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First, a little personal background that is related to this flight attempt of Starship. I am a veteran of the King's Own Calgary Regiment, which in World War 2 was known as the Calgary Regiment, informally the Calgary Tanks. Which on 19 August 1942 participated in Operation Jubilee, the Dieppe Raid. The only true successes of Operation Jubilee were the 2 flanking landings by Commando forces. The main landing was a failure. The approach and landings had problems and came under effective enemy fire. There was insufficient naval and air bombardment to suppress that fire. From my Regiment, among the landing casualties was the Commanding Officer's tank which sank and he and his crew were lost. Only a few tanks got off the beach but with the other troops far insufficient to achieve any of their objectives. All tanks that were mobile withdrew to cover the evacuation of the surviving troops. Many Canadian soldiers died and many were taken prisoner, especially from the Calgary Tanks. I knew a few of them personally in their later years. At the time there was a lot of controversy over the Dieppe Raid. There still is to some degree over the history. There were claims that valuable lessons were learned. Hog wash. Nothing was learned about amphibious landings and combined arms operations that wasn't already known and demonstrated better later in the same year in other Allied assaults. The lessons were there beforehand to be found. Like many operations of mixed results, there was a lot wrong in the planning, preparations, and forces dedicated as well as the goals considering the challenge of the ground and opposing forces. As for Starship.... Rocket engineering isn't the tech business. Move fast and break things is damn more expensive. There's nearly a century of history lessons that were learned with blood and money and any organization that glibly ignores these lessons will pay for it in more ways than one. The flaws, let's count a few of them. SpaceX and the Starship design. I'm not going to go into details on these, but they are flawed. Just two points: SpaceX has lost a lot of competent staff who've moved on to better jobs. Starship almost certainly can't have a launch escape system retrofitted, so it can't be crew-rated. Because major abort -> lost LV -> lost crew. That was one of the grave mistakes of the Shuttle and should not be repeated. Facility: Too small. Wrong because it encroaches on wildlife areas, an international border, and human habitation. No room for proper test stands and launch pads with proper safety areas for each. It would be hard pressed to fit a pistol range with a backstop berm and its safety template in that area. Insufficient critical engineering design and review of what is a radically different launch vehicle. Lack of testing, especially no full-engine-count full-thrust full-duration burn test of Superheavy. A flight profile that depends on Superheavy and Starship being flung apart by spinning, which has never been done and wasn't tested with any sort of cheaper test vehicle. And which is susceptible to being unable to stage if there are even a small number of failures in Superheavy. Ignorance of warning signs and problem predictions again and again (this one is so common in all engineering and military operations it's painful). An attitude to sweep problems under the rug and claim failures are successes. An attitude that the rules of engineering and the industry don't apply to them because...reasons. Wanting to do something different and improve things doesn't mean ignore the history of engineering (centuries) and rocketry (just under a century).

Don't think they are logistically workable, considering the supplies and support needed.

China is falling behind Japan.

I suggest you edit that post and remove or spoiler all that text. That part of the log is unlikely to useful. Don't bother with the 1.95GB log, create a new one with the issue. You need to provide all the log, because it has a lot of the information needed to troubleshoot the problem, like all mods loaded and any issues with loading the mods. And the root cause of the problem is often not what produces the errors, so the whole log is needed to track events related to the issue. Create a new log where you start the game, go through the same steps to encounter the issue, then exit the game. After that, upload the logs to a file sharing site like Dropbox and share the link to the uploaded log. Also provide the steps you did to encounter the issue.

It's been a while since I played World of Tanks. That means...?

World of Tanks !?! Damn it, man! Not World of Tanks! It's not worth it! Played it for years and it's now bad and getting worse! I at least hope you're playing under Tier 8. Higher is just madness.

How does @HarvesteR pronounce 'Kerbal' ?

