00:49 <Izaya> How does using engines for attitude control work?

00:54 <umaxtu> like gimballing?

00:56 <darsie> sometimes asymmetric thrust.

00:56 <darsie> Do RCS engines count?

00:59 <Izaya> Oh, gimballing is an obvious way, isn't it

00:59 <Izaya> but in said dres bridge video they were used in place of RCS

03:19 <raptop> Oh, throttling individual engines like is done with some aerospike shenanigans

05:24 <raptop> !mission

05:24 <raptop> !mission

05:24 <LunchBot> You pet Kountdown. Turns out mission planning technique is more important than rocket size.

06:22 <Izaya> Maybe I should write a proper manager for engines-as-RCS as a kOS script

06:23 <Izaya> but I don't tend to build the sort of massive things that need that sort of brute force control

09:37 <funkenstein> ;mission add You test the amperage of a kerbal.

09:37 <LunchBot> Added mission: You test the amperage of a kerbal.

09:56 <funkenstein> ;mission

09:56 <LunchBot> You tape down the trigger of your handgun, deciding to just use the safety to fire it. However, you lack sufficient fuel to maintain your heading.

10:00 <funkenstein> ;mission

10:00 <LunchBot> You attempt to pet the UmbralRaptor. Your brain is poured into a computer.

10:55 <Eddi|zuHause> sounds like a success to me

13:22 <Azander> ;mission

13:22 <LunchBot> You attempt to parse HTML with regex. You try to calm your passengers down by explaining that there's nothing to be nervous about, but are cut off by a distant explosion.

13:41 <darsie> These roadmap stops ... will they be extensions you can buy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbZ6M9Whyc4&t=182s

13:43 <Althego> hehe parsing html with retgex causes explosions

13:43 <Althego> -t

14:03 <Mat2ch> Well... to be honest, there were attempts and yes they failed :D

16:07 <FLHerne> ;outcome add Some of your crew escape the ship and return to Kerbin. Some go off seeking Ultima. Some are doomed to "SOMA," an exile where you sleep for a billion years. Most of them experience bizarre space deaths that even now don't make a lot of sense.

16:07 <LunchBot> Added outcome: Some of your crew escape the ship and return to Kerbin. Some go off seeking Ultima. Some are doomed to "SOMA," an exile where you sleep for a billion years. Most of them experience bizarre space deaths that even now don't make a lot of sense.

16:07 <FLHerne> https://gizmodo.com/remember-inside-ufo-54-40-the-unwinnable-choose-your-o-1552187271

16:10 <raptop> Incidentally, SOMA the videogame felt like a classic case of "SF made by people who haven't read much SF"

16:15 <FLHerne> in a good or a bad way?

18:37 <raptop> Fluburtur: in a bad way

20:33 <funkenstein> ;mission

20:33 <LunchBot> You attempt to pick a gimbal lock. You have angered the nuclear weasels.

20:34 <Althego> hehe

20:34 <Althego> puns anger a lot of people

20:42 <raptop> oh, right, I got tab-jacked a few hours ago

20:42 <raptop> Anyway, I'm sure that the angry nuclear weasels realise that they're also at least a pun?

20:44 <raptop> FLHerne: In a bad way in how it handled a lot of stuff related to AI, mind-uploading, transhumanism, etc. Also some spaceflight stuff that seemed like they didn't really understand things, but needed to grab some diagrams to make it look like they did.

20:44 <raptop> Also, it didn't help that the protagonist was so thick you could use him as neutrino shielding

20:51 <FLHerne> eh

20:51 <FLHerne> isn't that every sci-fi movie ever made?

20:51 <FLHerne> with extremely rare exceptions

20:52 <raptop> unfortunately, kinda

21:02 <FLHerne> ;stupid mysterious illness

21:02 <LunchBot> "One of our crew has a mysterious illness. I will refuse to let him on board, yell at everyone, and then set fire to him with a flamethrower in front of his girlfriend and most of the rest of the crew."

21:02 <FLHerne> the only way I can rationalise the plot of 'Prometheus', or a lot of these movies really, is that the HR department deliberately set them up to fail as part of the Conspiracy

21:03 <SporkWitch> there's a plot in prometheus?

21:03 <FLHerne> you have a crew of highly-trained experts from across the settled galaxy, hand-picked for their suitability for this exploration mission

21:04 <FLHerne> and they're all, without exception, undisciplined morons with no interpersonal skills and little ability to perform even their own roles

21:05 <raptop> I saw the flamethrower part first and for a moment thought that this was about The Thing

22:49 <packbart> hm. I can't say I remember watching Prometheus. maybe I should

22:51 <packbart> I mistook it for "Sphere" based on the "hand-picked experts with no interpersonal skills"

23:22 <umaxtu> that describes this channel

23:28 <packbart> nah, I can't remember anyone picking me for channel duty

23:31 <raptop> packbart: both movies are pretty meh, so it's hard to say if you should watch them