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Matt Lowne, Nov 14th, 2020: "I know clipping is frowned upon" Stratz: Oh no. Anyway.

the fact that he made a fully functioning Eve and back SSTO that weighs less than a cockpit...

“The heat shield functions as a heat shield” Impossible

I’d say the hatch obstruction is a worthy punishment for exploiting the heatshield as a wing

*"The Heat-Shield-Wing functions really well as a Heatshield."* -Stratz, the Genius. 5:47

He did it. He actually did it

6:07 actually, thats something that the space shuttle did! since it had to maintain a 45 degree angle of attack, it rolled from the left to the right to control its rate of descent.

Me: Oh, man, my 1.8 ton rocket to Minmus and back is pretty cool! Stratz: Here's a shoebox that will get you to Eve's surface and back, and it also cures cancer.

“Trust me, it’s really boring” 5 seconds later “The descent was also interesting” Hmmmmmm 🤔🤔

I love how much real physics goes into getting the most out of the extremely fake physics here.

I'm wondering how the hell Brad Whistance is going to one-up this.

When I said “I’m just waiting for an in atmosphere orbiter” I was joking That 2 (?) hour accent would have had me pulling my skin off in boredom, props for your patience and determination

Poor Jeb spend 7.5 years of his life sitting in a tiny can, getting flung around by all the forces his craft was exposed to during the long Journey

To me, these challenges and crazy things fall more in line with speedrunning than normal gameplay. KSP isn't really... speedrun-able, it has no end goal. But all these challenges bring out that same energy of optimization, glitch-hunting, and using different versions of the game for runs that are only possible in that version.

No one: Stratzenblitz: By exploiting loopholes in the laws of reality itself, I've created a UFO!

stratzen: "I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move"

Sane Person: "Stratzen, Why don't you just use a normal rocket, and spend less than two hours on your kerbin ascent?" Stratzenblitz: "hehe, heatshields go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

ngl the intro sounded like "First off, I want to give a huge thanks to the rich for sponsoring this episode."

I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw the weird looking cylinder levitate upwards for no reason at all to someone who doesn’t know what’s inside

This right here, is where KSP becomes an alien craft building simulator for the experts!

Me seeing Stratz's new video title: *You did not* Me watching the video, approx. every 20 seconds: *NO YOU DID NOT JUST DO THAT*

Before: Ion engines, jet engines and gravity assists to Eeloo in the lightest mass possible Now: Heat shield wings, propellers, Ion engines to Eve in one stage in the lightest mass possible This feels like Minecraft armor evolution but in ksp

Time for NASA to give you a call, maybe you can find some nice exploits in RL Physics

Stratzenblitz: This heatshield trick feels kind of like cheating also Stratzenblitz: Here's my new video exploiting the heatshield trick NO, but really, great vid as always! Please keep em coming, we'll keep watching

Imagine someone showed you a thing smaller thana car and said "take this and go to venus and back"

Kerbal Space Program: You must spend immense time to plan out trajectories, Eve is the hardest planet to ascend from and will require a massive craft to have an SST- Magic Wings: *NO*

i absolutely love the evolution of eve ssto in ksp lol.

This is the closest thing to hacking without actually hacking

Why waste millions of dollars on expensive and thicc rockets when you can do this?

Wait until someone finds out that a random part like the 3x2 non retractable solar panel produces thrust or something like that

Huh, that weighs as much as my family car.

Im don’t mind if you use older versions, as long as you mention it you did.

The man can't be stopped.

At this point, it's less a spaceplane and more of a UFO. I think it's fair to use the exploits and old version, since you're making it clear that you've done so. And I don't think this trick trivializes the game, since these craft are still difficult to design and use.

the "rocket" looks like you just threw some random components together in a ball

6:48 "another happy landing" A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

The madlad really did it Stratz before: here's a craft that can get off Eve in one go but it's actually two crafts haha still pretty impressive though? Stratz now: Here is a craft that can get to Eve and back unrefueled. It is lighter than a rhino (animal) and is almost 6x lighter than a rhino (engine). It takes seven hours to get to Kerbin orbit. It also takes around seven hours to leave Kerbin orbit. It can theoretically come in from Eve orbit and complete the Monte Carlo long river challenge. Enjoy.

This video is the very definition of dedication! Absolutely amazing KSP first!

This is incredible. What an accomplishment, congratulations!

Stratzenblitz: There is a new and innovative way to get into orbit Elon Musk: Interessting. I forward this video to my research and development department.

This is absolutely crazy! Another fantastic video!

7:23 _"cramped"_ only slightly defintely very comfortable.

As a amateur speed runner i can appreciate this. You should do something ridiculous with comets. I just made a comet station with a 2 mega ton comet around kerbin on hard career, took like a week of burn time with my computer just turned on and a bunch of gravity assists to minimize using the mass of the comet. It was on a -45º degree inclination and took like 14k Dv to just get there, with the limited time and all. It was fun, i should have recorded it. I keep wondering how big of a comet is possible to land on kerbin...

