[01:49:54] <Draconiator> https://i.gyazo.com/1f020f5ef3f1e152a3d108bbdcc52991.png - Anyone know what this is?  I first noticed it as a line on my monitor coming from the lower right, now it's all over the edges (this is the upper right)
[02:27:24] <UmbralRaptor> aaaaaaaa https://twitter.com/USTornadoes/status/1133541326954405890
[02:31:32] <lordcirth> UmbralRaptor, is that near you?
[02:32:20] <UmbralRaptor> Near present me? No. Near where I grew up, and still have family, however… 
[02:44:55] <lordcirth> :(
[03:08:20] <lordcirth> Anyone familiar with Contract Configurator? It's working well except the ReturnFromOrbit requirement is stuck Unmet
[03:11:04] <packbart> the Global Ground Construction mod has received lots new features lately. I like.
[03:37:17] <Neal> the local news channel is filming an interview about sexual assault and my car is right behind the person being interviewed... I can't leave
[03:38:23] <lordcirth> lol
[03:39:00] <UmbralRaptor> o_O
[03:41:32] <Neal> this is such a weird situation to be in
[03:41:46] <Neal> there's no sign of the interview ending
[03:49:04] <lordcirth> Neal, are they on the sidewalk? Perhaps you could catch the cameraman's eye?
[03:49:18] <Neal>  made it out luckily
[03:51:00] <Neal> there was no way to not completely screw up the shot, luckily they finished one interview
[03:51:01] <Neal> https://i.imgur.com/L9mdYOM.png
[05:45:01] <Neal> I remember making this suggestion 5 years ago, but I still think they need mini radial decouplers
[05:52:44] <Althego> i would like bigger tanks too
[05:52:51] <Althego> with the smallest diameter
[05:55:17] <Neal> like longer?
[05:55:21] <Althego> tyes
[05:55:30] <Althego> all the other sizes have different lengths
[05:56:07] <Althego> sometimes you just need long small diameter tanks, and the way it is now it just unnecessarily increases part count
[05:59:09] <Neal> true
[05:59:18] <Neal> also would be nice for more customizable colors for it
[06:02:14] <Eddi|zuHause> how about making customizable colors a paid DLC?
[06:02:58] <Neal> the other tanks have more colors
[06:03:24] <Eddi|zuHause> i know... what a missed opportunity :p
[06:03:48] <Althego> the colors are a new addition
[06:04:03] <Althego> i think that part revamp is a continuous process
[06:04:10] <Althego> probably we get some in 1.8 too
[06:04:36] <Eddi|zuHause> last time i played, i mixed half and full height tanks so i could have a chequerboard pattern
[06:10:03] <Neal> @#@$%^&^#E GD bjdngh g
[06:10:25] <Althego> cat?
[06:10:27] <Neal> decoupled my fairing and it ripped off my stowed antennas
[06:10:42] <Neal> this was specifically a relay lander
[06:11:01] <Neal> and it ripped off only the relay antennas
[06:13:41] <Neal> welp
[06:13:56] <Neal> I needed those to communicate with kerbin as well
[06:14:00] <Neal> as it turns out
[06:14:04] <Althego> hehe
[06:14:20] <Althego> i usually have a backup fixed antenna, the 2 arm thing
[06:14:32] <Althego> and that works up to minmus
[06:14:57] <Neal> I had a backup relay antenna on the other side of the craft but that s gone too
[06:15:10] <Neal> had a perfect ascent and everything today... ugh
[06:17:26] <Neal> the stupid thing is I tested this on the launchpad to make sure it would't do that beforehand
[06:17:28] <Neal> and it was fine
[06:56:52] <Neal> this is so bad, my burn is in a radio blindspot
[06:57:26] <Neal> I have 1hr 22min KSP time to launch *something* to act as a relay 
[06:57:32] <Neal> and also get it in position
[06:57:43] <Neal> thinking the classic method of moar boosters
[07:00:39] <Neal> operation: get a small mass in an extremely steep trajectory is go
[07:06:55] <Neal> AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
[07:06:59] <Neal> RELAY ANTENNA BROKE AGAIN
[07:07:04] <Althego> hehe
[07:13:43] <Neal> eh I made it into orbit but had to burn extremely high up in the SOI
[07:15:19] <Neal> also turns out that the HG-5 in orbit around the mun cannot connect to another HG-5 in LKO
[07:16:54] <Neal> this was a complete failure
[07:25:25] <Althego> yes but it can connect to the dsn
[07:25:47] <Althego> why would you want this at all?
