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Anon invents a new way to travel (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 185 points 9 months ago (15 children)

would be cool if inertia wasn't a thing

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 133 points 9 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.

[–] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 85 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 103 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 19 points 9 months ago

What a great origin story

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 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@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's where I learned about it.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

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

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 24 points 9 months ago

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

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