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Newtonian Flight
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 6:12 am
by Illuminaughty
I understand that really flying a space ship is like driving a truck across a sheet of ice, but now that I know it once existed, I really want to try it.
Is there an OXP that changes the flight behavior of the ship so that it operates on Newtonian physics? If not, is it because it would be ridiculously hard to implement or because nobody wants to play it?
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 6:24 am
by Killer Wolf
X-(
"because nobody wants to play it"
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 6:32 am
by Thargoid
And it would be impossible to OXP-code (although KW has the main reason).
If you so desire it try Frontier.
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 9:01 am
by Commander McLane
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 9:15 am
by Killer Wolf
if that idiot Newton hadn't invented gravity we wouldn't have good game sequels ruined by silly flight dynamics!
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 9:34 am
by Commander McLane
Killer Wolf wrote:if that idiot Newton hadn't invented gravity we wouldn't have good game sequels ruined by silly flight dynamics!
...and on top of that we would all be floating in the air. Now imagine
that!
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 9:40 am
by Commander McLane
Sorry, this reminded me of something. Here it is, enjoy (the physicists among you probably know it already):
Unified Field Theory
by TIM JOSEPH
In the beginning there was Aristotle,
And objects at rest tended to remain at rest,
And objects in motion tended to come to rest,
And soon everything was at rest,
And God saw that it was boring.
Then God created Newton,
And objects at rest tended to remain at rest,
But objects in motion tended to remain in motion,
And energy was conserved and momentum was conserved and matter was conserved,
And God saw that it was conservative.
Then God created Einstein,
And everything was relative,
And fast things became short,
And straight things became curved,
And the universe was filled with inertial frames,
And God saw that it was relatively general, but some of it was especially relative.
Then God created Bohr,
And there was the principle,
And the principle was quantum,
And all things were quantified,
But some things were still relative,
And God saw that it was confusing.
Then God was going to create Furgeson,
And Furgeson would have unified,
And he would have fielded a theory,
And all would have been one,
But it was the seventh day,
And God rested,
And objects at rest tend to remain at rest.
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 9:45 am
by Cody
Nice!
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 4:21 pm
by Killer Wolf
Commander McLane wrote:Killer Wolf wrote:if that idiot Newton hadn't invented gravity we wouldn't have good game sequels ruined by silly flight dynamics!
...and on top of that we would all be floating in the air. Now imagine
that!
i believe someone would have invented velcro shoes to compensate.
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 4:59 pm
by Thargoid
And what would the air itself wear to stop it also wandering off into the galactic void?
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 3:49 am
by Diziet Sma
We could always encase the planet in a giant balloon..
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 3:59 pm
by Phantom Hoover
There wouldn't be a planet in the first place.
Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 4:24 pm
by Star Gazer
OK. Now this thread is getting very silly, so I want you all to stop right away...
Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 4:39 pm
by Killer Wolf
if there wasn't a planet then there wouldn't have been gravity.
Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 6:13 pm
by ClymAngus
Newtonian Flight? Wouldn't Newtonian Plummet be more accurate?