[01:42:25] so, i just scrolled up to see what the fuzz was about... wish i didn't... [02:24:35] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o UmbralRaptop' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [02:30:04] lol, AVG pops up a window that says "Your location is exposed"....and made me look like I'm a darn hillbilly or something because the map IS IN THE FREAKIN MIDDLE OF NOWHERE LOL [02:38:39] lol [02:42:30] hi [03:08:07] AVG selling VPN services now and trying to scare people? [03:08:14] Just nuked it off a friend's computer [03:10:32] YOUR LOCATION IS EXPOSED (map is of Mare Ingenii) [03:11:15] hey man can we fault a company for offering a great product for free to millions of users, for trying to give you one little ad for a reasonable service [03:11:33] as a former employee of a competitor of theirs, AVG does a good job [03:11:50] hm [03:16:22] They hijack your browser homepage to keep you safe [03:16:34] They pop up ads every time you start your computer and 15 minutes later [03:16:40] & [03:17:16] AVG homepage protection [03:17:21] Makes their site your home page. [03:17:30] Does this to every browser on the system. [03:17:42] You can turn it off I think. [05:51:15] :o) [08:33:29] Let's say a theoretical shapeshifter can make any shape of rocket it wants using available mass within a second. How much more effecient would an infinitely adjustable rocket be than a staged one or a single stage one? [08:52:40] https://78.media.tumblr.com/f94a47f14ecddccee4c3607d796c1f98/tumblr_inline_pbos4w0jTK1r927jb_540.jpg [08:53:06] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Deddly' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [08:55:40] Blaank: no different from "all rocket is fuel", if i understood you right [08:55:51] Blaank: it would grow smaller and smaller until it would disappear [08:55:58] So limited by ISP of the engine. [08:56:12] infinity DV without payload [08:56:24] like the 100% candy rocket rocket [08:56:38] I mean you could have a 1 gram engine bell leftover after expending everything else. [08:56:39] by the time it finished burning there is nothing left exept a virtual point [08:56:45] yeah [08:56:55] going at whatever speed you want [08:57:25] So the increase is pretty dramatic? [08:57:40] almost infinite accelleration at burnout [09:00:25] Hmm [09:01:02] Depends on efficiency of burn at burnout, right? But excellent TWR for sure :) [09:01:20] Ok, so shapeshifters would make fantastic spacecraft. [09:05:46] Blaank, As in - burning the shapeshifter? [09:06:08] Well in theorythere will be some of it left. [09:06:10] well.... I don't know if self mutilation is really a good thing [09:06:25] It's not like it cares, you feed it a few broken cars and it's good as new. [09:06:30] Brings about certain ethical objections, methinks, lol [09:06:31] there was some talk about a rocket that would shrink over time as it burned.. [09:06:43] A shapeshifter could change everything about itself. [09:07:00] Move fuel tank mass to the engine bell for better vacuum isp. [09:07:18] Blaank, I was thinking of the shapeshifters from Star Trek. Which ones are you thinking of? [09:07:19] really if you think about it, shapeshifter could just grow wings.. fly up really high, then turn to a rocket? [09:07:38] random sci fi story with psionic space whales. [09:08:10] OK so a shapeshifter of that nature is more akin to the replicators in ST. "anything goes" [09:08:30] Make gel into anything [09:08:53] heh.. forgot about those. When I hear replicators I think the ones from SG1 [09:11:37] So, Blaank's shapeshifter could first become a lighter-than-air craft that expands without harm until it reaches the outer edges of the atmosphere, then expand at the right moment to catch the solar wind and get into orbit. [09:11:47] No self-immolation necessary [09:12:05] You couldn't pick up orbital velocity with a solar sail even 1Mm up. [09:12:24] You'd need some impulse between lighter than air and spacefaring. [09:12:35] Even if the entire being is only a solar sail, one atom thick? [09:13:05] Anything goes, right? [09:13:14] Within the context of the story I'm not sure how well they could shapeshift. But if it was some magic one atom thick solar sail ...... acelleration might be pretty good. [09:13:17] solar sail would have to be pretty freak'n thin [09:13:34] A sheet of graphine the size of earth. [09:13:52] But you get the problem of photons sliding between it. [09:13:57] ... one atom thick.. hmm.. makes me think nanoblades [09:13:58] I think they can do that? [09:14:13] Heck, this shapeshifter could just stand on really long legs and jump into space, presumably [09:21:41] hmm... careful, mixing fantasy with scifi... you tend to get either really weird results or geeks that can take things just about anywhere [09:23:11] Heh, true [09:28:52] one atom thick would be transparent [09:43:18] you need atleast a hundred [09:44:19] maybe a few tens if you dont mind being semi-transparent [09:49:27] how does transparent sutff wxorks anyways [09:51:14] has graphene been in the news again? I did see something the other day but didn't read it [09:59:00] Fluburtur: enough space to let photons pass through [09:59:12] how [09:59:32] has something to do how the atoms of the materials align [09:59:46] wizardry [09:59:55] nah, physics :D [10:15:47] future seeems