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bigyihsuan

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Probably the same thing that happens in real life: the surface of the planet flies off and the planet possibly getting destroyed from the forces pulling outward.

I don't know if you can use Hyperedit to change rotation speed, but it would be a cool thing to try.

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Probably the same thing that happens in real life: the surface of the planet flies off and the planet possibly getting destroyed from the forces pulling outward.

I don't know if you can use Hyperedit to change rotation speed, but it would be a cool thing to try.

yes It would mostlikley do that XD I think you can change the roation speed with hyper edit I might try that at some point
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Tokay Gris

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"What is this speed relative to?"

I am pretty sure there have been tons of answers to that one.

But here is mine:

It isn't.

Beside the fact that light doesn't always actually HAVE the so called "speed of light", the funny thing about it is that it is not relative to anything.

No matter how you measure, it is always the same. To the last decimal.

It does depend on the medium, though. "Speed of light" is different in water/glas/whatever.

(Thats why you can "break" light)

Thats why there is no "ether". Because if there was, the speed would change depending on your own velocity. It doesn't, so there isn't.

Quite some funny conclusions can be drawn from this. It means that "time" is relative. It also means that "space" is not as fixed as was once thought.

(and don't get me wrong: the twin paradox still gives me headaches...)

But thats FACT. If "speed of light" is absolut (the same, no matter how you measure it) then "space" and "time" aren't.

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Also what do you think would happen if kerbins rotation speed was the speed of light?

in ksp physics:

t=0 rotation set to lightspeed

three things can happen here,

the first:

your ship, landed at kerbin, is now moving at lightspeed with the rotation which launches it out of the solar system, byebye!

the second:

your ship, landed at kerbin, isnt effect by the rotation change and gets whacked by a mountain or hill travelling at lightspeed.

the third:

KSP: Nope.

*cue game crash*

planets ripping apart isnt coded in ksp, simulating an entire planet being ripped apart would probably murder a supercomputer, so all it does other then the above is make it rotate a bajillion times a nanosecond.

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in ksp physics:

t=0 rotation set to lightspeed

three things can happen here,

the first:

your ship, landed at kerbin, is now moving at lightspeed with the rotation which launches it out of the solar system, byebye!

the second:

your ship, landed at kerbin, isnt effect by the rotation change and gets whacked by a mountain or hill travelling at lightspeed.

the third:

KSP: Nope.

*cue game crash*

planets ripping apart isnt coded in ksp, simulating an entire planet being ripped apart would probably murder a supercomputer, so all it does other then the above is make it rotate a bajillion times a nanosecond.

xD that sounds awsome :)
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in ksp physics:

t=0 rotation set to lightspeed

three things can happen here,

the first:

your ship, landed at kerbin, is now moving at lightspeed with the rotation which launches it out of the solar system, byebye!

the second:

your ship, landed at kerbin, isnt effect by the rotation change and gets whacked by a mountain or hill travelling at lightspeed.

the third:

KSP: Nope.

*cue game crash*

planets ripping apart isnt coded in ksp, simulating an entire planet being ripped apart would probably murder a supercomputer, so all it does other then the above is make it rotate a bajillion times a nanosecond.

where do i find how to that then?

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CG_Kerbin

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What Would Happen If Kerbin Span At The Speed Of Light?

(Just A Quick Bug I Found)

1)What Would Happen if Kerbin Span At The Speed of light

2)Would Kerbin Survive

3)What Would it be like on the planet

4)What Would happen if another planet did this E.G. Jool

5)if Light Speed is to much then what if i went at the 1000x normal speed

Just Interested :)

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Centrifugal force would be your first concern. The planet would rip itself apart as soon as parts of it start reach orbital velocity. If you somehow managed to keep the planet together at relativistic speeds, you'd start to have all sorts of fun with time dilation. An hour at the equator might be years at the poles, for instance. All in all, probably not a good plan.

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CG_Kerbin

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Centrifugal force would be your first concern. The planet would rip itself apart as soon as parts of it start reach orbital velocity. If you somehow managed to keep the planet together at relativistic speeds, you'd start to have all sorts of fun with time dilation. An hour at the equator might be years at the poles, for instance. All in all, probably not a good plan.

XD thank you

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What Would Happen If Kerbin Span At The Speed Of Light?

(Just A Quick Bug I Found)

1)What Would Happen if Kerbin Span At The Speed of light

2)Would Kerbin Survive

3)What Would it be like on the planet

4)What Would happen if another planet did this E.G. Jool

5)if Light Speed is to much then what if i went at the 1000x normal speed

Just Interested :)

It would be damage.

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CG_Kerbin

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Gya! The grammatical errors are making my eyes bleed!

I know I. Really sorry from the bottem of my heart but I don't care much about the video more about the thred but still I'm sorry :(

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