Tricky Situation

[Sportgus]

You wake up in orbit, it seems Jeb got angry because you ate his snacks so he sent you helplessly into space.

You assess your situation, this is what you're working with:

The capsule you are currently in has two fuel tanks attached by a tether on the top and bottom, one has no fuel and the other is full of fuel.
What do you do?

This is a challenge of your SFS physics knowledge, only some players will know the solution.
Answer or discuss what you think the solution is

 

[Catalyst_Kh]

Game gives for free some energy - capsule can make powerful turns without any RCS, and this costs no fuel and no energy, it is forever free power. for player's convenience. There are so many ways to use this power...

 

[Marmilo]

Here's my thoughts:
Even if you manage to deorbit using fuel transfer, you won't survive reentry, not sure about the impact

 

[XenonSpace]

deorbit using fuel transfer

How does one be able to do that? Could you show me how?

 

[Marmilo]

How does one be able to do that? Could you show me how?

I think if you transfer fuel while timewarping shifts your center of mass or something

 

[Catalyst_Kh]

I think if you transfer fuel while timewarping shifts your center of mass or something

That will not help.

Even if you manage to deorbit using fuel transfer, you won't survive reentry, not sure about the impact

This is good one!

 

[Marmilo]

That will not help.

I think fuel transfer works different during timewarp than without it, so one of them probably shifts com

 

[Catalyst_Kh]

I think fuel transfer works different during timewarp than without it, so one of them probably shifts com

It does works different - it works faster. Timewarp doesn't halt fuel transferring. But 100 or 1000 times faster switching center of mass between sides still will not help.

 

[Mario Hobbs]

After testing using no grav I have figured out that if you transfer fuel while turning it produces 3-4 m/s of speed which could help deorbit you, then aero breaking might help you live I guess

 

[Catalyst_Kh]

That is correct, but not accurate. You can transfer fuel and make turns separately, there is no need to make it simultaneously. Each new turn after changing com just gives more and more acceleration. But you can transfer fuel today and make this turn tomorrow.

 

[Sportgus]

Yes, the answer is fuel transferring. You can keep changing the com to go in a direction by putting fuel from one tank into another, turning 180 degrees and repeating.
Although you only need to transfer fuel then turn, this only changes the position and will take forever to do anything substantial. On the other hand if you transfer fuel while turning, you will gain velocity which is probably a better choice.
As for reentry, that's not the point, and you can just use a bug which lets you cancel all velocity via drag faster than heat destroys you.

 

[Catalyst_Kh]

and you can just use a bug which lets you cancel all velocity via drag faster than heat destroys you.

How to activate this bug?

 

[Marmilo]

How to activate this bug?

Maybe timewarping in a different craft

 

[Sportgus]

How to activate this bug?

You make sure your orbiting rocket has a periapsis like 100m above the surface, switch to another rocket and timewarp until the original rocket is at periapsis, then switch to it and it should slow you down before you can burn up. You have to be precise and perfect it though, I found out about this from a guy on Reddit

 

[Marmilo]

Yay, called it!

 

[Sportgus]

Round 2​

Jeb still has forgiven you and wants revenge again, so he smacked you over the head with a flag, knocking you out and put you into another puzzle.

You awaken in a capsule and see you are in the air and falling quickly, luckily you awoke just in time to realize you have to figure out how you will get out of this. It seems Jeb put an empty parachute above a separator to taunt you.

What will you do?​

 

[Phoenix Aerospace]

Round 2​

Jeb still has forgiven you and wants revenge again, so he smacked you over the head with a flag, knocking you out and put you into another puzzle.

You awaken in a capsule and see you are in the air and falling quickly, luckily you awoke just in time to realize you have to figure out how you will get out of this. It seems Jeb put an empty parachute above a separator to taunt you.
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What will you do?​

turn the fucker upside down and hope for the best

 

[Sportgus]

turn the fucker upside down and hope for the best

lol that is one way but there is another one i want to see if anyone gets

 

[Idkgeek]

Turn it upside down then press the separator just before you crash. The wake of it's explosion will save you.

 

[Idkgeek]

Or just stay in, do nothing and reveal your emotional state...

 

[Sportgus]

Although litho-breaking is a.solution, another which is quite interesting is separation immunity.
If you use any separating part within around 0.25 seconds of colliding with something the whole rocket will be unbreakable for a short amount of time.
I've created a video demonstrating it:

Let's just pretend G forces don't exist

 

[Idkgeek]

So I was right then another without the correct terms? Sportgus

 

[Sportgus]

So I was right then another without the correct terms? Sportgus

Yeah I somehow misread that and skipped over the word press, you get a slice of cheese

 

[Idkgeek]

Nice. Thanks!

 

[John Spaceflight Simulator]

ROUND 3​

Jeb beat you in go fish and you need to take out your frustration on some ion engines. But there's one problem...

They are all inside this cage!
You may be thinking, why not just destroy the cage? Well that would be a foolish thought, the cages walls have bombs in them. Any destruction would blow up, the planet.
Your task is to reach the ion engines without damaging the cage or moving it out of the way
How will you do it?