more and more carbon based [10:16:09] we probably end up cleaning up air of carbon, not for actual clean air, but for grabbing carbon before someone else does [10:16:10] slowly we arrive to the solution life got long time ago :) [10:16:42] hehe, neo-carbonist, trade it on the stock market [10:17:11] :) honestly carbon is everywhere doubt will have any carbon issues :P [10:23:46] I had to explain someone that organic matter is any molecule with carbon in it [10:27:06] heh [10:27:28] i imagine vast structures made of carbon just to get it out of the air [10:27:45] like, artificial glaciers-forests of that [10:29:41] hmm dunno [10:29:51] talking about carbon [10:30:08] apparently feeding spiders food with graphete makes for very strong material [10:30:15] beats even best spider ones [10:48:10] carbonara [11:22:30] .oO( e una coca cola... ) [14:10:26] bleh....apparently my video card hates overclocking because sometimes it stays stuck at idle. [14:12:57] you giving it enough voltage? [14:13:47] Fluburtur: diamonds are organic? [14:13:54] yes [14:15:45] yep [14:15:50] formed naturally [14:15:56] lots of time and pressure lol [14:41:24] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o APlayer' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [14:42:47] Greetings to all space enthusiasts! [14:43:32] \/ [14:44:11] Do you mean \/? [14:45:20] 0\94/ [14:45:26] hehe [14:45:31] that was my attempt at making a kerbal [14:45:59] hey APlayer, wanna see my new SSTO? :P [14:46:36] Sure! [14:46:48] How much dv does it have? [14:46:53] https://imgur.com/a/2vRiTfu [14:47:10] 34 tons at takeoff, has about 3.5km/s of dV after achieving 150x150km orbit [14:47:35] can get you straight to laythe, where you can refuel and get a lot more :D [14:47:53] also it's liquid fuel only, so you can fly around and explore laythe for a while [14:48:07] as long as you don't let it run out over the ocean :D [14:48:19] Nice! [14:48:40] The core tank/engine stack looks modded? [14:48:50] nope, stock parts [14:49:02] it's a fairing with one of the new color schemes selected [14:49:13] getting OCR to recognize A https://twitter.com/tsudzu19/status/1017910434823716865 [14:49:14] KMWg A XWfD_D; https://t.co/JarLYZ97MJ [14:49:43] Ah, got it. I'm still stuck with KSP 1.3 and no making history expansion for now, so no idea about the color schemes [14:50:06] yeah i was surprised they brought that feature to stock [14:50:10] i still don't have MH either [14:50:16] just normal 1.4.4 :) [14:50:28] thinking of going back to 1.3 for Kopernicus [14:51:57] GlassYuri: Speaking of AI. Looks like it won't be there for another while [14:58:03] APlayer, no you see, it's much easier to have humans debug AI systems than have them do the work directly [15:00:03] EVGA's overclocking tool seems to work great though....Afterburner sucks heh [15:04:44] Chur station has signage in all five swiss languages https://twitter.com/zugreiseblog/status/1018449238974455808 [15:04:45] In #Chur wird am Bahnhof in allen fnf Landessprachen der #Schweiz ausgeschildert. https://t.co/xm8ltJNc5S [15:24:50] uh [15:59:03] Hi all, do you guys know if there's a mod (or any other way) with which you could set the game to pause at the exact moment a destructive collision happens? [16:04:42] I know some mods can slow down time [16:05:36] Hmm that might work too [16:05:48] trying to figure out what exactly happens with a stock prop [16:05:55] obviously exploding [16:26:30] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o APlayer' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [16:46:15] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Deddly' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [17:52:24] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+v Zarthus' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [21:17:03] Last message repeated 1 time(s). [21:17:03] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Deddly' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [21:18:50] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o APlayer' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [21:43:14] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Dman979' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [22:17:20] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o purpletarget|ZZZ' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [22:28:11] Argh, had a couple of those bible mercenaries show up....unfortunately a hornets nest does not exist near the front door so I could set them off. [22:36:05] so ask them if they know of St. Manley ? [22:41:12] Phnglui mglwnafh Cthulhu Rlyeh wgahnagl fhtagn. [22:42:16] did a few years agoi though and no one came that year, darn [22:47:45] tell them its your birthday and invite them for cake [22:47:59] if they're JW's they'll run off [23:30:52] just started playing again after a few years off. new launch sites? wut? [23:33:22] fhmiv: In mods, and now with the making history expansion! [23:33:48] I wonder if I can add it to my old career mode save and get more science from them [23:46:06] seems like maybe i have to enable comnet to get that? [23:49:06] unsure [23:58:59] Incidentally, "Dessert airfield" is a pun, not a typo. [23:59:34] i tried enabling it via the Settings and via editing the save file but no luck. it's originally a 1.2 or maybe a 1.3 save