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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<paculino>
What are we going to change to, egg/raptop?
<queqiao->
⟨reabean⟩ I wonder if I could try to get atmospheric orbital decay into principia, that would be pretty neat 🐹
<queqiao->
⟨reabean⟩ Probably not smart enough to do that, but I could definitely learn a lot by trying
<queqiao->
⟨reabean⟩ It’ll be fineeee
<queqiao->
⟨reabean⟩ I don’t like this lack of encouragement…
<paculino>
Doing it would add considerable complexity to the numerical calculations. It isn't *impossible*, if I understand correctly
<queqiao->
⟨lamont⟩ there's probably 100+ people that have suggested it before you, probably dozens that have thought "how hard could it be?" and you'll also have to solve the stationkeeping problem at the same time (and it ain't mechjeb's problem because mechjeb is fundamentally a part that doesn't even exist on rails -- stationkeeping has to be fixed on rails and potentially at high warp in the orbit integrator or with the cooperation of the orbit...
<queqiao->
... integrator).
<queqiao->
⟨siimav⟩ TBF, it's time for MJ to become a VesselModule
<queqiao->
⟨lamont⟩ that's like a rewrite though
<queqiao->
⟨lamont⟩ i'm extracting most of the astrodynamics into MJLib
<queqiao->
⟨lamont⟩ that could become a uGUI+VesselModule rewrite and/or a kOS Addon
<queqiao->
⟨lamont⟩ MJ still can't mess with principia's orbits though