No... you can't deorbit moons in stock kerbal space program, the planets and moons are all on rails, but I did some number crunching to figure out what it would need. Warning: Big Numbers Ahead
Пікірлер: 1 800
@RaggedLands8 жыл бұрын
Deorbiting a moon is easy, all you need is Majora's Mask
@BountifulGames8 жыл бұрын
yes
@joshpeterka40348 жыл бұрын
In a simple calculation of amount of force used, Majora's mask might just be the strongest weapon in the Zelda universe.
@davecrupel28178 жыл бұрын
lol
@JonMW7 жыл бұрын
Eventually, the power output of an angry Cucco will defeat even the moon
@christiancasaverdepertica18027 жыл бұрын
+Josh Peterka No, that would be an angry Cuoco
@scottmanley11 жыл бұрын
I have a degree in physics, and I spent 5 years doing postgraduate research in Astrophysics. That was however a decade ago, I'm no longer a professional physicist, but I still know enough to speak with some authority.
@thesharky Жыл бұрын
Amazing
@J_Has7 жыл бұрын
2:18 "realistically you're gonna want a few million engines on there" oh the irony
@CUBETechie5 жыл бұрын
And the strongest engine
@alex95sang525 жыл бұрын
@@CUBETechie Not the strongest, the most efficient
@Alex-kh8zj3 жыл бұрын
@@alex95sang52 I disagree, you'd want the strongest engine per m^2
@iiRoot_3 жыл бұрын
@@Alex-kh8zj yup
@arandomcommenter412 Жыл бұрын
@@the10thdimension 6 years ago
@scottmanley11 жыл бұрын
In real life capture is a 3 body process, so, 2 asteroids interact near a planet, once gets captured and the other gets kicked off and escapes the planet's influence.
@MrAliquam8 жыл бұрын
"I'm Scott Manley, fly safe" - But I don't know how to fly a safe...
@VioletScarelli5 жыл бұрын
moar boosters is all it takes
@Superjump1002 жыл бұрын
you predicted it
@MinistryOfMagic_DoM2 жыл бұрын
@@Superjump100 I like to think this comment is what sparked the idea.
@GP22855 Жыл бұрын
Fly Safe is the rocket from KSP2
@scottmanley11 жыл бұрын
Yes, if the rocket exhaust velocity is comparable to the escape velocity then the thrust is lost. The Moon now has more atmosphere than it did in the 1950's because the various spacecraft that have visited the moon have added some gas.
@RafaelRabinovich8 жыл бұрын
What will it take for future engineers to prevent our real life Moon from eventually flying off into Space? All we need is to push it's orbit 3cm closer to Earth each year, to counter it's current expanding orbital radius.
@scottmanley8 жыл бұрын
+Rafael Rabinovich most of the current altitude gain is driven by the earth's oceans, in a billion years it's expected those will be dry and the moon will remain in orbit until the sun dies.
@startrekwarsmixguy8 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if that's good news or bad news .
@quadrplax8 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately by that point it will already be too far away for solar eclipses
@bw86968 жыл бұрын
Not really good or bad, considering that by then humans will have either died or moved out long before
@joshpeterka40348 жыл бұрын
We could increase it's mass by constructing buildings out of mined asteroids on it. Using earth material would only serve to transfer the mass within our binary orbit. A mass increase of one of the objects in a binary orbit brings the orbit "closer".
@liesdamnlies337210 жыл бұрын
You know, this is why I love math. We can think about completely, totally absurd ideas. And then, after a bunch of engineering advancements, realize those ideas are no longer completely insane and build things like, say, an A380.
@TrumpeterOnFire10 жыл бұрын
Or a Saturn V. Or a B-2.
@mgviral9 жыл бұрын
TrumpeterOnFire dat Saturn V dou
@JasonJason2109 жыл бұрын
TrumpeterOnFire Or Kerbals.... :/
@davecrupel28176 жыл бұрын
Astronomy thinks big Mathematics thinks bigger
5 жыл бұрын
I hate math
@DexterBelgium10 жыл бұрын
Realistically, you're gonna want a few million engines on there.... Your definition of realistically is epic...
