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One hour and seventeen minutes into the flight


Chik Sneadlov

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Cheat codes for unlimited fuel and electricity activated. I'm going 3 times the speed of light. Been pulling a steady 20.74 g's since leaving the atmosphere. 8 mammoth liquid fueled engines going full blast the whole way. Had some trouble with previous flights when the fuel tank vaporized after about 40 minutes so this time I've got radiators and extendable radiators. Parts are overheated, but no disassembly so far. I'm finally out of sight of minimus and the mun and closing in on Eve's orbital lines. Movement through the solar system feels slow at this speed because I'm used to accelerating time. 

I'll be passing the sun on near moho's orbital line, the side that moho comes closest to the sun if I stay on course, but it looks like the sun or something has pulled me of course by about 25 degrees so far. 

1+ million meters per second now.

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Moving to Mission Reports.

13 minutes ago, Chik Sneadlov said:

3 times the speed of light

13 minutes ago, Chik Sneadlov said:

1+ million meters per second now

A million meters per second is pretty darn fast, all right!  :) 

Just FYI, though, it's nowhere near light speed yet (which is roughly 300 million meters per second).

So you're doing about 0.3% of lightspeed.

 

 

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Oh dear, I think you're right. I've made a huge, obvious mistake and I'm going to lose my job at the KSC.

I'm up to 2,900,000 m/sec now. Think I might go back to the drawing board. I had a smaller ship yesterday pulling 29 g's. That would get me to light speed faster. I think this is the fastest I've ever gone.

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10 hours ago, Chik Sneadlov said:

Cheat codes for unlimited fuel and electricity activated. I'm going 3 times the speed of light. Been pulling a steady 20.74 g's since leaving the atmosphere. 8 mammoth liquid fueled engines going full blast the whole way. Had some trouble with previous flights when the fuel tank vaporized after about 40 minutes so this time I've got radiators and extendable radiators. Parts are overheated, but no disassembly so far. I'm finally out of sight of minimus and the mun and closing in on Eve's orbital lines. Movement through the solar system feels slow at this speed because I'm used to accelerating time. 

I'll be passing the sun on near moho's orbital line, the side that moho comes closest to the sun if I stay on course, but it looks like the sun or something has pulled me of course by about 25 degrees so far. 

1+ million meters per second now.

Did you add a probe core or a kerbal? 

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