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  1. Thunder Chicken

    News Changes to the SpaceX BFR rocket.

    Could just use Starship to deliver stainless steel to Mars and call re-entry the self-smelting feature. Well, when most of the cryogenic propellants boil away on the way to Mars, it might have a very low density indeed.
  2. Thunder Chicken

    News Changes to the SpaceX BFR rocket.

    We also need to remember that the fantasy that Musk has been chasing is interplanetary missions to Mars with a thin atmosphere and the Moon with no atmosphere. Until they can get out of our gravity well they are going to have to cope with our thick and chunky oxidizing atmosphere. The stainless...
  3. Thunder Chicken

    What music are you listening to?

    That was better than it had any right to be. Here's a human doing it:
  4. Thunder Chicken

    Question Implementing XRSound in Lua?

    XRSound methods are available in the Orbiter Lua Script Interface doc under XRSound Class. You can use xrsound:set_defaultsoundenabled (which, enabled) looped over all default sound IDs (which), and set the enabled booleans to false.
  5. Thunder Chicken

    Updates Artemis Program Updates & Discussions

    Unless 79-year-old Trump is planning to become a Futurama-style Head of State with his head kept alive in a jar, there is no way this will be the order of events, even if he achieves his dream of being president for life. We've been repeatedly designing, building, scrapping, and revising moon...
  6. Thunder Chicken

    Updates Artemis Program Updates & Discussions

    I really wonder if the current regime will simply fold up NASA altogether. They hate NASA's science efforts and hate space race "losers".
  7. Thunder Chicken

    News Changes to the SpaceX BFR rocket.

    Oh no...not V2s!!! We care where these land!
  8. Thunder Chicken

    News Changes to the SpaceX BFR rocket.

    Maybe just quietly put a pile of zucchini under the launch mount, and then tap Superheavy on the shoulder and point down to it? Also would need to sneak a couple into the hot staging ring for extra performance from Starship. Of course, this would only work once.
  9. Thunder Chicken

    News Changes to the SpaceX BFR rocket.

    https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/random-comments-thread.770/page-1024#post-47699
  10. Thunder Chicken

    News Changes to the SpaceX BFR rocket.

    Well, they failed to explode unexpectedly. Disassembly was scheduled, not unscheduled.
  11. Thunder Chicken

    Question Trying to implement keypress detection in Lua. [SOLVED]

    I have been out of the loop of this thread for a while. Why can't oapi.keydown(kstate, OAPI_KEY.KEY) be used in clbk_consumebufferedkey(key, down, kstate) for this in Lua? I don't see why a compiled DLL is needed at all anymore. My Lua add-ons all have keypress events.
  12. Thunder Chicken

    News Changes to the SpaceX BFR rocket.

    Well, the last Starship failed to explode, so some light entertainment was needed to fill the void.
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