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...and the equally ugly follow-up:

Thought I'd try glc, which is supposedly Linux's answer to fraps. Not bad, but hangs a lot. Despite the hanging and freezing, though, I managed to fly around the city without hitting anything.

Thanks, robn, for introducing me to RecordMyDesktop, which is brilliant.Here's something cool - an unpowered descent from low Venus orbit to the surface, to a safe (if rather battered) rough landing. It's something I've done many times now, and I thought I'd share. Props to s20dan who first clued me in that this was possible.

That is cool! Didn't know you could do that, makes me wonder where else it might be possible out there now? Reminds me of finding you could auto-gyro land the helicopter in Armour-Geddon (amiga game) after the engine had been shot out

Inspired by all these YouTube videos going up I finally got around to recording a combat session. Ended up with one of my fastest kills.

fluffyfreak: I also have a video of an unpowered landing onto the surface of Saturn. I can upload it if people are curious.Ziusudra: You're better than me. I just fire both missiles and run.

Saturn? Isn't that a bit odd? I know it does have a solid core, but that it has oceans of liquidified (by pressure) gas above it.is the solid core very small and the atmosphere very very very far above it's surface or is it quite close? I am curious now!

fluffyfreak wrote:
Saturn? Isn't that a bit odd? I know it does have a solid core, but that it has oceans of liquidified (by pressure) gas above it.is the solid core very small and the atmosphere very very very far above it's surface or is it quite close? I am curious now!
Ah, you're thinking of Saturn as it appears in popular fiction and scientific journals. If you go there for real, in your Eagle, you'll find that it has a solid surface and that the surface pressure is bearable.

By popular request: SATURN!Unpowered landing from orbit is officially the first extreme sport to exist in the Pioneer universe.

This does look fun, or at least until someone introduces "crush depths"

Geraldine wrote:
This does look fun, or at least until someone introduces "crush depths"
That's had a large amount of in-depth discussion on IRC tonight, believe me. (-:

Really? I must have a look at some point at the IRC. Thinking about crush depths reminded of some TV programme. Now what was it? Oh, I remember it was this! I used a similar trick in Frontier to offload a bunch of angry Police Vipers who took offence to me in my humble little Sidewinder just because of a slight mishap with my laser on take off . Thank goodness I had fuel scoops as I had forgot to buy any hydrogen!

Brianetta wrote:
...first extreme sport to exist in the Pioneer universe.
No no no, that's baiting s2odan into rewriting the terrain render again Nice work though, we'll have to start a log of planets where people have tried / managed / thought-it'd-work-but-failed-spectacularly

fluffyfreak wrote:
thought-it'd-work-but-failed-spectacularly
I think we would need another new forum just to host that many!

WTF you can land on Saturn? Are there any other landable gas giants?

bchimself wrote:
WTF you can land on Saturn? Are there any other landable gas giants?
All of them. Technically, it's a bug.

Brianetta wrote:


bchimself wrote:
WTF you can land on Saturn? Are there any other landable gas giants?
All of them. Technically, it's a bug.
Weird...does this mean stars are landable? Brown dwarves, etc?

It would probably be easy to make it possible, but the code doesn't check for landing on anything it considers a star. Really, it only checks for things it considers as planets, which includes everything from gas giants down to asteroids. Landing on gas giants will go away after we figure out what to do instead. Maybe a deeper atmosphere where the pressure crushes you when you get too deep.

bchimself wrote:


Brianetta wrote:


bchimself wrote:
WTF you can land on Saturn? Are there any other landable gas giants?
All of them. Technically, it's a bug.
Weird...does this mean stars are landable? Brown dwarves, etc?
No; you'll simply collide with their surfaces.

Brianetta wrote:
No; you'll simply collide with their surfaces.
I've been trying over and over again to land on a small star and the gravity just keeps owning me anyway. Now I can cease my efforts.