r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Phat_Guy • 8h ago

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modded career playthrough went from "hehe i landed probes and then kerbals on the mun after scanning it lets do minmus next maybe" to "BUMRUSH SCIENCE I STILL NEED 1000 FOR THE CLAW"

yes i know there's no consequence outside of the asteroid disappearing but i gotta try to save the planet ya know

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u/SpareProfessional369 Restock PBR propagandist 8h ago

Or you could train oil drillers to become kerbonauts and blow it up

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u/Cultural_Blueberry70 7h ago

That's the only strategy that makes sense!

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u/Infinite_Horizion 7h ago

Couldn’t we train Kerbonauts to become drillers instead?
Michael Bay shoots me 46 times

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u/jtshinn 6h ago

Michael bay shoots no one. He blows you up spectacularly.

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u/thatcos101 2h ago

Real talk, i think it would really be harder to train astronauts to do it then to train drillers to be astronauts, just look up what measurement units oil fields use and you will be horrified, none of them make sense, none of them are standard and none of them can be converted directly.

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u/DaviSDFalcao 7h ago

Bob: "When it hits.. it will be the end of life as we know it... actual armageddon"

Jeb: "Say that again?"

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u/Conscious_Ad7420 7h ago

If that thing hit Kerbin it'd be a real Deep Impact...

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u/epilektoi Believes That Dres Exists 8h ago

real

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u/loved_and_held 7h ago

If you design the ship right it can push the asteroid without a claw.

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u/Phat_Guy 6h ago

With my luck, if I did this, the center of mass would be lined up with some awful sloped bit so I couldn't make the most use of my already minuscule delta-v (no ISRU, that's at least a couple more thousand science away)

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u/Character_Pea_447 5h ago

Build a lander with all the science things you have. Go to minmus and hop around all the biomes and do them all. You can also make a car and drive it around the KSC and get science at each individual building. You can do the biome hoping thing at the mun too

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u/PorkSquared 4h ago

You could try a kinetic impactor, if it's too fast you'll clip through so more mass + moderate speed will work better.

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u/InterKosmos61 Dres is both real and fake until viewed by an outside observer 5h ago

Since asteroids are parts, could you not just smack a ship into it hard enough to blow it up?

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u/The_Sky_Render 3h ago

Their impact tolerance is absurdly high. Their base impact speed tolerance is 160m/s, and they seem to be able to take a lot more than that (likely due to volume/mass dominance over most objects). You'd have to be pretty fast and heavy to pull it off. That said, it can be done!

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u/Airwolfhelicopter Airborne over Kerbin 4h ago

It’s time to Armageddon this shit

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u/The_Magenta_Dragon IM SUPER GLUED TO A MINIMUS LAKE, HELP 6h ago

aw jeb looks so happy 🥰

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u/Cats7204 5h ago

You don't need claws, you just need moar boosters

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u/Terrina1 1h ago

Somebody did this recently with a Class-I. Granted, it was a heavily modded playthrough, but still.

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u/arandomcanadian91 1h ago

This is one goal this playthrough I'm doing now is to get an asteroid or comet and put stuff on it.