Well, at least Enming Kerman will have many records under his belt now: - The first Kerbal to fly an aircraft on another world - The first Kerbal death on another world - The first mission fatality to not result in 100% crew loss Rest in Peace, Enming Kerman: soared among the stars to ascend into the heavens.
On nervous wings a brave kerbal flew, to meet red planets dust. The kraken struck his wings askew, the hinges turned to rust. Now he falls, towards his dream to fly on virgin worlds afar, so remember the bravest of the team, who now flies amongst the stars.
Enming Kerman: the first flight in atmospheres beyond our own, failed to endure your craft's plight - succumbing to the airs unknown. The pioneer without a fear: first flying free for science, but leaving us to shed a tear. You must rejoice your new residence.
I.Q Episode 43: Extract from the bestselling non-fiction book, 'The Ephemeral Life and Abrupt Death of Erming Kerman'. The audiobook version, as read by Scott Manley...
I'd like to think Enming Kerman died happy. He achieved his dream, after all - he was the first Kerbal ever to soar through alien skies. Also the first Kerbal ever to land on Duna, first Kerbal ever to touch Duna's surface (even if it was very, very fast and violently) and the first Kerbal to die anywhere else than on Kerbin. Maybe in his final moments, he realized all this, just as he realized he wasn't going to walk away from this alive, and maybe, he was content.
Scott this episode is by far one of my favourite of the recent crop (not to say the others were bad!) - the Enming story was fantastic and really engaging - I genuinely said 'awwww' when he died! I'm so glad that after 15-odd episodes of waiting the drama on Duna has been more than worth it. Thanks so much, keep it up and I can't wait for the next episode!
I know this is just a game, but with how much effort goes into making these trips and creating these crafts, you can help but feel invested emotionally and adventurously. Well done sir.
Whenever an accident happens I am literally on the edge of my seat. I'm loving these videos! I've also got into the habit of "no turning back" like in these videos. That means most of my missions end with a rescue craft saving everyone. I'm still learning!
Amazing how far KSP has come, you could basically do this mission stock now, unfortunately you'd miss half the fun with the craft not randomly falling apart.
It was so sad when I saw the mission briefing after the plane crashed, and searched for the message "Emming Kerman was Killed" until I finally found it. May he rest in peace, with lots of snacks.
RIP [Rest In Pieces] Enming Kerman. Literally. Judging from the impact speed, anyway. Maybe more like RID. Rest in disintegration. Or rest in Duna. So many different ways to say it...
Bicycle landing gears...? Er. Poor Kerbal. Still loving the series. Glad to see things can go wrong for you as well. Makes my recent many rover probes were sent yet none where chosen debacle on Minimus more palatable.
Doesn't this remind anyone of that NASA Mars rescue game he played not long ago? The one with the Mars plane that flies overhead and crashes just to the north?
Something i forgot to mention on the livestream is that you can actually turn your ship to the correct position using those small engines. Just start the ones on the side touching the ground and this will flip the whole thing arround. I hope you find this usefull.
Looks like SAS was responsible for the side-on landing there. Turning it off would have allowed the chutes to put it on its feet (see: 3:32) . Damn Kerbonauts, they were probably eating snacks or something at the time, and didn't notice the ever more desperate blinking SAS light in the pod telling them they were about to meet Duna's surface :)
The Kerbals should rename the Spaceplane Hanger to the "Enming Kerman Hanger" in his honor. I also expect some kind of plane-shaped memorial parked permanently (if not entirely safely) next to the runway so all incoming or outgoing kerbals can salute his memory.
Nuuu Emming! D: Well, I guess he died for his family, for his country, for his planet. He died doing what he loved; to fly his space plane. Good bye Emming! We will miss you!
Im really digging the "radio show" kind of thing. For example, cutting into your original stream audio as a "radio transmission" and cutting it when kerbal died. It like listening to a story, and I like it. Kind of like a "radio play" from back in the day.