@billyshears18918 жыл бұрын
I thought I read "How to Detroit a moon"
@phoenixrosebaxton9908 жыл бұрын
That's like one of the worse things I can think of to do to the moon
@joshpeterka40348 жыл бұрын
I can't resist an extremely inflamatory comment; Let the US government manage if for a century.
@averyshaham16977 жыл бұрын
Donald Clinton 2020
@roanoneill91367 жыл бұрын
Donald Clinton 2020 me to
@elliotgengler31857 жыл бұрын
Just move all the Ice Cream Factories to Minmus. You've Detroited the Mun.
@JodianGaming8 жыл бұрын
I realize this video is old, but here's a thought Scott. Did you take into account the density of the fuel in your calculations? The engines aren't just pushing the moon, they have to move all that fuel as well.
@moseszero32817 жыл бұрын
and the rest of the rocket parts
@howlingdin93327 жыл бұрын
What if the fuel is in orbit and being transferred with a flexible tube?
@akm74637 жыл бұрын
Howling Din this is an ambition that I like instantly
@tsgaerospace7 жыл бұрын
this was my 1. concern
@Markle2k7 жыл бұрын
+Howling Din The fuel in orbit would be part of the moon's system. You would have to adjust its momentum in any case to keep it near the moon. TANSTAAFL here as well.
@scottmanley11 жыл бұрын
Eh what? Rockets have hugely powerful turbopumps that push the limits of mechanics? Don't those qualify as moving parts?
@scottmanley11 жыл бұрын
Black holes have no upper limit on how much mass they can suck in. There is a problem with how quickly they can suck matter in, if you dump too much matter into black holes at a time it squirts some back out before it reaches the event horizon.
@RKroese8 жыл бұрын
19 Million years? So you are saying that it CAN be done! >:D
@friedkeenan8 жыл бұрын
No. He explicitly said it's not possible in the very beginning
@RKroese8 жыл бұрын
Fried Keenan Why you got to give me no love, maan... where is the lovin'? Why you givin' me da stink-eye? Da cold-shoulda'? Why... huh? Why?
@richietkd118 жыл бұрын
+Fried Keenan Fuck you.
@schizophil13 жыл бұрын
@@richietkd11 hello person 4 years ago… simpler times
@richietkd113 жыл бұрын
@@schizophil1 I don't even remember writing that lol
@SrZyrkon10 жыл бұрын
Relax, it's only rocket science.
@maartenkramers83146 жыл бұрын
Matt Lowne: I de-orbited a magic asteroid today! Scott Manley: Hold my beer...
@totallynotbubsbackupaccoun20277 ай бұрын
golden
@user-rf4sy4cw6n9 жыл бұрын
Look at Lodgard's face from 3:04 to 3:20
@erikthegodeatingpenguin23359 жыл бұрын
Дани Ласаль Poor Lodgard.
@jeremiahdauphinais71869 жыл бұрын
Дани Ласаль I LOL'd
@TinchoX9 жыл бұрын
Дани Ласаль R.I.P Lodgard.
@Merilix28 жыл бұрын
+TinchoX Im quite sure Jeb would had a smiling face :)
@CiPhEr5057 жыл бұрын
Дани Ласаль Robbaz, "For the Fallen" - Kevin Macleod
@DimmVargr6 жыл бұрын
"The densest element we know is awesome" - YT subtitles
@IronQwerty1359 жыл бұрын
1:26 cough infinite fuel cough
@Thinnestmeteor9 жыл бұрын
Elvis van Voorst *cough* Still millions of years. You would have to be VEEEERY bored to do that. *cough*
@IronQwerty1359 жыл бұрын
yeah youre right
@MCAroon095 жыл бұрын
Cough infinite thrust cough
5 жыл бұрын
@@Thinnestmeteor cough cheat the thrust to an insane level cough
@icedelectriced5 жыл бұрын
Dies
@penguinmaster79 жыл бұрын
i bet danny2462 could find a way to glitch the mun out of orbit
@waleedahmed45918 жыл бұрын
+Goggles Tigerkhan by using 10000 mammoths and throwing kerbals in their exausts
@justanotheryoutubechannel8 жыл бұрын
+waleed khalid Or planet destroyer-ing it, like he did in Special Agent Kirrim on Duty.
@waleedahmed45918 жыл бұрын
Just another KZbin channel yea the spear thingy :D
@scottmanley11 жыл бұрын
You don't need much CPU to move the moons off rails.
