KSP: Building a Space Station Close to the Sun!

[@muradasadov8219]

The real reason of the rotating rings is to evenly cook the kerbals.

[@klunkymunkey9425]

*bruh*

[@lancisman]

that correct

[@mindedrobin6856]

Cursed comments

[@harridavies1815]

I prefer them rare but maybe Matt disagrees

[@siriusk1453]

This comment is from stratz's video

[@charliefrater7143]

Matt: The Kerbals have a nice view from the space station *Kerbals: Are literally in a Space Station hotter than an oven*

[@somepvpguy69]

No it is hotter than the sun

[@eier3252]

Today's menu: Sun-cooked Kerbal

[@polygorg]

I just assume they like it when I send them into the sun

[@lauragodridge8966]

Matt:what a nice view Kerbals:AAAAAA

[@theenation1126]

What about the radiators?

[@_HONK]

better title: a brit tries to get some better weather

[@WurstWasser617]

After this week I reckon he wants to get further away from the sun

[@_HONK]

@@WurstWasser617 i agree my fan hasnt stoped in 5 days

[@rocketcello5354]

Where I live, the yearly average is 28 degrees Celsius, the average humidity is 70-80%, and it's known for being one of the better places in terms of climate in my country. As I'm typing this, it is currently 30 degrees Celsius and 60% humidity.

[@destroyerstar5674]

*wheeze*

[@titanicfluff7914]

Mates it’s winter what u talking about ???

[@theflock4916]

Station: *goes right next to the sun* Other Electronic Parts: aaah, so hot, I’m gonna overheat. The Solar Panels: *UNLIMITED.... P O W E R !*

[@sierra4actual]

memes

[@Coli2603]

And he still brings rtgs

[@phantompenguin1065]

@@Coli2603 he went to jool tho

[@masterofdoots5965]

@@Coli2603 What is an RTG?

[@jamescraig4310]

L m a o

[@Noahdaceo]

Matt: Installs GravRings to combat eye pressure blindness. Also Matt: Doesn’t install SunShades on the many windows, which will eventually cause the well pressured eyes of the Kerbals, to go blind.

[@floppy8960]

Also, new name for the space station: Overkill kerbal oven

[@manmen9600]

😂😂

[@harridavies1815]

Massive kerbal microwave

[@akravomit]

Nice

[@leolin6009]

I would name it Kerven. Kerbal+ oven

[@andrewkvk1707]

Kerpol

[@romanmorozov6974]

“If it’s stupid and it works, it isn’t stupid: it’s just inefficient” - Matt Lowne 2020

[@nickkayfabe6147]

Loose cannon from TF2 would like a word with you

[@ur_pilot_4_2day82]

my favorite quote ever

[@crimsontyphoon1030]

Cave johnson in a nutshell

[@sapphicjade6375]

"I don't much care for my spine, it's only holding me back." -Matt Lowne 2018

[@egsgrhzzg9675]

true doe

[@forksandpopsticles9183]

Matt: *is going to the sun* Also matt: *brings rtg's*

[@redpanda7071]

you never know the sun might turn off

[@Nik_TheAstronaut]

@@redpanda7071 lmao

[@hugh-martinrouxhughy7419]

The man was first yeeting his spacecraft out towards Jool before making a dive down towards the sun

[@gamertron0882]

@yuh yeet ask someone who went blind looking at the sun, they might think the sun turned off, I know someone

[@redpanda7071]

@@gamertron0882 stared at the sun once, i hurt my eyes but i saw a perfectly circular image and it was like everything else around it was dark

[@ruigebeer]

signed up for matts space tourism business, got launched on an everlasting orbit around the sun. 10/10 would sign up again

[@simond.455]

Matt: I hope the Kerbals won't go blind. Also Matt: Pans camera to stare directly into The Sun.

[@georgeharrison6154]

matt: I don't like these kerbals! *Literally sends them to the sun*

[@timelesssights340]

you’re being sent to brazil

[@Glaucoma762]

Yeet

[@sadiqahmed4143]

Your going to the Black hole

[@AmplifiedGamerEXTRA]

@@sadiqahmed4143 cringe

[@DanteofSparda5376]

Solar Brazil

[@Xd_Dones]

Sun trying to cook Kerbals *Sees the radiators* Sun: Oh no, anyways.

