Functions were progressively lost as I flew higher, but I managed to get save picture to disk to work fitfully. Which is to say -- I took a lot of pictures, but most of them didn't turn out. Here are some that did.
Higher in altitude, the sky box turns black overhead, with the sun and a strip of blue colors around the horizon. But somewhere above 600,000 meters, the black skybox rapidly fills in with blue, leaving a black hole at the meridian. That hole lingers for awhile and then disappears.
on edit: pictures have bad jpg delimiters. grrr. fixing them and will post.
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Donovan Galatea
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10-01-2004 18:40
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10-01-2004 18:48
OK, picture of black hole at meridian and sky box filling in with blue, 600,000 meters +.
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Donovan Galatea
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10-01-2004 18:50
picture of sky box completely filled in with blue, small pinpoint black hole at meridian. Sky box remains this way for another twenty minutes of upward motion.
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10-01-2004 18:51
picture of sun going black twenty minutes upward from skybox filling in with blue. After ten seconds, the entire skybox faded to black. Going down resulted in skybox and sun fading back in.
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Olympia Rebus
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10-01-2004 19:06
Way cool, Donovan.
You'd think the lindens would throw an easter egg for someone who took the trouble off going so high. A flying saucer whizzing by or something. _____________________
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10-01-2004 19:20
Originally posted by Olympia Rebus Way cool, Donovan. You'd think the lindens would throw an easter egg for someone who took the trouble off going so high. A flying saucer whizzing by or something. Haha... wasn't there one of those that used to abduct people and take them on joyrides? Or is this an absolutely unfounded rumor I seem to have heard about?  _____________________
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Nick Fairlight
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10-01-2004 19:23
Originally posted by Torley Torgeson Haha... wasn't there one of those that used to abduct people and take them on joyrides? Or is this an absolutely unfounded rumor I seem to have heard about? Nope, that was Roo... I used to love riding that thing.. If I can find the orignal T-Shirt for being abducted, I'll send ya one. _____________________
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Foster Virgo
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10-01-2004 20:49
Take pics of your av's face and stuff too, they melt it's nutty.
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Cubey Terra
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10-01-2004 21:21
I tried that about a month ago. I blogged about it here.
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10-01-2004 22:03
brilliant stuff guys. how long does it take to fly that high and how do u know ur altitude? i so want to do this.
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10-01-2004 22:38
Nick or anyone else, if you could send me a t-shirt and any pictures of Roo's famous probings for the history project, please do, I'd love to add something about that.
 Donovon, awsome pictures, its really kinda beautifull with that blue hue. Cubey, great account and great pictures. The melting of avatars really is weird, anyone know why this happens? Anyone ever thought of setting up normal trips to space with a group? _____________________
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Devlin Gallant
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10-02-2004 04:42
I should have a copy of the T-shirt.
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Ursa Falcone
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10-02-2004 04:49
amazing pics Donovan - very surreal - dreamy.
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Eggy Lippmann
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10-02-2004 04:56
Heh, Donovan, there are better ways of getting high, you know
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Selador Cellardoor
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10-02-2004 05:09
Eggy,
<<Me and Darwin have been up to a few million meters.>> Somehow I knew that was coming. _____________________
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Kandahar Kuroda
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10-02-2004 07:13
Originally posted by Eggy Lippmann Heh, Donovan, there are better ways of getting high, you know Yeah, going up in the air is interesting the first time you try it, and boring as heck if you do it again. Me and Darwin have been up to a few million meters. I am surprised you crashed. but you didn't take pictures, eggy!  besides, as the first describer and picture-taker of the sun turning black phenomenon, donovan has the right to name it after himself. |
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Olympia Rebus
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10-02-2004 08:01
From the looks of the photo... it turned you inside out!
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing Originally posted by Cubey Terra I tried that about a month ago. I blogged about it here. _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
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10-02-2004 08:10
I dont know if I took pictures or not, but Darwin went up with Radium Lumin and even made a big event out of it, in Grey, around a year ago. It was fun. They took lots of pictures and all of us watched them on a big screen.
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10-04-2004 02:03
On a whim I decided to fly up myself, I started flying above Ahern to attach something, then decided not to stop, heheh.
It took me I'd say anywhere from 6-8 hours to get up to 1million, might have just been my method though, I just used a Macro program to repeditly send F and keep flying up, ended up falling asleep, lol. Its interisting, but not the most exciting thing to watch. I'd say the most beautifull part is when the sky goes from pitch black to a sudden blue emerging from the horizon and spreading to the top. Its a wonderfull gradiant of blue, attached is a picture as it closed in on the final top. The weirdest my avatar got was my eyes, face, and everything being kinda stretched and my eyes being at the top of my head, I was wearing a skydiving helmet but it dissapeared at that point. _____________________
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Oz Spade
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10-04-2004 02:06
Heres the one of my avatar at its weirdest, I believe I'm falling in this one and probably the high ammount of velocity counts towards the weird effects.
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Foster Virgo
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10-04-2004 03:29
haha, yeah the avs being crushed and mutilated at high altitudes is so friggen wierd... I wonder if we could get a Linden to explain the odd phenomenon to us.
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10-04-2004 04:16
Originally posted by Foster Virgo haha, yeah the avs being crushed and mutilated at high altitudes is so friggen wierd... I wonder if we could get a Linden to explain the odd phenomenon to us. I've done some 3D programming myself, and I can guess at the cause, having come across similar things. Basically, once you get that far away from the 'centre', floating-point errors start to creep in, so that the positioning of the various parts of your AV becomes inaccurate. |
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10-04-2004 04:55
Heh, Oz, you're crazy. You should have just scripted something to propel you upwards.
We got to a few million meters of altitude by flying at 250m/s. Last time I tried it, though, I could only get up to around 128m/s top speed. I think the Lindens neutered our maximum speed to avoid simulator handoff weirdness and also to cut down on people entering other people's houses by falling from the sky at a really high speed. _____________________
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10-04-2004 08:27
If flying that high makes your eyes pop out (as the pics suggest) i'm staying firmly on the ground... nice work to the brave adventurers though
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Oz Spade
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10-04-2004 21:49
Yeah after getting to about 50kmeters I realized "Wait... I probably shuold have scripted something to do this." Ah well.
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