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The Apollo missions considered using a 4 axis backup gimbal but decided against it due to weight and size factors within the CSM. If you watch Apollo 13 there is a point just after the explosion that you hear Jim Lovel (Tom Hanks) yelling "We are about to hit gimbal lock!" Also, if you have an iPhone, well essentially any modern smart phone, you have about 2 to 3 times the computing power in your phone than the entire Apollo computer had on board! http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/e-1344.htm

There are parts along the event horizon where particles of light and gas are actually not pulled into the balck hole but thrown our in radio jets along a polar plane to the black hole. This material is ejected at relative speeds. (Look up Quasars) Also, if one of these radio jets is pointed toward Earth, as is the case in Blazars, these particles can appear to be moving faster than the speed of light (in reality they are not, it is just the result of the particles moving along our line of sight). Black holes are always super interesting because you get to deal with physics and astronomy literally colliding. Also I'm glad you realize that Black Holes don't "suck" in material and light. It always makes me flip out when people say black holes suck! It's just an immense singularity of gravity, no sucking going on at all!

I'm in the same boat as you oosime. Fellow form newb here. I made a ribbon also and was super bummed when I read this post. Sirine: Ya my ribbon has a whole 3 Bars! Kerbin, Mun, and Minmus! Hahaha, I'm working on Eve today.

Hey everyone, just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. I've been playing for KSP for about a week now and found this forum incredibly helpful so I thought I would join! See you guys later!