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Antzi

01:05

@kimholder Not enough, altho I'm actively working on it

3 hours later…

kim holder

03:36

@Antzi it just sort of happens that you say good night, and then later i see you are on line again, and i do the arithmetic. hazard of lurking here so much, i guess :]

Antzi

@kimholder I'll report you to the mods for Stalking !

Oh wait...

kim holder

stalking is our job... :]

Antzi

Altho this gives you a time box at best :p

kim holder

well, when you tell me you are going to sleep, and then you are back here 7 hours later, that says something :P

Antzi

I lied !

I went to watch a shojo before sleeping :p

kim holder

03:48

yes, well i assumed i had to deduct at least an hour from supposed sleep time, unless your computer is strapped to you

Antzi

So what time did you clocked me in ?

kim holder

up there i noticed your icon had appeared in the sidebar, when i said i was involuntarily tracking you, and that was 6 hours after you'd last spoken in here.

i couldn't tell you what time it was where you are, it shows time according to the timezone of the user's computer.

Antzi

Hmm, that would be 1:20 -> 7:20

which is wrong, i woke up after that

kim holder

...but your icon had appeared in the sidebar...

i don't see how that can happen unless you reload the page

6 hours later…

Hohmannfan

10:11

Found in a piece of documentation: "The standard format for angles is radians. You can change it to degrees in the preferences. However, the program does not really like that, so it will give you radians anyway."

5 hours later…

kim holder

14:41

@Hohmannfan all documentation should have an Easter egg or two like that :))

duzzy

When is the launch?

Oh, this evening?

Welp, time to go to work.

kim holder

4:30 your time. there's a party and everything.

at Goddard. we just get to watch.

2 hours later…

kim holder

17:07

@uhoh so, are you going to ask the edited version of your question as a new question?

5 hours later…

Phiteros

22:15

50 minutes until launch now!

Phiteros

22:28

Anyone else watching NasaTV right now?

Hohmannfan

Yes

10 mins to launch.

PearsonArtPhoto

22:44

T-5 hours, 20 minutes?

5 minutes, 20 seconds I guess...

5 minutes.

Except of course for the 15 minute hold at T-4 minutes...

I like SpaceX's missions better. The build-in holds are REALLY annoying...

Hohmannfan

Also, SpaceX missions have more cool explosions and barge landings/crashing.

PearsonArtPhoto

Even the static fire tests!

kerbalspacecat

-_-

PearsonArtPhoto

I HATED space shuttle launches.

kerbalspacecat

But they had explosions too!

PearsonArtPhoto

22:48

There was two holds as I recall, one at T-9 minutes, and one at T-4 minutes.

You never knew how long it actually was until launch.

kerbalspacecat

@PearsonArtPhoto grump

PearsonArtPhoto

Was I the only one who heard T- 5 hours, 20 minutes?

Hohmannfan

I think this is my favourite rocket launch streaming moment: youtube.com/watch?v=rgNRINLfNrs&t=45

PearsonArtPhoto

No, twitter heard the same thing as I did.

Phiteros

They said they expect an on-time liftoff

kerbalspacecat

22:52

Ooh for once the mission sounds more exciting than the launch

PearsonArtPhoto

Once upon a time I applied to work for this mission.

Hohmannfan

@PearsonArtPhoto Please explain?

PearsonArtPhoto

Well, I used to live in Tucson.

The mission is being run by the University of Arizona, in Tucson.

I was bored with my job at that time, and applied to work for that mission.

The problem is, it would have been a large pay cut to join that mission, and not particularly safe employment.

I would have worked with the systems ground software team.

Launch on time verified!

So even if the rocket will blow up, the launch on time has been verified, so...

OSIRIS-REX is being run out of the same building where the Phoenix mission was run.

Phiteros

Wish I had some peanuts

kerbalspacecat

Damn, my stream is nearly a minute behind :-(

Also if you're going to always have a compulsory 15-minute hold at T-4 why don't you just call it T-19

PearsonArtPhoto

22:58

Wow, that's an old school control room...

Two of them.

Hohmannfan

What millennium is this?

kerbalspacecat

Hey, they have flatscreens, it's not too bad

PearsonArtPhoto

The OSIRIS-REX control center is a bit nicer...

Hennes

I guess since the fastest normal launch would be without a delay.
Pesky real work time messing with scheduled things :)

I solid looks weird. Non seymmetrical

PearsonArtPhoto

The video looks way better for F9 missions too...

kerbalspacecat

23:09

@PearsonArtPhoto Maybe they don't have to use disposable single-use cameras :-P

kerbalspacecat

23:26

Oh and a return mission also lets you analyse the materials with >10 years more modern/advanced equipment

Hohmannfan

Time travel at 3600 s/h

Phiteros

23:50

The electric rail blimp guy is back again.

kerbalspacecat

Ooh they just flew over MH370

Hennes

apogee -3443.92 ?

kerbalspacecat

@Hennes Isn't that what KSP says when you're on an escape trajectory?

Hennes

NO idea. I played it a bit, but I never noticed it

kerbalspacecat

@Phiteros wat

Hohmannfan

23:55

I must say this particular scheme has a disturbingly high concentration of 'wat' :

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Q: Electric powered blimps, plane, and rail

This question is similar to my previous ones but configuration is different and so is the question. Could an electric turbine engine plane create enough of it's own lift not to burden an electric rail that is evenly supported by electric powered blimps?