Light Speed!

[Blazer Ayanami]

My challenge for you is to reach the Speed of Light!

The only cheat you are allowed to use is 'Infinite fuel'.

 

[Gecko Gekkota]

My challenge for you is to reach the Speed of Light!

The only cheat you are allowed to use is 'Infinite fuel'.

what is the speed of light? wasn't it like 380,000,000,000 m/s?

 

[Altaïr]

what is the speed of light? wasn't it like 380,000,000,000 m/s?

299,792,458 m/s to be precise. But this may really take a crazy time to reach such a speed

 

[Strychnine]

My challenge for you is to reach the Speed of Light!

The only cheat you are allowed to use is 'Infinite fuel'.

Since the game is scaled down, wouldn't
C scale as well?

 

[Danny Batten]

Since the game is scaled down, wouldn't
C scale as well?

I don’t think so, but I may be wrong

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

But so far nobody had said its impossible... So, there you go. There's a challenging challenge.

 

[Gecko Gekkota]

299,792,458 m/s to be precise. But this may really take a crazy time to reach such a speed

damm, i was wrong

 

[2nichealey2]

299,792,458 m/s to be precise. But this may really take a crazy time to reach such a speed

But so far nobody had said its impossible... So, there you go. There's a challenging challenge.

as far as I know, speed of light is constant... however, there,s a glitch that screws with things the further you get from the solar system. I might do some calculations later to see how long it might take assuming the glitch doesn't happen only if im bothered

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

I thougt It might be just possible by accelerating around the Sun in a straight line, not an ellipse (like when you flyby a planet at very high speed) with an extremely light and extremely powerful ship. That's why I allowed INFINITE FUEL.

 

[Altaïr]

This will be far from being enough. We tried that strategy in a speed challenge (without cheats though):
https://jmnet.one/sfs/forum/index.php?threads/challenge-speed.575/
This allowed to reach approximately 100,000 m/s. The light speed is 300,000,000 m/s, we are still really far from it. It's really huge, at that speed you would travel from Earth to the Sun in 10 seconds
Just to be precise, that would be 10 seconds ingame, as distances are scaled down, this would be 8 minutes 20 seconds in real life.

 

[Aiden]

Ill try it in the morning if i can remember

 

[Strychnine]

This allowed to reach approximately 100,000 m/s.

with Jupiter in the next update, we might be able to double that to 200k using both in a tight, elliptical orbit.

 

[Danny Batten]

with Jupiter in the next update, we might be able to double that to 200k using both in a tight, elliptical orbit.

Nice

 

[Altaïr]

I gave it a try, but "only" reached 200,000m/s.

I stopped because I calculated this would take more than 20 days to reach the speed of light.

 

[Rraptor]

What if you time warp. Or did you do that

 

[SupremeDorian]

What if you time warp. Or did you do that

Mate, you should check the date on this post. It's over a year old.

 

[Rraptor]

I saw the date I was just asking

 

[Altaïr]

What if you time warp. Or did you do that

But you can't activate thrust while time-warping, it's not an option. Of course if that was possible it would be easy.

 

[Lt. Snakestrike]

What if you time warp. Or did you do that

You can't time warp while firing you engines though...

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

I think the only way to do this is by qks editing, like Dorian did once.

 

[Lt. Snakestrike]

I am kinda curious if anyone has other ideas... Maybe bp editing an engine to change the thrust and consumption?

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Maybe bp editing an engine to change the thrust and consumption?

Doesn't making an engine larger make it more powerful? Maybe a Titan the size of a build screen would generate the ridiculous amount of thrust required to breach light speed before 1.6 gets released. Add a 5t tank and a probe to the top, get it to orbit, turn on infinite fuel and leave it running whilst you go for dinner.

 

[Roger Jolly]

I’ve had a crazy large rocket in LEO I built forever ago, 100 frontiers, 14 ions and near 15,000t of fuel if I’m reading my old scribbled notes right...
Going to try and get a couple assists and burn in about 12 or 15 stages and see where I get

Should do that soon in case 1.5 breaks it, and since I mentioned it I guess I’d be embarrassed if I didn’t try

 

[Horus Lupercal]

I’ve had a crazy large rocket in LEO I built forever ago, 100 frontiers, 14 ions and near 15,000t of fuel if I’m reading my old scribbled notes right...
Going to try and get a couple assists and burn in about 12 or 15 stages and see where I get

Should do that soon in case 1.5 breaks it, and since I mentioned it I guess I’d be embarrassed if I didn’t try

Having not seen it but taking a guess, if you only burn the ions you'd get 22,000m/s out of it. Turning on the Frontiers drops that to 5500m/s, although you'll actually notice the acceleration that way, although there's almost no point in the ions with that many frontiers ISP wise, they're just dead weight

 

[SPACE_IS_SO_COOL!]

I've only been to 150,000M/sec