egg changed the topic of #principia to: READ THE FAQ: http://goo.gl/gMZF9H; The current version is Germain. We currently target 1.8.1, 1.9.1, 1.10.1, and 1.11.0. <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… | <egg> also 4e16 m * 2^-52 is uncomfortably large
<discord-> e​gg. — feature requests for « a UI that does whatever I just thought of » are pretty consistently extremely useless. Sometimes there is a problem and discussing the problem here can be useful, over time we might be able to come up with improvements, but they generally are unrelated to how the users encountering the problem think it should be solved.
<discord-> l​pg. — feature requests for « a UI that does whatever I just thought of » are pretty consistently a starting point for such a discussion
<discord-> e​gg. — in general, no
<discord-> e​gg. — not much discussion of the underlying problems happens on GitHub
<discord-> e​gg. — for better or worse, this channel is where it’s at when it comes to those more open-ended questions
<discord-> e​gg. — consider, e.g., https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia/issues/2517, I haven’t looked at that issue since April to reply to it with a short summary, but there has been some progress here in late December on how we could address it, with that idea of anchored manœuvres and whatnot
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<discord-> l​pg. — pshh feature requests _on github_ obviously don't count
<discord-> P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they). — When do you expect anchored manœuvres to be implemented?
<discord-> P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they). — (I will take your estimate as "NET" like rocket launches)
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<discord-> c​ptmiche. — I achieved my first orbital satellite!
<discord-> c​ptmiche. — and the orbit looks like a skirt lol
<discord-> c​ptmiche. — I just realized. It looks like that simply because it's inclined.
<raptop> [Insert joke about an a-line orbit here]
<discord-> (​experimentalshells?). — that is quite an eccentric little orbit you got there
<discord-> c​ptmiche. — That too
<discord-> (​experimentalshells?). — apogee of 7000 km? that's pretty high.
<discord-> c​ptmiche. — How high was explorer 1? Wasn't it very eccentric too?
<discord-> c​ptmiche. — This is my "1957 tech" satellite
<raptop> via wikiality:
<raptop> Semi-major axis7,832.2 kilometers (4,866.7 mi)
<raptop> Eccentricity0.140
<raptop> Perigee altitude358 kilometers (222 mi)
<raptop> Apogee altitude2,550 kilometers (1,580 mi)
<raptop> correcting for the radius of the earth is an exercise left up to the player
<discord-> c​ptmiche. — eh, mission was still accomplished
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