egg changed the topic of #principia to: Logs: https://esper.irclog.whitequark.org/principia | <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly…
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<kuzinat0r> Principia can't figure out I have an active engine with enough fuel to get home. But mechjeb has no issues with that. Are you interested in the craft file?
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<egg> Try “control from here” in something that faces where the engine goes
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<kuzinat0r> Well, the control point is always the lander can. I'll check again later.
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<kuzinat0r> Dunno why jettisoning a fuel tank alone does fix it
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<ezsnack - booster tank apologist> do crafts produce a gravity field of their own? lol
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<ezsnack - booster tank apologist> chat gpt says that 2 spacecrafts of 40t should be able to orbit around their common barycenter in LEO if separated by only 1 meter :V
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<ezsnack - booster tank apologist> now to find something that weights 40t and has diameter lower than 50cm xd
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Principia does not simulate that. Universe Sandbox does, so you can have a pair of shoes closely orbiting eachother with a period of a day or something
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<Benji> Now I wanna read a story that starts by finding a pair of shoes orbiting, orbiting Venus? or Jupiter?
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<ezsnack - booster tank apologist> i imagine they would have to be outside the solar system or some non realistic density xd
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<ezsnack - booster tank apologist> btw if a trajectory that leaves earth is interplanetary and if it lives the milky way its intergalactic but whats it called if it only leaves the solar system :v
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<kuzinat0r> There's a movie about it