Project Moonwalk video game

[Kevon Daye]

Sounds more like the name of a crappy emo band to me.

 

[Izack]

'Mild rocket-violence'... to me that sounds sort of like when the manual for your microwave says not to put your pet inside it while on :facepalm:

Agreed there. It's like placing a warning "gun violence" on a first-person shooting game next to a picture of a gun-toting soldier.

Sounds more like the name of a crappy emo band to me.

:lol:

 

[Pyromaniac605]

Or swapping some parts out in Velcro?

I'm telling you, anything this can do, Orbiter can do better. (Rocketry- and physics-wise, anyway.)

Not all rockets in Orbiter can explode. (That is physics so you have no argument )

Darren

Edit: And in a sense it is Rocketry, just on the bad side of the scale.

 

[JEL]

I just tried googling "Mild rocket violence"... Our thread (this one) came up #1 . It was also the only google-result containing that exact phrase, so I guess we could adopt it for some fun if we wanted to . Aren't there a few war-addons on the hangar already? Atleast we have had a few nukes earlier on ('Dave Rowbotham' did one)

 

[Izack]

Not all rockets in Orbiter can explode. (That is physics so you have no argument )

I'd hardly call what happened in the video an explosion. :lol:

Rocket explosions produce almost no recognisable debris (they are, after all, almost entirely just fuel tanks with engines on one end and expensive things on the other. If the fuel tanks explode, what's left to recognise?) The result of that little fiasco looked like a charred rocket. I can't complain about that too much though, as an exploded DG-IV looks pretty much like a charred DG-IV...

It was also the only google-result containing that exact phrase, so I guess we could adopt it for some fun if we wanted to .

Done and done. Signature edited accordingly.


Random: I made a comment on the video along the lines of 'No thanks, I already play Orbiter' and it was promptly deleted. Go figure! :lol:

 

[Spacethingy]

Thing is, wasn't it dissatisfaction with current space-sims that drove Dr. S. to write Orbiter?

Without the bad ones we wouldn't have the best one. Or something like that... :uhh:

 

[Ghostrider]

-"May contain mild rocket violence and exciting historical scenes" is absolutely hilarious. I think that "May contain mild rocket violence" should become Orbiter's unofficial motto. :lol:

Since rendezvous and docking are a major pastime in Orbiter, we should add "may contain hot capsule-on-capsule action".

 

[Urwumpe]

Since rendezvous and docking are a major pastime in Orbiter, we should add "may contain hot capsule-on-capsule action".

Like..."might contain naked aluminum structures and traces of hydrazine?"

 

[Spacethingy]

"May contain scenes of a hyperbolic nature."

 

[Ghostrider]

"Fiery re-entry scenes".

 

[Urwumpe]

"No astronauts have been harmed during the production of this simulator."

 

[statickid]

After watching that I want to download orbiter...INSTEAD. This is the case even though I already have it installed and use it all the time!

The fact of the matter is that the graphics looks only 1/4 as good as orbiter, at best. The gameplay looks incomparable.

 

[Wonderer]

If they recreate the landing areas according to pictures it would be cool to roam around a bit :hmm:

 

[Rtyh-12]

I think that "May contain mild rocket violence" should become Orbiter's unofficial motto.:lol:

:rofl:Hilarious... totally agreed...

P.S.:I've got absolutely no idea why I think it's funny. I just...I...Let's just start the APUs in our XR2s and get those moon flights going.

Edit:New idea! If you want to spread out this motto, I'm your man. Until tomorrow everybody on this forum will say this. Just don't say that I didn't warn you...:yes:

 

[Izack]

"May contain scenes of utter stupidity."

 

[Pyromaniac605]

"May contain scenes of utter stupidity."

:blink:

Darren

 

[jinglesassy]

"May contain scenes of utter stupidity."

What kind of a rocket was required for that launch?

 

[T.Neo]

Well, humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) average 15-17 meters long, and females have pectoral fins that are each 6 meters long. It would be safe to assume mass of maybe 40-50 metric tons. All the water in a tank large enough to accomodate the organism would be 3040 metric tons; this does not include the mass of the tank itself. Simplistically scaling up from the STS ET, which is 0.077 tons per cubic meter, that is 234 tons.

That is a total of 3315 metric tons, not including additional propulsion or life support. And to get this to the Moon, you would need a really, really large launch vehicle... maybe Hercules by Sky_Captain would be able to do it, provided you shipped the EDS stage(s) for LOI seperately.

Of course, if you are launching just a 40 ton whale, you might be able to do it with Ares V. But it will be a dead whale- of course, that is a bit of a forgone conclusion when you have a naked whale orbiting the Moon.

 

[Kevon Daye]

I can see this in an orbiter review: "With terms like 'Injection', 'Insertion', 'Re-Entry', and 'Hyperbolic' used frequently, 'Orbiter' more than earns it's Mature rating from the ESRB"

 

[Izack]

That is a total of 3315 metric tons, not including additional propulsion or life support. And to get this to the Moon, you would need a really, really large launch vehicle... maybe Hercules by Sky_Captain would be able to do it, provided you shipped the EDS stage(s) for LOI seperately.

Of course, if you are launching just a 40 ton whale, you might be able to do it with Ares V. But it will be a dead whale- of course, that is a bit of a forgone conclusion when you have a naked whale orbiting the Moon.

Or maybe this whale inexplicably has thrusters...
I used Velcro rockets. Lots of them. 16 Castor SRMs firing in series, 4 per stage. It was hilarious.