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[andrea]

well, I finally gave up on the gargantua launcher, and moved to a smaller but more efficent design, called niohoggr ( or, rather, nidhogg. the first spelling would require a couple of fancy letters I don't have).
which allowed me to bring back the first 2 kerbonauts from the mun! ( for those who don't know, I had 10+ kerbonauts stranded from previous attempts to rescue the first crew/deliver a car ( I so far failed all my attempts to build a car with standard parts.)

still, success!

and now I might start crew swap missions, to resupply my improvised colony with food and fresh kerbonauts

now, to other planets!

[Aseaheru]

you get fancy letters from alt and the numpad.

[Techhead]

I'll do you one better. For Níðhöggr you need the following:
í Alt-0237
ð Alt-0240
ö Alt-0246
If you aren't going to use alt codes, you should at least convert 'ð' into a 'd' instead of an 'o'. It's not any kind of o, it's a curvy d with a cross-stroke.

[andrea]

in my defense, in wikipedia it looked like an o. I guess I should take a closer look next time.

[jhxmt]

If you aren't going to use alt codes, you should at least convert 'ð' into a 'd' instead of an 'o'. It's not any kind of o, it's a curvy d with a cross-stroke.

I'd tend to convert it phonetically, to a 'th'.  It's what gave us 'th'e, 'th'at, 'th'is and so forth, after all.    Unless I'm mixing my letters again.

Seems a case of "suddenly,land"

It was - I didn't realise how close I was to ground (and how fast I was going, both horizontally and, uh, negative-vertically, until it was too late - my small engine didn't have enough oomph to take the edge off. 

[Aseaheru]

im on a laptop so no numpad for me! but otherwise i wood have given a example.

[Rex_Nex]

Yea, usually I plow my camera down if I'm on the dark side of the moon. Descend slowly, keep the camera below the craft, and when the camera hits the terrain, you know your ship is going to soon.

[Fikes]

I would recommend getting mechjeb just for surface info. It tells you your horizontal and vertical speeds.

[GalenEvil]

FINALLY landed on Mun! My lander legs were just a little too short so the thruster asploded and the lil Kerbal is stranded. So far all of my attempts to rescue him have resulted in 10+ failure to orbit with 5 of those resulting in me sending letters via limousine to widows. I think this calls for moar rockets!

[Rilder]

im on a laptop so no numpad for me! but otherwise i wood have given a example.

Laptops don't come with Numpads? Mine does?

[Aseaheru]

its a good laptop then. they all come with the squirlly numpad-in-the-keyboard thing, but thats just a pain.

[Rex_Nex]

Yea, most laptops don't have numpads. Sucks, but what can you do.

Still, I'd imagine a laptop that could run KSP decently would, but eh.

[ank]

It mostly depends on the size of the monitor. the 14 inch version of my laptop(i have 15,5 inch) does not have a numpad, but mine does, indentical components otherwise.

On the subject of norse letters:
Technically "þ" is pronounced like TH,
and ð is like a soft D(which you don't have in english).
But all that said, I don't think an english speaker could hear the diffrence between ð and þ.

[forsaken1111]

Yea, most laptops don't have numpads. Sucks, but what can you do.

Still, I'd imagine a laptop that could run KSP decently would, but eh.

http://www.amazon.com/MillionAccessories-Numeric-Keyboard-Notebook-Computer/dp/B007DVM39A/

Thats what I did when I was using a laptop with no numpad.

[Rex_Nex]

I can just see someone trying to fiddle with that while laying on their bed