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Watching #space1999. Two moons in orbit around Earth. One moon is speeding up and on a collision course with the other…

Me: if one is speeding up, its orbit will change and miss the other one. Rendez-vous is actually quite difficult!
Paula: it’s a step up from puppets, you’re expecting too much!
Me: Yes! Yes, I am!

Damn you #kerbalspaceprogram, you totally spoiled #scifi for me! Ignorance was bliss

Even a failed hohmann transfer can be a win. When missing a planet, just rename the vessel into something more appropriate like SolarCom instead of MunCom.

Btw I'm getting REALLY long signal coverage (green lines) on that one, it had a 15Gig antenna.

✅ Spacestation done.

Circular orbit @120k meters. Got up there in a screwed up flight path, so i had to burn Antinormal twice and then circularize, but the fuel was just enough.

Better to spend some fuel on something that is easy to get to, or every following flight has to do those burns as well, which means more fuel needed per flight.

Also i installed a bunch of mods, a number of them didn't work so i had to spend time debugging what worked and what didn't. At least the planet looks pretty and i have clouds too.

#Rocket #Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a #Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect

> To test how autonomous #agents could be used to maneuver #satellites and other #space-based assets, researchers created a #software design challenge called the #KerbalSpaceProgram Differential Game Challenge.

> They found that #ChatGPT, in particular, performed surprisingly well, coming in second place in the Game Challenge.

futurism.com/scientists-chatgp

Futurism · Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might ExpectBy Victor Tangermann
#ai#llm#llms

So, finally played around with the Alcubierre drive in Kerbal Space Program. I've tried jumpdrives and "warpdrives" before, but this is the one that shows promise as a "real" warpdrive.

Rather than just slapping a billion DeltaV/Sec on a rocket part, this one actually moves you through space, yeah it's an engine part, but it has 0 trust, the engine moves your X, Y, Z coordinates without changing your initial directional energy.

This has also made me rethink how Warpdrives would work, basically they don't affect your initial speeds in a 3D space, they move YOU, not your directional energy in any way. I remember StarTrek Enterprise where they dropped the cargo to escape from some pirates and i thought "so what, inertial will keep it going". Not true - it HAS to be towed from A to B. Warpdrives are more efficient than pushing mass around.

So now i know better - Basically without someone to move the object through fabric of space, the object will stand still and keep it's directional energy.

This also means that when you drop out of warp, you have to attain the same directional energy your target is traveling, i.e. a planet or an asteroid, to do an orbit insertion - and that will still cost a crapload of DeltaV.

So - Science fiction isn't as cool as i thought and also less magical than i thought. The real magic happens when Picard says "Standard orbit" - not "Engage!". #kerbalspaceprogram #ksp #Alcubierre #warp #orbitalmechanics