JoeSchmuckatelli

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/james-webb-space-telescope-first-images-white-house/ Photos of what Webb is expected to show

It had the potential to be disastrously distracting from the start. Effectively a Billionaire Tantrum - I don't like it, so I'm gonna buy it and fix it - without any real thoughts, no plan and it being so far outside of his wheelhouse that he had no idea what ocean he was in.

Carts and horses. I just want to see the big boys fly - and whatever happens... See SX do it again and again until they get it working! That chutzpah is what inspires me

No kidding. I actually set an alarm last week to remind me!

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That's cool - hope we get to watch it either way (Like, they take out one of the Drone ships and land just off it, if it is a water landing) Why so high? Is that due to ballistic nature of the flight?

When you do - postem and I'll watchem

That's what I'm leaning towards. My 5th grade 'rocket science' class showed a diagram with contained pressure in every direction but one, resulting in a net thrust away from the opening. But whether, like a helicopter, a rocket experiences ground effect - and whether that is mediated by the density of the surface.

I would not suggest doing that with Kerbin's moons. It's too early. New player that can get to orbit likely already has some unintentional inclination from the moons' plane by the time she's circularized. Knowing how and even why to match inclination is a bit of a brain bender. Initially it is not at all intuitive. New player may not even know that her orbit is inclined relative to the target - because the video tutorial she's following has an expert player who got his efficient burn set up at the optimal altitude and with a near perfect inclination - and then goes straight into trying to set up the encounter, 'twiddles with the thingys' to get another perfect insertion... All of which is muscle memory for the experienced and unexplained black magic for the new. Seriously - watch almost any video where someone is fiddling with the nodes. You will hear them talking about the gross movements: trying to get the optimal insertion altitude, mostly fiddling with prograde /retrograde - but the parts where they tweak normal/antinormal or radial or antiradial are hardly described. To watch those videos, you'd never know that you might need to adjust inclination prior to trying to get an encounter (the experienced just do it on the fly). It is orders more difficult for knuckledraggers like me to figure out how to get an encounter with one of the planets... But I think at this point we are ready to accept a bit more complexity. Maybe have one home planet with greater inclination than the others - and another with significant axial tilt and it's moons on a different plane from the norm. That way we who need to walk can walk - and those who are itching to get out to the stars can have fun too

So... Presumably it has a 'some disassembly required' ability? Snipping antenna or solar panels to recover the good stuff?

I'm going to hazard the guess that when SX launches SS+SH that part of the exercise is testing their ability to control SH at landing and presumably set it up for capture via the tower, even though it will be over water at the time. (ditch or possibly recovered??). Is there a 'ground effect' for a rocket that would make a practice 'hoover' over water different from what they'd see at the pad? Would you expect to see SH go for a hoover - and if it could, slide sideways to better align with the imaginary tower at the Gulf landing(splash) site?

And why not some of the sun like stars? https://www.space.com/2072-top-10-list-habitable-stars-guide-search.html 18 Sco? 37 Geminorium? Tau Ceti? https://earthsky.org/space/4-exoplanets-tau-ceti-nearest-sunlike-star/

Very true. ... ... <remembers the mod that let you put fireworks launchers on things...> <anticipates multiplayer with those > ... Yeah. People will be people

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My biggest problem is that they're giving Luke a waaay more fraught existence than he had. Simple farm boy is his backstory for the first three films. Now he's a survivor of a personal attack? Random Sandpeople raids? Sure. Brushes with Stormtroopers and arrogant Empire flunkies, of course. But a crazy vengeful child murdering Sith wannabe? Nope. I'm actually surprisingly OK with the Leia storyline. Explains the feistiness we see in her from the opening scene of Star Wars

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Looks 'cool'

This is the true mark (and price) of success!

I was convinced that it would be like the light around EENT - but was surprised that it's more like the illumination just after sun had disappeared beyond the limb of the earth... (7 minutes after sunset) Colors still look like colors. Neat! (also... This gives me that creepy sort of feeling you get when you think about just how big the sun really is).

Chuckle! This is one of those bits of information that is so easily forgotten by the novice / Neanderthal. I'm certain that I remember learning that back when I first started playing KSP - and then completely forgot by the time I came back to the title in the latter years. (I'm definitely guilty of the low altitude This is why we need an in-game Kerbilopedia!

@ARS & @Gargamel Grin - not to be pedantic or anything... but the main reason I even wrote "Pluto" in the first place is to reference how pedantic the arguments got over whether it was a planet or not. Thus, in the context of communities which have debated that so very hotly, I have to ask whether words and proper names matter so much that we'd have to say the light illuminating Proxima Centauri b would be determined by measuring the inproximation (or perhaps inalphaproximacentauriation given that there's a chance Alpha Centauri might be bright enough to cast a shadow on the surface, as well.) I could go on: inbetelgeuseation, intaucetiation, inkerbolation... (insolation being so very, very precise and local, after all!)

I disliked it from the get-go. The economy is parasitic. My son 'plays for free' (because I won't let him spend anything on it) and enjoys the game... but it never took for me. That said: I've spent waaay more time in WOT than is healthy. (*I would not, however, call it my 'favorite' game)

Mind you - I'm remembering. There's a LOT of shows I remember enjoying... and then went back to and was like, "What in the why?"