@scottmanley11 жыл бұрын
Actually, as a black hole's mass goes up the event horizon radius increases linearly, but the volume goes up by the cube of the radius. So, as you throw more and more matter into a black hole its effective density (based on the event horizon) goes down. Black holes that are billions of solar masses would have a density roughly equivalent to that of air.
@JamesEdelson7 жыл бұрын
"Realistically you would need about a few million engines on there" realistically
@notastrain9 жыл бұрын
**deorbits kerbin** HAPPY END OF THE WORLD _(brought to you by danny and hyperedit)_
@odnem8 жыл бұрын
Scott, you're my new kerbal hero! your tutorials are both fun and educational! and it made my KSP experience tripple aswesome!
@FiksIIanzO8 жыл бұрын
You missed something: To deorbit a moon, you would need a shitload of fuel. However, this fuel isn't just present there - it has mass of it's own. In fact, in order to move a moon using fuel, you would have to move the whole system of that moon, fuel, fuel tanks and engines - all adding up to whole mass counter. That means you would need MUCH more fuel to move the moon AND itself, along with tanks and engines, and adding a single engine would mean adding more fuel, because engines, of course, have mass, too. There is another thing, however. By adding so much shit onto the moon, you would greatly increase it's mass, therefore it's gravity. It may be even enough to cancel the orbit and make the moon crash straight into the planet! Who knows? Calculations have to be done.
@103035icle8 жыл бұрын
the weight of the fuel would be negligible compared to the satelight
@FiksIIanzO8 жыл бұрын
It may be much less, but definitely not negligible - still thousands and thousands of tons. I'd do calculations, even, but I'm too lazy to do that.
@Medhusalem8 жыл бұрын
Though you still won't need as much as he mentioned. He said that he would want to "deorbit" by changing the velocity of the moon to 0. You don't need to do that in order to consider a moon being deorbited.
@FiksIIanzO7 жыл бұрын
Medhusalem Problems of definitions. Of course it depends on the body that the moon orbits around, but decreasing velocity to zero is a fool-proof way to deorbit something - say, if both objects are just physical points with zero volume.
@arandomcommenter412 Жыл бұрын
How did those calculations come out
@evilemperordude7 жыл бұрын
"nothing you can do will adjust their orbit in any way whatsoever." Unless you install HyperEdit.
@augurelite10 жыл бұрын
"realistically you want a few million engines on here"
@daishinkansama6499 жыл бұрын
This needs to be a feature
@WilbertLek7 жыл бұрын
Look, just change the gravitational constant of the universe. It's simple...
@caloss29 жыл бұрын
Of course you can de-orbit a moon, haven't you seen "space 1999" ! dammit Yes I'm joking.
@Quasihamster8 жыл бұрын
+Caloss2 “KZbin” Channel But if you want to de-orbit a moon rightly, you better throw a pommel at it.
@deivisony8 жыл бұрын
+Jugde S I'm Brazillian And I love my country it is the best no corruption 10/10 IGN
@deivisony8 жыл бұрын
Jugde S didn't paid they didn't have Money for it
@kot_robot820510 жыл бұрын
BUT won't the gas from your engines eventually FALL back on the moon, cancelling its work?
@IngoGerth10 жыл бұрын
No, because the gas particles are expelled at a higher speed than the local escape velocity, which means they will fly away into space.
10 жыл бұрын
Damn you Isaac Newton!
@cammack0710 жыл бұрын
That logic, I don't think it logics what you think it logics. I'll see myself out.
@ryankelley0110 жыл бұрын
Get wrecked
@SteelFyire10 жыл бұрын
tim n Actually, that probably would be a significant issue if you were trying to deorbit Kerbin, Eve, Laythe, or Jool, given that the atmosphere's would reduce the exhaust velocity of the rockets to the point where they wouldn't be able to escape the planet.
@Become-Eggplant8 жыл бұрын
Would be fun to Push the moon near Kerban. You know, Like a Super Villain.
@kyleeames94709 жыл бұрын
I vaguely remember a science-fiction book I read where a moon of Jupiter had massive metal coils built around it, generating electricity from the Jupiters magnetosphere and slowly de-orbiting the moon in the process. Would that be feasible?
