Extreme superluminal speeds in KSP

[lajoswinkler]

I've been toying around with the new Procedural Fairings mod which lets you add shields and other stuff which you can then modify in size and appearance.

So I've made a shield with the diameter of 100, and then 500 m (yes, some of you may have seen it few minutes ago on FB group).

What happened? The probe got ejected into the space at insane speed and got, at the moment of taking a screenshot, to 1180 x10²¹ metres.

A light year is 9.4605284 x10¹⁵ metres, meaning that the probe got to approx 0.124 x10⁹ light years away from Kerbol, a bit more than one tenth of a billion light years, and it was still going. No Kraken game over, people. It was still going, and it was rotating quite fast.

The speed is 4121524885671960000000 m/s, or 13747927193258.344 c (let's ignore other decimals).

Now, I've tried to convert that to the revised TNG warp factor, but I can't. It's insane.

Has anyone ever got faster than this in KSP?

[chaos_forge]

So I've made a shield with the diameter of 100, and then 500 m (yes, some of you may have seen it few minutes ago on FB group).

Would you mind showing us a picture of it here, for those of us not on the FB group?

[lajoswinkler]

Sure, here they are. 100 m shield, 500 m shield

[Horan]

Pretty awesome, its almost driving me that I will do it too

[Killerdude8]

Can we get a Video Demonstration please?

I HAVE to see this live.

[Sirrobert]

Sure, here they are. 100 m shield, 500 m shield

That looks like some primo Kraken bait you have there

[lajoswinkler]

I haven't tried to repeat the experiment, and I didn't capture it on video.

The contraption was made like horizontal (I), where ( and ) are the shields, and I is the smallest probe core, resembling alien ship. Tiny core between two huge shields. I remember touching something, probably some of the WASD keys, and then the thing collapsed. Kerbin disappeared immediately, I was in chase mode, looking at the probe and the universe and navball were spinning like mad, with the altimeter going crazy. I don't remember seeing the peta prefix, but there was exa, and very soon zetta. Yotta would take too long, obviously, as it's 1000x larger value.

It's safe to say that the probe is still lit by Kerbol at those distances.

Map view didn't offer anything interesting, as every thing I built was stuffed into one point.

I'm really curious about anyone reaching a greater speed. This seems like a record to me, but I'm open to evidence about greater velocities.

[SkyRender]

That's almost exactly warp factor 11,111 on the original scale. On the new one it would be over 9.999999999999999 (which is the practical limit for most of the calculators). I'm pretty sure 13.7 trillion times the speed of light is in fact a new speed record.

[The Destroyer]

My enterprise photo got featured on KSP facebook!

[problemecium]

I find a good way to reach ludicrous speed is to crash a ship, then quickly exit to the Tracking Station. With good timing and a bit of luck, a few pieces of debris will show up in the list with the status "in flight". And when you try to fly them, you'll find yourself hurtling through deep space at many times light speed.

[lajoswinkler]

That's almost exactly warp factor 11,111 on the original scale. On the new one it would be over 9.999999999999999 (which is the practical limit for most of the calculators). I'm pretty sure 13.7 trillion times the speed of light is in fact a new speed record.

I used those warp speed calculators you can find online and it was impossible to calculate.

Yay, a record.

[Xaelath]

Woah.

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