That's why in KSP I use the space map and just keep adding DeltaV until the orbit line from my rocket to the mun is a straight line and I launch when the planet is right in front of me.
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Jacks why so aggressive. Need a sabbatical?
that's fucked
I am having trouble reading that. For anyone else struggling:
The real hero here
"If you miss, you end up among the stars."
OH DEAR LORD WE ARE OUT OF FUEL AND OXYGEN IT'S SO COLD SO COLD
"Among the stars" might suggest it's very much not cold. You're in a stellar nursery.
I had a manager tells me this once. It was literally written on the mug he was drinking out of at the time. I remember feeling so valued and inspired.
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Anyone who has played KSP knows that getting to the Mun is harder than it seems.
Orbital mechanics are a bitch.
Getting to the Mun was actually pretty easy for me (or I got lucky). Landing on the Mun/surviving is a whole different story.
And don't even get me started on getting back from the Mun, ~~when~~ if you do survive the landing.
Sorry Jebediah, that was a one-way trip.
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You could fit every planet in the Solar System between Earth and our moon simultaneously.
I have a feeling we would have a lot of problems if you did though.
It's definitely not recommended by the few cosmology sources I've read.
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Fuck you for making me look this up. Only Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune would fit together. Venus, Mars, and Mercury are too much.
Depends on which part of the orbit. Perigee (closest point) is ~ 354,491 km surface to surface. Apogee (farthest point) is ~ 397,291 km surface to surface. At Apogee you could got them all. At perigee not at all.
I think our oceans would leave earth, tide-wise speaking
Please don't.
I bet I could miss those, too.
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Spoken like someone that hasn't played Kerbal.
Ya but the moon covers at best only about 10 ppm of the sky's area so given a random direction within the hemisphere defined by the sky in which the moon is visible and traveling in a straight line you have a roughly 99.9990% chance of missing so that's understandable really.
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The moon takes up only around 0.00077% of the visible area of the sky. That's a pretty small target. A deviation of .52 degrees from any point on the moon you are aiming from earth will miss.
Who are these people who cross out two letters of a cussword worried about? Everyone can still read this and all it does is make the edit look like someone is a pearl clutcher.
It's typically for posting to platforms that "deprioritise" posts that contain "naughty" words, not actually anything about humans caring about it.
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Make sure to lead your shot. At Apollo velocities, you’ll need to aim where the moon will be at in three days, not where it is right now.
Why limit yourself to Apollo velocities? We're trying to shoot the moon, not land in it.
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Oh my god I can still see the swear you tried to censor you satan worshipper! I'm so offended I dropped my body of christ into my tea!
The internet is for children ONLY, please take this FILTH back to your BBS, heathens!
I was promised some fucking filth
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That’s like the pasties of censorship lol
I thought i was gonna have an easy time aiming for yo mama,
But the joke is on me cause i miss her.
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Actually it makes more sense to state the moons solid angle in the sky from where I'm standing, instead of its diameter ☝️🤓
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Yes you could have fucked this up more. You could have posted this censored bullshit on the Internet
It's moving 1 km/s, though.
No worries, we will loop back around using a slingshot maneuver, keep going until we get where we want to be. :)
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