00:43 <UmbralRaptor> https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/orbit

03:55 <Althego> 20 hours until electron (or not, they usually have delays)

05:15 <UmbralRaptor> https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5115264

05:19 <UmbralRaptor> "After a six year orbit through the Solar System, the probe officially began its descent at a relative velocity of 47.4 km s−1 on December 7, 1995. During a 30 s period, the probe decelerated from Mach 50 to under Mach 1, having reached a maximum deceleration of 250 g, while experiencing peak heating rates exceeding1,2 300 MW m−2. The extreme heating environment experienced by the probe during its descent remains, unti

05:20 <UmbralRaptor> 300 MW/m² is equivalent to a blackbody at 8529 K

16:28 <Althego> oh now, regression on the marble machine

16:28 <Althego> -w

16:28 <Deddly> Regression?

16:29 <Althego> 3 steps back

16:29 <Deddly> What happened?

16:30 <Althego> watch the video

16:30 <Deddly> I can't, I'm working :P

16:31 <Althego> martin decided to make it better, so scrapped some previously finishedp arts

16:31 <Deddly> Huh, interesting

16:31 <Althego> it was already starting to take shape

16:31 <Deddly> How far is he from finishing that?

16:32 <Althego> with this kind of progress, can be years

16:33 <Deddly> Wow. Gotta admire the guy's stickability

16:34 <Althego> realistically it was almost finished

16:34 <Althego> maybe in a few months it could have been used

16:34 <Deddly> Wut... D:

16:35 <packbart> that would have been boring ;)

16:35 <Deddly> He just set the project back by YEARS when it was nearly done?

16:35 <Althego> not years by this step alone

16:35 <Althego> maybe a few more months

16:35 <Althego> but if he decides any time it is not perfect and it is time to redo it, then it will never be finished

16:36 <packbart> and well, if you can already see parts that can be made better, who could resist if there's no artificial deadline to meet?

16:36 <Deddly> Well, he did complete a lot of other projects. The question is, how much more awesome will the extra work make the machine? Is the tradeoff worth it?

16:37 <Althego> supposedly a new modulin is in the works too

16:39 <packbart> otoh, I probably spend too much time designing stations in the VAB, contemplating escape routes no Kerbal will ever take or where the shrapnel from a blown out airlock would hit...

16:45 <Althego> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enxNSinY4NQ

16:45 <kmath> YouTube - ExoMars progress update

16:45 <Althego> successful deploy of t go. hmm. they forgot about the lander that failed :)

18:20 <Althego> electron in 5 hours 40 minutes

18:30 <Althego> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPk5XSWq5w

18:30 <kmath> YouTube - KSP - Maximum Rotation

18:55 <Deddly> Yeah I saw that earlier. It's one of his better videos

19:01 <sandbox> moar boosters

19:32 <UmbralRaptop> (1.8 is out)

19:33 <packbart> heh, I just closed KSP. Time for an update

19:33 <Althego> heh

19:33 <Althego> i wanted to go to bed

19:34 <packbart> You'd dream of boosters

19:34 <Althego> https://kerbaldevteam.tumblr.com/

19:39 <Althego> hehe shrimp and mite solid boosters

19:39 <Deddly> They are awesome. Just what I always felt the Flea should have been

19:40 <Althego> also the much needed huge ones

19:40 <Deddly> Indeed

19:40 <Deddly> With gimballing

21:07 <packbart> "this image contains mods" - ooh, Community Loading Screens

21:46 <packbart> oh dear, the Unity update breaks a lot of mod releases. well, they'll get updated, I hope

21:46 <packbart> C# is such an agile language. my Mono installation is too old and can't compile the Kerbalism source code

23:03 <packbart> Did You Know: The Clydesdale booster can launch straight up to Kerbin escape in a single burn

23:07 <darsie> No. I did this with a mammoth, though.

23:25 <darsie> My mouse wheel works inverted in 1.8. How can I revert that?

23:27 <packbart> yep, same for me

23:27 <packbart> I didn't think of checking the settings

23:56 <darsie> Space doesn't stage for me.

23:57 <UmbralRaptop> Does this mean that there will be a 1.8.1?