they dont launch anything here

Ew lol

JPL and vandenburg is in socal

they do some launches there

you can only launch someplace with a wasteland to the east

in case of crashes

Have you stepped on any needles lol

since most efficient orbital trajectory is to the east due to the earths spin

No never

I live in the nice suburbs

I go into city sometimes but usually only the good parts

I also know that because I've played Kerbal Space Program 😉

FUCK YES

lets talk about that game sometime

Yeah I think I’ll never step a foot in San Fran

im a fanatic about that game

yeah, me too

I love the Tsolkovsky rocket equation

make spreadsheets to compute my own delta v

they're coming out with a 2

with multiplayer

i heard, right now its just a concept trailer

space satellites look like viruses

i would love it if the game could have lagrange points

but i recognize thats not trivial

i play kerbal

welcome

yeah, Scott Manley is pretty cool.
say.. you said you live in the Bay area? :p

kerbal is the most intellectual game

my mom was a mathematician too

Never met Scott Manley i know he lives here too

how much hair do yo have?

Haha

I still have most of mine

fly safe

have u been to space?

nice sealander

on your mom

never been to space, but my dad does have some souvenirs of satellite parts

they never flew though

i will go to space

im less excited about it than i was when i was younger

it's possible, that the children born today, will go to space the same way we fly to Paris

before i would have left everything behind to go live on mars

happy diwali

i mean part of it depends on your definition of space

like if they come out with suborbital trajectories as super fast commuter travel does that count as space

And when you were a kid you weren't aware that you were living in a future multiracial shithole that won't be able to get to space

in my mind, to really be in space, you need to be in orbit

suborbital doesnt count

sadly i was aware of this shit even as a kid

Tsolkovsky never got to work on rockets that made it into orbit.
He missed the beginnings of orbit-capable rocket tech by a bit.

well, young teenager, i redpilled myself by like 15

well, I guess if the suborbital arc is long enough, I would consider that to be in space

i m not redpilled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJs9RIuOLWQ&feature=youtu.be

i wouldnt

I can’t wait when atomic heart comes out

i think to be in space, you need to be staying in space unless you take actions

so you need to be in orbit

@fuguer how old are u

@deleted account Your parents were redpilled on India, which is why they don't live in India

okay racist

early 40s

yeah but in your local area, in the space-plane, you would have the feeling of being in orbit

finnmark

yeah but if you just want to call space microgravity you can get that without going to space

jump out an airplane

why even fly in planes?

That man who base jumped from "space"
Not technically correct, still amazing

any inertial geodesic trajectory is going to experience zero g

its degenerate

yeah i dont like the idea that, oooh ok 20k height is now space

space to me means orbit at minimum.

esp for frivolous reasons most do

Get this into a voice chat

"fed"

my wife will yell at me if i voicechat

hes banned

whenever i sound happy she gets upset

Oh

21.7km
His free fall time was 4m 37s <:soyboy:421747339167006724>

shit i was that close with my 20k figure

damn

good on me

Imagine terminal velocity for over 4 minutes
Amazing

even more amazing if you understand general relativity

and what that means

gravity blows my mind

that him falling is actually a straight line

in curved spacetime

its really spacetime that is curved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PW0EyfdADc (:

he should have been wearing an atomic watch to see if there would be a time difference once he got back on earth

definitely is

its like 0.0s on a second

but there is one

I should check the flight path
See how much he drifted

the GR part is easy to remember.... time dilation is equivalent to lorentz transform of the escape velocity fior the massive object

which is why you can see time stops at event horizon where escape velocity is zero