KSP: The Mysterious Whale Skeleton on Laythe...(yes, it's real) 

skeleption.

For people who don’t know the whale skeleton and the bowl of petunias is a reference to the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy (book) where a improbability engine turns missiles into a whale (which contemplates the joys of life before impact and tries to make friends with the ground coming fast towards it) and petunias (which thought “oh no, not again”) before exploding.

An infinitely improbable find :) Perhaps you could send a Kerbal called "Arthur" to the Laythe base?

the whale and the flowers were spontaneously bought into existence when the improbability drive aboard the Heart of Gold was activated.. 😁 great nod to Hitchhikers Guide

The moment I realized where he was going with the whale reference, I couldn’t help but crack a huge smile. Well done, Matt, well done.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was “Oh no, not again” Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

I love the implication that Lathe is Magrathea. It neatly explains the anomalous atmosphere. (The Magratheans can make “gold planets, square planets, glass planets, platinum planets, soft rubber planets with lots of earthquakes”, etc., so merely maintaining a habitable environment outside any habitable zone isn't an issue.) Does Slartibartfast work for Squad? They, too, are known for making planets. If we go deep into the bowels of Lathe, will we find that Squad’s offices are in fact in a small moon in the vicinity of Kerbol and not in Mexico as they usually claim? Regardless and more importantly, we now know that the Kerbolar system is in the Horsehead Nebula, 1,375 light-years (422 parsecs, as it happens) from Earth. “But wait,” the observant reader will object, “everyone knows that the _planet_ Magrathea orbits the twin suns Soulianis and Rahm! Lathe is a _moon_ and the Kerbolar system clearly has only _one_ sun.” It’s a fair point. In response I can offer only a fan theory: perhaps the Magratheans needed to steal a little mass from Rahm for various jobs now and again, and after 3,000 or so such projects Jool is what remains. (They’d have to tighten up the orbits of the former planets, of course, but, as noted above, that would be barely an inconvenience for the Magratheans.)

DON'T PANIC!.... and did your Kerbals remember to pack their towels?

it makes me happy to know theyre fans of THGTTG. just when i thought this game couldnt be any better, they go and do a thing like this. always bring a towel. comes in handy, ya know.

Absolutely love the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” reference and read back. Brilliant, Matt 😂

Dang, I had almost forgotten about the story of the whale an the pot of petunias. Took me a while to remember that part of the book.

So long and thanks for all the fish! I got to meet Douglas Adams in high school. He was extremely kind to a very nerdy kid. His loss so young was a tragedy. Thanks for the laugh!

You;ve just made me watch hitchhikers again which I think is the best result a youtube video can have.

Here from discord, thanks for the ping!

That skeleton im pretty sure is actually a blue whale, judging by its size I would assume a young adult whale probably about 8-11 years old. I dont know if its been confirmed by anyone that this is a humpback whale but the top half of the skull matches a blue whale more accurately as they have much wider bones in their skull than a humpback whale which tend to have much skinnier bones. However judging by the size there is also a chance this could be a grey whale. I'm really glad I saw this cause its a cool find especially because I am studying marine mammals for research in my marine biology university degree.

14:36 I still can’t stop thinking about how good this part of the video would be to insert a sponsor

Matt: "It fell to the ground and died:" KSP: *cheerful* *music*

This has far greater implications given the reference... explains why Laythe has liquid oceans and a breathable atmosphere when it is so far away from Kerbol. Sort of. Any fjords of note on Laythe?

I’m big into building infrastructure and forward-deployed bases that can accomplish career mode contracts, so I’m excited to see a video where your Laythe bases and vehicles have a mission.

You should've extracted a sample from the bowl of petunias as well. It may be genetically related to the whale.

Never knew about this, but now I'm interested

4:05 Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was "ho no, not again".

You should try to use the scanner that comes with the breaking ground expansion.

That’s awesome I love that they put that on Laythe. Does that mean That who ever lived on Laythe before build the universe’s most powerful computer, then got turned into mice?

Yesss! Life on Laythe is back. I was just rewatching them last week

Potential Life on Laythe addition: a dedicated mining facility, large fuel storage depot (i.e. several tanks arranged vertically in rows like the ones at Space-X's Starbase), and (most importantly) a way to actually refuel spaceships/spaceplanes. In your previous mining facilities, there have been drills, ore-tanks, converters, and fuel tanks but I don't recall seeing a way for the newly generated fuel to be moved into a craft for use - it's just been mined, converted, and stored.

Secret materials: whales on kerbin collected expanded first stages that felt into ocean, built their own rocket and flew to Laythe. But something went wrong and first whale astronaut landed on land instead of water and died.

If there's a Whale and petunias be careful coming back into Laythe, you might get shot at by a not so friendly civilization

you make everything seem so easy , and ive played ksp for 200+ hours and i still havent even acheaved proper orbit or even landed on another planet

I'm so proud of myself just realizing you were quoting a scene from Hitch Hicker's Guide to the Galaxy with the Whale bit XD

Thank you Matt for giving me a great start for my long ass car ride out of Seattle, this video will help sooth the long drive

Oh man, last time I was this early, dad was still promising mom he was using protection!

Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy easter egg lmao

The easter eggs in this game are amazing. Another great vid!

Kraken drive? Hah! More like... Kraken drive-n to extinction!

Matt: Ye I'm really lazy Also Matt: Playing KSP with pencil and paper next to him for math... "lazy"

clearly what you've found is the skeleton of one of those endangered space whales you've been trying to protect all this time, murdered by a rival space agency who left a pot of petunias floating around in an eccentric high Jool orbit.

