Farthest Distance from Sol Record Attempt

Shinji Ikari

Shinji Ikari
Keef Drow said:
In an attempt to go past where anyone has been before, I have set out on a multi-week supercruise from the Semotus Beacon star in the solar system farthest from Earth, Oevasy SG-Y d0.

The goal is to warp away from the Galactic Core as this is the last system inside the Milky Way at this most distant edge.

While I am still digging around to find the most accurate current record, I am fairly confident I can beat whatever it is. I have enough fuel for over a week and am getting a 12-hour top-off from friendly pilot and fellow streamer, CMDR Klutz.

Part of this is fun.. part of this is charity (link in videos) and part of this is pure determination. I have been at these ED spaceships for less than a year and it has taken me months to put together the engineering components I wanted to get my Conda out here in style, speed and with purpose. I hopped in with the Beagle Point Expedition and have had a great time with them traveling out to the vast reaches of nowhere... recently partying with the DECE crew at a Beagle Point meet-up too. Big shout out to these groups and their organizers for their efforts.

During the multi-day journey, I will be broadcasting for those who want to say hi and stare at warping endlessly into empty space! :cool: There may also be prolonged stasis periods on the attempt... and I expect the total journey to last at least 2 weeks. Yes, I have a lot of fuel.

To conserve, I have shut off everything but my Thrusters, FSD & Life Support... and the neon lights stay on. Ya gotta have chill lighting when there are no other lights.

Upon the end of my supercruise, I will kick these items out the airlock as a memorial and in the hopes future aliens [alien] can party with them:


I will be streaming parts of this journey at https://www.youtube.com/keefdrow

CMDR Kluts' channel can be found at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJUd1vUGehbhLv4Ft8BQElw/videos

Drop in for encouragement and multi-crewing... Subscribe for updates. [cool]


Thanks!

CMDR Keef Drow
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This is great CMDR but I most point out Semotus Beacon isn't the furthest system from Sag A* visited, that honor goes to Sepositus Beacon.
 

Major Klutz

Major Klutz
Granted. Misunderstanding. My understanding, haven spoken with him directly, is he's trying to break the record for the furthest distance from Sol.

Out of curiosity, has anyone done this at Sepositus Beacon yet?
That would grant the record of being the farthest outside the Milky Way.
Is there a record for the closest distance to Andromeda?

I wonder if you get far enough away from the Milky Way gravity well can you exceed 2001c? ;)
 
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Shinji Ikari

Shinji Ikari
Major Klutz said:
Granted. Misunderstanding. My understanding, haven spoken with him directly, is he's trying to break the record for the furthest distance from Sol.

Out of curiosity, has anyone done this at Sepositus Beacon yet?
That would grant the record of being the farthest outside the Milky Way.
Is there a record for the closest distance to Andromeda?

I wonder if you get far enough away from the Milky Way gravity well can you exceed 2001c? ;)
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AFAIK no although that'd make for a cool challenge.
 

Orvidius

Orvidius
I think "Star One" supposedly is the closest to Andromeda, but I don't know if that's actually the closest, or just the closest that can be reached? Not sure.
 

Keef Drow

Keef Drow
Just a quick update:
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Sadly, I'm using Comcast for this and they are a garbage ISP that disconnects once per day on average, so I lost almost 8 hours of flight today.

Alex Brentnall said:
Are the Fuel Rats on standby again or is this a one way trim? XD
Anyhow, I love that even the craziest records have people going to try and break them. Good luck cmdr!
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I certainly am NOT planning on using the fuel rats. I may self destruct first considering how far out I am and how much effort that would take. Sure, it might generate some news articles, and I am a streamer... but meh. That's rude.


PRO TIP:

FARTHER = Distance

FURTHER = Time or Concept
 
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iain666

iain666
Keef Drow said:
PRO TIP:

FARTHER = Distance

FURTHER = Time or Concept
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Farther cannot be substituted for further when further is used in the sense of 'in addition' or 'moreover'. In every other context the words are correctly interchangeable.

Farther for literal distances and further for figurative distances is something that does appear to be becoming a thing but it certainly does not warrant 'pro tip' status, much less excessively large font sizes.
 

Keef Drow

Keef Drow
iain666 said:
Farther cannot be substituted for further when further is used in the sense of 'in addition' or 'moreover'. In every other context the words are correctly interchangeable.

Farther for literal distances and further for figurative distances is something that does appear to be becoming a thing but it certainly does not warrant 'pro tip' status, much less excessively large font sizes.
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I respect your viewpoint, but regard Oxford's & Webster's distinctions:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/farther-or-further
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/farther
But where there is no notion of distance, further is used

It is like using commas to make a list and putting one before the 'and'... while it was considered technically correct at one point, it is not proper to do so anymore and irritating :D
 
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner

Keef Drow

Keef Drow
Alec Turner said:
Pete Wotherspoon. He does them twice a week, one that appears during the Hutton Orbital Radio podcast and one that appears after the Lave Radio podcast.

You can find them all here ..

http://feeds.feedburner.com/galnetnews

.. or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes here ..

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/galnet-news-digest/id1206342194
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Thanks for digging that up! I tried to go up a folder or two in the other link I had but didn't work.


Here is the latest update:

I am 20.2LY from Semotus, 65689 from Alpha C and 65692 from Sol!

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But here's there weird thing... I'm only 13LY out from beating the record (YAY!)... but I'm 38.3LY away from CMDR Dulvian's distance from Semotus.
I must be traveling in a straighter line, no?
 
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Friedenreich Xante

Friedenreich Xante
Keef Drow said:
But here's there weird thing... I'm only 13LY out from beating the record (YAY!)... but I'm 38.3LY away from CMDR Dulvian's distance from Semotus.
I must be traveling in a straighter line, no?
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Yes he may have been flying obliquely relatively to the Sol-Oevasy SGY D0 Line and therefore wasted a few light years in that diagonal, if he didn't Keep Sol exactly behind him all the time. Would be surprised though.

Keep going, you're doing great!
 

Major Klutz

Major Klutz
Checking the numbers ...
The base distance from Semotus to Sol is 65,647.34
If you add 58.3Ly to that it should be 65,705.64

The current record holder Deluvian posted screenshots with Semotus targeted and Sol targeted. 58.3Ly and 65,705Ly
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Persera-quot?p=6293254&viewfull=1#post6293254
His numbers add up so his vector must have been precise.

Logically, if you are on a perfect straight-line course, you couldn't have added more than 20.2Ly to your distance from Sol.
So you couldn't be more than 65,667.54Ly from Sol at the time of that screenshot.
 
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