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Of course. Impressive announcements and PowerPoint slides are cheaper than impressive hardware. As the capabilities of the Russian space program dwindle into nothing, expect their announcements to become ever more grandiose. Ars Technica had a recent article on Borisov announcing a rocket able to throw infinite payload to space by running on reusable unicorn farts, starting next week. Or, well, that's not quite what he said, but he might as well, because what he promised will be equally impossible to deliver in the time frame: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/russian-space-chief-says-new-rocket-will-put-falcon-9-reuse-to-shame/

Disappointing that it's been 6 weeks since the last KERB and the change to "monthly" KERBs... in the same way that we're 3 months since the last patch with a stated 6-7 week patch cadence (two sprint?). Y'all doing yourselves no favors setting up expectations and then not meeting them.

I'm baffled as well. Could you post a picture of the entire screen for both such orbits? I'm particularly curious about all the numbers around the navball.

i figure there is a lot of free memory left as a lot of the devices that would consume most of it (like image buffers) are no longer needed/dont work/no longer have enough power.

i was pretty much raised on horror. even going back to kindergarten staying up to 3 am to watch the slasher flick of the month. im so desensitized to such things now, i thought that saw was a comedy. cracking up while the other movie goers were hiding behind their popcorn. these days i avoid them because they are usually cinematic drivel.

slept mostly, got out of bed around 9:30 pm.

most of the diagnoses ive had have been of questionable quality. getting an actual psychiatrist to sign off on what you have so you can actually get services is the hard part (they will hand out meds on the spot though, treating symptoms only). you can wait six months for one appointment, and thats not enough time to get an idea for whats going on. how to fit 40 years of failure and trauma into a 30 minute session. and that's even if you are willing to talk about it with a complete stranger. still not comfortable talking about certain things with my therapist who i have been seeing for a couple years now. the word of a therapist also carries very little weight with the bureaucrats.

Just for a little clarification here. in most cases for KSP2 you don’t need a top of the line GPU. GPU likely isn’t holding you back. If you have an outdated or very underpowered GPU thats another story… You can test this in a few ways, but typically you want to turn down your in game textures. If you see a large frame rate boost at a lower texture quality then you can point the finger to your GPU holding you back. Lowering game resolution can also give you insight into your GPU. The thing I see holding most people back is CPU & Ram selection. 32GB of fast low latency ram vs 16GB of slow ram made a pretty good difference for me. Another thing to consider if you’re shopping for parts is a CPU with high frequency speed and high cache. High core count seems to make little difference in KSP2. You want the physics calculations to happen as fast as possible, you can achieve this with high frequency and high cache CPU paired with high frequency low latency ram.

Oh, how very, very familiar. Unfortunately, going from experience, the late Uber driver was involved, she just didn't know she was being used as a courier. Heck, there's been a dozen cases in Russia where the couriers realized what they were being used for and opened up the packages to find thick wads of cash. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/16/us/ohio-uber-driver-murder-charge/index.html Warn your relatives, folks, you're now in the same boat as us, it seems. Unexpected calls from the FBI, FRS or Bank of America, "secure accounts", urgently needing you to read that code from a text message or installing an "anti"-virus on your phone, oh no, someone's taken a loan on you and the only way to rescind that loan is to set fire to a local public building while yelling (e.g.) "Glory to Comrade Kim!" And that's before deepfakes go industrial-scale.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this thread and my responses for a while. I think building a Mars colony based on earthly ethics, laws, and societal structures is not a good long term backup for humanity. Such a Mars colony has an equal chance of destroying itself as Earth does. You could say, why not build lots of colonies then? Which brings us back to the idea capitalism will eventually facilitate the construction of a colony, which I believe is wrong… …because if we are going to dig underground anyways, we might as well do it on Earth with fallout shelters. If the goal is to backup humanity, it makes much more sense to build secure colonies on Earth instead of in space. From a business POV, of course. Why transport drills to Mars when you can build them on Earth and use them here? I would not be surprised if Elon has such a realization at some point, especially if the economy starts to go up and down, or international tensions get way worse. A Mars colony is just a really terrible way to save life on Earth, if the mindset of “the best part is no part” is being followed. Do away with the rockets and build shelters on Earth. Life being multi planetary doesn’t matter if the dome gets hit by a micrometeorite (or normal sized meteorite), and if you’re going underground, you might as well do it on Earth. It makes no economic sense to build a Mars colony based on our current economic philosophy. Therefore if we want to reach into space we need to change it. To elaborate on what I meant by this, by the way, it seems it was Thomas Hobbes- a philosopher, not an anthropologist or social scientist- who suggested humans must bow to authority or end up warring against each other. Humans are not automatons. We have the power to move beyond selfish impulses we are conditioned to have from birth- not naturally possess- and work together. Thus, partially for the memes, I put forward the idea of instead seeding a Mars colony with embryos and having them taught differently than Earthlings by robots instead of sending adult human colonists.

