in light of recent advances in rocket technology (60 million metre altitude in one second; 500 million metre altitude in 30 minutes) it seems now possible to reach the moon, one anonymous linden lab employee stated "I figured it would take a month at top object speeds to get to the moon - if it was well publicized, I figure there might be some way we could *make* the moon by then."
the race is on! first team to reach the moon wins!
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Jauani Wu
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11-03-2005 04:57
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Jsecure Hanks
Capitalist
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11-03-2005 04:59
Cool! This is one small step for an avatar... One, giant leap for SL!
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Annah Zamboni
Banannah Annah
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11-03-2005 05:07
"Houston, the eagle has lagged."
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Jsecure Hanks
Capitalist
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11-03-2005 05:10
Er, Houston, we've had a sim crash problem, over.
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Luth Brodie
Registered User
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11-03-2005 05:26
any scripted chair in my sim already does it. some go faster then others.
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Jesrad Seraph
Nonsense
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11-03-2005 05:35
Too bad there can be only attachments beyond 4096m
 If we want to build a space station at insane height we have to glue each part onto an AV...... I sense a very special event brewing Hmmm, I can certainly make a "physics-enabled" Multimove, it's just a matter of replacing some lines. Making it work as attachment would be trivial, too. It could be fun to synchronize the movement of 20 persons in the air, all wearing a large part of an even larger build, high in the air Wait, make that 8 large parts of an even larger build, after all we can have attachments up to 32m large, and attach on all sides of the AV... [Edit] Yes I know that the whole thing would be phantom, but it'd still be funny  _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
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11-03-2005 05:51
WOOT! GO JAUANI!
Make those Lindens code up a moon for us, this world desperately needs something fresh to keep its juices flowing... where the heck is Magellan when you need him? _____________________
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Forseti Svarog
ESC
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11-03-2005 06:34
where the heck is Magellan when you need him? maybe he's.... ...on his way to the moon?  _____________________
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Surina Skallagrimson
Queen of Amazon Nations
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11-03-2005 06:45
where the heck is Magellan when you need him? He's still tied up with the Amazons.. errr. I mean busy with the Amazons.. umm, no. I mean.. *blush*  _____________________
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Ben Bacon
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11-03-2005 06:47
Late June, 1969: Philip God to Angel Linden: Awww crap! They're gonna do it. k - this is what I need - get rid of the billboard; I need you to make a real moon - and you've got a month to do it.
Oh, and btw, while you're at it - can you fix that reflection. Dunno what I was thinking at the time. |
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Tinker Thetan
Sporadic SL Resident
Join date: 5 May 2004
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The Eagle has lagged.
11-03-2005 06:55
"Houston, the eagle has lagged." Have you seen any documentaries on the original moonlanding? The Eagle's computers were so slow, it did indeed have lag. _____________________
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Annah Zamboni
Banannah Annah
Join date: 2 Jun 2004
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11-03-2005 07:11
I wonder if it took an hour for the flag texture to rez?
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Issarlk Chatnoir
Cross L. apologist.
Join date: 3 Oct 2004
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11-03-2005 09:00
Too bad there can be only attachments beyond 4096m If we want to build a space station at insane height we have to glue each part onto an AV...... Wait, make that 8 large parts of an even larger build, after all we can have attachments up to 32m large, and attach on all sides of the AV... [Edit] Yes I know that the whole thing would be phantom, but it'd still be funny There was a thread by someone about just that a few monthes back. _____________________
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Jesrad Seraph
Nonsense
Join date: 11 Dec 2004
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11-03-2005 09:08
And I missed it ? Awww... Anyway, I went and wrote the necessary scripts. I'll see if Torley is interested
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Jauani Wu
pancake rabbit
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11-04-2005 11:57
who's participating in this race? don't forget your rocket ships. no cheaping out!
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Dr Tardis
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11-04-2005 13:34
maybe my math is wrong, but....
