Using Physics to Desert Jeb in Kerbal Space Program

Why wing it when you can do math then wing it?
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[@ReidCaptain]

Have something cool that I can make in Kerbal?

[@LifeOfExo]

Make a house on rockets

[@mrcelsius2928]

Dunno, dive bomber Just more ksp

[@xaviersmorag8025]

Try to make an armed space ship because we need to have weapons in space right

[@hioyua650]

Bucket

[@p8by]

Van that has expanding wings

[@nevergonnagiveafuck4296]

"i'm pretty sure those red lines are a glitch" casually proceeds to cook the ship with atmospheric drag

[@alexanderortega7559]

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ozrencupac]

Yes

[@keithrushforth4019]

LOL. If your ship needs a heat shield whilst LEAVING the atmosphere, something is very wrong.

[@soupcangaming662]

@@keithrushforth4019 instructions unclear, I put atleast 10 down and all of them immediately exploded before even launching

[@patricvecchiatto]

2:50 "Mainly because i know how they work" *proceeds to put them on the side*

[@ReidCaptain]

Syence

[@polydullmemes3497]

@@ReidCaptain soince

[@vincentvoncarnap2473]

@@ReidCaptain Press alt to only attach to nodes

[@joshuahirosaka8887]

Ciens

[@SemiCollin]

siance

[@stoneforest2639]

You kinda remind me of Nile red, the chemist. You have that technicality in explaination and the humor of “uh it’s prolly fine” then it’s very much not fine, but then it somehow is fine.

[@voltydragon6140]

Yes

[@manioq1447]

I know Nile Red/Nile blue!

[@DeeJame]

@@manioq1447 You mean Nile Purple?

[@user-iw5yu5uc9z]

IKR SOUNDS LIKE HIM TOO

[@apples7568]

It’s his hidden account

[@irmaosmatos4026]

18:07 Jeb when the spaceship doesn't want to go home: "Fine, I'II do it myself"

[@Julian-wi2sc]

Reid: Starts posting twice a week Me: *Visible Happiness*

[@ampoulgon8716]

7:56 this dude just did freaking rocket science in the most casual way ever

[@labo3900]

Welcome to KSP

[@fractal5764]

It is quite simple though.

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

If you play KSP you slowly start to realise orbital mechanics (at least single body physics, n body is a little more complicated) are remarkably simple.

[@ampoulgon8716]

I'm scared to think what you guys would consider "complex"

[@vincentvoncarnap2473]

@@ampoulgon8716 you get the hang of it if you play for say, like 100-200 hrs. i wasted 1400 in this game

[@jameskivenko]

always check your staging! Also, you didn't "turn way too early". It's actually more efficient to do a proper gravity turn where you lean the rocket gradually until you're entirely horizontal, instead of flying up and *then* sideways I've been a long-time fan of KSP, I hope you make more of these videos!

[@ReidCaptain]

I'm glad i checked staging so early into the flight, usually i mess it up way way later in the flight lol Also yeah, but i finished that turn way earlier than I would have liked. Fortunately it didn't require a relaunch!

[@bobbyroy5316]

@@ReidCaptain actually, you should have done it earlier! Generally if you are trying to do a efficient gravity turn you start turning at 2000(or less) feet. You then keep gradually turning, and continue turning the entire flight into orbit.

[@no_name2882]

@@ReidCaptain I aim to be at 45° on the nav ball by 10,000 meters and aim to be at 75° by 50,000 meters then flatten out at 70,000 meters. I would also recommend using the maneuver maker as it gives you a much more circular orbit!

[@magica3526]

@@ReidCaptain that was a phenomenally inefficient gravity turn lol

[@annabellefawn4171]

@@magica3526 genuinely it was so painful to watch 😭

[@xamarani]

17:57 Jeb: I can glitch into an alternate universe where there's 0g, but I can appear in this universe. Jeb is magic

[@skippy6875]

This has happened to me multiple times...

[@redditersinn4737]

Jeb can fly right so how about he fly back to earth.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

@@redditersinn4737 thats what im thinking too, heh

[@Soulful_01]

@@redditersinn4737 He'll burn up in the atmosphere

[@Hlebuw3k]

Looks like its time for Matt to save another soul

[@ancientpixel9809]

came here to say this! They are... THE BLUNDERBIRDS!

