Space Voyage #1

[ronthepon]

Hey, wait! I notice a breach!

Yes.... yes!

There is a definite hole here! Air is indeed flowing out slowly!

I suggest a good plug ASAP!!

[Jay-qu]

how did you notice it? The computer says everythings ok - if you can hear the air or feel it this could be a major problem, because it means the sensors arent calibrated correctly..

[ronthepon]

Computer says OK?

Look at this minute reading i'm getting. There is a signifacant pressure over here.

Wait. Let me apply the micromagnets... that should do the test well...

Yeah! See, they are accumulating at the crack!

I'm putting duct tape on the hole for now. I guess I'll apply the hard covering later.

[Jay-qu]

That minute reading is within the operational error of the sensors.. if it wasnt so consistant it would have gone competely un-noticed, good pickup ron

[ronthepon]

Here's the updated damage assesment report.

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DAMAGE REPORT

Date: May 24 2006
Reporter ID: ronthepon

Notes:
Checked for holes in the ship hull.

Found minute holes, speculating on the possibilty of the presence of more. Rechecking hull.

Covered minute holes with duct tape. Requesting permission to use high temperature to weld hard covering on holes.

Damage to crops reported by Boerseun.

Recommendations to authorities:

Attempt recovery of destroyed crops and fast.

Where is my soda dispenser? I am thirsty, but if I start boozing around now we are doomed!
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[Janus]

It turns out that the "frozen" shock absorbers were only a part of the problem with our engine test. It seemed a little odd that our shaking was so localized to the aft modules, so I crunched a few numbers.

It turns out that the pulse frequency of our engines set up a harmonic resonance in the ship's superstructure which concentrated at that point.

As it turns out, our shock absorber problem was a blessing in disquise. Without it, the effect wouldn't have been noticed until we had been running the engines for a longer period and actually on our way. Now we have a chance to work the bug out while still in Earth orbit.

[ronthepon]

How on earth will we fix that?

[Jay-qu]

to pyro's *luck*

Now a few wrinkles have been ironed out, hope there isnt to many more of them!

Currently runny a full diagnostic on the onboard computers, cant take any viruses or bugs with us, these computers are our lives!

[ronthepon]

Soooo... I guess no internet...?

Ofcourse not.

Where are the veggies? They here yet?

[Jay-qu]

you can - once the proxies are up and running. You can stay intouch with family members via email since instant msg and streaming chat will be useless because of the time lag, which will obviously get worse the further we are from home.

As for getting actual web pages, you will have to request these and then we can have the entire page and links downloaded - the download speed isnt the problem we have plenty of bandwidth to play with, its just the lag. Some commonly accessed sites could be updated periodically. We could even host some sites onboard (if our crew was large enough to make it worth it). So gimme some time to work out all the funky programming of these routines.