<LunchBot>
You scoff about how silly it would be to argue about which OS is better, then immediately turn around and start bickering about desktop environments. Bill throws up on your shoes (again).
<Eddi|zuHause>
he can puke all he wants, but i like KDE
<raptop>
KDE obviously stands for Kerbal Desktop Environment
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<Eddi|zuHause>
at least i've never heard any more convincing argument what the K stands for
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<packbart>
I like the Minmus All-Terrain Environment
<packbart>
The Godot engine code is quite ugly. At least with closed-source, you don't have to see how the sausage is made! :)
<packbart>
it has bugs parsing large integers, too. *sigh*
<packbart>
one day, we'll have computers that can work with more than just a few digits
<Eddi|zuHause>
you mean, like, python?
<packbart>
"Floating point numbers are usually implemented using double in C" - no
<packbart>
yes, there is Decimal and such but other languages have them, too, I think
<Eddi|zuHause>
arbitrarily large integers are way easier than arbitrary precision floats
<packbart>
and the problem I have with Godot is that I get 64bit integer values in JSON but they are parsed into float64, mapping multiple numbers onto one
<packbart>
then I hacked it to use to_int() if the number contains no ".". turns out, that function doesn't accept the 19th digit at all
<packbart>
then I looked at the source of the string thingy and found more ugly code. hrm. and duplicated code for types, too, even though they use c++ templates in other parts of the code
<packbart>
being a game engine, I can't decide if this is just left-overs from the 2007 hobby project that Godot once was or if it shaves off the critical nanoseconds in frame-time
<Azander>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You try to make hot tea in zero gravity. The Kraken dines on your vessel.
<Eddi|zuHause>
the tea was apparently tasty
<Azander>
rather improbable too
<Eddi|zuHause>
thing about statistics: improbable things happen all the damn time...
<Eddi|zuHause>
if a thing has a 1 in a million chance to happen to a person, there's still like 7000 people it has happened to
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<packbart>
well, 1 in a million chances are rather special, too
<packbart>
reminds me of a radio show ages ago where a caller said they didn't believe that life on other planets exists because the chances of that would be "astronomical"
<packbart>
Astronomical chances on astronomical scales become certainties evntually
<Eddi|zuHause>
that brings us into fermi paradox territory
<packbart>
well, I think that there is probably life out there but the distances in space and time are too great for two civilizations to even notice each other
<packbart>
and it's all about plastic. The Creators needed plastic and this is the only recipe they have: make a universe, let it stew a few billion years until enough plastic has formed, decant, rinse and wash
<Eddi|zuHause>
well, there's a problem there: if space travel is invented and sustained over a period of time, eventually the whole galaxy will be covered
<packbart>
styroforam doesn't spontaneously form in an exploding star. it's a rare material in the universe! :)
<packbart>
a galaxy is a very small thing, tbh
<Eddi|zuHause>
just because we haven't seen an asteroid made of styrofoam doesn't mean it doesn't exist :p
<Eddi|zuHause>
sure, but even conservative estimates put into the drake equation come out as "about 1 intelligent species per galaxy"
<packbart>
well, I don't see the dolphins building interplanetary spacecraft anytime soon (is that speciesist-ish? :)
<packbart>
so "intelligent" alone doesn't cut it. need opposable thumbs, too
<Eddi|zuHause>
so long, and thanks for all the fish
<Eddi|zuHause>
i think the drake equation kinda expects only one dominant species per planet that develops life
<Eddi|zuHause>
one of the key technologies will be electricity, which kind of puts a damper on any aquatic species
<packbart>
the technological explosion that sent humans into orbit is only happening for a short time now. a few hundred years are just a blink. we'll see
<packbart>
maybe civilizations burn out that fast. invent the jump drive, next thing you know is that someone uses it to open a portal into the sun to burn off the other half of the planet.
<Eddi|zuHause>
there's a few grim resolutions to the fermi paradox
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<packbart>
a written language is probably also an important thing for technological evolution, now that I write about it
<packbart>
the whales can only keep their history and knowledge alive by singing about it
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<packbart>
I wonder if they have travelling bards, bringing news from one herd to another
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<FLHerne>
raptop: It didn't, F9 took K-1's place in COTS after Kistler ran into trouble
<FLHerne>
Could reasonably say that SpaceX only survived because Kistler didn't
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<FLHerne>
I do quite like K-1's "interstage fairing as a shuttlecock" idea
<FLHerne>
although it can't have been cheap on mass
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<darsie>
.
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<KrazyKrl>
;mission add The meat robots are trying to revolt (again.)
<LunchBot>
Added mission: The meat robots are trying to revolt (again.)
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<KrazyKrl>
;mission add Your rocket achieves the largest spallation event yet observed.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: Your rocket achieves the largest spallation event yet observed.
<KrazyKrl>
;outcome add Bill Kerman reacts implosively, and emits blinding neutrino radiation.
