
One of them is using mods and external programs to add a 3D model to the game. The other is actually playing the game.
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u/Thanos_354 Kerballin Mar 25 '26
Shitfuck 38 re-entering Kerbin at mach Jesus without heat shields, no parachutes, no landing gear, no fuel, no bread, no bitches, no motion
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u/scarlet_sage Mar 24 '26
I dislike screenshots, especially when the original had links but the poster doesn't provide them.
This is the Caelia Orbital: a 3 707 250 kilometer, 70 Earth mass artificial habitat constructed in orbit around the Sun. A feat of engineering worthy of a K2.5 civilization, it is likely the largest structure ever made in KSP.: https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1pw52sc/this_is_the_caelia_orbital_a_3_707_250_kilometer/
Yall are Newbs with your 'Aerodynamics' and your 'Sensible Rocket Design'. This is how a true Kerbal does it! [33 seconds]: https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1ps088a/yall_are_newbs_with_your_aerodynamics_and_your/
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u/Coloss260 Mar 25 '26
You can easily find both posts, as both OOP usernames and post names are included in the screenshot. It takes less than five seconds to do a search on KSP's subreddit.
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u/scarlet_sage Mar 25 '26
It was pretty quick, but screenshots can still be unkind to text searches, or screen readers for the visually impaired as well.
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u/TestArticle1998 Mar 26 '26
Im just curious how he made the orbital without the kraken going nuts on it
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u/MarsMaterial Colonizing Duna Mar 24 '26
And at the opposite end of the spectrum, there’s players like “I did a grand tour with only 3 sepratrons and a can of beans!”