@Joesolo139 жыл бұрын
It'd be /possible/. Building coils the size of moons is no where near feasible today. We can barely get the funding to launch small probes to mars.
@Crikey1610 жыл бұрын
They way Scott says "moon" is litteraly the way i always imagined the kerbals saying "mun". Way to go Scott, made my day ^^
@bjornmacintosh495410 жыл бұрын
You sir, are a numberphile. And it's awesome!
@WH40kruless11 жыл бұрын
Hey Scott, can you do a video about what it would take for planets/moons to orbit around YOUR spacecraft? That would be really cool!
@jonofwrath10 жыл бұрын
Scott, you're a clever guy - I really enjoy your vids - high five, Buddy!
@grogman4933 жыл бұрын
Scott Manley: You'd need 276,785,714,285 fuel tanks! Stratzenblitz: So... it's do-able...
@chucknorrisftw9711 жыл бұрын
3:17 the look on that kerbals face! priceless!
@trueMSB3 жыл бұрын
3:17
@blqkvo11 жыл бұрын
As an engineer and a mathematician I really enjoy the fact you bother to check the maths within the game. Keep it up!
@LarsaXL9 жыл бұрын
So you can't deorbit a moon in the game because of game mechanics, but it would be possible in real life yes? In theory at least. If a moon was hit by a rouge planet or a huge comet/asteroid from the right angle, wouldn't that possibly deorbit the moon? Even if it shatters the moon, the force might be enough to slow down the pieces enough for them to rain down on the planet.
@cylelangenhennig62429 жыл бұрын
According to my physics class, if something shatters mid-flight, all the pieces will spread out, but if you averaged their distances and masses, the center of mass would still be on the same trajectory. Some pieces might get thrown off track enough to enter the atmosphere or become ejected, but the majority of them will remain in orbit. For something as large as the moon, they would probably eventually come back together due to gravity!
@LarsaXL9 жыл бұрын
But if a moon ran into something of rougly equal mass in a head on collision, wouldn't that slow it down to near standstill? I agree that most impacts would leave what was left of the moon in orbit and it would probably pull itself back into shape eventually. Since orbit needs velocity, slowing an object down puts it in a lower orbit. If a celestial body had no velocity, then the strongest force of gravity (In a moons case, the planet it used to orbit) would just pull the object in a straight line. I agree that this is an extremely unlikely scenario, but it is a big universe and it is not impossible that something like this has happened or will happen. An impact from a large body on a moon could alter the mass of the moon significantly which would, if not totally deorbit it, then at least change its orbit distance.
@cylelangenhennig62429 жыл бұрын
Yes it is unlikely, but you're right. If something with equal kinetic energy (could be something less massive but moving much quicker, or equal mass and speed) hit the moon from the opposite direction, it would stop in it's tracks. It might break up a little bit, but some LARGE pieces would fall straight down to earth and would likely destroy all life, if not the entire planet. I could imagine something of that size striking the earth could break up the crust and smash it down into the mantle or something crazy like that!!
@LarsaXL9 жыл бұрын
Let's hope that never happens. And if it does, lets hope it happens to some other planet with no life on it, but still close enough for us to observe. Though any kind of impact on the moon would slightly alter the orbit by adding more mass, or making a small change in velocity. I think. Just like everytime a meteor strikes earth, it adds to the earths mass and gravitational pull by a very small ammount.
@tagertg20869 жыл бұрын
SHould we just fold that under one of newtons laws : for every action there is a oppsidte and equal reaction. Considdering the materials of the object would stay togethere that is exactly how it would happend(forces canceling eachother out. But ofc , it will not. It will acctullay be more like having 2 water ballons thrown at each other. If you managed to do it perfectly.
@mannofdober8733 жыл бұрын
Been nearly 9 years. Still burning. I think I've shaved off 0.000001m/s.
@SickSkilz4 жыл бұрын
I love how fot the sake of the vid, Scott flew some tanks to Gilly to run the into the ground
@Ryanark10 жыл бұрын
I dont get it why his videos keep apearing on the video list.. I dont even like Kerbal Space Program!?
@scottmanley10 жыл бұрын
Because youtube analyzes the data and it see that people that like MInecraft and Garry's Mod also tend to like kerbal space program. I just wish they'd make videos appear for my subscribers regularly... Or maybe they know I have a whole pile of NWA in my record collection.
