KSP: Massive Orbital Colony to LAYTHE 

Start: that is not massive. That is not even big. 1min: wow that's big 3 min: ok that's massive 5min: what the hell is that

Wow, these videos make me think... I really suck at this game

Can we just mention 1:10 for a second i mean that was the loudest inhale i’ve ever heard

Matt: Sends a whole, massive, orbital colony to the far reaches of the Kerbol system casually Me: Still struggling to dock two ships in orbit

If laythe has water, there could be gigantic masses of aquatic flora that supply its atmosphere with breathable air. Like for Matt, and FOR SCIENCE!!!

His pc must want to die after these long playing sessions with like 600 parts tbh

update: Titan has water oceans heated by geothermic activity produced through the gravity of Saturn moving Titan's crust

In my basic understanding of planets. A moon like Laythe should be posible if it’s big enough to hold an atmosphere the tidal heating from jool should be enough to keep Laythe with liquid water

Is there life on Laaaaayyyythe?

1:10 when your about to run out of oxygen in water then you breach the surface

*1.64e-500 fps intensifies*

As soon as I went to sleep, this was uploaded. Why u gotta do me like that Matt?

My theory on how laythe has liquid water is similar to how mars had water, through geothermal vents heating the water so that it doesn't freeze and this could potentially explain the atmosphere being similar to kerbin.

I like the idea of building crazy spaceships, spaceplanes, space stations, and other weird crap for aesthetic purposes along with a creative storyline Keep. The series. *Going*

Wie kann es sein das nicht mal ein Zehntel liked??? Der Typ steckt unmengen an Zeit und Energie in diese Projekte. Also zeigt etwas Respekt und lasst die Likebuttons glühen!!!

Last night I built and successfully launched my first Jool mission, then I went to bed. The next morning, I woke up and saw this.

Listening to KSP RU-vidrs like yourself narrate over awesome background videos is really soothing

8:58 Matt says a no-no word

Can always have some sort of docking "knot" that offers normal and jr ports and can be moved and rotated around the station to meet demands

Somebody: Matt lowne why did u do that? Matt lowne: this is the kerbal way

When your rover gets stuck in a ditch and doesnt get enough sunlight: My batteries are low and it is getting dark

New Matt video? Must watch!

4:09 I think it is bc jool acts like a sun and heats it up and the heat stays in the atmosphere

You should do a series where you recreate the history of space flight on Earth. For example, you would start with a Sputnik launch, and then continue from there building space stations and stuff. You obviously wouldn’t have to do every single launch and build all the Soviet stations because they built several. I don’t know, it might be boring but it’s an idea

Wish I was as good as that I can’t even get a kerbal in a perfect orbit around kerbin

There is a collective real life version of Laythe around Jupiter: Europa, Callisto, and another one of the large moons if I recall correctly. The reason why is because they actually do have some oxygen in their atmosphere (albeit extremely thin) and contain liquid oceans due to tidal force heating. Jupiter also produces a tremendous amount of radiation (for being called a failed star that is) due to its extreme magnetic field and is theorized to have metallic hydrogen at its core, circa Scott Manley’s video on that matter. As for sources there’s a few year old blog called BeyondEarth or something like that which had interesting info on exoplanets, primarily to document findings with Gas Giants, Brown Dwarfs, and habitable planets. The reason why gas giants are considered failed stars is because sometimes they may form by gas collection collapses should their mass get too high, in the same way Brown Dwarfs form, as well as the primary reason for containing Helium and hydrogen. It makes the line between stars of 9Mj (Jovian mass) and over and gas giants pretty blurred, the current line based on the fusion of deuterium.

My little orbiter can barely leave the atmosphere and this dude does this

That fairing is bigger than kerbal heads

Matt: Titan is the counterpart of Laythe Triton: *in the future* Am I a joke to you?

Titans atomsphere isnt oxygenated BECAUSE it doesnt have bodies of water, and as you said, methane instead. Lythe on the other hand, DOES have water, which is what would be causing the atmosphere. Its basic thermodynamics and how evaporation works.

I love your videos and have been watching your videos since last year and I think their amazing thank you and keep up the amazing work

Those kerbals don’t get bored, do they? Hope they have some board games! Well, one thing’s for sure, is that your videos are not boring!

Yes I was waiting for this :D

1:57 "Alliteration's actually amazing." -An Author

Even if the story ends up being bad, the builds and launches are still entertaining!

