CatastrophicFailure

Year 11, Day 111... And, we're back! Well, at least Triti is, along with the Iota crew, and a lovely new rug...But more on that later, first off in the flurry of activity of late, we head back to Gauss. NOVA Gauss, specifically, which, after spending the last few months in a high orbit of the large moon of Catullus waiting for the tenuous link home to improve , now makes another low pass of the moon moon of Tarsiss. Ugh, too many dire portents for one report. I'm going to curl up on Triti's new rug with a few comic books. Who knew bears had such a talent for weaving?

ProTip: pointy end goes up, flamey end goes down, or you will not get to space today.

StratoLaunch Mission 1 An AbsurdlyLong™ Post Part 1 So finally, after much faffing about, I finally ran my actual StratoLaunch mission! The one that was supposed to be a single afternoon's distraction. Weeks ago. That I'm still doing. And thanks to FMRS, I flew every single part of it. Sigh Anyways... Everything's loaded up, full power, Captain! Then promptly slam on the brakes cuz I realized there's no crew in the StratoLaunch craft itself.

w00t w00t! Also: Now let’s have another in two months...

BFR fears no storm, BFR is the storm. ಠ_ಠ

Interesting. Wish they'd be a little more forthcoming about this stuff, have they finally reached the point of delaying a launch due to possible recovery failure?

That is a depressing lack of launches. We may not see anything out of the Cape until the crew demo.

West coast last I heard.

You would asphyxiate after maybe 30 seconds of useful consciousness. Most of the really unpleasant stuff would only happen to you after you were dead. The Soviets actually had a plan to do this. Unfortunately, their rocket kept failing to get to space today.

Just a reminder mostly for myself... This thread is not dead. Doug is coming.

And I'm sure when someone at NASA suggested this he was just shouted down. SMH.

The massxacceleration is strong with this one. I couldn't even find the right dang web page. Tho the number does "seem" low. All stock-size KSP planets are crazy dense, Minmus is even denser than a solid lump of iridium, and I don't think the numbers scale linearly (I could be completely wrong on this), so it would seem 6.4x Minmus should end up denser than an "average" moon. Commence with the brain-running-out-ears-ness. It's no moon... I'm contractually obligated to say that, now. Actual spoiler.

Wouldn't be the first time I've invoked improper use of kerman-skirts... And I probably shouldn't but... Also: So... 100 meters is a nice, round number, any coning so minor as to be insignificant, got it, thanks all. Now, on to the bonus round! All this for blink-and-you-miss-it passing mentions... KSP wiki page for Minmus. I can only get about as far as calculating the needed surface area before my brain starts running out my ears, anyways: In a 6.4-scaled system, with .05g surface grabbity, and a radius of 385ish km, what would the average density of such a body be?

An Incomprehensible -hensive Unscientific Analysis of Air-drop Launch Vehicles A Stupidly Long Post. As I keep tweaking the concept to the point of ridiculousness, I thought I'd do some uncontrolled testing so see how much benefit there is.

Now you just need to figure out how to harness that energy, stick some people on board... and shoot the Mün’s eye out...

That was already a thing with Block 4 I thought? That would be cool if they could just slap the nose on down at the launch site. If it’s that simple, I wonder if they’re still considering flying boosters back from the drone ship?

Wait, so you’re using the Kerbal to move the module around? What mod enables that?

Interesting. Didn’t the first two FH boosters arrive already integrated tho?

It’s a special thing when an artist’s take so embodies a work that it essentially becomes their own, like a certain other cover that may soon be making an appearance. I’m old and cynical, but the first time I heard this version it actually gave me chills, and it’s the version that was playing in my mind as I wrote the words. Other comments... I can’t comment on. There’s a much shorter Interlude coming, and then the opening to Act II will for sure be another monster. In more ways than one. And now we come to the audience participation part of the thing. To assist me with a thought experiment, Can someone who’s better at math than me (which should be easy) tell me how big a ring structure would need to be to simulate 1/3g, at an RPM low enough that it’s inhabitants wouldn’t experience the more unpleasant parts of the Coriolanus effect(which is probably hard)? Bonus points for describing such a structure as a conical section turning horizontally in a 0.05g gravity field.

Sadly, I think the overall design has hit its limit. This is actually my smaller, original design, the bigger one only summoned the Kraken. Altho... @JadeOfMaar does have some pretty big SABRE-type engines, I wonder if... Ahhhhh, crap.

Are any of them escaping on their own at Mach 3.5?

Curse you. This happened.

Solpugid! I love solpugids! Actually, I just like saying solpugid. It kinda rolls off the tongue in exactly the way an actual solpugid would not. I think that’s a whip scorpion, anyway. But yep, shoulda called in sick. Ended up doing so anyway, more or less. Come around the corner just before work and the truck starts whining (also in a way a solpugid would not), pull in to the yard and find it’s bleeding out. Definitely ATF, probably the steering, question now is, is it that leaky fitting I’ve dealt with before or do I need to replacing the flarping steering box again? Neither of which can be ascertained here in the parking lot, so now I’m waiting on a tow truck. On one of the busiest travel days of the year. With a multi-hour wait for the ferry looming. Shoulda listened to the dang spider. Or even a solpugid.

Eternal Summer would make more sense, either way it’s a step in the right direction. Here in the Northwest, we could really use that extra hour of afternoon in the winter when the sun sets at like 4pm. Tho in all fairness, these days most of the important stuff automatically resets itself... I just had two bunnies and a big, ugly, yellow spider try to keep me from going down my driveway. Maybe I should just call in sick.