[07:26:13] <Neal> dsn was blocked because kerbin turned away
[07:26:23] <Althego> usually you want the hg-5 to connect an other one around the same object to send the signal around
[07:26:29] <Neal> had to try to get an emergecy out because line of sight was blocked
[07:26:32] <Althego> did you turn off the other base stations?
[07:26:42] <Neal> yeah they're unbalanced IMO
[07:26:52] <Neal> too easy
[07:27:07] <Althego> no they are annoying in hard mode, because there are a lot of blocked places in lko
[07:27:47] <Neal> I'm going to get a set of relay sats up pretty soon
[07:28:38] <Neal> once you get one in a syncronous orbit right above KSC you're fine
[07:28:48] <Neal> *as long as somethign better than the hg5 is used
[07:36:12] <Neal> I'm going to try something silly and try to land my mun lander with a broken antenna back on kerbin
[07:36:25] <Neal> it wasn't intended for atmospheric entry tho
[07:36:39] <Althego> i like the hg-5. it looks cute, quite small, and is a normal and relay in one. the others cant do that
[07:36:57] <Neal> its pretty fragile tho
[07:37:12] <Gasher[work]> land? does it have a TWR>1 on kerbin?
[07:38:05] <Neal> its still got it transfer stage attached
[07:38:14] <Neal> lot of power on there
[07:38:47] <Neal> the final stage has the spark engine on it so I think it has enough twr
[07:40:26] <Neal> looking good https://i.imgur.com/2efjNXu.png
[07:41:11] <Gasher[work]> twr 3
[07:42:40] <Neal> that was the transfer stage that just burned out
[07:43:16] <Neal> ok have to redo that landing, overestimated TWR of landing stage
[07:46:21] <Gasher[work]> looks a bit larger than a model yet a bit small for a real aircraft https://ulyanovsk.express/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fwdaxFc3Mdg.jpg
[07:49:57] <Althego> probably ultralight
[07:51:06] <Gasher[work]> actually DIY, flight ended in fatal crash
[07:51:14] <Althego> eh
[07:59:58] <Neal> turns out the mk1 capsule is wayyyy too aerodynamic when upside down
[08:02:27] <Neal> Gasher[work], had it ever flown successfully?
[08:02:44] <Gasher[work]> no idea, the article was about the crash
[10:43:49] <Webchat575> Hey bois
[10:44:57] <darsie> hi boy
[10:45:20] <Webchat575> wassup
[10:45:37] <darsie> Minmus
[10:47:49] <Webchat575> oof
[14:12:44] <Guest00224> Need help
[14:13:16] <Guest00224> Anybody there?
[14:17:41] <lordcirth> So impatient
[14:18:18] <sandbox> they need help with their patience
[14:34:05] <Althego> youngsters these days :)
[16:32:41] <sandbox> demo https://www.google.com/maps/@4.0463911,32.6331664,13.25z
[16:33:45] <Althego> hehe indeed
[16:53:42] <darsie> Fairing still has excessive drag when it is the root part.
[16:53:48] <darsie> in 1.7
[16:54:16] <darsie> like 68 vs. 438 km Ap.
[16:54:34] <Althego> hehe
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[19:01:24] <kubi> hmm, I did not know this
[19:01:43] <kubi> I'm using root fairings frequently
[20:49:09] <packbart> -mm-dump is the command line option I've been looking for so long. now I can actually see the config nodes patched by ModuleManager
[20:49:35] <packbart> If only I knew that earlier, would've saved me a number of KSP restarts
[21:22:20] <packbart> darsie: indeed. I see a long red spike in the aero overlay if the fairing is the root part. good to know, I guess
[21:34:21] <packbart> some of my satellite subassembly launchers had the fairing as root. No wonder they flew weird