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<raptop>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You decide to taste Minimus to see if it really is mint ice cream. You sink your mandibles into a reflective metal posterior.
<raptop>
oops
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<XXCoder>
man you didnt aim well lol
<XXCoder>
;mission
<LunchBot>
You repeatedly play Star Wars sound effects to Werhner Von Kerman's mynah bird. Any survivors of the explosion wind up with a totally unrelated case of Vanadium poisoning.
<Eddi|zuHause>
minimus, bender's ass... easy to mix up
<Eddi|zuHause>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You decide to make a single wing plane. Jeb dies.
<XXCoder>
lol
<Eddi|zuHause>
doesn't say the plane is the reason :p
<Eddi|zuHause>
i've seen a working single wing wind power plant
<darsie>
Allegedly single airfoil propellers are most efficient. They use a counterweight.
<darsie>
s/airfoil/blade
<Eddi|zuHause>
yeah. it was probably something similar
<XXCoder>
I picture absol lol
<XXCoder>
dunno why
<Eddi|zuHause>
so, i imagine a "single wing" plane where the wing is in the middle, and two bodies on each side...
<Eddi|zuHause>
and some sticky out bits for maneuvering
<XXCoder>
i had made and flew one wing planes in ks[
<Eddi|zuHause>
two bodies, one on each side
<XXCoder>
it works pretty well
<darsie>
There are wing only airplanes.
<darsie>
flying wings
<XXCoder>
yeah. mine wasnt like that
<XXCoder>
it was body with wing on one side
<Eddi|zuHause>
whenever i try to build planes, they usually fly fine. but then i try to land 15 times and give up...
<XXCoder>
yeah flying is mostly easy.... till you try to land
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<LunchBot>
Thou must build thy rocket, then thou must count down. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. The Great Will Of The Macrocosm reverts the mission to launchpad.
<Eddi|zuHause>
but how can it revert to launchpad if it can't ever leave (by that described method of "counting down", which can never reach zero)
<XXCoder>
yeah not happening. probably reverted after fixing the broken counter
<XXCoder>
;mission
<LunchBot>
You forgo struts in an effort to cut down on the cost of your vessel. Your launch is scrubbed due to high altitude winds.
<XXCoder>
probably fell apart in wind by no struts
* Eddi|zuHause
makes another mark on the "make it more rigid" counter
<FLHerne>
re. 'single wing plane' I'm thinking of the Christmas Bullet
<FLHerne>
one of the first monoplanes
<FLHerne>
on its first test flight, the wings tore off killing the pilot
<FLHerne>
on its second test flight, the wings tore off killing the pilot
<FLHerne>
bleh
<FLHerne>
it did actually have a small, unbraced second wing making my point fundamentally wrong
<FLHerne>
nvm
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<Mat2ch>
Why was the FH launch aborted?
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<KrazyKrl>
;outcome add Your parents were watching that whole ordeal, and beg the developers for a "revert the offspring" button.
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: Your parents were watching that whole ordeal, and beg the developers for a "revert the offspring" button.
<darsie>
1337
<Mat2ch>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You replace the mechanical Jeb with an electronic Jeb. [DATA EXPUNGED].
<Mat2ch>
Great. Deletes its own data.
<KrazyKrl>
I mean, you kind of need to sponge the data from the mechanical jeb due to all the lubricant that was sprayed all over the capsule.
<Mat2ch>
There's probably a mission in that.
<Mat2ch>
:D
<Mat2ch>
!mission add To further save weight you use sponges as landing gear.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: To further save weight you use sponges as landing gear.
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<KrazyKrl>
;mission add To adaptively control ballast of the spacecraft, you liquify the crew and feed them into the fuel tanks.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: To adaptively control ballast of the spacecraft, you liquify the crew and feed them into the fuel tanks.
<Mat2ch>
That's cruel :D
<darsie>
I'm not sure how that works.
<Mat2ch>
Imagine a huge juice squeezer...
<KrazyKrl>
;outcome add The international community judges your actions as cruel and unusual, and increases your funding for the block 2 prototypes.
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: The international community judges your actions as cruel and unusual, and increases your funding for the block 2 prototypes.
<darsie>
A Lunar emergency vehicle was proposed where the (single, IIRC) crew would maintain attitude by leaning.
<KrazyKrl>
darsie: you obviously use the liquidcrew™ to both pressurize and balance the center of mass in the craft to assist in translation and reduction of forces outside of the flight envelope.
<darsie>
ic, so the liquid crew can move, just like the mystery goo.
<KrazyKrl>
well, you don't need helium to pressurize the craft when the crew contains helium.
<darsie>
The simplest designs had no attitude control system at all. Instead the pilot would stand during the flight, and simply lean backwards, forwards or side-to-side to move the center of gravity relative to the center of thrust of the fixed engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_escape_systems#Control
<darsie>
"Ultimately, however, this was considered to be less desirable than hardware control, particularly as it imposed significant constraints on vehicle thrust level and inertia. "
<darsie>
They could have used a movable seat, controlled by levers or screws.
<Eddi|zuHause>
!outcome add You reduced the crew to a soup-like homogenate.
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: You reduced the crew to a soup-like homogenate.
<packbart>
Yum yum
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<Eddi|zuHause>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You construct an orbital magma cannon. Someone on IRC expresses another level of meta-opinion on the pointlessness of meta-opinions in order to obtain the moral high ground.
<packbart>
so, it's pointless to criticize your pointless cannon?
<Mat2ch>
!mission
<LunchBot>
After careful analysis of the planets' orbits, you find no evidence of an undiscovered Planet X in the Kerbol system. You set a new record for minimizing Δv use.