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I wonder if you could hack in some decently realistic Lagrange points even with patched conics.

I feel like this proposal is kind of like proposing that Valve turns TF2 into a realistic spaceflight simulator game because the bases have rockets in them- it's a sort of interesting idea, but way beyond the scope of the game. It IMO would be a big distraction and would cause the game to lose a lot of focus and purpose. The main point of the game is after all building spaceships, and this essentially makes it into 2 competing, somewhat incompatible games.

How do you think these tutorials are stored and presented? As video files, or something else? If they are just pre-produced video files, I imagine any inaccuracies found during the early access might be kinda difficult to fix?

I just dreamt I got openCV contours working for my team's robot. It was mostly working, except it reported the position of the object strangely, going from 0 to 1 way too quickly. This is a really nice thread idea, BTW

We're risking re-igniting the Great Stars In Space Debate here, but I feel like the absence of stars and the unlit side of the Earth in the photo is more of a camera-specific thing. After all, you can see the unlit side of the moon and stars at night.

One thing I think should be mentioned is that graphics of games tend to get only better and better, so by 1.0 there's a decent chance they're going to be pretty darn good despite the fact that they are kinda underwhelming right now.

Fridging greedy-donkey Apple. I hate that company. Since I have an Android phone, I can't join my robotics team's group chat or the cello section's group chat in the orchestra I'm in. How scummy is that, excluding people who don't have their overpriced and underwhelming-donkey products so that the users of other phones are inconvenienced into buying them. Not to mention all the other things that they do (which I haven't had to deal with, being an Android user), like inhibiting the performance of older phones, lacking non-proprietary ports, etc. Dammit, the world would be so much better if humans were less greedy, selfish, and immoral...

Granted, the super-dense latinum collapses into a black hole and sucks the Earth up. I wish I had practiced harder.

Granted, you become one with the number 2462 I wish Latin was easier.

Because I'm tired of all these posts comparing modded KSP1 to KSP2, I made this little chart:

I wish to get my program, which takes images from a camera then picks out objects based on their color, to be able to pick out the nearest of several identical yellow, plastic poles. One idea I have is to shine a colored light in front of the camera. The light will be about 3-4 inches away from the nearest pole, and the second-nearest pole will be about 2.5 feet away. This light will hopefully cause the pole to different than other of those yellow poles. My first question is, what color of light do you suggest I choose in order to get the illuminated pole to stick out against the other poles? There may be red and/or blue objects in the distance, but I can crop those out. The second question is, where can I find LEDs of the appropriate color and brightness that don't need any more than 5 volts. Thanks!

That's just beautiful. Finally, round cargo bays! I wonder if this could mean some kind of stage recovery system...

Goddard's liquid rocket was tiny, super light, and an experimental test... in the near future (hopefully) we will have a helicopter on mars picking up samples left by Perseverance, and it'd be really fun to do that kind of thing in KSP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Sample_Recovery_Helicopter

I'm not sure the tanks would break off in real life, either- there are plenty of rockets with "greebles" that stick out, like SLS with its launch escape tower's nozzles

Granted, you get Ur an' I.U.M. (International University of Monaco) I wish for a shelf.

I love this thread.

