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I am having trouble reading that. For anyone else struggling:
that’s fucked
The real hero here
Jacks why so aggressive. Need a sabbatical?
“If you miss, you end up among the stars.”
OH DEAR LORD WE ARE OUT OF FUEL AND OXYGEN IT’S SO COLD SO COLD
Don’t panic. Shut everything down. Call the Fuel Rats.
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Only had to do it for that once… They were awesome, saved my Cutter that I forgot I’d removed the fuel scoop from.
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What in the heck are yall talking about?!
Elite Dangerous. There’s a group of volunteers that come out to you if you find yourself stuck without enough fuel to make the next next jump to an inhabited system
That makes the game sound so much cooler than it is but I’ve never been able to get into it :(… Maybe 3rd times the charm
Um ackshually you wouldn’t freeze in space, you’d overheat.
i hope that helps
I had a manager tells me this once. It was literally written on the mug he was drinking out of at the time. I remember feeling so valued and inspired.
Spoken like someone that hasn’t played Kerbal.
Oh my god I can still see the swear you tried to censor you satan worshipper! I’m so offended I dropped my body of christ into my tea!
The internet is for children ONLY, please take this FILTH back to your BBS, heathens!
I was promised some fucking filth
You could fit every planet in the Solar System between Earth and our moon simultaneously.
I have a feeling we would have a lot of problems if you did though.
It’s definitely not recommended by the few cosmology sources I’ve read.
Cosmology sources, sure, but have you checked any cosplay sources?
That’s it. I am going as a gravity well this year.
I will wear plain clothes and go up to the person in my social circle most likely to ‘get it’.
I will hug them, not let go while I explain the idea in their ear. We have to go everywhere together that evening with the explicit purpose of recruiting others in that mission. There is no leader of a gravity well, except the center of mass. Which means things might get goofy.
If I can’t convince anyone to play, I will take that big tiddy goth girl and her friends up on their offer to play xbox.
I think our oceans would leave earth, tide-wise
Fuck you for making me look this up. Only Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune would fit together. Venus, Mars, and Mercury are too much.
Depends on which part of the orbit. Perigee (closest point) is ~ 354,491 km surface to surface. Apogee (farthest point) is ~ 397,291 km surface to surface. At Apogee you could got them all. At perigee not at all.
I bet I could miss those, too.
The moon takes up only around 0.00077% of the visible area of the sky. That’s a pretty small target. A deviation of .52 degrees from any point on the moon you are aiming from earth will miss.
Also it moves at 1 km/s around its orbit
So you have almost an hour before it passes you. Easy mode.
I’ma roll coal at that speeder motherfuck. Slow the shitass down.
It is slowing down, it loses energy to the tides
So the moon has been eating tide pods, huh? My how the pudding thickens
Anyone who has played KSP knows that getting to the Mun is harder than it seems.
Orbital mechanics are a bitch.
Getting to the Mun was actually pretty easy for me (or I got lucky). Landing on the Mun/surviving is a whole different story.
And don’t even get me started on getting back from the Mun,
whenif you do survive the landing.Sorry Jebediah, that was a one-way trip.
Dammit I just bought control now I want to strand some kermen
It’s moving 1 km/s, though.
No worries, we will loop back around using a slingshot maneuver, keep going until we get where we want to be. :)
Who are these people who cross out two letters of a cussword worried about? Everyone can still read this and all it does is make the edit look like someone is a pearl clutcher.
It’s typically for posting to platforms that “deprioritise” posts that contain “naughty” words, not actually anything about humans caring about it.
What do you mean? What cuss word? What does it say?!?
Butthole. It says butthole.
Same reason that people bleep out two nanoseconds of the word in audio
Actually it makes more sense to state the moons solid angle in the sky from where I’m standing, instead of its diameter ☝️🤓
Hold me and never let me go, you insatiable nerd.
Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’re now in orbit, and that was almost certainly the goal anyway
There are a lot of ways to shoot for the moon that don’t end with anything close to an orbit. Though it’s pretty hard to get out of orbiting the sun from here…
Yeah, but if you’re actually aiming for the moon and miss, an orbit is pretty likely. It may not be a good orbit, but consider that you’re most likely to miss because the moon has precessed in its orbit during your transit further than you expected, meaning that you’ll end up coming around the back of the moon and captured by its gravity.
Plot twist, it’s elliptical.
That assumes we don’t blow up or get the death shimmy on the way up
That was pretty much how the USSR spun Luna 1
Ya but the moon covers at best only about 10 ppm of the sky’s area so given a random direction within the hemisphere defined by the sky in which the moon is visible and traveling in a straight line you have a roughly 99.9990% chance of missing so that’s understandable really.
Don’t get me started about inclinations
Make sure to lead your shot. At Apollo velocities, you’ll need to aim where the moon will be at in three days, not where it is right now.
Why limit yourself to Apollo velocities? We’re trying to shoot the moon, not land in it.
Make sure you lead and aim for where the moon will be in 1 second
Not as fucking up as much as posting censored memes. You can swear on Lemmy, it’s allowed.
