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Was anybody else who wasn't already familiar with "Porkchop Plots" expecting this to be one of those weird medieval stories, that was a "plot" (to overthrow the king or something) that somehow involved pork chops?

Or something like the Pig War of 1859[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)

Closest thing along those lines that came to mind was the Battle of Pork Chop Hill in the Korean war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pork_Chop_Hill

Made me think of the crazy chicken wing menu prices, solved by graphing - https://www.boredpanda.com/chicken-wing-pricing-structure-ma...

I went to a TVTropes mindset and thought Porkchop plot was going to be a type of story plot, like Jigsaw Puzzle plot[1] or Kudzu plot[2].

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JigsawPuzzlePlot [2] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KudzuPlot

Oh, right, they have those in Kerbal Space Program.

Well, not in the main part of the game, but if you install the MechJeb flight computer mod (one of the more popular ones) then you can generate these and plan your maneuvers. (It's a great add-on, and it does a lot to help turn the game from being Kerbal Rocket Simulator to actually being Kerbal Space Program.)

Or if you don't want to install a mod, there's AlexMoon's Launch Window Planner [1] or KSPTot [2].

[1] https://alexmoon.github.io/ksp/

[2] https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/33568-...

Did Johann Lambert put this together in 1761 with the expectation that it would be used for interplanetary travel? I can't imagine many other uses for this.

Lambert's work was concerned with the orbits of comets: http://www.kuttaka.org/~JHL/L1771e.html

I don't think he was thinking about applications like human spaceflight at that point.

Comets! Of course.

> I don't think he was thinking about applications like human spaceflight at that point.

Haha that's an understatement. Yet I want to believe that he hoped someday we, too, would become comets.

The Slovenian page is less imaginative.

sk is Slovakian.

I can see how somebody would think that "Slovenčina" means "Slovenian" though. (Slovenian is actually "Slovenščina".)

Have you seen their respective flags? SRSLY! these two nations could do LITTLE more to help curb the confusion.

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