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Personally ? Manned spaceflights are indication that your country have quite the resources. I don't question why we go and do unmanned missions (that's what geopositioning, telecommunications, and weather observation satellites are, and those make up most of the stuff we do launch unmanned), but to take manned spaceflight means that you do have the resource to take it and you have the will to take them as well. There are a lot of important stuff that we'd get if we did manage to not get stuck with a single planet, sure, but given the barrier needed to be passed before we get there, let alone the 'smaller' barriers one must take before it, gives that only those who have the resources and the will would even attempt it. My sole problem is that we've never quite do anything in a global scale as humanity in the exact same will. Maybe the pandemic will serve as a reminder of how fractured humanity on Earth still is, and that's with every single one of our lives in danger. And until that is done, I think we'd never quite get the full benefit of being a multiplanetary species, period.

Honestly given it's Twitter it's probably aimed at the larger public than the actual developers. (I mean imagine how many people follow something right ? and they'd see.) Plus KSP devs are mostly programmers and modellers, and they're not asking for that sort of stuff I can only assume (well ok modellers still come in handy trying to figure out if something fits or not but that's about it, not really large space environment architecture). Crowdsourcing ideas isn't a bad thing honestly - the larger FoV you have the more thorough view you get - but the only ones who've gone there and back are usually those who've tried as far as they could from one certain vantage point. So is it a joke ? Well that depends a lot on the answers, it's like fishing in otherwise scarce waters. Call those a fool, sure, but if they did get back knowing of a new spot of fishing that no one else knows that's their treasure.

Black Death is, sadly, upon us. [BBC News] Covid-19: Indonesia announces lockdown in Java and Bali as cases surge EDIT : It's only starting. [ABC News] Indonesian COVID patients die in self-isolation as hospitals reach breaking point

Snacks... probably biscuit sticks. Also jerky. Gotta have something meat-y...

No stopping 1/3s, sadly. Base 12, despite being a smaller base, is better than Base 16 (which is only as good as Base 8).

Pretty much right. I'll change "Heading" into "Azimuth" however - heading changes as the rocket goes downrange, but it remains on the same azimuth* as viewed from the launch point, except if a dogleg maneuver is carried out. * now technically it doesn't since the launch site itself is located on a rotating body, but let's presume the parent body is non-rotating.

Extra explanation up (sorry about the title though) :

Ah, yeah sorry about that. I use DarkReader extension. Oh... well I'm kinda stumped since it seems like the intermediate phase itself only appears in Windows 10 version. Maybe something to do with different implementation of the browser ? So officially off being a forum problem ?

No it's not that the embeddable content doesn't get embedded - they get embedded fine (and yeah I'm well aware of the rich text 'issue' and I know how to get around it), but it looks all like it's just in plaintext from my browser. Example : I'm sure this problem is local - the same plaintext form appears shortly before the proper embedded form where it works - but something seems to be failing to load / failing to happen. I'll probably try to clean the cache... see if something got stuck there. EDIT : Tried that, didn't work in the Firefox on my Windows 10 (only cleared the cache, all date ranges). Will try on Kubuntu. EDIT 2 : Works in Firefox on my Kubuntu w/o doing anything, so yeah this is only on that one specific installation.

I think I have a problem with the twitter embed function. Weirdly this only happens on Mozilla Firefox (I have 89.0.2) . I have HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript, Privacy Badger and uBlockOrigin extensions installed. The twitter embed works on Chromium (ungoogled-chromium) with 'the same' (same names, different implementation perhaps) extension. Wondering if anyone else have had similar issues, or if someone have discovered how to fix it. Very likely not related to the forum software itself since it works on other browsers. EDIT : I also have DarkReader installed.

You should consider how we sleep. Sure there are people who sleep in bunks and are used to be log-straight, but not all of us do... Also with scheduling the sleep (guess who haven't slept again XD)

Because it's not going to be manned for the foreseeable future that the CSS and LOP-G timeline is in ? CSS is literally up now, LOP-G is fingers crossed whenever they launch it. Wet/Dry Workshop LSS is sure a possibility, but like I said they don't like the wait really. They have the funds, they just want it straight to their scientist and immediate payloads, minimum dev. ofc if and when that (Wet/Dry Workshop LSS and/or Axiom) happens, and they're more than happy to take scientific payloads onboard rather than either fully private or only for tourism, I'm sure they'll find something to do on it. Not even necessarily backed by ESA at that (individual unis or even member agencies like DLR, CNES, ISA does these sort of stuff already). No idea for Roscosmos ofc. We'll just have to wait and see what will they launch and where will they launch it (or if they'd even launch anything).