@Matt Lowne Can u please tell us where you got those round capsules? Dude loved the video! Keep it up

For your nerdy information, a moon around a gas giant could sustain liquid water via gravitational heating. The orbital resonances with other moons (which indeed are present in the case of Jool) would periodically produce very high tidal forces on the moon. This would stretch and compress the moon's mantle and crust (should it exist) and provide tons of geothermal energy, which could heat the water. Now, that being said, on the surface, the atmosphere would still be very cold, since this form of heating is very inefficient for gases, but underground oceans would certainly be possible. For surface oceans to exist, some form of extreme greenhouse gases would need to be present, in order to maximally retain heat. This would not mean the atmosphere was deoxygenated, but it would, however make it unbreathable. For something like Laythe to exist in reality, it would have to be either: much closer to the star (a "hot Jupiter"); going around a much hotter star; or orbiting a gas giant which was large enough to radiate considerable energy (maybe something like a Brown Dwarf). Hope this was helpful!

The game states it’s self that tidal forces from Jool heat it

4:00 Ok, this comment turned out quite long, so here is a summary: Lathe became how it is today due to a high amount of geothermal activities. Even though the radioaktive "fuel" of lathe has already run out, the gravitational pull from Jool and Its moons still keeps it warm. and now the long version: I think the reason why Lathe is the way it to be has maybe something to do with geothermal activities. Geothermal activities on earth occur because of radioactive elements, decaying at the center of the earth. Maybe Lathe has a lage core composed mainly of highly radioaktive elements, leading to a very high amount of geothermal activities. But why dont you see volcanoes on the surface above the oceans? I have an Idea for this too. I think that the mantle of lathe might be composed of liquid carbon, or a component containing carbon. I think Carbon is the most likely because The crust might be made of graphine, one of the strongest materials in the world, that just so happens to be made purely out of carbon. The carbon in the mantle near the core is heated up and travels towards the surface, cooling down in the process. Lathe is pretty small with pretty deep oceans, so I think what happnes now is that, at the bottom of the ocean the crust is thin enough to break and let the carbon escape into the ocean, and warm it up. However, the crust at the Islands of lathe is to thick to for the liquid carbon to break, because it is 1 made out of graphine and 2 the liquid carbon just takes the path that presents the least resistance, which is why you cant see volcanoes on the islands. So now we know why the water is liquid, and why you cant see volcanoes. But why does it have a breathablen athmosphere. As you probably know our earth has a magnatic field, caused by the geothermal activities in the earths core. If lathe has a high amount of geothermal activitys, It must have a very strong magnetic field. And if you move a conductor though a magnetic field, you get electricity. I think that the acending liquid carbon might create a small amount of current. When it exits the crust at the bottom of the ocean, that small amount of current is able to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen would now do one of three thing. It would mix with the hydrogen , catch fire due to the high temperatures and turn back into water. It would form carbondioxide with the carbon, or it would acent to the surface, because it cant dissolve into water at high temperatures. At some point during its acent it wiuld cool down enough to at least partially dissolve into the water. The rest would rise to the surface and into the atmosphere. Over Billions of years the water would be unable to hold anymore oxygen, preventi g it from dissolving into the oceans. From that point on it was only able to escape into the atmosphere. The Hydrogen would probably form some compound with the carbon, like methane or propane. Now, you might say, that you cant see carbon exiting the surface of lathes oceans eighther, and i think that might be for a reason. You see, maybe lathe has already used up all its radioaktive material, much like the mars in our solar system. But unlike mars, Lathe is likely to keep its atmosphere. You see, lathe doesnt need an magnetic field to protect its atmosphere, because it is to far away from the Sun. Marses atmosphere was blown away by solar winds after it lost its magnetic field, but lathe is to far away from the sun for this to happen. I you might think that lathe would have cooled down by now, but that isnt the case eighther. Lathe is the inner most moon of Jool, meaning that lathe is pulled towards jool by its gravitational pull, but also towards all the other moons behind it. That can lead to geothermal activities, because lathe is squished around by them. Not a lot, but probably enough to keep the oceans warm kind of warm. I think that the water might be salty, lowering its freezing temperatur, and keeping the oceans liquid

Hai Matt

Best Channel on youtube! How do you build such awesome Space Ships/Satellites/Rovers?

heck yeah! LIfe on Laythe sounds great! I think doing a similar thing on duna would be cool.

I've never watched a video for you before... But as soon as i heard your intro you got my like babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Well, thought about the same thing ... sort of back in 1.4.x I think in KSP. One large space station at 9000km from Kerbin. One between Duna and Ike and one in the Jool system. I was going to build the second KSC on Laythe. There was a mod that added the ability to go to another star system from Kerbol. Just never got around to it. Work and the farm had most of my time. Since I had to rebuild my save am trying to get the one around Duna and a base on Duna and Ike for material mining so I can launch crafts from there. Am about to finally get to Moho in a bit. From when I started there was talk about it burning up the heat shields if you got too close to the star. Eve I never tried to land on and get off. I heard it was a royal pain in the backside. I have been to it's moon. I figure KSP 2 will be out maybe soon and I have to start over again. Am just going to do a science save. Not interested in the other rubbish. I do plan to land on Jool sometime after Moho. *cough* *cough*. Really it's a atmosphere probe to record data and beam it somewhere before it burns up. Just wonder how deep can I go before that happens.

