Building a snake that can go to space... Kerbal Space Program!

Kerbal Snake Program?? I unintentionally create a space snake, called Simon, whilst trying to create the tallest rocket ever in Kerbal Space Program. Ever wondered what the longest rocket is in ksp? Well I think I may have the record as this definitely got to space! ...at least for a little bit!
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[@PierreKT792]

"You know it's good 'cause it's blue" --> that's why the UK Space Agency flag is in orange

[@AV-8er]

This post was made by NASA gang

[@alephkasai9384]

I thought it was red, white and blue?

[@alephkasai9384]

Oh nevermind, he made it orange

[@Egerit100]

Orange is literally the opposite of blue lol

[@mrfisher1072]

There's many broken hearted Dutch people some where right now.

[@superidiocy]

"don't look so scared little man, it's gonna be ok" ... This was, what we in the business call, a lie...

[@MJC___]

yes

[@Kaden_dallas]

@Claas2008 they lied about it being ok so they can do businesses

[@Kaden_dallas]

@Claas2008 idk then sry

[@karlhyetravelerofworlds]

@Claas2008 he said he was gonna be okay but he's gonna die

[@alkestos]

Ssssssssssssssnnnnnnnnake

[@xylopus5543]

Rocket: *Bending AF* Civil Engineer: "Looks pretty stable"

[@pandaeyes9664]

Don't you know that a decent amount of bridges have a ton of flex to them? Since he is always building bridges it just looks natural to him. :)

[@gyscropicgaming2048]

Polandball going to space be like:

[@aclzibi1156]

And he says "It's not as stable as a conventional rocket" for the understatement of all time

[@krow1551]

"There's no engineering involved, that's just common sense" I never heard KSP described better

[@johnweinacht8021]

If you right click on sections you can go to the “auto strut” feature and changing that to “heaviest part” helps make crafts more stable. It might not completely fix it when you make crafts that long lmao. But it might help.

[@bjornroberts]

Also make sure you have advanced tweakabls on in the main menu settings

[@Dartace2ace]

There should also be a rigid attachment option around there too. But then you wouldn’t get the snake, so thats no fun.

[@donniedorko3336]

Bump

[@LuckyLeon10]

bump

[@BoubachVideo]

If only he would stop using such small parts and building so aburdly big rockets, maybe he could have a slight chance of reaching orbit...

[@spacechicken6316]

If you put like 50 decouplers on top of each other the forces add up and it actually launches the pod, try and see how many your computer can handle ;)

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

I was actually onto something with that huh?

[@spacechicken6316]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming you were indeed hahah

[@bn1__]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming yes you just need a lot

[@xenodeath7065]

I thought that was patched out

[@sebastianlippold9120]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming search up stratzenblitz, he has a video on going to minmus (second moon of kerbin) using only decouplers

[@jakethesnake8500]

The rocket javelins into the ground and that’s the funniest shit ever

[@NearlyBatman]

I was irritated that he didn't realize that if he didn't put any thrusters on the bottom part of the rocket it wouldn't have gone crazy.

[@jensen2568]

Yeah not sure why he didn't think of that

[@seniorspaghetti4861]

10:11

[@deven2008]

Using clamps would have helped a tonn probably ( so it doesn't instantly explode)

[@MMR_LM]

And then he goes ahead and makes only the arse end of the thrusters larger while leaving the top at the normal size

[@thequestbro]

Or if he put a decoupler on the bottom 8th as it spazzed it would have stabelized everything on said decoupling.

[@YMandarin]

I'm impressed that you actually got this huge snake above 70km in one piece

[@YMandarin]

@Viktor Ruben Metzendorf exactly what one of the first rocket engineers did as well

[@thesteaksaignant]

@@YMandarin only to discover that pendulum rockets are unstable...

[@skoovee]

@@thesteaksaignant Engiine position dose not effect stability

[@thesteaksaignant]

@@skoovee you are right, sorry for misphrasing that. I was referring to the pendulum rocket fallacy, a.k.a pendulum rockets are no more stable that normal rockets. However, on second thought this fallacy applies to solid rockets and I am not sure how it would work with a highly deformable "snake like" rocket.

[@BarioIDL]

that's a centipede

[@bjornroberts]

Oh the “weight” is the price of the rocket. Weight is in the menu on the bottom of the screen in the VAB. It’s the big wrench in the gear

[@drakeye2366]

And if you open the staging thing you can see your TWR.

