UmbralRaptop changed the topic of #principia to: READ THE FAQ: http://goo.gl/gMZF9H; The current version is 🐇. We currently target 1.5.1, 1.6.1, and 1.7.x. <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly…
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Standecco. — Is there a fundamental reason why principia is so complicated or is it just a consequence of it being a mod of a game rather than being native?
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Standecco. — In other words, would a hypothetical KSP 43 (when the average IQ will be the equivalent of today's 150 and no one will complain) with native n-body have to be as complicated as principia?
<egg|cell|egg>
A lot of it is intrinsic
<egg|cell|egg>
Doing it in a way that doesn't numerically break down is nontrivial
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egg. — If you're talking about things like the mean elements, ksp isn't a concern anymore
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egg. — It's all about coming up with a robust way to compute reasonably behaved elements from a trajectory, all within our astronomy library
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egg. — I worked 6 months on that, and it had nothing to do with ksp
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egg. — It's just astronomy
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egg. — @Standecco If you're talking about things like the mean elements, ksp isn't a concern anymore (edited)
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egg. — The rotations business will eventually run into ksp induced problems, but for now pleroy has just spent months on the fact that rigid body rotation is complicated
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer not quite, the next new moon is on the 28th
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Sir Mortimer. — Ah, very well then 🙂
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egg. — the original issue is weird, but so is the reply to it
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egg. — that cites a forum post that contradicts what is being said
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Sumguy. — so, I hit merge node, and it doesn't actually change anything. it just deletes the second node.
<egg|work|egg>
merge node? what's that
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[Principia] Kerbinator-CN commented on issue #2347: Burn in time warp with RO ion engines (new feature suggestions) - https://git.io/Jec2V
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer oh gods it keeps going
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Sir Mortimer. — I suggest to close the issue after you replied thusly:
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Sir Mortimer. —
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Sir Mortimer. — «No.»
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Sir Mortimer. — "only estimated less than 1000 lines of core "
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Sir Mortimer. —
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Sir Mortimer. — You might add a thinly veiled insult for that one alone.
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Kenira. — pfffft
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Kenira. — didn't you hear, it's all super easy
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egg. — @Sir Mortimer what do you think about the documentation of the orbit analyser? I feel like it nicely ties into our mission design ideas
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<UmbralRaptop>
"Think of how far those photons traveled to get here. It'd be a shame if they were reflected off of a closed dome!"
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[Principia] sswelm commented on issue #2347: Burn in time warp with RO ion engines (new feature suggestions) - https://git.io/Jeco9
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Kenira. — the feel when it only takes you one minute to set up an interplanetary trajectory instead of half an hour to an hour as usual
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