When mistakes and mission criticals are not due to bad coding and bugs.

X-15. (IDK why, but on my laptop on my main game, it loads fine, but on my desktop with JUST BDB and dependencies installed, it throws the error.) Also, @CobaltWolf X-15's engine needs a node. (For those wondering, the engine doesn't have a node on bottom/end, so I had to use some trickery.) Full album: Imgur: The magic of the Internet (Oops, overshot the KSP... oh well. At least the landing was soft enough the craft survived a water landing.)

On IOS all you have to do is search.

What the man who made that comment is suggesting is that no one teach them at all. When he says “teach your stupid kids” he implies that the real reason people show signs of autism is because standard curriculum is flawed, not because they have a disorder. He suggests their condition does not even exist. If we really want to teach people to be more flexible about the world I suggest we get rid of autism as a diagnosis, because everyone could benefit from being more flexible in how they approach life.

Korona SSTO has been making rounds in the press again. I find it alarming that it's still a thing alongside Amur-SPG (Falcon-Methanski) and is getting more and more official endorsement. The last thing Roscosmos needs on their plate is a Korolev-Chelomei situation, but instead they're just throwing more and more things at the wall (Angara, Soyuz-5, Bartini's Krylo, even Don/Yenisei SHLV is still making noises).

I wanted to design a scifi SSTO around the gimmick of being able to cancel the pull of gravity. I soon realized rocketry would be wastefull when I could just turbofan and coast into space. Sure it will take longer but not unbearably so, maybe an hour more. But it's worth it for not having to expend propellant. For space travel they would use a special vacuum reaction drive that pushes off space vacuum itself for thrust and won't work within thick atmosphere. Requires vacuum conditions to work.

The Calabash engine's reactor reach his 1600k peak temperature and shutdown, doesnt matter how much i try to cool him down, even if the engine itself is deactivate. Im using the liquid radiators, but also tried with the ones in FFT mod and the overheat is still there. Can provide a log file but my game is heavily modded, and i dont think is a mod compatibility issue anyway. Any other engine works just fine...

During the closing days of WWI, the Germans developed the B-1E Elektronbrandbombe, a 1 kg incendiary bomb with a thermite payload in a casing of an aluminum-magnesium alloy known as Elektron. It was the predominant Luftwaffe incendiary in WWII, leading to many raised eyebrows as contemporary materials keep referring to "electron(ic) bombs".

That *really* shouldn’t be the case…why aren’t you just using CKAN? 99% of the time “I reinstalled everything and it works” just means it wasn’t installed correctly the first time. You should verify the assumption about modulemanager. Upgrade it to the newest version, changing nothing else, and see if the problem returns. For best results, copy your KSP.log and modulemanager.configcache files somewhere else first and then you can compare them to see what changed.

Where are you seeing different speeds? The altitude of an orbit should determine the speed but not the orientation.

Hahahaha! Damn it! That's why you should turn off your phone when you are tired

I've been looking all over the internet and I've asked chatgpt and everything, I've done the calculations and I'm still pretty baffled on why Polar orbits require a higher speed by almost 3x the speed of a normal orbit going at the equator, the things that I keep seeing is that orbits that go around the polar orbit do more coverage and require a higher speed to deal with this. Now I do understand higher speed is require to cover greater distance, but keep a satellite in orbit shouldn't have anything to do with coverage, your distance away from the planet is what allows to cover more/less. Both polar orbits/equator orbits should be covering the same amount, and maybe a little more at the equator because of the earth rotation, now why I'm pretty confused about is that the earth's equator has a way higher distance around it then a polar orbit so technically it should have a way higher velocity to keep it in orbit. The only thing that I can seem to think that would be the answer to this is an angle on the satellites trajectory, but it would need to be corrected over and over and over to even maintain it in orbit, and it wouldn't even have anything to do with drag. if anyone can possibly answer this, it would greatly be appreciated. thank you

EDIT: Accidentally posted the next chapter before I was done, darn enter button. Ignore this post. Thing is, I can't just copy and paste from google drive to here as the formatting will be messed up and I'll have to recopy all of the images from imgur as they will be the wrong size. So, I generally try to do everything in the forum editor and then copy to google drive as a backup, but sometimes that happens.

I'm still trying to figure out what sort of climate sim software/library might fit my needs best. If anyone has any advice or can point me in a direction, that would be much appreciated. (particularly one that can also simulate not-earthlike planets)

I can imagine a KSP 1.13 one day with all of the scrapped content added... and the kraken slain... It would be a ton of optimization, but the community is up for it.