[@memetech-------]

I know you aren’t talking to me because I didn’t understand a word of that.

[@memetech-------]

Ohh oops I’m on my alt account

[@HerbertTowers]

@@memetech------- MASS!

[@joshuarunning1997]

@no longer on youtube I wish I could br yhrtr tor you6, k nddc jou7ha😍😍😍bsbt_

[@sebbes333]

*@Real Civil Engineer* 17:00 -ish. Scale up the top engines and decrease the scale as you go down, that makes the top have more dragging force than the bottom, and will straighten up the rocket. (You can't push a rope (then it snakes like the end of the rocket), you can only pull a rope) Also: Spin stabilization & that H-beam strut thing might improve it too, but alike every 3-5 H-beam link to the "hull" of the rocket too.

[@NFITC1]

I was going to suggest this. I'm not a civil engineer, but I've played KSP enough to know how its physics "work". It's much easier to "pull" a payload than "push" it and if you are pulling each segment in a differential manner it works even better. Combined with the H-beams (which you can clip into the rocket and make a more stable connection with a lighter weight) it should reduce the motion.

[@BingusTheWockis]

As an experienced KSP player, I'm impressed that you got something so long off of the launchpad

[@moriakpotato]

That snake soaring through the skies was majestic. BTW, Z key for full throttle, T key for SAS. For those quick launches.

[@kylesmall6279]

As a KSP player, I am actually impressed by this

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Noice

[@nilsdock]

why are you impressed? that his computer can handle it so well?

[@bartuszek6636]

Same

[@Para0234]

@@nilsdock Because it shouldn't work, and yet it does.

[@wb6mc129]

@@Para0234 missed the joke

[@martijnjonkers8261]

This was the most fun I had in ages watching a KZbin video! Laughed my ass off! Thank you, you are amazing!

[@daonlysquirrel9343]

“Oh no our ass fell off” -real civil engineer, 2021

[@ComradeLeanna]

“Imagine making something normal” - This man

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

I do enough normal in my day job 😅

[@Enderia2]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming this is your day job. 0 normal is enough?

[@tylerlindy3804]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming who needs normal this is more fun

[@shadowcween7890]

@@Enderia2 he's probably also a real civil engineer as his day job

[@kennywiker6756]

the "Snake" that got to space, try making the first thusters at the top stronger than the rest or bigger ones, that way the top forces of the rest to follow it, maybe not having it bend as much cause the "slack" is being pulled by the top?

[@Keri-Kerigan]

this. kinda an inverse pyramid of thrust from the top down. And possibly try at the very end of the snake a quad of thrusters pointing in reverse. To stretch the snake straight. you may also be able to RCS thrusters to keep it straightish with sas.

[@maxhasert8426]

I know I am really late, Check out the “pendulum rocket fallacy” On Wikipedia. Early on in rocketry Some really intelligent people agreed with you, and it turned out really badly But is it also really cool physics

[@edgedg]

@@maxhasert8426 damn... and I found a video explaining this perfectly in 1 minute: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYmVanxseNiKia8 "For the love of Goddard, just add some fins" 😂

[@wolf310ii]

@@maxhasert8426 Only that the pendulum rocket fallcy is not the problem here, the snake rocket is a total different problem. The Idea behind the pendulum rocket was that the thruster on the top would make the rocket self stabilizing like a pendel, but it doesnt matter if the thruster is on the top or the bottom, the rocket needs aid for stabilizing, fins on the end, thrust vectoring or spin. The snake rocket is not rigid enough to handel thrust from the bottom, its like trying to balance a rope on the finger. More thrust on the top and less or no gimbal on the bottom, and the snake rocket will fly much better.

[@mrbunny4032]

Exactly. If you push a string from the back, it's going to fold up. Conversely, if you pull the string from the front it stays stretched out behind the main thrusters.

[@grantbarkalow4675]

Even a year later this video makes me laugh so hard😂😂😂😂

[@jonmab6990]

The number is your cost, but it doesn’t matter in sandbox mode. Your weight is in the little menu with a gear on it. It is in the bottom right corner

[@wesa1998]

With every KSP video I get more and more confident that you have never see a real rocket 😅🤣

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Ofc I have, I grew up watching the UK space agency launch rockets all the time! Those were the days!