@pearchris10 жыл бұрын
Scott Manley I like those two things and found your channel because of it. And I started watching your Interstellar Quest. Only 18 parts in now, but its great. But watching it, I had the thought of what it'd take to move a moon which lead me to THIS video.
@slyguythreeonetwonine31729 жыл бұрын
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@Ryanark9 жыл бұрын
Slyguy threeonetwonine Lol yeah, i commented this some time ago and ive been using adblocker ever since. Coincidence? yes probably.
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@tery21510 жыл бұрын
But I can use hyperedit to move the moon D:
@joshuabennett237610 жыл бұрын
hyperedit was probably released after the video
@xxDrain6 жыл бұрын
It'd be kinda scary if you could, cuz one glitch could send your planets flying away from the sun.
@MrTantofu7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for saying at the beggining that is not possible, and not clickbaiting us for 10 minutes. Much respects to you sir !
@tuginator11 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love the fuel mass to moon mass ratio. Does your calculation take into account the required additional force to move the mass of the fuel as well?
@fax287710 жыл бұрын
Challenge accepted
@NathanWakeman3 жыл бұрын
Did you do it?
@schizophil13 жыл бұрын
Really? Did you?
@trinitrojack11 жыл бұрын
Pretty cool! I wonder if a more practical approach to deorbiting a massive body would be to redirect the path of a similar object so as to collide in a planet-ward direction. Fly as you wish!
@leexgx5 жыл бұрын
KZbin really wanted me to watch this again 😁 (recommended list) so I had to watch again, you should try again but mod in a silly amount of rockets on it
@GodOfTheeGames10 жыл бұрын
MY BRAIN! It can't handle this much... Math... Must... Get... Cyanide...
@grinderfoot33717 жыл бұрын
GodOfTheeGames He didn't show you the math. Only the results.
@hofer0x06 жыл бұрын
GodOfTheeGames or Soviet womble
@csam91675 жыл бұрын
And Hapiness
@Koriolis10 жыл бұрын
Your accent is awesome, sir.
@thebottlerocket41003 жыл бұрын
Love at the end of the video he lightly taps the moon and just disintegrated
@hup37695 жыл бұрын
Thank you for not being a clickbaity person and saying that you cant deorbit the moon at the start of the video. You have my respect.
@jordi00115 жыл бұрын
Can you just use the infinity stones and be done with it. Easy.
@5686ingrid8 жыл бұрын
or u could put infinite fuel on
@TheBetito1238 жыл бұрын
but putting all that quantity of engines would take alot of disk space.
@snarkfromhl Жыл бұрын
me after seeing this: "Opens infinite fuel and tries to push gilly"
@scottmanley11 жыл бұрын
Go and watch my science video about the reason why specific impulse is measured in seconds. You'll understand.
@Dude105tanki10 жыл бұрын
Challenge acepted
@thederogativeworld10 жыл бұрын
Or you can use 1 mod and a few mouse clicks.
@thederogativeworld10 жыл бұрын
Because you can put the Mun in orbit wherever you want to.
@thederogativeworld10 жыл бұрын
yeah
@StickmansWrath7 жыл бұрын
With the updates we have today, you can drill the moon for fuel to deorbit it while at the same time having your engines active.
@larisadanilchenko38848 жыл бұрын
Ok, now you are describing how to build Panama channel utilizing Pickaxe. Or how to move a supertanker utilizing beasts of burden. A very useful exercise.
@spiralhaze207010 жыл бұрын
Why does it show ads for Kerbal before the vid? =/
@scottmanley10 жыл бұрын
A kerbal ad? Must be a channel trailer for some other channel.
@spiralhaze207010 жыл бұрын
Oh Boy!! A channel with lots of Kerbal? I should sub to that channel =D
@eatit596210 жыл бұрын
You can actually deorbit a moon. I don't know how but some guy on youtube did it while messing around with a meteor
@Nimbleturkey10 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure it was Danny, and it was a glitch.
@herpyderp536510 жыл бұрын
Link?
@taytheprodigy43887 жыл бұрын
How to de-orbit a moon: take Satan to chipotles Yeah, see where this is going
@deimosian7 жыл бұрын
So... long story short, you need an Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer.
