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myothertardisisonthemun · 1 year ago

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When you played with Encarta 98, how much time did you spend on the orbital mechanics minigame? (And was it at all relevant for your later Kerbal excursions?)

I actually had to look this up, it seems familiar, but I don't really have specific memories of it

When I first started playing kerbal, my first rockets just few straight up. I 100% knew this was wrong, but it took a bit to make something that could fly a sensible trajectory without collapsing.

I don't really remember too many specific parts of Encarta TBh. I think it all got lumped into general knowledge.

My clearest memories of Encarta was the double split experiment thing, though:

Somehow that was what stuck with 6-8 year old me

#I think there was some stuff about atoms and maybe electricity but yeah i was pretty young when i had this #My high school physics class did do ballistic motion but there's a bit of a jump between looking at newton's canonball and understanding #how shaping orbits using thrust works. The XKCD comic about understanding orbital physics is very true #encarta #microsoft encarta #kerbal space program #oh hey this finally posted. i hit queue by mistake and it got lost in the void forever

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