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I am currently working on a new experiment involving helium ballons and tape. Okay, I'm done now

Negative mass exists, I have proven this in several of our local supermarkets. You know these scales in the fruit / vegetables departments in supermarkets where you can weigh your groceries? Apparently when you push on the scale from the bottom up some scales give negative weights. Thus proving negative masks, albeit in certain supermarkets.

How does it help? Maybe not in the grand scheme of things, but the same goes for playing KSP, how does playing ksp help? I quite like going through conspiracy theories, I read posts and blogs about them and try to figure out where the reasoning went wrong. I don't comment on them or go into discussion. It's just a practice for myself. And recognizing a fallacy is very handy in whatever you do in life.

But it does make steel very weak

This actually is a possibility. You come into Mars's SOI at escape velocity, if your time in the atmosphere is to little your excess velocity might still be greater than escape velocity. Especially when your on a non ideal transfer to Mars.

Cats all the way. I had no pets growing up but later got the cat from the neighbors when they moved away. And it is almost 0 effort to take care of a cat. Make sure it has water and food, that's about it. If the cat wants attention it'll come to you. When that cat died I got a kitten, In the 15 years we had her we took her to the vet once. To get her sterilized. That was the only time we invested time, money and extensive care in her. After that is was only making sure she had food and drinking water. About the same attention you pay to the gastank in your car. A cat has it's own will, they will ask for attention at different times a day, will sometimes not show for a couple of days. They have their own lives next to you. My girlfriend has 3 dogs, and when I'm over I notice how goal driven dogs are. they will only acknowledge you when it is in their best interest. During dinner they'll keep a close eye on us to see when someone is done. When we are watching TV they will only come close when someone brings out some snacks. they literally just lie all day on a pillow till someone tells them to take a excrements in the park. The love you get from a dog has a 'forced' tone to it. When I'm over at friends with a cat, the cat will eventually show interest in you, or other guests. A dog will bark when you ring the bell but after that they don't care about anyone in the room.

In September we will see a beautiful ending of the Rosetta mission whereby the Rosetta craft will join her buddy Philea on the surface of the comet.

During the boost to orbit, the only manual manouver that the astronauts could perform was to activate the Launch Escape System.

Sure is a widening thought. But then again. So are the atoms inside the thrashcan

Already posted a image, but this one my girlfriend took today is so awesome! This is me, next to a freaking telescope owned by Christiaan Huygens. The guy who invented the swinging clock and discovered Titan. Knowing there is a probe on Titan bearing his name.... That's just awesome.

I wonder how the live stream will look next launch. I really liked the CRS 7 information windows. Very informative.

You might be better of watching it in the numbered (not chronological) order. The characters in IV, V & VI are way better. Don't know if this is true, but the reason they are out of order is because Lucas wanted to make more films, but only got permission to make one. So right before the release he sneaked the "Episode V" in the title, assuring himself more movies just had to be made.

Jar Jar Binks is Kylo Ren.

RSS is much less of a simulator since it doesnt acount for a lot of problems you encounter in real life. Even RSS is based on the "lego" aproach of KSP. When you're goimg all Bob Fitch on your parts and research you might as well take the extra bit of trouble to code it into Orbiter.

Orbiter 2010 is a better choice. It also calculates axial tilt and does N body physics.

Tnx! Worked, that's the one I've been looking for.

Hello forums! Lately I've been launching all my interstellar missions directly into a encounter orbit with their supposed target. How I launch those is in the spoiler This tactic works great, I do not have to stop in a low kerbal orbit and circularize and I do not have to deal with turning giant ships in orbit. I simply keep on burning. But a problem I do have is that I can't really see what my craft will do once it enters the target SOI. I am working on a Jool mission and I intent to use Tylo as a gravity assist to slow me down. Yet when my craft is on it's orbit towards Jool I cannot see what my craft will do after it encounters Tylo. The manouver node lines and orbit lines stop at the last SOI change (tylo -> Jool). Is it possible to get more lines drawn. I do remember it was possible in the early days by changing a parameter in a settings file. Yet I cannot remmeber which.

A few posts above... Things are bound to change, especially software. You can't honestly expect software not to change..

Since this new forum update all my rockets keep flipping over! Gah I hate this update!

[quote name='Van Disaster']Yeah, my original quote was taken out of the context of the post it was in, which was about human spaceflight being inspirational. However given the ISS is "finished" as such, what would a Shuttle be launching these days? seems a rather expensive way to do crew rotation.[/QUOTE] It could carry up MPLM's (Multi Purpose Logistics module). A module that could be carried inside the cargo bay. When the station was docked at the ISS the MPLM would be berthed out of the bay to a docking port. The astronauts could use these MPLM modules to store experiments that needed to get down to Earth again (downmass). Since the end of the Shuttle era, there is way less downmass. Only dragon is capable of carrying experiments back to Earth. (Yes, also Soyuz, but it's very little).

[quote name='Streetwind']SpaceX has sent a rocket up to 1 kilometer in height and landed it again. Blue Origin sent a rocket upt to 100 kilometers and landed it again. Right now, Blue Origin has pulled off the more impressive feat. [/QUOTE] How is falling from 100 km any more difficult than falling from 1 km? The big 99 km in between is something that gravity does for you. You don't need no engines or engineering to fall down. The trick is in the landing. And both companies showed they can do a powered descent & landing.

[quote name='Nibb31'] The only mission after Columbia that didn't go to the ISS was the STS-125 Hubble servicing flight. This was assigned an STS-400 LON rescue flight, which would have pretty much followed the scenario imagined in the CAIB report.[/QUOTE] Here a very cool picture of the STS 400 mission. [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Space_shuttles_Atlantis_(STS-125)_and_Endeavour_(STS-400)_on_launch_pads.jpg[/IMG] In the foreground is Atlantis getting ready for STS 125 (launchpad 39 A) and in the background is Endeavour on standby for STS 400 LON. This is a very rare occurence of both launch pads with a shuttle.

We have digital watches to offer. Those are neat.

It would be a cool movie if STS 107 didn't happen. Now it's just in poor taste.