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I'm just sitting here thinking "Ah yes, I see someone is playing KSP"
"I was speeding to slow down officer"
Veterans of Kerbal Space Program will be vindicated by the video and the knowledge we amassed over years of planning transfers and docking with objects.
You have just inspired me to play kerbal space program again...
Ahhh, those Kerbal memories
Kerbal 101
you fool I already knew this via the countless kerbals lost in the name of science
If you play enough KSP none of that feels like a paradox
I would have needed this video when I started KSP...
I bet the most ridiculous thing we'll talk about soon is the amount of energy it takes to fall into the Sun.
I think we really need distinct words for logical paradoxes and "paradoxes" that are just unintuitive results. Every time the latter is referred to like the former like this I feel immense pain
Me as a seasoned KSP player: "Ah yes, finally some physics I understand"
My favorite counterintuitive orbital fact is that a gas cloud (which is gravitationally bound, and therefore a huge amount of particles more or less in orbit around one another) heats up as you remove energy from it. When a star forms inside one and literally starts blasting the cloud with enormous amounts of energy, it cools down. It's basically the "higher orbit means lower speed" thing, but for a LOT of particles at the same time.
somebody played KSP for THE FIRST TIME in 15y ...
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you can hear orbital mechanics explained to you, but you will never truly understand it until you learn it with your body in Kerbal Space Program.
All of this becomes blatantly obvious if you play enough KSP.
KSP fans, this one is for us!
Kerbal Space Program did wonders for helping me understand how difficult space travel can be
0:30 did you just low-key admit you never played KSP?