[01:36:47] "It seems, for some reason, if the menu is opened while planting the flag, the flag will fall over. However, if I close the menu, the flag will remain in the ground." - so I guess, the flag collides with the window? ;) (j/k, no clue) [01:45:53] aaaaaaaaaaaaa [01:46:56] b [02:04:03] ;mission add You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century [02:04:03] raptop: Added mission: You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century [02:04:06] ;mission add You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century. [02:04:06] raptop: Added mission: You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century. [02:04:13] ;mission del You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century [02:04:14] raptop: "You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century" doesn't uniquely specify a mission, deletion failed! [02:04:31] ;mission del You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century. [02:04:31] raptop: Deleted mission: "You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century." [02:04:34] ;mission del You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century [02:04:34] raptop: Deleted mission: "You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century" [02:04:39] ;mission add You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century. [02:04:39] raptop: Added mission: You complain that Principia gets the precession of Mercury's orbit wrong by approximately 43"/century. [02:04:50] ah, ambiguity from a punctuation error [02:05:55] !nela [02:05:58] packbart => Falcon 9 - Türksat-5A - Fri Jan 08, 2021 01:28:00 UTC (L+00:38:39) - https://rocketlaunch.live/launch/turksat-5a for info/stream [02:12:21] ;mission [02:12:22] Red5: You post in the forums asking for Mechjeb to be included as stock. Things start to get ugly. [02:15:06] sounds plausible [03:01:00] huh, there was breifly a red5 [04:40:35] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Althego' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [09:30:17] well, the last time Red5 was in here, it got a bit heated... [09:31:28] chance of hop today? [10:00:19] Don't know. [10:00:40] The NASASpaceflight daily update says something about a not-nominal static fire test [10:00:45] maybe they're swapping engine? [10:01:57] TFRs got changed. Now from 10th to 12th. [10:02:05] so maybe hop on Sunday [10:05:43] bad weather [10:09:51] https://weather.com/weather/today/l/14f156cf3bef21428476e88a245155c0af9eac08534e25960539154a8f2cef7b [10:10:04] sunday seems to be especially bad [10:10:53] friday is the last clear day for a while [10:14:03] but of course we dont know what the acceptable conditions are for a test [10:14:44] i would do it in low wind and clear skies [10:15:17] weather.com is run by IBM and a German magazine. So weird. [10:15:23] hehe [10:15:38] yeah, the next days don't look good there. So no flight till Wednesday? [12:06:12] hehe, hardware unboxed: best gpu of 2020: nothing. and the camera shows an empty table. (because they are still not available) [12:39:56] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Deddly' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [12:48:04] hehehe [12:48:22] yeah, it's really hard to get your hands on the newest cards. [12:49:13] and the prices for the high end cards have reached a new high. [12:49:27] 1500 EUR. That's is just crazy. [13:07:55] "Very very high, in the sky!" (nanowar of steel) [13:08:27] for that money you can normally get a decent box [13:14:38] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Judge_Dedd' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [13:24:15] hah [13:24:25] hi red5 [13:25:41] Althego: decent box? [13:25:51] a pc [13:27:40] ah, that what was I figured, but I wasn't sure :) [13:27:52] eh [13:28:11] Any news from Boca Chica? [13:29:31] probably just dawning [14:24:51] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o purpletarget|ktns' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [14:43:43] at least the crane is not there anymore [14:57:24] ah yes it is moving back on the road [14:57:38] hence the closure [15:18:41] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Althego' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [15:52:18] https://spacenews.com/darpa-satellites-damaged-at-processing-facility-ahead-of-spacex-launch/ [15:52:23] eh [15:52:35] that doesnt look good for spacex [15:53:38] also virgin orbit is still supposed to launch on the 10th. now same as spacex [16:49:31] "while the satellites were being stacked and the payload separation system was accidentally released" [16:49:33] uhm ok? [16:50:38] that is a spring [16:50:44] somebody could have hurt [16:50:48] probably didnt [16:50:56] been hurt [16:51:16] but the satellites dont like to fall on the ground [16:51:36] I guess they have some kind of testing operation for that, to test the release mechanism on the ground, while attaching the sat to the rocket. I'd say it happend, when they tested that system or were about to test. [16:58:42] also maybe static fire [16:59:06] too bad the flight doesnt happen because it looks like nice weather there [17:07:14] hi every one [17:07:41] hi [17:07:50] i built my first vtol [17:07:50] argh i forgot the annoybot is back [17:08:24] itson my console tho [17:08:31] its on [17:08:52] Wow nice job, ns_music [17:09:02] there must a be a way to make screenshot there too [17:09:06] thx [17:09:31] VTOLs are hard. [17:09:39] no my xbox is weird [17:09:50] oh yeah it was [17:09:59] espcially with fuel balancing [17:10:15] yeah [17:10:19] but i generally dont like them, since they are hard to fly [17:11:04] console versions