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    Bad science in fiction Hall of Shame

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    All of your comments are true about all the other absurdity from last man on earth, but despite it all it was the nose first reentry that I found just too stupid not to mention. How could the entire team of X number of people never have seen a capsule reentry? Surely someone at some point could have said "errr, guys, I think capsules enter bottom first". Any maths whizzes out there wanna calculate the odds of putting, say for example, 10 people in a room together and NONE of them are aware of such a basic fact? Surely you'd have better odds of winning the lotto?!

    Bad science in fiction Hall of Shame

    in Science & Spaceflight

    Posted

    In the new "Lost in Space" on Netflix, in the first episode during the scene with the ship crashing, the computers display a distance to impact in meters, but the computers voice reads out in feet, both of which have the same numerical value. 

    Not exactly scientifically inaccurate, but an error which caused me to not bother watching it anymore...

    Optimal launch schedual for Solar relay network

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

    Posted

    On ‎5‎/‎27‎/‎2018 at 6:34 AM, mystifeid said:

    Not sure why the OP has them arriving 30 degrees apart 

    Actually, this only applied to the distance between the first and second satellites due to a slight launch timing error of about 10 days. Given that your maths calculates the travel time around Kerbol of 0.57° per day, then this should lead to an error of about 5.7° degrees, which should make up the difference between your calculated value of 24° and the measured value of 30°.

    When the 3rd satellite arrived into it's designated orbit, it was indeed about 24° from the 2nd.

    Thanks so much for the reply, I can now sleep at night!

    On ‎5‎/‎27‎/‎2018 at 2:31 AM, Gargamel said:

    Another option is to do a 'satellite mothership'.  All your satellites are attached to one vessel and get deployed one at a time. 

    You launch it once and set it up on a resonant diving orbit, releasing each satellite at the apoapsis or periapsis (depending on the orbit you set up) and having it circularize.  The mother ship dives in it's orbit again, and when reaching apo/peri again, it is 1/5 the way around the intended orbit. 

    This is what I usually do for local satellites. However, I didn't much like the thought of doing this for the deep space satellites as it would involve waiting for many years before the constellation was fully operable, and I have a contract which will need the deep space coms up and running in no more than 4 years.

    Optimal launch schedual for Solar relay network

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

    Posted

    I wanted a deep space relay network and so went through various calculations, working out that I would need a constellation of 5 relays in a circular 17.7 Gm Solar orbit.

    So I decided that the best way to get them to their appropriate orbit would be to launch them 1 at a time in intervals equal to 1/5 of Kerbin's orbital period. I calculated this to be aprox every 85 days (given that it take 426 days to orbit Kerbol). As long as I followed the same trajectories for each launch, they should all end up at aprox 72° apart from one another, right? 

    WRONG!

    Instead, they have ended up at about half the intended distance to one another (around 30° or so).

    Why?

    EP2 ideas?

    in KSP1 Suggestions & Development Discussion

    Posted

    I know, I know; we haven't even got EP1 yet, (but I am looking forward to it!).

    I have been thinking a lot about what I would like to see for the next expansion pack and wanted to share my ideas and invite you all to share yours!

    My idea;

    KSP: The Search For Life

    I would like a more substantiated reason to do science, other than just unlocking new parts. I would like the data to actually mean something, be useful in some way.

    So, in The Search For Life, you would take various measurements in the Kerbol system looking for that "sweet spot" where life may exist. The goal (finally! an end-game to KSP!) is to prove extrakerbestrial life in the fastest time possible, posting your results to an online leader board.

    This would have to happen in a randomly generated system of planets and moons, which would have to be discovered by telescopes first before any missions could be sent there. Perhaps one of the bodies could even host intelligent life and a Kerbal would have to be sent there to make first contact.

    What are your idea's?

    anomaly detection

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Spricigo said:

     

    Actually the highest detection rate its the Probodobodyne RoverMate with 100% followed by the MK2 Drone Core with 48%. Granted it have less FOV.

