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You just send the commands upside down and it works


They put all thrusters in now-spaceward direction, there is not a single RCS port not coupled less than 50% with that direction. With enough KSP flight hours you'll understand that that could do the job, except for this precise situation.


So maybe we could move the moon then?


Basically the same as contacting Australia


Little known fact, but this is why binary was chosen to represent data in the digital age, 1-s and 0-s look more or less the same upside down.


The concept of endianness would like to have a word with you.


We need middle endian



Down under they call it numboriginality.


Unicode already has a special case for this, right?

"Upside down hiragana right yourself". "Mirrored upside down hiragana right yourself".

And 31284 related emoji.


Although I know you're poking fun, I just want to note here that HN is not reddit :)


And humor is not forbidden here, only low effort comments/jokes. And I think this one passes the bar .. (close probably, but I thought it was funny)


But all the bits might spill out!


Send them from Australia.




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