Am I the first one to circumnavigate Kerbin by land?

[cantab]

Congratulations. Pretty sure you're the only person to have done this on Kerbin. Heck, I doubt there've been that many land circumnavigations of anywhere in the system.

[sal_vager]

Someone did the Mun in a sort of far Lands Or Bust style, and did a tour of old landers and bases from earlier flights, it was interesting to read as he approached each landmark

Wooks, you really outdid yourself with this though, circumnavigating Kerbin is definitely no small achievement

[The Destroyer]

I still remember watching the first episode and thinking "wow that must be really boring... I wonder if he will do it."

You did.

+Rep

[Wooks]

Wait, you spent over 2600 hours real time driving around Kerbin.

Jan 24 --> August 11th is 199 days. You spent an average of 13+ hours per day, EVERY DAY, driving your rover?

Not THAT much, I knew I was going to get bored really fast trying to do it in long sessions so I settled on a weekly schedule: around 3 / 6 hours of gameplay for this save each week, plus 1 or 2 hours of editing the video. The whole series is 24 episodes long so it may have been something more like 80/120 hours for the whole trip.

[Megalodon 720]

This is truly impressive. Have some rep.

[Wooks]

Someone did the Mun in a sort of far Lands Or Bust style, and did a tour of old landers and bases from earlier flights, it was interesting to read as he approached each landmark

Wooks, you really outdid yourself with this though, circumnavigating Kerbin is definitely no small achievement

I'd love to see that one, I'm guessing the files and images are lost... or it is possible to find them? Anyway, I tought about doing the Mun next and visit the anomalies and easter eggs, but I need to take a little break before doing all that stuff again.

And circumnavigating Kerbin was way, way harder than I tought it would be, is easy to forget that Kerbin is one of the largest bodies on the Kerbol system.

Edited August 11, 2014 by Wooks

[Megalodon 720]

I will now become the first to circumnavigate kerbin... WITH AN AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE!

[sal_vager]

I'm looking for the Mun circumnavigation, but until then you could check out Brotoro's circumnavigation of Duna

[Wooks]

I'm looking for the Mun circumnavigation, but until then you could check out Brotoro's circumnavigation of Duna

That's awesome, thank you for sharing!

[goduranus]

wait a minute, you have not really circumnavigated by land, because a good part of your journey is done on a boat, so this really is a circumnavigation with combined land and boat.

To claim circumnavigation by land, the ocean should be crossed by driving a rover along the sea floor.

[Megalodon 720]

Now THAT would be extremely impressive.

[Meithan]

Slightly off-topic, but if you think Wooks' journey is crazily amazing (I do), you should check out the videos by the dude who's walking to the Minecraft Far Lands. That's a place in a Minecraft map that's about 12.5 million meters from the spawn point. For comparison, Kerbin's circumference is about 3.8 million meters. Keep in mind that one can move at about 4-5 m/s on foot in Minecraft, and there's no handy 4x timewarp. Also, there are monsters by night.

[Wooks]

wait a minute, you have not really circumnavigated by land, because a good part of your journey is done on a boat, so this really is a circumnavigation with combined land and boat.

To claim circumnavigation by land, the ocean should be crossed by driving a rover along the sea floor.

You got me, for a moment there I tought you were serious ;D

[Wooks]

Slightly off-topic, but if you think Wooks' journey is crazily amazing (I do), you should check out the videos by the dude who's walking to the Minecraft Far Lands. That's a place in a Minecraft map that's about 12.5 million meters from the spawn point. For comparison, Kerbin's circumference is about 3.8 million meters. Keep in mind that one can move at about 4-5 m/s on foot in Minecraft, and there's no handy 4x timewarp. Also, there are monsters by night.

I follow Kurtjmac on youtube

[katateochi]

wow, I, er, I don't even know what to say. You madman! This is something that will be remembered in Kerbal legends.

[cantab]

If you fancy something less time-consuming, Gilly could be fun. Make it rover wheels only, no using downthrust.

[SelectHalfling0]

+rep

I don't have the patience to do such a thing, so kudos!

[Wooks]

Nice job, but if only you had applied this level of dedication to something that benefit mankind ....

Maybe if I do this again paired with some sort of charity event?

[problemecium]

You're like our version of kurtjmac with his Far Lands or Bust quest. Even though Kurt does KSP videos too xP My point stands though.

[FacialJack]

OK Man, theres lot of others planets in KSP...

Ready 4 rover trip?

[Felsmak]

Next objective: Circumnavigate Eve.

[Overfloater]

Next objective: Circumnavigate Eve.

NoPanShabuShabu does that, only with pictures. (somewhere on "what you did in KSP today"...)

I bet no one circumnavigated Dres yet!

[goduranus]

You got me, for a moment there I tought you were serious ;D

http://www.upliftt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/not-sure-if-fry-685x325.jpg

It is an impressive feat to circumnavigate, but boats are faster than rovers, and achievements should go by the slowest mode of movement used. If I circumnavigated by a combination of plane and rover, I should count it as an air circumnavigation because a plane was used, and travelling by air lowered the difficulty.

[Felsmak]

I bet no one circumnavigated Dres yet!

Dres is so lonely that any threads about circumnavigating it would be considered spam.

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

cookiee.

I see what you did there.

And congratulations, I've been watching since episode 11, and it's amazing just how BIG kerbin is.

Now for a lap of honour!!!!...

(no, just no)