Geonovast became afraid. He expected the safety inspector to appear before dark, as the team thought that massive boosters might counter the lack of struts on Kerbin. The mission would gradually devolve into reaction wheels, something literally revolutionary to Kerbalkind. How extraordinary that is, considering the effort required to make big ol' pitch forks and feather dusters with large torches, and wiggly tentacles playing the piano for fun. Exactly one week later, the inspector woke to find a great disturbance in the force - a PowerPoint presentation. The horror of it overcame him with great quantum superlinearecitation. A Massive vortex opened to reveal a terrifying cake-producing monster. The inspector immediately panicked and reached for his pogo-stick, deftly bouncing off the bed that he was floating on down the Nile and into the grasp of Curveball-Anders who spontaneously barfed. Rutabaga, meanwhile, emerged in the river of dreams. Snark saw Kerbiloid and thought, is that Adsii? What strange and bizarre manifestations appear when Aerodynamic Kerbal suffers from a ColdJ virus. Deddly, Vanamonde and TakeTwo ninja'd the cake as Admiral-Fluffy forlornly tried to soak a stolen dry bagel in lox. The cake-producing monster began slithering towards the first person to run a bakery in the best area of Dakota. Competition wasn't anything the monster felt like wasting time on. However, the mountain of cake was devoured by the kraken, leaving a steaming pile of useless debris. Boris (the monster) started a clearance war while Adsii cleaned his plate with an explosion of flavour that could've potentially rivaled the famed Tibetan chocolate croissant. Meanwhile 18watt, Nazalassa and Starhawk were hatching a plan to take over Minmus with an icecream van. Scoops of Minmuscream were flung in every possible direction, while Vanamonde insisted on waffle-cone diplomacy complete with toppings and spoons. The outcome of the event was uncertain; the icecream was completely consumed by Gargamel and the cones became crushed from lack of enthusiasm by the moderators. The inspector later wrote a scathing report; despite having no memory of previous events, it was imaginative and entertaining in its depiction of strange hallucinations and bizarre potatoes. He was deliberately throwing doubt across the entire Kerbol system as to what had happened, so more inspectors arrived to grab a bunch of managers to remove the sting of the report. However, before they were ready for publishing, the Kraken released a piece of artwork based on macaroni cheese to surpass the wiggly tentacles playing the piano for fun. This caused a hyperbolic frenzy in publishing the report, resulting in an outrage against its writers, who then asked, "Where are the snacks?" Boris suddenly saw an opportunity to sell copious amounts of Snacks. Hot cupcakes sold like hotcakes and cold cake sold like cold cream cups (which are good for puffy eyes). But something unexpected did occur: the inspector shared his lunch and threw a party for everyone, although Geonovast excluded Gargamel. Curveball-Anders took everyone to the local ice cream-pizza-pinball-chicken-applesauce-candy-methalox-whole_pineapple-drywall parlour and asked for some funds from the waiter, who choked on the pinball release-lever, tilting the machine over. "Funds!" he exclaimed flabbergastedly," you want my FUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "HOW DARE YOU EVEN SUGGEST SUCH A THING!" "WHY I OUGHTA..." the waiter fumed indignantly as he gasped for air, collapsing while clutching his ukulele. "Oh crud," he wheezed into a squeezebox, which inflated to the size of a prize-winning pumpkin. "A prize", said Starhawk, "is worth funds." Tiredly, the waiter raised a kickstarter campaign to capture the wiggly tentacles playing the piano for fun, and a plan was beginning to form in his mind. He imagined a B.O.B (Battle of the Bands) in which Jeb, for marketing purposes, screamed an Electric-Guitar intro of "Let's go Crazy". The monster, however, preferred jazz piano, and tried to eat them, but a rogue hard disk formatted the Soft-serve railgun Ice-cream, instantly replacing

When someone on the KSP forums inspires you to also count in binary with your fingers. When you're looking through your family's album, see a fighter jet and immediately wonder which one it is. It looked like something between a T-38 and F-104, I swear I've seen it before. When you pause the "But you didn't have to cut me off" meme to see how many of the formulas/equations you know.

As a gen Z, my personal opinion on the topic is that the first cottonball is bussin fr fr ong no cap straight fire fax no printer. How do I get more efficient at studying?

Here in LA, I overheard someone say "It's like Norway!" referring to our deadly cold 60 degree weather.

Happy Lunar new year to all! I didn't get any pictures, but my family went to my grandma's house and had Tito's tacos (if anyone knows what that is), as is our tradition. On the solar new year, we had tteokguk, a Korean rice-cake soup. (those rice cakes are ridiculously better than the cardboard you may be thinking of)

You recieve a HUG: Huge Unhappy Gorilla. I wish for green eggs and ham.

Granted, the medieval Agri-Cola was invented and was the most delicious thing to ever exist but due to the extinction of one plant it's impossible to make. I wish for eternally clean glasses.