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darsie >
OMG, I made a Minmus lab rocket, used the Mun to expand the orbit and match the inclination and I'm almost there ... and forgot the sensors ...
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UmbralRaptor >
oops
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darsie >
The Mun flyby gives my new scientist XP. Might become another 3*.
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darsie >
I love the rocket. Such a great low flyer when ascending to orbit.
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UmbralRaptor >
nice
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UmbralRaptor >
(I swear I'm not just an encouraging bot)
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* UmbralRaptor
likes that rather conventional looking rockets are reasonable now
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* Flayer
licks everybody's face
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Althego >
io error, network tongue not installed
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Flayer >
50 days until the duna transfer window opens up
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Althego >
about 200 for mars
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Flayer >
nasa is sending a rover, aren't they?
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Flayer >
i'm still just so excited about how much we got from the previous rovers
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Flayer >
they lasted so long!
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Althego >
curiosity still has a few years in the wheels
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Flayer >
do you think we will find life on other bodies in our solar system?
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Flayer >
i really hope life will be ridiciously common
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kmath >
YouTube - Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter
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Flayer >
i'm not that pessimitic :P
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<
Flayer >
i'm not englishing very well right now
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Althego >
it is not bad because they would kill us
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Althego >
it is bad because it means a great filter is ahead of us
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Flayer >
this is all such theoretical nonsense
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<
Flayer >
not interesting
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Flayer >
life is as good thing, no matter how it establishes itself
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Althego >
despite of this, i think there is a possibility that mars still has life underground
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Flayer >
yeah, it seems very likely to me as well
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Althego >
also europa and enceladus
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Flayer >
yep. almost inevitable somehoe
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Althego >
that kind of life is immune to almost anything on the surface
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<
kmath >
YouTube - Jurassic Park 3D Movie CLIP - Life Finds a Way (1993) - Steven Spielberg Movie HD
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Althego >
i spared no expense
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Flayer >
that's really the most insperational thing i've ever heard
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Althego >
except the sysadmin
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<
Flayer >
life finds a way... i mean, that's just how it is
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<
Flayer >
people find a way to exist no matter the circumstances
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Althego >
not universally. there were many dying events
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Flayer >
life persists.
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Althego >
unstil it doesnt. but bacterial life underground is very hard to kill
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Flayer >
dying and all that, but the concept of life is not... taken down, y'know?
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<
Flayer >
you keep going
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Althego >
it always makes me sad when i think of the fact that life has only a few hundred million years remaining on this planet
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Flayer >
i find life easier to approach when i think of the notion of how stubborn the concept of life is
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<
Flayer >
it just keeps going
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<
Flayer >
plants, bacteria, anything at all, y'know?
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Flayer >
a few hundred million years ought to be enough for us to spread like a plague across several stars
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Flayer >
i think we can do it
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<
Flayer >
humanity is exceptional
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<
Flayer >
all it would take is half a dozen of seed vessels to other stars
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<
Flayer >
we'd keep going XD
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Flayer >
we wouldn't even have to send humans if life was really that rare
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Flayer >
just bacteria... let evolution do its thing
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Althego >
that would take billions of years. at least send tardigrades
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<
Flayer >
yeah, sure
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<
Flayer >
whatever, you know?
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<
Flayer >
send a bunch of life to other places
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Althego >
it seems multicellurality is one of the great filters
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Flayer >
if its really all that rar.e.. which it won't be
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Flayer >
i mean, come on it happened here XD
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Althego >
based on this one data point life seems to happen easily. multicellular life is a lot harder
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Flayer >
but if we find life on another body in our own solar system
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Flayer >
even if its just bacteria
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Flayer >
multicellular life will be so fucking common
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<
Flayer >
it's gonna be everywhere with a little bit of stability
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Flayer >
i can't really imagine it being any other way
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* TheKosmonaut
sees flayer's name and carefully slides the "no bad language" over to them
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TheKosmonaut >
I like my skin. But mind community guidelines pls.
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Althego >
sofa king :)
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darsie >
Execution will be off due to non instanteneous dv.
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darsie >
With staging during burn.