     

       

    Yes, but the RoverMate only works within 10km (I think). I did make my first anomaly hunter with this core, but it found nothing in a 75km polar orbit. Not sure why I didn't use the MK2, but probably because the FOV was too low.

    3 hours ago, bewing said:

    Every 6-hour day, the detected anomalies change once. They are not saved for you. And the ones that you see are randomized for each day.

     

    Does the probe permanently forget the anomaly after detecting it the first time? Or will an anomaly be put back into the randomised detection pool again? I find it difficult to believe that in the first few hours of searching it was detecting several anomalies, but now it doesn't detect anything over the course of 3 days!

    anomaly detection

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

    Posted

    Hi fellow Kerbanaughts!

    I'm having difficulty with detecting anomalies. I have a probe core in orbit looking for the blighters, but it appears to be loosing it's ability to detect them. The core is a RC-L01 (the highest detection rate), and with time is detecting fewer anomalies, even failing to spot the ones that it saw a few orbits ago. I watched the thing go round and round Kerbin for 3 in-game days without it detecting anything at all!

    Am I just being impatient? Does the detection rate deteriorate with time?

    Mk16 vs Mk2-R parachutes

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

    Posted

    Hi fellow kerbanaughts!

    A curious phenomena has occurred when comparing the early career parachutes;

    The Mk16 has an effective diameter of 20.7 and the Mk2-R has 41.3.

    Yet when I tested each of them, I found that the Mk16 slows the descent of my test craft to about 6 - 6.5 m/s and the Mk2-R to about 7 - 7.5 m/s.

    Surely a larger effective diameter should lead to a slower descent?

    Kerbal Space Program 1.2: Loud & Clear release date and more!

    in 2016

    Posted

    I've had enough of all this speculation, so I decided to consult my Crystal Ball of Truth and Wisdom. This is what the ball told me;

    There will be a new expansion pack called "KSP: The Search for Life".

    With this EP, players will play online. Each instance of a game will produce a different planetary system whereby the online competitors are challenged with being the first to ultimately discover life elsewhere within the system.

    The first challenge will be to discover and calculate the orbital pathways of the planets and their respective moons. This is done by scouring the night sky with telescopes which players will have to build and improve. Science points are distributed to the players who make the most discoveries. There could be anywhere between 5 to 12 planets of varying classes.

    The next task is to study these planets by sending scientific instruments. Planet x might have liquid water, whereas planet y may have lower surface radiation and planet z has a moon with methane plumes evident in its atmosphere etc. Each of these factors will increase the chances of discovering lifeforms and each player will have to make decisions about what missions should be prioritised to which planet. Some lifeforms may live sub-surface, some may live on the surface within specific biomes, while some may live in the atmosphere. Some lifeforms may be single-celled, some may be multi-cellular and some may even be intelligent!

    The first player to bank 10,000 science points wins the game!

    Spining round (like a record!)

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

    Posted

    Thanks for the replies.

    For clarification, by 'upright' I mean pointing at normal (in my equatorial orbit this means north), which, as Reactordrone points out, should maintain that orientation.

    I have no joystick, so not that. I'll try turning the trim off later (as Snark suggests) and see if that works. However, quite few weird orbital decays have been appearing in my game since 1.1, so it is probably connected to the bug that swjr-swis mentions.

    Spining round (like a record!)

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

    Posted

    Hi all!

    Just wondering if anyone knows why my space station in orbit around the Mun refuses to stay still. I put the thing upright, engage SAS and as long as I don't switch back to space centre or another vessel it'll remain in that position no problem. However, if I switch to another craft for a while, when I return to my space station it has drifted away from it's upright position?

    Does the Mun have weird fluctuations in it's gravity field or something? I have also noticed that leaving my Mun lander in orbit will result in the ship spinning with an accelerating force. Surely this defies the Newton's law of motion? Or is there a very thin atmosphere around the Mun which creates tiny amounts of drag?

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