HoldYourFire

Have you forgotten that in Squad's Brave New World, April Fool's jokes don't have to take place on April Fool's Day any more? Also in case anyone is jumping to the end of the thread and hasn't seen it yet, these upstanding people are the ones responsible for porting KSP: http://www.ftmobile.com/Products.aspx

It doesn't say "week and a half" anywhere. Seriously dude, you have enough egg on your face as it is, just cut your losses.

OK though, real talk: it's an obvious joke but perhaps the fact that people are falling for it says more about just how much goodwill Squad have burned with their recent antics than it does about the obliviousness of the fanbase.

When did everyone lose their critical thinking abilities? This is the most obvious April Fool's joke I've EVER seen. And I really mean that. Don't you remember the thread we had a couple of weeks ago, complaining about how news was always posted on Twitter and Reddit instead of the official forums? And you think their response is to turn the official forums into Reddit and Twitter?

I was referring to Noether's Theorem. I didn't actually get to that wikipedia page though, so I'll start there. Thanks again.

I hesitate to say you were wrong, but in that paper it appears as though they weren't "clamping" angular momentum, just the vis viva energy. On a different question, I don't really follow the requirements of degrees of freedom vis-a-vis constants of motion for an integrable mechanical system. Unfortunately I don't even know how to begin formulating a question in this area. It would come out sounding like total nonsense, even to me. For example "To improve the integrability of a system, would you prefer to reduce the number of degrees of freedom, increase the number of constants of motion, or the opposite of either one of those?" As far as I know, that question is complete gibberish.

Many thanks for the reply, but what explicitly happens to angular momentum?

I hate to ask, but how is that possible? How can a lower orbit have the same vis-viva energy and angular momentum as a higher orbit? Do you have a numerical example, or instructions how to generate one?