Kerbart

The “that's not how any of this works” horse has already been beaten to dead, buried, dug up, cooked into a soup and eaten by a tribe of pagans. To make a new contribution I came up with: The Planetary Society refers to meteor strikes as “the only natural disaster we can prevent.” (emphasis added by mr. Kerbart). While I do not deny the chance of bias, they did not say "aside from Hurricanes." If it were that easy, it would already have been done. Even if the patent holder wants to license his technology for $1M per use, it'd be dirt cheap compared to the cost of a hurricane landfall. Heck, insurance companies would gladly pay a hundred-fold of that. Getting a patent is easy. You don't need to demonstrate a working prototype (as the software industry is more than well aware of these days); just because there's a patent doesn't mean the solution actually works. But rest assured: if the smartest people of the world get together and figure out a way to make this work (at the expense of a lot of taxpayer money, surely), this guy will happily step forward and collect the money for his "effort!"

Having two engines, and a gearbox, to use only the one based on the way you want to control it (manual or with some automatic mechanism) does not sound like a weight-optimized solution. And aeronautics is obsessed with weight. If anything you should just have a "gearbox" for the throttle control (manual/automatic), and then some kind of feedback mechanism that can regulate airspeed.

It's a bit hidden. Make two clips overlap each other on the timeline, and the overlap will become a transition (standard is a fade-over). Now you can click on the transition to select it, and when you select the properties you can specify what kind of transition you want. You'll never know this function exist if someone doesn't explain it to you!

I know nothing about quaternions and euler angles. What I do know is that when converting vectors to angles one commonly uses the atan function, and there's a specific atan2 function in most languages that mitigates these flips. Maybe something similar is going on here?

For now you'll have to do with me. The direction is a (normalized, I think) vector, not representing angles. Also be aware that everything is measured in relation to your frame of reference—if you don't specify what frame of reference you pick, results may very wildly from what you're expecting.

The software used in the video seems to be Octave.

I like Shotcut. It's free open source, easy to use, and regularly being maintained. There's also a ton you youtube tutorials for it. It might take a little bit to learn it but once you're use to it productions is simple and fast (which is why I like it).

I keep seeing the words “easy” and “simple.” This exemplifies exactly why it’s hard. Engineering is hard, especially when it's on the cutting edge of what is possible, like rocket engineering. Sure. The concept is easy. So is running the marathon under two hours: just keep putting one foot in front of the other, at a sufficient pace. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! If you're ever wondering if something is truly easy, here's the litmus test for “easy:” is everyone doing it already?

They are cartoon characters. If heads 1/2 their body size, green skin and frog-like eyes aren't enough indication for that, I don't know what is. Of course you can read into it what you want, but I doubt it was Squad's intention to make a "Challenger joke." Using similar vague references we should be disgusted by the game as a whole, as rockets can be used to deliver nuclear weapons. The whole thing is just an "Epic failure! No, they're saved! Nevermind..." joke. Sometimes a rose is just a rose. No need to search for deeper meaning or references.

I am not a lawyer, but consider this: "Copyright" is literally the right to copy. The question "are you making an unlawful copy of the KSP game when posting a video" should answer your question. The only case where you could run afoul is when the software you're running is displaying copyrighted content (like showing a movie). Second, there's this widespread misconception that Take2 bought the game because the want to remove it from the surface of the earth. I'd love to hear the motivation of this thought. Why would Take2 buy a game to destroy it? So, assuming that Take2's intention is to actually make money from KSP (one must admit that this theory has certain merits), why would Take2 fight free publicity for the game? Case in point: Youtube videos about GTA and about any popular videogame. In fact, there's even streams and videos around dance games. If there's any game genry that would be shut down on youtube it's those, because of the music being played. And they exist, so... Third, in 99% of the cases where "copyright" is being brought up, we're really talking about trademarking—an entirely different beast. But keep in mind that the keyword in trademark cases is confusion. For instance, yes, UPS does have the color brown trademarked. Can they stop you from using the color brown? Only if it's close to their brown, and even then only if you're using it for your courier service. There's no way "Bob's Boat Rental" could be confused with UPS, therefore UPS will have no case when Bob paints his boats brown. Take2 must fight you when your Youtube channel pretends to be them, but that's as far as it goes, I'm pretty sure. In all other cases there's no doubt your channel is yours, not theirs, and they have grounds nor reason to take it down.

Make a copy. Delete half the mods. Problem persists? Delete half again. Keep removing half until problem goes away. Once problem goes away you know it's in the last mods deleted; repeat the process with those. Within five or six attempts you should be able to identify the offending mod. Example: start with mods: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ --> crash ABCDEFGHIJKLM --> crash ABCDEFG --> no crash, confirm: HIJKLM --> crash HIJ --> crash IJ --> no crash H --> crash

Science is not the problem. Engineering is. And one of the main problems in any branch of engineering is that outsiders tend to think that getting things to work is trivial. Well, "problem" in the sense of "how hard can it be?"

This is exactly why Business Finance is not as simple as basic accounting (and also why this is a good practical introduction to it, just like operations in KSP are a good intro to rocket science and orbital mechanics) How do you treat a mission with multiple contracts? A contract to build a Mun station might appear to be lossgiving, unless you take into account that the same vessel cashed in on a Kerbin Station contract first and launched two contract probes upon reaching Mun orbit. Return-on-investment calculations might be interesting as well. Aside from real cost (your time, kerbin time) there's also opportunity cost. A five year mission takes up a contract slot that could have been used for two dozen short low-income contracts. But would that have been worth your time? There's so much opportunity at so many levels for this, I'd rather see this as a mod that produces raw data and leaves the analysis up to the user, who can then do the most amazing things with it in the software of their choice. Excel, Jupyter... up to them!

