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⟨Quadrupole⟩ A flat molniya ➡️ ⛈️
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⟨coffeequaffer⟩ random question—does principia add any mascons in the stock kerbol system?
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⟨Al2Me6⟩ No; egg says the densities of stock planets make no physical sense.
<raptop>
Stock planets would also have confusing mass distributions, given that some are de-facto prolate
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⟨coffeequaffer⟩ ⟪raptop⟫ Stock planets would also have confusing […] ⮪ it's been an hour and i keep thinking about this. disturbing
<raptop>
It's just the way they are in stock. Nominal spheres with terrain on top, but sometimes this skews towards polar mountains/highlands and equatorial lowlands
<queqiao->
⟨coffeequaffer⟩ makes sense. i just keep picturing avocados spinning on their long axis
<raptop>
tired: earth is pear-shaped
<raptop>
wired: earth is avocado-shaped
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⟨Al2Me6⟩ Nah, earth is egg-shaped
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⟨Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ Isn't the hemisphere-average deviation from the reference ellipsoid under 100 meters?
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⟨Soviet Onion⟩ ⟪Al2Me6⟫ Nah, earth is egg-shaped ⮪ weird how earth is human-shaped now 👀
* raptop
wants to know which chickens lay oblate eggs
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⟨Soviet Onion⟩ ⟪raptop⟫ wants to know which chickens lay oblate […] ⮪ _oblate chickens_
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⟨Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ It is hard to find sources on the deviation from the reference ellipsoid without going into papers or flat-earthers
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⟨Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ Oh, I should have been searching for the geoid rather than the deviation from the reference ellipsoid
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⟨DevonTheYoutuber⟩ ⟪egg⟫ If you believe that there will be no […] ⮪ where do i find the config files to add the string too
<queqiao->
⟨Quadrupole⟩ Just create a new cfg filr
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⟨Quadrupole⟩ * file
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⟨DevonTheYoutuber⟩ Quadrupole ok does it need a specific name and does it go into the principa folder
<queqiao->
⟨Quadrupole⟩ Just put it under Principia folder. Config file names don't matter.
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⟨DevonTheYoutuber⟩ okay thanks for the help
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⟨Kerbinator(no guarantee suggest)⟩ ⟪The18thDoctor⟫ I had an RL-10 failure on a GEO-bound […] ⮪ looks quite reasonable in ECEF. Where did this failure happen, and your profile (use RL-10 to directly send from MECO to GTO?)?
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⟨Kerbinator(no guarantee suggest)⟩ * GTO, or use RL-10 for which part?)?
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⟨The18thDoctor⟩ ⟪Kerbinator(no guarantee suggest)⟫ looks quite reasonable in ECEF. Where […] ⮪ Yeah I know it’s reasonable, it just looks funky. The RL-10 stage was supposed to do both GTO injection and GEO insertion, but it failed seconds away from completing the GTO burn. I’ll admit that having ~550 m/s on the satellite was ridiculous for this profile, but I had a ton (possibly literally, since I didn’t use it all) of extra...
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... payload capacity. But I needed RL-10 data so it’s a win-win.
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⟨scimas⟩ egg I'm not able to reproduce that timewarp issue. The stutter in FPS is still there, but it's barely a couple of seconds and looks like normal KSP atmosphere transition stutter. Looks like it just happened to be a bit long in that one instance. I can still produce the journal if needed, but I doubt it would be interesting.
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⟨expanders are superior⟩ ⟪Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟫ Oh, I should have been searching for […] ⮪ What causes the north south deviation?
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⟨Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ It has to do with the ice caps iirc
<raptop>
Antarctica is causing problems again?
* raptop
blames the shoggoths
<queqiao->
⟨Al2Me6⟩ Yep, IIRC the northern hemisphere deviation is a residual effect from the last ice age.
<raptop>
Words that sound like they should be vaguely lewd
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⟨Paculino (ŝi/ri/she/they)⟩ Other than Sri Lanka and the British Isles, if that effect were not there, it would be almost identical to the reference ellipsoid