It wasn't a mysterious accident, you said Putin was better than Chuck Norris, and seconds later he did a roundhouse kick from home and the in-suing vibrations demolecularized your ship and it fell apart.
Farewell Emming Kerman. May your sacrifice never be forgotten. Fun fact: Scott's interstellar quest now has a higher body count than "Rambo: First Blood". Still, all these missions to all those planets with only two casualties is pretty darn impressive. I've killed more than that just getting off Kerbin.
LOok at the bright side not only was he able to be the first to fly on another planet he was also the first to ride a motorcycle on another planet. May his memory live on.
Hmmmm. Doubt aerobraking parachutes would've helped you much at such a high altitude, Scott. Air density is just too low up there to make a big impact. I'd probably have gone for 3-4 separatrons used as retro-rockets. You fire'em up as you touchdown, you'll be stopped in no time :).
Scott Manley At least the astronaut inside would be ALIVE, and you could still use the main engine for who knows what, maybe driving back to the base and refueling stuff?
Scott Manley I would have turned the engine up as soon as the aircraft lost both wings and landed the thing as a rocket- but hindsight is 20-20. You probably should have had the wheel brakes on a different action group to the airbrakes, though, so you could leave them on...
Found out how to make Magnetometer data collectable. Add these variables to the part.cfg after the xmitDataScalar variable: dataIsCollectable = True collectActionName = Take Data interactionRange = 1.2
Scott Manley Oh, good to know! The mysterious force ripping the Duna Express apart is apparently propagating quickly through the Kerbol system, making all kinds of phunky physics possible =)
olmen375 first the destroyed spaceplane and disappearence of Landbher. Then the wonky decoupler on Sean's spacecraft. Then the mysterious explosion of the build-a-rover on minmus. Its so easy to make a great sabotage story from all the physics derps in ksp!
Bummer about the crash. As you discovered, the hardest part about flying on Duna isn't the flying itself, but slowing down enough to land safely at what corresponds to a massively high altitude on Kerbin. But it's a hoot if you can get it to work, WAY better than rovering.
That'd be awesome - I wanna see giant, multi-compartment air bags rolling over the surface of Duna and then slowly deflating to reveal their payload, just like the older Mars rovers used. Would be an easier way for n00bs to land, too ;)
I did the same thing with a winged drone (no kerbal inside) and without ferrom aerospace (just using the stock air model) and I successfully landed on a flat spot near the crater lake on duna.
TheEventHorizon429 I have begun actual station building on several worlds. It is possible but VERY time consuming designing and getting each module there, then in place perfectly aligned the way where it cosmetically pleases. The render distance you speak of is correct, it is only viewable around 2-2.5km away.
Stefan Otero Oh, forgot to mention..... my best station uses roughly 500 parts or so but the lag isnt overly bad. It has a stable 20fps but feels like its 15fps which I believe is due to slowed calculations while it renders real time leaving a quirky small ms latency.
TheEventHorizon429 I'm not really sure I understand what type of station you have in mind when you say it's impossible. I've built many a small station orbiting around Kerbin mostly. A couple around the Mun and Minmus. Why couldn't that be done with any planet? I don't know the part count of those stations but something in the order of magnitude as the ones Scot builds in his "reusable space program" (great series btw!). Biggest problem with space stations is KSP imho is the wobbly-physics-from-kerbal-hell. That sets a practial limit on how big you can build them before the woblotron2000 shakes everything loose in gratutios explisions. Using those big (Senior) docking ports makes them less wobbly. Using KAS to attach LOTS of struts even less so (plus it adds some actual purpose to EVA =).
TheEventHorizon429 I know, I've done this. It is easily possible. I even have an experimental 'joke' station that orbits the Mun at 10000meters above the surface and narrowly hits mountains each day.
The Kerbal could've jumped out at 10:00 and landed using his jetpack. Kerbals can survive a crash at any horizontal speed as long as it has little vertical velocity.