[@AssistantCoreAQI]

Ah, Hello. Been A While, Hasn't It? I've Even Changed My Name Over Time. I Used To Be "ZombieHeadShotGaming". It's Odd Seeing You Here, I Almost Completely Forgot.

[@farbenfrohesgrau4056]

@@ancientpixel9809 saving the kerbin race, one stranded explorer a time

[@marshaenderheart]

Hahaha yes xd

[@chiiip8864]

In association with the Kerbin Broadcasting Corporation...

[@79_protons]

Scrap Mechanic, KSP, your videos are always realy diverse and very interesting.

[@gamerboy7224]

safety inspector: so why did you put this on? Reid captain : *BECAUSE IT LOOKS COOL*

[@landosstudio7448]

Is ur name Kayden?

[@gamerboy7224]

@@landosstudio7448 Nope

[@thebearslicer7736]

reid there is no sound wait my headphones were all the way down

[@ReidCaptain]

Amazing

[@Logia_]

*Big brain time*

[@cnat_sepll]

Reid: Formulates and designs complex contraptions Viewer: headphones dont go BRRRRR

[@installwastaken]

It's so refreshing to see someone put something on a rocket because "they looked cool." It's a good break from the hyper efficient all the time KSP videos.

[@Enderia2]

MORE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSTERS!

[@farenhite4329]

Then there is that eve shuttle video with 15 kilotons.

[@theEWDSDS]

5:45 "so for the most part they should be ok, they just exploded"

[@WasatchWind]

Woah, this surprised me - my initial thought when I got the notification was that it was from SWDennis xD

[@polydullmemes3497]

I thought it was from Danny2462

[@1224chrisng]

I thought it was Bradley Whistance

[@samdabugg]

"So the next thing i'm putting on is some landing gear like this, and it's gonna be good for... 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨" *ah, yes. this floor is made out of floor*

[@PiePR106]

This guy has made everything overcomplicated.

[@oddmundvoll1768]

*Protip* You can actually change the staging on the launchpad

[@thomasv1384]

he calls kerbin earth, I call earth kerbin lol ;)

[@wojtekpolska1013]

18:10 "i can't fly back home in a rocket, so i'll just jump back home"

[@xboydubose7254]

"No chance of anything going wrong" *No fuel* *Door blocked by ground*

[@jeffjefferson5095]

I loved this video! The math was actually really interesting. KSP does a great job of giving you an intuitive understanding of orbits, but none of the actual math. Thanks for that! I would love to see you do more KSP!

[@AkashWShah]

Damnit Reid every week I forget how amazing you are and every week I'm astonished at how great your videos are.

[@wiking4098]

Alternative title: Reid Captain big brains math while Jeb struggles to survive on another planet in Kerbal Space Program

[@MrSuperPatar]

you're a genius. I love the way you explain everything, it is so helpful

[@Somebodysgamin]

Loved this video and all of the in-depth explanation. I'm hoping you'll play more Kerbal in the near future.

[@noot3778]

"so the next thing i'm putting on is some landing gear like this, this is going to be good for.. landing" beautiful

[@turner7777]

I really like your content because you make it scientific in a way, its not just dumb gameplay, but you explain what and why you do it!

[@lolosmashkartsyt9068]

"Finally, a normal mission!" "Oh.."

[@Hadeks_Marow]

The captain out here accidently making supermans krypton rocket and taking it out to meet martian man hunter. (seriously, look up images, your final stage looks exactly like how the kriptonian space shuttle looks like.)

[@savageraccoon787]

Jeb: 17:57 Me: He's too powerful to be left alive!

[@tardationl1499]

I praise you for both having both the technical knowledge of even knowing what 'V-Delta' is, and saying "holding mechanism thingies"

[@fractal5764]

'V-Delta'

[@tardationl1499]

@@fractal5764 okay, sure, point stands.

[@Ziialan]

Hello captain! Goodjob on the videos! They're very entertaining, I like watching them especially to rest after a tiring day. Thank you for making them. Anyway, out of curiosity, How are you, Captain? How have you been?

