I have captured quite a few class E asteroids (I think the largest ones) and have taken them into orbit around kerbin. Each asteroid has rockets that I can command, basically they are remote controlled asteroids. They are all there ready to be shot down at the enemy head if there's one...🤣
Accounting for the extent of the debris field on Kerbin when the capture vessel fails to launch, maybe letting the asteroid hit would result in less possible damage.
Usually when I find an asteroid from the tracking station, I just see it's orbit, if it has an encounter with Kerbin I check it's periapsis, if it's above Kerbin's atmosphere I just let it orbit and do nothing, if it's below Kerbin's atmosphere I just let it orbit and do nothing also, cus I'm rly trash at rendezvous
The wobble is the very thing that taught me to make my rockets as sleek as possible, if it's flat and its aiming up, nose cone/anything to round it off.
I stopped playing KSP last year due to a corrupted save. I lost 1 year of progress plus all the aircrafts I spend hours ( litteral days for some) to build. I had build a P-38, Gotha G. Bomber, Handley-Page hp42 and the XF-85 Goblin to name a few. Honestly Your videos makes me want to try it again!
I had the concept done last year, but missed Asteroid Day where I wanted to release it. Did the launcher just this week. And missed Asteroid Day again, but I released it anyway because it had to be done finally :)
Now with ksp 1 you can use mods (procedural parts for big ones and hangar extended) and then use cheat (debug toolbar) for send it direct into orbit without karen effects, sorry, kraken effects🤣 I have build a 20km diameter ring with about only 70 parts(the main body).😅 For example, but you can build strong big ship with low parts and good fps if you use well all the mods that you need. But these large ships don't have much detail because otherwise the parts count increases to astronomical numbers. I hope that ksp 2 will allow you to merge all the parts together and make them behave as a single entity(maybe flexible too), except when too much force break it or when ships collied and then for the areas they touch, the computer then counts them as separate parts. That is, they are a single part until they take damage to an area, and only in that area do the parts come off.
Maybe if there'are too much big collisions, like 2 parallel planes 2kmX2km with 4000 parts each and you collied them the pc see that 8000 parts are too much for your computer and count them like for example 400 bigger parts/entity and the game don't crash.
seeing all the fails to launch the asteroid catcher into space kinda makes me feel better about my rocket when i see it destroy its self in the air lol
The obvious defense mechanism against giant asteroid is giant railguns (which may or may not be also used for artillery/killing impractically sized aircraft)
6:50 would it be cheating if a side_decoupler was added with a tiny cube, that you shift_click drag all the way down to the fuel tanks, then add struts? 7:20 would look like 6:50, but doesn't have the wobble, just like 7:20 ... ... ...
If they were redirecting it to lunar orbit they would go to the moon anyway? Merge the missions because both missions include going to the moon so the one they have chosen would have been redundant if they had picked the other.
Because I sped up the footage about 8x. If you wanna try it out for yourself, the vehicle is on KerbalX: kerbalx.com/The_ShadowZone/Roidball-Asteroid-Catcher
Why don't you use the joint reinforcement mod? I mean it's entertaining to watch rockets wobble and blow up, but it would save you from so much frustration.
This craft almost puts my 0.23.5 solar cruiser to shame... umm on second thought it DOES put it to shame. I concede victory only because you put a sphere over an asteroid, good sir ! Now, do you think you could have launched something like that in 0.23.5 ? By the way it's no wonder you had no time to run the mission. Welcome to my world: Lacks of free time means lots of mission scrubbing :(
So I come here because I want to be lazy and play computer games for a bit. End up learning about future space programs, astronomy, physics etc... I miss Kong.....
More docking ports = more kraken bait. The game is just janky bits of barely working code held together with duct tape and wishful thinking, that's why KSP2 is a total rewrite.
Why do something the logical way when you can do it the Kerbal way? And as a result incur more explosions than the combined nuclear arsenal of Kerbin, and delay the video :)
30 seconds of demonstrating a craft followed by 5+ minutes of showing the attempts to get it into orbit is the correct Kerbal proportions.
This is the way
How to catch asteroids
-NASA and ESA: Lasers or rockets, idk.
-Kerbals:
✋☄️✋
👏
LMAO
The Kraken must have loved this thing
The two have an intimite relationship now.
@@ShadowZone 🤣
I could see my laptop catching on fire.
Me: KRAKEN GO OR I SHALL UNLEASH EVERY NUKE AND GLITCH
Kraken: ok :( bye
ShadowZone: howdy
Kraken:TIME TO FEAST
@@ShadowZone Did you use AutoStrut? Or was even that not enough?
Earth: Gets hit by an Asteroid
Shadow-Zone: Again!
Marco Inaros: I like this guy!
Usually when I find an asteroid that is passing close to Kerbin, I redirect it to actually hit Kerbin.