[@colbyhowto8535]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming lol old

[@clearballistictorso3154]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming next is NASA

[@brandongarsh3474]

@@clearballistictorso3154 no its SpaceX is the next they are planning to have a man on mars 2 years before NASA

[@clearballistictorso3154]

@@brandongarsh3474 shhh its just upgrading not saying its the best

[@jackmuchukot7201]

HE MAKES THE MOST KERBAL ROCKETS EVER

[@achtsekundenfurz7876]

#SNEKT

[@monad_tcp]

of course, he's engeneer

[@grandicellichannel]

More Kerbalistic than the N1.

[@jackmuchukot7201]

@@grandicellichannel YES

[@dingledodger5323]

Somehow, this reminds me of the IT crowd episode where they try to put out a fire with an extinguisher made in england. This was just as entertaining, great vids bud!

[@TheSighphiguy]

never played kerbal, but could you incrementally make each engine a tad more powerful than the one below it? that way you would always have a slight "pulling" action rather than each one fighting the others. also perhaps have each engine start just a nanosecond later than the one above it.

[@ampedworldgaming2266]

You could set a thrust limiter on each set of engines but it would probably be better off just adding more engines at the top than reducing the power at the bottom

[@ShaunHusain]

"Not a lot of engineering involved that's just common sense" could be almost every commit message I make.

[@9volt65]

The fact he says this while discovering the rocket pendulum paradox is hilarious.

[@somedudeontheinternet5213]

"Oh no, our ass fell off!" Best quote ever

[@achtsekundenfurz7876]

death by LMAO

[@flak8857]

"Lmao"

[@The_Drawing_Novice]

RCE :"the core of UK space agency is safety" Also RCE: *building the most unsafe rocket every built*

[@ricardojvindasb1693]

9:39 When you're playing a game about rockets but suddenly your civil engineer instincts kick in

[@Verrisin]

"It's not as stable as a conventional rocket." 19:40 XDXDXDXD That sentence almost killed me. XD

[@CrippleX89]

9:35 “Oh no! Now it’s, like... a giant tampon” A very, very cursed tampon

[@ZMacGregor]

Based simply upon the movement of this rocket it is truly a snake and you did make it to space thusly I am impressed

[@teddyrichard1488]

*Scourge Of The Universe begins playing*

[@kamikaze3124]

Everybody gangsta till the rocket turns purple and starts lagging your pc

[@AndGoatz04]

*_The destroyer of worlds has awoken!_*

[@redbear2113]

"Player discovered gravity"

[@MaisonJ93]

Nice Terraria reference

[@rednoodleoffate]

“Simon hit the ground too hard”

[@joshuapipa1044]

No Eater of Worlds

[@snowdog8888]

"Player left a *small* crater"

[@joezhou4266]

RCE : I don't want to get distracted Also him : aw payloads look at these!

[@nicksurfs1]

I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time! Something about watching a snake try to move straight up just got me!

[@rednoodleoffate]

“There’s no engineering involved, that’s just common sense-“ And we don’t do that here

[@YMandarin]

install the mod 'kerbal joint reinforcements'. As the name suggests, it reinforces joints between parts and makes things less wobbly. (If you even want to make things less wobbly)

[@MaxGuides]

Engineers don’t need mods??!

[@drawapretzel6003]

yeah he was on the right track with the struts and wires, but the rigidity is just way off on the joints at that long a length. He coulda done lots of triangle struts sideways from layer to layer and that wouldve helped make it more structurally cohesive, but at the end of the day, pushing rope is hard in a game that doesnt give you enough stiffness.

[@YMandarin]

@@MaxGuides he's using tweakscale though

[@Skitzy-fe4eu]

0:26 What horrors has he seen

[@geraldalexander8093]

3:21 I nearly died at "Flaming Tampon"

[@cameronlane4006]

Don’t you love it when you just make a ridiculously long laugh escape tower as a snake No joking the Saturn V’s launch escape tower was remarkably similar to your final rocket, just waaaaaaaayyy shorter

[@dmlarsen301]

"I'm not a monster." Proceeds to misorient the nose cones...

[@ObiWanCannabi]

"I really thought that was going to work" Everyone who has played KSP.. "No, it wasnt"

[@Lewis-jt9cq]

The thing looked more like a space tapeworm than a snake haha

[@pathindsley]

The whole mission feels like the KSP equivalent of dangly road... and I am totally on-board.

