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The markers are perfectly fine. I manually executed the burn, aligned with both the retrograde marker and the maneuver node marker. As you can see, the burn was done correctly. It's the direction SAS aims at that's incorrect. It seems to me that the markers are indeed pointing where Principia wants them to point, but SAS gets its prograde/retrograde/etc. directions from the stock KSP gravity model. Stock KSP looks at my orbit from an inertially fixed Kerbin frame, and in comparison to the Kerbin/Mun barycentric reference frame the directions are reversed. Take a look at this really professional model of what I think is going on. The blue line represents the standard, patched conics trajectory. The arrows represent prograde.

@pleroy I don't think that what I'm describing here has changed over the past few releases, so I'll still post it. I'm still using Ἐρατοσθένης, and in specific circumstances the prograde and retrograde markers aren't where the prograde and retrograde directions are. Telling SAS to hold retrograde, for instance results in anything but the retrograde direction. Case in point: I think this error is present at all times, but just not noticeable. In this case I was aiming for L4 of the Mun/Kerbin system, but a trans-munar injection works perfectly fine.

Fun times are ahead. 2500 days drawing in every single free millisecond that I have. The 20 hours are comprised of: - 7 1/2 hours sleep - 8 hours school - 1 hour homework - 1/2 hour practicing on the keyboard (might be increased as 30 minutes isn't really much) - 3 hours learning C. I might have forgotten some things as well. However, the only way those number can go is towards 24. And that's assuming that I have nothing else planned for the day! Which isn't the case on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday! That may be compensated by Saturday and Sunday, but I highly doubt that.

This is just confusing now. It seems like basically any artist - I know, best people to unbiasedly look at the subject, right? - is of the firm belief that literally "anyone can learn to draw". You hear that everywhere - on websites or blogs and in basically every single YouTube video aimed at people like me who firmly believe the opposite. By the way: I feel misrepresented in every single one of them. It's an exercise in strawmanning, not in drawing. They make out drawing as something really simple that just takes time to learn. It isn't. First off, there is no way that an objective difficulty can be set for anything, including drawing. Secondly how much time am I supposed to spend? 1 year? 2 years? 4? A decade? 2? Perhaps even 7? Added on the 8 years I already have, mind you. At some point it should become pretty clear that any future attempt is futile. I'm long past this point.

I just wanted to describe that even after drawing for 50% of my life I still can't do anything right in drawing. Meanwhile I understand and am able to learn C just fine. What is wrong with me.

This melody is designed to be stuck in your head.

Well... my comment backfired. Massively. That actually looks incredibly good. Much better than anything I've brought onto paper in 8 years and approximately 32 discrete attempts*. *"Attempt" describes a set of drawings close in time, not just one.

I just realized this, while re-watching the Orbcomm-2 launch: ...Looks a little bit like KSP on the background monitor.

1 is also visible, right at the top of the frame. Also, very nice way to end the webcast!

I think it might be a bit too far to the east to be seen from Europe.

No, that is the S2 burn. Though there is about 19° or so of leeway, so it could be visible.

Argh, it's cloudy at the moment.

Why is their launch window an instantaneous one? I don't get why they only have a second-long window.

Obviously drawing is not something you learn over night. Would anyone be willing to share their first - or at least, one of their first - drawings? Totally not to make me feel better about myself. Actually, thinking about it, there are good reasons, too. Comparison to today, for instance!

I am SO close to solving my 4x4x4. But the bottom layer is always messed up. Right now (going clockwise), the pieces are orange-green, blue-red, green-blue, red-orange. I already had only two of them switched up before, but I then tried to solve it, which - par for the course - messed everything up even more.

I made this The first 16,777,216 steps of the Thue-Morse sequence, arranged in a 4096x4096 grid.

They know how to be scientifically wrong in a (semi) scientific article.

I launched a satellite today. Into a Molniya orbit, so I the rare situation of flying over a city (EVE installed) occured. Ven's Stock Revamp, by the way, has extra landing legs similar to those of the Falcon 9. Just saying. Not that I'll start using them any time soon or something. Of course not. And then I spend over an hour flying to a location, but it didn't feel like an hour at all. I had to take some surface samples as well, but didn't have a ladder. The solution? Raise the landing gear! (No, really. That worked) I also played around with my vessel in Gilly orbit, trying to find an interesting trajectory. I certainly found one that looks interesting from Gilly's frame of reference.

It's surely drawn after a screenshot, right? That's about the dumbest question I ever asked...

One hour!?

I bought a book about C a few weeks ago. Now I finally got around to read the first few (4) chapters of it. 3 chapters per day seems like a good pace to me. Some things are a bit unclear to me, though, but I hope that will be cleared up once I'm further into the book. But I think I understand the majority of the chapters.

They don't. But I'm installing it with nearly everything. That's 8.2GB to download. It's currently at 5.12GB, so 61%. I'm getting there.

Installing Visual Studio. It will take roughly 2 additional hours at 700KB/s. I started around 1.5 hours ago.

Here's what I did: At each iteration, I turn 1 piece into 4 identical pieces, each one is 1/3 of the length of the previous. The number of sides after n iterations is thus 4n. Also, at each iteration I add triangles to all 4n sides. Each one is 1/9 of the previous triangles in terms of area. The total area is thus 1 + 4/9 + (4/9)2 + (4/9)3+ ... + (4/9)n So after infinitely many terms it should be equal to 1/(1-4/9) = 1/(5/9) = 9/5.