Light Speed.

[Marshmallow]

I might have a couple hours of playing but I seriously still don't know what i'm doing.

So today I decided to try something out and that was "Gravity Assist" but using the Sun.

I have realised that speeding near the Sun and warping will force the game to boost me with a speed of over 3473217 M/S (Surface) It's pretty fun if you've never tried it.

[Marshmallow]

Some pictures too :=) https://gyazo.com/50f572bb169eadc16142ae8702e193ae
https://gyazo.com/deafb246b8bce0bc2a73b06c2c66a891

[A Terrible Modder]

new challenge, try going 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999... m/s
doable with kraken drive

[Val]

Originally posted by OfCorsair:

Some pictures too :=) https://gyazo.com/50f572bb169eadc16142ae8702e193ae
https://gyazo.com/deafb246b8bce0bc2a73b06c2c66a891

10/10 rocket

[Marshmallow]

Hahaha, the rocket weight was taken into consideration too.

[MechBFP]

Lol. If that is repeatable in a stock no mods install, submit a bug on the Squad bug tracker.

[Brandon_Lee]

A bug? Well,
1. Speed of light in KSP is most likely different from real world if not infinite.
2. The so-called 'speed of light' is just a number. It only defines the intensity of interaction between electromagnetic fields in vacuum. So by all means it is not a speed limit of any kind, and moreover it has nothing to do with actual speed. Or light. Relativity does not imply any limitations, Einstein only explained why exactly hitting pedal to the metal isn't going to work (because of electromagnetic interaction, the closer the given body to the maximum intensity the more energy turns into mass of the body, so if you accelerate the conventional way then at v->c m-> infinity).
3. You gotta understand that there's NO such thing as 'time', at least not as we know it. 'Time' is merely a function. One second is exactly one second is only here on Earth. There are places in the universe where our 'one second' takes billion years and there are places where billion years only lasts a second. Same goes for coordinares and velocity, mass and acceleration. Also these values depend on how exactly you measure them and from where.
4. You gotta understand that the given body does not have energy because it has speed but instead it has speed because of energy, same with force and acceleration. Which kinda turns the world of school physics upside down.
So you see that's quite a lot to simulate, enough to keep all NASA supercomputers busy for... umm, roughly... eternity. This is a videogame so even despite it's very realistic no wonder it fails sometimes. So probably it's not even a bug.

[RoofCat]

speed of light is for losers, I just did this simply clicking on launch button in stock VAB
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1495225370
1. I obviously reached the end of time instantly - top left.
2. I became the center of the universe myself - check speed and altitude.
3. I became superstable. Directions became irrelevant - all the same at once on Navball and all SAS fullfilled simultaneously. I'm the source, the path and the destination.
4. I became hyperdimensional. While me still not moving, Kerbin went through/around me on its way around the Sun with the usual orbital speed and nothing changed.
5. I found peace.

That ship has the form of a cross. Coincidence?

[Marshmallow]

♥♥♥♥ you really feel that strongly about Light Speed. NASA & the Scientific Community would surely admire your optimism about faster than light travel :D

[dnrob7]

Originally posted by OfCorsair:

Well, theoretically you can go as fast as you want in a way. If you had the fuel and the engine capable of it, you can just keep on accelerating way beyond where your "speedometer" says the speed of light is.. There are some problems with it though. The universe around you would start aging rapidly, "obstacles" as in specs of dust or just atoms in your path would hit you with so much force your ship would just turn to dust. Depending on how fast you appeared to be going (distance covered vs time as seen by you), you would be taking in days, months, years worth of starlight every second and it would torch you.. And all that starts happening during that last 1% to the speed of light. In that last % lies infinity.. and absolute death

[peon]

jesus christ T_T, brandon lee already said it

as you approach the speed of light, your mass increases infinitely, so you cant just keep accelerating, thats not going to work, there are ways around it, but i doubt anyone wants to really read about quantum engineering and the "warp" drive. Its all part of eintstein's theory of relativity, the conundrum of even if you could approach the speed of light, you would be appearing to travel slowly to anyone watching you from afar, if you were gone 1 year, by the time you turned around and came back, it would be hundreds? of years to the people you left behind.

[dnrob7]

Originally posted by peon:

jesus christ T_T, brandon lee already said it

as you approach the speed of light, your mass increases infinitely, so you cant just keep accelerating, thats not going to work.

It would "work" but only from the point of view of the one hitting the pedal, and only in terms of distance/observed time. If it was somehow possible to see a "stationary" clock outside the craf, the hands would be spinning like a propeller. If you used the time on that clock against the distance you were putting behind you, it would come in just under the speed of light, and all would be right with the world.. Then you'd die.