<Izzy>
I feel less bad about my programming troubles given how much trouble everyone IRL has with their spacecraft software
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<Althego>
hehe
<Althego>
lot of neglected real life problems in a game
<Althego>
for example you dont need to worry about fuel sloshing in ksp
<Althego>
early apollo landers had undesired oscillations in the control loop causing lot of actuation in the rcs system
<Althego>
because of the fuel
<Izzy>
I'm sure there's a mod for use with RO that implements it ;)
<Mat2ch>
RSS tries to at least simulate it for igniting the engines.
<Izzy>
My issue is that I'm ... number-blind? Don't have the intuitive understanding that would make the sort of numerical control programming kOS involves easy.
<Althego>
probably nobody has that
<Izzy>
most people are better at it than me x-x
<Althego>
pid is one of the most deceptive controllers, looks easy, and in reality tuning it is hard
<Izzy>
no I mean any maths at all, I'm awful at it
<Izzy>
I brute-force everything and let the game do the maths
<Izzy>
rather than calculating orbits I adjust manuever nodes and check the results the game gives me
<Althego>
that is also true of most people in genral, math is hard
<Althego>
also there is no royal road in mathematics
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<Eddi|zuHause>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You launch the largest rocket possible from the smallest and least improved pad. You wonder what Jebediah most fears -- that dead Kerbals can send messages to the living, or that they can't.
<Eddi|zuHause>
probably neither?
<Althego>
he fears nothing
<Althego>
or maybe the possibility he cant fly again
<Eddi|zuHause>
probably not true either, but he doesn't seem like the type that worries about this stuff
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<LunchBot>
You decide to do nothing today. [DATA EXPUNGED]. Most of the remains were never recovered.
<Althego>
hehe
<XXCoder>
man should have gotten busy
<Althego>
what dangerous nothing
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<Mat2ch>
raptop: Weird reality you peaked into.
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<raptop>
XXCoder: Maybe it was just something else breaching containment
<raptop>
Mat2ch: It'll probably be good eventually. In the mean time, KSP1 has neat stuff
<XXCoder>
maybe, but my idleness made it worse
<Azander>
!mission
<LunchBot>
Jeb's hibernation suit fails mere weeks into his return journey from Eeloo. Through years of total isolation in the blackness of space, his mind is warped beyond recognition. A landing leg fails, pinning Bob to the terrain.
<XXCoder>
not too bad considering how bad jeb mind was warped while he was piloting
<Azander>
maybe he thought he was an engineer for a while
<raptop>
For all we know, Jeb could have sabotaged the landing leg
<XXCoder>
even so still not too bad lol
<Eddi|zuHause>
my bet is on jeb having torture fantasies
<Eddi|zuHause>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You claim that a gravity turn is a hard 45 degree pitchover at 10 km altitude. Luckily, the micro black hole dissipated quickly.
<XXCoder>
few steps missing, but probably spin ship too fast and it turned into microblackhole
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<Eddi|zuHause>
well, usually my rockets just disassemble during ascend, if i rotate them too fast...