[@monsieurbacteria1977]

Kerbal kebabs

[@leifwinter9666]

Nice Clarkson Meme

[@canadianrocketman3475]

understandable, have a nice day

[@adhikaripinki2k8]

@@Xd_Dones karbal munchurian

[@aiosquadron]

Sun: Understandable, have a great day.

[@ryanrising2237]

5 RPM is one rotation every 12 seconds, or about 0.261 radians per second. Your ring looks to be about 5 metres in radius (1.25 for the mk2 cabin on the edge, +2.5 for the Mk1 cabin connecting tube, + 0.625 for the structural tube, + 0.625 for half the radius of a 1.25m rotor.) I had to google the formula for centripetal acceleration, but Google tells me it’s = rω^2. Putting the numbers I got into that formula tells me your ring, at the minimum speed allowed by those rotors, is experiencing ~0.34 m/s^2. Less than a twenty-fifth of a gee, roughly equivalent to standing on Pol. Still like seven times stronger than Gilly, though I doubt any of these will help much with your Kerbal’s bones. My point with all this is to say that the Breaking Ground robotics are not too fast to allow for artificial gravity rings. I’d suggest running these particular rings at 15 RPM, which would give your Kerbals only a little less than a third of Kerbin’s gravity (3.08 m/s^2) to deal with. EDIT: Ew, Matt, are those confetti fairings? Disgusting.

[@gamertron0882]

I’m glad someone typed that out because I wanted to but I was WAY to lazy

[@syn6109]

good to know?

[@jpage5350]

The problem is that humans can sense the fact they’re spinning at speeds like that. It makes you incredibly nauseous. The issue isn’t in making gravity in that way, it’s making gravity in a way that won’t immediately make you blow space chunks.

[@Coli2603]

Clamshell for life

[@xandorian8242]

@@jpage5350 but Kerbals are not human and have no problem spinning at high speeds

[@TheLandTrain-AnarticaEdition]

Matt: destroys all the debris by deorbiting it Me when playing any space simulator: debris... debris everywhere

[@nerdyism2523]

Yup... Absolutely polite the crap out of kerbin to preserve space dolphins.

[@samuels1123]

idk, I always stop decoupling things when periapsis is out of atmosphere or collision or leave enough fuel in the stage to bring it back to those conditions after decouple

[@heetman12]

I literally need to put armor on my spacecraft

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

I always terminate my debris

[@ayanshkothari4932]

Me too

[@jaidenester8714]

He should make a brochure for this: “Sign up for your vacation in the sun! Literally! Feel the warmth of plasma melt your face off as you relax in the afterlife! All this and more at the low low cost of your life!”

[@nikkiofthevalley]

Lol

[@ScalarYoutube]

I forgot Matt was an eye specialist. I was starting to think he was having us on with the space blindness but then I realised he works as an optometrist

[@jaydenli2125]

opthalmologist

[@ScalarYoutube]

@@jaydenli2125 your name is invalid syntax as well. Lol

[@wrestlingthewolves]

He saves kerbals and our eyes.

[@barefootalien]

Optometrist: "Now that I've dilated your pupils so everything is blurry, and blasted your eyes with puffs of air just to torture you... tell me, does my slide projector on the wall look clearer with one...? Or two? .... ... ... one...? .... ... Or two? Okay, now five...? Or six? Five....? Or six? .... ..... fiiiiiive...? ... ... ... or six?" Ophthalmologist: "Now I'm going to open just the tiniest slit in your cornea so I can remove your lens and install this artificial one so you can see again..."

[@bethanycrossley]

@@jaydenli2125 orthoptist*

[@PascalMarxer]

I think that the reason of getting blind on this space station isn't gravity

[@danielwenzel3877]

Matts an optometrist...

[@roboticfuzzball179]

@@danielwenzel3877 r/woooosh

[@oliverlemley9343]

indeed woosh

[@Formula1st]

@@danielwenzel3877 big whoosh

[@danielwenzel3877]

Can Agree. I can also say I've been wooooshed before(Not a good thing but it's fine)

[@IceMan-pq5gd]

"Some of you might be wondering about the weird kerbal names." *squints at squigly lines* No I cant say I was. -480p crappy internet people.

