#KerbalSpaceProgram logic:
"Hey Bob, we need to drive around the KSC and collect some science data. Can you stand on this ladder atop this capsule-on-wheels and take down EVA reports?"
"Well, sure, but wouldn't it just be better to put a chair on top of the capsule instead?"
"Unfortunately, our researchers haven't invented chairs yet. They're on the roadmap."
"Haven't invented CHAIRS?!?"
Looks like the Intuitive Machines IM-1 lander tipped over and ended up in a sideways orientation after landing, similar to the JAXA SLIM lander few weeks ago ☹️
Vertical velocity was a bit high at 6 mph instead of 1, lateral velocity was 2 mph instead of zero. One of the legs is thought to have snagged a rock and caused the lander to tip over.
Solar panels are generating power, the lander is communicating, although the signal is weak.
No pictures yet.
This recently-reported exoplanet TOI-715 b purportedly located in its local habitable zone, and sized roughly 1.5 times Earth and triple earth mass, left me to wonder…
How much the gravity there might differ, and how much (more?) energy is involved in launching spacecraft from there.
Terrestrial delta-v is most of ten kilometers per second. That’s how fast you need to be going to climb out of the gravity well.
If that exoplanet well is deep enough and it seems plenty deep, getting off that rock gets much harder.
At some point the gravity well effectively becomes a one-way trip down.
(Not that Earth and its planetary politics doesn’t have its own version of the Schwarzschild radius.)
That 0.083AU distance and that ~463.2 hour long year are both entirely disconcerting, but three earth masses just doesn’t seem all that habitable. For us.
Ps. I think it’s more fun with the NASA like theme ”for the common good”. Not with this modern private space with it’s narcissistic shit-for-brains know-it-all hype-men in charge.
Sure, they wasted money and were inefficient, but they required a bit of humility because that was the taxpayer’s money!
A hilarious #KSP moment last night:
I made a Mk3 space plane using 4 under-wing RAPIER engines and four NERV nuclear engines mounted inside a cargo ramp (attached to a quad-coupler plate).
The glide slope on my "Chuby Spaceplane" (I'm leaving the typo in à la "Tony Probe") was pretty terrible, so despite several attempts, the landing was pretty hard, and something almost always broke.
Martin Marietta's EGRESS, a proposed escape capsule for spaceflight based on the one used for the American B-58. This image would be from sometime around 1972, when it was proposed.
Pretty sure I've seen these expressions on Bob and Jebediah Kerman (respectively).
Ich begrüße meinen langjährigen Freund @xeleonox im Fediverse. #neuhier
Wer sich für #Science Fun Facts, #ADHS oder #KerbalSpaceProgram interessiert, kann ja mal bei ihm vorbeischauen, oder ihm Leute zum Folgen vorschlagen. :blobcatspace: :boost_requested:
Wow. I just went to check my steam purchase history, and it appears that I have been playing #kerbalspaceprogram for nearly 5 years now...with 417 hours on it, that's 15 minutes a day lol.
I remember how I found out about it...one of my schoolteachers back in primary school would show us videos from https://thekidshouldseethis.com, a kind of curation of science videos for kids, and I would sometimes go on there in my own time. This was around about grade 3. One time, I found this link: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-do-rockets-work , basically talking about rocket basics. At that point, I new all about it and was a well and true rocket nerd, but I have never heard of KSP before. So I went and checked it out. After a while, I nagged my mum to buy it, and she ended up doing so. Not sure how much it cost at the time, but certainly less then now. Funnily enough, that was also my first ever game purchase and first time using steam...which even introduced me to a loose consideration of social media through various random group chats from my friends.
I mean, EVERY non-FOSS app on every store/package manager should have a big fat warning with caution tape on it. To not do so is to abandon your responsibility as a maintainer/vendor of software.
I do use non-FOSS software, every day. One handles scanning from a network printer for me. Another, syncing (quickly!) to Google Drive. Another is #KerbalSpaceProgram.