Elcano Circumnavigation: Tylo Or Bust!

[SpaceplaneAddict]

Landing on Tylo took a lot more than 10 tries, but I made it. Video of last few(three?) landing attempts coming. Spoiler of the video: Landed safe eventually, but was rolled over. This was fixed off camera after many profanities, and fuel gone.

We're ready.

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Gah!

Disaster strike, I hit alt-f9, and guess what? I have to redo the landing.

Oh well, at least I demo'ed that I could do it, so I'll do this one off camera and start driving immediately.

[SpaceplaneAddict]

Fear my horrible piloting!

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By the way, I have finally landed again and am now driving the surface of Tylo. 3.6km so far.

[SpaceplaneAddict]

Didn't drive far, only 4.8 km today. IRL things and all that.

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17 km now.

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Alright, planted a new flag (vid coming soon) And yes, I did rollover. However, the TyloRacer(Changed the name) landed like a cat, with one wheel broken.

-SPAddict

(Hope you guys like useless videos)

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That was fast.

-SPAddict

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Around 70km today, not bad.

-SPAddict

Tylo is insanity inducing.

[SpaceplaneAddict]

I'm going to guess that Elcano missions aren't very popular here. Loneliness.

-SPAddict

Should be starting Day 3 soon

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I hate you Tylo.

-SPAddict

One of those pics showed a destroyed rover and an injured Valentina, this was during a "test"

[SpaceplaneAddict]

Nooooo!

I'm about to run into the dark side of Tylo...

No solar power?

Only an RTG?

Oh my...

-SPAddict

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[Sanic]

Nothing being said because there's nothing to say. Sadly the Elcano challenge is kind of boring compared to other challenges.

[SpaceplaneAddict]

Ok, no more driving today. Tomorrow shall conquer 200 km!

-SPAddict

[TheCardinal]

I had no idea that you were already on Tylo. I thought you still needed a transport vehicle. My mistake.

[SpaceplaneAddict]

No big deal, I'm already prepping a new rover for a new place (muahahahahA!)

-SPAddict

Ina give a space potato a good running after I'm done this.

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Back in daylight, Valentina's eyes hurt.

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100 or so km today, I might drive a bit more later.

[TheCardinal]

Good luck, I will be joining you shortly on Tylo.

[SpaceplaneAddict]

Yay! Can't wait to see your adventures!

[xendelaar]

Tylo is soooo big! how many hours do you think you need to circumnavigate it? great job so far btw, keep up the good work!

[SpaceplaneAddict]

I can usually time warp 2x while driving at 20m/s, and I have to drive 1.9 thousand km. So yeah, at minimum 19 days if I drive an average of 100km.

-SPAddict

Not that long

[Sanic]

You maybe circumnavigating Tylo fast...

BUT YOU CAN'T DO IT SANIC FAST!

(Sanic fast is 69,420 m/s)

Seriously, GL on the rest of your journey.

Why didn't you choose Dres?

[SpaceplaneAddict]

I thought of Dres only after I had driven 100km on Tylo.

Dres the lonely space potato is next to be circumnavigated.

-SPAddict

Can U build a rover that is stable at 40m/s on a 20 degree incline? I thought not.

[SpaceplaneAddict]

This circumnavigation is on hold until further notice.

[TheCardinal]

It took me FIVE days to finally join you on Tylo. I hope you'll be able soon to continue with the circumnavigation of Tylo.

Just wondering. How do you calculate/see how much distance you've covered?

By the way, I don't consider this a race to see who's the first to achieve the circumnavigation, so i won't be driving like mad to gain distance. I'll be driving normally.

Edit: I tried to calculate how much distance one degree of arc is on Tylo and i noticed that the circumference of Tylo is 3,769 km (and not 1,900 km!). Therefor a degree on Tylo is about 10.5 km distance.

Edited November 8, 2015 by TheCardinal