01:26 <raptop> ;outcome add You could make a religion out of this.

01:26 <LunchBot> Added outcome: You could make a religion out of this.

02:28 <XXCoder> ;mission

02:28 <LunchBot> Even though Allthumbs Kerman dropped your command module oxygen tank 2 inches, you decide to fly with it anyway. Scott Manley steals all your boosters.

02:29 <XXCoder> yeah, I guess scott didnt get enough oxygen so thought theft was good idea

03:39 <Althego> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owji-ukVt9M

03:39 <Althego> How do you power a rocket engine? Engine cycles and Turbopumps explained!

06:17 <Izaya> tfw the docking music ends just as hard docking is established and you didn't even try https://shadowkat.net/tmp/2e16.webm

08:02 <Izaya> Turns out that putting KSP on an SSD does make it load faster than on an SMR HDD. Go figure.

08:03 <Althego> what an amazing discovery

08:03 <Althego> but it does not help too much

08:03 <Althego> because there is a lot of processing going on

08:20 <Izaya> yup

08:20 <Izaya> SSD is much better for random access though, brought it down to under 10 minutes.

08:57 <Mat2ch> KSP benefits from a fast SSD. But since the processing is so slow and probably only single core it still takes ages.

08:57 <Mat2ch> But that's a Unity problem

08:57 <Mat2ch> All Unity games take ages to load

09:00 <Izaya> a good thing the 6700K is still reasonably competitive then

09:07 <Althego> or at least was until amd forced intel to finally do something, maybe 2 years ago

09:10 <Izaya> reasonably :p

09:51 <Izaya> ripped the docking port off the capsule that is returning to kerbin to recycle it with Sandcastle

09:51 <Izaya> :3

11:08 <Izaya> https://shadowkat.net/tmp/175d.jpg

11:11 <Althego> cute capsules

11:36 <Mat2ch> I have a problem with that flag. :P

11:37 <Izaya> I will remember to cw my screenshots in future then

11:40 <Izaya> honestly the tantares capsules are OP

11:40 <Izaya> s/capsules/pods/

11:40 <Izaya> Mk1 pod size command pod, fits 3 kerbals, has some LF/OX storage

11:41 <Izaya> add a docking port, two of the Tantares LF/OX RCS units and a 303 and you have a capsule with 400-600m/s of dV

11:42 <Izaya> the 303 will take the heat of re-entry on default settings also

11:45 <Izaya> toasty https://shadowkat.net/tmp/5fb3.jpg

11:46 <Mat2ch> Do the engine and tanks survive?

11:46 <Izaya> yup

11:47 <Izaya> I attribute this to the game having lenient defaults rather than any actual properties of the design.

13:05 <Althego> zombanwa

15:00 <flayer> i feel sick

20:51 <SporkWitch> starlink launch stream starting in ~25 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNrXnubpwA

20:57 <Mat2ch> lol, the FAA delayed the environmental review again?!

20:58 <Mat2ch> How the hack can they justify this?!

20:59 <flayer> oof

20:59 <SporkWitch> given the news with twitter? I suspect there's going to be a LOT of foot-dragging from all government agencies

21:00 <SporkWitch> just look how fast they moved to establish the Ministry of Truth? lol

21:03 <Mat2ch> What is the Ministry of Truth?

21:04 <sandbox> is this a banned topic?

21:04 <flayer> no

21:04 <SporkWitch> condensed summary: Elon Musk is buying Twitter and intends to stop the political censorship on it. The left is panicking at the potential of losing one of their primary means of spreading propaganda. So now they're standing up the "Disinformation Governance Board" within the Department of Homeland Security, which is a law-enforcement agency, with LOTS of guns and ammo, for the purpose of

21:04 <SporkWitch> deciding what is and isnot true.

21:05 <SporkWitch> The person they've chosen to head this direct copy of 1984's Ministry of Truth has a long history of promoting misinformation herself, including things that even left-wing media has been forced to concede are true, and she continues to spread those lies in spite of it.

21:06 <sandbox> that's not true, that's impossible

21:06 <SporkWitch> That's ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL, but this adminsitration has repeatedly violated the constitution, and brazenly stated that they were doing so (see, for example, the extension of the eviction ban despite the SCOTUS explicitly declaring it unconstiutional).

21:07 <Mat2ch> this is an impossible topic here, sadly, as I like to discuss politics.

21:07 <SporkWitch> So no, not impossible, but definitely illegal, yes

21:08 <SporkWitch> In any case, don't be surprised if permits and other stuff are used against SpaceX and anythign else Musk-related for a while, because they're pissed at him for taking away one of their toys.

21:09 <Mat2ch> I don't think that is how it works here.

21:10 <Mat2ch> Hanlon's Razor says: Musk himself called for sending notes to the FAA and they got around 18000 (I have no source for this right now) and every single one has to be answered

21:11 <Mat2ch> And I guess the FAA is not equipped for that many letters/mails/whatever

21:11 <Mat2ch> SporkWitch: may I query you?

21:12 <SporkWitch> You kind of just did :P Unless you're asking if you may DM me, in which case, by all means.