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  1. lajoswinkler
    Very nice screenshots and the story as well. 99 years... oh deer.
  2. lajoswinkler
    They will eat everything on the ship and go mad, so no. Bill will have to periodically wake up (I need to pack more glykerol) and repair stuff, but that's ok. Kron 6 has launched. The rocket behaved perfectly, even without turning on the Vernor RCS engines. Two liquid fuel boosters separated cleanly. And so did the first stage... and the fairings. The ship is now a bit higher than 165 km in an equatorial orbit. Centrifuge is deployed and doing a test spin. There is still the last, unfired stage attached to the ship because the ship will have to chase the propulsion unit and not the opposite. Energy is delivered by the two solar panels. Nobody is onboard except Kerty who carefully monitors the situation.
  3. lajoswinkler
    A test run of Kron 6 will soon enter low Kerbin orbit. It's lacking the laboratory, greenhouse and the propulsion unit. Mortimer agreed to this only because he was promised that this will be used for the actual mission if it doesn't break down. Mission banners: a, b, c, d, e
  4. lajoswinkler
    The camera is not useless at all. Ask the planetary geologists waiting to see Io after all these years. Adapting units is breaking the rules that exist for a particular reason and that is to spread the information faster and better. There are no downsides to using proper notation.
  5. lajoswinkler
    If I answer that, I'm gonna get an infraction because of "politics", so I won't say anything.
  6. lajoswinkler
    Indeed, it is troubling. If a lateral LV-NB engine craps up, that means adjusting the thrust levels to a lower setting to achieve balance again. TWR will fall below 0.04. If a nuclear reactor craps up, the ship loses its primary energy source and the mission fails, unless Kerbin is near. Redundancy. Kron 6 needs it.
  7. lajoswinkler
    I've got two good news and two bad news. Good news #1 - Beros and Kyx are installed and function properly. Good news #2 - Kaos 3 is crossing Neidon's orbit after 3 years and 135 days. Bad news: Kaos 3 has two RTG units, both of which are now at 50% capacity because they're apparently breaking down. Also, probe's ion engine has suffered damage and is now 400% overheating. It shouldn't pose a problem. Bad news #2: I can't plan any trajectory with Karen, Beros nor Kyx, regardless of them being present or not. I presume it's a Sigma Binary issue because the barycenter is being orbited now. Maybe it will work once the probe is in the sphere of influence.
  8. lajoswinkler
    One year, 325 days, Kaos 3 is crossing the orbit of Urlum more than 250 million km from Kerbol which is already pretty dim. Everything is nominal.
  9. lajoswinkler
    No, it has 20 m/s left and it was designed as a flyby mission. I'm hoping for it to skim both Plock and Karen, possibly one more satellite, too, but chances for a good alignment drop sharply with the increasing number of bodies.
  10. lajoswinkler
    360 days into the mission, Kaos 3 is crossing Sarnusian orbit. Kerbol is quiet, all systems nominal.
  11. lajoswinkler
    If I had the money and it was hot enough... Granted, dumped heat would have to be expelled by fans or a combination of liquid cooling and fans at the back.
  12. lajoswinkler
    What you say goes against my whole education and every book I've ever read, whether it was on chemistry or physics. I've also had the opportunity to browse through Russian Cyrillic written books and Systeme international d'unites has always been respected whether it was during the USSR or after the breakup. Your one ISO made for flight rules against literally everything in chemistry and physics I've ever learned or heard. Occam's razor? That is not ethnocentrism, for god's sake. It's a rule to make sure information is easily read by anyone. That's why, on reagent bottles, no matter where the reagent was produced, the label has the formula and impurities in Latin script.
  13. lajoswinkler
    I never use monopropellant radial one, or the thud one. I find them ugly. Thud used to be really ugly and now it's better, but still... They annoy me.
  14. lajoswinkler
    Peltier elements could be the base of it.
  15. lajoswinkler
    The Earth was not capable of sustaining life back then. It was very, very young. Also, radioisotopes would survive. Any modern civilization would be left with detectable amounts of various synthetic ones.
  16. lajoswinkler
    I was referring to the "literally an afterthought". These things should never be an afterthought. They're equally important as magnetometers or radiometers.
  17. lajoswinkler
    Just because people make errors (and you are making them) doesn't mean it's not an error. Physical units and quantities are defined by the International System of Units. That's it. It's the rule (and, in legal terms as far as countries are concerned, a law) and there can be no exceptions. Quantities are defined (and written in italic), units are defined. Same goes for math equations. Regarding that periodic table, it's an interesting curiosity, that's it. Just like there are different weird and unusual layouts of the table itself, and there are many of them, more or less utilitary and/or aesthetically pleasing. Chemical symboly and equations are written in Latin script. No exceptions, period. The only thing subjectible to language differences are the names of the elements.
  18. lajoswinkler
    Again, NASA fails to remember that their funding comes from the general public, indirectly. Business as usual, eh.
  19. lajoswinkler
    Materials would be left. Mineral and organic polymers. Radioisotopes would be left. So, nope. We're the first ones.
  20. lajoswinkler
    Am I the only one annoyed by the launch stream where you have physical units written in Cyrillic script? It's m/s, not м/с and it's km, not км. Physical units are not a subject of language changes. They're universal, just like periodic table symbols. If you change the way you write them, it loses its meaning. NASA does the same thing when they (rarely) use metric system. "kph" - that thing does not exist. It's km/h (or km⋅h-1) or nothing.
  21. lajoswinkler
    It could only smack into something. That's not landing. If it was orbiting a small lumpy body, then it could, technically...
  22. lajoswinkler
    It's Kerty!
  23. lajoswinkler
    Guess who's back.
  24. lajoswinkler
    205 days - Kaos 3 is crossing the orbit of Jool. No solar storms yet, all systems nominal.
  25. lajoswinkler
    What do you expect from the public relationship department which constantly feeds the general public with false claims about what planetary bodies really look like? They've imprinted the sight of Venus as an orange ball with yellowish veins (false colored radar image), Pluto as a carnie colored ball (false color + high saturation), Martian surface has blue rocks (enhanced false color), etc. And all it takes is a caption, a one sentence explanation.
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