KSP: HUGE Space Station to LAYTHE!

[@lilhindu3476]

Instead of calling them “space polar bears” Call them Solar Bears.

[@michaelkaminski1166]

YES!

[@dalesajdak422]

And the Nobel Everything Prize goes to... Kyle Garrick of KZbin, for their suggestion of the name “solar bears” over “space polar bears” on September 26th, 2020.

[@nymbattheeternal1279]

Matt needs to see this.

[@chloe_gospinny]

LMAO YES

[@cheesieboi2860]

I will give you the highest honor I can give.... The Golden Like.

[@tooktookdamuffin]

Or the oceans could just be really salty, decreasing the freezing point... EDIT: A bit of evidence comes from the KSP Wiki. In reference to Laythe, it states that "The air however does have a strange smell about it. It is therefore possible that there are also high concentrations of salt in the air, as well as on the surface, assuming that the salt is sodium chloride."

[@MattLowne]

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@JoshuaC34]

That only explains the water on Laythe, it would still be so cold that when a kerbal would take its helmet off, it would freeze to death, my personal theory is that Jool's gravity causes enough friction to heat up Laythe to the point life can exist on it.

[@KaneSoulbreaker]

@@JoshuaC34 yea, tidally locked moons are warmer (i thiiiiinkkkkkk, dont quote me on that)

[@zoltanfisher3140]

@@KaneSoulbreaker "tidally locked moons are warmer" -Kane Soulbreaker, 2020

[@kingdededethegod5313]

It could be the radiation from the van allen belts of jool warming it, or the fact that laythe is in an orbital resonance with vall and tylo, which has a very slight pull on them, "crunching" the surface, warming it. This is one of the reasons europa has large cracks

[@billkerman9587]

Funny thing is: I landed an SSTO on Laythe for the first time today

[@Otefnmjn]

good job!

[@MattLowne]

congrats!

[@basesixty6739]

Amazing

[@benjustben7714]

Did it come back???

[@LeakyTrees]

I could do that to, but everyone would die.

[@InventorZahran]

Matt Lowne: "We're going to need a surface-to-space transportation system." NASA's acronym maker: "STSTS"

[@tropicalvikingcreations]

... This might become a real thing... Are you foreshadowing?!

[@InventorZahran]

@@tropicalvikingcreations Yes. And when the Space Force get their hands into this project, it'll be called 'Surface-to-space-to-surface transportation system for tactical surveillance of troublesome states'. (STSTSTSTSTS)

[@TheSpaceEngineer]

@@InventorZahran holy sh-

[@Tulin258]

I found this right when he said it

[@mrboomgaming3805]

@@InventorZahran space to surface to space to surface space to surface to space to surface space to surface to space to surface

[@carrotylemons1190]

Matt: *OH NO THE SPACE POLAR BEARS* Also Matt when the first stage re-enters and wipes out life on the arctic: eh

[@awhahoo]

Space polar bears -In space -Immune to radiation -Good friends to kerbals Polar bears -Not in space -Dies from radiation -Eats kerbals

[@blank-na-null]

lol true

[@nimbusws5946]

“The gravity inside those rings is a bit too high” The kerbals, months later: 💪

[@melonslice1991]

Prepares them for Eve.

[@sevex9]

I imagine it's like the 'gravitron' rides at fairs, or they're training a la Goku. They'll be ready to defeat Frieza before long.

[@speedman69420]

they will be looking like bodybuilder will be able to just assemble rockets by hand no tools required.

[@ericbao7740]

Life on Laythe: Laythe has very Kerbin attributes, so we can build life on it! So it has volcanic islands... And those volcanic islands have a chance to explode, causing the atmosphere to be poisonous... The water could be toxic as well... And the atmosphere... And there is pretty much no sunlight there *Perfect!* Let's send Kerbals there!

[@kirk.kang27]

water is probably packed full of salt and is only heated by tidal forces, meaning it’s most likely fucking freezing. still though water is water.

[@coffeestainedwreck]

15:27 That was the chunkiest Korolev cross I've ever seen. Also I love the build sequences and I'm glad you kept the whole thing!

[@azriel5]

Matt talking about his station rings: "I believe I went with 36 way symmetry" -realizes his mistake and makes correction to *16 way symmetry -actual symmetry: 32 you tried lol

[@Simulate1NinetyNine]

He tried. That’s all that counts

[@Carnasa]

Cool. *Now make it an SSTO.* Jk amazing design!

