Thoughts on Jool's Moon, Tylo

[Bobdabiulder]

Hi!  I was doing research, and there was an astronomer named Tycho Brahe.  The name Tycho is very similar to Tylo.  Coincidence?  

[OrbitalBuzzsaw]

Probably not. Anyone know?

[septemberWaves]

Tycho Brahe is very well-known. It's certainly plausible that Tylo may be named after him.

[hugix]

If they based Tylo on Tycho Squad should place a easter egg in the form of a drunk moose / elk on the moon. 

[Mr. Peabody]

No, they should put an easter egg in the form of a golden nose, because Tycho Brahe lost his nose in an accident and it was replaced with a gold one.

[ottothesilent]

Or SQUAD could put bladder staples as an easter egg, since poor Tycho burst his bladder at a banquet and died from an infection resulting from the poor medical care of the time AKA staples.

[eddiew]

Urban myth, your muscles fail before your bladder ruptures

[something]

I do not believe the moon is a reference to Tycho Brahe. There's a biome on that moon which is named Tycho, so there's your reference to the man.

[Bobdabiulder]

Something, I believe that's the evidence we need.  Hiding the real guy's name as a biome/crater is possibly the answer.  By doing that, and naming it tylo, it's pretty obvious that that's the connection they wanted us to make.

[n.b.z.]

It is unclear to me why Squad should hate and despise Tycho Brahe to such enormous degree as to name that place after him.

I mean, come on, Tylo is just a *********, horrible Kerbal-killing piece of ****, some rotten .... [not for the first time when the topic is Tylo, discreet security types now drag n.b.z. off his soap-box and away from the mic; this time before the really bad screaming and kicking has started.]

Edited January 15, 2017 by n.b.z.

[Bobdabiulder]

Lol.  If only a ksp employee or mod would confirm this theory...

[Nathair]

15 hours ago, eddiew said:

Urban myth, your muscles fail before your bladder ruptures

 

That particular urban myth is not much of a myth. It's based largely on the testimony of Johannes Kepler, who was at the same banquet. What he actually said was that Brahe wouldn't pee and did himself some kind of injury as a result which ended up causing profound urinary problems and very soon death by (probably) uremia. Not peeing won't burst your bladder like a balloon, but it certainly can cause a non-functioning bladder and a fatal bladder infection.

[LameLefty]

27 minutes ago, Nathair said:

 

That particular urban myth is not much of a myth. It's based largely on the testimony of Johannes Kepler, who was at the same banquet. What he actually said was that Brahe wouldn't pee and did himself some kind of injury as a result which ended up causing profound urinary problems and very soon death by (probably) uremia. Not peeing won't burst your bladder like a balloon, but it certainly can cause a non-functioning bladder and a fatal bladder infection.

I don't know the details of Tycho's death, but bladder stones that plug the ureter at the base of the bladder could very well kill you; your bladder may not rupture from pressure per se, but tissue necrosis might make it rupture where healthy tissue would not. Any real physicians in the house?  

[Bobdabiulder]

Off topic...?

[GregA]

It is really hard to land there.  Getting back off of it is even worse...

[Birdco_Space]

6 hours ago, GregA said:

It is really hard to land there.  Getting back off of it is even worse...

Only the landing is hard, because landing something with enough delta-v and TWR to escape Tylo's gravity without an atmosphere to slow you down is quite the challenge.  Once that is on the ground, getting back to orbit is a piece of cake (far easier than taking off from Kerbin, needing around 1000m/s less delta v, with no atmosphere to mess with engine ISP))