• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    People have a terrible understanding of orbital mechanics and apparent weightlessness. It’s not like gravity just stops affecting you after you get out of the atmosphere. Getting out of the atmosphere is the easy part of getting to orbit. Going sideways fast enough is the hard part.

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      8 months ago

      I feel like everyone should play KSP, just to get a taste of it

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        8 months ago

        I used to baby sit a friend’s kid when he was a wee lad, frankly we spent most time playing KSP. Used to give him challenges like if he could build a ship using x amount of parts and make orbit would let him order out pizza instead of food his mom prepared for us. He rarely succeeded at first but apparently kept at it long after I stopped mentoring him and apparently is now going to school to be an aerospace engineer. And before all that his mom could never get him to do his math homework as a tyke.

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          8 months ago

          Pizza has a strange powers over humans. Good job friend.

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              8 months ago

              Definitely not all those kerbals stranded on Duna. He never did figure out how to properly make it there and back

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          Nothing got me working on math quite like trying to figure out my ship’s ∆v back in 2014 before I installed Kerbal Engineer

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      8 months ago

      what? are you telling me I couldn’t reach the other side of the planet by jumping for 12h ?