[@40watt53]

Stratzenblitz: Good idea, will try.

[@HeidenLam]

Nah, he is gonna do it.

[@brumby92]

I'm sure he's done it. You only need 1200 - 1500 m/s to get from LKO to Laythe if you use an Eve flyby. Just finished my Mk3 Laythe refuelling SSTO and its fun to island hop round laythe. Definitely my favorite destination.

[@NotTheHeroStudios]

bruh

[@alwinstock8795]

@@40watt53 Oh god

[@justarandombird]

Matt: i want a base that can sink and also float on the water Me: sooo you're building a submarine 😂😂

[@pierremonteux8397]

I was thinking of the city of Atlantis

[@kerballaunchalliance7839]

Finally after weeks of Spamming in the comments *Life On Laythe IS Back* Edit: Who thinks that Matt Should send a submarine to Laythe

[@KSPAtlas]

Me

[@GVHKREUIWYFHUJ2]

Matt should definitely send a submarine

[@varminx9763]

Yes

[@isakhultbom6161]

@@varminx9763 yes please

[@alwinstock8795]

Yes

[@rileyg6107]

Video suggestion, Give a moon a moon using an asteroid

[@TheSpaceEngineer]

YES

[@TheSpaceEngineer]

wait do orbital mechanics work in KSP with celestial bodies?

[@Tulin258]

@TheSpaceEngineer yea you can get asteroids into orbit of celestial bodies

[@TheSpaceEngineer]

@@Tulin258 thanks, now I will make a ring of asteroids around kerbin cuz why not

[@secondlieutenan]

Y e s

[@horatioyen256]

2:46 my guess would be the missive gravity changes from Jool producing heat from the friction as Laythe stretches and compresses and/or nuclear activity in Laythe's core

[@frankz5096]

4:48 Your ship: "has a very very very large ring" Kraken: n o

[@panpsalt6757]

I had to search the Kraken up at some point. The official unofficial name is Deep Space Kraken, and it a bug that destroys ships with a lot of part clipping in early versions.

[@ClemensAlive]

4:55 "2001 - A Space Oddity"

[@KoiSpain0]

Lol

[@secondlieutenan]

@@KoiSpain0 this is the comment form a verified account with the lowest likes ever.

[@muna.rising]

30:56 the reason that there's liquid water on laythe is because of the tidal forces caused by the gravitational attraction of jool and the other satellites (moons) behind laythe. Tidal force, means the difference in gravity of two bodies, like how the moon is responsible for the waves in the ocean (it's not actually the moon only, it's the sun and the moon, because they have different masses and distance from the earth, this is also responsible for the heating of the earth's core, and tectonic plate movement). This tidal force(kinda like stretching and squeezing a ball of play dough) creates friction at the core of the planet, therefore heating it up. Because the different satellites orbit at different speeds, therefore creating a tidal force.. Same reason why Europa (one of the moons of Jupiter) has liquid water, although under a few layers of ice. The atmosphere on laythe also contributes to the reason why there is liquid water on it, by trapping all the heat, preventing it from escaping. The reason Europa doesn't have liquid water on its surface is because it's too cold, if it had a thick atmosphere,it most probably would.

[@เจ๊ะอัมนะห์เจะยิ]

Wat

[@scienceoutthere]

Life on Matt’s Europa

[@Saturn_57]

Makes sense :D

[@amimm7776]

Insert the usual space odyssy 2010 joke here

[@CURSEDvids]

I wouldn't even be able to launch this into LKO 😂

[@republicofgamers9842]

You'll get there buddy. I believe in you.

[@anunayy]

I don't think even my computer would be able to handle it

[@kyleking3839]

@@anunayy I play on ps4 I can barely make it to duna

[@CURSEDvids]

@@republicofgamers9842 Thank you :)

[@patricks_music]

I wouldn't even be able to build this

[@vali69]

I don't know what is more impressive, the fact that Matt is building such a big space station and sending it in one go, or the fact that I understand everything that is going on... I remember when I was a noob at this game and stumbled on this channel and I didn't understand anything that was going on... at least now I'm still a noob but when I somehow manage to build something that works, I can definitely get it where I wanted to

[@takapoka2103]

From the discord server. Life on laythe is back now i'm happy

[@Charlie-js8rj]

Hell yeah! Life on Laythe is BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AntonioMatranga]

Matt, make your own futuristic space shuttle!