Don't blame the communication tool for issues that should be controlled by those in charge of each server. Security, standards, and moderation are vital for any communication tool, like these forums. It's why there's hard-working moderation staff like @Snark. Because there's those who will do all sorts of wrongs if there's not someone who will deal with them. I'm a member of several Discords who have great communities of well-behaved members who discuss many subjects, sometimes quite difficult ones, with a net benefit to all members. Any company that provides a "free" tool has to have some way to financially support that tool's operations. I've not looked at Discord's in detail, but they've certainly avoided quite horrible monetization schemes I've seen elsewhere.

Probably due to the alt key being used extensively in X Window.

Kerbals aren't dead in the same way we become dead. They have an actual Afterlife that we're watching and controlling. A Kerbal Valhǫll / Fólkvangr where Kerbals snack, drink, then go out to launch aircraft and rockets, perhaps die, then rise to do it all again. It's the best explanation I've thought of to understand it all.

I actually had a profound insight a couple of days ago where I went deeper. This explains so much. Why the physics of the Kerbal universe are crazy. Why the Kerbals are Little Green People who can survive indefinitely in space. Even return unharmed after apparently perishing. Because KSP is the Kerbal Afterlife. Who knows what Kerbals looked like before? But they must have been crazy about rockets and space. Because that's all they do now. Over and over again.

Method 1 close to the optimum phase angle means you depart Kerbin at about the right time for an optimum Hohmann transfer orbit (which requires the least delta-V for nearly all cases of interplanetary travel). Using Method 2 means the phase angle could be any value, which means you might have to do a fast transfer which is a lot more delta-V. While a fast transfer to Mun or Minmus isn't that much more delta-V, interplanetary it's a lot more.

Between different groups, I think I used nearly every major audio chat system, Mumble, TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, some of them over several versions. All of them had issues, either setting up, things that would come up during use, or requiring a paid server in one way or another for any chat use. Discord was a game changer: simple to configure, significant limits for the free server, rarely having issues. Everyone I know that used audio chat soon switched to Discord.

I think Discord got established because it made it very easy to have multiplayer audio chat that just worked. It added in text chat and nice additions to that. Since then it's grown. But doing audio chat simply and well was what got Discord adopted by many people.

I imagined that video having Thunderbirds soundtrack music.

This is also why very stable high explosives (detonated by shock waves) are used and low explosives (ignited by fire or electricity) are restricted to detonators to set off high explosives. Stable high explosives can be burned safely and are crafted not to be a hazard unless a detonators is used. The battery packs for electric cars are verging into being way too dangerous. Something will need to be done about that. Up to a certain size, the atmosphere should provide at least some protection. And atmosphereless bodies should have buried facilities to protect from other radiation sources. No one will want to test this. And starships will always be dangerous and have to be under strict control.

It is a very Kerbal solution to game bugs.

Don't worry. It's 2 out of 3 falls.

Imagine what the Kerbal Afterlife must be like.... Exactly like Kerbal Space Program. ! KSP IS THE KERBAL AFTERLIFE!!!

@R-T-B, you may want to talk to @sarbian and find out how he set up a DEV repository with CKAN. You can add in that via CKAN's Settings > CKAN Settings > Settings window at the top, Metadata Repositories. That way both the current stable release and DEV RELEASE are both available and can be selected in CKAN to either go with stable or with the testing version within CKAN.

