Leaving Earth #2

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If you spend 1 money on the Juno, you won’t have enough to buy off the failure.

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Yep, that’s right. I’m seeing if they’re all successes.

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123
  1. Success
  2. Success
  3. Success
  4. Success
  5. Success

Any other actions for 1958? I’ll roll on in a few hours if not.

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124

91% is good enough for me! Thanks. Done.

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125

Start of year 1959

  1. Japan - @yashima
  2. France - RossM
  3. China - lalunaverde
  4. USSR - RogerBW
  5. USA - Lordof1
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Quick question - what is the balance of outcome cards at the start of the game? (How many successes/ minor failures/ major failures are in the deck?)

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Also… probably just my insomnia talking but I’m mildly struck by the idea that by presuming success in my Juno rockets rather than vigorously testing them, I am slightly increasing the chance that all other technology in the world fails. I need to come up with a good didactic reason for this.

Edit: although I suppose this only counts if the outcome deck reshuffles. Shoddy Juno tech in the 50s means an ion drive failure in the 70s…

128

⅔ success, ⅙ minor failure, ⅙ major failure

Nope. There’s a backup deck which can be brought in if the main deck is exhausted, but discarded cards don’t get reused.

129

Oh well that was a waste of several hours not sleeping then…

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130

Logically it makes sense. A lot of NASA failures were down to improper scientific method.

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131

Have you never sat down in front of a computer and felt the inspiration and creativity being sucked out of you? Technology is clearly vampiric.

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Honestly, this is more likely to happen to me at a party…

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133

Yes, I was reading about the Challenger disaster… urgh. Considering how careful and rigourous their reputation is, they were really careless.

It’s hard not to feel rough for Gus Grissom though. Mad as hell that the emergency door hatch blew without him touching it on splashdown on an early Mercury mission, he was at least partially responsible for the hatch being bolted shut for Apollo… which probably killed him and his colleagues on the Apollo 1 fire.

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134

My favourite rulebook footnote:

  • If you have lost n astronauts, this adds up to –n × (n + 1) points. Please do not lose so many astronauts that you need this formula.
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135

The 2013 TV movie with William Hurt is a fascinating watch.

I think it’s called The Challenger Disaster.

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136

Oh I shall give that a watch. There’s a documentary too which is very good. Sadly, the Columbia disaster seemed to follow the same lines with different faults.

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and too little sleep of their engineers probably. edit: I had a long week-end that was far less relaxing than hoped for. I‘ll need to sleep on my next move.

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138

To add more to the endless possibilities. Happy to combine your Saturn and one I build to each get mass 10 into orbit.

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I should have one spare mass capacity to take to Earth Orbit this year.

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140

can i pass in my turn for now and do it later in the round? i have a terrible migraine and I’m completely unable to think straight enough

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