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Prograde, because it's standard among KSP players.

They should hire Black Hat: https://xkcd.com/1243/ If you did land it in a net, you'd have you worry about it bouncing and flipping onto the engine, which would crush it for sure.

It could be a decent place to start nonetheless. The second stage was portrayed doing a RTLS in the old video, so this could be plausible. You'd only need to integrate small attachment points in the stage itself instead of whole legs.

What about, in place of landing legs, some sort of "catcher" platform that would attach to the second stage and stabilize it as it finishes it's landing? They're already working on something similar for the first stage. That way you don't have the added mass of landing legs during flight, but you still don't tip over when you land.

@Kerbital Is your avatar a Half-Life reference?

Forget a movie, with that budget you could book a satellite launch.

I'm in a similar boat. Probably because it's that time of year again: two difficult AP tests in a few weeks, and the ACT tomorrow, so a lot of mental strain going on. I'm gonna try to spend the evening doing cognitively lax things like listening to high quality rips.

Finishing the checkerboard on my first Rubik's Cube.

Eve disk: I needed a cover art for the track on Bandcamp.

I never drank a lot of soda (usually only a can if I was at some kind of party) but the reason I stopped is because I always get nausea when my stomach is full of gas. It's almost like my vomit and burp sensations are swapped, so I'd get really nauseous, only to expel pure gas. It's really not fun, and it happens pretty much every time, so I decided some months ago to completely stop drinking carbonated beverages. If you're in a region where it's available, I hear coconut water is loaded with healthy stuff. It's mildly sweet and is generally pretty tasty. When I was young, I would get headaches relatively frequently. In middle school, I started getting complex migraines about once a year. Explanation could get lengthy, so I'll put it in a spoiler: After this, the doctors advised me to drink more water, and my "regular" headache problem was fixed by that. The migraines still came occasionally though, and once one started there was nothing to do but wait it out. Recently, I was at lunch and felt a toe go numb for a couple of minutes. I know this is a sign of a migraine, and I thought, I might as well try something, anything to stop it! So I drank two bottles of water as fast as I could, and it went away. There's no way to tell if it was a fluke or not, but I'll definitely be doing that next time.

Maybe it's the snapshot of the fraction of a second before she realizes that.

I was going to link to that! I agree, this is a natural thing that happens; people want to take the different things that they like and put them together. Like jazz.

Just so you can watch it break itself? I got higher up pushing a ship with Whack-A-Kerbal.

I played some Xevious, Donkey Kong, and Pac-Man today, and also finished Half-Life: Blue Shift. Sounds like Black Mesa was having some technical issues even before the experiment. I'll bet Gman had a hand in it.

Is it just monotonous, or is it a hint...robotic? I can think of a particular monotonous female voice that would say weird stuff like that.

A mission to Jool that loses contact with home halfway there, and finds some strange stuff... *cough* @Cydonian Monk *cough*

"A poignant scene. An eternity's repose. It brings peaceful thoughts, does it not?" -Victory Mine Vortigaunt, on the charred corpse

I have a few ideas for a variant of ping pong that is designed for microgravity and would be played on the inside of a cylindrical table.

Last night I dreamt I was in the ISS with a crewmate, and we were looking for a lost Allen wrench. I suggested we look and see if it hadn't gotten sucked into the main air filter, but it wasn't there. Not a crazy dream by any means, but it was noteworthy in that it's the first time I've dreamt about solving an ordinary problem in space, instead of just "WHOA SPACE".

Shurnarkabtishashutu (Zeta Tauri)

Tilt your head to the right...

I made a Bandcamp account yesterday to post my compositions on. I'm curious if anyone else here has compositions of their own to share and talk about!

https://spaaace.bandcamp.com/track/eve I wish I could get a song to play x seconds before sunrise using this, but this is a start. I might do a deep space theme next.

That'll do the trick!

The diagram showing the trajectory in the article did show several Venus slingshots, but even the first perihelion after launch is below Mercury.