@ChemicleExplosion10 жыл бұрын
What if instead of pushing it we just detonated a huge bomb next to it or potentially launched an astroid at it, that would easily deorbit it right?
@612DwarfAvenue10 жыл бұрын
Think about how much force was just explained in the vid. Now imagine all that force hitting all at once. Sure, you could knock the moon out of orbit. You'd also obliterate most of it and shatter what remained.
@ChemicleExplosion10 жыл бұрын
Serithi I never said I think while writing these comments. XD
@sorenlily228010 жыл бұрын
Serithi Heres the thing though. Yes you might blow up the moon with that much force at once, but other than that it wouldn't actually do anything else. All of the remaining pieces of the moon would probably continue to float around in a relatively unaltered orbit. That's just how the physics work out.
@Dronebertios_World10 жыл бұрын
Stuart Smith that's not how the maths workout at all
@sorenlily228010 жыл бұрын
Patrick Sparks That is how it works but if i need to explain i will. The amount of force our mythical explosion has is incomprehensible and since moons aren't exactly designed to withstand such forces (after all they're mostly composed of rocks so its not that tough) you will break the moon apart before the explosion can apply all of its force. Picture this: You swing a baseball bat at a pane of glass. The glass breaks and the shards go flying. If you hit the glass 10X harder than that the shards don't really go much farther because most of the force of the swing is wasted due to the glass breaking. It's the same thing with our explosion. Most of the force is wasted because it doesn't hit anything once the moon starts breaking. Making the explosion more powerful won't really help because you will break the moon even more. If the moon were indestructible you might be able to make it work but otherwise, no way. If you still want to argue I will be happy to debate with you.
@gnuling2965 жыл бұрын
Don't gravity assist maneuvers reduce the moon's velocity?
@XerosXIII10 жыл бұрын
halfway through the number i can only think of this: "nuke it"
@Fireheart3189 жыл бұрын
That poor kerbal got obliterationized by a tiny asteroid
@indeed728910 жыл бұрын
Alt F12 is your friend
@SINDRIKARL110 жыл бұрын
***** In case you didn't know, Alt+f12 in KSP brings up the debug menu where you can do things like hack gravity (Kinda disables it), infinite fuel, unbreakable parts, unbreakable joints and such.
@melon09510 жыл бұрын
Sindri Karl does alt f12 work in demo?
@skid401210 жыл бұрын
Sindri Karl YOU WONDERFUL PERSON
@melon09510 жыл бұрын
***** im not mexican
@Huntracony10 жыл бұрын
***** and apparently you got five because your conclusion was wrong, so who's the stupid one?
@dmarsub7 жыл бұрын
the title makes me uncomfortable, kind of too click baity for me. "does" could be replaced with "would"
Zestea that is exactly my point. As it is not possible to do it in the game.
@dmarsub7 жыл бұрын
DETH2 DaGOOG good day to you as well :).
@josephtaylor65276 жыл бұрын
you make me uncomfortable
@BitOfABrit11 жыл бұрын
Hyperedit solves all your problems :). Loving these vids keep them up scot.
@jaimeduncan61676 жыл бұрын
You don’t need that delta v, gravity will do it for you. To de orbit on earth you don’t need to Mach the 8km/s delta V . Even so you numbers will be off by a constant (quadratic on v, but just a number) and your conclusions remain. This is one of the best space channels
@Theonegamefreak9 жыл бұрын
Fly safe? But that's boring.
@pyelias52389 жыл бұрын
yeah
@andrewxc13358 жыл бұрын
Can you deorbit asteroids...?
@v44n75 жыл бұрын
you can
@dominicmarino2237 жыл бұрын
You pushed gilly! The height got decreased by 1 meter at 2:58!
@halfofabucket13464 жыл бұрын
Make the rocket a giant scale, but Gilly is the capsule.
@InternetLaser10 жыл бұрын
hey uuuh scott, what if you wanted to deorbit it the other way? you know, make it leave the sphere of influence of it's parent body
@StragTacGaming9 жыл бұрын
Its not possible since all the planets and moons in KSP are on "rails".
@InternetLaser9 жыл бұрын
I know that, I'm wondering on the math, like, even though he showed you couldn't make moons crash into the surface of the planet, he did explain the math if it were possible.
