00:06 <SporkWitch> Potemkin Space Center? O.o :P

00:12 <raptop> Oh, you mean Vostochny?

00:16 <SporkWitch> doesn't sound like it; Vostochny looks like standard communist corruption. Potemkin Villages were actually "finished" and explicitly set up to make it look like they weren't total failures like communism always is at scales above 100 people or so.

01:13 <Pinkbeast> Didn't we used to have some kind of no-politics rule?

01:23 <Rokker> Pinkbeast: History isn't politics

01:25 <Rokker> long time no see PB, how are you

01:36 <Pinkbeast> I suspect it'll be a museum of sleep soon (but I think I may have finished all the vehicle design for Elcanoing all the things)

02:10 <raptop> !mission add You attempt to perform reentry entirely during your kerbals' iframes.

02:10 <LunchBot> Added mission: You attempt to perform reentry entirely during your kerbals' iframes.

02:16 <XXCoder> ;mission add You plan a mission while debating hot button issue in chat.

02:16 <LunchBot> Added mission: You plan a mission while debating hot button issue in chat.

02:16 <XXCoder> ;mission

02:16 <LunchBot> You make a series of cartoons about your mission featuring cute smiling spacecraft. emacs abuses you.

02:17 <XXCoder> emacs must hate cuteness

03:07 <raptop> For all we know, JAXA could be a vim shop

08:18 <Mat2ch> !mission add You use a Javelin as your launch vehicle.

08:18 <LunchBot> Added mission: You use a Javelin as your launch vehicle.

12:32 <packbart> Aliens! https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/v2dtc8/electron_microscope_picture_of_hydrothermal_vent/

12:52 <Mat2ch> omnomnom

14:27 <packbart> !mission

14:27 <LunchBot> You decide to watch KSP videos instead of playing this time. You spend all that remains of your budget on cleaning up the mess you made.

14:28 <packbart> probably spluttering coffee all over the keyboard

14:54 <Mat2ch> !mission

14:54 <LunchBot> You throw a bag of botsnacks into #KSPOfficial. Even Danny2462 thinks you're crazy.

15:19 <heinz9> ja

15:25 <packbart> ok

16:38 <packbart> old sci-fi is funny. They've got FTL drives and artificial gravity but their electronics use tubes, condensers and battery jars

16:39 <packbart> ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Space_Series )

16:40 <Pinkbeast> _GURPS Lensman_ retconned that with an explanation that the good super aliens had stifled development of transitors because using slide rules was character forming (or something like that)

16:40 <Guest42973> u

16:41 <packbart> hello

16:41 <packbart> ah, well

16:41 <Pinkbeast> They might at least _spell_ it right

16:41 <raptop> Total time in channel: 16 seconds

16:42 <raptop> Anyway, ick, lensman

16:42 <raptop> (well, GURPS might have a good take on it. So more like, not being a fan of E E Smith's writing)

16:43 <Pinkbeast> He ah has his problems but Lensman is definitely his Zenith, after women as mobile scenery and before he started to try and sex up his writing

16:43 <raptop> hah

16:44 <Pinkbeast> (and anyone who's worked in tech support must secretly want, like Helmuth of Boskone, to cut people off with "Your report is neither complete nor conclusive.")

16:46 <raptop> Inddeed

16:47 <Pinkbeast> Also it's some of the early alien aliens in SF - not humans in funny hats, not incomprehensible fishMalks, but different in ways that reflect different biology and culture, sort of thing.

16:51 <Pinkbeast> And while the science-and-technology growth is astonishing, it's toned down a great deal from his early books which are as if Stephenson had pushed the _Rocket_ into the shed and come out the next day with a Gresley A4 Pacific

16:53 <raptop> There was definitely also a bit of surrealness in that there were these fancy viewing screens in part because they didn't have radar

16:54 <Pinkbeast> Mmm. After WW2 he got a letter from one of MacArthur's aides saying, roughly, in the War in the Pacific I was considering the problem of command and control, showed my engineers the description of the Z9M9Z's plotting tank, and said "make me one of these, only two dimensional and blue". So they did.

16:55 <raptop> shiny

18:54 <XXCoder> ;mission

18:54 <LunchBot> You give your spaceplane a bad attitude. You die. Twice.

18:54 <XXCoder> man that plane ws a deathtrap

18:55 <Mat2ch> !mission

18:55 <LunchBot> A probe of unknown origin approaches the KSC and hails you. Tardigrades are now an invasive species in the lunar environment.

18:55 <XXCoder> so some alien species come in to complain about tardigrades eg

18:55 <XXCoder> *eh

18:56 <SporkWitch> tardigrades are awesome

18:58 <raptop> XXCoder: yeah, the bunnies are constantly complaning about them

21:27 <FLHerne> XXCoder: to be fair, maintaining a very precise attitude is crucial with virtually any spaceplane

21:28 <FLHerne> especially with KSP's weird drag

21:28 <XXCoder> lol indeed

21:29 <SporkWitch> even more fun with FAR; fun fact: wings work best when they're still attached lol

21:32 <XXCoder> in least infiglider thing dont work anymore

22:25 <raptop> huh, Chaos Gate is free on GOG

23:02 <raptop> !outcome add Gauss and Jordan eliminate you.

23:02 <LunchBot> Added outcome: Gauss and Jordan eliminate you.

23:52 <taniwha> heh