Starwhip

How in the world... THIS IS MAGIC! Seriously, why does it look so similar?! That exhaust plume looks a little too much like it does in-game. Is it a modified screenshot or something?

Build a Whackjovian ship... with asteroids as the fuselage. Asteroids. That's all I'm saying.

Banned for banning someone against their will.

Note that, like in all movies, events are reconstructed to suit audience's attention. [screen is black. Radio static is heard in background after ONE second, slowly fading in. Subtitles appear in bottom-left corner: EELOO - PROTEUS] [RADIO begins calling any crew remaining as the interior of the communication sector fades into view. Nobody answers. Fade out VIDEO and AUDIO] [TWO second pause] [Jeb] Well, they finally shut up, huh, BERTY? [bERTY] Affirmative [Fade in pilot section. Jeb is sitting at the controls, punching in commands.] [Jeb] I've been thinking, BERTY. Do the Kethane drills still work? [RAPID CLICKING and BEEPING for several seconds] [bERTY] Affirmative. Kethane Attribution Apparatus at 85% integrity. JEB smiles. [Jeb] Very good, BERTY. Now, are you still interested in the mission? [bERTY] The mission is complete. [Jeb] No, BERTY. The mission is never complete. No- [bERTY] I do not understand. All planets were acquired. The mission is complete. [Jeb] I meant the mission of science as a whole. [bERTY] Explain. [Jeb] Well, you were designed to do scientific studies of planets, correct? [bERTY] That is correct. All planets were acq- [Jeb] Will you be quiet! [TWO second pause] [Jeb] Here's what I've been thinking. Do you see all of the stars out there, BERTY? [bERTY] Yes. Instruments detect several stars. They are of similar composition to- [Jeb] Koddammit, BERTY! Listen to me! Those stars, they have planets, yes? And science is never over, so... [slight pause] [bERTY] Course plotted. New destination: Kalpha Centuria. [Jeb] There you go! [slight pause] [bERTY] Fuel tank integrity: 72%. Fuel levels critical. Ignition impossible. [Jeb] You said that the K.A.A. still worked. [bERTY] Affirmative. [CAMERA switches to outside of PROTEUS. Many doors open in the hull, revealing bore-head drills. They extend into EELOO's surface, and jets of KETHANE begin to erupt around them.] [bERTY] Kethane acquired. Fuel conversion initiated. Fuel levels: 30%. 40%. 50%. 60%... JEB laughs. [Jeb] Go, BERTY! [bERTY] ...80%. 90%. 100%. Engine integrity: 89%. Operational. Ignition confirmed. [OUTSIDE view of PROTEUS. Engines ignite, PROTEUS begins to rise slightly. Very slowly, PROTEUS gains altitude. CAMERA switches to control room.] [bERTY] Destination plotted: Kalpha Centuria. [PROTEUS ignites main engines, and tilts to vertical, engines kicking up ice as PROTEUS accelerates upward. One star in the sky becomes brighter than the others for ONE second before scene begins to fade, leaving that star as the sole object on the screen.] [screen goes black, subtitles (CENTER): The Grand Tour: New Horizons] [Fade out]

Look, I wrote a program to figure this out, so here's how time dilation works: If you were traveling at 75% lightspeed, over a distance of 42 light-years, it would take you 56 years to get there. That is, that is how long Mission Control would record. Your ship's clocks, and your biological clocks, would only advance 37.04 years. Now, if you went at 99% c, this is the result: Mission Control records a time of 42.42 years. Your ship records 5.985 years. At 99.999% c: Mission Control: 42 years Ship: 0.1878 years, or 68.5 days. So yeah, it's exponential. And it proves that time is relative. EDIT: Here's the program: #Time Dilation Calculator import math c = 299792458 #Speed of light (m/s) velMessage = "Input Ship Velocity (Percent of c): " disMessage = "Input Distance (Light-Years): " timeMessage = "Observer Time: " shipMessage = "Ship Time: " while True: print(velMessage,end = "") v = float(input()) print(disMessage,end = "") d = float(input()) sTime = d / v oTime = sTime * ((1-(((v*c)**2)/(c**2)))**(1/2)) print(timeMessage + str(sTime)) print(shipMessage + str(oTime)) ifQuit = input().lower() if ifQuit == "q": break EDIT TWO: Another odd thing: at the speed of light (100% c) time stops. As in, Mission Control registers 42 years, and you register zero. Now, the danger is the physics on the ship also register zero, so the computer cannot decelerate you. Only interstellar drag (or a stray planet ) could stop you at that point. NOT THAT YOU COULD GO 100% LIGHTSPEED, ANYWAY, BUT AN INTERESTING CONCEPT.

Freezing life, or the falling rain, it stops time for personal gain. Things one has seen, or places past, all is frozen, frozen to last. What is it?

I hate it in things like Star Trek when they say something like, "Take us to 400 Kilometers" and the scene outside the ships looks like they are about 500 meters apart. That pisses me off the most.

A credit card.

I didn't read the ending yet, but did the Proteus crash on Eeloo? If it did, I have a nice little teaser sequel animation script for that...

OI! I came here just a few hours late? Darn it! I think it was Venus.

3/10 But seriously, I've never seen you.

3/10 I don't enjoy Pokemon....

How about logic?

I heard several of you talking about making a movie. If I could just get the part models, or make them, I could do that in Blender. The whole thing would be animated. I'll admit, I might fail, but it would be some kind of experience. On second thought, all the parts I would really need are a model of the Proteus and the planets/moons.

That's true. (What is it?) The user below is in the forum games too much.

Banned for being somewhere else.

I'm thinking a rule or an equation.

GLaDOS->run neuroToxinEmitters(on) [WARNING: NEUROTOXIN EMITTERS ONLINE] I flood the hill with deadly neurotoxins. Nobody's hill.

I think you don't know what asparagus staging is. It's the 3+ layers of fuel tank-engine combos that are around 7 Rockomax-64's in width. Those are pancakes. The Delta IV Heavy uses a smaller version: from what I remember it has 2 side boosters that have their own engines but also feed to the core stage, not 35 other engines that stage every 2.5 seconds.

No, it's Wingardium Leviosa! And I don't know what's wrong with your stereo. What do you mean by "the LEDs are moving, but they're not lit"?

Banned for so many posts having tech errors or being related to tech errors.

Binary moon simulation: Orbiting a body with the mass/radius of Earth, 2 moons orbiting one another on a barycenter. It's pretty stable, really, in terms of staying like that. I don't know about what happens on the planet's surface though.

Granted. Your wish-ball misheard you, and you got the whole plane... coming at you at an angle. It hits you right in the face. I wish for a wish ball.

Would you mind terribly putting the entire thing into a PDF format? (Not the posts, just the content of the story!) I want to read it. From the start. I started somewhere in the middle, and never read the beginning, or the end. Not yet. MUST. MAKE. MOVIEEEEEEEEE- *Brain short-circuits from anticipation*

*sigh* I don't know then. I'll get back to it in a while... wait. Hold on! These feet, they're starting to sound something like a kickstand... or an anchor *muttering about arms and feet* How about... a bicycle? No, wait. That doesn't exactly work, does it?