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why are you slowing down?
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why are you slowing down?
why?
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Orbiter can be used in many ways.
Having said that, I already failed long ago in seeing all the excitement of this whole trip; maybe it's only me, but I think it was totally pointless.
I still don't see why, after all this time, you started decelerating, kind of defeating the whole meaning of this long experimental trip "to the edge of the unknown".
Orbiter can be used in many ways.
Having said that, I already failed long ago in seeing all the excitement of this whole trip; maybe it's only me, but I think it was totally pointless.
I still don't see why, after all this time, you started decelerating, kind of defeating the whole meaning of this long experimental trip "to the edge of the unknown".
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He's probably reaching the edge of the unknown, and the slowing down is the unknown's way of telling him to leave him alone.
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Oh, hell. I've been to the edge. Just looked like more space. - Jayne Cobb
Ok, but that doesn't explain why you're slowing down?
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This mission is quite pointless.
I personally find just orbiting the Earth the jewel of Orbiter Simulator with what little understanding I have. Mars was cool as a one off. But landing is very boring, the moon.
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I personally find just orbiting the Earth the jewel of Orbiter Simulator with what little understanding I have. Mars was cool as a one off. But landing is very boring, the moon.
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Hi, Statickid!
Yes, orbiter should still be able to calculate the pull of the sun from so far away!! To completely get out of the sun's gravitational influence, you have to be at least 2 lightyears or 126,480 AU away from the sun!
Cheers,
Vincent
Yes, orbiter should still be able to calculate the pull of the sun from so far away!! To completely get out of the sun's gravitational influence, you have to be at least 2 lightyears or 126,480 AU away from the sun!
Cheers,
Vincent
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It would be difficult, but I imagine you might be able to get into some Sun-approaching elliptical orbit. Impossible to fall straight into the Sun from that distance though, with the degradation his simulation must be facing at such a huge distance.
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I also imagine that such a "freefall" would take so long the computer would probably physically break down from age before the ship could really get anywhere of consequence, so long as there was no time acceleration
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Umm, no. The range of gravity is infinite. It just gets less and less as you go on. At some point way out there some other star would have a greater attraction so you'd fall towards that, but you'd still be being pulled on by the sun, and indeed, everything else in the universe.
Of course, there is only the sun in the orbiter universe, so only the sun is pulling on your ship. But this just means you can never escape it.
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You know, reading back through this thread, it occurs to me that the low-ball figure of 999,999,999 AU for the edge of the Orbiter universe is nearly 16,000 light years. That encompasses almost every naked-eye visible star in every constellation seen from Earth. Surely if there were some way to remove the "one absolute gravity source only" rule from the Orbiter source code, it would not be that hard to include maybe just half a dozen other systems you could fly to?
If the next Orbiter included just Alpha Centauri, Sirius, and Gleise, I swear I would never ask for another Orbiter feature again
If the next Orbiter included just Alpha Centauri, Sirius, and Gleise, I swear I would never ask for another Orbiter feature again
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