| 17 Oct 2022 |
 rootinit | It 's extended so that the whole thing can spin and act as an artificial gravity centrifuge. The inflatable docking ports make it much stronger and give a realistic path for the kerbals to travel between | 03:57:34 |
 Jesse | I'd have to look closer at the math but I think he gives enough info to do it for any pair of planets. I'm surprised the way ksp decides what the main gravitational body is doesn't mess it up, but no one mentioned it | 04:00:03 |
| Jesse | Pretty cool looking. Did you launch it in one piece? | 04:01:15 |
| rootinit | Yea that wasn't terrible realistic since I launched it fully fueled. | 04:01:42 |
| rootinit | Would have been more practical to launch it empty then refuel it from moon or as separate parts (each wing can detach). | 04:02:41 |
| rootinit | Not enough time to do all that though so I just did moar boosters | 04:03:40 |
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| Jesse | And you can dump the main rockets to make it easy for small thrusters to adjust position | 04:04:12 |
| Jesse | Haha | 04:04:14 |
| Jesse | Lotta boosters | 04:04:18 |
| rootinit | I'm going to have to reread that reddit post some time on a weekend and learn orbital mechanics jargon apparently lmao | 04:04:51 |
| rootinit | Lost me at "synodic period" | 04:05:24 |
| rootinit | and "apohelion: | 04:05:38 |
| Jesse | Synodic period in this case I think from 106.5 x 2.135 | 04:06:39 |
| Jesse | Aphelion is the farthest point in an elliptical orbit from the sun | 04:07:27 |
| Jesse | * Synodic period in this case I think is from 106.5 x 2.135 | 04:07:44 |
| rootinit | oh yea I think I knew the Aphelion thing before. | 04:09:15 |
| Jesse | It will say apoapsis in-game since Kerbol isn't The Sun | 04:09:17 |
| rootinit | I took a 2 year break from KSP because I didn't have a desktop computer. | 04:09:42 |
| rootinit | I used to play KSP with matlab on a second display though lmao | 04:10:05 |
| rootinit | I'm LOVING the robotics parts | 04:10:25 |
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| Jesse | And then I had to look up synodic period to remember it. It's the apparent orbital period of one body from another. So it's the reference. body's orbital period times the ratio of the orbital periods | 04:10:45 |
| rootinit | This all folds up to fit in a fairing pretty thin | 04:10:47 |
| rootinit | That centrefuge definitly isn't large enough lmao | 04:11:02 |
| Jesse | Yeah I haven't played in a bit from work and nice weather but probably will when it gets cold again | 04:11:17 |
| Jesse | I haven't played with a lot of that stuff yet. I got the science mods thinking that would make science more interesting, but they mostly automate the science stuff which is fine because feel like it's kind of grindy | 04:12:42 |
| Jesse | The robotic bits for moving craft looked cool but I didn't play with them much | 04:14:15 |
| Jesse | * I haven't played with a lot of that stuff yet. I got the science mods thinking that would make science more interesting, but they mostly automate the science stuff which is fine because I feel like it's kind of grindy | 04:15:21 |
| rootinit | Oh that's been my favorate thing since trying ksp again | 04:19:17 |