[@Cexnsored]

I rate this an epic gamer moment also I’ve been able to reduce the kerbals I’ve lost in space down from 15 to about 7-8

[@scottjohnson926]

Halfway there!

[@anunayy]

the rest are probably dead

[@xerosfs]

Per mission?

[@Cexnsored]

X-37bNASA - SFS id say per 2 missions...

[@kaleta9483]

life on laythe is back woohoo

[@varminx9763]

UwU

[@krakenite8444]

@@varminx9763 no dont uwu thats just no

[@KayJblue]

@@varminx9763 stop,no. Please no

[@pomrucznikpixel]

@@KayJblue please stop. no no

[@JoelIvoryJohnson]

Hey, suggestion. Place time markers for the sections in the video description so that KZbin shows the markers on the video tracker. Wx: 00:00 - construction 13:07 - launch 21:20 - capture 27:40 - orbit adjustments

[@vaultechwithsoup6569]

Matt you need a resource scanner for the laythe analysis and since it would be a smallish probe you could also set up a relay network around laythe or jool in the same mission

[@stillchill9781]

funny impossible idea : fighter spaceship, like those clearly impossible ones you see in games and movies

[@goldfishislife3931]

What I think would be a really cool mission, would be to send a space station to jool, but have one rocket attached to it for each of its moons, and just send them all down to each moon

[@Idontknowwhattocallmyself]

23:22 that’s kind of what I did on my first interplanetary transfer, I just sat there for awhile trying and then finally it just worked (I didn’t use any sort of transfer window so it was super inifecient but I was happy)

[@danielstandridge448]

This video looks fantastic Matt! I especially liked the polar shots of laythe and the jool rise as you were finalizing your orbit.

[@AndrewCollins7]

I am so glad you had the little schematic for getting the 36-way symmetry. I can never follow the words when someone just says how to do it.

[@netitofa3682]

For a slower gravity ring you can just use the controller and rotation servo then loop the sequence.

[@eduvert1311]

This is the definition of Underrated channel . We

[@redfuriesanimations]

It’s almost daybreak in Australia, and yet I’m binging Matt Lowne

[@nerdchanel3198]

Matt lowne:life on layfe is back Everyone in this community :finally inner peace

[@ryanrising2237]

As someone playing a career mode save right now, I definitely noticed your putting those RTGs there. It immediately took the craft from 500k.

[@Skoran]

Never stop showing the full build man! I enjoy it way to much :D. Ridiculous build by the way, absolutely mindblowing.

[@rampentpanda]

if you use the servos you can make the ring spin at lower than 5 rpm. you use a controller and set it to continuous playback and do a linear progression from 0 degrees to 359 degrees and just set the time longer or shorter to adjust the RPM

[@qw3r_t]

you gotta use RealPlume. it says that it's for like 1.9 or something, but i tested it and it works for 1.10. make sure to install the stock configs

[@ecogreen123]

11:44 never have i ever seen, made nore even flown a ship big enough to make the VAB seem not big enough

[@L-V426]

As a noob on KSP, thanks for the vids, my first Mun lander was a Lowne Aerospace design, just downloaded the Craft file for this!

[@lovehawks2814]

What likely causes the favorable conditions on Laythe are a result of tidal forces from Jool and Tylo. The resultant tectonic stresses warm the moon and provide a liquid core that in turn provides a magnetic field to protect it from Jool's radiation. Either that, or an abundance of snacks. Something like that.

[@moomoo7167]

You are able to orbit laythe and you make it seem so easy here I can't even orbit the mun

[@teenagestacker6063]

Had the trouble of dipping into the atmosphere a little bit on my Eve mega station, my 10 minute burn turned to a 20 minute burn with panic. Looked really cool though I have the screen shots!

[@niki8934]

4:23 you can actually go to infinite symmetrie by just Repeating the steps

[@mindedrobin6856]

No the limit is your pc

[@fm56001]

15:27 thats one of the coolest parts

[@callumjordan7749]

thank you matt very cool!

[@abunchofidiots5431]

I don't know why but I love laythe

[@aryanshirke7294]

Who doesn't bro? it's beautiful as hell after the new texture revamp

[@kerbal434]

Matt: There's no chance of the dragonfly being recovered. Mark thrimm and Bradly wistance: Ho'l my drink.