I imagine sending stuff to LOP-G/Gateway is a bit more expensive... And you don't need to be a full partner, you can just get some research up where otherwise they won't be up until later. ISS/Axiom... the premise lies on having something that will keep the stationkeeping. So until they have a replacement for Zvezda I think it'll be a while (for sure just locking out ROS is an option that'd keep the air leak down while letting it control the station). Also if you look at the other agencies seems like they're pulling out funding from ISS in general, so if Axiom doesn't happen then that's it, that's the end of the ISS. Like I said - ESA and EU (+ UK) in general is all for more science as that means paying their scientist. If they could accomplish it without having to figure out who gets the contracts then they're much easier to be agreed on compared to where you need to divide contracts etc. - like see how long it has taken them to do Ariane 6, that's because they couldn't settle on who's going to build everything. And in relation to Roscosmos ? I'm sure they're more than happy to have more company, they're not that hard ideologically IMO. Sure yes they're concerned with the whole stuff at the "EU border" but if keeping it cool means keeping things connected rather than fractured then so be it. The only one who have any desire is the US really.

idk - we'll have to see how it turns out. Oh, they actually have enough funds as long as it's for science (looking at CERN and ESO here). They only can't divide the pork very well, which is what an add-onto an existing program actually solves things a lot better than one where they have to build it from scratch.

If they do that'd be great honestly. ESA (or the member states' programmes, so CNES, DLR and ASI as the largest ones) have history of not necessarily aligning with US-imposed restrictions so it's good news for those who wish for co-operation. Heh, circumventing ITAR again... Though I suppose this means some modules/Progress spacecraft that'd feature the chinese docking system ? Or are they just going to put in the orbital module of Shenzou on top of a Progress, and would be the base of any sort of modules others would probably send ?

Ah right, I didn't know that. That's interesting... so the telescope is actively manoeuverable and it can rendezvous with the station... cough derrived tech cough

I thought it was more like Hubble...

Manned Soyuz launch from Kourou ? I mean it'll be really interesting if it works that way, ESA would have to be involved as well...

Good to hear we can finally wait to see three sort of capsules on the station... That being said, are there plans to keep using Starliner past 2024 on the ISS ? Or can it get to Gateway ?

I think it depends on the amount you're willing to pay up front and the amount of pay that you deferred. Much like in real life, you'll have to calculate the acceptable risk, and then determine whether or not people can go without any sort of guarantee or they need something to be guaranteed. Sole reason why things are often lump-sum in games etc... I'll assume that it usually involves wars or battles etc. and I'm sure back in the days of piracy in the west indies you would never have anyone accept deferred payment unless the potential rewards far exceeds the required payment. Very different world with today, although the economic slump might prove otherwise...

But you can have different person in charge of different things. That's how it currently works for the ISS... I honestly still don't know what position would members in a russia-china co-op be like. We'll have to see what they could come up with, but there's a chance one side will wing it alone.

Yep. Still there are complications - just look at ICAO Annex 14 and you'd realize quickly not everyone in the field speaks the same way.

Yes because that happens to be the base of numerals that we end up with, and talking in magnitudes is at least justified. So given base 10 (ten) then the metric system is justified. But if we had ended up with base 12 (so 1012 ) then that version of "10" (some call 'douze') is going to be more logical. Ex-eastern bloc countries used to have metric flight stuff. The sole 'logical' combination is probably nautical miles which does have something to do with the Earth's circumference, but other than that it's just the fact that it's much easier to keep legacy compatibility than otherwise.

And stitch two on the long sides to get one size up. Will have to mention that the choice was deliberately chosen to be such, not just a coincidence. Those 19th century Germans... (prior to this I think there isn't really any standard paper sizes.)