• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I know it’s just a webcomic but the KSP player in me hates how the engine bell sticks down past the landing legs

    • Kaput@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s an engine skirt. It lets the lander move around on the surface at low thrust. Think hovercraft.

    • foips@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      To be fair it’s also blowing a sandcastle over on the moon. Where there’s no atmosphere…

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        I think expanding exhaust gasses from the engine plume dissipating against the surface could do that if the castle was close enough. But then again, I’m not a physicist, just a KSP player