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from PlanetJam 2, a new KSP planet mod: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/211156-v10-central-fire-planet-jam-2-armstrongs-limit-homeworld-in-the-ilio-pyri-planetary-system/

Zhandar’s appearance in telescopes.

Zhandar is a gas giant planet orbiting Pyri at such a distance that it might actually be comfortable to live at, for a change. The discovery that it was made in large part of hydrogen and helium helped bolster the ancient and well-respected theory that the universe is made up of concentric shells orbiting a Central Fire, made of lightweight ethereal matter that doesn't unbalance the cosmos too much. The fact that all that lightweight, ethereal hydrogen gas added up to be more than a dozen times heavier than Armstrong was, somehow, considered unimportant. Unfortunately, due to its water and hydrogen-rich composition, Zhandar doesn't actually have a surface you could land at and walk on, so mission planners see it instead as a huge mass that a spacecraft could do a gravity assist off of.

Such trans-Zhandar trajectories would allow access to the rest of the Pyri system, and even the Ilio system, with considerably less rocket fuel than if it were avoided altogether.

Approaching Zhandar with the NA-03 “Spirit” probe.

Spirit detaches its atmosphere probe on a collision course with Zhandar’s trojan, Beddul-Dopale.

Haut-Oklo to the left, Beddul and Dopale are the distant worlds in the center of the image near the spacecraft.

Arrival at Beddul-Dopale. BUT THIS AIN’T A BEDDUL-DOPALE APPRECIATION POST, IS IT!

HERE IT IS IN OUTER WILDS STYLE FROM THE ART MY FRIEND WOLF-RAYET @thefallencomet​ MADE.

reddit likes it, which i honestly didn’t expect!

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/211156-v10-central-fire-planet-jam-2-armstrongs-limit-homeworld-in-the-ilio-pyri-planetary-system/

Welcome to Armstrong

Radius: 950,000m (1.5 Kerbin Radii)

Surface Gravity: 1.75G

Atmospheric Pressure: 0.068atm

Orbital parent: Pyri, a red dwarf star.

Orbital and rotation period: 6 hours.

System Layout: The Ilio System is a large and complex system. Counting stars, planets, moons, and asteroids, there's a total of 101 objects.

The Ilio System is divided into an Inner System, with four gas giant planets, the Pyri System with its planets and trojans, and an Outer System, with three gas giants on two orbits with associated coorbitals, and a distant dwarf planet.

The Inner Pyri System. This is your home in space. Note the prevalence of asteroids in the Arriprit Belt. What may look like clutter in the map view is actually vital early-space-program scientific targets, and refuelling infrastructure that can be used to climb out of Pyri's steep gravity well. Zhandar is a mid-size gas giant that can be used to provide powerful gravity assists, these trans-Zhandar trajectories are some of the most important in any deep space interplanetary mission. 

Zooming out to see the Outer Pyri System. Bifröst is a superjupiter. Its magnetodisk is visible as a dim rainbow ring in the night sky. Its enormous mass also makes it extremely useful for providing gravity assists. If you can get out to Zhandar, you can get out to Bifrost. And if you can get out to Bifrost you can go anywhere. Beyond Bifrost, but much less massive, is Sinacin-Glice.

Zooming all the way out, we can see the Outer Ilio System. Pyri is so small compared to its double-sun parent that it can support trojans, leading and trailing 60 degrees away from Pyri but in the same orbit. Beyond the destabilizing influence of Pyri are Oynag and its trojans, and the Tobalk-Turtlestar binary. There's also four dwarf planets in this part of the system.

Armstrong's Limit is the altitude and atmospheric pressure at which water boils at body temperature, a property discovered by General H.G. Armstrong (not the Apollo astronaut Neil). Put simply, above that altitude, the air is so thin that your blood would boil, and you could not survive without a space suit. It corresponds to an atmospheric pressure of 0.0618 atm. The planet Armstrong's atmospheric pressure at sea level is barely above that, at 0.068atm; and much of its glacial highlands are below that pressure.

From an in-universe perspective, Armstrong is named after Harriet "Arm Strong" Kerman, an arm wrestler and amateur pilot who... erm... 'discovered' the limit, prior to the development of the Kerbal Space Program. Armstrong's atmosphere is so thin because it orbits point blank around a red dwarf flare star--it probably started out as a very thick water-hydrogen envelope before that got blown away by intense solar wind and ultraviolet flares.

