02:49 <Scolar_Visari> Sons and daughters of Kerbin: You know, interstellar travel isn't too hard if you just happen to have a hyperdrive.

02:50 <Scolar_Visari> Oh no . . . How did this get published? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10509-019-3615-z

02:51 <Scolar_Visari> For context: McCulloch is an oceanographer by PhD.

02:52 <Scolar_Visari> Though, for what it's worth, Astrophysics and Space Science only has an impact factor of 2.401.

02:54 <Scolar_Visari> And this, through McCulloch's own words, is what he's about: http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2014/01/mihsc-101.html

02:55 <Scolar_Visari> "MiHsC predicts that when you suddenly accelerate something (eg: spin a disc very fast) the disc, and objects nearby, should gain a bit of inertial mass and to conserve momentum they will move anomalously: a new way to move things."

03:02 <Scolar_Visari> McCulloch's also a *huge* EmDrive supporter, albeit only in that he thinks it proves his, "theory".

03:04 <Scolar_Visari> Though he is to physics as Jared Diamond (an ornithologist) is to pop-history.

03:06 <Rolf> emdrive is something I hope is actually workable but I don't "automically belive" it

03:07 <Scolar_Visari> At the moment, the whole thing's been pretty conclusively disproven.

03:08 <Scolar_Visari> The one paper that was registering thrust and was *not* retracted also made no attempt to quantify sources of error, and the papers that did do so also determined the "thrust" was not really thrust.

03:09 <Scolar_Visari> Said paper was also written with word salad like the MiHsC stuff, just replace everything with, "quantum vacuum plasma" or something.

15:47 <packbart> huh. a craft's "persistenId" in persistent.sfs - should that be unique? I've got two vessels with the same ID. might be a symptom or a cause of my NaN troubles with Kerbalism

15:47 <packbart> otoh, with KerbalismConfig removed, both behave normally and have their normal mass and dV

15:49 <packbart> nope, that wasn't the problem, either. oh well