[@tureyhall]

Matt, there's a green "Warp to burn start" button on the navball when you have a maneuver planned, right next to the readout for remaining delta-v in the maneuver. That way you won't miss burn start times anymore.

[@JohnDoe-ex8po]

It’s nice that I can’t even get to the moon when you are launching huge colonies to layth

[@Messier-gq9yl]

Same, I can barely get a rocket to orbit 😂

[@zerozerosprivate5547]

Just try and try I yust started 6 months ago I know what you are experiencing, but you will learn yust keep taking little steps... First get a rocket to launch, Then get a rocket to orbit, Get to minmus with a rocket (direct aproch) Get to minmus (Apollo style) Do those things with the mun Get to duna (only going no return) Get to duna (return) Get to duna (manned return) Get to eve (don’t be crazy no return afcourse) Moho Jool Gilly Vall Ike Laythe Eve (return) Jool 5 (all jool moons in one launch Only a few people can do the last 2 and this will take years of practice but believe and don’t give up! Good luck kerbonauts and remember The universe is a hologram, everything is an illusion, buy gold bye! - some one who has only done a duna return mission.

[@zerozerosprivate5547]

O I forgot SSTO’s well u understand what I mean

[@davidgrossemunkenbeck6112]

Me too man I always stick back to planes when I try because I can't get it

[@MRDACK86]

Install mecjeb. Let it run a few probes and watch and learn how it does it then you can repeat on your own.

[@stephenwitwick3926]

I hope you can launch from Laythe in KSP 2 since it it's already habitable and in a great location for interstellar travel.

[@abuBrachiosaurus]

Yes... Solid Rocket *motors*

[@dazkaz15]

Wow! This game is really deep. I had no idea. Great video with excellent narration. Thanks.

[@michalbochenski4329]

Yes! Life on Laythe is finally back! i loved this series and i am happy it's back!

[@ms.fish1238]

Hey Matt I know proboly won’t see this butt your videos are amazing. You are amazing talker I would think you would be a talk show host and your videos always make me more happy. I just landed a rover own duna last day for the first time and then I realized I did not have a sattalite to control it so I sent a sattalite only to relize I use the wrong sattalite dish.

[@seagilly1881]

cool video! I think there is a way to get less than 5rpm on the rotors. You can use the Kal-1000 control unit which lets you set it down to 1 rpm when you type the number in manually.

[@Tulin258]

Challenge: de-orbit a space station (on any planet except kerbin) and turn it into a ground station

[@batuhankavak4796]

There is something called "tidal warming" which warms moons have enough gravity. How it works: a moon with high gravity resisit planet orbital pulling force and make it warm.

[@CarrickLightstar]

Hey Matt, did you know that rather than manually timewarping to your next manoeuvre, you can click on the yellow dotted line AHEAD of where your node is and have the game warp you nice and precisely to the next node? Super handy. Noticed it looked like you were manually warping to each one in the video...

[@crabbus4117]

Every time I rush to watch your videos, I cannot express enough to anyone how amazing you are at this! I started off with the easier parts of the science program of it and got as far as the science on the Minmus biomes. (And yes, your video helped me do this) So, yesterday I did something insane for me. I build a huge ship, launched it, and went for Minmus. I built a Mining Refinery! I used rockets above the refinery to land it but the rockets would keep going without the extra weight and destroy themselves. So now I have a Minmus Mining Refinery!

[@La-banana133]

13:17 Matt Lowne in the launch: OH MY PC

[@millermonsterair]

2:45 well, id say tidal forces play a big role in it. lol

[@totesfleisch258]

Thanks for not cutting the build footage. Really enjoying it!

[@mpereira0795]

my Saturday morning coffee isn't complete without a Matt Lowne KSP video

[@user-fl7cu2bj5u]

Yes this is my favourite series of yours and what a build! Nice job Matt

[@Otefnmjn]

I watched all your videos just waiting for you to release a new one. So happy one's finally out!

[@tik___2831]

great job! it s really cool

[@212keef]

I have watched every planet coaster video and this is my first video watching ksp, it looks fun. Might have to check it out.

