Shooting stars on the moon... (Destiny)
That space station in geostationary orbit annoys me. If Kerbal has taught me anything, it is that that thing should be falling straight down with an orbital speed of zero!
Come on Bungie, leave me a dead Ghost somewhere explaining how the Hive did it with magics. Or something.
It's called geostationary orbit and it's a thing. Stationary over the planet does not imply an orbital speed of zero unless the planet in question has no spin. That said, it would have to be over the equator, and I haven't honestly paid enough attention to know whether it's plausibly over the equator or not.
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- Shooting stars on the moon... -
Postmortem,
2014-10-13, 07:21
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- It's not our Moon anymore -
Anton P. Nym (aka Steve),
2014-10-13, 07:49
- It's not our Moon anymore -
Cody Miller,
2014-10-13, 10:42
- It's not our Moon anymore - Anton P. Nym (aka Steve), 2014-10-13, 13:10
- Errrr, Cody? - ZackDark, 2014-10-14, 08:23
- It's not our Moon anymore -
Cody Miller,
2014-10-13, 10:42
- Shooting stars on the moon... - iconicbanana, 2014-10-13, 07:54
- Shooting stars on the moon... -
Numinar,
2014-10-13, 09:08
- Shooting stars on the moon... -
Earendil,
2014-10-13, 11:36
- Shooting stars on the moon... - Numinar, 2014-10-13, 15:49
- Shooting stars on the moon... - ZackDark, 2014-10-13, 16:48
- Orbits and rotations of planetary bodies and such. - red robber, 2014-10-14, 00:03
- Shooting stars on the moon... - TTL Demag0gue, 2014-10-14, 09:30
- Shooting stars on the moon... -
Earendil,
2014-10-13, 11:36
- It's not our Moon anymore -
Anton P. Nym (aka Steve),
2014-10-13, 07:49