#KerbalSpaceProgram logic:
"Hey Bob, we need to drive around the KSC and collect some science data. Can you stand on this ladder atop this capsule-on-wheels and take down EVA reports?"
"Well, sure, but wouldn't it just be better to put a chair on top of the capsule instead?"
"Unfortunately, our researchers haven't invented chairs yet. They're on the roadmap."
"Haven't invented CHAIRS?!?"
"Also, we need to you to take surface samples."
"Ok, so we'll drive somewhere, stop, I'll hop down and grab a surface sample?"
"No, they'll just keep driving and you keep taking surface samples while the vehicle is still rolling."
"WHAT. HOW?"
"What?"
"Anyway. Why are we collecting science data around the KSC, anyway?"
"Because it yields valuable science data which we can then use to develop new technologies, of course! Why, just the other day, we took a surface sample right behind the Vehicle Assembly Building that was as valuable as one of the samples taken from a recent Mün mission!"
"WHAT. HOW. TAKING SAMPLES FROM OUR LITERAL BACKYARD YIELDS THE SAME AMOUNT OF SCIENCE DATA AS A MÜN LANDER?!?!?"
"Yep! You ready? Val's already in the pilot's seat. Hold on tight!"
"Sure Gene, sure."
@tylermumford the only problem is that the o-quest launcher ui is clunky af, so I doubt it will become your daily driver, but the possibilities are there
This recently-reported exoplanet TOI-715 b purportedly located in its local habitable zone, and sized roughly 1.5 times Earth and triple earth mass, left me to wonder…
How much the gravity there might differ, and how much (more?) energy is involved in launching spacecraft from there.
Terrestrial delta-v is most of ten kilometers per second. That’s how fast you need to be going to climb out of the gravity well.
If that exoplanet well is deep enough and it seems plenty deep, getting off that rock gets much harder.
At some point the gravity well effectively becomes a one-way trip down.
(Not that Earth and its planetary politics doesn’t have its own version of the Schwarzschild radius.)
That 0.083AU distance and that ~463.2 hour long year are both entirely disconcerting, but three earth masses just doesn’t seem all that habitable. For us.
Ps. I think it’s more fun with the NASA like theme ”for the common good”. Not with this modern private space with it’s narcissistic shit-for-brains know-it-all hype-men in charge.
Sure, they wasted money and were inefficient, but they required a bit of humility because that was the taxpayer’s money!
Alright, first part of space station is in orbit above Kerbin!
Those deep space engines in the build menu look very intriguing. Can’t wait to get to them! There’s even a nuclear generator for powering those really deep explorations!
This really gets me thinking about how #space has changed.
When I was kid, the possible career of an astronaut was a real driving factor in studying hard. Anyone could be one, right? It was a democratic system where merit would decide.
With #privatisation though, seems all of that has changed. To be enthusiastic about space, my kid would have to roll with eugenics-toting, hard-right-leaning, white supremacy-boosting, anti-worker tech bros.
A hilarious #KSP moment last night:
I made a Mk3 space plane using 4 under-wing RAPIER engines and four NERV nuclear engines mounted inside a cargo ramp (attached to a quad-coupler plate).
The glide slope on my "Chuby Spaceplane" (I'm leaving the typo in à la "Tony Probe") was pretty terrible, so despite several attempts, the landing was pretty hard, and something almost always broke.
On my final landing attempt, I saw something explode in the cargo ramp, and F3 showed that the quad-coupler bought the farm. I opened up the cargo ramp expecting to see it empty, but instead I see four NERVE engines just chilling out like helium canisters in the bed of a pickup truck. XD
Martin Marietta's EGRESS, a proposed escape capsule for spaceflight based on the one used for the American B-58. This image would be from sometime around 1972, when it was proposed.
Pretty sure I've seen these expressions on Bob and Jebediah Kerman (respectively).
Ich begrüße meinen langjährigen Freund @xeleonox im Fediverse. #neuhier
Wer sich für #Science Fun Facts, #ADHS oder #KerbalSpaceProgram interessiert, kann ja mal bei ihm vorbeischauen, oder ihm Leute zum Folgen vorschlagen. :blobcatspace: :boost_requested:
Wow. I just went to check my steam purchase history, and it appears that I have been playing #kerbalspaceprogram for nearly 5 years now...with 417 hours on it, that's 15 minutes a day lol.
I remember how I found out about it...one of my schoolteachers back in primary school would show us videos from https://thekidshouldseethis.com, a kind of curation of science videos for kids, and I would sometimes go on there in my own time. This was around about grade 3. One time, I found this link: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-do-rockets-work , basically talking about rocket basics. At that point, I new all about it and was a well and true rocket nerd, but I have never heard of KSP before. So I went and checked it out. After a while, I nagged my mum to buy it, and she ended up doing so. Not sure how much it cost at the time, but certainly less then now. Funnily enough, that was also my first ever game purchase and first time using steam...which even introduced me to a loose consideration of social media through various random group chats from my friends.
Then I got my laptop, which I am using right now. This was at the start of 2021, like just under 2 years ago. A considerable speed improvement.
I tackled interplanetary travel, first with a probe, then with a crewed orbit. This was getting fun.
I began science mode, and spent a while on that. Learned docking. Played around with modding a lot, at one point I had like 50 mods installed and the game to 5 minutes to load. Went to gilly...vall...dres. Had a little break again.
And here I am now. Got some kerbals stranded one Laythe, my first mission there, and I have succesfully tackled eeloo...although to be fair the 'ark' was assembled in orbit from multiple parts and I had to rescue it from solar orbit on the way back.
Now it's time to get jeb back from the water moon...