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    Z 4
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    The title "Black Hole Sun" is rather misleading. I figured it meant they were going to add a black hole. Solar eclipses are cool, too!
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    Floor 4705: Stargate.
  4. Kimera Industries
    5/10 I recognize your signature.
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    Z 7
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    Seeing the responses I got in the poll I set up on WoRM, I worked quickly and swiftly on Yeva 8! (Venera 8 kerb-ified) I'm having a hard time explaining why this project was so much fun to work on. Using a simple diagram, I built a quick and rough replica of the spacecraft. As you can imagine, it was a rather simple build. As you can imagine, Eve reentry was hard. I found a solution using the cube-shaped probe core, (you know, the one no one uses) that allows it to survive reentry behind the tiny heat shield. It also taught me a cool lesson about reentry angles, because the probe has no SAS. That's not true, it has SAS, but it can't point toward any nodes, so it's near-useless. I had to release the probe at a perfect angle so that it would be able to handle reentry. It does have a margin of error because it is aerodynamically stable, so it will slowly point the right way given time. Eve's atmosphere is just so thick that it has very little time to correct before it explodes. For fun, I deorbited the thing from LKO. It survived largely intact, splashed down, and then decided we were playing Subnautica, sinking downwards at a steady .8 m/s. After that test was complete, I slapped a new paint job onto one of my R-7 alikes and we were good to go. Lastly, for those of you actually following Wrong Red Moon, here's a mysterious module added to the Korolev spacecraft: It looks oddly familiar. I wonder why...
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    10/10 Forum games and here and there.
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    Z 7
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    Maybe I'll add in a random word for fun. Growing a plant.
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    Today, I missed a solar eclipse for the third time in a row. It feels as if they've all come at the absolute worst times for me to be able to view them. And this xkcd is right, nothing beats totality. On the plus side, the cloud cover meant I could look at it with my bare eyes.
  13. Kimera Industries
    Floor 4702: An alternate Earth where the Moon is much larger but in the L1 Lagrange point so that Earth experiences a continuous solar eclipse.
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    Korolev 10 "You shouldn't be in here, Alexei." Alexei jumped and turned towards the voice. In the shadowy doorway of the storage room, silhouetted by the hallway's light, stood Alexei's manager, Viktor. "I need to know what happened. You know why." Alexei closed the filing cabinet he had been fingering through and walked over to Viktor. "You could be arrested if you leak those secrets." Alexei pleaded with Viktor. "They were my friends. I trained with them. I must know how- how they died." Viktor looked thoughtful for a moment, subtle emotions playing across his face. "You'll never be the same. Just warning you." He walked over to one of the locked cabinets and pulled a key from a ring on his belt. Alexei peered over his shoulder and saw him pull a film reel from a rack within the drawer. Viktor deftly threaded the film into a projector hidden by shelves in the deeper areas of the room. As the machine flickered to life, Viktor began to speak. "This footage was relayed from the surface by Korolev 10 the day after the incident occurred. The lander and rover stopped transmitting only a few hours before Nikolai left." "That long? With no one to operate them? " "No one to turn them off." The film began playing. Scratchy audio resolved and an unfocused image came into clarity. "Korolev 10 detach in 3, 2, 1-" "Activating descent program." Viktor left Alexei to contemplate his thoughts. Before he left, he said: "Make sure you lock this place up before you leave. I'll come by in an hour to make sure everything's secure." Alexei did indeed contemplate, for many minutes. He began rewinding the tape. Again. And again. Soon, he picked up a piece of graph paper and began to write.
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    Great point. I thought I had checked for that, but apparently, I didn't scroll down far enough to see all the options on Google Translate. Updating now!
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    I'm very pleased by the swift and decisive action taken in the poll! I can tell that your favorite mission would be a WoRM adaptation of... Mars 2! *crickets* *Turns paper upside down* Venera 8! I translated 'Eve' into Russian and Google gave me 'Kanun,' then @Kerbalsaurus kindly pointed out that the noun form would be 'Yeva,' so that's what the mission will be called. I picked the mission numbers I did, 2 and 8, because chronologically they come shortly after the current date of WoRM. Korolev 11 was a lucky coincidence, as Soyuz 11 was the first mission to the real-life Salyut 1! Do some research on Soyuz 11. It'll give you a healthy sense of foreshadowing. Speaking of research, I've been reading up on the Venera program and was pleased to find that the orange fairing of the Molniya-M lends itself particularly well to Restock. Oh, cool, that's a png. Thanks, Wikipedia. I'll start working on Yeva 8 right away, and get K10 posted as soon as I can! (It's open in another tab right now... )
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    If you want centrifuges to feature in future builds and as a major part of the story, this is definitely the way to go.
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    Z 8
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    *Facepalm* For some reason I saw RATO, Rocket Assisted Take Off.
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    I'd recommend saving a rocket system for a high altitude. Using jets to push vacuum engines to an altitude where they work more efficiently is a proven SSTO strategy.
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    So he did make an April Fool's comic this year! YES!
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    Where I am, it regularly snows 6-9 months out of the year. Sounds like a Cybertruck is out of the question, then. Not that I ever wanted one anyway. Renders that show them on the Moon or Mars make no sense to me. An angular shape like that has got to be horrible to store efficiently in a rocket, and awful at keeping in pressure with those sharp corners.
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    Do you plan for it to be an SSTO or just a high-altitude science plane? As an SSTO, an unpowered landing would be tough if it needs engine gimbal.
  25. Kimera Industries
    "Houston, Apollo 13 here. I think something went really wrong."
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