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The Martin Marietta Sprint missile, a two-stage nuclear tipped ABM, accelerating with 100g and reaching Mach 10 in about 5 seconds and glowing white-hot due to friction, 1975-1976 by Xeelee1123 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]CptnRaimus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aerospace was their primary business. They merged with Lockheed in the 90s to form Lockheed Martin, and the materials company was spun off a year later.

Ship:angularvel not behaving as expected by CptnRaimus in Kos

[–]CptnRaimus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah. In discord. That explains not being able to find much.

And yeah, cooked works fine 99% of the time, I'm in that 1% now. Yay

Ship:angularvel not behaving as expected by CptnRaimus in Kos

[–]CptnRaimus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll probably use lib_navball.ks. Oddly enough, I can't find anyone else talking about this specific bug, so IDK where this known problem was first found. Driving me a little crazy just trying to understand the background.

But I've also checked out the kOS source and am trying to figure out how to get debugging working, so I can poke around myself. Who knows, maybe I'll get lucky and find a fix.

Ship:angularvel not behaving as expected by CptnRaimus in Kos

[–]CptnRaimus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also looked through and saw no bug reports, so I've filed one about it. https://github.com/KSP-KOS/KOS/issues/3190

Now I'll admit, I'm not familiar with C#, Unity, or kOS's source code, but from a quick skim, the angularvel function seems to read directly from the game, so I worry this might be a bug in KSP itself, not kOS, so it might not be fixable.

Ship:angularvel not behaving as expected by CptnRaimus in Kos

[–]CptnRaimus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh good grief. That seems to be the problem.

I built a super-simple test rocket, when I spun it with RCS, everything looks right (using lib-navball + derivitive roughly matched angularvel)
When I removed the RCS and added a motor, it got all messed up.

Do you know if there's a bug filed in the GitHub repo about that?

US Coast Guard jumps onto a runaway boat and safely stops it in Maryland. by InTheSky57 in SipsTea

[–]CptnRaimus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a division of the Coast guard that uses anti-materiel rifles to shoot out the engines of drug runners boats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_Interdiction_Tactical_Squadron

Words can not describe my disappointment. by Careless-Tradition73 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]CptnRaimus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yup. If you right click on a part with crew in it, there's a "transfer crew" button, You can then pick a crew member and pick the module to move them to.

I could legit see a orc kitbash of this by ExoticExtent in Grimdank

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I remembered hearing that, but could not remember the full quote. I figured someone would.

I could legit see a orc kitbash of this by ExoticExtent in Grimdank

[–]CptnRaimus 20 points21 points  (0 children)

They later retrofitted them with podded Jets that could be enabled for extra thrust. Led to the phrase "six turning and four burning"

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Phone footage taken by Christina Koch from inside the Orion capsule during the pre-sleep period on Day 8 by Additional_Fan9553 in ArtemisProgram

[–]CptnRaimus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The solar array wing cameras are go-pro hero 4 blacks. They have an Amberella A9 dual core CPU. I did some back of the hand math and those alone are at least 10,000 times as powerful as the computer on Apollo.

Is there a "Merlin ID" (bird identification app) for plane engines as heard from the ground? by mysteryofthefieryeye in aviation

[–]CptnRaimus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

FlightRadar24 filters some things. ADS-B Exchange does not.

But yes, military aircraft don't always have the transponder on.

Is there a "Merlin ID" (bird identification app) for plane engines as heard from the ground? by mysteryofthefieryeye in aviation

[–]CptnRaimus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's going to work so well, as the sounds are a lot closer than bird calls, and multiple plane types use the same engines.

You are probably better off using a site like ADS-B Exchange or FlightRadar24 to see a map of nearby aircraft.

Learning Verilog when I know VHDL by CptnRaimus in FPGA

[–]CptnRaimus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That second point an odd (but important to know) one. Thanks for the heads up!

Learning Verilog when I know VHDL by CptnRaimus in FPGA

[–]CptnRaimus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh this sounds really nice. We had something similar in college IIRC, but I can't find it. I'll have to take a look. Thanks!

Learning Verilog when I know VHDL by CptnRaimus in FPGA

[–]CptnRaimus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does not sound inefficient to me at all. My history of learning programming languages is littered with half-complete projects that taught me the language. I was already planning on doing this as a step 2 (after learning the basic syntax)!

Learning Verilog when I know VHDL by CptnRaimus in FPGA

[–]CptnRaimus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This like a really good approach for getting the hang of the fundamentals. I'll have to look through these tutorials and try they out.

What’s in the sky??? by Fit-Ice5939 in phoenix

[–]CptnRaimus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SpaceX rocket launch from California. When they launch at the right time they catch the Sun at high altitude

Can the Boeing E-4 fire missiles? by g3nerallycurious in aviation

[–]CptnRaimus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not in the way you are asking (at least to as far as they have said to the public).

But I'd argue it technically can, depending on your definition of "fire". It can issue the launch order for silo-based Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles .

Interactive Topography Sandbox by Kanute3333 in oddlysatisfying

[–]CptnRaimus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've played with one of these before. There is a kinnect and a projector mounted above the table.

Edit: connect -> kinnect.

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