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cantab

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  1. I'm not happy with it. I just get stubborn and bloody minded when I decide to build and fly a Big Thing.
  2. SIngle-digit fps starts to pee me off. Seconds per frame has me vowing Never Again.
  3. All bodies have their spin axes aligned the same way. Another way of thinking of it is they all share the same North Star. However the orbital inclinations vary and that allows the spin axes to be tilted relative to the orbital plane.
  4. And kinetic energy is 0.5 times mass times velocity squared. Hence why two projectiles can have the same KE but differing momenta and thus differing recoil.
  5. So I hear something about a new release? Maybe I can finally put the "skyscraper" in "sky".
  6. owned by The Sun. The Eden Project is...
  7. That's precisely why railguns and coilguns could come into use. Recoil depends on projectile momentum, while damage depends more on kinetic energy. A faster projectile delivers more energy for the same momentum, and electromagnetic accelerators can get the projectiles going a lot faster than chemical propellants.
  8. In the stock system, on most bodies the terminator will be nearly parallel to the lines of longitude. Moho will be the biggest exception.
  9. and has a smoking room. The building is a comedy panel game show studio...
  10. Sixty-sevenP/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
  11. ... that only admits people who fail the entrance exam. The building makes rifles, shotguns, and machetes ...
  12. ... on Groom Lake. The building is a pen factory ...
  13. I've been there a few times. My Smith probes flew by Dres along with every other planet on their gravity slingshot fest. And I put a probe lander on it in my 100 Worlds save - but in that modded system Dres has become the innermost moon of Jool.
  14. In the realms of being harsh, the forum rules themselves state:
  15. Interesting. In KSP I've often found that making the lower stage a bit smaller and the upper stage a bit larger helps the overall payload fraction. But from this it shows there's a limit, since the upper stage may end up wasting a disproportionate amount of delta-V. It also shows something we know but sometimes forget - that rocket design and ascent profile affect dV to orbit, it's not a fixed figure.
  16. staffed by Oompa-Loompas. The building is a brewery...
  17. 10/10. Mutiny? What mutiny? Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
  18. When used for imaging, a telescope is basically the same as a camera. So a photography resource might help. Photographers typically use focal length and focal ratio (which they sometimes call "aperture") while astronomers more usually use focal length and aperture (the diameter of the main mirror/lens). In telescope terms, focal length / aperture = focal ratio.
  19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons Blinding as collateral damage of a weapon designed to have another effect is not prohibited.
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