[@UltimatePerfection]

I know you are not Rick Astley, but why did you ran around and desert him? You should never give up on your Kerbals.

[@gamingwithmatt9561]

Gonna give you up, gonna let you down, gonna run around and desert you!

[@actorpus]

Things like landing gear and lights have buttons on the top of the screen, parachutes can be deployed via staging

[@icmsloth9495]

Rip that gravity turn. for the most efficient launch trajectory you should be aiming to be at 45 degrees by 10000 meters and then continue nosing over. After getting to 45 deg there is a way to just go by eye but it takes a lot of practice so I would suggest to just try to get over to 60 deg and then once your apoapsis is up to 90 km just set a maneuver at apoapsis to get into a stable orbit.

[@coffeedude1468]

I start turning at 100 m/s and then be at a 90 degree angle at 45000 meter, then i cruise to apoapsis

[@therealcanadagaming]

I like your funny words magic man

[@Marc-jk2xo]

I need more of this, playing this game that way is just juicy

[@supansup]

Reid Captin: Unfortunetly there are no saves in real life Literly 5 min later: proceeds to quicksave

[@someguywithnoideas6834]

Remember watching videos like this, soon got the game and I’ve been doing really good, performed a Duna direct ascent mission somehow, hope your flights go well Reid

[@farbenfrohesgrau4056]

never gonna run around and desert you

[@ReidCaptain]

I gave him up

[@paul1156]

Watch out for angry Kevin's

[@TTancevat]

YES, I have been waiting for this

[@IdentityCrisis1581]

This guy is going to build his own rocket in real life. And he learned it all from kerbal space program.

[@bottlekruiser]

Jeb should've just climbed his way out of the gravity well

[@stuchly1]

I love the stark contrast between the ways you and the real civil engineer play KSP. 🤣

[@Egerit100]

I definitely prefer this though

[@stuchly1]

@@Egerit100 yeah.

[@Petr0Balabanov]

18:01 you could jump him all the way back to Kerbal

[@jmenomee8598]

I've never seen a more complicated way of interplanetary transport just warp to a good transfer window with a dune to schedule a maneuver and that's it!

[@jameshowell1214]

the reason you did most of your things: it looks cool

[@alixhuether8543]

an interesting project in kerbal is always making some weird space stations with lots of dockings and whatnot

[@sunnywunny]

adhd is funny when i got the rescue mission in my recommended and i dont have the attention span to go to the channel and find the original so i just waited a few days until it popped into my rec

[@thatcookieguy9019]

This brings back memories. Used to binge watch kerbal space program youtubers

[@The_Qcumber]

Jeb learned to fly because of your mistakes he doesnt need a rocket now

[@finn7453]

Why is this so enjoyable to watch even though I am dying of your (no offence) kind of poor ksp skills. I think I enjoy the pain it is causing me so thank you??

[@loganthibert4023]

No one: Jeb after he realizes he's stuck forever: *NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!*

[@scrimbling]

18:04 jeb is literally pooping invisible poop so fast it can push him up

[@runforitman]

3:32 the correct way to make scientific choices

[@hulksmashnoobsgotit2387]

"On a lonely planet slowly spinning its way to damnation"

[@magica3526]

0:30 because it's light? it's incredibly heavy for it's size and thrust lol

[@azztopia]

,,But they look pretty cool so i went with them'' Kerbal in a nutshell

[@ampoulgon8716]

18:10 this dude literally just called freaking rocket science simple.

[@trueblueflare]

It is if you know what your doing. Same could be said about a lot of things, for example, I think game design is simple.

[@ampoulgon8716]

@@trueblueflare well yes, but actually no.

[@wadestelmaszek7435]

Bruh had an AT field in the upper atmosphere on kerbin. I’m literally dying of laughter.

[@sakib6258]

"Hello, Matt Lowne? Yup, it's happened again."

[@EDoyl]

good math, well explained, nice and easy, good job.