Satan: well, I just wanna say that im a huge fan
I have captured quite a few class E asteroids (I think the largest ones) and have taken them into orbit around kerbin. Each asteroid has rockets that I can command, basically they are remote controlled asteroids. They are all there ready to be shot down at the enemy head if there's one...🤣
@Garmezon 🤣
@@machekazzo Nope, there is a class G. Still hella impressive though. Congrats 👏
@@machekazzo nvm I just found a class h asteroid
Accounting for the extent of the debris field on Kerbin when the capture vessel fails to launch, maybe letting the asteroid hit would result in less possible damage.
Usually when I find an asteroid from the tracking station, I just see it's orbit, if it has an encounter with Kerbin I check it's periapsis, if it's above Kerbin's atmosphere I just let it orbit and do nothing, if it's below Kerbin's atmosphere I just let it orbit and do nothing also, cus I'm rly trash at rendezvous
You can use mechjeb to help you out on a rendevouz, even after 80 in game hours its a life saver
@@theairacobra I'm too stupid to figure mechjeb out.
@@thewanderer4564 just fuckin use ckan it takes like 5 minutes and mods have only made ksp more enjoyable
@@theairacobra 1 I do use mods though? mechjeb is just not my type of mod, and 2 the hell you getting angry for?
@@thewanderer4564 im not angry?
Now that's what I call a space ball
That launcher looks like a rejected NASA design from the 70's lol
The wobble is the very thing that taught me to make my rockets as sleek as possible, if it's flat and its aiming up, nose cone/anything to round it off.
The king of epic bigness is at it again. Ready to catch some roids!
Marcus!!
Nice Vids
Your contraptions never cease to amaze me!
I stopped playing KSP last year due to a corrupted save. I lost 1 year of progress plus all the aircrafts I spend hours ( litteral days for some) to build. I had build a P-38, Gotha G. Bomber, Handley-Page hp42 and the XF-85 Goblin to name a few.
Honestly Your videos makes me want to try it again!
I LOVE IT!!!!! YOUR AWESOME!!
I'm not gonna lie, I watch this for the explosions.
top quality content as always from the mad scientist
Yep, got a reading on the kerbometer, this one definitely checks out with the Jedediah Seal of Approval.
Man, that was awesome 👏
How long have you been working on this? Pretty sure you've shown parts of this in a much older video
I had the concept done last year, but missed Asteroid Day where I wanted to release it. Did the launcher just this week. And missed Asteroid Day again, but I released it anyway because it had to be done finally :)
@@ShadowZone Better late than never. In my case, it's usually the "never" option. So good for you getting stuff actually done!
💀
dart hit didymos well! we’re still awaiting full results from licia cube to see if it worked or not
You deserve more subscribers man
I love how you show your failures too. So many ksp youtubers hide those
I sure hope KSP2 will allow us to keep making crazy huge stuff like this.
why wouldnt it? it would probaly get even more huge.
@@swarley2500 I seem to remember something about limiting vessel sizes.
@@BixbyConsequence That you can build in the vab, (which btw is still gonn be very lrge considering the size of the launchpad) In orbit its limitless.
Now with ksp 1 you can use mods (procedural parts for big ones and hangar extended) and then use cheat (debug toolbar) for send it direct into orbit without karen effects, sorry, kraken effects🤣
I have build a 20km diameter ring with about only 70 parts(the main body).😅 For example, but you can build strong big ship with low parts and good fps if you use well all the mods that you need.
But these large ships don't have much detail because otherwise the parts count increases to astronomical numbers. I hope that ksp 2 will allow you to merge all the parts together and make them behave as a single entity(maybe flexible too), except when too much force break it or when ships collied and then for the areas they touch, the computer then counts them as separate parts. That is, they are a single part until they take damage to an area, and only in that area do the parts come off.
Maybe if there'are too much big collisions, like 2 parallel planes 2kmX2km with 4000 parts each and you collied them the pc see that 8000 parts are too much for your computer and count them like for example 400 bigger parts/entity and the game don't crash.
1:02
Thanks to this statement I spent a while searching about Kerbal Civilization
Me: *open Lay's in classroom*
Everybody:
Plot twist: The rocket sound is actually the fans on the graphics card ramping up.
Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom
the first launch attempt is truly *kerbal*
you have to be crazy when building that huge rocket and that sphere, just for catching an asteroid
11:55 hahaha this reminds me of Austin Powers. "The radar sir, it looks like a giant..."
"Johnson!"
The baby version of Cindercone from Schlock Mercenary.
Still as insane as always, keep it up.
Fargetanik has entered the chat
Fargetanik: Bring it to me and i will make maps of it
The trumpets are just 👌
Give NASA the money the army gets and do both
Always a good day when you upload.
seeing all the fails to launch the asteroid catcher into space kinda makes me feel better about my rocket when i see it destroy its self in the air lol
The obvious defense mechanism against giant asteroid is giant railguns (which may or may not be also used for artillery/killing impractically sized aircraft)
have you tried luna multiplayer its a great mod for ksp
NASA takes notes like
NASA: write that down write
That intro blew out my ears lol
Asteroids are stored in the balls.
