Launch your own (virtual) GPS satellite

[Dru Morgan]

Here is another gravity based game to take up more of your day. It was good enough to grind the geochat to a halt. It should be good for a few wasted hours at work.

 

http://www.bigideafun.com/penguins/arcade/spaced_penguin/default.htm

 

Don't applaud, throw money.

 

Serious cachers needed! www.theheavenlyhost.com/geocache

[+majicman]

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Originally posted by Dru Morgan:

Here is another gravity based game to take up more of your day. It was good enough to grind the geochat to a halt. It should be good for a few wasted hours at work.

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Dru,

 

You do have a "life" right?

 

--majicman

BigSig rules to live by:

1.) Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive!

[+brdad]

Since we're talking space talk, here's a way to go to Mars, or at least have your name sent there...Sign Up For Mars!

 

I seriously question the sanity of somebody who uses multiple exclamation marks!!!!!

 

[This message was edited by brdad on October 08, 2002 at 03:51 PM.]

[Aladin Sane]

Has anyone had any luck getting a sattelite parked on a Lagrange point? The best I have been able to do is about 3 lunar orbits of the earth before the sattelite falls to earth. My best results have been with L4. It is a little hard to get the right position and vector with the rather crude launch tools available.

 

Aladin Sane

[+Jamie Z]

I messed with the langrange points for a bit, but wasn't getting anywhere with any of 'em... so I gave it up.

 

Jamie

[+st_richardson]

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Originally posted by Jeremy Irish:

...I have yet to get one to orbit the moon for more than 3 or 4 times.

 

Jeremy Irish

Groundspeak - The Language of Location

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Me neither but a friend of mine said he did. He was the one that thanked me for removing 2 hours of his life with the site.

[+The Cheeseheads]

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Originally posted by Dru Morgan:

Here is another gravity based game to take up more of your day.

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Woo! 491252!

 

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Wisconsin Geocaching Association

[+Planet]

Well, Here's another fun waste of time: http://doody36.home.attbi.com/liberty.htm

 

Cache you later,

Planet

 

"It doesn't matter whether you're going somewhere or nowhere, whether you're doing something or nothing. If you're doing it in a boat it's the best time ever!" -Water Rat from "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame (a book I picked up in a cache)

[+Mr. 0]

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Originally posted by Planet:

Well, Here's another fun waste of time: http://doody36.home.attbi.com/liberty.htm

 

Cache you later,

Planet

http://216.40.249.192/mysmilies/contrib/edoom/spacecraft.gif

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Dang you for bringing this thread back from the dead. I had finally let go of my "launch your own satellite" addiction....but now I'm hooked again.

[+Planet]

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Originally posted by Mr. 0:

quote:

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Originally posted by Planet:

Well, Here's another fun waste of time: http://doody36.home.attbi.com/liberty.htm

 

Cache you later,

Planet

http://216.40.249.192/mysmilies/contrib/edoom/spacecraft.gif

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Dang you for bringing this thread back from the dead. I had finally let go of my "launch your own satellite" addiction....but now I'm hooked again.

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Did you try this site, too?: http://doody36.home.attbi.com/liberty.htm

 

Cache you later,

Planet

 

"It doesn't matter whether you're going somewhere or nowhere, whether you're doing something or nothing. If you're doing it in a boat it's the best time ever!" -Water Rat from "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame (a book I picked up in a cache)

[+Mr. 0]

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Originally posted by Planet:

 

Did you try this site, too?: http://doody36.home.attbi.com/liberty.htm

 

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oops, I was too busy cursing you and forgot to try it. But I just did, and there's another distraction for me. I'm going to be too busy with my computer addictions to go caching.

[+The Cheeseheads]

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Originally posted by Planet:

Well, Here's another fun waste of time: http://doody36.home.attbi.com/liberty.htm

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Reminds me of Missile Command...

 

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Wisconsin Geocaching Association

[+worldtraveler]

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Originally posted by Jeremy Irish:

...The trick is to fling a million of them and hope they'll stick around. I have yet to get one to orbit the moon for more than 3 or 4 times...

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I'm sooooo grateful that the Apollo project was before your time! I think you've found your true calling at Geocaching.com.

 

(Oops! I just realized how old this thread was. Never mind!)

[+GeoIA]

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Originally posted by Lapaglia:

http://www.bigideafun.com/penguins/arcade/spaced_penguin/info.htm

 

Lapaglia

"Muga Muchu" (forget yourself, focus).

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483351

 

[+Jamie Z]

Boy, I hate to drag this topic up again... but I've found another time-wasting site.

 

My best is 297mph.

 

Jamie

[+Team GPSaxophone]

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Now can anyone get 24 going at once?

