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1. How could an asteroid distinguish one side from another? 2. The Earth is 12.7 Mm wide, the lunar orbit is 2.4 mln Mn long. The Earth is just five millionth part of the full lunar orbit. A little little for a shield.

If the Moon was craterized by the so-called "Late Heavy Bombardment", it would be craterized uniformly, because the Moon is moving around the Earth, and the day of the month plays no role for a guest asteroid. So, as there is no "LHB" traces on the Earth, and the Venusian surface is considered volcanic and young, and the Mercury is hardly explored, we should presume that the so-called "Late Heavy Bombardment" is a product of Hollywood kaboom aesthetics, sounding more impressive for potential grant givers than the dull evolutionary processes. Everything should impact and explode, otherwise it's not a science. *** As the newborn Moon was tidally locked (it should be, because it anyway appeared next to the Roche limit), this means that it had "prograde" and "retrograde" sides. As the newborn Moon was spiralling away from the Earth, it should hit and collect other satellites and proto-Moon remains, so we don't have any. And it should be doing that with its prograde side. (Because they were on higher orbits, so slower.) In this case one side (prograde) should be createrized more than the opposite one. (checked). The Moon is tidally locked, so the core should have an offset in the Earth direction, down to the Earth. So, looks like that the then-prograde side is now the visible one, and the iron core is shifted towards it. But the core was also shifted towards the Earth. So, for some reason it migrated towards the prograde side, most craterized, and it became the "visible" side of the Moon. As no more marias appeared on the non-craterized sides, we can presume that the Earth was out of moons to that moment, so no new maria appeared. The question is why the core migrated towards the prograde side. The cracked side became weaker, so the core just passed where it could. But the core couldn't move from the lowest position, because of tidal forces. So, it was bending the mantle matter beneath like a tank wheel bends a track band, until the weakest, cracked side of the Moon from prograde became "visible", and the CoM position got happy.

Or vice versa, the thicker and heavier part is the visible one, so it always looks "down". I.e. the Moon has turned with the most craterized part down, as it was heavier. Got it. You mean that the crust is less dense.

Granted. The comet is on its way. I wish it hits the Venus instead.

1/10 This will be fixed in the next firmware upgrade. If I was not a human, I would play KSP via kRPC.

See the Pyramids? They were cubic.

36 cards are in the Russian deck, 36 cards on the table. From six to the ace, Take one out of the deck. 35 cards on the table.

Granted. It whistles reversed and hates the player. I wish to know how do they distinguish a gamer from a player.

Not to violate the forum rules, but how will they bypass some Harkonnen's... features... supposed to be highlighting his negative nature in Herbert's time, lol.

Got it. Independent. 'Cuz cognac and champagne are too expensive for showering.

It's pink... A pink spaceship... Any pony?

1 Franklin is a money unit, equal to 100 USD. At least here, when you have it . Handy for household numismatics, so has its own name.

No, just often feel a shower of cold sweat on the neck reading some API things. I started from Europe. The American ones were not so disappointing, as I didn't expect so much.

Vice versa. *** 4 pairs of tanks (320 * 48 cm), 3 pair of low pressure (for the "main" engines, 2 x DKS), 1 pair of high pressure (for RCS aka DPS and DTS). (Each pair - UDMH and NTO). *** DPS ("dvigatel prichalivaniya i stabilizatsii", "engine of docking and stabilization") originally was 40 kgf, and there is 5 and more of them in every of four blocks, depending on particular module. DTS ("dvigatel tochnoy stabilizatsii", "engine of accurate/precise stabilization") originally was 1.2 kgf, and there was a battery of 8 of them in the two blocks at the ship end opposite to the active docking port. All of them are pressure-fed and are fed from the high-pressure pair of tanks. *** The "main" engines (DKS, "dvigatel korrektsii i sblizheniya", "engine of correction and approaching") are turbopump-fed and suck fuel from any of 3 low-pressure, switching a valve between them. It's open-cycle, the pump exhaust is exhausted together with the engine jet, providing the low thrust mode (originally - 47 kgf). When the engine is ignited, it's the high thrust mode (originally - 400+47 = 447 kgf). Also the DKS engine's turbopump is used as a compressor to pump the fuel from low-pressure tanks into the high-pressure pair to fill it during the multimonth flight when the TKS (from which the 77-type modules are derived) is docked to the Almaz station as an expendable propulsion-energetical-storage unit. That's exactly why such complicated scheme. The propulion system of TKS iss designed as a multimodule station propulsion system. The total of 3 800 kg of fuel is absolutely excessive for the interorbital flight, it's to keep the low-orbit Almaz on the 200 km high orbit for 3 months, constantly pushing it to compensate the air drag losses. So, one tank pair contains ~900 kg of fuel. 3500 m/s * ln(20/(20-0.9)) ~= 160 m/s of delta-V if all three other pairs are unavailable. The DKS (with lifespan of > 1000 (actually, up to 10 000) ignitions is required not so much for the ship, but for the complex in whole. "Correction" = correction of the station orbit, "approaching" = approaching of the ship to the station. They are not necessary for the ship, they are needed to push the station, and are just a bonus for the ship itself. Also, the (originally) 2x3x40 = 240 kgf DPS nozzles are enough to approach to the station and dock. The evil twin of TKS, Big Gemini, "didn't" have other engines at all. It "was" using its DPS all the flight. As well, Apollo (having a lot of common with Big G in the propulsion) needed the main engine only to save fuel on lhigh-delta-v maneuvers. *** So, if the diagnosis is correct, we can understand it like the valves through which the (main engine) DKS turbopumps compress the fuel from 3 low-pressure tank pairs into the 1 high-pressure tank pair, is broken, and due to the high pressure in system, the turbopumps of DKS can't be turbopumping. So, the two main engines (DKS) are disabled, and the module can't serve as a tug for the whole ISS. But if/as the pressure is enough high to feed the pressure-fed DPS (and DTS) RCS engines, they can go to the station by HNIJKL keys instead of AZ and dock. *** Also the DTS (the tiniest ones) are needed not for the ship, but for the precise stabilization of the station. The ship/module actually needs only DPS to be happy.

Yes, our cook works on it. Two pints daily to launch, and one more to have an interplanetary trip. Waiter! Is this thread getting more and more souperior?

And he did it,

It's even more strange thing to make the planet of it,

Nerds don't know that nerds exist. They know that muggles do.

And that's how they rammed Mir.

Newton used pound because he was not aware of Newton. Watt use horse powers because he was not aware of Watt. Others, too. The metric units are named after the people who even didn't know about them and were using Imperial units.

Depending on launch results.

The nerds see nothing funny in this ability.

In the soup ocean. It's the soup planet, did't you forget? Waiter! Is that a tsoupnami on the horizon?

He tried once an electrotank. That's how he made Ferdinand instead of Tiger.

And that's why the H-O engine needs an external source of energy like a nuke or anything else.