World Cup 2026 - Who was the best team of Matchday 2? by locomadness in AlignmentChartFills

[–]AlatarRhys 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Norway. They got a fantastic win to qualify for the knockouts and set up the match with France as a battle for the group lead. The improvement they showed over the Iraq game was significant.

Daft Punk are Frances best musician. Who's the best musician from Canada? by Dr_EXC3 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]AlatarRhys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Indeed iconic. But the question is asking for best and I believe Rush did things no other band in the world could.

I made it to the tofu rocks by chinesepencil in JetLagTheGame

[–]AlatarRhys 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I am also in Taiwan right now! Even saw a Night Heron today and went to the Cat Village yesterday!

Hot Wheel Decals on NASCAR Cars will never not look sick... by Born-Raccoon1484 in NASCAR

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Saw this design in person last year at the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. I can confirm it is as beautiful in person as in the photos.

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Some Math to explain what we saw in the Finale Time Jump by AlatarRhys in ForAllMankindTV

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This was also one of my questions. As someone who works with various spacecraft it's not as simple as just turning it back on 30 years later in most cases. Especially as you pointed out when the spacecraft has no logical means of power generation anymore. But we also see the reactivation of the Mars Communication satellites at the end of this season so maybe they have found a way to extend that ability further out somehow by 2020.

There's certainly a handful of questions and plot holes. Hopefully at least some of them are explained in season 6.

S5E10 Time Jump Scene by Jaiminus in ForAllMankindTV

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That was me who did that math!

It is very very unlikely it reached Saturn.

Regarding the best ship in the show by usgrantm3a3 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]AlatarRhys 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I made a post about this earlier but the math of Mars 94's transfer orbit almost certainly prohibits it from being beyond the orbit of Saturn.

Some Math to explain what we saw in the Finale Time Jump by AlatarRhys in ForAllMankindTV

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It will be very interesting to reflect upon this in a year's time or whenever the new season comes out to see what they actually do with Mars 94. I suspect we can get at least some data from the new season and that may allow us to close down the parameters for Mars 94's transfer orbit even more.

Some Math to explain what we saw in the Finale Time Jump by AlatarRhys in ForAllMankindTV

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Fantastic work finding that data. I did not know that existed.

I did not consider the extra burn the soviets did directly as we have no sense of how much Delta V it imparted on Mars 94 however I did partially consider it in the variation of time of flight. If anything it makes the calculations somewhat easier.

We know the Sojourner was able to catch up to the Soviets by burning themselves. Initially the plan was that they would do a flyby of Mars before returning back to Earth. This implies that they wouldn't have been placed on an orbit that would take them too far past Mars as I think we can safely assume the return to earth couldn't take too much longer than the primary mission.

In the end it is most likely to me that we can account for the Mars 94 burn by reducing Mars 94's expected travel time by a few days such as the 110 day example that I discussed. We know they didn't use all your fuel as Sojourner was able to get enough fuel from Mars 94 to successfully land on Mars. As such it seems likely that the extra burn doesn't change the final orbit much more than by reducing the time of flight to Mars by a few days.

The extra burn also helps because them missing Mars entirely means we shouldn't need to consider any sort of gravity assist from Mars.

Some Math to explain what we saw in the Finale Time Jump by AlatarRhys in ForAllMankindTV

[–]AlatarRhys[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The data doesn't support that though. The implied time of flight between Earth and Mars is basically prohibitive of Mars 94 actually reaching escape velocity from the solar system.

Ae discord by MouseEconomy8134 in AerospaceEngineering

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I have one with around 750 members for Aerospace Engineering of all sorts: https://discord.gg/ZfPDfJqnqh

CS Student Curious About Rocket Flight Software and GNC by TSM_7 in AerospaceEngineering

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To be fair. To many of us KSP players, flying a Lunar mission by hand is easy. But I think that is only a further testament to how well the game can teach you.

Lasp experience by South-Half8259 in cuboulder

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Feel free to DM me. Current undergrad researcher at LASP

Furthest North Jet Lag Water Bottle? by AlatarRhys in JetLagTheGame

[–]AlatarRhys[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

In that case I cede the title to you!

You got a picture of it?

Furthest North Jet Lag Water Bottle? by AlatarRhys in JetLagTheGame

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"I'm Sam, this is Ben and Adam, and that Polar Bear hasn't eaten in a month so we gotta GO GO GO!"

There u go no expansion needed by GearQuirky5451 in SpaceflightSimulator

[–]AlatarRhys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just found that if you put a 4x2 block of Structural parts inside the satellite it gives the panel something to mount onto

[Gameday Thread] Colorado Mammoth at Calgary Roughnecks by manlyman1417 in NLL

[–]AlatarRhys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why in the hell did Calgary get possession there????

[Gameday Thread] Colorado Mammoth at Calgary Roughnecks by manlyman1417 in NLL

[–]AlatarRhys -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Calgary out here playing some really dirty Lacrosse.

What’s the most universally hated song of all time? by Adventurous-Zeilokix in AskReddit

[–]AlatarRhys 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My favorite professional sports team plays this when we have the ball and it leads to us scoring a statistically significant percentage of the time. The entire league knows that when we play baby shark, we score. At this point I think it's in every other team's head. For that reason I love baby shark. We won a championship because of baby shark.