<ScholarRaptor>
It's a quantum interference sensor for the magnetometer.
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<ScholarRaptor>
It's kind of weird seeing a connection used on ye olden computer monitors on a space probe that most certainly does not have a ye olden computer monitor.
<ScholarRaptor>
Though I suppose using the old style makes sense because it can be securely fastened, which takes me back to NASA having severe issues in the 60's with multiple probes likely being lost to loose and/or debris-filled connections.
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<Judge_Dedd>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You draw the curtains on your launch window. You make it look like an accident.
<FLHerne>
Casually brushed against them with your shoulder?
<xxcoder>
HAH!!
<xxcoder>
;mission
<LunchBot>
You forget to take off your shoes before putting on your pants... again. You fail the Voight-Kampff test.
<xxcoder>
oh yes order of dressing
<xxcoder>
dang im not human or kerbal
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<Judge_Dedd>
!mission
<LunchBot>
Your rocket suffers from turbopump-rich exhaust. After three fruitless hours, you give up trying to get an encounter with Dres.
<Judge_Dedd>
That would indeed scupper a trip to Dres
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<Judge_Dedd>
!mextlunch
<Judge_Dedd>
!nextlunch
<LunchBot>
Lentil soup.
<Mat2ch>
and Polaris Dawn is off the pad
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<sandbox>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You outsource the assembly of your rockets to the General Products Corporation. You are blinked out of existence by a sudden raptop.
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<darsie>
13371338
<darsie>
oops
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<Mat2ch>
wanted to complain that all the youtubers I follow don't upload very often anymore. But then I saw the metal wizard has uploaded (Ron Covell)
<darsie>
Mat2ch: Are there salt and covalent wizards, too?
<Mat2ch>
I'm not sure.
<Mat2ch>
But there's probably someone dedicated to salt
<darsie>
ok
<KrazyKrl>
;mission add Your zero-G waffleiron begins smoking, which causes a contaminated atmosphere to spontaneously turn the capsule into a coffin.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: Your zero-G waffleiron begins smoking, which causes a contaminated atmosphere to spontaneously turn the capsule into a coffin.
<Mat2ch>
!mission
<LunchBot>
Due to a clerical error, you're now on a trans-munar ejection burn. For all the resultant horror, grief, and pain, you put your differences behind you and try again. For science. You monster.
<Mat2ch>
Just because I started a crusade doesn't mean I'm a monster!
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<sandbox>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You replace your TPS with surplus ERA. The Sphinx of black quartz harshly judges your vow.
<Judge_Dedd>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You stage an F1 race with "spare" Saturn V engines. Your space pizza noisily slaps toppings-first against the bulkhead, sending bits of pineapple in every direction.
<Judge_Dedd>
I'll lick that up later
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<raptop>
!mission
<LunchBot>
The Konstructor convinces you to use more Rockomax Mk 55 engines on your craft. The SCE to Aux switch malfunctions.
<Judge_Dedd>
Uh oh
<Judge_Dedd>
I think that's more than pizzas splatting against the bulkhead there, raptop.
<raptop>
I'm pretty sure that we're just stuck on the pad from the lightning strike
<raptop>
Also, wow, remember when the Mk 55 and Poodle terrible?
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<Judge_Dedd>
I do remember that, raptop, but I don't remember when they were improved. I remember using nine of them bunched together in threes as shuttle engines https://imgur.com/zbgGoPw
<Judge_Dedd>
That was in 2017
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<raptop>
Looks like they were buffed in both 0.18 and 0.90, unsure if there were other changes
<raptop>
...and 0.17 for that matter
<raptop>
Hrm, they must have had a post-1.0 nerf also, but that would have been in line with the other small engines, so eh
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<Judge_Dedd>
Ah yes, I remember I picked them for their gimbal range
<Judge_Dedd>
Moar gimbal = flyable shuttle
<raptop>
seems accurate
<Judge_Dedd>
The tech level that save was at didn't give us anywhere near enough to unlock the real shuttle engines
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<Althego>
.mission add The heading bug bites you.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: The heading bug bites you.
<raptop>
Imagine getting bitten by a speedbug while flying a small aircraft
<sandbox>
!mission
<LunchBot>
There is critical shortage of ice cream. You need to go to Minmus. The discussion gets added to the fortune file.
<raptop>
hm
<Judge_Dedd>
!mission add You build a shuttle using only parts from Jeb's Junkyard.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: You build a shuttle using only parts from Jeb's Junkyard.
<Judge_Dedd>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You have no idea where you're going, but you start going there really, really fast. You simultaniously underfill and overfill the hbox, resulting in a badness of over 10000.
<Judge_Dedd>
Is that the same as being bad_S?
<raptop>
Much worse. It means you broke LaTeX
<Judge_Dedd>
!outcome add The outcome is over your head - both metaphorically and literally.
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: The outcome is over your head - both metaphorically and literally.
<Judge_Dedd>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You take an unsettling passenger to the appointed Lagrange point. Bob succumbs to the Inevitability of Gradualness.
<Judge_Dedd>
!mission add You feel that missions and outcomes require too much specific knowledge in order to comprehend.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: You feel that missions and outcomes require too much specific knowledge in order to comprehend.
<Judge_Dedd>
Seriously, it's like someone constantly telling in-jokes.
<Althego>
.mission add You install Principia to go to a Lagrange point to perform La Grange there.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: You install Principia to go to a Lagrange point to perform La Grange there.