Y'know, this whole Duna mission would make a pretty good movie. Better than Apollo 13 maybe, better than Armageddon for sure. RIP Enming Kerman though :(
Well, at least Enming Kerman will have many records under his belt now:
- The first Kerbal to fly an aircraft on another world
- The first Kerbal death on another world
- The first mission fatality to not result in 100% crew loss
Rest in Peace, Enming Kerman: soared among the stars to ascend into the heavens.
-Second kerbal to die ever in IQ
RIP in peace Emming Kerman
2013-2014
"Gone but not forgotten."
Real Astronauts don't have to worry about the laws of physics changing between launch and arrival. It just goes to show why Kerbals are so badass.
On nervous wings a brave kerbal flew,
to meet red planets dust.
The kraken struck his wings askew,
the hinges turned to rust.
Now he falls, towards his dream
to fly on virgin worlds afar,
so remember the bravest of the team,
who now flies amongst the stars.
Enming Kerman: the first flight
in atmospheres beyond our own,
failed to endure your craft's plight -
succumbing to the airs unknown.
The pioneer without a fear:
first flying free for science,
but leaving us to shed a tear.
You must rejoice your new residence.
@@Shna_na Im crieng. :*
13:25
After confirming that Enming Kerman was killed:
Sean: Wooohoo! I hated him!
Archibald: He owed me $500 :(
***** Why did Enming owe Archibald that much?
Crazy4Coasters Enming owed Archibald because Enming wanted to make a car out of a command pod, so he told Archibald to do the engineering.
Okay.
Crazy4Coasters 124% of doctors agree!
NOOOOO! *grabs anti-spam weapons*
"haha not what i intended, its a...." -last words of Erming Kerman. 1st death in intersellar history. You will be missed dearly :,,(
What about the other guy who burned up?
TOASTEngineer Wasn't interstellar.
Dragon's breath Interplanetary
Interstellar is traveling inbetween 2 or more stars
Your savior Well at least I don't have weird haircut.
Dragon's breath Atleast i do not have bad dragon breath!
Enming Kermin began to search through his vocabulary for words to describe this...
"THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!"
I.Q Episode 43: Extract from the bestselling non-fiction book, 'The Ephemeral Life and Abrupt Death of Erming Kerman'.
The audiobook version, as read by Scott Manley...
I would buy it!
I would buy that as well... RIP Erming.
Or we could wait for J.J.Abrams to do the "Alternate universe" where Erming Kerman makes it... lol
RIP, Enming Kerman. You will never be forgotten.
Enming Kerman didn't fly safe.
I'd like to think Enming Kerman died happy. He achieved his dream, after all - he was the first Kerbal ever to soar through alien skies. Also the first Kerbal ever to land on Duna, first Kerbal ever to touch Duna's surface (even if it was very, very fast and violently) and the first Kerbal to die anywhere else than on Kerbin.
Maybe in his final moments, he realized all this, just as he realized he wasn't going to walk away from this alive, and maybe, he was content.
2:55
"As long as it doesn't spontaneously explode, it will be fine!"
Engineering in a nutshell
Can't wait 'til the next episode. With the production value and cliff hangers - I've kind of gotten hooked. :)
He landed just fine.....
Now *stopping* after landing is a different story.
With interstellar quest over and looking back, this was definitely my favourite episode! (I think, I'm re watching all of them in a marathon)
Scott this episode is by far one of my favourite of the recent crop (not to say the others were bad!) - the Enming story was fantastic and really engaging - I genuinely said 'awwww' when he died! I'm so glad that after 15-odd episodes of waiting the drama on Duna has been more than worth it. Thanks so much, keep it up and I can't wait for the next episode!
I'm sure real life rocket scientists are really glad that the laws of physics don't randomly change between launch and landing.
I know this is just a game, but with how much effort goes into making these trips and creating these crafts, you can help but feel invested emotionally and adventurously. Well done sir.
