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Oh but my judgement is not about his channel but only this video... I don't think i will watch other videos from him. You do not get people thinking by spreading faslse data on the internet. And for the humor... well if this is funny to anyone, fine... EDIT: i l'checked out his channel and (!!!) my point stands still. It's BS from A to Z. "Nasa announces we will find aliens in 10 ro 20 years" or "nasa might have just discovered of way to travel faster than light" ...

The worst thing here is that this bloke probably isn't stupid enough to believe that. He is just spreading BS around, and then some sheep start thinking that it's true.... When he says "'i've no idea what i've just said" after using that very simple law of physics, it really hurts my brain. He makes it look like it's cool not to understand an equation that you learn in highschool. "omg folkz luk idk wat dat mean im retarded how cool am i ,hacked gravity" "Beyond science" ? more like "behind science". Or "500 -years-retarded relatively to science" Edit : the fact that he is on one of the Pshopped pics shows that he knows that it is BS... he deserves the anger, not the pity... in short : kill it with fire

I'd say something more like next week. (after my finals yesss) But hey let's not turn this thread into a release date speculation. Backto the fairings, i don't think the aero changes in 1.0.3 will include proper ones. And then, it's unity5, so not there either... but i'm sure they will get a fix sooner or later (probably later tho)

Hum, pretry sure that the development of the rocket in the first 2 years (and the initial developmebt phase for ariane 5 was not very fast-moving iirc) was probably not very much affected by hermes... So it being cancelled after 2 years probably didn't change much. ESA had the three projects going strong......for a very brief period of time indeed

Are we talking about the exhaust being white or the nozzle being white here ? (Cause as far as i know shock diamonds in the exhaust won't make the nozzle white )

^This. Ariane 5 is far from man-rated, and not only because Hermes was cancelled, the Kourou spaceport is not man-rated either. There are no structures that allow for any astronauts to get up in a rocket, and i'm not sure a LES could make it to the sea from the launchpad since IIRC they are farther from the sea than Cape canaveral pads are.

I don't understand why it is such a surprise that Rosetta has errors because if star tracking and comet activity/dust. Surely the mission was designed with this in mind, right ? Why is the spacecraft using star tracking orientation instead of another orientation technique then ?

What menu animations are you even talking about ? If you are talking about the main starting menu.... You only need to watch them once, and they are half a second long each. there are literally 3 buttons to click to "resume last" : start game->saved->save. Is it *that* annoying for you ? i'd rather want squad not to lose time to implement that kind of useless feature that would only have an effect on the start menu. Just wait an extra .1 second before launching....

Because the Helpful Lady is very reliable and heavy lift to GTO-Lagrange points. It's actually the most reliable heavy-lift-to-GTO vehicle in the world AFAIK. But seriously though, the MAIN reason is because it gets to be launched from the awesome Kourou spaceport and Ariane 5 is dope (yes my sig shows my love for this launcher)

Very interesting, especially the second part about density. Black holes aren't necessarily super dense since their radius grows linearly with their mass, but they are spheres so their volumes grows by the ^3 ... So as you get heavier, you become larger, thus less dense (not very right-ish math-wise the way i wrote it but you get the point)

AFAIK : The temperatures inside the combustion chamber and nozzle are crazy high. Pretty much no materials can survive those temperatures for a 8minutes burn like this one. So what happens here (and happened in the space shuttle) is that you make small pipes inside the nozzle. The cold (very freaking cold) LH2 comes from the tank and passes through these pipes before going into the combustion chamber, and that cools off the engine. this is why liquid fuel engines are often very complex with a lot of piping and plumbing Now, that makes the outside of the nozzle crazy cold, and condensation forms on its surface, and then it solidifies into ice.

Why don't you put a decoupler between the lander body and the capsule ??? this seems like the obvious solution to me... Grab the science and store it in the capsule, and then ditch the lander before re-entry ! I shall point out that this is how a sample/experiment return is actually supposed to be done. oO can't believe some people expect their weirdly-shaped landers to re-enter perfectly. Gameplay over realism ? Alright, but by taking the science in EVA and storing it in the capsule, you get a good gameplay element, and then the "correctly" modeled aerodynamic forces (that wouldn't let the whole thing come back alone) are not a problem anymore. here you go : gameplay and realism

Digging this thread up : new RS-25 Engine test ! it happened on June 11th. Now *THAT* is a very long burn for a first stage engine. MECO looks a bit rough though. I can already imagine four of these roaring off towards space...

Don't forget that we aren't only talking about an internet service for developed countries only. A constellation of satellites like that plans to offer internet worldwide, and that opens a huge market with the developing countries that do not offer internet connections on their whole territory. I'm thinking about countries like brazil, india, some african states... Internet is a very good way of speeding up development, and such countries have very little access to it. I might be wrong about this^, but i think that these constellation programs aim at this kind of market.