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: Bill Kerman reacts implosively, and emits blinding neutrino radiation.
<KrazyKrl>
;mission add The science report somehow contains an unreadable emojigraph.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: The science report somehow contains an unreadable emojigraph.
<KrazyKrl>
;mission
<LunchBot>
You show pictures from your awesome mission to your physics professor, and ask if they'll count for partial credit on the homework you didn't do while you were playing KSP. What are you asking me for? It's always "LunchBot, give me a mission." Don't you think I want to go on missions sometime? But nooo, I'm stuck here, giving you pithy statements.
<KrazyKrl>
;mission add Your stargate stops rotating.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: Your stargate stops rotating.
<KrazyKrl>
;mission add You drop a pallet of RCS thrusters off of the loading dock.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: You drop a pallet of RCS thrusters off of the loading dock.
<XXCoder>
;outcome add All of half of your landing ship have landed on Mun intact!
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: All of half of your landing ship have landed on Mun intact!
<Althego>
;outcome add The surface of Kerbin disappears, turning the planet into a naked singularity.
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: The surface of Kerbin disappears, turning the planet into a naked singularity.
<XXCoder>
;mission
<LunchBot>
Bob confuses hydrazine for diphenhydramine. Randall explores all the various ways everybody could die due to it in the next XKCD What-If.
<XXCoder>
perfect combo
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<KrazyKrl>
;mission add Val somehow creates a Korolev Cross with a single SRB.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: Val somehow creates a Korolev Cross with a single SRB.
<Althego>
lol
<Eddi|zuHause>
Althego: i've had the surface of kerbin disappear... only the KSC left floating
<KrazyKrl>
;mission add Ironically due to a rounding error; your engine bells are no longer round.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: Ironically due to a rounding error; your engine bells are no longer round.
<Eddi|zuHause>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You give your spaceplane a bad attitude. Kerbn cannot into spaec today.
<Eddi|zuHause>
KrazyKrl: shouldn't that really be an outcome?
<KrazyKrl>
;outcome argues with
<LunchBot>
Everyone argues with you about whether or not this should have been a mission or an outcome.
<Althego>
hehe
<darsie>
.
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<Althego>
outcome add Everything ends with darsie giving you a ".".
<Althego>
;outcome add Everything ends with darsie giving you a ".".
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: Everything ends with darsie giving you a ".".
<darsie>
There are concepts for linear darts.
<darsie>
I mean ...
<darsie>
aerospikes
<darsie>
re non round engines.
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<KrazyKrl>
;outcome add Your aerospike powered rocket becomes the largest jart on record.
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: Your aerospike powered rocket becomes the largest jart on record.
<darsie>
Are jarts smelly?
<KrazyKrl>
jarts have been banned in the US since like 1988
<darsie>
Lawn darts?
<KrazyKrl>
yep
<KrazyKrl>
;outcome add Good thing you have Rockomax Litigation Services on retainer.
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: Good thing you have Rockomax Litigation Services on retainer.
<packbart>
I remember playing with lawn darts (they are not banned over here)
<sandbox>
they use plastic now
<KrazyKrl>
all of them around here are weighted semispherical.
<Althego>
hemispherical?
<KrazyKrl>
naa, we mix latin and greek round these parts
<Althego>
come to think of it i dont even know sphere in lati
<KrazyKrl>
;mission add Val aborts the launch and starts the RTLS procedures.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: Val aborts the launch and starts the RTLS procedures.
<KrazyKrl>
;mission
<LunchBot>
You perturb the Magic Boulder. You freeze to death.
<KrazyKrl>
magic boulder is endothermic confirmed.
<raptop>
hm, rooks, I guess you could call cardinals "bishops"...
<raptop>
can you put together a whole chess set of birbs?
<Althego>
i didnt even knoe they were named like that
<sandbox>
pies
<Eddi|zuHause>
apparently crows and ravens (not a clear distinction between both other than size) are extremely intelligent birds, some researchers suggesting they have the same intelligence level as humans
<Eddi|zuHause>
in several cities they have been observed using traffic lights. they let cars go over nuts to crack them, and in the red phase they get the cracked nuts
<Althego>
i knew they were smart, but i didnt know thi
<Eddi|zuHause>
in one city they have been observed to let the nuts exclusively on the bus lane, because they have more time to get the results
<Eddi|zuHause>
in one experiment they concluded a logical connection between a stick moving on its own and a human exiting a hideout some time later
<Eddi|zuHause>
!mission
<LunchBot>
Per UmbralRaptop's last memo, you start saving your screenshots as FITS images. MechJeb proves to be no less reckless than Real Jeb.
<Eddi|zuHause>
at least i now have the screenshots to prove it
<raptop>
probably helpful
<raptop>
and yes, corvids are the best (extant) dinosaurs
<sandbox>
it's probably why the raptors in JP were intelligent