500 million meters in 30 minutes? The moon's average distance from the Earth is 384,000 KM. This is 384,000,000 Meters. Based on what you're saying, an object that go 500 million meters in 30 minutes could reach the moon in... 23 minutes. 23 minutes seems a little different than a month... My jet pack script seems to move at a maximum speed of around 60 meters/sec. that's about 216000 Meters in one hour. This is 5184KM in one day. 384,000 / 5184 = 74.07. I'm not saying that my jetpack is the pinnacle of technology... I have simply been experimenting with it. (I'm not comparing it to a 100 million meter per hour rocket. )Now I'm curious. but here's something I really don't understand. The same script, in different objects, will give my avatar different flight speeds. Can anybody clue me in to why that is??? These are all attachments on the avatar, not vehicles, and it seems that single-prim objects are slower than multi-prim objects. <edit> ahh, it seems that the number of prims makes a difference. I just linked 9 plywood wings to my single-prim "flight belt", and suddenly I'm travelling at 250 meters/sec. Is this an "energy" thing? |
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Dr Tardis
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11-04-2005 13:51
hmm... seems to be a hard cap at 250 meters/sec. Has anybody else noticed this? This means that an avatar wearing a flight attachment can do the trip in roughly 18 days.
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
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11-04-2005 13:53
Energy. Look it up on the wiki
Supposedly max speed is 256 m/s , but it has been found that by combining different functions, and triggering them simultaneously, you can greatly exceed it. _____________________
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Dr Tardis
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11-04-2005 14:13
That explains it. Energy is determined by the mass of all the prims and consumed based on the mass of the whole linked object...
but attachments to an avatar don't actually "weigh" anything, but they do give energy so by creating an attachment that's slightly larger than the avatar itself, I give it enough energy to move a the 250 m/s limit. COOL! |
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Magnum Serpentine
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11-04-2005 17:01
Energy. Look it up on the wiki Supposedly max speed is 256 m/s , but it has been found that by combining different functions, and triggering them simultaneously, you can greatly exceed it. I have an X belt that can do 400 meters a second. EDIT: I just performed a test with the belt at setting 450 and the best I got was 95 Meters/Second and that was not sustained it bounced between 42M/S and 95M/S |
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Siggy Romulus
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11-04-2005 17:18
A linden (I think Ben) said that they will have built a moon before anyone could possibly reach so high as to reach it.
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nimrod Yaffle
Cavemen are people too...
Join date: 15 Nov 2004
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11-04-2005 17:51
If anyone has any items that I can use to test this, I can let my SL run all day with a macro from my comp and it won't go idle. If anyone wants to give me something to use, I will try it. I have gotten to 5 million meters with (many many, pics) a previous attachment, but I think whatever someone else gives me would be better.
Edit: If anyone would like a "journal" of my status in space, please IM me and I'll give you the note with the pics. |
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Wraith Peart
Registered User
Join date: 22 Oct 2005
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11-05-2005 13:12
If anyone has any items that I can use to test this, I can let my SL run all day with a macro from my comp and it won't go idle. If anyone wants to give me something to use, I will try it. I have gotten to 5 million meters with (many many, pics) a previous attachment, but I think whatever someone else gives me would be better. Edit: If anyone would like a "journal" of my status in space, please IM me and I'll give you the note with the pics. I think this is a great idea!! I think it would be fun to make a little rocket ship attachment... then you could set it to go, go go!!! So if the moon is 384,000 kilometers, that's 384 million meters, right? You have an account that can run unattended for 17 days? I'd love to see this! The first SL Space Marathon Race!! I'm curious: can you "mark home" as high as you want? We could do this a little at a time by marking home before we log off... then coming back the next day to our new home location and continuing upward. Maybe we could have a true "Space Race": the first person to the moon without macroing would get the prize. |
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Dnate Mars
Lost
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
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11-05-2005 13:16
I think this is a great idea!! I think it would be fun to make a little rocket ship attachment... then you could set it to go, go go!!! So if the moon is 384,000 kilometers, that's 384 million meters, right? You have an account that can run unattended for 17 days? I'd love to see this! The first SL Space Marathon Race!! I'm curious: can you "mark home" as high as you want? We could do this a little at a time by marking home before we log off... then coming back the next day to our new home location and continuing upward. Maybe we could have a true "Space Race": the first person to the moon without macroing would get the prize. I could easily have a computer run for 17 days without stopping. The question is, can we have SL running for 17 days without the sim, or the entire grid needed to come down for updates? _____________________
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SteveR Whiplash
teh Monkeh
Join date: 24 Sep 2004
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11-05-2005 17:47
Ok, noone is going to believe me, so here are the .bmps from my screen captures:
http://zigital.net/1billion.zip 1.32MB download These are HUGE un-edited pics, and there's not too much to see, really. But the # in the bottom right, above the Inventory button, is my height. And you can see my clock only changed by 1 minute between those 2 pics. 1 billion meters in less than a minute.  I'm not reaching anything near full power yet either. The sims keep having a whiny fit and desyncing me. _____________________
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