Grover
Saturn V Misfire
has anyone ever tried to land a DG on the sun?
i have, and it had a very strange outcome (Hint hint
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i have, and it had a very strange outcome (Hint hint
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landing on the sun
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Stevodoran
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Well i hit it with the arrow and i mysteriously bounced off and landed on mercury without killing my crew 
Izack
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Whaaaaaaaat?! :blink:Well i hit it with the arrow and i mysteriously bounced off and landed on mercury without killing my crew
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Grover
Saturn V Misfire
ditto there, i dont think it can handle vessels on the surface of the sun, so it drops them on the closest planetary body
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I hit the sun once and it shot me out of the solar system in seconds. :facepalm:
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I messed up when adding a vessel to the scenario file. Orbiter decided to add it at 0,0,0 - the center of the sun - it was very, very bright in there........
Grover
Saturn V Misfire
ha, try using top time acceleration when landed, does the same thing, pretty annoying when youre trying to warp to a launch window (worst overshoot ever )
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Izack
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Fighting gravity becomes harder and harder as you approach the Sun. I tried it today with low tangential velocity, and it was like going down an increasingly steep hill. On the last few million kilometres I was roaring along retrograde with my throttle open trying to lower my velocity, but I was still accelerating Sunwards at over 200m/s^2!! By the time I hit the surface I was traveling nearly 300km/s and bounced out of the Solar System. Whew!
By the way, that was with an Arrow Freighter. How the heck did you manage to land on Mercury?? That's crazy, man! :thumbup:
By the way, that was with an Arrow Freighter. How the heck did you manage to land on Mercury?? That's crazy, man! :thumbup:
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Make sure you go there at night.
Izack
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I can't believe it took 11 posts for someone to finally say that. :lol:
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We need to make a PSA about that :lol:
Grover
Saturn V Misfire
"watch the sunshine"? as if you could watch anything else ;P
Izack
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Light bulbs and computer screens.
Also, I think he meant the movie Sunshine.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/
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It is possible. Just make sure you are at the proper angle. Try a slingshot around the sun and then go retrograde. you will then be able to slingshot to mercury or back to earth.
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Don't forget to buy good sunglasses and some high grade sunblock before going to the sun.
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Well i hit it with the arrow and i mysteriously bounced off and landed on mercury without killing my crew
That's nothing, I've landed on Mercury with NASSP unintentionally for no apparent reason before.
On a more on-topic note: I've done many-a sun sling for high velocity hyperbolic escape trajectories. One must be careful not to end up too crispy.