[@gamertron0882]

Ah the screen I’m watching on is the cheapest they sold at micro center and cheapest everywhere I looked

[@gamertron0882]

Or my phone which is the old IPhone SE (size of IPhone 5) so it doesn’t get much worse than this

[@gamertron0882]

What no I can watch it on my first generation iPod touch that my my grandma gave me when she got a phone Name something worse to watch KSP on

[@IceMan-pq5gd]

@@gamertron0882 i pod shuffle lol hhaha

[@Formula1st]

@@gamertron0882 some spikes on your chair

[@TheTechAdmin]

As a "Boomer", it makes me so happy to know younger generations are growing up with games like this that have such precision required. All of the things my generation had to study so hard to accomplish, students will come out of grade school knowing. Which will continue to accelerate, and excited me for the future.

[@AmplifiedGamerEXTRA]

Annnnd then you have fortnite

[@TheTechAdmin]

@@AmplifiedGamerEXTRA lol!

[@chrlz8211]

@@AmplifiedGamerEXTRA Fortnite kids are still intelligent 😅

[@AmplifiedGamerEXTRA]

@@chrlz8211 You sure? all they do is eat sleep fortnite rage repeat

[@bullet4346]

@@AmplifiedGamerEXTRA they are faking it because they have gameplay videos on their chaneel also look at their profile picture lmao

[@gangJJL]

Matt: I don't like these kerbals. Literally sends them to the sun. Also Matt: I would hate for my kerbals to go blind. Literally slaps a cupola module on the interstellar space station

[@haygenwarren3677]

Matt: “The kerbals have a nice view!” The Kerbals: literally going blind.

[@DanteofSparda5376]

Kerbal POV: ⬛ (blind)

[@cooldude2251]

Matt: so without the gravity rings the Kerbals could go blind. *nevermind the fact that they are being sent so close to the sun and may go blind from existing

[@DanteofSparda5376]

And be cooked like burnt burgers

[@sdg131]

@@DanteofSparda5376 kerburgers

[@almondmelk5830]

Mat: Space station at sun Stratenblitz: that's cute

[@patrlim]

Ohhhh I know what video you're referring to

[@ecogreen123]

lol

[@sureeen2160]

Kerbol 0

[@MattLowne]

I'd love to make more Stratzenblitz scale videos, but I've got a 3 video per week obligation to the algorithm™, and I have a 8-6 Mon-Fri job as it is 😔

[@thatoneguy9291]

patrlim hello mr ONI

[@pabloserrano4568]

Hi, so I did the math and for kerbals to feel the same force as in kerbin the circle should have a radius of 37 m (for 5rpm) It might be cool to make a space station that big.

[@BandanaDrummer95]

With the scale those rings are at, you would actually want slightly faster revolution. Even with a roughly 30-40m radius ring, you'd want them going at about 60 rpm to be roughly the acceleration of gravity on Kerbin, and even if you were okay with just Minmus, at that size, you'd need at least 12 rpm because the force is inversely proportional to the square of the time it takes to go around the center

[@bonbin6053]

The Kerbals are undercooked 1/10, Also needs more pepper

[@pugs6357]

Cursed

[@JupiterVortex]

r/cursedcomments

[@AstronautaVerdadeiro_77]

IT'S RAW

[@gsquared8730]

gordon ramsay be like

[@Astrodude.]

wait what

[@soyuzvostok5927]

A good way to get rid of the tourist kerbals is giving them a vacation on the sun, just land a spaceplane on it

[@gamertron0882]

But then you have no way of collecting the food for Kerbsgiving

[@Pejin8264]

Uh...

[@gamertron0882]

Panda Tyme evidently you’re questioning what must not be questioned and that is a problem

[@Pejin8264]

@@gamertron0882 Sorry Chez King0888

[@Pejin8264]

Only one 8 typo

[@blazedgamingkr1438]

H.E.A.T. Station. Hot Environment Anthropomorphic Testing.

