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Did you happen to change your time compression suddenly? From say, very high to x1? Either way, it sounds like what has been dubbed Space Cthulhu. It's bug that cropped up in this build, there is a fix in the next patch, which will be ready Soonâ„¢.

I've always wondered if someone...probably really bored...sat down and tried to compute the vector of a person idle (they don't have to be idle, but that's one less vector to put into the equation) on a given point on the surface of the Earth at a particular given time.

Maybe not within OUR lifetimes, but within a lifetime...possible...

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I can work out in my head an orbital path that works right for 2, and I think I can image one for three...but adding that fourth...The math...it's...evil...

Fukishima had a certain amount of hubris involved in it too. Just pull up the wiki page on the accident and you can see several instances of TEPCO being warned and ignoring those warnings (ignored a Tsunami study that highlighted the plant's vulnerabilities to seawater, this was dismissed as unrealistic, as well as the IAEA telling them that a 7.0 quake posed serious risks to the plant) and TEPCO falsifying records. There is sufficient reason to doubt that the plant would have melted down if TEPCO had taken heed of those warnings. Also, compare Fukishima with Tokai both plants are on the coast of Japan. Both plants were hit with similar Tsunami waves. However, because Tokai took the Tsunami warnings seriously, they were increasing the size of the dike around the plant and were about to ride out the waves.

It's the lower level winds they were worried about. This balloon is one of the largest available, and when it is launched the balloon will be going up foe a bit while the tether plays out. When the tether snaps taught, the capsule will be released. The timing must be perfect, too soon, and the capsule hits the ground, too late not sure...maybe the balloon gets damaged, they didn't say. Either way, their calculations for release depend on very, very low winds at the altitude where the balloon would be during release (about 700 ft(~213m)), less than 2 mph (3.2 km/h), for a safe launch.

I'm amazed...AND SO HAPPY! The entire genre has been more or less forgotten since Freespace 2. I know there's been a few titles, such as Freelancer, since then...but I really hope that Roberts can bring this genre back.

Phlebotinum WARNING: Link is to tvtropes. Beware. Hours of your life may disappear.

This article implies that they did not reignite the second stage, which would have been used to place the Orbcomm satellite into an elliptical orbit. However, because of the longer burn, it would have released the satellite too close to ISS, for safety concerns. Orbcomm was instead released at a lower orbit than planned for that reason. So...in the end: Primary Mission: Success (Well it's on target to reach the ISS) Secondary Mission: Minor Success/Possible failure, but possibly salvageable. Sierra Nevada Engineers are trying to salvage the mission.

If you haven't noticed by now...there's a large percentage of people who are just plain dumb.

Just got back in from watching the launch. I'm uploading the video to youtube and will edit this post later to include it

*pulls out my Don't **** With list* *adds Chlorine Trifluoride to it* Thanks to the update. The list gets longer every day.

When I was in college, in 2007-2008, I was part of a student design team that was working on a hybrid powered sounding rocket. For those that don't know, a sounding rocket is a rocket capable of reaching a minimum of 100km, which is considered the edge of space. We worked on it, part time, for two years, and had spent somewhere between $5000 and $10000 USD. We were close to finalizing the design (no construction at that point) and flight computer (but had done a couple of engine tests), when the crash came and the money dried up. I heard rumors that getting launch permission at Wallops Island would have been...out of budget, and launching at KSC would have been impossible (we would have been allowed to launch for more than at Wallops, but we also were required to redesign the rocket to make it roll at a certain rate for safety purposes). The reason we went hybrid is because liquid fuel is expensive, and solid fuel, after 9/11, is considered bomb making material and must be registered and stored with certified authorities. We also would have had to allow the Air Force, in either scenario, to perform the range safety (if the rocket goes off course...boom). Basically, what I'm getting at, is that if it were easy, heck if it were even just hard, to get to space, everyone would be doing it. We were trying to be the first College group in the country to reach space, something that not even Embry-Riddle has been able to do (and they have obscene amounts of money and experienced professional engineers helping them), and we failed, and we weren't even trying to reach orbit. I'm not saying give up on the dream, I'm just letting you know that this is a dream that should not be taken lightly.

It went off, I saw it on my way in to work this morning. I got that picture around 8:11 EDT (12:11 GMT).

I'm going to watch the Falcon9 launch, though I'm not sure if I'm going to be in Melbourne or Orlando that night. Either way...it'll be great. Advantages of living on the Space Coast. EDIT: I'm not sure if this is clear or not, but I'm referring to Melbourne, Florida, a smallish town around 30 miles south of the Space Center

How about we remove the religion and politics from the thread? I will invoke Godwin's Law if you don't. And I'm sure there's a rule on the internet that invokation of Godwin's Law while religion and/or politics are being argued over...results in a justifiable thread lock.

Richard Dean Anderson. Nuf said. I enjoyed SG-1 until RDA's departure. It was starting to lose steam just before then, but, in my opinion at least, it really started to go downhill after he left. Babylon 5 was great, though having gone back and watching the special effects now...it's not aged well, not that that is a reason to not watch.

You guys should look up Operation Plowshare. In a nutshell it was a series of plans for using nukes for mining, canal building, tunneling and the like. It was eventually shelved. But fear not...the Soviets were planning on doing the same thing. And shelved their own version of Operation Plowshare...for much the same reason we did.

Jeb = The KSP universe's Wedge Antillies?

Yes, but that's assuming that the entire orbit is above 69km. A 70km orbit may only be 70km on one side. I just find that a 75km orbit is best for me. Not too much fuel burn to get up there, no real risk of accidental reentry, and still a good amount of extra velocity from the Oberth Effect.

Mechjeb's nice, and I use it all the time, but it shouldn't be a crutch. Basics of landing on Mun Get into orbit (75km-150km circular-ish orbit) Wait until Mun rise Point your ship prograde (the yellow cursor on your nav ball without an X in the middle) and burn Hit 'm' to open your map Wait until you see the blue line turn to yellow Hit 'x' to stop your burn Coast until you get a change in SOI (Basically, you'll see the yellow line become blue again, the camera will reset, and Mun will be the center of your universe) Hit F5 for quicksave (you may need it and you don't want to have to go through the earlier steps again) Coast until you get to periapsis (NOTE: You're periapsis may be in the Mun itself in which case land, another lesson for another time, or raise your periapsis) and burn retrograde (the yellow cursor on your nav ball with an X in the middle) Burn until the blue line turns into a blue circle then hit 'x' You are now in orbit. It may be eccentric. It may be ugly, but it's an orbit. From there land...or return to Kerbin.

I don't think extra-kerbin VABs will be coming, but to build a science station on any other planet and the supply it with Kerman would be fun. There's just so much possibilities of awesome if/when colonies come and they wouldn't have to take it to some high degree, unless they wanted to..

There's some generalized weirdness going on with memory and other stuff. Be assured HarvesteR and Squad are hard at work finding the cause

I'd love to be able to build colonies. I would think that that would be a nice direction to take the game in career mode when the time comes. I mean Laythe (if it has the atmosphere Nova suggested), is begging to be colonized if not terraformed (Kerbiformed?). Minmus would be an excellent colony candidate, as it's a giant ice cube. Duna...well it is a Mars analogue. It would be a blast to do. Obviously, there's a dozen things that would need adding before such wonderment could be contemplated, but boy would it be fun.