@rainick9 жыл бұрын
***** Well with our own moon it is already happening.
@XxJaguar229 жыл бұрын
rainick Yeah but it will never actually leaves earth's SOI. If the universe exists for millions of more years it will balance out . I don't feel like explaining it since I would make myself look silly with big terms, but just look up "will the moon leave earth" or something like that
@InternetLaser9 жыл бұрын
XxJaguar22 inverse square law, mane. the further the moon gets from earth, the weaker the gravitational attraction the earth has on the moon gets.
@keymind11710 жыл бұрын
Your wrong Scott when you said you can do nothing to a moons orbit, actually with hyper edit you can.
@3of1210 жыл бұрын
hes talking about with rockets... those sort of mods are obvious
@aubreys.83089 жыл бұрын
but still, celestial bodies go through each other with HyperEdit, even though you can make Jool orbit Gilly.
@Titan36011 жыл бұрын
Who knew Jeb had such explosive toes? I mean, he took out his ship AND the entire mini-moon he was landing on.
@justanotherintrovert10126 жыл бұрын
I DID IT! I got an E class asteroid into kerbin orbit, I took a giant craft, with an MK 1 cockpit, a crap ton of fuel (frequent resupply missions) and 1000 Nerv engines, I then let it run for a couple months and sent resupply mission daily, after 6 months, it finally reached a suborbital velocity, I re-entered it and landed it, then I used a giant crane craft to set it on a pedestal next to the KSC
@DCdreamchaser3008 жыл бұрын
First 20 seconds in and i find out the truth, time to watch something else
@StriKe_jk8 жыл бұрын
You don't need to kill the velocity completely to de-orbit an object. So all your math is useless (sorry but not sorry)
@Bit018 жыл бұрын
All he'd really have to do is bring an object close to the moon with enough mass to create the gravity required to draw the moon toward the planet enough to destabilise its orbit. Like a few trillion fuel tanks.
@jupitergd95807 жыл бұрын
kajidono but rocket parts dont create a gravitstional force sadly
@snowjix7 жыл бұрын
IRL it does, but not in game, i dont think
@louisnonyourbuissnes51916 жыл бұрын
Jupiter GD but they do create mass which is how gravity works the bigger mass= the bigger gravitational force
@Nae_Ayy6 жыл бұрын
Not in the game, which is what they were talking about, you morons.
@JackDander11 жыл бұрын
This is like a key mechanic in planetary annihilation. I wonder when it is coming out.
@AGPSoundsystem7 жыл бұрын
this was my introduction to KSP and your channel, more than 4 years ago
@cpjyb8 жыл бұрын
Or you could use hyperedit
@Ali1078 жыл бұрын
Did this once!!
@DawnUnderHeavenA3711 жыл бұрын
this is amazing. My issue is, I don't want to halt the forward momentum, I just want to push them in towards the planet which could be done by pushing in on the outside of the orbit rather than the front.
@Saxie818 жыл бұрын
I really like videos like these. The math heavy thought experiment types
@al123_726 жыл бұрын
If you were going to build a rocket with 276,785,714,285 large fuel tanks then say hello to the ALMIGHTY KRAKEN
@PhoenixFires7 жыл бұрын
Let us simply do what Wise Patrick once said. "Push it somewhere else!"
@Fireheart3189 жыл бұрын
That poor kerbal got obliterationized by a tiny mun
@SephirothRyu7 жыл бұрын
This sounds like a project for SWDennis. He tends to like using mods that let him scale up part sizes by ridiculous factors. Using those mods (and whatever joint modifying mods he uses) you could probably make a ridiculous enough engine to de-orbit a moon if it weren't on rails.
@mac1991seth7 жыл бұрын
It could be interesting if the game has a handful events regarding meteorite showers, asteroids and comets capable of deorbiting planets or other celestial bodies.
@pyr0static11 жыл бұрын
I don't wanna go to work tomorrow... I wanna play this some more.
@Sander_Datema7 жыл бұрын
So basically, the planets and moons in ksp have a similar energy density to rocket fuel... Wow.
@k3rman Жыл бұрын
How mutch time warp did you want Him:Yez
@sgtmiller9011 жыл бұрын
man...I just watched danny and he! CHANGED ITS PATH TOWARDS KERBIN!