Quite a coincedence

[Australian Sloth]

Well, after watching Scott\'s sundiver video for the first time, I decided to take a crack at sundiving.

Two things happened:

1: Went faster than 0.5% the speed of light.

2: Saw that one of my crew was Munley Kerman. (Munley=Manly) (Far right corner)

Quite fitting for a mission that actually schieved all of its objectives on the first mission.

Kudos to you Scott!

Your kerbally spirit made my day!

[patrickcanttype]

Speed of light it 181,000 miles per second. Though you were still going pretty dang fast.

[samstarman5]

Speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second. He is going a lot faster than 0.5% of lightspeed. So he\'s still correct.

Always nice to see another post of the Kraken in action. So long, Munley. Say hello to the gods for us.

[trbinsc]

He\'s only going at 182,112 m/s and the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s, which means he\'s only going at 0.06% of the speed of light. Still pretty fast though.

[SunJumper]

I found some things to do with sundiving:

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[li]The speed you leave with increases if you sundive from a higher altitude[/li]

[li]The speed you leave with increases if you are heavier (counterintuitive, yes I know)[/li]

[li]You get drastically better results if you COMPLETELY remove your orbital velocity. Get to a maximum of 0.5m/s before you let yourself fall[/li]

Also, edit the command module to have an insanely high crash tolerance, and an insanely low mass and drag. Then dump it into water, and watch the magic happen

[Australian Sloth]

He\'s only going at 182,112 m/s and the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s, which means he\'s only going at 0.06% of the speed of light. Still pretty fast though.

Whoops, being a top math student I can\'t do basic math.

And I think they need another level of time acceleration for solar orbiting.