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  1. MaverickSawyer
    Yeah, well, that's the Soviets during the Cold War, back when they could easily control the news of a failure, and when said failure wasn't so much of an issue. It's not so easy with China...
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    At what hour of the morning in WA? *does timezone conversion* Nope, nope, nope, not getting up for that.
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    Maybe they had the Starlink prototypes above the horizon? Or perhaps they oriented the barge such that the plume wasn't as much of an issue?
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    First stage stuck the landing, as usual, too.
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    freefall sensor!
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    Well.... given the crash test dummy ... erm, human analogue unit? Yeah, let's go with that, shall we? Anyways, given the name bestowed upon the passenger, that plushie would be more appropriate!
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    @sevenperforce is correct. American solid fuel grain has the consistency (and has nearly the same mechanical properties) as a pencil eraser. The only way it leaves the casing after it cures is to either carve it out with a knife or a pressure washer, or to burn it.
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    Uhm... No. All you're doing is dropping chamber pressure to near-zero, which slashes the burn rate of the fuel and the thrust produced. Any unburned fuel is still in the casing, burning (relatively) slowly and generating copious amounts of smoke and fire, but the gases that are produced are being vented out of both the nozzle and the holes punched in the casing by the thrust termination system. From what I understand, the plan usually called for punching the holes near the top of the casing.
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    It's kinda irrelevant now... I've committed to a full-stop mission to Duna. Habs, labs, rovers, cargo pods, the whole works.
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    Huh. LOX-cooled engine? That's... kind of an odd choice. Wonder why?
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    Hence why I use the term "idiot resistant", not "idiot proof". There is no such thing as idiot proof, because nature will always make a better idiot.
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    Better idea: make the connectors different enough that one physically cannot mistakenly cross them up. It's something I call "designing with a high level of idiot resistance".
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    ISS uses a standard nitrox mix at sea level pressures, or pretty close to it. Atlas SRBs are indeed monolithic. I was lucky enough to see a casing being wound more than a decade ago, and it was a continuous composite layup. They're about as big as one can build a monolithic solid motor and still have them road transportable... 5 feet in diameter, 60 feet long, and somewhere around 120000 pounds fully loaded.
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    Correct.
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    Vodka rocket, eh? Seems legit.
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    Mmmm... So THAT'S how you kept Jeb from finding the flying saucer program for so long!
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    mmmm... More of a fan of "My Heart is Broken" or "Lost in Paradise" myself, but to each their own. Right now, I've been drooling over the stuff Meteor has been making for Heatblur's F-14 package for DCS... As one commenter put it, "This is not just a module, it's a entire 80ish experience." I'm in complete agreement on that count.
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    Found a curious entry into the log files while investigating two sequential crashes of KSP... Upon inspection of the config.xml file in the appropriate folder, I found it to be 1kb and completely blank. Is that normal, or did something happen to blank that file?
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    DM-1, here we come!
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    If there wasn't a Mun to go to, that's pretty 0.12, isn't it? God that was a long time ago... Why, I remember when Minmus was freshly discovered! Good times, gang... good times.
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    I'm kinda fond of Magic Spear I for launching rockets, myself.
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    Well, isn't it a Russian tradition to refer to maritime vessels with a male pronoun, while many Western nations use female pronouns?
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    Yeah, you either need fuel lines or a mod to manage the staging. Personally, I'd use Smart Parts, as there's a whole range of useful sensors that can trigger staging and/or action groups based on altitude, speed, fuel status, time, proximity, etc.
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    You can kitbash one together easy enough with stock parts, even if it's a little undersize...
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    Y'know, had a brainwave a few weeks back... With the slanted gear, could you rig the suspension so that it's moving along the plane of rotation of the wheel, kinda like the new lunar rover wheels? It'd put an end to the wonky gear issues and be more realistic....
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