08:48 <sandbox> !mission

08:48 <LunchBot> You successfully dock with no RCS! You reduced the crew to a soup-like homogenate.

08:49 <Althego> hehe the third impact

09:15 <darsie> I typically have RCS on fuel stations even though they're heavier than the ships to refuel and it's thus more wasteful, but it saves the mass of RCS on the spacecraft.

09:17 <darsie> Sometimes I see videos of spacecraft with RCS instead of RWs. I guess that's for realism.

09:17 <Althego> isnt rcs some android thing?

09:18 <packbart> so the mountain does come to Jeb

09:19 <darsie> Well, I use RCS to dock on asteroids or so. But not for attitude control.

09:19 <packbart> darsie: on some builds it works better than RWs and doesn't induce as much wobble

09:19 <packbart> and yeah, it looks cooler

09:19 <darsie> yeah :)

09:23 <packbart> for large nonsense, I used tugs that would pull the tanker to the fuel station. seeing 4 MechJeb-controlled probes fly out to a ship and dock with its ports was nice :)

17:23 <FLHerne> .outcome add The resulting discoveries are so great that you're awarded the first ever posthumous Nobel Prize.

17:23 <LunchBot> Added outcome: The resulting discoveries are so great that you're awarded the first ever posthumous Nobel Prize.

18:21 <sandbox> !mission

18:21 <LunchBot> You install Chatterer and decode the SSTV signals in the files. You send a distress signal throughout the universe: one last piece of music, from a dying planet of space frogs. The first part of the song tells your history. The second part asks for help. But even if rescue never comes, the third part will be triumph, because this last song will play forever.

19:29 <Mat2ch> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_79y0yZs0dc Starliner Undocking in ~2 hours

19:35 <darsie> also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTccak9Bm6o

19:36 <Mat2ch> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG3eNnzhkpw NASASpaceFlight

21:42 <darsie> .outcome add You throw a glueball on a string at the capsule and pull yourself in.

21:42 <LunchBot> Added outcome: You throw a glueball on a string at the capsule and pull yourself in.

21:50 <Mat2ch> and NASA stream is live

22:05 <Mat2ch> And undocked

22:35 <raptop> lol: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02836

22:36 <sandbox> too late to process

22:36 <sandbox> I'll take your word for it that it's funny

22:37 <raptop> The DART mission kicked up enough debris that there's a real chance that it'll cause a meteor shower in 13 years

23:13 <packbart> free sample return

23:45 <darsie> Contaminated by the atmosphere.

23:46 <darsie> maybe soiled by soil.

23:49 <raptop> hm

23:50 <darsie> We might have spectra from the impact.