I'm 9000 G away from Kerbol !?

[OneEyedShark]

I made a ship to sacrafice a kerbal to Kerbol and accidently overheated the engines, so insted i got a gravity assist and my poor kerbal has now been flying for over ten years. at about 999999 m my altitude switched from meters to "G", so my question is what dose the "G" stand for ?

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And sorry for my bad english it's not my native language

Edited October 10, 2013 by Ted
Fixed the image

[Starwhip]

Perhaps it is the KSP equivalent for AU in real life. AU stands for Astronomical Units, 1 AU is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. So you would be about 9000 times farther out than Kerbin. Congrats to you.

[blizzy78]

It's rather Gigameters.

[WillHop]

Gigameter I think

EDIT: Ninja'd!

Edited October 10, 2013 by WillHop

[Starwhip]

That's still a long way out, but you're right, Gigameters makes more sense.

[possum]

In metric measurements "G" stands for giga, in this case it would be gigameters. 1 G is equal to 1 billion meters.

The farthest out i have ever been was about 650000 KM before i ended the flight.

[Depth]

Metre, Kilometre, Megametre, Gigametre

1 000 000 000

It might crash the game if the number gets too high; or it may glitch the craft around the universe so that it starts heading towards Kerbol from the other side.

Edit: If you're 6000 G's away, you're 6 Terrametres away.

[wasmic]

my altitude switched from meters

It didn't. m is meters, while M is KSP's shortification of Mm, megameters. G (Gm) is Gigameters.

[OneEyedShark]

ok thanks for the replays

PS, i'm 10137 G or 10,137,937,200,00 m out (The last to change to quickly to get accurate)

[Rage097]

Experimentation time!

*Builds a ship consisting of a cupola, battery, RTGs, Mainsail, SAS, and stablizing fins.

*Launches it in a straight line away from the sun using infinite fuel

*Leaves throttle all the way up and goes to make some coffee and have breakfast

[OneEyedShark]

i used sepatrons

[DChurchill]

Gazillion.

[rodion]

I used this vehicle -

-to launch the little probe core and a few solar panels seen on the right at 27km/s out of the system. At ~530,000 Mm the physics engine failed and the camera started flipping around so fast I could barely see anything, but if I go back to the tracking center or run any other mission, the physics isn't enabled for the dead probe (you can't collect a measurable amount of electrical energy with just a few small panels after about 300,000 Mm), so it just keeps going and I could check back on it at any point in the future.

[Chrisd857]

I'm pretty sure I've seen videos where it goes up to E for exameters (10^18).

[Kasuha]

m - meters

K - kilometers

M - thousands of kilometers

G - millions of kilometers

[Rage097]

O-too darn many kilometers

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

K-kilo

M-mega

G-giga

T-Tera

P-Peta

E-exo

Z-zetto

Y-yotto

These are the standard SI scale of prefixes for measurements

[kookoo_gr]

Naaaaah, he is at googol meters

A googol is the large number 10100; that is, the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes:

10,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000,*000.

just kidding he is at Gigameters, but the googol does exist and the next unit is the googolplex

[ElJugador]

That's still a long way out, but you're right, Gigameters makes more sense.

FYI: Kerbin is about 13 G out from Kerbol

[cesarcurado]

Wow look!

"It's over nine thousand!"

sorry but I had to do this

[lewisd]

Wow look!

"It's over nine thousand!"

sorry but I had to do this

I'm glad someone did

[Javster]

It's over 9000!

[Rusty6899]

Something a bit weird happened to me a few weeks ago. I was escaping Kerbin, when for some reason (it looked like I got some sort of glitched gravity boost) I was sent "On escape trajectory out of the sun". Obviously Kerbol has an infinite SOI so I never actually escaped. Also, there was no trajectory ahead of me on the orbit map, but the line I was taking was perfectly straight. After about 10 years I had reached a velocity of about 0.2C and my altitude got up to about 40128Gm (according to the last screenshot I took).

[Skyrunner27]

Furthest object out of the solar system.

This is the map view.

I have no idea what happened but it was stuck at that one point.Also when I got back to my other missions all my missions orbiting Kerbin or the Mun were gone. That included my station and a manned Mun mission that I was doing in real time. All other bodies weren't effected so I did not lose my Threshers above Minmus or my Eve Explorers above Eve.

[dharak1]

I am attempting to get past Gigameters. The next unit appears to be M, anyone have any idea what that could mean? m = 1 k = 1000 M = 1000000 G = 1000000000 M = ? trillion?

EDIT: It turns out it is T and T = 1000000000000. Time for Y!

Edited October 13, 2013 by dharak1