StrandedonEarth

Well, imagine that, S&SF is working on my phone again, although KSP1 Discussion still gives me a white screen. Scrolling back, I'm seeing a pattern where it starts working on Monday or Tuesday then craps out on/by Thursday., repeat next week. Maybe coincidence, I don't know. It's... I totally believe the IT team still hasn't actually done anything. I'm reminded of the old joke about a woman in a restaurant (who would probably be labeled a Karen in modern jokes) who tells the waiter it's too hot, please turn up the AC, soon followed by it's too cold, please turn down the AC, rinse, repeat. When a nearby customer comments to the waiter how aggravating it must be, the waiter replies "The joke is on her, we do not have air conditioning."

At an U18 out of town hockey tournament. Last night, Must-win game, down 1-0. My wife says she has to go to the bathroom, so they can score while she’s gone, and sure enough we tie the game. Later, still tied, we get a power play so I tell her to go to the bathroom again. Go-ahead goal! Other parents around us are lmao at this point. So later I go to the bathroom cuz that’s when our kid scores. I’m told he had a glorious chance, and his line did score by the time I came back. Parents around us are howling by this point. This morning we won the semi-final and we didn’t even have to go to the bathroom at all!!! Currently marking time until the final game, so we can do the three hour dark and freezing drive home after.

Best solution I can see is using header tanks to ensure the center three keep burning through the flip, once stabilized and ullage is restored in the main tanks then light the next ring of engines.

I so wish I had gone into CNC when I washed out of engineering. I figured something with computers, but the broad spectrum of computer choices left me indecisively marking time in manual labor (logistics and manufacturing) with a frame that really wasn’t built for that sort of long-term work. Even when I went to a union career-thing they just didn’t offer anything, it was “Well, based on the aptitude test you can do about anything, what do you want to do?” And I’m like “I was hoping you could give me ideas”. But no

When it was back to working I had dug down a few pages to see if I could get it to bork again, but that wasn’t it.

Aaaaand it’s back to goobered. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a last-post avatar or something silly that the browsers don’t like. Or maybe I need to clear my caches. I just don’t freaking know

Not sure if they did anything last time it fixed itself either. Might wanna check the server room for gremlin nests…

OMG it works again! At least Science and Spaceflight does. KSP1 Discussion is still giving me the white screen on iPhone. But it’s progress, right @Gargamel? @JoeSchmuckatelli, working for you?

Oh hey, join the club, I turned 53 back in September!

Did the bleeding on it occur after midnight during a new moon? Powerful juju if so

Blood of a virgin? I'd be careful. Don't want to get any nightshade on it, of which many painkillers are derivatives, not to mention potatoes/tomatoes. Don't want to summon any demons...

They were gathering data on what a heavy cargo lander might do to the local regolith...

Update: It’s still borked, Jim!

Managed to hurt a floating rib at work today by leaning on something the wrong way. What a drag it is getting old...

Someone tried building a ‘thopter? https://imgur.com/gallery/ntWuxA8

I should add that I can “back-door” my way into the S&SF threads through notifications and the “next unread topic” button, but can’t see the subforum itself

Actually, yeah. Yesterday S&SF started giving me the white screen, but a refresh would load the page nromally. Today it's back to white screen no matter how much I refresh. Oh, and BTW, while S&SF did go back to working until today, KSP1 discussion never did get back to working order, but I rarely go there so I didn't keep squeaking about it. The above is what happens on my phone. However, on PC these days I've been surfing with the Edge browser, and it still works in those forums, while other browsers do not. None of the browsers on my phone will load those forums, nor do the other browsers on PC work. Unless I sign out, of course.

Ok, now wait a sec. That's right, these engines gimbal. Quite a bit, IIRC. And the entire engine gimbals, not just the nozzle, so those pump shafts are already moving around. I start to get the feeling that pump shaft/rotor gyro effects may be a red herring.

Water is good to make propellant, but none left over for air. Pulling oxygen from regolith helps for life support

“No simulation game is ever finished, it just gets shipped at some point… You can get your model closer and closer to some perfect reality, but eventually, you have to put it in front of people and see, ‘How does this actually play out?’” - Robert Zubek, game designer, in reference to Cities: Skylines 2

One would think that they would have anti-slosh baffles in the bottom of the tanks…

Gotta admit, with all engines healthy it moved off the pad and accelerated up much quicker than the first one.

Well, the engines seemed to vanish into the haze, so maybe they shut down at that point. Then, of course FTS took over. Insufficient autogenous pressurization? I think it shutdown earlier than expected

There were some odd occasional puffs towards the end of the burn before the big puff. It does not look good atm. They suspect it’s lost.