[Jester's Trek] Picture of the Week: Is it hot in here?
Picture of the Week: Is it hot in here?
Just to enrage the "This! Is! An! EVE Blog!" crowd of commenters still further, POTW honors goes to this screen shot I took in KSP:
Kerbal Space Program has just as gorgeous internet spaceships as EVE does, in its own way. The picture is inspired by one of my regular KSP commenters who bemoaned the fact that I hadn't bought the nuclear engine yet. So I bought one, fitted out one of my Pathfinder series probes with it, and sent it on the hardest mission I could think of: ultra-close examination of the sun.
And the engine performed the mission beautifully, handling my first attempt at a gravity assist with ease and getting me into a super close orbit with no trouble at all (including a 1.5 million km peri at one point). Check out that freakin' orbital velocity! Insane. As a bonus, the mission brought in 255 science so the engine nearly paid for itself in one mission. This engine is definitely going to be the centerpiece of my Jool mission. Thanks for the tip!
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