[@danieleveritt4086]

Has anyone told him about autostrut........ Because maybe we should.......

[@Dacraun]

I spent 75% of the video laughing. No joke. I love all the 'bollocks' while esentially builing a tall wobbly knob. Rofl

[@greatdecline7593]

8:22 “there’s so many I-beams everywhere” that’s because not even rocket fuel (let alone jet fuel) can even melt them.

[@yes3505]

You know what I’ve been watching you so much recently and you’ve made me laugh at every video. Thanks for the amazing content keep it up and I hope you channel continues to grow

[@omygodihaveadog]

Just imagine that instead of the ISS we had the International space snake.

[@dibakarpatar400]

Thumbnail is really OP🔥🔥😂

[@EstorilEm]

omg when it lawn-darted into the ground and stayed straight I started rolling over laughing

[@nomekop777]

I, an actual ksp player, am genuinely impressed and applaud your efforts. Now I want to make one

[@YMandarin]

I am kinda amazed that everything is running smooth with all of these parts

[@giovannikana5679]

all i can say is... cool

[@wofey3066]

Cool

[@somedudeontheinternet5213]

Cool

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Cool

[@purplefish2787]

Cool

[@CripplingNemesis]

Cool

[@Mikeboye66]

This is literally the best KSP video I've ever watched, I hope you're prepared to get KSP 2! I'm ready to see some content on that!

[@Mikeboye66]

Btw, tip for next time. You can click Z to throttle your fuel to max instead of using shift.

[@Stoned2TheBone69]

Damn bro. Havent watched a video in about 4 months and holy shit you've blown up. So happy to see. Keep it up man. 👍

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Thanks mate, welcome back! Enjoy the binge!

[@sergegordeev9426]

Fun fact: The most efficient atmospheric rocket engine is KS-25 "Vector". The most efficient vacuum engine is "Dawn".

[@thefireocean1]

7:55 what my spine feels like after sleeping in a weird position

[@brettgrindel9017]

I'm just wondering why it took so long to stop ramming kilonewtons directly into a toothpick... I've seen his bridges, he knows how force works over distance; lmao.

[@charles_dingus]

I'm no engineer, but a few thoughts I had; The reason for the tail wobble is probably that the tail engines push the tail up causing a small curve, which then gets amplified with each wobble. I would try lowering the thrust on a few of the tail engines, and add some control surfaces to give the tail sideways drag. This way the head would pull the tail and probably keep it straight, while the wings would counteract any potential wobble.

[@joshuamorin2123]

"That's a bit too easy. There's no engineering involved. That's just common sense." -RCE 2021

[@joshuamorin2123]

@SpaceX-Space Flight Simulator i am an idiot

[@demiseman9586]

This is by far your best series after polybridge

[@differentbutsimilar7893]

This is what I always imagine real engineers are doing when nobody is looking... working out things such as how to get an appropriately-sized colonoscopy probe on track for Uranus.

[@forbiddenera]

"I don't know what I'm doing" - me, as well, everytime I open this game

[@ricardotejada111]

I'm happy to see our Mexican god Quetzalcóatl finally on a Kerbal video

[@itsyaboythewendigo8321]

Mmmmm yes

[@sokol1235]

Very good content keep it up BTW 10:44 Thats cost of your rocket

[@glog9911]

Add the rockets or engines what ever there called on the top or tip its that simple

[@hugohepworth5633]

its wriggling because the bottom thrusters are being pulled as well as thrusting, so they try to push the whole structure in their direction. Since the structure is loose like a chain, it crumples causing the thrusters the change direction.

[@patrickschardt7724]

Your random humor is amazing. Example: “We’re backing in the flaming tampon.” Your timing is great too. Keep it up

[@kpk1171]

Sometimes I forget this guy is an actual engineer and sometimes I get surprised when he whips out big brain terminology

[@zeekjones1]

The tail needs less thrust; the wobbles gain a resonance as the engines push each way it turns.

[@prospero768]

All these parts in KSP are represented as rigid objects connected by springs. If you stack a ton of short tanks you've basically created an FEM model of a piece of rope and trying to push that with a rocket engine gives predictable result. The tractor setup was a step in the right direction there but because the engines on top had marginally more to push than the engines on the bottom, you got another rope pusher. I think you could make it work by tweaking the thrust limiting on the lower engines until they're balanced with the spring force.

