Find the highest temperature

[duncan1297]

The challenge is to go anywhere in the Kerbol system and find the highest temperature.

Rules:

1. any mods you want

2. don't just blast engine exhaust onto a thermometer. (I've tested that, it actually works.)

Score board

1. kerboman - 999.05

2. Coneshot - 883.46

3. Dem Wot Goz Ub - 15.09

4. metaphor - 14.83

5.

And my attempt

Edited July 17, 2013 by duncan1297

[tiberius_solus]

The hottest temperature would have to be 'on' Kerbol, but how close can you get and still get a reading before the ship is destroyed?

[metaphor]

Actually the thermometer doesn't register any rise in temperature as you get close to Kerbol.

[Coneshot]

Actually the thermometer doesn't register any rise in temperature as you get close to Kerbol.

--snip--

I beg to differ... lol but it's not high enough to win:

[Dem Wot Goz Ub]

While I wasn't able to get a screenshot of a high temperature before poofing into the sun (the temperature seems to spike dramatically around 1325m, with craft annihilation around 1270, making screenshots like Coneshot's more a matter of luck than anything else), I did document some curious thermometer behavior under physics warp.

The longer a craft is under physics warp, the higher its thermometer will creep, and after physics warp is turned off, the temperature will go back down. This is, I suspect, part of the reason for the surreal readings on that Jool thermometer in the first screenshot in the challenge.

With physics warp on for only a few seconds.

Physics warp disabled. Note that this is later in the flight, and actually significantly closer to the sun, though not close enough to detect the temperature spike.

I suspect the best way to get a high temperature reading is to impact the sun at high physics warp repeatedly (f5-f9 ad infinitum) spamming the screenshot key while doing so; at 90,000 m/s surface velocity -- the rough speed of a sun impactor -- getting anything like a precise reading is more a matter of luck than anything else.

[Coneshot]

While I wasn't able to get a screenshot of a high temperature before poofing into the sun (the temperature seems to spike dramatically around 1325m, with craft annihilation around 1270, making screenshots like Coneshot's more a matter of luck than anything else),

I suspect the best way to get a high temperature reading is to impact the sun at high physics warp repeatedly (f5-f9 ad infinitum) spamming the screenshot key while doing so; at 90,000 m/s surface velocity -- the rough speed of a sun impactor -- getting anything like a precise reading is more a matter of luck than anything else.

I'll save folks the trouble, after many many attempts (and a couple extra launches from hitting F-5 instead of F-9) and spamming F-1 as well as filming with fraps, the final temp was always the about the same as above... Good work Dem on the warp thing though :-)

[duncan1297]

Just so you know i wont be counting my own score.

[Coneshot]

Just so you know i wont be counting my own score.

I did notice that, just curious why not?

[duncan1297]

because it seems like its going to be hard to beat.

[Kerboman]

I got up to about 997 in Jool

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[Coneshot]

I got up to about 997 in Jool

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Kerboman's pic fixed