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[–] [email protected] 184 points 10 months ago (5 children)

would be cool if inertia wasn't a thing

[–] FlexibleToast 131 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Rakonat 105 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The real friends is the pizza we make along the way.

[–] Rakonat 15 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

What a great origin story

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

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

[–] FlexibleToast 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's where I learned about it.

[–] Klear 5 points 10 months ago

Watching the trajectory change as you accelerate is so satisfying...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

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

[–] 13esq 30 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Anon's airship has inertial dampeners. Checkmate, atheists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

That's easy, instead of accelerating towards your destination you just have to brake and stop moving to let the earth move under you, checkmate physics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Doesn't inertia fuel our magnetosphere?