[@crabbyeric900]

This reminds me of one of those typing games they made us play in 1st grade

[@ReidCaptain]

Gaming

[@crabbyeric900]

@@ReidCaptain you stole that from Danny Devito twitter 😡

[@PedroHenrique-ds3re]

@@crabbyeric900 cancelled 😡

[@Claire-gz4tr]

Literally rocket science, my goodness

[@micklenier6152]

once you reach certain distance from kerbin, the atmosphere is so low it barely slows you down. so it's better to save fuel on good ascend curve. (i believe it's something like 20km which you wont be there for too long)

[@mitchelparker9132]

Please do more KSP videos. I like the game, but I REALLY suck at it. I also enjoy watching people like you do amazing builds and maneuvers. Thank you!

[@zilbal2367]

I can also recommend Matt lowne and some of Scott Manley’s old Ksp videos. They helped me learn a lot about the game.

[@mitchelparker9132]

@@zilbal2367 Thanks for the info! I will definitely look into it

[@Hadeks_Marow]

Request: Whenever you put a timestamp in the video, can you also put it in the description? I only ask this because when you do that, it updates the video seekbar automatically to break the video off at the timestamp so you can jump to it quicker and with more precision.

[@CyanZone69]

what

[@orionfpv613]

" but once I ended up getting it up, I let him get off"

[@luckylmj]

Just FYI, Kerbin's atmosphere ends at 70,000 metres, not 100,000.

[@tigru9545]

You could go back to Earth with that bug at the end of the video.

[@GhostPlayer4873]

the thumbnail is beautiful.

[@mm-rj3vo]

Four prop drone with dangling Kerbal pilot on a rope, far below.

[@thomasv1384]

i LOOOOVE this game! please moaar videos!!!

[@thatguybrody4819]

the kraken encounter at the end is a sign. you must spaghettify kerbals as a sacrifice.

[@Just_Dan44]

jeb going to earth using bug

[@OlaftheGreat]

3 years and you haven't even left kerbin orbit, this game is crazy

[@charleston-re3dw]

9:50 you can know what your period is if you click on the purple button on the bottom left corner, you will see the data of your apoapsis, periapsis, the time you have left before reaching those points and the period.

[@backslash4571]

Just so you know, when performing a gravity turn you can actually start turning when your speed is as low as 30m/s. Tilt approx. 5 degrees, then slowly follow the prograde marker until you’re pointing 45 deg. off vertical at around 10km height. Then follow prograde until your apoapsis is the desired height

[@dek5775]

Looks like Jeb can jump his way out of there

[@AndreaSisto]

Hello! Loved the video! Just a simple tip: if you do your escape burn and transfer at the same time, you save a ton of fuel. Imagine it like a right angle triangle. What you did is do the 2 small sides, when you could have done directly the hypothenuse which is smaller

[@PedroHenrique-ds3re]

I like KSP hope you do more

[@OrdinarilyOrdinaryGoose]

this video was hard to watch but I respect this guy for succeeding in the worst way possible.

[@tofudaturtle271]

Holy shit, he made something conventional in the game (in all honesty, good video! :D)

[@manganeseheptoxide7825]

Hey, i see you were struggling with attaching the vectors to the second stage. You can attach only to green nodes by holdng alt (or lctrl i dont remember) while trying to attach.

[@ni-keybomboclat]

and legend says jeb is still jumping to this day trying to get home

[@Levcreater9909]

6:44 Reid Captain: i actually did get a circular orbit around the Earth Me: you said Earth, not Kerbin

[@supergreatlifewithgames1080]

I had that same bug happen on minimus and had to revert a bit to save bob

[@kilometerbob2662]

*grainy film reel starts playing* on a lowly planet...

[@timothymanukian7868]

Mans just calculated a duna encounter

[@exio_exio1234]

Can u make tutorial s to go in orbit and landing on other planets and stuff?

[@erher1433]

jeb is not stuck he can flyy!

[@YMandarin]

I think that's a case for the blunderbirds

[@Zero-pz7ed]

homie just turned into mathman

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

You should go do something on Laythe, its one of the most interesting moons

[@SenorCluck]

Wow I just started watching KSP videos this week

[@ihateandreykrasnokutsky]

I expected him jumping to space.

[@flafik]

When using side fuel tanks make sure to use fuel lines pumping fuel to main rocket this way you drastically increase range dumping empty tanks and engines

[@henryg.8762]

My brain hurts... Amazing job!