What a happy ending:lol::thumbup:finally sent my sleeping shark 2 bed:rofl:So off I sailed into deep space...
DG slingshot around Jupiter straight back to Earth is ludicrous speed, basically falling straight towards the Sun. When I got to Earth I tried to aerobrake. I was going so fast that even at low altitude upside down pulling the stick all the way back I couldn't hang onto the planet. I forget the velocity and the G's but they were both insane and would've destroyed any real craft and its crew in an instant.
:lol::rofl:I think the Emergency Transfer Vehicle (ETV) that went from Jupiter to Earth in my Blog story about the Solar System Transport Vehicle 01 (SSTV-01) mission arrived at the Earth 16 days after Jupiter departure. It probably came in at a speed comparable to what you had. It had a 2.5 hour long burn of its 15 Experimental Hyper Engines to slow down into a nice 300 km orbit
Dantassii
HUMONGOUS IMS shipbuilder
Once upon a time i made Space ants.
:thumbup::rofl:Once upon a time i made Space ants.
A simple ship, programmed to do the following:
1. Turn to random direction
2. Spin up
3. Start the engine
4. Make a copy (that would start at 1)
5. Wait 10 seconds
6. Goto 4
The universe was destroyed 110 seconds later.
(Orbiter ground to a halt and crashed)
That was fun.
Once upon a time i made Space ants.
A simple ship, programmed to do the following:
1. Turn to random direction
2. Spin up
3. Start the engine
4. Make a copy (that would start at 1)
5. Wait 10 seconds
6. Goto 4
The universe was destroyed 110 seconds later.
(Orbiter ground to a halt and crashed)
That was fun.
:rofl:That, my friend, is how you seriously irrigate every single field near the Hwang-Ho river at once
:thumbup::rofl:
Lol I wonder what It would have sounded like to Messi and Ronaldo and the supporters and referee #RemindersOfWorldCup2014:rofl:For me, it's still miscalculating my orbit with my 120 km Ananke Tether-Sling and taking it into the atmosphere above Brazil. The 120 km long cables turned into the filaments of a light-bulb and suddenly the entire southern hemisphere was several times brighter than noon. I found myself wondering what it must sound like down on the ground....
Yes really! That's so much better than spending billgates of dollar$Don't you love how with this simulator, a multi-billion dollar mistake is rectified by exiting and making some adjustments in your .scn file?
For me, it's still miscalculating my orbit with my 120 km Ananke Tether-Sling and taking it into the atmosphere above Brazil. The 120 km long cables turned into the filaments of a light-bulb and suddenly the entire southern hemisphere was several times brighter than noon. I found myself wondering what it must sound like down on the ground....
Don't you love how with this simulator, a multi-billion dollar mistake is rectified by exiting and making some adjustments in your .scn file?
:huh:What do you mean?Exponential growth in practice.
:huh:What do you mean?
LOL:thumbup::lol::rofl:Artlav's ships were replicating exponentially, i.e.:
t=0 - 1 ship
t=10 - 2 ships
t=20 - 4 ships
t=30 - 8 ships
t=40 - 16 ships
....
t=100 - 1024 ships
t=110 - 2048 ships (crashed while spawning)
At which point he apparently hit some fundamental limit of the Orbiter universe. If the Orbiter universe was 1000 times larger -- i.e. limited to 1 million ships instead of 1 thousand ships, it would only survive 200 seconds. Likewise, a 1-billion-ship universe would be exhausted in 300 seconds.
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/al...p_growth_decay/v/exponential-growth-functions
LOL can I get that ship? If so, where?:thumbup::rofl:Once upon a time i made Space ants.
A simple ship, programmed to do the following:
1. Turn to random direction
2. Spin up
3. Start the engine
4. Make a copy (that would start at 1)
5. Wait 10 seconds
6. Goto 4
The universe was destroyed 110 seconds later.
(Orbiter ground to a halt and crashed)
That was fun.
Here: http://orbides.1gb.ru/orbf/voneuman.zipLOL can I get that ship? If so, where?:thumbup::rofl:
Once upon a time i made Space ants.
A simple ship, programmed to do the following:
1. Turn to random direction
2. Spin up
3. Start the engine
4. Make a copy (that would start at 1)
5. Wait 10 seconds
6. Goto 4
The universe was destroyed 110 seconds later.
(Orbiter ground to a halt and crashed)
That was fun.
In his best Sam-Neill-as-Dr-Alan-Grant voice: You bred Replicators?!?
*grabs his shotgun
:lol::rofl:
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Any screenies?:tiphat:
Assuming your shotgun fires 1 round per second, it will only work if you manage to contain the infestation during initial 30 seconds -- after this point the replicators will be spawned faster than you are able to shoot them.
Your only hope is a self-replicating shotgun, multiplying faster than the targeted species. Of course, this also needs a fail-safe mechanism -- the shotguns must stop multiplying at one point, otherwise, they will take over the universe.