cubinator

I saw Mars last night over a lightning storm. It's a lot of space between here and there.

SN9 will run out of hydraulic fluid or something and enter an uncontrolled spin. SN10 will be called V1.0 and land upright but sustain damage on touchdown.

The former moon of Saturn which constitutes the majority of its ring system is flat.

They did all that instead of changing some accessibility settings on their own computer, and going to see the eye doctor.

I find this both funny and terribly foreboding as I have an engineering career ahead of me...

SLS is a gigantic sunk cost fallacy driven by a zombie rocket program.

That flip looks absolutely terrifying every time I see it. I still want to ride it, in spite of that.

http://ssww.mars.gov/ This link is from the future, you can't click it yet

Wow, lots of fresh aerospace engineers and aerospace engineering students popping up here! Sounds like KSP influenced some kids in school. We'll have plenty of Kerbals to send to Mars in no time!

It says "No Input Detected" and some red, green, and blue bars, then turns off.

...have we run Doom on RNA yet? Or at least Snake? Imagine Dwarf Fortress but instead of ascii characters it's just different proteins laid out on a grid.

Yep. Here you go: It doesn't go under the horizon at the poles, unless you've got a big hill in the way, it wobbles left and right.

"I hope she made lotsa spaghetti!"

Looks like you're hovering over a nice sampling site there. I look forward to the collection.

C-3PO is Kylo Ren's uncle.

It's actually been proven that you can make Kerbin flat in the base game using precise physics manipulations. It doesn't break physics any less than Earth being flat would. The way to make KSP easier for a beginner would be to open the alt+F12 menu and enable some cheats like infinite fuel.

Being 20 cm taller fully stacked, it better have a full interior!

I want a Starship stainless steel water bottle with mini heat tiles...Somebody pitch this to Elon!

Please tell me they didn't have to sit in it...like that...

Yeah that's another thing that bothers me in general when people talk about balloons. "X team sends research to the edge of space on a balloon!" "X person sends garlic bread to the edge of space on a balloon!" Sure it's a black sky and the horizon is curved, but if you can use a balloon, it's not the edge of space. The highest balloons get to something like 30% or 40% of the way to space. The only kind of vehicle that's going to get 80% or 90% is a rocket.

I'm getting hired to continue my bug project! I'm also very likely to apply for a NASA grant for it.

If you need any advice from someone a couple years ahead of you, send me a message!

Yeah, that could be done. Fuel up on the water, if you burn hydrogen or something you could have a boat that almost never needs to dock - IF you had solar cells or a wind turbine to power the fuel converter.

I think you're talking about violating the law of conservation of energy again. It's not circumstantial, it's a law of the universe. It's been this way everywhere in the universe for 13 billion years. A force in one direction exerts an equal force in the opposite direction. You can't tweak one of them to be a little bigger than the other, that's a violation of the laws of physics.