I do think a big part is these guys seem to get their EVA cues from movies. In real space operations, as long as you do it slowly you can travel long distances with very little deltaV. So going 100m from ship to ship isn't hard at all. And with the crazy Kerbal packs you can do a heck of a lot more. 1km is nothing in KSP for an EVA.
But in movies, you always see the character fearing they will miss the other ship. In movies, EVAs are mostly people jumping from thing to thing with no deltaV capability at all. In that case, you would want to be close so you don't miss your target.
I've landed on the Kerbal equivalent of Mt. McKinley before and it didn't go well. But I wasn't foolish enough to bail out of my ship.
They were close to being able to deploy their parachute and the parachute works quite quickly. He bailed out at 280m/s and he could have deployed at 250 (maybe). Heck, why not just deploy early? It's not like you have other uses for that parachute anyway, fire it and then leap out after it rips off!
They need to get their return capsule weight down. That's why the ship is still going so fast so close to the ground.
Ease up on the metric complaints guys. The issue isn't the meters. Americans know a meter is about a yard. And it isn't like they didn't know the ships were close when they hit each other.
The issue is surely the "per second" part. It could be feet per second or yards per second and they still would be a bit lost. Non-scientists usually work in distance per hour.
Anyway, what should have happened is they switch to the outside view and see the ships look like more than specks to each other. And then they realize it's okay to just try to head right at the other, either in ship or in a jetpack.
If it took Scott over an hour, it'll take Vinny and the crew 6+ months. It's been super fun to watch them slowly figure out their mistakes. What a season.
I don't think they could do it in 6 months. In order to complete the task you have to make forward progress. And GBEast has the classic beginner KSP issue of each rescue mission actually increasing the number of Kerbals which now need to be rescued.
Yes, I would prefer the article not be here. I expressed that. But what I didn't do is tell Giant Bomb what to write and not what to write.
I'm a paying customer. Some companies like to get feedback from their customers. So I gave some.
I didn't say they have to heed it, i.e. to tell them not to write this. It's up to them. In the end they're only going to respond to customers in aggregate. It doesn't mean a feedback by all customers will produce a change by GB. They weight it all and decide what to do.
Yes, I read the article. How would I know my position on the article if I had not read it? After doing reading it, I indicated I would rather not see this kind of article here. I don't really see what's wrong with that.
I would prefer Giant Bomb cover games and leave the politics aside.
I don't mean to be rude when I say this, but it's clear you didn't even bother to read the article if you equate this to not covering games and the effects the current industry has on the new class of visionaries. And that's fine if you want to ignore it. Not every piece of content is here for your consumption. But don't be that person who tells others not to write about something just because you don't care enough to see the connection and how it affects you.
Well, you managed to be rude anyway.
I did read the article. I said I would prefer they cover games. By that I mean exclusively, not the politics.
I wasn't the person who told others what not to write about. I spoke about what I preferred. You however, are being that person who is telling others (me) what not to write about.
Yes, I don't care enough about this to hear of it. I'm not looking for another political site, I've got plenty of places to go to for that.
I would prefer Giant Bomb covered games. It's why I come here. I stated that pretty simply and cleanly. Perhaps not every piece of (comment) content is here for your consumption?
First, I will say you don't have to even say "prostate", if you just say "that scene from Fletch" I immediately think "Mooooooon River".
Now, also: Paul, yes, that is amazingly dickish. I can't imagine how anyone can't see how dickish it is.
Going without your wife because you don't think she's a true-enough fan is insane.
I can understand you don't like bandwagoning, but ultimately that isn't your problem either. As Dan says, just because a person is a bandwagon fan doesn't mean they aren't enjoying it. They aren't doing it just to annoy you, they actually do like the bandwagon. So you should probably learn to live with it.
I also find it amazing a guy who was a mailman and now does nothing at all can look down on others for not accomplishing enough.
I like Paul Ryckert, but Dan is right. Paul is overly judgemental and Dan is right to try to improve his own behavior on that front.
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