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.
that's fucked
I am having trouble reading that. For anyone else struggling:
The real hero here
"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.
o7
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
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
"Among the stars" might suggest it's very much not cold. You're in a stellar nursery.
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.
Um ackshually you wouldn't freeze in space, you'd overheat.
i hope that helps
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.
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 think our oceans would leave earth, tide-wise speaking
Please don't.
I bet I could miss those, too.
I could? I think you overestimate my power.
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
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
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
And begging your pardon sir, it's a big ass sky.
Spoken like someone that hasn't played Kerbal.
That’s like the pasties of censorship lol
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
farked?
Forked?
I understood that reference.
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
f⸤▬こked
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.
Same reason that people bleep out two nanoseconds of the word in audio
What do you mean? What cuss word? What does it say?!?
Butthole. It says butthole.
Yes you could have fucked this up more. You could have posted this censored bullshit on the Internet
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.
I thought i was gonna have an easy time aiming for yo mama,
But the joke is on me cause i miss her.
Nice
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
Not as fucking up as much as posting censored memes. You can swear on Lemmy, it's allowed.
Aim for the ground, if you miss that, just give up
If you throw yourself at the ground and miss, you're flying.
And the next night, try doing it again with Sony Walkmen.
Disagreed. If you miss, take advantage and continue missing
Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you're now in orbit, and that was almost certainly the goal anyway
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
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.
It's moving 1 km/s, though.
It's moving pretty fast though.
That's relative.
Relative is the only fast that matters
No worries, we will loop back around using a slingshot maneuver, keep going until we get where we want to be. :)
If at first you don't succeed
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.
Oh, that sounds like a challenge. I'ma build a rocket with turkey heat shields