Last time I was this early, Jeb was still stranded on the mun

I love Life on Laythe. It gives me hope.

*Matt builds a whole Orbital Colony near Laythe* me: How do I start a rocket

Loving the series so far

Here is a little story: I was inspired by your builds and i decided to make a station to orbit around Kerbin. The problem was that no rocket could lift it, so i tried building after the speedbuild, but it does not work. May i recieve some assistance? Best regards, Neon The Dane

1:10 comin up for air haha

Maybe somehow laythes inner core is hot enough to not need the sun, keeping its surface warm but the inside nearly boiling temperature, something that I think is NEARLY impossible, but then again, earth exists. Or maybe its just a ridiculous video game.

The liquid water might be caused by tidal Heating

use a strato launcher, or more like booster, to deliver items from laythe to the station

Laythe can have water because of the tidal heating of Jool and high concentrate of salt in the water.

Well if lathe has a high enough atmospheric pressure it could sustain liquid water for example ice has a lower density then waters when put under pressure the melting point will decrease also the Kármán line is the point at witch the atmosphere becomes too thin to support aeronautical flight I.E. you would have to be going faster then orbital velocity to gain substantial lift

1:09 *mattlowne.exe has stoped working due to SEVERE stroke*

8:25 “See it in the steel” I think it would be

Actually, we know *Titan* has liquid water as fact... you’re forgetting the momentous discovery of tidal energy introducing heat, a lot more heat than we thought possible...

4:45 KSC is going to need a bigger VAB

You should build an ssto that can house a smaller ssto inside that can land on planets.

THATS SO NICE! I WISH I HAVE KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM

the only way Laythe could have liquid water on the surface would be if it was very geologically active.

Anyone can add more boosters and launch big things. It's been a while since I've seen something graceful created.

I mean Salty water is the best explination BUT PERHAPS!!! The local area around jools atmosphere isnt a perfect vaccum? perhaps very faint ammounts of Jools gasses envelop laythe, thus laythe being able to share airborn minerals etc. Perhaps Jools gasses are also warmer and that warmth radiates to Laythe God knows if that is even scientifically plausible

Here’s an idea in life on laythe the Duna kerbals have to evacuate there new home after Terrifying monsters kill half their population and the Duna kerbals choose laythe as their new home

The kerbals don't blink

I was told that Laythe has liquid water and reasonable temperatures because of the massive number of geothermal vents that constantly spew heat from its core. I'm quoting someone else here, I'm no good with science. Now if you want magic advice, I'm your guy.

Me: *finds out video is 25 mins Also me: Mom get the pop corn!

So sick matt! Nice job

3:15 Alliteration AND Assonance!

Instead of prograding into sun orbit just get a moon encounter multiple times until you’re in sun orbit

22:35 I think you meant to say “Better _Laythe_ than never”

Build some large docks and bases on and around Pol

Sorry. New save needed for 200k subscribers

Laythe could have a high carbon dioxide levels in its upper atmosphere, causing the moon to stay so warm. Or just lotsa salt. That works too I guess.

And titan also has acid rains and all water is replaced by acid

Jedediah Bowie's Life on Laythe: Is there life on Layythee... And you used an SI-C for the second stage.

*Blows off aero capsule shell* Me; thats why there is so much space trash

So i havent played this game for well over a year and a bit. Silly question i know but what is that green planet in the background called it looks lovely.

Is there a place where I can borrow all of your amazing craft designs that you wish to share please?

What to do when you have nothing to do, see how brilliant people can get with ksp. P.s. miss the whiskey part in this one ;)

rip life on laythe.

I love the idea! Keep going.

Could it be that the moon Pandora from the movie Avatar was the inspiration for Laythe?

If i tried to send up that space station the connection between the 2nd stage and the station would break every time, also the station would wobble so much that it would break outside of the fairing! How do you magic!

and here I am, unable to get a round orbit

this series looks amazing!

Can you make a space station that has a cargo bay with smaller ships inside?

I literally play this game for hours everyday building random crap and launching it to the void how do you do this how long did it take you

all I could think at the launch is H E W O B B L E

How does one be this great

Love this tune

I want to see ksp run that on my laptop which is a Toshiba A11 (The game might not even be able to launch!)

this build, scared the living hell out of me... what the actual **** xD

Thank you Matt, very cool

You said entitled, it's titled. Two very different things.

A roleplaying series??? I'm so down!

A low kerbin orbit station that uses thusters to stay in orbit

Better Laythe than never

This is the Grian of KSP