Reach the Speed of Light! (Read desc)

[radeonray1]

disregard.

Edited September 11, 2012 by radeonray1

[Kmschr]

I doubt you could do this without crashing the game, I got it to 40 million m/s and the game was ready to crash, no way it wouldnt at 300million

[_Aramchek_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKssatYN9pg that's the best I ever did.

[TheUnknownPoet]

I'm at 95,000 m/s, and 2 trillion km out. As soon as i reach the sun's escape, i'll turn on the throttle, and reach the speed of light. (Waiting till the sun escape because my time to escape is 68 years, and i have to warp or i'll never finish.)

[ramnrmeul]

Well, that will be FOREVER, due to the fact that the sun's SoI extends infinitely in all directions.

[Exclipse]

Easiest way it parachutes

The fastest acceleration tool ever.

[TheDarkStar]

I'm at 95,000 m/s, and 2 trillion km out. As soon as i reach the sun's escape, i'll turn on the throttle, and reach the speed of light. (Waiting till the sun escape because my time to escape is 68 years, and i have to warp or i'll never finish.)

Well, that will be FOREVER, due to the fact that the sun's SoI extends infinitely in all directions.

ramnrmeul is right, you can't escape the sun's SoI. The timewarp always says slightly over 68 years, since it's the largest number it can handle (2^31 seconds).

[Max Grant]

I'm currently at 394,200+ m/s in 0.17. This puts me at slightly over 1/1,000th the speed of light.

I've been burning with the DSM Ion engine for over a day and a half, with a couple of intervals, one to flyby Eve at ludicrous speed, and I've gotten a serious appreciation of how fracking fast light really is. I won't be able to return to do another flyby

[Bluejayek]

With stock parts I managed ~27,000m/s with a 5 hour nuclear engine burn... Speed of light is rediculously high.

[zekes]

I win.

THat is 19.03 times the speed of light....

Edited October 2, 2012 by zekes

[mark_mazz]

Can we see a map view and a description of how you did that? I want to see how you managed that.

[thatgiantsnake]

moving at about 1000 km/s currently between the orbit of kerbin and duna

[zekes]

Well, my Kerbonaut got out of the ship and everything went black, and speed went insane. Absolutely no explanation.

[thatgiantsnake]

what was your altitude

[OdinYggd]

If anything what you should do is go to the very edge of the sun's SOI, then burn retro till your periapsis is perhaps 50km, and sundive from clear across Kerbol's SOI.

Assuming enough remaining delta-V and your ship does not collide with a planet or break up, that would be about as close as you could possibly get using stock parts or normal mods.

[zekes]

IT SAYS In THE PIC

[wetwetwet]

I win.

THat is 19.03 times the speed of light....

I got to 304 billion.... ( useing cheats of course )

[wetwetwet]

I made a rocket that it's average acceleration is 4332meters per second and travels at %13.4 the speed of light ( or at about 40300000 m/ps) ANd of course i changed the config parts

[Reavermyst]

Wet, look at the date of this Challenge..... August of last year... I think you're late for that party, not to mention you probably had a later version than .16(major changes since then)

[bmcloughlin]

i think there was a thread were someone did this but it dissapeared in the great forum crash

[The mun]

If anything what you should do is go to the very edge of the sun's SOI, then burn retro till your periapsis is perhaps 50km, and sundive from clear across Kerbol's SOI.

Assuming enough remaining delta-V and your ship does not collide with a planet or break up, that would be about as close as you could possibly get using stock parts or normal mods.

there werent planets till 0.17

[Spaceisbeautifulul]

You could always try and fly into Jool.

[wasmic]

This guy did this, without cfg editing.

[Russian Flame]

this a thread of insanity and i like it!

[mjello]

Goal: How little is needed to do light speed without glitch or edits. Only ion engine modified to K-drive.

Well doing this without a K-drive is impossible.

Engine power 7800 kN (anything above and it can't stay attached to the craft)

Efficiency 1 Xeon gas canister for light speed.

Craft capable of sustaining 174.75 G acc (3 Hardy kerbals inside smiling)

Time to LS 83 Hours ... first attempt got bored of waiting

SO "the LS3" 8 K-drives instead of one

Craft capable of sustaining 1022.64 G acc (3 Hardy kerbals inside smiling)

Time to LS 4.8 hours (doable ) lets wait

O and by the way awesome that you can run multiple KSP's in paralel on the same computer.

0.3 % speed of light by the time of kerbal escape.

They really should make the sun look different as you get farther away or closer in. Would add a little to the realism . OOo darn it hoped i didn't have to upload the image to the web first... 2% speed of light reached

hmm at about 3 % the physics get wonky. Had to slow acc down... maybe i will fail utterly as the rest :---l

well ill post and wait and see. Anyways this was a wonderfull crazy thread even if it was a bit old .