It doesn't matter what was imagined about Venus and Mars before there was enough data on what really was going on there. I think Venus was doomed because it was so close to the Sun, just as Mars was doomed by being so small. Venus may also have been doomed by rotating so slowly; this one is more tricky as it's uncertain what the history of its rotation has been, as is known to a large degree for Earth. Venus being closer to the Sun was hotter than Earth. That led to it lacking or losing the things that protect Earth and its atmosphere. Even at a small amount of oxygen in the atmosphere leads to an ozone layer that shields the atmosphere below from most hard UV light. The way the atmosphere becomes structured means that there's a cold trap in the atmosphere that removes virtually all water vapour above about ~11km, well below the ozone layer. Together they protect the water vapour in the atmosphere from being broken down into hydrogen and oxygen, of which the hydrogen is easily lost to space. On Venus, that likely led to it losing most of its water vapour leading to the atmosphere heating up higher, even to plate tectonics if it had been established to stopping as its lithosphere also dried out. The higher temperature also drove carbon dioxide out of the rocks leading to an even thicker atmosphere and even higher temperatures. Venus's slow rotation likely means it never had a very strong magnetic field, even in the past. Mars has a similar problem, but it's due to it being smaller, which led to its core cooling sooner than the Earth's, leading Mars to lose any magnetic field it did have in the past. Without a strong magnetic field, both Venus and Mars's atmospheres are exposed to the Solar wind from the Sun. For the smaller Mars, this means what atmosphere it has was significantly eroded by the impact of the Solar wind. Earth has its stronger magnetic field except during field reversals, about every few 100,000 years. Earth's surface is protected from Solar wind radiation by the thicker atmosphere during reversals. Mars is exposed to this all the time.

Gargamel, MechJeb in KSP v0.23 could fly rockets with that issue's crazy weak joints better than I could by a long shot. Probably because it kept the control forces just enough to do the corrections needed. At the time, I managed to fly a simple rocket without struts to orbit successfully once and was completely exhausted. With MechJeb's Ascent Guidance in control, it did it over and over again. Only in later versions did joints get strong enough--with no visible wobble--that I could easily fly rockets to orbit manually. From what I remember and what I've seen, I'd say KSP2 is more like KSP1 v0.23 in the strength of its joints, if not worse.

A recent video on the Permian-Triassic Extinction. Currently now thought to be a linked triple event. Outside of this video, I've heard that like the drier climate of the Permian, the Large Igneous Province, the Siberian Traps, was spurred on by the forming of the continents into one land mass, Pangaea. Must have been other factors, as previous supercontinents hadn't caused this much vulcanism. At least Large Igneous Provinces don't show up overnight but give lots of warning, as they make even supervolcanoes look like popguns. There's also some information on when plate tectonics started on Earth. It does seem to have been a big driving force in making Earth different. Linked to the presence of surface water which then permeates down to the bottom of the lithosphere, the bottom of the tectonic plates. And in helping drive the carbon cycle, seems to help keep Earth mostly close to the amount of carbon dioxide to counteract the Main Sequence Brightening of the Sun. The slow rotation of Venus seems to have been original. I've not heard it recently but I have heard that Venus's rotation is actually coupled to Earth such that the same side of Venus faces the Earth at its closest approach at inferior conjunction. If there was any plate tectonics on Venus, the heating of the atmosphere, destroying any atmospheric cold trap (which on Earth keeps water vapour well below the ozone layer and relatively protected from solar UV light) and leading to the loss of its surface water likely ended plate movement long ago. Rising temperatures and loss of water drove the carbon dioxide out of the rocks forming a thick atmosphere. It's really really hard to study Venus as the surface conditions destroy any probes in short order. Outside of remote sensing from orbit, there's a lot of R&D going on to develop more rugged components for landers for the future.

I think most people don't realise how destructive even the humble NATO 7.62x51mm round is. It's hard to fire even just semi-auto from a rifle (and really demands a better designed round like 7.92x42mm CETME), but it can rip huge chunks off of people or cause very destructive wound cavities. Many other rounds have less energy (still rather destructive though), but a lot have more.

I'm none too happy about the state that KSP2 was released in, especially considering the price. However, I also think even if it didn't have a lot of the bugs that it does, there still would have been a similar drop-off in online active KSP2 users. The number of systems in the game is rather low. Doing the best in sandbox-only requires quite a bit of self-directed play. That alone would lead to a drop-off. I'm sure there will be spikes in activity with each patch too.