This video actually has a back story: As a kid, pondering the whole moon landing thing, I got thinking about the physics of landing and all that kind of thing. Then it donned on me: There's no atmosphere... You could orbit as close as you want! If you wanted too, you could orbit SO close, you could reach out and touch a mountain top as you zipped by (And immediately lose an arm and get spun up to 10,000 RPM and explode). Thinking about just how amazingly cool that would be and then playing Kerbal all these years later, I decided to try this on various worlds and this is one example of that. You can actually orbit a LOT closer than this, but you still get an idea of what I'm talking about around 4:00 in where I'm flying over the mountains into the sunrise. Very very cool stuff, even if I did use cheats to do it! :)
This video actually has a back story: As a kid, pondering the whole moon landing thing, I got thinking about the physics of landing and all that kind of thing. Then it donned on me: There's no atmosphere... You could orbit as close as you want! If you wanted too, you could orbit SO close, you could reach out and touch a mountain top as you zipped by (And immediately lose an arm and get spun up to 10,000 RPM and explode). Thinking about just how amazingly cool that would be and then playing Kerbal all these years later, I decided to try this on various worlds and this is one example of that. You can actually orbit a LOT closer than this, but you still get an idea of what I'm talking about around 4:00 in where I'm flying over the mountains into the sunrise. Very very cool stuff, even if I did use cheats to do it! :)
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