<Judge_Dedd>
That one is good
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<Judge_Dedd>
!outcome add Lagrange Kerman points at the spot where your orbit should reach a relatively stable equilibrium.
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: Lagrange Kerman points at the spot where your orbit should reach a relatively stable equilibrium.
<Judge_Dedd>
!outcome add Just no.
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: Just no.
<sandbox>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You attempt to turn off your SRBs. Unfortunately this is KSP and you can't do that.
<Judge_Dedd>
Oh. So IRL you would have been ok?
<Althego>
hehe no
<Althego>
technically you can turn them off by self destructing them
<Althego>
scott explained some icbms did that for precise shutdown time
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<Judge_Dedd>
Yeah, that wasn't a serious question ;)
<Judge_Dedd>
!mission
<LunchBot>
You screw maths, and brute-force it with a maneuver node and trajectories. You brake so fast that you break fast.
<Judge_Dedd>
Before breakfast?
<Althego>
hehe
<Judge_Dedd>
!mission add You eat breakfast.
<LunchBot>
Added mission: You eat breakfast.
<Judge_Dedd>
I like to think that, one day, those two will line up
<Judge_Dedd>
!fixup s/you eat/It's time for/
<Judge_Dedd>
!fixup mission s/you eat/It's time for/
<Judge_Dedd>
Hmm formatting
<Judge_Dedd>
!mission fixup s/you eat/It's time for/
<LunchBot>
No recently-mentioned mission found matching "you eat".
<Judge_Dedd>
!mission fixup s/You eat/It's time for/
<Mat2ch>
I relaunched it. Now I've got 12 engines.
<Judge_Dedd>
Nice design.
<Judge_Dedd>
But what's the point of redundancy if it never gets used? ;)
<Mat2ch>
But now I've realized that I haven't got enough fuel to go to Jool and get to Val...
<Judge_Dedd>
Maybe you would have had more DeltaV with fewer engines ;)
<Mat2ch>
It begs the question: Why send a refueler, when you can't get it to where it should refuel? :D
<Judge_Dedd>
But that's a shame. How far short are you?
<Mat2ch>
well, Mechjeb tells me it's 2000 dV just for the transfer
<Judge_Dedd>
I was wondering if you could get an encounter with gravity slingshots and whatnot around Tylo etc.
<Mat2ch>
well, according to https://imgur.com/CHVnEeE the dV chart I should have enough fuel. But I haven't.
<Mat2ch>
fully fueled my transfer stage has 3800 m/s dV. But that's just enough to get an orbit around Jool...
<Mat2ch>
According to the chart it should be enough for an orbit around Val...
<Mat2ch>
Maybe I should make a pitstop at Dres...
<Judge_Dedd>
980+160+2810=3950 required if you aren't doing any atmospheric braking.
<Judge_Dedd>
3950 for LJO, that is
<Judge_Dedd>
2670 needed for Low Vall Orbit, according to the map. Are you landing that on there? That'll be 3530, so theoretically possible if you are launching during the optimal launch window and nail a great hoverslam.
<Judge_Dedd>
But a little aerobraking around Jool never hurt anyone
<Mat2ch>
Uh, the landing stage has it's own engines :)
<Mat2ch>
But I need to get it there first!
<Judge_Dedd>
Landing stage has its own fuel reserves too?
<Judge_Dedd>
Then you should have easily plenty to get there... Hmmm.
<Judge_Dedd>
Are you sure about your launch window??
<Judge_Dedd>
You should have 1000 m/s left by the time you're in Low Vall Orbit
<Mat2ch>
Mechjeb makes a nice graph for the optimal launch time. So it won't get better
<Judge_Dedd>
Somethings messed up
<Mat2ch>
But I'll try to get the whole thing as high up as possible over Kerbin and send a refueler to max out the tanks
<Mat2ch>
and then I'm going for a Tylo intercept to slow down.
<Judge_Dedd>
Sounds like a good plan.
<Mat2ch>
but tomorrow evening. Today it's getting too late :)
<Judge_Dedd>
Man I love Jool missions. Even at maximum time warp it feels like an epic journey
<Judge_Dedd>
Have fun :)
<Mat2ch>
I have betterTimeWarp installed, so it doesn't take ages ;)
<Mat2ch>
I never had such problems with Jool. But I never sent things as big as my station or this miner there.
<Mat2ch>
*I've
<Judge_Dedd>
I wonder if MJ is just miscalculating
<Judge_Dedd>
Transfers don't take THAT long to Jool in stock. But they are just long enough to impress on you just how far you are going :)
<Mat2ch>
It's a rather good encounter, not sure how I could do it better
<Judge_Dedd>
Good night
<Judge_Dedd>
!mission
<LunchBot>
To adaptively control ballast of the spacecraft, you liquify the crew and feed them into the fuel tanks. Beware the Mice of Jool.
<Judge_Dedd>
Yep, there's your solution.
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<FLHerne>
Deddly: laminated in the sense of being composed of many layers, I think
<FLHerne>
.ourco
<FLHerne>
.outcome add Fortunately this is KSP so you can actually do that.
<LunchBot>
Added outcome: Fortunately this is KSP so you can actually do that.
<FLHerne>
.mission get
<LunchBot>
The junior pilots are too busy second-guessing themselves to second-guess Jeb. Jebediah streaks through the atmosphere.
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