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  1. 49 minutes ago, joratto said:


    Slight spoilers for minmus biome names ahead.

    Since visiting minmus in For Science!, I’ve noticed that most of the biomes are named after different kinds of ice and snow (e.g. “Arctic Ice”, “Snowdrifts”). However, I recall an ancient dev video that discussed the debate over the composition of minmus. Originally, the devs wanted it to be icy, but they found out that no amount of doped water could freeze minmus at kerbin’s distance from its sun. In the end, they decided minmus should be a “ceramic” planet (incidentally, I haven’t found any information online explaining how a ceramic planet would work irl; lots of volcanic glass, I guess?).

    So what gives? Have the devs changed their minds and made minmus icy again? Are the icy names just physically inaccurate labels that the kerbals came up with? Is it all just a reference to the ice cream memes?

    I've always thought of Minmus as a sort of melting dwarf planet that was captured early on around kerbin. It's possible that there are some remnants here and there even though most of the moon has been turned to glass.

  2. 30 minutes ago, Meecrob said:

    What? You realize that rockets are hard right? If you could just slap them together like in KSP, my former high school would have its own space program!

    Rockets are hard and always will be, but money is harder. 24 or even 16 Starship flights for a single lunar mission is never going to be economic unless starship can launch and land at full throttle and be reused in a matter of days without any repairs. And since starship needs to be economical in order to operate in the scale it needs to I just don't think the vehicle has the capability to preform all of this. And that's before even touching on what happens when there's inevitably a failure of some kind and the program is grounded to investigate.  I like starship and I think it will work as a heavy lift vehicle, but anything more is stretching way too far. And sadly since NASA is already almost at max capacity at this point monetarily it needs to put all it's eggs in one basket. All of this for a single trip to the moon. That's what I meant when I said artemis was "crumbling", it just cannot be sustained with so many different components that all need to be paid for and then work perfectly.

  3. 9 minutes ago, Exoscientist said:

    Two separate, independent methods suggest SpaceX throttled down the booster engines < 75%, while the Starship engines fired at ~90% thrust:

    Did SpaceX throttle down the booster engines on the IFT-2 test launch to prevent engine failures?
    http://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2023/12/did-spacex-throttle-down-booster.html

     This is important to know because if the engines need to operate at < 75% to be reliable, then I estimate the reusable payload would be lowered from 150 tons to ~100 tons. Then instead of needing perhaps 16 refueling flights for the Artemis landing missions there would need to be perhaps 24.

      Robert Clark

    I think it's time to press the 'panic' button for artemis and perhaps even starship. The entire thing is crumbling as we speak.

  4. On 12/15/2023 at 4:03 PM, BA-Forums said:

    Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

    What do you think happened to that? (Besides the fact that it crashed)

    I honestly have no idea.

    Now, im not discussing extremely dumb theories (i.e. "Mh370 wAs sHoT dOwN bY a bLAcK hOLe!!!1!!!" or "It WaS fAkEd!!!!1!") but legitimate theories (i.e... uhhhh i dont know if theres enough evidence for this)

    rip to everyone on it though.

    Seems fairly clear the pilot or maybe co-pilot did it, though motive is hard to pin down. My personal hunch is that it was politically motivated (won't be going into details on that obviously) but the plane is reported to have circled over land for some time, the pilot could have tried to negotiate with the authorities and the malasian government chose not to divulge this in fear or possible sociopolitcal repercussions. Some or all of this could be total bogus but the mass murder-suicide theory doesn't seem to be something the pilot would do. He had a wife and family and apparently loved his job, while not everyone has an outward reason for ending their own lives it just doesn't make sense why he would choose to take so many with him. Regardless of motive its clear the plane was manually steered to the most remote area possible to avoid it ever being found. The little wreckage found indicates that it nosedived into the ocean and probably totally disintegrated, weather this was intentional or not I cannot speculate on but it makes detecting the wreck even harder on the bottom. If it is somehow found the blackbox is likely useless at this point. A very sad story and certainly mysterious but not impossible to decipher with what we already have.

  5. I previously mentioned I was getting into model making, well today was my birthday and my father's gift was a 1/700 Tamiya 'Taiho', mostly as a practice model.

    Tamiya 31211 1/700 Scale Model Waterline Kit WWII IJN Aircraft Carrier Taiho  | eBay

    Started some construction including gluing the smokestack and an AA Gun together just to start it up. Wish I could post images but it's not working for some reason : / I'm thinking of starting a thread just to show my progress on Taiho and eventually the Shinano.

  6. It's been awhile but I wanted to share some images I found off various sites of Akagi and Kaga.

    Kaga:

    Spoiler

    Deep Sea Dive on Battle of Midway Wreck IJN Kaga 加賀 | Nautilus Live

    A better view of some of the miraculously intact casemates on the port side

    Video provides first clear views of WWII aircraft carriers lost in the  pivotal Battle of Midway | News | niagara-gazette.com

    A collapsed portion of hull at the severed stern, Kaga's fantail broke off when she sank.

    Akagi:

    Spoiler

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    Anti aircraft guns still attached to the wreck, Akagi is actually more intact than I first thought, large portions of the ship are actually intact up to the flight deck level.

    Image

    Above the Akagi's sleek battlecruiser bow, the ship's hull is quite badly buried in the mud, at some places even deeper than Kaga.

    Image

    A section of flight deck peeled back like a tin can, while akagi's profile is recognizable the flight and hanger decks have collapsed downward leaving what one historian described as a 'bathtub' shape.

    Sea explorers make first detailed search of shipwrecks from Battle of Midway

    The side of akagi's hull underneath what's left of her bridge, another anti aircraft gun is visible.

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    A blurry image of a casemate, similar to what was seen on Kaga, this image alone tells you Akagi is much better preserved than her fleetmate.

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    Not actually sure what this is, the reddit post I found this on claimed it was 'near miss' damage from one of the bombs that hit to the side of the ship.

    Image

    Over the stern of the Akagi

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    The name of the Akagi has been painted over to hide the ships identity during the battle, but the researchers  could still make out the outline of 'Akagi'.

    There are more images including ones from other expeditions I did not include.

  7. 16 minutes ago, Pthigrivi said:

    Oh and how have I not said this YES PLEASE CAN WE SEE THAT SPREADSHEET?? I think I attempted that same spreadsheet last time I put a KSP1 tech tree overhaul together and it is not easy. 

    Ah, Yes. The Negotiator | Know Your Meme

    2 hours ago, regex said:

    Kind of weird to me that Eve isn't considered a "target" in progression until tier 4, that should be a very easy early target for probes at tier 2. Gilly is very easy to reach as well. Hopefully science experiments aren't locked by tier to prevent exploiting those low delta-V costs, that would be really disappointing.

    I thought that meant that you just needed a durable enough experiment to survive the local conditions, could also just be talking about a crewed flight which would definitely belong in late progression (to this day I've never actually returned a Kerbal from Eve's surface, not for lack of trying :()

  8. The only thing that comes to mind for a quick ending to an interstellar species would be a supernova, that is of course assuming that said species as only spread to it's local neighbourhood. An old star explodes and fries everything in a couple hundred lightyears. Even then some of the further colonies or bases will probably survive if they've spread out far enough but any civilization they once had has been destroyed. A slower ending would be a galactic collision, which would take place over billions of years, though beings that evolved to somehow live that long would have to prepare for it. Though it would probably just disperse the 'species' , not that were looking at anything biological (or conceivable) at this point, they may not even care or notice.

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