Yiii! My favourite series! :D You know, I can explain how Laythe has liquid water and oxygenated air, but would it spoil the fun if I did? Matt, you could have pretended you meant to do that backflip! XD I drove all over Chasmer Island, (that's my name for the island west of Lowne Island because by Kerbal standards it's got an inland sea (mer) in a chasm,) but somehow missed the skeleton. Actually, I was bored with all the near-featureless terrain so I was going from point to point between things which stood out from above, and I was too far from the skeleton to see it. And I didn't use an anomaly scanner because I haven't been to Laythe properly, this was just "I'm bored and want to visit another planet. I know! I'll cheat a car onto the surface of Laythe!" And then I was bored on the surface of another planet, but at least I had fun for a couple of hours. Hahaha! Using the transfer stage as ballast was not what I expected at all! That was great! Apart from, you know, _nuclear ballast!_ XD Driving over 100mph off-road is usually quite fun, yes! XD Great video, Matt! I love the Hitchikers reference. :D Oh hey, excellent suggestion from RU-vid: Matt Lowne finally plays RSS. It's one I actually haven't seen before.

It's so cool to see all of your creations together, pulling off what one would call a Joint Task Mission.

when a great video posts when your watching a spacex docking

When Matt uploaded this I freaked out! LIFE ON LAYTHE IS BACK!!!

Ye

Great video! I love the Life on Laythe series and I am glad you continued it! Keep the good work up!

This new style of video was great. Keep up the good work

Matt: Is that some kind of skeleton? It's not possible! Me: Yes, Because there is no LIFE ON LAYTHE!

This could mean that under the surface of laith is a lab which creates planets If you can somehow dig under the planet's surface you may Bea able to use the equipment to create the perfect habitable planet to replace kirbin if it ever gets too polluted

Seems infinitely improbable. Great video, Matt.

I loved that hitchhiker's guide the galaxy reference :)

Imagine if laythe had functional Ghost Leviathans from Subnautica swimming throughout its oceans 😳

Have you seen the new KSP2 update?

Excited to see Life on Laythe is back!

Thank you for the amazing continuation of Life on Laythe!

The music at the beginning brought back some memories

I assume these Kerbels are equipped with peril sensitive sun glasses.

Loved the Hitchhiker's Guide reference!

I just love the way you read that, and the whole video as a reference to hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. Marvelous

I just loved when matt says the kerbals are space frogs

Brilliant! Matt Lowne really knows where his towel is!!!

came back to laythe just to make a hitch hiker's guide reference love this guy

gotta love when matt uploads

I love your KSP videos. Best on youtube in my opinion!

Love this content. What a great Easter Egg.

I'd love to see you do a full career mode playthough! I know you'd be hesitant to do one, but It'd be cool to see a full proper playthough, with you adding in your own flair and creative ideas!

Awesome video like always

Wish you made it that the ore container detaches and flies to the base, or if an engineer could detach it and get it on the vtol ship cause it was kinda weird seeing the drill drilling into the ship lol

13:48 That's good and all, but did she remember to pack a medic bag?

Best youtube series ever!!!!!

I love matt's content

That backflip actually was incredibly efficient, you lost no altitude or speed... I remember your previous video with that plane and it dropping when you moved the wings.

My Saturday became better after you uploading this vid!

Nice Hitchhiker's Guide reference :) I need to reread those at some point...

more Life on Laythe one day i hope love the content thank you!!!

I love that little reference!

Zamn, epic video, amazing series

So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas!

I'm sure Douglas would've been proud :D both of your video and the reference

15:18 I see what you did there. LOL "So Long and Thanks for all the Fishes."

I had honestly forgotten about that whole sequence until Matt said "curiously" xD

I didn't know about this hitchhikers reference being in KSP and it made me so happy.

Loved the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy reference

Nice hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy reference matt!

Love the hitchhiker guide to the Galaxy reference

OK, so I've been a fan of your KSP content for a while but I legit love a good hitchhikers guide joke!

So damn good. The whole hitchhikers guide bit made me smile 🙂

This is from Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy!!!!!! Wow it's even purple flowers and a white planter!!! Wow this is most definitely 42 and from the book/movie. I am so excited to see this! Amazing find!!!!

how does the planets look so beatifull? EVEN MORE BEATIFULL!

finally back after 2 years of stopping on matt

Don’t forget your towel.

Lol. Love it. I didn’t get it at first, as soon as I seen the flowers though I got it and about snorted my drink out my nose. Thanks. Now to clean my carpet and couch.

Another great video Matt, I always make sure that all my space program parts are made by Lowne aerospace, the quality and customer service is just unbeatable 😂 I have an idea for a series you can do while we all wait for the release of the glorious ksp 2. It's called the MKS or Modular Kolonization System, it's got mining and industry and other stuff, pretty complicated I'm still trying to figure it out without killing any of my kerbals, it would be awesome if you could show us how Lowne Aerospace takes over the Kerbol solar system... For profits of course 😉

Dude the Douglas Adams moment hit me so hard :D

This makes me like this game even more!

Bill Bailey playing confused whale falling through atmosphere. "Hello ground." Bowl of Petunias narrated by Stephen Fry. "Oh no not again."

cant wait for the next life on laythe episode in 6 months

Hilarious. I love a good Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference

I love this Hitchhiker's Guide reference

great video Matt

I absolutely love this

I love the Hitchhiker’s reference :D

awesome, thank you