Intergalactic velocities

[Xephirious]

So Jeb is currently traveling perpendicular to the Kerbin system's plane at ridiculous velocities. He is travelling at 1,875,632,257m/s and is currently 2TRILLIONm from Kerbol. He was in a close orbit with the sun before this but when loading the ship it just blew up.

Any ideas how to correct this glitch? I've never killed a Kerbal before as my Kerbalnaught union, the Union of Rogue Kerbalnaughts, insist on the most stringent safety protocols available.

[matskuman5]

You could use Hyperedit to bring him back to Kerbin.

I don't see any other way to fix this.

[psyper]

Congratulations - your kerbal is travelling at over 6 times the speed of light!! Kinstein will be turning in his grave!

[nhnifong]

Whoa, your speed is approximately the positive upper limit of a 32-bit floating point number! It's almost like the universe is being simulated on a binary computer!

[thiosk]

Einstein would have just given us superspecial relativity.

[psyper]

Were you trying to go back in time to save some whales?

[Taki117]

Ok, you can "save" him but it's going to take some save file editing (Especially at that speed)

step 1: Quicksave (F5) and note his vessel name.

Step 2: Pause the game and switch over to windows and open the Quicksave in Notepad (make a backup!)

Step 3: find the following bits of code:

alt = [number] (This is your altitude above the reference body)
ORBIT
			{
				SMA = 800482.789707678 (This is the Semi-major axis for your orbit)
				ECC = 0.000290233854127625 (This is the eccentricity of your orbit, 0 is a perfect circle)
				INC = 0.0738444307705897 (This is the inclination of your orbit, 0 is equitorial)
				LPE = 239.120503011685 (This is the longitude of your periapsis, it really doesn't matter)
				LAN = 124.368637926802 (This is the longitude of the Ascending node, it doesn't matter either)
				MNA = 2.06162550283626 (This is the mean anomaly, best not to change this)
				EPH = 1976558.75645092 (THis is the time the measurements were taken)
				REF = 1 (This is the object you are orbiting)
				OBJ = 0 (This determines if it's controllable or not)
			}

Step 4: Change your alt to something reasonable, change your SMA to something reasonable, change your EPH to match UT (Universe Time, found at the beginning of the file) Appropriate information can be found in the Wiki (Like if you wanted to just get him back in the solar system you could set your altitude to the orbit of Kerbin)

Step 5: Save it!

Step 6: go back into the game, unpause and quickload (F9)

Step 7: Profit!

More Detailed Info here!

[TechnicalK3rbal]

Whoa, your speed is approximately the positive upper limit of a 32-bit floating point number! It's almost like the universe is being simulated on a binary computer!

Unless im missunderstanding this, the game is 32bit, and they would have used a float for the velocities, so this may be the actual highest possible speed in the game...

[boomerdog2000]

Invest the money going towards a rescue mission into cloning facilities.

In all seriousness I believe Jeb will respawn even if he does die. So you don't have to worry about losing him completely.

[Soda Popinski]

Invest the money going towards a rescue mission into cloning facilities.

In all seriousness I believe Jeb will respawn even if he does die. So you don't have to worry about losing him completely.

Something similar happened to me, where I got shot out straight up (relative to the solar plane). Suddenly, I was back on Kerbal orbit.

[Spica]

Unless im missunderstanding this, the game is 32bit, and they would have used a float for the velocities, so this may be the actual highest possible speed in the game...

I've actually gone way faster, I went 12 trillion times the speed of light before, but then the game crashed a few seconds later.

[Mattasmack]

Whoa, your speed is approximately the positive upper limit of a 32-bit floating point number! It's almost like the universe is being simulated on a binary computer!

Err, the upper limit of a 32-bit floating point number is somewhere around 10³⁸. He's quite a few orders of magnitude short of that. Perhaps you were thinking of the upper limit of a signed 32-bit integer (~2x10⁹), although the velocity certainly isn't stored as an integer in m/s. The (not very close) correspondence between his speed and that limit is surely coincidence.

[nhnifong]

Err, the upper limit of a 32-bit floating point number is somewhere around 10³⁸. He's quite a few orders of magnitude short of that. Perhaps you were thinking of the upper limit of a signed 32-bit integer (~2x10⁹), although the velocity certainly isn't stored as an integer in m/s. The (not very close) correspondence between his speed and that limit is surely coincidence.

Hmm I guess so. I figured that since his speed was about 2³¹ minus a few million that it had something to do with floating point math.