11:29 <discord-> D​amien. — buckle up nerds, we're going to space

11:29 <discord-> D​amien. — https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480397772248580098/831491363019292732/DSC0074-3.jpg

11:31 <discord-> D​amien. — my cat is not amused with photo editing abuse

13:59 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — you principal the mathematica

14:04 <discord-> D​amien. — you need to read Niccolo Machiavelli's well known book, The Principia Mathematica

14:30 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — Then you need to learn the orbital mechanics of a weak stability boundary trajectory

14:31 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — and you can proceed to do your first orbit 🙂

14:32 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — not gonna lie, there is no real way to principia, as there are no real tutorials for it, you just need to try it out, maybe in stock, and see how things work, if you have any questions ,you can ask them here, 🥚 loves everybody

15:40 <discord-> P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they). — Any idea why IRC link keeps breaking?

16:41 <_whitenotifier-edb> [Principia] plartemyev starred Principia - https://git.io/JOOt5

17:16 <raptop> caaat

17:16 <raptop> Just be careful to not do things that invoke the wrath of 🥚 (eg: capitalizing au)

17:16 <discord-> P​aculino (ŝi/ri/she/they). — cats finding keyboards can mess stuff up... 😒

17:19 <discord-> D​amien. — it should be illegal for some people to have access to Lightroom

17:19 <discord-> D​amien. — https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480397772248580098/831579279048835153/DSC0074-5.jpg

17:19 <raptop> nyancat?

17:19 <discord-> A​l2Me6. — This is TheDestroyer's paint scheme in cat form

17:33 <discord-> (​ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟshells). — whenever I see 'Km', I assume that the authors meant kelvin metre and try interpret the rest of the article accordingly

17:36 <raptop> Sort of like when you see an aircraft range in nanometers?

19:32 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — https://web.archive.org/web/20120425154155/http://multimedia.seti.org/PhD2011/abstracts/PhD2-11-010.pdf

19:32 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — I found this gem

19:32 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — if someone has nothing to do and wants to try something in principia

19:33 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — try a low energy transferto phobos/deimos

19:33 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — sounds like a cool mission

19:33 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — try a low energy transfer to phobos/deimos (edited)

19:36 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480397772248580098/831613847898685490/unknown.png

19:37 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — for anyone too lazy to read a 1 page paper

19:48 <discord-> l​eudaimon. — you still need a regular "capture" burn at the encounter, right?

19:48 <discord-> A​l2Me6. — Seems like you only capture into a very loose orbit

19:51 <discord-> l​eudaimon. — Sorry, I meant at the encounter with the moon after adjusting at apoapsis

19:52 <discord-> A​l2Me6. — If I understand correctly, yes, but the injection burn is cheaper

19:54 <discord-> l​eudaimon. — yeah, it's probably cheaper to do it the traditional way if you airbrake from a highly elliptical orbit, but this way looks less painful

20:07 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — I'd guess it being simular to a normal ballistic capture, just really tricky to pull off

20:08 <discord-> Z​eusbeer. — You also spare deltaV for possible inclination changes

20:26 <discord-> l​eudaimon. — most tricky should be to time the encounter, has to be done by changing the apoapsis height on the capture, I would guess