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Gasher[work] >
wow, bright screenshot of KSP
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Althego >
i always dock in full darkness
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<
Althego >
but actually you dont need the visuals, just the navball
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<
NGC3982 >
could ksp physically support a dyson object?
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Althego >
it already did
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kmath >
YouTube - KSP - Dyson Sphere
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Gasher[work] >
it's not really that
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Althego >
looks more like a dyson swarm
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Gasher[work] >
i mean, custom star
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Gasher[work] >
NGC3982, anyway, looks good
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darsie >
On approach to landing on Minmus I wanted to fly over some highland and was too low. Lost three solar panels.
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darsie >
Should have turned them horizontal :).
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Flayer >
my station launches always end up toppling over for some reason
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darsie >
Tech tree complete, all buildings fully upgraded.
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Althego >
now collect all science :)
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darsie >
I'd like to fly RSS, but it's too buggy :(.
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darsie >
What's the biome of Jool? Jool?
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darsie >
I could fly a barometer to Jool.
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Althego >
you can always try to build an eve sea level return vehicle
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darsie >
Yeah, I thought about that. Maybe with propellers.
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Althego >
delacy alpha lima tango, welcome to this federal facility
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Flayer >
a new pilot, verman kerman
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NGC3982 >
is eve the hardest planet to land and return from with kerbonauts?
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Althego >
maybe, tylo is a close match
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Althego >
because you haveto use fuel to land there
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Althego >
it is not like the gentle, just dont catch fire on the way down like on eve
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Althego >
it is like omg omg om just dont crash
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Althego >
the only planet where you have to stage while going down
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darsie >
20 km Tylo orbit should be 2135 m/s. And you need dv to get there.
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darsie >
Kessler syndrome is here.
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darsie >
Hmm, escape velocity 3 068.81 m/s. That might be within one stage.
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Althego >
no more lanches this year
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* darsie
launches KSP.
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darsie >
Scale it up and you can bring a fuel factory to get away, too.
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packbart >
at a TWR of 20, throttling for touchdown can get a bit hairy
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Althego >
from where
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Althego >
or make it smaller multi stage
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Althego >
also where i the por source
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darsie >
missing, radiators, too.
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darsie >
and landing legs.
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Althego >
but in tis case you do need legs
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darsie >
It's just an estimate, not a complete design.
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Althego >
expect to lose maybe 10% of the delta v estimate to landing
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darsie >
mhm. It has 4673. Escape is 3069.
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darsie >
packbart: Just limit thrust to 10%.
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Flayer >
500 ms should be enough to go from a mun flyby to docking with the mun station, yeah?
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darsie >
IIRC it's 280 m/s from low orbit to Kerbin.
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Flayer >
there's more fuel on the station
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Flayer >
to get back
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Flayer >
then i'm going with a full load of snacks too
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darsie >
ofc this means coming from Kerbin, not Eeloo.
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Flayer >
i'll go light on the monoprop and the ablator
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Flayer >
i mean i could just put a bigger booster underneath or drop the completely unnecessary landing gear, but this is how i'm going to do it lol
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JVFoxy >
ooof... ok guess I didn't need quite /that/ much fuel for a long range in-flight contract. It only used 1/4 of what I threw in
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JVFoxy >
5 of them Mk1 tanks.. managed to do a detour into the badlands, but ugh... seems to land like an ol' 747 in ways
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Flayer >
i keep getting eve exploration missions even though the duna window is coming up in 40 days
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Althego >
actually the career games starts just at the end of an eve launch window
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Althego >
so if you hurry you can launch something at the beginning of the game for eve
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<
Althego >
but ultimately it is pointless, since you get all the tree long before that probe gets there
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Flayer >
you and i play different games
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Althego >
obviously, i have been playing elite the last few days. hasnt played it for 5 years
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JVFoxy >
different routes for different people
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JVFoxy >
or however the saying goes
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JVFoxy >
wee... polar cap mission
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* NGC3982
makes his space station enormous
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NGC3982 >
i can't get my station to stop moving
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NGC3982 >
any way i can fix it? it's constantly moving back and forward
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darsie >
turn on time warp ;)
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