03:43 That was one evil laugh.
for some reason, whit all the "back-story" that Scott gave, I genuinely felt bad when Ening Kerman(i think that how you spell it) died. :(
Proof that Mr. Manley is a master of drama!
Whenever an accident happens I am literally on the edge of my seat. I'm loving these videos! I've also got into the habit of "no turning back" like in these videos. That means most of my missions end with a rescue craft saving everyone. I'm still learning!
"Sean?"
"Yeah Archibald?"
"I think Enming is dead."
"Yeah me too."
"You surprised?"
"Nope. Not at all."
I just love all of the different ways you tell the story of Interstellar quest.
"fly safe"
He tells us to fly safe after crashing a plane into Duna, killing the pilot?
I just love what you're doing here Scott. Favourite series on youtube. Keep it up! Can't wait for the next installment,
"It survived!!!"
Thanks for this series Scott. I'm enjoying it a lot.
Erming Kerman Died doing his dream.
"I'm not saying it's humans, but it's humans!" Giorgio Kerbaloupoulous
Tremendous episode once more!
Scott Manley
It's official! Welcome to NASA! xD
The (Scott) Manley Manouvre!
The Manley Maneuver - KSP cinematic
Amazing how far KSP has come, you could basically do this mission stock now, unfortunately you'd miss half the fun with the craft not randomly falling apart.
13:23 "Snap back to reality, oh there goes gravity" I don't know how nobody else made this joke!
mom's spaghetti
It was so sad when I saw the mission briefing after the plane crashed, and searched for the message "Emming Kerman was Killed" until I finally found it. May he rest in peace, with lots of snacks.
Very smart with the engines being able to flip. Cool!
Another amazing episode ! I couldn't wait to see what would happen with that Duna Mission ;)
Finally! So long before this mission came to Dune, Ep 43, omg :D
You are The Man. I really look forward to each new video -- keep up the good work.
Wow that base landing was a surprise! I would've bet on a big fireball :) My first Mars landing in my RSS series wasn't quite so succesfull...
RIP [Rest In Pieces] Enming Kerman. Literally. Judging from the impact speed, anyway. Maybe more like RID. Rest in disintegration. Or rest in Duna. So many different ways to say it...
+Capt T But I am genuinely sad. :( He didn't even have a chance to prove himself to the crew.
So glad that wasn't a simulation as it was dam good fun to watch and proves that the daredevil spirit is alive and well in the kerbal universe :)
Quality storytelling ^_^
Bicycle landing gears...? Er. Poor Kerbal. Still loving the series. Glad to see things can go wrong for you as well. Makes my recent many rover probes were sent yet none where chosen debacle on Minimus more palatable.
Drop everything! There's a new episode!
Lol, omg i love this series, and a bicycle plane xD oh i miss this
When the first part landed on Duna I could feel my heart beating insanely quickly. Scott has that effect when things go wrong. :)
+The Nerd at least it wasn't Jeb
He shall be missed.
R.I.P Emming! :(
*Enming
Spoilers :p
does the rover have a Gatling gun? XD
your narration is pretty damn good scott!!! :D
"And as he came close time seemed to stand still" that one really got me ^^
niiiice this is what I wanted to watch from you scott :) Ive been trying to land on duna as my first planet and failed miserably cause out of fuel.
RIP Enming Kerman.
R.I.P Enming Kerman D':
Doesn't this remind anyone of that NASA Mars rescue game he played not long ago? The one with the Mars plane that flies overhead and crashes just to the north?
When are we going to find out about the signal on the Mun?
Maybe it's associated with the mysterious force that hit the Duna Explorer?
Oh god, you're like my my teachers when it come to stories.
Scott Manley Are there perhaps artifacts, related to the mysterious force, spread over Kerbin and it's moons?
I know you from somewhere, I think.
it's all aliens man ALIENS I TELL YAH!! lol
And after much deliberation, Scott Manley lands on Duna! :D
Something i forgot to mention on the livestream is that you can actually turn your ship to the correct position using those small engines. Just start the ones on the side touching the ground and this will flip the whole thing arround. I hope you find this usefull.