I honestly didn't know what the first unrefueled eve ssto would look like... but I didn't expect this wonky circle thing...

that mission time showed how slow the lower-efficiency ion burns were more than the footage of the burns themselves did

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Jesus dude everything you do is literally AWE inspiring.

dude you always make my day whatever happens thank you

I'd be up to watch a 30+ minute video on KSP physics exploits. You've consistently demonstrated a very in-depth understanding and would love to gain some of it for myself

8:20 The oscillations you have noticed are actually phugoid oscillations. that is due to having no flight control surfaces, so your plane will dip and start accelerating, but this will increase lift and thus makes you pitch back up, but then you will lose speed until you pitch back down and the cycle repeats. you can even see the speed go up and down in the video. (yes i actually knew the phenomenon and had to look it up)

just as always great work !

Earth people: We made aircraft that utilize the flow over a cambered surface to produce lift Aliens: We just watched Stratzenblitz and now we have flying saucers

Is it possible to fly-by all the bodies in the kerbol system whit only 1000 m/s of delta-V from LKO?

I've always wondered how exactly the Rabbids time travel washing machine worked. Turns out the answer is part clipping. Lots of part clipping.

Awesome! Very well done :D

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11:15 Why no Bridge Challenge before landing?

I had just sent out my own eve mission, and it weighed a little over yours. * 1000. Great job. You discovered, and mastered a revolutionary technology and managed to break idk how many records. I also like how you steer, using the roll to decide where to go, I think it looks hilarious. Gg

This is so cheesy, I love it! Doing stuff like this feels kinda like letting athletes do any drug they want and then compete in the olympics, just to see the upper limit of human potential

I think it's mental and I applaud your patience

Going there and back used to take a 30-staged rocket twice as tall as the VAB...this device is even more compact than a lot of kraken drive devices

your commentated videos absolutely own

Stratzenblitz has absolutely crushed everything. A 1.56 ton ssto is absolutely crazy. His recent content with him speaking more and showing the maths has just been amazing, and now THIS! Give the man his due! Great job man

Imagine what he could do in real life with 50 million dollars and a crew of engineers and mechanics.

It doesn't make the game trivial. It makes it tedious.

I am impressed. I am worried for you. I am jealous. You're just insane. Good job xD

I am perfectly fine with you using whatever version you find most convenient, especially in this physics defying case. And you did take the due diligence to point out the which and why. But imo there is extra credit to be had for going with the most recent (stable-with-your-choice-of-mods) version, or at least to not exploit version differences.

This is what will get us working aerogravity assists!

200th Like! Hopefully it'll get more 0s added! You deserve those!

What can I say but *this is maddening good*

This is insane. GG

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That's a turely Insane Design!

Absolute madman

You've summoned the Kraken. Well done.

using heat shields like this looks like some 40th century advanced alien tech....

i think you deserve your KSP nobel prize

Nobody gonna mention how it took nearly 8 years to complete this mission?

Two hours to orbit jesus christ

I think using old versions of any kind is fine, as long as it’s made clear (and if it’s a really really old version preferably at the start), but every old version was once the cutting edge and using them is still interesting.

9:46 I agree completely with what you say here.

this video deserves more views and more likes

This is beyond science!!!

Another happy landing

This is unprecedented

Me, at the end of the video: He isn't actually going to land on the helipad 10 seconds later: WHAT

I'm a bit late to the party but the Saturn V rocket travelled at least 384,400 km miles using 6.2 kilotons, while your rocket would be able to travel at least 3,668,900 km using 1.56 tons. That means Saturn V had a weight to distance ratio of 0.062 kilometers per pound while this SSTO had a weight to distance ratio of 1175.929 kilometers per pound, making it 18966.596 times more weight efficient than the Saturn V rocket (numbers are rounded to the nearest thousandth) (not taking into account gravity assists, orbital distance, and engine exploitations) good job man

That's some commitment

I think it is fair game to use earlier versions! It's fascinating to see how the game has changed between updates, since these differences can be too subtle to notice in bigger rockets

this is how the UFOs go

This is something I expect to see in Star Wars

This is totally fine and fun as long as it is clear that bug-mode is enabled. Also quirks around quick safe and reloading should fall in this category. Except when save/reload is used to counter bugs. Like when a base planted on a surface keeps wobbling and gliding. But still this feels like less of an achievement than for example the Jets to Orbit video, or the Duna on Electric Power one. Somehow if you know the physics are somewhat realistic it speaks more to the imagination.

this is the pinnacle of human engineering

Absalute mad lad

Remember when the best of the best was 5 tons to minmus ?

I saw this title and it mortified me. Madman.

This dude did a burn that took 2 hours meanwhile I’m over here getting driven to the brink of insanity by 5 minute burns

An alternative title for this video is: "How to go from the runway to the VAB in 7 years passing by Eve" lol