Just because the understanding of certain conditions has advanced doesn't mean doctors should grandfather everyone with a “new“ condition in “because we never excluded them in the past.” My son is autistic and will freeze up in certain situations and refuse to do a certain task, even if he can see the benefits for himself by doing that task. He will not do it. Imagine he's a pilot and something like that happens during landing. Some noise sets him off and now he just lets his feelings take over. Then what? Your argument is of course “I wouldn't do that,” but as an agency would you risk it? Especially if the pool to pick from is large enough that you can afford to disqualify it? Their argument will be that they don't want to explain a disaster that was caused by something they were aware of, ie. it was preventable. There's a reason aviation is so safe these days, because the rules and regulations are so strict. Autism might not have had a big awareness in the early days of aviation, but so did many health issues that are detected now, and not 50 years ago, and they too can be reasons to ground a pilot. With space flight the stakes are even higher. Space agencies can afford to exclude even the tiniest risk, the pool to pick astronauts from is large enough in relation to the number they need to demand a perfect health in every single aspect. Because they won't let a multi-billion dollar mission fail because of some medical mishap, especially one they were aware of.

I'm sure the fine people of CSI:Miami can do a gentrace on the electrons used and trace it back to your hard disk! On a more serious note, I do promote "is it right" as a criterium over "will you get caught." I don't see this as a particularly harmful scenario with an intention to gain... something... in a wrong way. With the caveat that it's not intended to promote piracy under the guise of "helping a fellow player."

Memory leaks, probably. A process within KSP (maybe stock, maybe a mod) may need 1 MB of memory, and for reasons returns only 995k of that. And say this gets called 5 times per second. That's 25k per second which may not look like a lot but give it time and it will run your system out of memory. Another suspect is your screen saver which really doesn't like KSP. Or Windows going into energy saving mode and turning the screen off. It doesn't seem to like that either. And I'm sure there's more, but this is what I quickly could think of.

Just because mods are free doesn't mean they are not copyrighted. Is it legal? Probably not, for reasons listed above. Will you go to jail for it? Highly doubtful. “But it's wrong” whoaaa, not so fast, partner. Think of what the various legal provisions are trying to achieve. Squad won't care assuming your friend paid for his copy. The authors of copyrighted mods? I highly doubt it's this kind of distribution they have an issue with. Being bundled with zero-effort mod packs and on the hook for support; yes. Being sold commercially on sketchy websites or cd-rom bundles (do those even still exist?); yes. Getting inundated with vague "it no worky" emails after a botched CKAN install against their will; yes, yes, yes. But a friend copying over his mods to another friends gamedata folder so they can swap gamesaves? I seriously doubt that that is the kind of redistribution they had in mind when not allowing redistribution. I could be wrong though. Wouldn't be a first. A final thought is that you should always look at it from the copyright holder's perspective on what is reasonable, not your own (real or acted out). “I'm just helping my friend. Instead of the inconvenience of a memory stick I just host them on a website. With multiple configurations to choose from. But it's really just meant to help my one friend, it's not my fault that hunderds of others download it after I heavily advertised it on reddit, really" is clearly NOT ok. Why not simply teach your friend how to install mods? Teach a man to fish, etc.

The SSTO design has many, many advantages, as mentioned. Less parts, simpler, not throwing out the most expensive part (the engine), not lugging 2nd stage engines at take off, etc. Compared to the SSTO, the multi-stage design has only one advantage. But it's a truly magnificent one: it actually works. Until someone manages to succesfully launch with an engine that's efficient from sea level to space (the Aerospike?) launches will likely be multi stage.

Get a few books with practice tests and do one every week. Make sure you do a test in the designated time limit. There's two elements to a test; the content, and the actual test. Most will detest me for saying this, but improving your test management skills is half the battle: Time management is key. Practice is the only way to make sure you don't end up with "ok, hand in your papers" when you're only half way. Be familiar with the scoring method. Do you get penalized for wrong answers? Should you have just any answer to a question, even if it's just a random pick? You will need to know that Master the art of multiple choice testing. If you can eliminate two answers straight away then making a random pick (or not so random, in verbal answers the longest answer is a ridiculous solid bet) might be worth the risk of a penalty (again, know those stats upfront). Don't fall for the temptation of plugging in all answers. You won't have time for that. But it can be viable after eliminating candidates. Go over all questions in a first quick round. Skip the ones you cannot immediately answer, do those in round two. But sometimes a question may trigger the solution for a previous question, so it's good to have seen *all* questions.

It's hardly a challenge. Relatively speaking that is. Compared to the paperwork required to get this thing in space in the first place.

Unless you're able to mine it in space I really don't see the value of using water over a higher-ISP propellant. I'm sure there are more compelling candidates than Hydrogen because of storage & density properties, making up for a lesser ISP. And if we're mining fuel "for free" in the asteroid belt I think there will be value in an engine that can run practically anything as long as it's fluid.

Third option: it's just a story. I'd almost say it's role-playing which is against the forum rules, but stating that would be against the forum rules (only moderators can point out forum rule infractions) so I'm not doing that either. Fighting any alternate earth theory (flat/hollow/it was aliens, etc) on rational grounds always fails. After all, the scientific theory is “wrong” (often part of the conspiracy with “them,” which usually involves illuminati, freemasons and the zionist conspiracy) and therefore its arguments are invalid. At best, evidence that cannot be refuted will be dismissed as “lies” and only proof that, if you're not brainwashed by “them,” you must be one of them and part of the conspiracy. Better just to ignore it and let it wither away.

But if it does, it's likely going to be the most vile and unpleasant species in the galaxy!

I don't get the question. It's like "HBO vs Game of Thrones" Huh?

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