Except in KSP, where the death of one Kerbalnaut is a good day, but bad days tend to include things like 'the orbital station had an unexpectedly close encounter with Duna and attempted to perform an emergency lithobreaking maneuver. Unfortunately, the stresses caused by the attempted lithobreaking exceeded design tolerances and the entire thing underwent rapid unplanned disassembly, resulting in the loss of the entire crew.'
Yes, I'm bitter, why do you ask?
Quote:Hazard wrote:
Except in KSP, where the death of one Kerbalnaut is a good day, but bad days tend to include things like 'the orbital station had an unexpectedly close encounter with Duna and attempted to perform an emergency lithobreaking maneuver. Unfortunately, the stresses caused by the attempted lithobreaking exceeded design tolerances and the entire thing underwent rapid unplanned disassembly, resulting in the loss of the entire crew.'
Yes, I'm bitter, why do you ask?
My condolences on the loss of your virtual materiel and Kerbalnaut crew. But I have to say that "lithobreaking" (should that be lithobraking?) is arguably one of the more amusing euphemisms that I've heard.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
Ebony Wrote:"lithobreaking" (should that be lithobraking?)
Depending on thec context, "lithobreaking" might actually be an appropriate euphemism.
@Ebony, I intended to use the latter. English needs less homophones.
My thanks for the condolences, I'll pass them along to the families of the crew.
I've found that I've become halfway decent at constructing (interplanetary) probes, but orbital stations remain a challenge to construct solidly enough and timing burns properly can be even more so, even with MechJeb handling most of the planning. I had intended an aerobraking maneuver to establish an orbit over Duna for a contract. I ended up with hosting a few funerals with empty caskets on account of there being no remains available even if I could afford to send a crew to look for them when I checked the orbital insertion trajectory too late to do something about it with the anemic but high I[sub]sp[/sub] station keeping drives I use for, well, stations.
@Tennie, sadly, lithoi did not break.
It's good to have a map of Balrog locations, I think. After all, what killed Moria was that the Dwarves delved too greedily, and too deep. If they'd had a map, they could have detoured around the Balrog and just dealt with the Orks. A much simpler task, as any D&D veteran can tell you.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
IMAGE: "The Yellowstone superwhat?" "Oh, boy, someone's about to learn something cool!"
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Rather than quoting from
today's column, I'll just say that as soon as I saw the title, I thought of Ziggy Stardust.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"Pretty sure the pull I'm feeling is in that direction."
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
I like spiders. Spiders are cool. If you haven't found it yet, I recommend "The Amazing Spider House."
Cockroaches, on the other hand, give me the willies. If it had been the gravitational pull of cockroaches, I would be totally out of here.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
Quote:Ebony wrote:
I like spiders. Spiders are cool. If you haven't found it yet, I recommend "The Amazing Spider House."
I respect spiders. Spiders keep insect populations down. I wouldn't deliberately kill a spider, unless I knew or believed it to be dangerously venomous and in a place where there was a high chance of it biting some human ... especially me (even then, I'd prefer to capture it and release it somewhere safer). But ... I can't stand
anything crawling on me. If my convulsive "get it off me" jerk causes a spider's death, I'll only be mildly regretful.
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Big Brother is watching
you. And
damn, you are so bloody
BORING.
Quote:Spiders are quantized.
Also love the SI unit for milligrams of spider. We need to incorporate that into the classic "furlongs per fortnight" gag.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
In case anyone else hasn't seen this.
From the what-if.xkcd.com page:
"Note: What If updates are temporarily on hold,
and will resume on July 14th, 2015 at 7:49:59 AM EDT. "
Hmm, that is a very specific time to resume.
I could understand if it was July 14th, 2015 at 7:49:5
7 AM EDT... but why two seconds after that?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Kilroy Wrote:Randall has announced a new book! It comes out November 24, 2015
See %[link=http://blog.xkcd.com/2015/05/13/new-book-thing-explainer/]http://blog.xkcd.com/2015/05/13/new-boo ... explainer/]
I wonder whether he used
http://splasho.com/upgoer5/]this editor while writing the book.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
What if Randall Munroe was interviewed by
The Register?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/29 ... _register/
![[Image: randallmunroe.png]](http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/11/20/randallmunroe.png)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Hmm. As opposed to having his ducks in a row....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
"
Here's the good news: NASA will have to pay for your car."
With a close second to the image text "STATUS: NEW HORIZONS HAS, AT LAST, CAUGHT AND DESTROYED PLUTO."
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"
Jupiter's upper atmosphere (the part we would see before we died) ..."
(When the answer starts with "We don't know!", it's difficult to find a good line. Except for the final line, which I make a habit of not spoiling.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012