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A little distraction ...

by Melv May · in General Discussion · 10/01/2002 (2:05 am) · 13 replies

For those who are interested in such things, I thought this was a nice little applet showing the effect of gravity of orbiting objects.

Gravity

- Melv.

#1
10/01/2002 (3:31 am)
very cool I got 2 more moon in the gravitional pull
#2
10/01/2002 (3:41 am)
You don't happen to be making some advanced gravity class for torque do you melv? :D
#3
10/01/2002 (4:07 am)
kewl, i got 2 satelites to orbit the earth forever somehow 8s
-Tricky
#4
10/01/2002 (4:12 am)
@Stuart: Damn, the cat's out of the bag. Now I guess I'm gonna' have to discuss my new fxQuantumFluctuations object that can be attached to my fxHeisenbergUncertainty object!

- Melv.
#5
10/01/2002 (6:10 am)
Ya know, I'm still waiting for the FxBeerRenderer, Melv! ;-)
#6
10/01/2002 (8:50 am)
Melv, you going to need a cat model for that fxHeisenbergUncertainty? ;-)

Eric
#7
10/01/2002 (9:20 am)
Cool, I got two orbiting the earth too, but it would prolly make scientists nervous. They near-miss the earth at different spots every time, and almost collide to eachother a bunch of times. Very cool.
#8
10/01/2002 (9:23 am)
Can anyone get something to orbit the moon? That'd be cool. I can get it going for like 5 or so orbits, but then it crashes into the moon causing the tide worldwide to get effed up.
#9
10/01/2002 (10:02 am)
@Eric: fxSchrodinger? 8)

- Melv.
#10
10/01/2002 (10:21 am)
heh, I got a nice figure 8 going between the earth and the moon.
#11
10/01/2002 (5:14 pm)
I got 5 satelites around the earth, and had one around the moon for a rotation or two. . . .melv do you know if the indiviual satelites have mass too?
#12
10/01/2002 (5:34 pm)
I had 4 satellites going.

2 going in one direction, 2 going in the other.
#13
10/01/2002 (5:37 pm)
I got a few dozen flying around the earth, with a few exiting the system and reentering within a few minutes. I could only get one to rotate around the moon for a few rotations.