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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That's why in KSP I use the space map and just keep adding DeltaV until the orbit line from my rocket to the mun is a straight line and I launch when the planet is right in front of me.
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moseschrute@lemmy.world · 94 pts · 322d
Venator@lemmy.nz · 25 pts · 322d
that's fucked
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 322d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 322d
I am having trouble reading that. For anyone else struggling:
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 321d
if_only@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 322d
The real hero here
MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 319d
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 322d
"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
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 31 pts · 322d
Don't panic. Shut everything down. Call the Fuel Rats.
Yorick@piefed.social · 10 pts · 322d
o7
Palerider@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 322d
Only had to do it for that once... They were awesome, saved my Cutter that I forgot I'd removed the fuel scoop from.
o7
Zoot@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 322d
What in the heck are yall talking about?!
Palerider@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 313d
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
Zoot@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 313d
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
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 322d
"Among the stars" might suggest it's very much not cold. You're in a stellar nursery.
hDGGgrLpg8nEucjxWnJz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d
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.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 303d
Um ackshually you wouldn't freeze in space, you'd overheat.
i hope that helps
Dadifer@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 322d
You could fit every planet in the Solar System between Earth and our moon simultaneously.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 49 pts · 322d
I have a feeling we would have a lot of problems if you did though.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 322d
It's definitely not recommended by the few cosmology sources I've read.
YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
Cosmology sources, sure, but have you checked any cosplay sources?
porksnort@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 322d
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.
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 322d
Fuck you for making me look this up. Only Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune would fit together. Venus, Mars, and Mercury are too much.
oxideseven@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 322d
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.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 14 pts · 322d
I think our oceans would leave earth, tide-wise speaking
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 322d
Please don't.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 322d
I bet I could miss those, too.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 322d
I could? I think you overestimate my power.
village604@adultswim.fan · 30 pts · 322d
Anyone who has played KSP knows that getting to the Mun is harder than it seems.
Orbital mechanics are a bitch.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 322d
Getting to the Mun was actually pretty easy for me (or I got lucky). Landing on the Mun/surviving is a whole different story.
qupada@fedia.io · 19 pts · 322d
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 322d
Dammit I just bought control now I want to strand some kermen
mercano@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 322d
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.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 322d
Why limit yourself to Apollo velocities? We're trying to shoot the moon, not land in it.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 322d
psud@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 319d
Make sure you lead and aim for where the moon will be in 1 second
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 322d
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.
GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io · 13 pts · 322d
Also it moves at 1 km/s around its orbit
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 322d
So you have almost an hour before it passes you. Easy mode.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
I'ma roll coal at that speeder motherfuck. Slow the shitass down.
psud@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 319d
It is slowing down, it loses energy to the tides
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 319d
So the moon has been eating tide pods, huh? My how the pudding thickens
shalafi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 322d
And begging your pardon sir, it's a big ass sky.
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 322d
Spoken like someone that hasn't played Kerbal.
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 322d
farked?
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 322d
Forked?
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 322d
I understood that reference.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d
You forking would like that kind of bullshirt, you bench-ash deck.
I really hope we're doing a "The Good Place" bit here, otherwise, I apologize profusely.
Edit: Make grammar gooder
Venator@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 322d
f⸤▬こked
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz · 15 pts · 322d
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
Don't get me started about inclinations
don@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 322d
That’s like the pasties of censorship lol
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org · 14 pts · 322d
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.
BearGun@ttrpg.network · 9 pts · 322d
It's typically for posting to platforms that "deprioritise" posts that contain "naughty" words, not actually anything about humans caring about it.
polydactyl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
What do you mean? What cuss word? What does it say?!?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 322d
Butthole. It says butthole.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 322d
Same reason that people bleep out two nanoseconds of the word in audio
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 322d
Yes you could have fucked this up more. You could have posted this censored bullshit on the Internet
Lauchmelder@feddit.org · 12 pts · 322d
Actually it makes more sense to state the moons solid angle in the sky from where I'm standing, instead of its diameter ☝️🤓
porksnort@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 322d
Hold me and never let me go, you insatiable nerd.
obinice@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 322d
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!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d
I was promised some fucking filth
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 322d
I thought i was gonna have an easy time aiming for yo mama,
But the joke is on me cause i miss her.
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
Nice
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 322d
Not as fucking up as much as posting censored memes. You can swear on Lemmy, it's allowed.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 322d
Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you're now in orbit, and that was almost certainly the goal anyway
porksnort@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 322d
Plot twist, it’s elliptical.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 322d
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...
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
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.
azi@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 322d
That was pretty much how the USSR spun Luna 1
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
That assumes we don't blow up or get the death shimmy on the way up
ICastFist@programming.dev · 7 pts · 322d
Aim for the ground, if you miss that, just give up
DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 322d
If you throw yourself at the ground and miss, you're flying.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 322d
And the next night, try doing it again with Sony Walkmen.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
Disagreed. If you miss, take advantage and continue missing
stevedice@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 322d
It's moving 1 km/s, though.
milliams@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d
It's moving pretty fast though.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d
That's relative.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 322d
Relative is the only fast that matters
Angelusz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
No worries, we will loop back around using a slingshot maneuver, keep going until we get where we want to be. :)
falseWhite@programming.dev · 3 pts · 322d
azi@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 322d
If at first you don't succeed
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 319d
That's why in KSP I use the space map and just keep adding DeltaV until the orbit line from my rocket to the mun is a straight line and I launch when the planet is right in front of me.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
Oh, that sounds like a challenge. I'ma build a rocket with turkey heat shields