academic victimhood complex

10/10 intro post, easily the highlight of tonight's Phone In Bed Time

If you want to play it you can join the discord server! I don't think there are any currently open games (you can ask) but they happen frequently.

Class E Asteroid intercept

After deploying a sentinel infrared telescope we discovered a class E (854-3828 tons, the largest class) asteroid, and it was on it's way to Kerbin, with a periapsis of 42 million meters, not exactly armageddon but I have never seen an asteroid in-game so I wanted to check it out.

The keen-eyed might notice I packed thousands of dollars of scientific equipment, guess how much of it works on asteroids? zero. The only thing you can do is take samples, which is really stupid, especially in a game with much sillier experiments (i.e measuring the air pressure in space thousands of km over various planets, guess what, it's always the same result) But I digress. i wasn't doing this for material gain, despite being one of the most expensive missions I've ever done.

The asteroid would enter Kerbin's sphere of influence around 20 days after discovery, and exit it only a few days later, so I built the ship and got to low kerbin orbit, from there I aligned the orbit with the path of the asteroid and planned the manuever. KSP doesn't seem to expect manuevers this many orbits ahead, so I actually had to use an autoclicker because 20 days is a ton of orbits.

This was my first time doing a rendezvous like this where I was trying to "catch" it at a specific point, I expected it to be much harder than it was. Once I arrived to the asteroid and latched on with the claw I realized the hatches were blocked.... This wouldn't do and this mission already took like an hour so I wasn't going to make a "rescue" mission just to move a little light off of the hatch, so I teleported an engineer over before sending him into the sun to make up for my crimes.

Highly recommend this video by Bowman TV exploring the ecological damage done to our rivers & wells:

i was looking for gifs of the animations of clippy from windows 98 and i couldn’t find any, so i made this ones!

The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon. The Apollo 8 mission was the first crewed spacecraft to circumnavigate the Moon.