UmbralRaptor changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> … one of the other grad students just compared me to nomal O_o | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
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UmbralRaptor: also, my entry for the maccollo trajectory optimization challenge http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/161390-principia-challenge-munar-retrograde-rendezvous-122/#comment-3087010
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: WSB fun \o/
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UmbralRaptor: do you have a good eggsplanation of the square retrograde orbit? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/161390-principia-challenge-munar-retrograde-rendezvous-122/#comment-3087024
<UmbralRaptor>
egg: Unsure. Are there pics of it in a bunch of different reference frames?
<UmbralRaptor>
egg: mainly I'm wondering in terms of a graph of, say, r' and theta'
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: I don't think you can have your apoapsides in the radial direction
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: there's the unstable L1-L2 weird paragraph-sign-shaped orbit
<egg>
but that's unstable
<egg>
whereas the maccollo polygons are stable
<UmbralRaptor>
hm
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: not sure why, but I manage to make sense of this orbit in the KCI and KMB frames sortof, but that square in the MCI frame is freaky
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: anyway, if you come up with a reasonable half-eggsplanation feel free to answer that forum question
<UmbralRaptor>
Something something resonances?
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: eggsactly :-p
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: it's really maccollo's orbit, not mine (see the OP)
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[#1413] title: Some stock bodies have peaks that are higher than the time warp limit | For example, Minmus highest points are around 5-6 km, but the timewarp limit is 3 km, making landing at these locations impossible with Principia.... | https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia/issues/1413
<egg>
ferram4: plans for reunification of the ferram4 and egg sectors! (you use AddForce and the like, right, not directly Unity forces?)
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: Mr. Kármán, tear down this line!
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<UmbralRaptor>
kitty! doggy!
<egg>
I wonder which is the ancestral trait
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<UmbralRaptor>
But what sort of egg? Monotreme? Bird?
<egg|nomz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: yup, I linked it here already I think :D
<egg|nomz|egg>
very cute indeed :D
<UmbralRaptor>
Yep
<egg|nomz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: "reversing where the apses are makes the orbit unstable" << it's more "nonexistent", the thing that exists is jumping between L1 and L2 but that hardly looks like the same kind of orbit, more like a paragraph sign of sorts
<UmbralRaptor>
hrm
<UmbralRaptor>
I feel like you should post a pic in that thread.
<UmbralRaptor>
(Also, what happens with shorter period orbits, if anything?)
<egg|nomz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: with sufficiently short periods they're Keplerian precesssing
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<UmbralRaptor>
hrm
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<UmbralRaptor>
For a lack of better description, sort of like how GR makes orbits precess, then do weird loops and whirls?
<Iskierka>
... if the pieces aren't manipulated after cutting how can you gain a sphere of the same size? Surely they're the wrong shape?
<Iskierka>
... I'm reading the explanation and just thinking "okay, but you said five pieces. If you allowed infinite cuts I'd be buying it, but not five"
<egg>
Iskierka: well, not "cuts", but five subsets