highest speed ever OR when does the Space Kraken catch up?

[1of6Billion]

So, I've got this ship currently going at 200.000 m/s and still excellerating. Given enough PC-time, will it reach 300.000km/s, also known als c, the speed of light? Or will the Space Kraken catch up and eat the vessel before that?

What's you highest recorded speed ever?

[tiger336]

The kraken was silane when it tried to eat jeb

[0jam3290]

You can find the Kraken's corpse on

Bop

,so youre clear to go as fast as your computer can handle. Also, dont expect to reach Kerbol escape velocity, because there isnt one.

[maltesh]

You can find the Kraken's corpse on

Bop

,so youre clear to go as fast as your computer can handle. Also, dont expect to reach Kerbol escape velocity, because there isnt one.

Untrue. Kerbol has an escape velocity. Escape velocity is solely determined by the mass of the object you're escaping, and your distance from that mass. A parabolic orbit is defined by your spacecraft moving exactly at the escape velocity for its distance at all points. In a hyperbolic orbit, you're moving faster than the escape velocity at all points on the orbit.

Better to say "Kerbol's sphere of influence has no exterior boundary."

[Stevenator1]

You can find the Kraken's corpse on

Bop

,so youre clear to go as fast as your computer can handle. Also, dont expect to reach Kerbol escape velocity, because there isnt one.

I must agree with maltesh. You can get a ship going so fast that it will NEVER return anywhere near Kerbol, no matter how long you give it. The tracking station says something like "On an escape route from Kerbol" when that happens. It has happened from a few accidental slingshots for me.

[A Fat Pokemon]

I've gone over 20 times the speed of light, not exactly sure what happened

[1of6Billion]

Tracking station says:

currently @ 330.000 m/s, 0,11c w00t!

Jeb's having a great time!

Don't get me wrong. I'm not actually looking to reach Proxima Centaury or fly of the map. I'm just looking to go as fast as possible. (without the help of a freak teleportation accident ).

Edited October 8, 2012 by 1of6Billion

[1of6Billion]

Now it's 479.200 m/s.

So I did some calculations.

From 334.700m/s to 479.200m/s: dv=144.500m/s

took 1h43mins (4x physical Warp, yeah!): 6.180s

144.500 / 6.180 = 23,38m/s2

c = 300.000.000m/s

so: (300.000.000 - 479.200) / 23,38 = 3558,6 hours.

no use to keep the PC running over night

[Tirak]

The kraken was silane when it tried to eat jeb

It isn't dead, I lost another Interplanetary Survey Vessel to it just yesterday when it went over the Sol Line.

[Monkthespy]

Did the ship rip apart as you went to 1x warp? That's his brother, Space Cthulhu. Next time, go slowly, hit < < < in progression, or else he will get ya.

[Tirak]

I was at 1x warp 10 seconds before hitting the line I like to celebrate it when i get those survey ships out of orbit since their such a pain to haul up into space.

[1of6Billion]

Let's do this again, because, no one cared to answer

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What's you highest recorded speed ever?