Humor Random Comments Thread

[icedown]

Had my sound turned up while testing an MFD tonight. I had a tracepoint running and it caused the sound to become choppy. G/f Thought a helicopter was flying over the house...

 

[Pipcard]

Why do some unmanned ISS supply spacecraft (such as Dragon Cargo and the HTV) need to be berthed to the space station (i.e. attached to the station by a robotic arm)?

Are they capable of docking under their own RCS?

 

[mojoey]

Why do some unmanned spacecraft (such as Dragon Cargo and the HTV) need to be berthed to the space station (i.e. attached to the station by a robotic arm)?

Are they capable of docking under their own RCS?

I would think that its a safety measure, someone who is right there can control the movement, in case anything went wrong

 

[Pipcard]

I would think that its a safety measure, someone who is right there can control the movement, in case anything went wrong

But still, the supply vehicle has to maneuver itself and slow down so it could be captured by the arm.

 

[iamwearingpants]

Here's a smiley for you all:

I'll post a request to make it official in the morning.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Dragon (supply), HTV and the Orbital (Cygnus?) use the Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM). It's a different method entirely from Shuttle's ODS or Progress/Soyuz capture. An CBM berthing port (not docking port) has to be powered up, once the ship is berthed, there is a bolting mechanism that torques down to something like ten tons (something like that anyway).
Smarter people here can have a better answer for you, but I'm pretty sure I've got the basic gist of it.

Wikipedia has some pretty good info regarding the space shuttle ODS, as well as APAS and CBM (and probe-and-drogue).

 

[mojoey]

hi...how's it going

 

[PhantomCruiser]

They're tracing my calls!?!?!?!!!?!?!

 

[mojoey]

They're tracing my calls!?!?!?!!!?!?!

if anyone doesnt get it, i posted a joke about a psychiatric hotline, however, i deleted it just in case anyone has one of those conditions...out of respect:tiphat:

 

[orbitingpluto]

I think the CBM purposefully doesn't have the alignment equipment(Shuttle's spades, Soyuz's probe) so it could be better suited for just holding modules together and connecting systems between modules. Maybe things like the HTV weren't in mind at the time, or they figured that the compromise of making it able to self align wasn't worth it.

I also think this thread needs a little injection of random stuff from one of my open tabs.

Better.

 

[NovaSilisko]

 

[RisingFury]

This image is a bit deceptive.

There are a total of 111 people on the left and a total of 166 people on the right. If you look at the width and height of the columns of people in support, you'll see a difference of 15.

 

[NovaSilisko]

This image is a bit deceptive.

There are a total of 111 people on the left and a total of 166 people on the right. If you look at the width and height of the columns of people in support, you'll see a difference of 15.

Yeah, I'm more thinking of the extremely underused robot in the middle =p

 

[Artlav]

Orulex-like system applied to clouds produces nice-ish surface-level view:

Unfortunately, orbital view sucks:

Making nice procedural functions really takes a fey mood.

 

[blane]

 

[Napalm42]

I feel like I'm in a French electro video xD

 

[Spacethingy]

In 1998, the UK exam board MEG basically turned into a new board called OCR. Several documents, including exam papers had to be changed to replace the old board's name.

In physics papers that year, a new unit of energy was released: the "ocrawatt"...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16221857.700-ocralomania.html

 

[Izack]

Is there an MFD good for constant acceleration space travel?

Sorry for the late reply, but there is indeed!
[ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3111"]AGMFD V1.5[/ame]

Making nice procedural functions really takes a fey mood.

You left out the 128 iron ingots and turtle shell.

 

[Urwumpe]

I just discovered the "NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer - 2" Assembler Manual... a System/360 derived assembler programming language... the instructions look pretty familiar.

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19870067653_1987067653.pdf

(They are the same as they used in the Space shuttle HAL/S manuals)

 

[werdna]

Orulex-like system applied to clouds produces nice-ish surface-level view:

Unfortunately, orbital view sucks:

Making nice procedural functions really takes a fey mood.

Artlav, awesome as always. Maybe the clouds should be only visible from the surface- the backsides without any texture. Then, right above the first system, you should have another one encasing it that is scaled up much larger, but with it's back to the surface, so you can only see it from orbit. I hope I'm thinking about that right.

Also, does anyone know what happened with neebo MFD? The fog/cloud generator?