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I have been testing and triple-checking all my equipment for tomorrow. All systems are go and I hope the eclipse gods smile upon me. GL to everyone!

I'm in Montreal now, looks pretty clear to me. Weather has me driving out east for 3ish hours past Sherbrooke, but it's looking good.

I was in Bend, Oregon for 2017 and now I'm off to Montreal for this one; I had my eyes on Dallas but after these forecasts, Montreal is looking a hell of a lot more promising. Hopefully it will go as well as 2017 did. I'm hauling along 7 years of accumulated equipment with me, so I really hope I won't have to wait until 2026.

Talk about beating a dead horse - at this point y'all are knocking on a skeleton Last I checked, SpaceX was doing perfectly fine without needing to check arbitrary boxes set by not-SpaceX on SpaceX's own missions.

Yeah. Well I was already interested in spaceflight since I had seen the launch of STS-125 in person, but my dad is somewhat of a disappointed physicist. He graduated top of his class at one of the best universities in the world for physics, but is in a different field now (life happens, etc.), so he was able to teach me a lot. It's not just about him though; I have a younger brother and after some help from me he was able to dock independently when he was 7. So far as I can tell it really just boils down to interest and effective teaching. I have really strong spatial reasoning so I assume that's the main reason. I'm not sure if maneuver nodes were even a thing then though, it was ages ago.

Well I guess I should give y'all an update: I'm now attending college and am having a blast. I knocked out my first quarter with great grades under twice the normal courseload, so I think I may be able to graduate in three years instead of four. I've also been able to get into research for next quarter on observing the early behavior of supernovae and perhaps other transient events. I'm still super into engineering and spaceflight though - to satisfy that, I've been working on portablizing my homemade fusor. Hopefully I'll have that done in a couple months.

Hey guys and thanks for the TOTY! I didn't expect anything at all from that thread and I'm happy that people felt moved by it. I guess it may be time for an update of sorts to that thread...

it does now

At this rate they could just keep launching and have the rockets build the trench for them xD

Am I crazy or was there a noticeable tilt when it was lifting off?

That was the most Kerbal launch I've ever seen The engine failures and the ridiculous spin was awesome, I'm mindblown that it didn't break up from aero forces when it was practically perpendicular to the airflow xD

I'm here with Joe on this one - your answers are nearly always well thought-out, informative, and detailed in many ways. It's really great when you take the time to answer interesting questions

I'm glad to hear you liked them!

Thank you!

Can someone please delete this thread? It looks like my base knowledge was wrong and I don't want it to be spread: Thank you!