Obliterating the Land Speed Record in Kerbal Space Program 

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Congratulations to Jeb for becoming the fastest known stellar object

Why am I not surprised that this went from a land speed record to launching a Kerbal at 6 times the speed of light

He wanted to use a plane, but not leave the ground. He removes everything that will keep you stable, but doesn't remove what lifts you off the ground.

Just remember that Jeb was launched *horizontally* into the outer solar system instantly

13:40 the one thing you do not want to hear while in a vehicle moving faster than the speed of sound is “it’s a little unstable”

The real reason Artemis was delayed was to clear the corpses of kerbals littering the runway from this

For a brief moment in time, Jeb went at 1,876,710,418.2 meters per second. For an impossibly short time, Jeb, was the single fastest moving object in history.

The much deadlier cousin to the land speed record is the water speed record which has an 85% mortality rate which blows my mind every time I’m reminded of it.

Ah yes, the land speed record that is 6.3 times the speed of light. Incredible work froggy man.

Not only did he break the land speed record, he technically time travelled.

I like that it took approximately 2 minutes to go from struggling to get Jeb off the runway to launching him out of the solar system. That's progress, people.

I love how this started out with land speed record attempts with vehicles and just devolved into building a bunch of man-cannons.

Jeb went over 1870000 km/s which is over 6x the speed of light. He's made out of some really strong material, we need to study Jeb further.

Martins the kind of guy who opens the window on a submarine because he wants some fresh air

12:47 it's very funny that in the pursuit of breaking a speed record, you accidentally created the largest caliber of shotgun shell known to man

"Urming Kerman... *Prepare to meet your maker*" Gets me every time

I love how not once is the term "downforce" ever mentioned in the video. Also how did we go from "land vehicle with wheels and boosters" to "just shove an immortal Kerbal in front of an exhaust."

That shot of Jeb passing across the sun was priceless.

Jeb is traveling at 6 times the speed of light. He has not only achieved the land speed record but he has managed; because speed of C is 299 792 458 m/s and he was exceeding 1 800 000 000 m/s; to actually break the light speed barrier and the relativity barrier. Jeb is now a time traveler.

I'm not sure that the act of literally mopping the floor with Jeb at several million kilometers per second should count as the land speed record.

Martin refusing to realise that downforce is incredibly important for staying on the ground going at such high speeds cracks me up

I love how it just went white and then he was in space. You literally sent Jeb to heaven.

Jeb went so fast he went back in time and became the object that wiped out the dinosaurs

Imagine the people in the buildings watching trillions of dollars going 500k m/s towards them before turning the last second avoiding them

The scariest part is that even at that speed it would take Jeb more than a year to reach the nearest solar system, it really gives a prospective on how big Is the universe

The life of Jeb must be quite chaotic. One minute he's trying to break the landspeed record, the next he's leaving the solar system.

Sometimes you gotta invent the strongest cannon known to Kerbalkind to break the land speed record... But then again, I suppose a rocket IS just a reverse cannon after all...

For anyone wondering, the missiles on "tonk 3" at the start were from a mod called bdarmory. An absolutely fantastic mod for obvious reasons.

The entire last launch was comedy gold. The lag, the sudden darkness, the turn to see the sun and realising just how fast he's going, the burst into laughter. Perfection.

I'm genuinely impressed the game rendered him going at glitch speeds instead of sending him to the infinity realm

13:56 he just crashes into the curvature of the earth or somethin

When Martin realizes that the irl land speed record is 340m/s and he nearly beat it by triple with his rocket car.

RIP Bill, you will be missed. Your sacrifices for the Bean Space Program will not be forgotten.

Martin seems like he’s really smart but he needs like a ritual to summon it

7:48 best part of the video lol

12:24 every anime fight be like

“Commander Z’Gllypbe, we’re detecting something approaching our ship rapidly!” “Is it an asteroid?” “No, sir… it’s a-“ The ship is promptly torn to pieces by a flying Jeb moving at Mach 97

18:01 Straight up POV of Jeb going straight to heaven after being reduced to atoms

I can’t be the only one who feels bad for these little kerbals, watching them react in pure horror as they hurdle towards the ground

For Jeb, He stepped to the side, felt heat for a fraction of a second, then in a flash he saw Kerbol approach then disappear into the distance as Jeb rapidly outpaces the light that would normally reach his eyes and breaks many known laws of physics. Thank you Jeb, your contributions and sacrifice will be remembered as you slowly suffocate in the cold dark depths of interstellar space.

"Nothing can scape a black hole" Jeb: *Hold this booster...*

"And as a Kerbal was sent out into the cosmos, all he could think about was that he, and he alone, broke the land speed record."

0:43 correction, because *we* will have little to no regard for our pilot’s lives.

15:51 the fog is coming the frog is c

Not only is Jeb now the only thing in existence that could escape a black hole, he could do it with ease.

I find it hilarious that he was moving so fast he entered orbit whilst traveling horizontal.

16:30 :POV: you Superman

16:09 the only thing that is coming to my mind is: "fuck you, go to space."

Ah yes, the new galactic distance measurement, the JebYear. It accounts how far does a speed of Jeb travels in one year.

