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totm aug 2023 What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?
cubinator replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
I ate coffee today. As in, the fruit. Tasted good! If there was coffee juice, I think I would drink it, but the fruit is very dry. -
How much gravity would a Minecraft world have?
cubinator replied to Souper's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I've read that a Minecraft world has about the same area as Neptune. So we can assume a square about 100 m thick and a bit wider than Neptune. -
It's 16:02 here and 14:02 at home.
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totm aug 2023 What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?
cubinator replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
Update: am in SP. I just took my first real nap after about 27 hours of awakeness...No matter how nice it is, I cannot sleep upright in a chair. I have to be lying down somehow. I saw the galactic core on my way down here, so that was cool. We were really high up, cruising at 11,887 m ASL. Wow, the sun's setting already OH RIGHT IT'S WINTER. And I'm quite literally upside down. What a deal. -
I played Zelda BOTW in the sky today.
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totm aug 2023 What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?
cubinator replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
I'm going to Brazil today! Might get to do a little southern hemisphere stargazing while I'm there, too. And there's a partial solar eclipse! And fruits... It'll be good. -
A number of civilizations use instantaneous transport technology, where Starfleet transporters are clunky, inconsistent, and take several seconds to beam a person. I don't know all the details, but maybe there's some mechanism for better transporters which is unknown to the Federation.
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Jeb plushy is coming with me to Mars. That's all I have to say about that.
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Ohhh right, ... Dres. Get there quick!
cubinator replied to Cunjo Carl's topic in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas
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An account of my attempt at this challenge: https://imgur.com/a/hOLImCX The goal for a mission like this is inevitably to create a ship with enough delta-V to get to Dres and back. That's a considerable amount, about 10,000 - 12,000 m/s. In science mode, I could build ships to unlock parts that would allow me to build a large ship. I knew that it doesn't take a huge ship to have a lot of delta-V. I would focus on fuel tanks and engines, and eventually go there in a simple pod. I started out with the typical first flight with a flea and pod, with a few extra Mystery Goo attached. I would try to get as many science points as possible on each flight, to progress quickly. My second flight was a tall liquid stage with four SRBs. The little fuel tanks would do. I found that it had enough oomph to perform a quick Mun flyby. I took this opportunity to get more science. Unfortunately the Mystery Goos exploded during reentry, so I lost the data from those. I still gained enough to make some more advanced boosters. My next rocket had enough delta-V to make a Mun landing. However, it didn't have legs, so I would have to land in a flat area. Even still, the rocket was not stable enough to turn off SAS as would be required to leave for a surface sample and EVA report. Instead I deployed the materials bay and Mystery Goo from inside and took off again. I would still get plenty of science from the mission. I could probably have done a hop to another biome to get more science, but it would take too long and I had a high chance of tipping over on landing so I just went home. This time the mystery goos survived as I had changed the design of the pod slightly. https://imgur.com/a/iiJhYVZ I now had enough science to unlock a variety of Rockomax 2.5 m parts. This would enable me to fly to Dres and land there. I stripped the pod of science experiments and made what is essentially a larger version of the Mun rocket. It would have enough delta-V to reach Dres and return. I consulted delta-V maps and transfer window maps, and timewarped on the launch pad to more or less the right phase angle. I took off and headed into orbit, then determined the right trajectory to intercept Dres. After finding a good burn and determining that it was within the range of my rocket, I was on my way. One correction burn would be needed to align to the right plane, but it took only half the acceleration I had allotted. My lander stage performed the insertion burn and set itself up to land near the canyons. I hoped to land at their edge, but it didn't happen and I didn't have time to be picky like that. The landing gear were being too bouncy and setting the craft to trend towards a horizontal position, so I lifted off a few times and manually lowered the spring strength. Then I went to a flat spot and set the ship down safely. https://imgur.com/a/Bi5BvcO I planted a flag on the surface and got back in the ship to plan for the transfer window. It was time to consult another transfer window calculator to find the right window. Once I got it, I timewarped to that time and went into orbit. It was difficult to get a Kerbin intercept at first, but finally I found a trajectory that would get me there. Again, one correction burn would be needed for the plane change. I did another small burn to align myself exactly to intercept Kerbin's atmosphere at the right altitude, and then simply had to wait. I had plenty of fuel left, which I burned off before hitting the atmosphere to slow down a bit. The entry went without a hitch, and I recovered the craft 1:39:35 after starting the space program.
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landing on Jupiter when
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Ohhh right, ... Dres. Get there quick!
cubinator replied to Cunjo Carl's topic in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas
Setting up the imgur album and my computer lost power. Will post that later, apparently. In the meantime, you can know that I made it in 1:39:35. -
totm aug 2023 What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?
cubinator replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
Today I presented my first tour of the solar system at the planetarium. One audience member said afterwards I have a "radio voice". -
I know there is building avoidance.
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Lol, center core suddenly decided it was an airplane.
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Count Dooku needed my help to fend off a murderous 7-8 foot tall Furby.
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Everything ends, the peaceful is willing to! The geography that I stands compares you superior!
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Ohhh right, ... Dres. Get there quick!
cubinator replied to Cunjo Carl's topic in KSP1 Challenges & Mission ideas
Hmmm, this seems pretty cool. I might give it a go sometime this week. -
I think the demo is basically one of those. Or has it been changed since I got it many revolutions ago?
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Granted. You get a bunch of paper maps, except they just have data for Minecraft maps printed on them, impossible to make anything useful out unless you typed it all into a computer. I wish for the power to transport myself to any pipe organ in the middle of the night and play it, appearing as a ghostly apparition to anyone who sees me.
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Of course! And with Jeff Who's ambition to reach the Moon, it will no doubt be Who's First Base.