Looks like SAS was responsible for the side-on landing there. Turning it off would have allowed the chutes to put it on its feet (see: 3:32) . Damn Kerbonauts, they were probably eating snacks or something at the time, and didn't notice the ever more desperate blinking SAS light in the pod telling them they were about to meet Duna's surface :)
The Kerbals should rename the Spaceplane Hanger to the "Enming Kerman Hanger" in his honor. I also expect some kind of plane-shaped memorial parked permanently (if not entirely safely) next to the runway so all incoming or outgoing kerbals can salute his memory.
Nuuu Emming! D:
Well, I guess he died for his family, for his country, for his planet. He died doing what he loved; to fly his space plane. Good bye Emming! We will miss you!
3:54 I literally hear the Demoman. "BLOODY BRILLIANT!"
LucchiniSW demoman?
Simon Nguyen Clearly you haven't played TF2.
"As long as it doesn't spontaneously explode..."
I was expecting the entire screen to just ignite when he said that.
Im really digging the "radio show" kind of thing. For example, cutting into your original stream audio as a "radio transmission" and cutting it when kerbal died. It like listening to a story, and I like it. Kind of like a "radio play" from back in the day.
How dare I shed a tear for poor Enming? He died doing what he loved most.
It wasn't a mysterious accident, you said Putin was better than Chuck Norris, and seconds later he did a roundhouse kick from home and the in-suing vibrations demolecularized your ship and it fell apart.
@Russian Bot - Slava Ukraini almost as if he existed 8 years ago right
Scott, you're a fantastic storyteller. Your kids must get great bedtime stories!:)
the famous cry of "YEY IT SURVIVED" 3:47
Never before have I seen a grown man so exited about a derpy landing xD
Farewell Emming Kerman. May your sacrifice never be forgotten.
Fun fact: Scott's interstellar quest now has a higher body count than "Rambo: First Blood". Still, all these missions to all those planets with only two casualties is pretty darn impressive. I've killed more than that just getting off Kerbin.
LOok at the bright side not only was he able to be the first to fly on another planet he was also the first to ride a motorcycle on another planet. May his memory live on.
everytime i watch scott i keep clicking and dragging on the screen in vain...
ksp wraps its tentacles around your brain for sure!
Hmmmm. Doubt aerobraking parachutes would've helped you much at such a high altitude, Scott. Air density is just too low up there to make a big impact.
I'd probably have gone for 3-4 separatrons used as retro-rockets. You fire'em up as you touchdown, you'll be stopped in no time :).
You can only use sepatrons once though.
Scott Manley At least the astronaut inside would be ALIVE, and you could still use the main engine for who knows what, maybe driving back to the base and refueling stuff?
Scott Manley
I would have turned the engine up as soon as the aircraft lost both wings and landed the thing as a rocket- but hindsight is 20-20.
You probably should have had the wheel brakes on a different action group to the airbrakes, though, so you could leave them on...
Gotta say, liquid fuel > solid fuel
Scott Manley
fair enough, but at least you'd still have an airplane once landed...not a bycicle ;)
Found out how to make Magnetometer data collectable. Add these variables to the part.cfg after the xmitDataScalar variable:
dataIsCollectable = True
collectActionName = Take Data
interactionRange = 1.2
I'm curious to why you chose to have only two wheels on that plane? Was it ever meant to be able to take of again? RIP Enming!
In testing back in December I was able to land and take off again reliably with that setup.
Scott Manley Oh, good to know! The mysterious force ripping the Duna Express apart is apparently propagating quickly through the Kerbol system, making all kinds of phunky physics possible =)
Invisifly2
olmen375
first the destroyed spaceplane and disappearence of Landbher. Then the wonky decoupler on Sean's spacecraft. Then the mysterious explosion of the build-a-rover on minmus. Its so easy to make a great sabotage story from all the physics derps in ksp!