Wow, are hydrazine thrusters even this precise ? what's the shortest burn possible with those ?

surely a plane change is not very Delta-V expensive in orbit around such a light parent body... The low mass of the comet combined with a good bi-elliptical plane change should be somehow easily feasible, right ? How much DeltaV does Rosetta have left after arriving in orbit around 67P ? What was the total mass and hydrazine mass at launch anyway ? Just wondering... Yeah, actually i'm pretty sure that Rosetta/philae is the most expensive probe the ESA has ever flown. Must have been quite a bit of good news for the responsibles of the mission and the for the investors !

This would fit better in the Science Labs forum... Anyway i really like Joonatan1998's idea of a baloon to get the small lander back up. However having another huge baloon to keep the main rocket in uoper atmo seems hardly feasible... How would you keep it in the same spot with the winds, and how would you pick up the lander ?

1)They are soooo heavy ! it's sometimes better not to use any, even though you get a drag penalty your deltaV will still be higher. 2) Confetti. WHY ? how ? what's the advantage of confetti over clamshell ? the small pieces get stuck in between other parts of the rocket way too often... 3) the texture... that's subjective, but really, the yellow line repeating over and over when the fairing gets long looks very weird. Can we have them just white ? or have the option to choose ? I'd also love to have the flag on the fairing, but hey, it's not that important. 4)last but not least : the placement in the VAB ! the fairings do not fit with the adapters ! if i have a 1.25m payload atop a 1.25->2.5m adapter and underneth that a fairing base, the fairing will clip through the adapter and cannot be placed !!! You have to make some kind of lip, make the fairing wider than the base (much wider than the payload) in order to build it. The only way is not to use an adapter. And then there's the fact that the text saying wether it can be placed shifts from light green to light brown, difficult to see, and sometimes when you click while it says that you can't place a cross-section, the text will never turn to green again... Very very annoying. Also i wish that it was possible to make rounded fairings, so far they are always pointy-ish. Very last thing, why are the fairing bases so heavy and so large/thick ? Having to use a 1 ton part for a very small interstage is disturbing EDIT : forgot to mention the interstage fairings that cannot be closed around adapters (you'd think that's were an interstage is closed....) and that provide no structural joints like the engine fairings do, along with the "cannot activate engine while stowed" nonsense. EDIT 2 : Don't get me wrong, the fact that we have fairings is awesome already, this is just a list of stuff that could objectively be improved, i'm not whining as if it was terrible (although some aspects are...). The stock fairings are better than the nothing we had before.

Every wing section except for the new FAT-S and BIG-S or whatever they are called. They are ugly as hell ! Also the first fin you get, the unsteerable one, the cheapest one (you know wich one i'm talking about ? that white hideous thing) should get a new texture... And then the mk1 parts could use a texture revamp, along with decouplers and...... FAIRINGS ! the fairings are by far the ugliest things in the game (in addition to be crappy gameplay-wise). I'm talking about both the Stock procedural fairings and the heatshield fairings : the gray-ish fairings that stick out of the rocket are meh

How come a TVC is harder to build than a orbit-capable rocket ? I don't know much about TVCs, but aren't them relatively simple in concept ? I think of those (i'm very probably wrong, please correct me here) like big heat exchangers for cooling (just like fridges) and thermal lamps for heating, and then vacuum pumps...

Yes, the Pluto-Charon system is strongly believed to have formed this way (with a big collision), just like the Earth-Moon system. Studying this aspect of Pluto to then compare it with Earth-Moon is one of the main objectives of New Horizons.

Les forums Blizzard? Vade retro ! Sur la partie anglophone du forum KSP les fautes sont pratiquement inexistantes... c'est plutôt cool ! j'imagine qu'il a du finir son contrat...

THANK YOU ! this is life saving. Back on topic, there were quite a lot of interesting articles about the LHC startup recently. (in some general newspapers like Le Monde.) Unless you are talking about TV news... If so, i wouldn't get my hopes high if i were you. The day the LHC will be featured in "famous" TV news is faaaaaaaaaaaaa(still further)aaaaaaaaaaar away.

although the 1.0 trailer is not explicitly referring to Challenger or the audio tapes of the dying crew (it did not evocate this to me when i saw it), it is very sad and doesn't really represent what ksp is, the point of game after all isn't to kill kerbals (afaik)... What bugs me is the very explicit reference to Apollo 1 and Gus Kerman (see my post above). It's not very respectful... Back on the subjects, i gotta agree with regex... the videos are very nice (this is undeniable, they do look good) but they serve no purpose if they aren't in the game. Also, the trailer videos show clouds all over the place and yet we haven't got a single stock cloud in 1.0. Pretty disappointing

The clips are great, there should be cutscenes like that in the game (toggleable of course) ! I agree that the 1.0 release clip is a bit morbid... and about fire in the capsule , there sadly *is* a "joke" about it... Gus Kerman in the KSC has a description that says "we hope nothing catches fire while he's here" ... not very funny when you know that Gus is the name of an Apollo 1 astronaut