are easy since u hav a joystick [17:11:06] Exceedingly satisfying though [17:11:11] lol [17:11:28] https://twitter.com/Julius_Burton/status/1345436609848684550 [17:11:48] ?? [17:12:06] how to catch a super heavy rocket booster [17:12:13] dont forget the head pat [17:12:19] lol [17:12:43] where u guys from on earth maybe [17:13:24] im from the us [17:19:16] oops it glitched im the vtol guy lol [17:20:24] <-- Sweden [17:20:40] many are from the us, some are from europe [17:21:27] Depends what time you log in, really :) [17:27:11] Althego: the weird thing is: That could actually work. [17:27:31] Action: Mat2ch is from Europe [17:27:49] and it's sad we're not allowed to talk (make fun :P) of politics in here ;) [17:28:12] .oO( Nah, it's good that we're not. The laughter could kill us! ;) [17:29:57] anyway steampunk arms are probably not needed [17:32:37] No, but a system that can catch and take some energy off the rocket [17:33:14] PC version can fly with analog joystick, too. I use a XBox-Controller clone with USB [17:33:24] can use it, doesnt make things better [17:33:33] i use the joystick for e:d, completely fine [17:33:41] in ksp it just kill small movements [17:34:01] so basically doesnt help me in the part that was the reason i bought it [17:34:10] yeah, I use the controller mostly for camery movement [17:34:35] camera, duh [17:34:47] Mat2ch, I think it's difficult for most Europeans to grasp quite how explosive politics is as a topic, even when in jest [17:35:09] i dont think so [17:35:33] carrying the loser flag is a crime over here (yeah, I'll shut up now. scnr) [17:35:35] people get really riled up because of political discussions [17:36:45] Perhaps it's more to do with the kind of people I spend time with, then. [17:40:17] I think that there is a difference. We have more views to chose from, not a mostly binary system. And the latter makes the situation explosive. [17:40:27] politics bad [17:40:35] yes i think it is enough from this [17:40:51] Let's talk about catching mechanisms. [17:40:55] Nets don't seem to work well. [17:41:06] at least not for fairings [17:41:08] nets work fine [17:41:14] boats don't work well [17:42:00] therefore I propose rocket powered nets [17:42:16] anyway we dont know how the mechanism is going to look like [17:43:09] and with steel i am somewhat afraid of repeated stresses. like the rocket has to take its own weight, so it is basically compressed. but then when it lands it is going to hang, so stretched [17:46:32] and rockets are not usually used a second time, so it was never a proble [17:46:46] Althego: yeah, its gonna have to deal with both compression and stretching forces [17:46:47] i guess falcon 9s are probably mostly ccarbon fiber [17:46:56] Oh, a netsplit. IRC you think? No, power grid in Continental Europe [17:47:00] so that should suffer from this [17:47:10] https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2021/01/08/system-split-registered-in-the-synchronous-area-of-continental-europe-incident-now-resolved/ [17:47:11] nah, F9s are mostly aluminum [17:47:11] should not [17:47:17] hehe that is worse [17:47:31] probably some alloy [17:49:42] there was a train accident where a single wheel broke because of metal fatigue, and derailed the whole t rain. quite deadly for a train, the rocket would explode too [17:50:57] that train accident was in Eschede... [17:51:04] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_derailment [17:51:06] i know it was german [17:51:39] not to be confused with Enschede where a fireworks factory exploded [17:52:50] there are two stolbergs in germany. you can totally confuse those [17:56:17] Two Frankfurts as well [17:57:27] hehe [17:58:00] at least i never had frankfurt as my destination. i may have gone through because of airplane connections [18:41:24] hey what should i build [18:46:09] eve ascent vehicles are always my go to if i run out of ideas. they still take a long time, but not as long as they used to [18:49:26] balance space planes by moving Kerbals between fore and aft cabins [18:49:41] hehe [18:49:45] now you can totally do that [18:50:04] there is the helicopter made with kerbal chutes [18:50:28] https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/kq9vje/kerbal_parachute_monorotor_helicopter/ [19:12:01] I shouldn't have bought that Deus Ex game. The reviews complained about it being to short. I'm already 40 hours in... what am I doing wrong? [19:12:40] hehe [19:12:45] 40 hours is nothing [19:15:25] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o UmbralRaptop' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [19:17:30] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Judge_Dedd' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [21:14:53] Mat2ch: What one? [21:15:09] The newer ones? They're fairly linear yes but the story is nice [21:59:28] nate: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided [22:10:57] Mat2ch: I didn't mind it, I like the story to the games but yeah they made them pretty linear, only a handful of side things [22:11:09] so if you skip the side stuff (like some people do) it's pretty short [23:03:56] nate: I still find the main missions not short. Well, if you go around and do everything loud, then maybe it's short [23:04:01] but stealth takes time [23:22:20] yeah if your're playing the passive story/ending it definitely adds time on [23:24:17] I have no idea what the end will hold [23:24:24] and I'm getting a bit bored of the game [23:24:37] I'm in the third part and the police lockdown [23:24:47] I have to sneak everywhere and it annoys me [23:25:08] and I think I have to do three more missions until I go to London