From an IRL design perspective, Armstrong's atmosphere is so thin to make designing re-entry vehicles intentionally difficult. Returning to Armstrong requires slowing down from a 3.5 km/s orbital velocity using an atmosphere that doesn't really want to do that, but which is still thick enough to cause shock heating damage to your craft. Armstrong is like the real life Mars in that respect, with reentries resembling the 7 minutes of terror that occurs during Entry Descent & Landing sequences for Martian spacecraft.

Why make it so difficult? Armstrong is the sequel to Mesbin in my mod Whirligig World, a totally airless super-earth.

There, care must still be taken to design landers if you want to return your crew home, but you dont have to worry about aerodynamics at all (unless you're flying to another planet.)

As difficult as Mesbin can be sometimes due to its sheer mass (its rapid rotation gives you a major head-start into orbit, but climbing from low orbit to its moons or escape velocity is tough), but after playing Armstrong, not needing to worry about aerodynamics feels almost luxurious.

I’m of the belief that it’s a very likely theory (especially given the way they’re all poised and ready to give Heidi shit any time she even alludes to her marriage), but I have no evidence outside of my gut feeling to back it up.  That’s why I’m always very careful to say when something is just my opinion (which is like 90% of this blog).   I have a gut feeling that SadOldMagician came to @procancelled as a form of damage control - but having seen the kind of behavior that some of Jared’s staunchest supporters (many of whom are or at least WERE also members of the pj2 discord and subreddit) have displayed, I would be very unsurprised to have my suspicions officially confirmed.

I wouldn’t go putting anything on twitter just because (A) it is still very much an unconfirmed rumor and (B) the stans will descend on you en masse, as is their M.O.  It can be a lot to handle.

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Eleanor pulled into her driveway after a long shift, she sighed feeling the day become heavy on her shoulders. The drunk driver made a mess in the ER, she stayed behind to help others at the scene then worked her night and day in the hospital. It wasn’t until her boss threatened to remove her vacation days did she comply to take the next few days off. 

“Fuck.” She mumbles, looking down at her swollen pinky. Thankful that nothing a Tylenol and icing can’t fix. Walking up to her door, eyes look up to fall upon a familiar figure, sitting on her porch step. 

He looked exhausted. 

She wondered what caused his restless nights. 

Inwardly groaning as this wasn’t a conversation she wanted to have right now. All she could ask for was a good night’s rest but even that might be a difficult feat. The woman hadn’t seen him since they last slept together, since she walked out before the rising sun. 

“Joseph?” Eleanor asks, walking up her porch. She felt like a mouse walking right into the Lion’s den. “Hey... What are you doing here?” Taking a step up, she leans against the banister and gives him a small smile. 

“You’re not hurt are you?” Hazel eyes give him a quick once over, a picturesque version of a man who’s seen things no mortal should. “Because I’m technically off the clock.” She tries to lighten the mood only to be blanketed by a heavy emotion she couldn’t describe. 

Still silence.

“I uhm–– Meant to call you. Or reach out at least... Send a carrier pigeon. Message in a glass bottle kind of thing.” Eleanor admits, never liking the idea of him being just a one night stand. “But the hospital was swamped and I’m sure you were busy too.” She justifies her lack of response. “I was eventually going to drop by the station to see you but it looks like you beat me to it.” She gestures as he graced her her front porch.

@josephhudson

For Project 2, I chose a scene from Friends, when Joey was on the game show Pyramid and giving out hilarious answers. The concept was to visualize the dialog in a game show format. 

Through visual research, I found that typical TV game show environment conveyed a sleek, modern and exciting vibe using neon glow colours and sans-serif typefaces. These elements were borrowed in order to create the same mood and tone for my resulting video. 

The dialog between Joey and his teammate, Gene, were presented in a “Questions and Answers” format, split into two screens. Similar to game shows, where a digital screen displays the question for contestants to read. Both dialogs are present at the same time to remind the viewer what question Joey was answering to.

One of the challenges I encountered was how to make the video more dynamic than just a static split screen with changing texts. I ended up combining scale and the spherize effect in order to make the dialog “pop” with the voiceover.

Another challenge was to incorporate the answer to Gene’s questions on the screen, without distracting Joey’s speech. My solution was the have the answer in the background using the screen effect. It is not distracting to the main text but visible enough for the audience to notice it. 

Looking back, I wish I had a better solution to some of the animations. For example, a method to better incorporate the background audience laughter that’s present throughout the clip. Nonetheless, I am satisfied with the overall outcome.