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Oh, i got it: Melter. just imagine this subatomic-particlesoup-creating thing as an orbital cannon.

wait..are trying to introduce a minecrafts-RedPower-Circuitry-like mod for KSP? that. is so awesome.

does this even count as derail?

i heard that one got detonated around the polar circle (with about 25% of its original warhead for testing) and argentinia still measured seismic activity from it. that's a worldslayer if ive ever seen one.

Well..apart from the satisfaction from knowing what career mode will be I think I'll COLONIZE ALL THE PLANETS

Coming back from Minmus: After checking i have enough fuel for a nice reentry trajectory, checking if the parachute is still there and asking bob if he wants to go home again, i decided to get the lander back to kerbin. So far so good...Until i realized im coming in with 4000m/s ..Well, that lander is a revisited version of my Munlander, so that shouldnt be a problem. (the orignal Hadnur I came in with 3400m/s and landed just fine) ...Until i remembered that the lander is the final stage and i cant reject the pod. I hoped for the best. We hit reentry..surprisingly 90° from sea level. The parachute activated at about 300m...i heard a crack and all except the pod splash down below me. and then i wondered: why dont i slow down anymore? 80m/s..200m. ..The parachute cut itself off! Splash at about 85 m/s

we should clarify where we cut between design and engineering here. (the last testing involved an explosion and structural damage because a stage was deactivated...where does this fit in?) edit: err. we are derailing.

one of the test stages went into an uncontrollable spin, i dont think thats pure engineering fault

engraverwilliam: the problem is that the stock game still isnt real enough for them to be actually considered "interchangeable designs" i mean, there are N1 replicas which make it to orbit!

1.9? Dude where??

you just need the "average" acceleration, as integrated: int from 0 (sea level) to d(total distance from sea level) with the formula on how the gravitational acceleration changes (its probably something logarithmic, like ln(x))

well if you said youd integrate to overall acceleration than it would just be v=t*a for traveling velocity, where t is time and a is acceleration. Reverse engineer this. distance/t = t * a ; solve for t. (i'm lazy.); t = +/- (sqrt distance) / (sqrt a) tahts your impact time from the moment you accelerate towards point of impact. man i havent done this in a long time...so i may as well be wrong.

from what i can tell, that is very dependent on your trajectory and how high up you are (so the rotation of the celestial body you're aiming at comes into play, also the gravity acceleration). Then it depends on the thickness and makeup of the athmosphere (reentry burns and air resistance), how big and heavy your craft is, how the weather on said celestial body is and how high from sea level your impact surface is. thats a whole lot of variables.

transferring engine traction to a propeller wouldnt be much of a problem, but the additional controls so the prop doesnt give you immediate stall would require even more weight on the frame. from what ive seen, RC helicopters arent that much simplified but the controls are. What makes them look simpified is that they normally dont have to get more weight of the ground than a few grams (which is why theyre very fast on the controlling) and they dont need all the requisites for proper oiling and smearing. Also, (the basic ones) they dont have the hinges that change the wing direction, more advanced models have that, and thats why they can, for instance, fly upside down without changing motor direction

i was hoping so. XD

i think dying in a rocket accident is tzhe most horrible and long way to go out. i dont know if i can find them.,.but ive seen some transcripts of a soviet woman who was burned alive in her capsule upon reentry, that **** is not funny at all.

..wait you enjoy manned north korean rocket explosions?

Let's just say >Unmanned< rocket explosions

i need a more present one, though this ones just about 3 months old... and yes, this is my default apathic mysanthropic face.

that would actually take time (and is therefore counterproductive)

We suck at an ethical point. And ethics and morale are what keeps us from even reaching higher ground - in the end it is all about justification. and while i like explosions, i am hoping for their so deserved breakthrough in interstellar travel. and i dont really watch takeoffs. i watch the successful missions each if theres something interesting; id rather watch all of the fails compiled into a 10 minute youtube flick. I never got why would someone be so eager to watch someone doing sports and only hoping for (fatal) failure?

i suppose his pellets are a bit bigger than a mere milimeter, and if not its still gonna take some(a lot) time with conventional energy ressources to fill these super capacitors up (woah, damn, theyre big.)

Where will you have the energy for that thing anyway? These lasers need a whole lot of Watts to actually apply enough joule onto the deuterium tritium reactor pellet to let it fusion. You will need to jumpstart it with a fusion reactor, thats what! edit: i think you actually need a WHOLE SUN

chobit; no. its the everywhere imprinted shame if youve been born in a german speaking country. My history teacher (a left activist) hammered it into our skulls how bad nazis are...that actually had an opposite effect. now, i dont glorify them, but my view on them isnt that much different. It's just that ive been left with some kind of paranoia everytime someone brings up 3rd reich things they really like and i can only think of them aiming for a "lol u nazi" joke. My family completely missed WWII (and the Anschluss of Austria) because they were too old / too young. weve got history as being handy with technology, though.

i give up. There. now with more Universeller System Bindung.