[@koidrawz201]

The furry station

[@VoitechCz]

Yes

[@franciosdeaeruiu7555]

*the furry oven*

[@ChubiPanda]

Love the use of Ice Cap zone for the background music. My fave sonic music!

[@avi8r66]

Sign on kerbal recruiting center: Sign up today to get baked! Kerbals in station: This isn't what we expected.

[@L_back]

I don’t think this is what the Kerbals meant when they said: “We want to get a tan.”... but ok

[@nikkiofthevalley]

Lol

[@cadeisweird5076]

What would there tan look like

[@L_back]

@@cadeisweird5076 sorry for late response, but they would probably become a little darker, and if they become too dark, they turn into popcorn. Probably

[@cadeisweird5076]

@@L_back or, hear me out, they turn into green Nickelodeon ketchup

[@L_back]

@@cadeisweird5076 slime... yeah that would look... characteristic

[@Andyw00Hall]

Matt: I'm sending a space station to the sun I have the perfect soundtrack to the build! Ice Cap zone music from Sonic 3

[@TioAe]

It's to balance things out.. You know.. The sun is hot.. and ice is cold.. Soo.. 😅

[@jamescraig4310]

@@TioAe "when the wind is cold, when the fire is hot, oh the pretty scenery"

[@MartinMizner]

If it is possible, he would propably make a landbase on the surface of Kerbol.

[@exstraninja7647]

Technically, if your ship has REALLY good radiators you could land it to the Sun like if you would be doing Jool mission

[@ryanspence5831]

Exstraninja actually no with traditional techniques no amount of radiators can save you HOWEVER using double-occluding fairings you can make a craft that simply does not absorb any heat to begin with and also produces no drag, however it is extremely finicky and inconsistent

[@bradcogan8588]

I think the sun in KSP just has a kill barrier before you reach the surface.

[@randomcat1015]

so true

[@samuelklogborg]

The Sun*

[@Cheeseandcrackers2222]

"If it's stupid and it works it's not stupid, just inefficient."

[@bigchooch4434]

Matt: "I feel like with each passing video, I'm running out of meaningful things to say" Matt's brain: 𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔰𝔨𝔶 ℜ𝔢𝔳𝔦𝔢𝔴

[@gsquared8730]

How u do dat?^

[@jtobecalled7543]

Wow, Outer Wilds looks a lot different than I remember! (For context: there is a game called Outer Wilds, and in it you find a Space Station extremely close to the sun called the Sun Station.)

[@The_TinesJathian]

lol I was hoping there'd be an outer wilds reference here

[@craggolly]

the lack of outer wilds comments shocked me

[@ScalarYoutube]

Last time I was this early, there was no parachute to save kerbals after they 'fell' out of a command pod

[@David-vz4yk]

St3llar last time I was this early my gf left me..

[@harridavies1815]

‘fell’... right

[@jackalovski1]

"Can you fire kerbals?" Yes... into deep space

[@sapphicjade6375]

Actually in the console edition the achievement for landing on Tylo is called "The Largest Moon in the Kerbol System".

[@nordinreecendo512]

But can it cause a supernova? Hypothesis: We must explode the sun!

[@anonymousguineapig6174]

Pye?

[@nordinreecendo512]

@@anonymousguineapig6174 You know it!

[@Gordon_Freeman484]

*End Times opening note*

[@seesiedler1]

Actually, in carrer mode the "sun" is reffered to as "Kerbol" in contracts.

[@randomguy-jd8su]

And that's the only time it appears in THE ENTIRE GAME. EVERYWHERE ELSE its called the Sun. So shut up saying its called Kerbol instead of Sun.

[@memewhile6242]

@@randomguy-jd8su chill dude, hes just trying to let you know

[@randomguy-jd8su]

@@johnmielke5840 no its not

[@Formula1st]

Zebra zebra, tomato tomato, mün mun moon, kerbol sun

[@memewhile6242]

@@Formula1st get in there jebediah!

[@charliefrater7143]

I think the name of the space station should be: *Kerbal Kooka* that joke was pretty _hot_

[@LibShitted]

Theres 3 ks in the name ☻☻☻

[@Abandonite1305]

You mean Spicy

[@timelesssights340]

*ow*

[@brogan2685]

why.