[@OneofInfinity.]

RIP in advance to the little happy feller.

[@Dartace2ace]

As a ksp player, i have to say i was impressed that it got to space. It wasn’t orbit, but it was space.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Thats one tick for the bucket list then! Haha

[@BRD37]

the display at 10:43 is not weight but the cost of the ship if played in campaign mode Also, orange / yellow shutes are drag shutes not meant for safe landing the blue is for a safe landing

[@SloppyPuppy]

The decoupler would launch you, you just need to orient it upside down :D You can shrink it & stack em then spam space a couple of times

[@PeanutButterWasTaken]

Day three of asking rce to play surviving mars

[@Adrobiel]

Have my like. I agree with you.

[@pr0hobo]

as someone whos put way to many hours in ksp its sometimes hard to watch him learn but i commend his effort cus i just watched like 30 videos on all the controls and cool stuff and hes doing it all on his own.

[@irineiovcnaosabenemeu4358]

21:32 the most expensive crishmas light's

[@IAMSEYMOURMUSIC]

I love how at the end you revert to MOAR BOOSTERS like every KSP player

[@pietergovers4534]

I have never enjoyed watching a dude shooting tiny men from the tip of his snake in explosive fashion on the internet as much as I did in this video

[@eugenedingleberryy]

R.I.P Jebb 2011-2021

[@merafirewing6591]

How about 1969-2021?

[@SamsTopBarBees]

I was laughing way to hard at your space tape worm, in space... :D

[@TKainZero]

Im super impressed you made space with that snake

[@nebulous962]

Why do i feel like you are compensating for something :p

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Dunno what you're on about... 😅

[@nebulous962]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming :D

[@derfvcderfvc7317]

I love how he keeps calling Valentina a guy.

[@codassassin254]

This was honestly the funniest thing I've seen in a long while.

[@AsteroidWrangler]

The one time that the pendulum rocket fallacy isn't actually a fallacy. Because the snake was definitely a pendulums at the tail. And a driven one at that.

[@owwerlord6921]

you can open throttle with Y and shut throttle with X also you can turn on SAS with T so you wont flip and you will stay stable also at 16:50 it stays straight because it got out of physics range, i think the range is like 1.8km but i am not sure

[@skyrotechnics3245]

You use Z to throttle to full, unless you're german IDK, and I remember from stratzenblitz's video 200 meters is the physics range and 2.5 kilos is the craft loading, which means if you are 2.5 kilos apart from the root of the other craft, it would disappear

[@owwerlord6921]

@@skyrotechnics3245 oh yes sorry, i didnt realize i had czech keyboard.also thanks for the distance info

[@enerjaz6871]

10:43 it's not your weight, it's the cost of your rocket in credits(KSP currency) you can find mass at the botom left instrument that looks like orange wrench

[@TheFrankieMcMurphy]

I'm waiting for a Colab Video with Josh from Let's Game It Out. WE NEED IT, THE WORLD NEEDS IT!

[@leafened7259]

20:18 i will now forever just call them "speed bubbles"

[@TheMrCorn1]

Pleeeeaaaase, I’m beggging you, I’m pleeeaaading with you, please build an airplane. •0• (face for effect)

[@itsyaboythewendigo8321]

Shits easy though

[@TheMrCorn1]

But it’s RCE we’re talking about, nothings easy

[@joetuktyyuktuk8635]

Is anyone else just a little bit scared that he is an actual engineer?

[@skoovee]

yes

[@pirig-gal]

You shold send a roundabout into space. Then it'll work out flawlessly.

[@ICringeALot]

The bending bug is nicknamed the kraken as it makes random ships bend for no reason. I guess SQUAD like the kraken and don’t want to remove it

[@kingstoncusick6241]

Color that thing green and it will literally just be Rayquaza

[@rimmertf]

this hurts to watch, and i love it

[@tophatvideosinc.5858]

after you placed the first set of struts i knew it was gonna end the same, id try a tri-helical strut spiral going down the length of the noodle with heach beam in the hjelix having an additional 2 struts connectint to the noodle at the 30 and 70 degree (first perspective or ansi standard) when looking at each H beam dead-on

[@Oxsanna]

This wubbling thing gave me anxiety and fun at same time. That's impressive xD