egg changed the topic of #principia to: Logs: https://esper.irclog.whitequark.org/principia | <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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⟨(ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟshells)⟩ although I would discourage such a close approach even at a relatively low velocity of 10 m/s
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⟨RurouniDonut⟩ I thought this was the offtopic chat? /s
<queqiao->
⟨Kitty OwO⟩ :P
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⟨Kitty OwO⟩ > <@queqiao:matrix.org> ⟨egg⟩ or cats
<queqiao->
⟨Kitty OwO⟩
<queqiao->
⟨Kitty OwO⟩ Cats are nice, but, the real question is the closest you could get a baseball to orbit a cat with stability
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<queqiao->
⟨Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ Are either of them electrostatically charged?
<raptop>
How are we going to get the cat to hold still for long enough, and won't the high air density mess with things?
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⟨Kitty OwO⟩ I am affraid the solution to the second problem may also solve the first.
<queqiao->
⟨Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ Are you the cat who volunteers?
<queqiao->
⟨Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ Now we only need a volunteer baseball
<queqiao->
⟨Kitty OwO⟩ << >< only if your the volunteer baseball ig
<queqiao->
⟨Kitty OwO⟩ lol
<queqiao->
⟨Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ In that instance, I doubt either one of us would approximate the barycenter
<raptop>
Yeah, the highly non-spherical nature of cats presents a problem (prob-mlem?)
<queqiao->
⟨Kitty OwO⟩ Yes, and that is where the question comes in
<queqiao->
⟨Kitty OwO⟩ how far away does the baseball have to be to never risk being thrown away or crashing into the cat?
<raptop>
hrm
<raptop>
Probably surprisingly close if you can find a frozen orbit
<queqiao->
⟨Kitty OwO⟩ also curious how long (in decimal time, the superior time format for earth-humans) each orbit would take
<raptop>
Assuming an orbit around a sphere where semi-major axis is about the same as the radius, the period is \sqrt{\frac{3}{G \cdot ρ}}
<raptop>
In practice the cat will force a longer orbit
<raptop>
Incidentally, that scaling means that unless your cats are unusually dense, a period on the order of a few hours is the minimum
<queqiao->
⟨Sir Mortimer⟩ I never even installed RO (computer can't handle it) and got looked at suspiciously only once, so I guess it's ok 🙂
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⟨§κyℓαr ♀⟩ unironically I had a showerthought of what if there was an orbital simulator displaying higher dimensions by use of color and volumetrics, and that slightly looks like the showerthought lol
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⟨Zeusbeer⟩ Why, with principia I like going 0 meters and suicide burning into the docking port
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⟨ZombieZilla⟩ That would be quite interesting to see
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⟨Kristian Kasmuller⟩ In the stock system I often do sub 100m approaches
<queqiao->
⟨Kristian Kasmuller⟩ Is that bad?
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[Principia] Growflavor commented on issue #3064: possible steady memory increase potentially leading to KSP instability/slowness/unusual texture lighting/slow crash - https://git.io/JWbL6
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[Principia] Growflavor edited a comment on issue #3064: possible steady memory increase potentially leading to KSP instability/slowness/unusual texture lighting/slow crash - https://git.io/JWbL6
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[Principia] Growflavor edited a comment on issue #3064: possible steady memory increase potentially leading to KSP instability/slowness/unusual texture lighting/slow crash - https://git.io/JWbL6
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⟨Kerbinsphere⟩ *~~invaders from the fifth dimension~~*
<queqiao->
⟨Standecco⟩ invaders, tell us about the 2 additional vibrational modes of one dimensional strings
<queqiao->
⟨Standecco⟩ we need 12-dimensional invaders to properly answer some questions
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[Principia] pleroy commented on issue #3064: possible steady memory increase potentially leading to KSP instability/slowness/unusual texture lighting/slow crash - https://git.io/JWALk
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[Principia] pleroy pushed 51 commits to Entwurf [+25/-10/±211] https://git.io/JWAYQ