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What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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Answer: Pretty dang fast, if you strap boosters onto it. After that, whether it's an African or a European swallow makes little difference. (I drained the boosters and activated infinite fuel), top speed, 750 m/s.

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...Needs more struts, I say.

WolframAlpha says it's 11 m/s for a European swallow, however in that scenario it's primary source of propulsion is not rapidly combusting rocket fuel.

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Answer: Pretty dang fast, if you strap boosters onto it. After that, whether it's an African or a European swallow makes little difference. (I drained the boosters and activated infinite fuel), top speed, 750 m/s.

But what if it's carrying a coconut? Perhaps by gripping it's husk? What would it's airspeed be then? ;)

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But what if it's carrying a coconut? Perhaps by gripping it's husk? What would it's airspeed be then? ;)

Zero. Not exactly directly related as a function of the coconut's weight, though.. You see, the coconuts weight makes the front go towards the ground, and thus the thrust as well..

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I suppose you have to know those things if you're a king.

How do you know they are a king?

Was kind of hoping the this thread was going to degenerate into a python-fest.

I could degenerate the thread all by myself

/look at the violence inherent in the system

//What is your favourite colour?

///Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

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I dunno. I made a bird in KSP once, and it couldn't carry anything! (Though it did look cool.)

The real question is, who can build me a shrubbery? (It has to be a nice one. Not too expensive.) If you don't build me one, I'll say "Ni!" many times, but if you do build one... well, you might just get some +Rep :wink:

-Upsilon

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It most obviously uses a KAS mod winch for a coconut.

Hehe :)

Zero. Not exactly directly related as a function of the coconut's weight, though.. You see, the coconuts weight makes the front go towards the ground, and thus the thrust as well..

Oh dear.. that did not end well. Kerbally, perhaps, but not well ;)

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The real question is, who can build me a shrubbery? (It has to be a nice one. Not too expensive.)...

Make me.

...If you don't build me one, I'll say "Ni!" many times

That can't be so bad..

"Ni!" "Ni Ni Ni NIIIIII!!!one!"

Augh, okay, you win! YOU WIN! You will get your shrubbery!

-2 hours, some character development, and a visit to the KSC later-

Well, I got one from Jebediah Kerman, it wasn't easy, I had to say, er, uh, the thing a few times, an- Wait, what? Are those boosters in the shrubbery? Jeb, yo- *EXPLOSIONS* (Editors note: Apparently the game didn't like the shrubbery I made, as it involved part clipping. Needless to say, the following album documents its destruction by the cruel hand of physics.)

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edit: I'm bad at building for aesthetics anyways, whatever I made looked like an eyesore (or just a variation of "grey, everywhere"). Explosions are much more interesting.

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Augh, okay, you win! YOU WIN! You will get your shrubbery!

-2 hours, some character development, and a visit to the KSC later-

Well, I got one from Jebediah Kerman, it wasn't easy, I had to say, er, uh, the thing a few times, an- Wait, what? Are those boosters in the shrubbery? Jeb, yo- *EXPLOSIONS* (Editors note: Apparently the game didn't like the shrubbery I made, as it involved part clipping. Needless to say, the following album documents its destruction by the cruel hand of physics.)

http://imgur.com/a/lGvrX

That's not enough! (Especially since I didn't even see the thing before it met an untimely end.) MAKE ME ANOTHER ONE! And then chop a Mk3 fuselage in half... with a GRAVIOLI DETECTOR!

Wait a minute.

...Kerman, it wasn't...
...as it involved...

You said the word! NOooooo! Leave this place!

(I do want to see a picture of the shrubbery in the daytime though... :wink: )

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(I do want to see a picture of the shrubbery in the daytime though... :wink: )

Picture a giant metal egg. That was the old shrubbery. (Which I overwrote by accident, trying to make a better one, oops)

Lucky for us, we have a 100% more stable shrubbery (That still looks terrible, but at least it looks kind of like a shrubbery... almost) ...And less explosions!

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