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Eric Penguin
Registered User
Join date: 13 Apr 2005
Posts: 8
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05-01-2005 09:31
That's what I was thinking, you all of a sudden hear a bunch of Lindens talking and you just bust into a room and they're all like, "HOW DID YOU GET HERE??? WHAT DID YOU DO???"
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Cutter Rubio
Hopeless Romantic
Join date: 7 Feb 2004
Posts: 264
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900K and climbing
05-01-2005 10:58
I was somehow "inspired" by this thread to go and see for myself. I'm currently at 903,000m and rocketing upward at 200+ knots. Not much to see, but it's cool to be here
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The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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Adohan Zephyr
Bang bang
Join date: 20 Sep 2004
Posts: 216
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05-01-2005 11:11
 I think Plastic Duck wins. _____________________
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Cutter Rubio
Hopeless Romantic
Join date: 7 Feb 2004
Posts: 264
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05-01-2005 11:28
I wonder if the color ever comes back or it's my video card? I am in absolutely pitch-black conditions at 1,100,000 meters.
Geez, that must have taken Plastic days at that rate of ascent.  I'm doing somewhere under a million meters per hour at 234 knots vertical speed. My avie still looks normal but is acting very nervous, jerking about in sudden spasms when stopped. Ascent is likewise very agitated and it looks like I could be torn asunder at any moment. My attachment is still functional but can no longer be seen. _____________________
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
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05-01-2005 13:15
You people are crazy.
I was one of the first people to do this sort of thing. Darwin Appleby was another, he even made a big event out of it in kazenojin. Christopher Omega was yet another one. At one time, we even pondered coding up a synchronized flight system and selling tickets... _____________________
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Cutter Rubio
Hopeless Romantic
Join date: 7 Feb 2004
Posts: 264
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05-01-2005 13:17
And Eggy thinks we're crazy?
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The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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Rabid Penguin
Registered User
Join date: 25 Mar 2005
Posts: 6
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05-01-2005 18:15
It s pretty fun, because you get to see the "edges" of the world.....Also, when I got back down I had landed outside the world boundries!
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
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05-01-2005 18:24
LOL
I'm sorry, this is just insane, seeing people refer to all these concepts as if they were brand new. The FIC needs to ramp up its educational efforts. _____________________
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Brian Mifflin
Scripting Addict
Join date: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 182
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05-01-2005 19:46
LOL I'm sorry, this is just insane, seeing people refer to all these concepts as if they were brand new. The FIC needs to ramp up its educational efforts. Maybe referring to them as new is in error, but everyone wants to try it for themselves. _____________________
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Apotheus Silverman
I write code.
Join date: 17 Nov 2003
Posts: 416
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05-02-2005 11:02
Pffffffft. I've got a motorcycle I made as a proof-of-concept vehicle that will break the virtual sound barrier. 250 m/s is hardly the limit. Safe to drive, no, but fun in that milisecond before you ghost your avatar and the bike goes offworld.*edit* On followup testing, you may be right. While it used to exceed 600 mph, it now caps out at 599.24 every time. There must have been a new limitation imposed sometime between 1.3 and now. Poo. Now this thing isn't near as cool  When I built the SpaceShipOne replica, I had it consistently bouncing around the sims at 1200m/sec before I got its handling under control. Then again, most of my vehicles do tend to mix physics functionalities up in ways that are specifically warned against... I think the key in this case was using gravity as a slingshot. Gravity doesn't have the limitations of llSetForce() _____________________
Apotheus Silverman
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nimrod Yaffle
Cavemen are people too...
Join date: 15 Nov 2004
Posts: 3,146
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05-02-2005 14:59
Thats nothing! One day I went up to 5mil and took screenies. It looks like an aurora starts to happen and the sky becomes a giant box with different colors flying all around you. I'll post the screenies if I have time.
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Psyra Extraordinaire
Corra Nacunda Chieftain
Join date: 24 Jul 2004
Posts: 1,533
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05-02-2005 15:24
Best I've done was 7.2 million. A friend that was with me went higher and his account vanished from SL!
Logged into WoW later on that day to find him wandering around in confusion asking about where the nearest sandbox was located in Durotar. Evidently, passing 7.5 million meters ejects you through the Nth Dimension into another Massively Multiplayer World. _____________________
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Jillian Callahan
Rotary-winged Neko Girl
Join date: 24 Jun 2004
Posts: 3,766
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05-02-2005 15:25
Best I've done was 7.2 million. A friend that was with me went higher and his account vanished from SL! Logged into WoW later on that day to find him wandering around in confusion asking about where the nearest sandbox was located in Durotar. Evidently, passing 7.5 million meters ejects you through the Nth Dimension into another Massively Multiplayer World. "Here there be dragons!" _____________________
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Felix Uritsky
Prime Minister of Lupinia
Join date: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 267
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05-22-2005 18:54
Best I've done was 7.2 million. A friend that was with me went higher and his account vanished from SL! Logged into WoW later on that day to find him wandering around in confusion asking about where the nearest sandbox was located in Durotar. Evidently, passing 7.5 million meters ejects you through the Nth Dimension into another Massively Multiplayer World. Hmm, I've got some time to kill, let's see if I can break your record |
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
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05-22-2005 20:50
You're gonna need to break 16 million for it to be a record, I think.
Also, bear in mind that there is a maximum speed of 250 m/s in SL... and so it will take you about an hour per million. _____________________
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Brian Mifflin
Scripting Addict
Join date: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 182
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05-22-2005 21:06
Is it really the fastest you can go, or just where llGetVel() stops? I was curious about that.
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
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05-22-2005 21:20
It's the fastest you can go. The limit is arbitrary, and is in place to make sure the physics engine works properly, especially with regards to collision detection and sim transitions.
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Keknehv Psaltery
Hacker
Join date: 11 Apr 2005
Posts: 1,185
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05-22-2005 21:40
Stupid bug fixers
Anyways, I got up to around 350km before I went to work with a client... It took about 20 minutes. _____________________
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