L6[00:49:15] <Izaya> How does using engines for attitude control work?

L7[00:54:40] <umaxtu> like gimballing?

L8[00:56:03] <darsie> sometimes asymmetric thrust.

L9[00:56:14] <darsie> Do RCS engines count?

L11[00:59:09] <Izaya> Oh, gimballing is an obvious way, isn't it

L12[00:59:20] <Izaya> but in said dres bridge video they were used in place of RCS

L23[03:19:22] <raptop> Oh, throttling individual engines like is done with some aerospike shenanigans

L35[05:24:14] <raptop> !mission

L36[05:24:20] <raptop> !mission

L37[05:24:21] <LunchBot> You pet Kountdown. Turns out mission planning technique is more important than rocket size.

L42[06:22:29] <Izaya> Maybe I should write a proper manager for engines-as-RCS as a kOS script

L43[06:23:00] <Izaya> but I don't tend to build the sort of massive things that need that sort of brute force control

L52[09:37:07] <funkenstein> ;mission add You test the amperage of a kerbal.

L53[09:37:07] <LunchBot> Added mission: You test the amperage of a kerbal.

L54[09:56:39] <funkenstein> ;mission

L55[09:56:39] <LunchBot> You tape down the trigger of your handgun, deciding to just use the safety to fire it. However, you lack sufficient fuel to maintain your heading.

L57[10:00:46] <funkenstein> ;mission

L58[10:00:46] <LunchBot> You attempt to pet the UmbralRaptor. Your brain is poured into a computer.

L60[10:55:24] <Eddi|zuHause> sounds like a success to me

L67[13:22:06] <Azander> ;mission

L68[13:22:06] <LunchBot> You attempt to parse HTML with regex. You try to calm your passengers down by explaining that there's nothing to be nervous about, but are cut off by a distant explosion.

L69[13:41:10] <darsie> These roadmap stops ... will they be extensions you can buy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbZ6M9Whyc4&t=182s

L70[13:43:51] <Althego> hehe parsing html with retgex causes explosions

L71[13:43:57] <Althego> -t

L72[14:03:19] <Mat2ch> Well... to be honest, there were attempts and yes they failed :D

L75[16:07:11] <FLHerne> ;outcome add Some of your crew escape the ship and return to Kerbin. Some go off seeking Ultima. Some are doomed to "SOMA," an exile where you sleep for a billion years. Most of them experience bizarre space deaths that even now don't make a lot of sense.

L76[16:07:11] <LunchBot> Added outcome: Some of your crew escape the ship and return to Kerbin. Some go off seeking Ultima. Some are doomed to "SOMA," an exile where you sleep for a billion years. Most of them experience bizarre space deaths that even now don't make a lot of sense.

L77[16:07:46] <FLHerne> https://gizmodo.com/remember-inside-ufo-54-40-the-unwinnable-choose-your-o-1552187271

L78[16:10:19] <raptop> Incidentally, SOMA the videogame felt like a classic case of "SF made by people who haven't read much SF"

L79[16:15:54] <FLHerne> in a good or a bad way?

L87[18:37:42] <raptop> Fluburtur: in a bad way

L91[20:33:49] <funkenstein> ;mission

L92[20:33:49] <LunchBot> You attempt to pick a gimbal lock. You have angered the nuclear weasels.

L93[20:34:51] <Althego> hehe

L94[20:34:58] <Althego> puns anger a lot of people

L96[20:42:21] <raptop> oh, right, I got tab-jacked a few hours ago

L97[20:42:50] <raptop> Anyway, I'm sure that the angry nuclear weasels realise that they're also at least a pun?

L98[20:44:03] <raptop> FLHerne: In a bad way in how it handled a lot of stuff related to AI, mind-uploading, transhumanism, etc. Also some spaceflight stuff that seemed like they didn't really understand things, but needed to grab some diagrams to make it look like they did.

L99[20:44:19] <raptop> Also, it didn't help that the protagonist was so thick you could use him as neutrino shielding

L100[20:51:19] <FLHerne> eh

L101[20:51:30] <FLHerne> isn't that every sci-fi movie ever made?

L102[20:51:42] <FLHerne> with extremely rare exceptions

L103[20:52:38] <raptop> unfortunately, kinda

L104[21:02:02] <FLHerne> ;stupid mysterious illness

L105[21:02:02] <LunchBot> "One of our crew has a mysterious illness. I will refuse to let him on board, yell at everyone, and then set fire to him with a flamethrower in front of his girlfriend and most of the rest of the crew."

L106[21:02:55] <FLHerne> the only way I can rationalise the plot of 'Prometheus', or a lot of these movies really, is that the HR department deliberately set them up to fail as part of the Conspiracy

L107[21:03:16] <SporkWitch> there's a plot in prometheus?

L108[21:03:50] <FLHerne> you have a crew of highly-trained experts from across the settled galaxy, hand-picked for their suitability for this exploration mission

L109[21:04:46] <FLHerne> and they're all, without exception, undisciplined morons with no interpersonal skills and little ability to perform even their own roles

L110[21:05:37] <raptop> I saw the flamethrower part first and for a moment thought that this was about The Thing

L114[22:49:46] <packbart> hm. I can't say I remember watching Prometheus. maybe I should

L115[22:51:22] <packbart> I mistook it for "Sphere" based on the "hand-picked experts with no interpersonal skills"

L116[23:22:07] <umaxtu> that describes this channel

L117[23:28:34] <packbart> nah, I can't remember anyone picking me for channel duty

L118[23:31:42] <raptop> packbart: both movies are pretty meh, so it's hard to say if you should watch them