[@IHeardAlittleBOM]

You said to have never seen a Kerbal eat although they're green, meaning they perform photosynthesis! Hahaha

[@polokratos8366]

Yeah... Tell that to my Eeloo "base"

[@Aviation4life34]

Matt really said “goodbye” to the kerbals in the most disrespectful way possible. It’s hilarious. I love your KSP videos Matt :D

[@bradcogan8588]

Kerbal: I'm so glad we have these rotating rings so we don't go blind. *Looks out of the window into the sun* Kerbal: I'M BLIND!

[@KarolOfGutovo]

Did you know that the Lowne Lazy Method of Docking is the same method as used by early Russian space stations? Salyut and Mir rotated themselves to align with the arriving soyuz/progress ships.

[@AtlasGaming4k]

I bet the Russians never got Matt’s permission either!

[@babbiboboo1916]

Feels strange, a mission without Jebediah.

[@gamertron0882]

Ya what happened to him?

[@Formula1st]

@@gamertron0882 well... you know why your spaghetti is green

[@gamertron0882]

@Formula 1st oh ya

[@LibShitted]

Jeb is too holy to get fried alive 😂

[@gamertron0882]

@vcah y all of the kerbal nuns (Kuns) will kill themselves from depression and sadness

[@aaaaaaaaaaaavm]

Matt: * breathes * * NASA and SpaceX guys intensively take notes *

[@puiu102006]

well if they didnt know that humans cant breathe in space then im pretty concerned lol

[@harridavies1815]

Did you know, if you held your breath in space, you would explode

[@aaaaaaaaaaaavm]

@@harridavies1815 🅱️EAN

[@KSPAtlas]

@@aaaaaaaaaaaavm Our Beans

[@anarchopupgirl]

My god, your docking method is fantastic, and I can't believe it never occured to me somehow I'd been going towards the target, cancelling relative velocity every so often, and repeating. I also carved arrows into my RCS keys

[@daniellaborda4749]

Matt Lowne, You always inspire me. When i'm playing ksp i always have the big dream to make a space station, but every single time i make a launch vehicle, it's either too fast, too slow, too big, too small, and basically just dog sh*t. so i quit kerbal and watch youtube but when i see your videos it inspires me to go back and try again.

[@noahluppe]

"Sun" is more a description of a star with planets, if we were a multi star species we probably name in everyday language the star in the sky sun, wherever we are, but in travel or science the stars would be named by their scientific name. Just like Kerbol would be the scientific name of the star and the Sun just the name for it in its planet system.

[@AssistantCoreAQI]

We've "Named" Your Star OTP104, If You Wanted To Know.

[@revampedharpy09]

Yeah, although interestingly the sun has never specifically been given a scientific name, we've just always used Sol as it's de-facto scientific name, which as I recall is the Roman name for it

[@VojtaJavora]

@@revampedharpy09 and you would be right. Sol is from Latin.

[@bradcogan8588]

Kinda like how the moon is called Luna but nobody ever calls it that because there's just one.

[@Cleptro]

@@AssistantCoreAQI "your" star?

[@Lüscha_EXO]

Matt: "Helios space station" Handsome Jack: triggered

[@ediot5507]

You literally read my mind I wanted to see a space station like this.

[@FAITHLOVESYAS]

This guy is having waaaaay too much fun, especially with the grav rings!

[@OrdinarilyOrdinaryGoose]

Could you imagine finding out this was the same man that performed the surgery in your eye

[@tp__user5010]

Matt: talking at light speed also Matt: I'm running out of things to say

[@KSPAtlas]

Matt Lowne video: comes out Me: Local Fish in good mood

[@Coli2603]

Local potato happy today

[@ВячеславАлексеев-э8э]

Matt: is going to the sun. Me: ЪУЬ СЪУКА!!! old Soviet joke: A group of the best Soviet cosmonauts is summoned to the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee and given the task: - Due to the fact that the US cosmonauts landed on the Moon, your new mission is to fly to the Sun. Those already had eyes on their foreheads: - Are you serious? There is also a huge temperature! We're going to die! - In the Central Committee, too, not fools sit ... fly at night.