[@speedbirdyt5596]

Whoop woop life on Laythe again

[@sheeptothemax9078]

I think because of the size of Jool to compared to Laythe the tidal forces that Jool causes increases the surface temperature causing the water to melt and thus creating oxygen in the atmosphere

[@laughing747]

To prevent wobbling, try autostrut and rigid attachment. It might fix the problem!

[@starmada105]

Hey Matt? NASA called. They want their quantum computer back.

[@ed_lifts]

So that's why KSP didn't crash...

[@destroyishere4655]

My *laptop* would literally explode if I had the same graphic mods and did what Matt did.

[@DragonsAndDragons777]

😂😂

[@dweaver28602]

One finds that, to defeat the Kraken, one must BECOME the Kraken

[@moontruther5849]

that first stage separation was orgasmic. Watched it like 8 times. 15:25

[@MitchCyan]

I’ve got my nice routine of getting home from work and eating my lunch while watching Matt Lowne.

[@The56Kaveman]

"To get good at something you've just got to practice. Yes, ground breaking stuff" .. LOL!

[@brumby92]

Great commentary as always. I love a mission with way too much 'useless' weight. If your a new player playing around with maneuver nodes, Mechjeb or Precise Node made this alot easier for me. I do love the keyboard shortcuts Precise node gives you, and mechjeb - execute maneuver makes getting super precise maneuvers a breeze, even if it is a bit cheaty.

[@RocketmanDan]

Great episode Matt!, nice to see a return to lfife on laythe, I've got a little bit of a weird question, how do you stay so enthusiastic about publishing a new ksp video every week, with all the stresses and strains of everyday life ? it can't be easy coming up with new content on such a regular basis (I know I struggle with it), anyway keep it up mate, stay safe. 🚀

[@creativecreepyturtle]

Gonna be honest with you it sounds like laythe either has really good magnetic fields or there’s something incredibly dense and hot in the core of laythe, warrants a big drill like vehicle

[@iantolambert5630]

You should build a submarine base for transport on Kerbin! It would be good if it Was on Kerbin so you Dont need to build a Rocket.

[@xenowreborn]

2:46 Because of Tidal interactions between Jool, Tylo, and Val

[@ultrasuperkiller]

3:40 take a shot every time he says strut

[@simond.455]

Version 2: Take a shot every time Matt adds a strut.

[@variegatus4674]

@@simond.455 i'd have liver failure from that lol

[@quiethumour9856]

Love your videos, just too much to absorb at once so I watched this whole presentation at 0.75 speed. Wonderful to understand everything you're saying and doing.

[@mkmk143]

Hey matt nice video learnt to build a artificial gravity station from this video

[@hegecroissant3407]

Yo! Life on Laythe is back!

[@finleyjohnson4193]

Excited to see the future episodes of Life On Laythe

[@sillyseagull9468]

Hey Matt Lowne, you should build a Tintin Rocket and go to the Mun! This would be a really interesting idea to see how much fuel you would need for a spacecraft like that! It would be an awesome idea and I would love to see it done. Thanks!

[@lordmalecith2300]

We need sci-fi games with orbital mechanics like KSP

[@bonbin6053]

I finally made it to duna today for the first time, however I may or may not have not had enough fuel to get back. I made a bluffed-mammals mission to save them (they are safe now)

[@aki9438]

I enjoy your videos so much it always makes me want to play again. I never can make it further out than Duna though

[@shayanirenberg3294]

Build the Atlantis from stargate!!

[@ugotissuescupcake5202]

Matt is making damn sure he didn't have to cram this all at the end of saturday. =) love it!

[@MySelfishPlace]

Every so often i get hooked again on your videos, then lunch KSP and try to play it and find out even following tips I cant even get in orbit

[@sirbob430]

My theory for the Laythe mystery is that Jool, like Jupiter, is made of Hydrogen and Helium. Perhaps in Kerbal scale, Jool is large enough that it isn’t quite a star, but it can do things like warm Laythe, or boost the geological activity on Vall.

[@rep304]

Great episode. Cant wait to see where this series goes.

[@boreean1905]

As a solution for the minimum 5 rpm. Maybe is you attach one motor to another one, and one turns at 6 rpm and the other one at 5 rpm in the opposite direction, then would the resulting spin be 1 rpm? Maybe that would be too glitchy

[@oli-117-1]

I literally re watched the life on laythe series last night this is godsend

[@theultimatejeffry6917]

Amazing video, and yes watching the build is literally the fun part.