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I managed to get my rocket very very slowly rotating (<0.1° / s), so that I could just hold the acceleration and have it do one arc from launch to crash: U

I managed to get my rocket very very slowly rotating (<0.1° / s), so that I could just hold the acceleration and have it do one arc from launch to crash: Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth Score: 1712.2 point crash Speed: 15226.2mph Angle: 174.3° Time: 5963 seconds Flips: 0 Max speed: 15226.2mph Max height: 1993862ft Engine used: 21 times Boosters used: 14 times https://ehmorris.com/lander/

DrSiemer 4y ago
This reminds me of when I made a parody "game" once, where all you had to do was click to get a point. I had included a message at 10k, for a friend that I had expected to check the js source, but to my surprise a non-programmer friend send me a screenshot of it. He just kept clicking "to see if something would happen". If only I had thought to turn it into an app with some ads at the time, there's a whole idle game genre these days. In some situations people will go to surprising lengths for a basically meaningless and pointless payoff. I still enjoy driving off the map in Trackmania myself. Takes almost an hour, but it's very zen.
messe 4y ago
Now that's impressive. 1h40m for it though..., that's an extra 1h15m for just 800mph more. With some tweaking of your initial launch angle (get it somewhere between 40-60° rather than 0° which is what I'm assuming yours was, correct me if I'm wrong), plus maybe a second fine-tuning once you reach apolune, I'd guesstimate you could make 25000mph in ~3000 seconds.