He probably thought SAS would be able to keep it balanced or something
I waited for this the whole day ^^ so excited!
I came here to see how to land with wheels and brakes to Mars in SSRSS, but seeing the guy landing with a freaking BICYCLE LANDER
THIS IS SCOTT MANLEY
Bummer about the crash. As you discovered, the hardest part about flying on Duna isn't the flying itself, but slowing down enough to land safely at what corresponds to a massively high altitude on Kerbin. But it's a hoot if you can get it to work, WAY better than rovering.
9:42 Very artful explanation for why the game was frozen.
The thumbnail looks like a sword in the desert
Erming? What have we done? (Robbaz reference)
That landing was pretty nail biting. Someone needs to write Scott an air bag lithobraking mod!
That'd be awesome - I wanna see giant, multi-compartment air bags rolling over the surface of Duna and then slowly deflating to reveal their payload, just like the older Mars rovers used. Would be an easier way for n00bs to land, too ;)
Real Chute? More like Real Shit amirite?
I did the same thing with a winged drone (no kerbal inside) and without ferrom aerospace (just using the stock air model) and I successfully landed on a flat spot near the crater lake on duna.
I personally like the look of the sideways space station because it looks more like a interplanetary ground base that way.
LOL time seemed to stand still... Then the game froze
15 seconds after upload I look at Scotts channel. How lucky I was :-)
Episode 43, wherein Scott Manley rips on every mod he's got installed lol
That was literally the most stressful thing I've ever watched.
you cut about 5 chutes clicking really fast
I was pulling my hair throughout the whole parachute opening session...
i think it was actually just two
Scott Manley, Would it be possible to cobble together a Station that encircles a planet or moon in KSP?
TheEventHorizon429 I have begun actual station building on several worlds. It is possible but VERY time consuming designing and getting each module there, then in place perfectly aligned the way where it cosmetically pleases. The render distance you speak of is correct, it is only viewable around 2-2.5km away.
Stefan Otero Oh, forgot to mention..... my best station uses roughly 500 parts or so but the lag isnt overly bad. It has a stable 20fps but feels like its 15fps which I believe is due to slowed calculations while it renders real time leaving a quirky small ms latency.
TheEventHorizon429 I'm not really sure I understand what type of station you have in mind when you say it's impossible. I've built many a small station orbiting around Kerbin mostly. A couple around the Mun and Minmus. Why couldn't that be done with any planet? I don't know the part count of those stations but something in the order of magnitude as the ones Scot builds in his "reusable space program" (great series btw!).
Biggest problem with space stations is KSP imho is the wobbly-physics-from-kerbal-hell. That sets a practial limit on how big you can build them before the woblotron2000 shakes everything loose in gratutios explisions. Using those big (Senior) docking ports makes them less wobbly. Using KAS to attach LOTS of struts even less so (plus it adds some actual purpose to EVA =).
TheEventHorizon429 I know, I've done this. It is easily possible. I even have an experimental 'joke' station that orbits the Mun at 10000meters above the surface and narrowly hits mountains each day.
It is a narrowly connected ring around the Mun
RIP Enming Kerman
brave star gazer I salute you
This episode was so exciting! So much drama.
I was totally expecting a reference to 'CLUE' when you went to the alternate universe (that ages me somewhat lol)
Amazing episode!
10:40
I bet he wanted to say "it's a motorbike!"
I've been waiting for this one !!!
The Kerbal could've jumped out at 10:00 and landed using his jetpack. Kerbals can survive a crash at any horizontal speed as long as it has little vertical velocity.
dude ur vids are awsome and extremely interesting!! subscribed! :D
one thing is for certain though, this is very Kerbal like
prime entertainment too :D
Y'know, this whole Duna mission would make a pretty good movie. Better than Apollo 13 maybe, better than Armageddon for sure. RIP Enming Kerman though :(