[@darklink64]

I like how the station is close to the sun, which would be quite hot, but the music at the beginning of the video is IceCap Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which is cold... lol

[@killsalot78]

your docking method is exactly how I learned to do it back in 2013, setting nodes as target and getting the focus centered, might have been onsolthree that taught me that

[@thanglalsangguite6205]

Matt Lowne: Builds this. Stratzenblitz75: Pathetic

[@ecogreen123]

ikr

[@MattLowne]

I'd love to make more Stratzenblitz scale videos, but I've got a 3 video per week obligation to the algorithm™, and I have a 8-6 Mon-Fri job as it is 😔

[@ecogreen123]

@@MattLowne nore would i and hopefully most wouldn't want to put that pressure onto you.

[@thanglalsangguite6205]

@@MattLowne maybe in one of your videoes tell us that you'll spend like a week or two away to build something BIG. Maybe like every few months.

[@lkcsimple9813]

Sun : I'm sun Spaceship : I'm spaceship KSP : so...

[@nickkayfabe6147]

And then they kiss

[@alvinreinaldy5148]

i thought, "should've named it icarus." then i realized it's tempting fate

[@isaachoffman2607]

I mean it’s already cooking the kerbals sooo.......

[@alvinreinaldy5148]

@@isaachoffman2607 well, i made this comment at the building part so i stand double corrected

[@lizardlegend42]

Wait, why are you calculating flight trajectories to the sun station when we've constructed a much simpler method of transportation from the Ash Twin?

[@calmdown5559]

This is an esoteric and brilliant joke

[@fluxx5783]

Damn, someone beat me to the reference by a month

[@Gordon_Freeman484]

No he's trying to get the Hotshot achievement

[@InventorZahran]

What kind of solid boosters did you use on that SLS-style launch vehicle?

[@drahcirtmd3924]

So, does the Icecap theme being such a *-cool-* track help the space station keep from overheating?

[@randomcat1015]

this, this is true genius!

[@xzznnn845]

I was waiting for a video like this, this is amazing!

[@3dprintinglife]

Just got notif. THIS SEEMS LIKE ITS GONNA BE A GOOD VID

[@gamertron0882]

That one butter fly that puts just enough butter on pancakes, not the restaurants that give you a tiny square, not my sister that uses the whole container, just the perfect amount.

[@Skoran]

"Most of you guys have heared about me about this point" and "the famous Lowne lazy method of docking" My boy accepting his gift to us. Learned so much about KSP from your videos Matt, and still don't even come close to understanding it the way you do. Thanks for all the lessons (Lowne's lazy method of docking for live!) and the laughs.

[@revampedharpy09]

3:03 I mean... theoretically you could get 1g with that radius... it'd just have to spin ludicrously fast to do so

[@stupidgenius42]

Make sure to get the gravity rings spinning slowly to make sure all the kerbal are cooked evenly

[@David-vz4yk]

Last time I came this early my gf left me.....

[@Pyxis10]

How did your pillow leave you?

[@gamertron0882]

Um ok?

[@David-vz4yk]

Pyxis :(

[@nickkayfabe6147]

domiNATED, ya cactus eatin’ egg head!

[@catgoesgaming]

so never?

[@niatpacm.sacras9]

Double win for them. Their own kerbil, space flight and second trip to space station.

[@eekee6034]

"I'm trying to think of interesting things to say about this rocket, but this is a boring rocket!" -- Not quite Matt Lowne. :D I've played KSP for about a year now, I guess, and I've been trying to build infrastructure the whole time -- lots of refuelling depots. I'm not entirely ashamed to say my favourite rocket is my most boring one because it's never ever any trouble. Well, I did nearly crash it into Dres because... it's not a nuclear craft, but a single Poodle engine on an 18-wheeler-size set of fuel tanks works out to about the same TWR, and I didn't realise what a 24-minute burn would do to the flight path as it entered orbit. I'll forever be thankful Dres's lowlands happened to be under my periapsis that day. ... Now I'm starting to imagine an orbital path... or rather a quasi-orbital path through the Dres canyon, but I think I'll quit thinking about it before I get a headache trying to figure out how to actually do it.