I love the white flash as jeb went 6x the speed of sound. For a faint moment, Jeb saw the afterlife.

Pro tip: If you're looking for stability, you need rudder fins in the back behind the vehicle's center of mass. This makes it fly across the ground like a dart falling through the air, and should negate most chances of the craft spinning out

Nothing like casually sending Jeb at 6.26x the speed of light out of the solar system forever

I wasn't quite expecting Jebb to be sent directly into space at a 90 degree angle

17:22 I like to think in that half a second the screen glitched, Jeb circled the entire planet and came to rest somewhere behind the KSC

congrats jeb on breaking the very laws of physics by going around 6 times the speed of light

The fact that you heard the music that you entered space before you even saw what happened is hilarious

I love how this video devolves from using actual strategy to beat the land speed record in a reasonable way to launching kerbals into orbit faster than the speed of light

I love how you sent a man horizontally so fast that he became a comet

It’s the delayed explosion sounds and lag before chaos that sends me 😂

the shot of jeb going past the sun was amazing

Can i just point out that at 17:28 he hit the ground *behind* the booster, looks like he also gets the record for closest orbit to kerbin

Jeb: casually exceeds the speed of light, but keeps going further For science

this is the first time a youtube short has actually enticed me enough to watch the video, good job!

The way you said "SPEED!!!!" is such a mood, absolutely fantastic

Martin: Get ready to match our speed with 6 times the speed of light Everyone else: It's not possible Martin: No, It's necessary.

Best sponsored segment I've ever watched 🤣

Ah yes, the Yeag, short for the _Chuck Yeager_ after the first man to go faster than the speed of sound in level flight.

I’ve never seen any other videos on this channel, and I have to say that that was one of the best (if the the best) sponsor promo I’ve ever seen for ANYTHING

That moment when you reach escape velocity...instantly.

17:19 Mart: Come on man this is so disappointing Jeb: I gotchu bro

I like how you removed vertical stabilized from the very first craft and didn't put any of reasonable size until 14:30

best sponsor segment Ive ever seen, also all of this was of pure interest

9:47 Those kerbals trained their entire lives to pilot spacecraft, only to end with their organs arranged by density against the cabin wall.

KSP: “You should try to make it to space!” Martin: “We’re just gonna play this straight!”

Hey Mart, fun fact. Since 1940, attempting the Water Speed Record comes with an 85% mortality rate. Since the 1930’s, 7 out of the 13 people who have attempted to break the water speed record sadly died during the process. Since Australian Ken Warby snatched the record in 1978, there have been only 2 official attempts. Sadly, both ended in the driver dying. The reason why is because of resistance. For the land speed record, all you need is a perfectly flat surface, and favourable conditions. However, with water, it’s highly unpredictable. Even the smallest wave can cause disastrous results.

13:51 This is called a kill sphere Also Stratzenblitz Beaten you With 1 Trillion Meters Per Second

To think Martin spent 3 videos building a warp drive to get to an interstellar star and then did it with 1000 well placed solid rocket boosters and a Kerbal in 20 minutes.

Real Civil Engineer: spends hours refining a design to reach 300 meters per second Martincitopants: More rocket make more fast

jeb's portrait view while flying through the air was phenomenal

Everyone:playing the game normally; Marcitopantslive:

The shot of him instantly launching into orbit had me fucking crying

Surprising Jeb can survive being ripped apart into a singularity and spit back out as spaghetti after going multiple times the speed of light

He went so fast that even God couldn't keep his eyes on jeb

That was the definition of "You're going to the shadow realm, Jeb

Love as he turns around in the middle of space to see where he is, he just sees the *SUN*

"To achieve the land speed record, I sent the immortal Jeb out of the solar system at half a dozen times the speed of light."

man, i love the gran turismo soundtrack. Thinking about it now, its quite fitting you used ‘light velocity’ as the opening track

There’s something I love about the fact that you essentially made the yeagh v2 stable enough it was able to fly in a stable enough way that it likely would have gotten to space. 🤣

Jeb: exists Martin: do you want to meet god?

When Jeb's desiccated remains slam into another planetary body, then it'll be a land speed record. Technically.........

That background btd music man the memories and nostalgia hit harder then the rocket when it crashed into the ground

This is the only guy who can make me watch a sponsor ad

Did some random math for how much force that Jeb experienced near the end of the video: We can assume that our acceleration is equal to our velocity due to the fact no deceleration should have occurred and that we went from 0m/s to the V(f). Along with that 1 kerbal is about 45kg. Multiplying them together gives us about 8.4452e10N of force. In other words, Jeb experienced the force of around 6,849,310.62 Suns all the same time.

17:33 “Now this, is fast. But we can go faster…” 18:00 *Proceeds to launch kerbal into interstellar space*

He did this so effortlessly too

I like how this turned from a challenge to get the fastest speed record on land to torturing Jeb

martin is literally the only guy on youtube you don't skip the sponsor for, i think that's a great achievement.

10:00 Ah yes. The world record for fastest speed in the water without any propulsion in KSP.

That last kerman got launched so fast His atoms are currently at the nearest star system