Just a fun little thing you can try out yourself. Best part is that it doesn't even damage you in survival. Not on the way up atleast :D Almost finished my next ship btw: imgur.com/a/fmrnJ9p
When the developers allow you to extend and retract rotors, but for some reason the maximum force they can exert is undefined, so you get this. I wonder if an orion drive is possible with this.
I don't think explosions push blocks, so Orion drives are out, but rotorguns do create a lot of recoil and can be very effectively used as thrusters, using the rotorheads as reaction mass.
He goes from 110 m/s to 15 m/s in a single frame when he hits the trampoline. If this is playing at 60 fps, that means he decelerated 95 m/s in 1/60th of a second. Therefore the deceleration rate from falling to hitting that trampoline is about 5,700 m/s per second, and since that is made of pretty solid metal, I think it's safe to say that the astronaut is now a 2 dimensional object.
That 15 m/s is going in the opposite direction to the 110 m/s, so it would actually be 125 m/s speed change in 1/60th of a second, or 7500 m/s/s. Either way, he'd still splat really hard
In survival mode does the triggering of the platform and the initial launch kill the engineer and launch the corpse? If so this could be a fun trap or prank to play!
or even better, if you can manage to attach that to a ship and use it as a battering ram. I bet that'd do quite a bit of damage (to you and the enemy ship)
I was thinking more like a launch assist thing. Have part of the structure break off at the peak of the sproing to launch a craft a decent distance to space (or get around the need to waste fuel/power getting up to speed at least.)
With vanilla max speed: From the Moon, possibly. From Earthlike, no. However, with a speed mod and a sufficiently large set-up you could actually do it, though you might need to go 500+ m/s.
@@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am its more politics and russian oligarh being angry that he has competition. Basically he said that he should launch his ships on a tramplene when Elon Musk was only starting to be serious about starships. But when SpaceX launched first spaceship that returned, Elon said that trampolene is working. If everything is as I remember
