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doesn't this brake the laws of physics?

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Procyon

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It doesn't break the laws but it think it is a bit beyond our current level of tech. if you find a material that can tolerate the temps involved or devise a way to insulate the plasma from actually touching the skin of the craft it would be entirely doable I think.

neither of which we are currently capable of, as far as I know :)

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Merinsan

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I did that last night while returning from Pol.

In answer to your question, we don't have enough information. The ship should be on fire like that. Here in our physical universe, it would disintegrate. In the kerbal universe, perhaps they make their ships out of unobtanium, just so they can do crazy stuff like that.

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stupid_chris

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Remember guys, the aerodynamics model in KSP is extremely basic and only a placeholder. What wouldn't work in real life might work normally in the game because the feature isn't properly implemented. Whatever concerns aerodynamics and buoyancy shouldn't be taken as realistic at all :P

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Fried

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Been here since .14 .15 ish, I know that I was wondering if the picture was impossible in real life. it interested me that I can get a plane going so fast it catches on fire. (plasma I know but fire sounds awesome :P)

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stupid_chris

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What is this "safe" you speak of?

Well, let's say going so fast you overheat the air around your plane isn't safe considering the same air goes into your engines :sticktongue:

Needless to say Jebediah would still say FULL THROTTLE BOB WE'RE GONNA SHINE TONIGHT.

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Been here since .14 .15 ish, I know that I was wondering if the picture was impossible in real life. it interested me that I can get a plane going so fast it catches on fire. (plasma I know but fire sounds awesome :P)

the sr-71 went fast enough to glow from heating, but i don't know if it actually made a plasma shockwave.

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leax256

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http://imgur.com/a/YFHKa

this dosent happen in our world

alt:15900m

speed:1440m/s

Short answer: No

Long answer: There are plans to try to make a real SSTO plane called a SCRAM jet. Estimates put it around top speeds of mach 12-24. the only problem is that the heat buildup would be so high the craft will desentagrate/melt. There have been unmaned tests that have all suffered from this problem. Current ideas to deal with this are developing more heat resistant materials to cooling the plane with the fuel prior to burning(like rocket engines). Also this would be normal for a craft reaching orbital velosoty in the atmosphere.

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