[08:52:25] what, another starlink on sunday? [09:05:55] also maybe test is in progress in boca chica [09:36:09] test in progress?! [09:36:14] Where's the stream? :D [09:38:23] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5l9ZxsG9M [09:38:51] anyway two backup dates for the next two days [09:39:25] this is probably static fire [09:40:27] The road isn't even closed. Boring! ;) [09:40:53] https://www.cameroncounty.us/spacex/ [09:41:47] I meant the timeline in the stream ;) [09:41:58] Usually from road closed to an actual test it takes hours. [09:42:27] they are running out of time [09:45:08] oh, right, test window is now at night and not during the day. [09:45:19] This am/pm stuff is really weird. How can they live like that? [09:45:33] yes [09:45:44] also how is it that after midnight is 12 something? [09:45:47] totally annoying [09:46:02] but americans are afraid of zeros [09:46:08] and negatives [09:48:13] and health ca, ehm, I mean, data formats like yyyy-mm-dd or dd-mm-yyyy. [09:48:28] ah yes the american date format [09:48:32] special kind [09:55:34] Althego: aren't they sweet, when they're asleep? ;) [10:03:53] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Deddly' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [10:38:31] .nextlunch [10:38:32] Tomato and cheese sandwich [10:38:40] How about just the cheese? [10:53:36] You can always throw the tomatoes to the seagulls [11:17:18] Wait, maybe these are home-grown tomatoes, in which case, I'm eating them [12:32:05] Deddly: You smuggle a bottle of 99% ABV munshine aboard. Your ship transforms into an oven with fans. [14:47:20] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Deddly' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [15:29:28] Althego: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4jwmAB3wpM [15:33:13] so... he's going to "just play guitar" [15:55:10] Seriously? He's giving up on half the machine that was working fine until he decided he had to coat the guides with umpteen layers of rubber? (I haven't seen the video yet) [15:55:44] how long has it been going on? [15:55:46] 2 years? [15:57:04] Perhaps, if he's going to remove the guitar, he could remove the drums and xylophone as well and just have a band [15:58:13] [15:59:55] https://youtu.be/Q3ypX22-SYY?t=244 [16:00:21] Deddly: I was just summarizing his first comment. 'Perhaps the Marble Machine X itself is the Local Maximum, in that case, the current process will lead me to that discovery and i will take another u-turn to find the path to the world tour. Probably i will take the advice that has been given to me so many times during the past years: "Why dont you just play guitar?"' [16:01:58] Ah OK. So he's not actually planning to do that, yet [16:04:02] Glad to hear it :) [16:24:35] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o raptop' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [16:42:41] hehe jatpack guy was flying again around los angeles [16:50:19] The long awaited sequel to balloon chair guy? [17:00:20] quite high, too. 6000ft, 3000ft. ( https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/jetpack-lax-sighting.html ) [17:16:25] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o raptop' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [17:41:34] what, another starlink on wednesday [17:41:38] they are on a roll [17:46:56] it is almost like a hobby [17:47:07] when nothing is happening, we launch starlink [17:47:12] . [17:52:55] launch enough sats quickly before someone important notices that Musk's Orbit Denial System is not mainly a communications constellation [17:54:21] somebody mentioned that once he moves to mars and declares himself king (emperor sounds better in my opinion), he activates the kessler syndrome so nobody can follow :) [17:55:00] not to even speak of the phased laser array of the combined constellation [17:55:35] no, "phased" is the wrong word. anyway [17:59:34] Laser propulsion? [18:00:36] no, there is supposed to be a satellite-satellite laser link for communication [18:00:39] I was thinking of a few thousand "weak" communications lasers all pointing at the same location on the ground [18:01:02] silly, though ;) [18:01:18] because ther are so many of them, this could owrk :9 [18:01:25] Would that create a hologram of Elon Musk? :) [18:02:05] say it works in the infra red window [18:02:15] thean you could at least set things n fire [18:02:19] *which* infrared window? [18:03:21] hologram on chocolate :) [18:03:31] (J? H? K? L? M?) [18:04:21] my knowledge is not sufficient for this. and it was a joke anyway [18:05:22] yeah, facts just distract from the glorious image of a distributed orbital laser cannon ;) [18:05:43] ion cannon charging [18:05:45] low power [18:06:15] aaaaah vegan velociraptor, fighting speciesism and reversing the food chain [18:07:02] 5th of december is far away. and december is the worst time to order anything, especially with the virus around [18:07:25] Action: raptop blinks at Althego [18:07:39] never mind, he's quoting NanowaR of Steel again ;) [18:07:44] Action: raptop is not particularly vegan [18:08:32] they also sing about the Ikea catalog (feat. Angus McFife as Odin) [18:09:20] so redgamingtech and ufd tech videos. get the tech news [18:09:49] btw pray for the comfort [18:11:05] At what orbit would Kessler syndrome prevent orbits from Earth for at least a couple of hundred years? Asking for a friend [18:11:17] hehe [18:11:35] i heard anything under 600 km slows down quite fast [18:13:11] That's the problem with Starlink. But at least they have thrusters [18:14:47] small shrapnel should deorbit faster, cause it has lower mass/cross section. [18:17:09] if kessler syndrome happens, no problem. just need to hire flat earther advisors. they will simply deny the existence of space [18:17:21] no space, no problem [18:18:11] How would debris from different orbits affect each other? Would everything circularize given enough interaction? Or would the accretion disk heat up and deorbit? [18:18:29] Probably the interaction would be too few for such things to happen. [18:18:34] it is not a disk. a cloud around earth [18:18:58] A lot is prograde. [18:19:12] and a lot are polar [18:19:25] sun synchronous is popular for earth observation satellites [18:20:27] collisions should dissipate energy as heat and thus lower orbits. [18:20:59] dounfd plsudiblr [18:21:05] sounds plausible [18:21:07] There's deformation work, too. [18:22:45] Valentina didn't have enough dv left to stop at the space station, so she collided with it, but then didn't wake up from unconsciousness, so the station picked her up. [18:23:04] Was just 16 m/s impact. [18:26:22] kerbals are way tougher than that [18:26:40] mhm [18:26:45] Yet she didn't move. [18:35:01] Kerbals can sometimes ragdoll in space following collisions. I think part of their body clips inside another part and prevents them from coming out of ragdoll. physics warp or reloading should help [18:37:31] clipping Kerbals are Kraken bait. I once attached an antenna to a station with KAS and the Kerbal was clipping into it as a result - shot away very fast [18:42:15] spaghetti kerbals :) [18:42:46] also there was the planet destroyer device, where two claws attached to a kerbal [18:46:28] Danny's [18:46:45] "I found another way. And it requires a Kerbal soul" [18:47:05] there is always a new way for him [18:47:30] Except for Jool [18:54:47] how much time left in the soyuz? [18:55:17] i doubt roscosmos can create a new spacecraft in a few years [18:55:29] they simply lack money [18:59:21] somehow i havent heard of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orel_(spacecraft) [18:59:57] might actually fly in a few years, since supposedly it has been om development in a while [19:00:02] for a [20:27:25] #KSPOfficial: mode change '+o Deddly' by ChanServ!ChanServ@services.esper.net [20:34:39] I thought there new spacecraft was called Federation [20:36:36] also, when did Soyuz-5 get renamed? [21:24:09] umaxtu: It was, but they renamed it [21:24:25] That way it sounds like they have all these different exciting projects [21:24:41] Good for propaganda