Jeremy Irish

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I did a PrintScreen and counted 36. Most of the close ones are going clockwise while the larger orbits are going CCW. There is one that is orbiting the Earth and Moon as one body.

[+CYBret]

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Originally posted by Jamie Z:

Boy, I hate to drag this topic up again... but I've found another http://www.vectorlounge.com/04_amsterdam/jam/flamjam.html.

 

My best is 297mph.

 

Jamie

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Gee, thank a LOT, Jamie! You're obviously using some sort of competition mouse, right?

 

I got up to 292 . . . I thought my beloved marble mouse would be able to hit pretty hard, but it couldn't go over 100 mph. I hit 292 using a laser mouse.

 

By the way, if you get time (and don't mind shockwave games) check out pingpong at Miniclip.

 

Bret

 

"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.

When a man found it, he hid it again." Mt. 13:44

[+GoldKey]

390 mph, I am using an optical mouse

 

"We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. We are the Borg."

[+Planet]

I should spank YOU for that one!

 

Cache you later,

Planet

 

"To err is human, to forgive....$5.00"

[+CYBret]

Using an optical mouse . . but I have no idea how I just did this - 624 mph!

 

That's ok, my GPS once said I walked at 1290mph

 

Bret

 

"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.

When a man found it, he hid it again." Mt. 13:44

[Lyra]

I missed this thread when it originated and just saw it this morning when it bubbled up to the top of the list again. I'm sure that I'm going to get a strange look when I explain to my wife that I just spent the past four hours launching satellites into orbit, shooting a guy through space with a rubber band and seeing how fast I can spank the monkey.

 

I need a life.

 

Always wear proper caching safety equipment!

[+ncflyers]

We are amazed. We spent about one minute on this. Isn't anyone out there Geocaching?

 

"Edison Medicine": Anything that brightens your day is a good thing!

 

NCFLYERS - The Double J's of Fortuna, CA

[codetalker]

As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly.

[+TEAM BUBBA]

484 mph with standard mouse you just have to turn your mouse speed up

[+Jamie Z]

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Originally posted by ncflyers:

We spent about one minute on this.

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Don't worry, with a bit more practice, you'll get it.

 

I hit 485mph.. which was totally a fluke. Now I'm gonna turn my mouse speed back down, so I can control where I want to point!

 

Jamie

[+tmcgowan]

GPS satellite 22, live long and prosper!

[+Team Kona]

I just got him at 629 mph with a regular mouse. Have no idea how I just did that

[+Woof!]

Grow

 

I haven't gotten any Poison Oak playing this game.

 

High score so far is 13900

[+SBPhishy]

Wow. that Grow thing is addictive. I would like to add that I FINALLY BEAT THE WHOLE THING!!! It took about 7-10 tries, and i finally got it. I wrote down the sequence too, if anyone wants to see the ending (its not that exciting) and they dont have the patience to figure it out.

[+LukeH]

Some of the ones you fling into deep space will never come back, as they end up in parabolic or hyperbolic orbits.

 

I've been trying to get one to stick at L4 forever but it's too hard.

[martmann]

I like launching a stream of satellites.

[+Enspyer]

Here is another gravity based game to take up more of your day. It was good enough to grind the geochat to a halt. It should be good for a few wasted hours at work. 

Why must addicting stuff be posted. Now all I care about is those gravitional planets and stuff. Ugh!

[+Cache Viking]

Thanks Mopar. I now find my self returning to see how many are still in orbit. This is like coming back to the forums over and over to watch a particular thread get bashed again and again. Enough for now I need to get back to my satellites.

 

ADDED: Just noticed the original post is from Oct 2002.

Edited February 23, 2004 by Cache Viking

[+Mr. 0]

Wow. that Grow thing is addictive. I would like to add that I FINALLY BEAT THE WHOLE THING!!! It took about 7-10 tries, and i finally got it. I wrote down the sequence too, if anyone wants to see the ending (its not that exciting) and they dont have the patience to figure it out.

Alright, I give up, what's the sequence?

[+wildearth2001]

How do you launch the things, all I get is a blank screen with a pic of the earth with the moon going aorund it

[+Mr. 0]

All you have to do is click your mouse. That'll put one up there. To get any kind of effective orbit you have to drag the mouse a little.

[+SBPhishy]

Okay. Here is the answer for GROW. Don't read this if you dont want the answer!

 

1. box (the silver one that turns into a robot)

2. egg

3. sun (the orange ball)

4. mountains (the blue ones)

5. ladder

6. pipe (the silver tube thingy)

7. rotor (the helicoptor thingy)

8. tornado

9. gear (the brown sprocket thing)

10. plate

11. Rocket (the black circle on the bottom right)

12. TV (that black screen box thing)

 

Thats it!