[@Vinnocentus]

*unoriginal comment on being early*

[@klunkymunkey9425]

more original than most comments tho

[@fantomarmy4475]

Please never use “Mate” as an acronym for docking again.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

"acronym" also what's wrong with the spaceships fucking

[@disrespecc9678]

GearandaltheFirst STOP I DONT WANNA IMAGINE THAT-

[@theflock4916]

@@gearandalthefirst7027 don’t give the rule 34 artists power.

[@marklomaskin3057]

this is an extremely common usage in mechanical engineering, just saying

[@fantomarmy4475]

It’s a joke man😂

[@wladfan]

a

[@dct1769]

Argentina Weeb b

[@bobsempletank1222]

C

[@spaceypoopnoob9563]

D

[@KSPAtlas]

@@bobsempletank1222 d

[@klunkymunkey9425]

d

[@waterenjoyer9224]

Even tho' i will never understand this kind of complexety in my life i appreciate you kept speaking for over 30 minutes. And i loved how entusiastic you were explaining the process.

[@cdslice1869]

Awesome space station! This one actually looks doable for mere mortals to attempt to recreate unlike a certain KZbinr's... 😉 (my favorite butterfly is the monarch because it is the only one who's name I can remember)

[@jojolafrite90]

You don't fulfill a question, you answer it. You fulfill a fantasy.

[@joehurn2386]

"oh my gosh guys this is going to be epic". Something about how you said it made me spit out my tea

[@1mariomaniac]

I actually stumbled onto this video after having worked on a solar mission of my own! I call it the Icarus program and its goal is to reach an orbit of ~6,000,000km or less around the sun. And then conduct experiments from there that can be transmitted back. Nevermind I just looked it up, "space near the sun" cuts off at 1,000,000km so I'm aiming for slightly below that. Here's hoping.

[@juoig7799]

7:43 I liked how all those fairings just flinged themselves off the rocket lol

[@vicroc4]

In fact, it requires so much energy to get to Sol that the relatively small Parker Solar Probe required a full-on Delta IV Heavy to get there. You know, the rocket that's usually used to launch enormous spy satellites and geostationary communications satellites.

[@cumguzzler8537]

It also had a kick stage to add to that.

[@vicroc4]

@@cumguzzler8537 Yep. And it's doing several gravitational slingshots at Venus to lower its perihelion even further.

[@rando5708]

"If it's stupid and it works its not stupid, it's just inefficient" I am probably going to steal this

[@WoddCar]

Alternate station title: the kerbal equivalent to that Costco rotisserie chicken cooker

[@KingOfGame1012]

The Ice Cap track in the beginning makes me smile

[@Dying2play12]

"Sunshine", very under-rated film... One of my favorite sci-fi/space films... Spaceballs not too far behind in the top 10, lol.

[@7toasty]

I’ve always failed at docking. The lazy method has brought new light to my capabilities. Thank you so much!!

[@taylorsounes8464]

Have you considered doing a crew changeover for this station? Would make for a cool mission.

[@andreashecht2942]

Missed Opprtunity: Naming it the Icarus Space Station

[@haroldinho9930]

I would call it that if I was sending a kerbal to kerbol

[@sylvarwulf3946]

I like how this one man has done like 500x more than literally all 7 billion people on earth in space for *fun*

[@aboujigoula9313]

Matt: builds a space station very close to the sun The solar panels: STONKS

[@neino36]

Taking "Firing these Kerbals" to it's literal extreme, I see.

[@johnroscoe2406]

2 years after you posted this, a Kerbal Space Program video, I unexpectedly learned the answer as to why they test for Glaucoma by using air pressure against your eyeball. How fucking random but cool is that lol.

[@Beans815]

Me watching matt’s videos “ I like your funny words magic man” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@allgreatfictions]

For the record, it actually makes complete sense to call it the sun, because that's what it is. It's name might be Kerbol, just like our sun's name is Sol (hence solar system), but it's our sun. The star you orbit around is the sun. No other explanation required.

[@magnus7612]

Fun fact: In the R&D building under archives it calls the Sun, "Kerbol".

[@Condre3000]

Getting some strong Sunshine vibes with this concept