cubinator

I really need to try that. I remember in that dream, I knew I was dreaming at first, and was certain of it until I got outside and felt the very real wind and the very real coldness of the doorknob. Beforehand, I had tried walking through a wall to go outside, to no avail. Next time, I'm sure I'll get it!

The clouds have cleared some, so I went outside with the filter and held it up to the sun. I could see a sunspot just with the filter in front of me! I went inside and got the telescope out, making sure the finder was covered and that the filter was well attached with some packing tape. The filter works well, although I will probably want to try a smaller aperture cover to minimize flapping of the film, which affects the image. I could see the shape of the sunspot and there was a gray region on the outer edge of it. I'm sure it will work beautifully for the transit!

Ok, the film arrived today in the mail. I measured the circumference of the aperture cover of my telescope, to see if I could find a strip of some bendy material that I could make a cylinder out of. I went to the hardware store with a strip of paper of equivalent length to the circumference of the cover, and I also brought the cover itself. In the end, I went with a plastic flower pot, which had an inset which turned out to fit the telescope perfectly! The rest of the pot got cut off, and, once sanded, the cardboard holder would be easy to attach. I made the cover the way the instructions said to, and, with some toil and a lot less than $100, finished the holder. I checked it against the sky and didn't see any holes, so it seems to be fine. I then glued the cardboard holder to the plastic ring. Then it was just wait for the glue to dry and it's now done! I'd test it out now but... ...it's cloudy.

Asteroids aren't dwarf planets, and there's loads of them pretty much everywhere, so it's kind of pointless to say there can't be any asteroids.

I'm going to read the Dres Awareness thread, because I simply don't know what to do with Dres.

I've never used them either. But why would I spend time on a gateway to Jool when it's not that hard to just go directly to Jool? ΔV from Kerbin-Dres to Kerbin-Jool is 370 m/s. Spending over 1200 m/s (not even counting plane changes) stopping at Dres to refuel seems like an awful waste when I could just put a little extra fuel in my rocket to begin with. If there were planets over twice as far away as Jool, I might consider it, or if I had a really big Jool ship that for some reason needed to repeatedly go between the Jool system and the huge empty region between Duna and Jool.

Fine. What's your favorite outer planet mod?

I think it means it doesn't share/cross orbits with a bunch of other dwarf planets.

If "Planet 9" has so many Kuiper belt objects being getting pushed around by it... ...Has it really cleared it's neighborhood?

Laythe is tidally locked to Jool, so only one side ever gets what you call "full night" and the other side always sees Jool and has the green nights and long periods of eclipse. If you were living on the far side of Laythe, much like the far side of Earth's moon you wouldn't even know you were orbiting a huge green planet. I imagine climate would be significantly affected by the cycle, with noticeable effects worldwide. Laythe's environment seems to be very salty, as it is too cold to support liquid water normally. It would also likely have very high radiation levels due to Jool's powerful magnetosphere. Also, a Jool-revolution of Laythe is only 2 days, so it's much more like a day (technically it is a day too, since it's tidally locked) than a year. Laythe seems like a very cool place for life to develop.

I managed, somehow, to get into a very vivid lucid state last night. So much so that, when I got out my front door, I hesitated and asked myself "What if this isn't a dream? I can feel the coldness of the doorknob, and the wind on my face. If this is real, then nothing good would come from me acting like it's a dream." And I went back inside, thinking "There's no way this is a dream." Then I woke up and thought "dammit." I need to figure out a reality check that works on realistic dreams.

Laythe

Alnilam.

If there was a proper asteroid belt and an outer system, I would totally go there and set up a really cool fueling network, but there isn't. Sorry, Dres.

It definitely had to do with the forum switch. I cleaned up all my old posts, but it still shows up a lot in pre-switch threads.

Then Dres would feel less lonely. What if I'm Pointland?

It was nighttime, so the janitor turned off the lights. Or, well, that really looked like a light switch. All your rocket manuals have mirror-image text, and there are no mirrors on the rocket.

Laser Cat.

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Hee is the complete list of my KSP rules: Rule 1: Have fun! I accomplish that in a bunch of ways. I send Kerbals to planets, slide down steep slopes in low-G environments, screw around with alt-F12 (one time I bounced off Jool!), drive long-distance in my "trusty" Mun rover, and fly missions in Career mode! It's not hard, it's only rocket science!

The US-shipping website I bought it from said it was 7.9 in wide, so I have to make sure the mount covers the edges. Should be easy enough. Can't wait for it to arrive! *commence the constant refreshing of the USPS package tracker*

Here's my equation that I use when I want to find the delta-V of the current stage. I use it a lot during interplanetary missions with lots of burns. It works anytime, and is easy to put into a calculator: ΔV = 9.81 * Isp * ln(Mcurrent / Mcurrent - (.005(LF + OX))) ΔV: How much the stage can accelerate before it runs out of fuel. 9.81: Kerbin's surface gravity (always use this value even on/around other planets) Isp: Basically how fast your ship consumes fuel (higher Isp means more ΔV for the same amount of fuel) ln: Natural log, basically inverse of exponent. Mcurrent: The current mass of your ship. You can find this in map view, with the little button that shows info about your ship. .005: Each unit of LF weighs .005 tons. I came up with this equation because there's not an easy way to know your dry mass (which is necessary to calculate delta-V) in-flight. LF: The total number of Liquidfuel units in the current stage. OX: The total number of Oxidizer units in the current stage. For more on the delta-V equation, google "delta v" or "Rocket equation" or "Tsiolkovsky rocket equation" or something like that. To figure out how much your rocket can accelerate in m/s, just use the equation above (and make sure you put in the right number of parentheses in the calculator!).

Very eerie. The king of the planets whispers it's secrets quietly in an unknown language... Here's another one, with more planets:

Granted, but the air is instead full of silica dust causing you to die of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I wish for a self-mowing lawn.

My telescope is catadioptric, so it doesn't have a spider. Since I'm getting a film and making the filter myself, what I'll do is put the film in a (almost) full aperture cap, and if I want less aperture I can attach a cover that will block more light.