NASA...
This is the way.
Me: KRAKEN GO OR I SHALL UNLEASH EVERY NUKE AND GLITCH
Kraken: ok :( bye
ShadowZone: howdy
Kraken:TIME TO FEAST
kerbal launch for a kerbal craft
Kraken will never be hungry again
8:00 MORE STRUTS!
1.12 docking ports?
Holy crab you finally did it! You captured the asteroid
When in doubt add -more- a ton of boosters(and struts)
This whole mission was an ordeal...
When I think boots on the Moon, I think of two things. The show Space Force and Iron Sky.
Music for the launch sounds so familiar, has it been used in a movie or something?
The track is "Volatile Reaction" by Kevin McCloud, he has done multiple royalty free tracks that a lot of youtubers use.
9:45 Shadow killed Pac Man's great grandpa. 😢
5:35 SIRENHEAD!!!
Didnt you build that ship like 2 years ago? 🤔
6:50 would it be cheating if a side_decoupler was added with a tiny cube, that you shift_click drag all the way down to the fuel tanks, then add struts?
7:20 would look like 6:50, but doesn't have the wobble, just like 7:20 ... ... ...
13:00 BOTH
Mother of god… that is wicked
This is insane
You’re insane.
Thank you.
If they were redirecting it to lunar orbit they would go to the moon anyway? Merge the missions because both missions include going to the moon so the one they have chosen would have been redundant if they had picked the other.
I definitely prefer going back to the moon with astronauts and hopefully establishing a base over a robotic mission to grab an steroid
idk, going back to an empty rock is kinda pointless
Let's hope he never plays Space engineers... He would probably mine an entire planet with a giant rocket
Why do i get the impression the cups for catching the asteroid were welded ;)
Because I sped up the footage about 8x. If you wanna try it out for yourself, the vehicle is on KerbalX: kerbalx.com/The_ShadowZone/Roidball-Asteroid-Catcher
@@ShadowZone nice one.
Is it a bad sign that my device started lagging just by watching the launch attempt?
as much as i like the idea of moon^2 i would prefer that we direct the asteroids away from earth instead of towards it
But, where's the outtakes?
MOAR STRUTS !!!
Big scoop
7:40 if Charlie Brown played KSP
im from the future, and can confirm NASA's DART was a resounding success, and changed the asteroid's trajectory. Your welcome.
Gravity is heartless even In vid games
3:02 they did a terrible physics mistake here: the dust shouldn't have halted without any gases to have friction with.
i've actually made a ship with a grabber and miners, and grabbed a comet...
Why you using miners when you can use mino-
(Labour joke without the child)
Kool
Why don't you use the joint reinforcement mod?
I mean it's entertaining to watch rockets wobble and blow up, but it would save you from so much frustration.
I assume its about beating the game stock.
This craft almost puts my 0.23.5 solar cruiser to shame... umm on second thought it DOES put it to shame. I concede victory only because you put a sphere over an asteroid, good sir !
Now, do you think you could have launched something like that in 0.23.5 ? By the way it's no wonder you had no time to run the mission. Welcome to my world: Lacks of free time means lots of mission scrubbing :(
Bro we wanna go to the moon
Moonbase first. Can build and launch ships due to less gravity more efficiently and use the resources from the moon.
You should check out the game "Starbase"
Crazy? I was crazy once.
Love how you teach that failure helps us to learn and innovate. AGAIN!!!! If we are not failing enough we are not innovating enough.
Elon Musk
O7
So I come here because I want to be lazy and play computer games for a bit. End up learning about future space programs, astronomy, physics etc...
I miss Kong.....
bring a crap ton of space rocks and sell them make big bucks
I reallt wish they brought back an asteroid and put it in orbit around earth. Or the moon
Turn earth in in Kerbin by adding minmas lol
Jeb would be proud
Hollywood also loves to throw realism away totally
it isnt ksp without catastrophic failure at some point in the mission
I prefer NASA going back to the moon quite a bit, given how valuable moon based travel and harvesting is for our species
Why didn't you assembly it on orbit?
Smaller Rockets so maybe less kraken.
More docking ports = more kraken bait. The game is just janky bits of barely working code held together with duct tape and wishful thinking, that's why KSP2 is a total rewrite.
@@KaptenKlant so, KSP was developed by kerbals?
Clamp-o-tron? Who's that?
I feel bad for your computer
Again!
OMG bro autostrut XDXDXD
HAU MANY KERBALS ARE DEAD FROM TIS MISION
It's a bra for the Kraken! ;)
Bro! Space bra! Bruh.
Again!)
Hello!
mmmmm ball
Why do something the logical way when you can do it the Kerbal way?
And as a result incur more explosions than the combined nuclear arsenal of Kerbin, and delay the video :)
Multi asteroid bases are... Not freinds with the kraken. Speaking from personal experiences
Bro, the whole video was just the process of launching it, cmon man I wanna see it grab an asteroid, I know he showed it in the beginning but bro