Fast Flyby

[Max Grant]

I was originally attempting to get somewhat close to the speed of light, which I've had delightfully illustrated to me as WOW THAT'S REALLY FAST.

In the course of one of my attempts using the DSM pack ion engine, I found myself more or less pointed at Eve, so I thought I'd fly as close as I could and as fast as I could. Due to a miscalculation of mine, I thought I was going a lot faster than I was, which was still pretty fast. I took these screen captures at about 3-4 second intervals. The slideshow on photobucket shows them to you at 5-second intervals. So in close to real time, you see Eve whoosh by.

http://s111.photobucket.com/albums/n155/Maxgrant/Eve%20Fast%20Flyby/?albumview=slideshow

I'm positioning myself for a flyby of Duna at over 3x this speed, or just over 1/1,000th the speed of light. It still FAST.

[Max Grant]

Duna Flyby

http://s111.photobucket.com/albums/n155/Maxgrant/Duna%20Fast%20Flyby/?albumview=slideshow

Crazy fast. I timed my screen captures for every 5 seconds, roughly. Kind of lost my picture through the viewport for a second as we approached at an angle I didn't expect.

You get the idea. if you watch the slideshow, the images will appear roughly in real-time.

[The Destroyer]

Wow. Hmm, might try this.

[joyman1234]

Fast as light....how did that work out for you? at speeds like that you might find Cthulhu...i mean forget the Space Kraken.... Well anyways i tried it and missed and made the mistake of going from full time warp to none and asploded and got too close to the sun and lost Jeb Bill and Bob

[Max Grant]

Oh, I did some math, and with the DSM ion engine, it would take me 600+ days to reach light speed. Now, if the engine were realistic at all, the solar panels would stop getting a decent charge long before I could reach such a speed, as even at 1/1000th the speed of light one is far, far far out of the SOI of Kerbol very quickly.

I know I could do some cheats just to see it, and I might later, but my real goal was just to see how fast, in-system, I could get a ship going within my levels of patience.

[0jam3290]

Wow, 96Km/s! Thats faster than ive ever gone. I applaud you mister.