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Why is the Saturn V rocket faster than any ship in Eve?

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Acac Sunflyier
The Ascended Academy
#1 - 2012-03-06 01:00:03 UTC
The Saturn V at max speed goes 25,000 mph. That is about 11176m/s. Excluding the use of a warp drive, not one of our can go faster than that. Why?
Grumpy Owly
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2012-03-06 01:01:57 UTC
Karadion
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-03-06 01:02:25 UTC
Because this is a space game.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#4 - 2012-03-06 01:04:55 UTC
Because a Saturn V rocket doesn't have a warp drive to slow it down.
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#5 - 2012-03-06 01:06:59 UTC
1) that isn't the Saturn Vs top speed. Its top speed is whatever it reaches before it runs out of fuel. Unless you are referring only to atmospheric speed, in which case the comparison is pointless as our ships cannot under any circumstances enter an oxygen atmosphere.

2) our ships propulsion system has limits to the speed because the faster they go, the more [insert technobabble term here] drag force they experience.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#6 - 2012-03-06 01:17:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Mr Epeen
The Saturn V flies through the vacuum of space.

On the other side of the EVE gate space is made of some weird liquid. Hard to get a good head of steam going when you have that to deal with.

EDIT: Sorry Corina, should have read more carefully your point number two before saying the same bloody thing.

Mr Epeen Cool
Super Chair
Project Cerberus
Templis CALSF
#7 - 2012-03-06 01:18:37 UTC
Corina Jarr wrote:
1) that isn't the Saturn Vs top speed. Its top speed is whatever it reaches before it runs out of fuel. Unless you are referring only to atmospheric speed, in which case the comparison is pointless as our ships cannot under any circumstances enter an oxygen atmosphere.

2) our ships propulsion system has limits to the speed because the faster they go, the more [insert technobabble term here] drag force they experience.


You do realize that drag forces really do not exist in a vacuum?
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#8 - 2012-03-06 01:21:49 UTC
Super Chair wrote:
You do realize that drag forces really do not exist in a vacuum?
…but that's what the warp engines do: the same mechanics that lets them create folds in space that allow for above-light-speeds also create drag forces against normal space-time.
Skydell
Bad Girl Posse
#9 - 2012-03-06 01:22:30 UTC
Because CCP nerfed Nano when they launched Dominion. They needed a red herring to keep people busy while they ****** over Caldari missles and Sov in general.
Im Super Gay
Investtan Inc.
The Republic.
#10 - 2012-03-06 01:27:03 UTC
Saturn V rockets don't have armor, shield generators, a warp drive or weapons to weigh it down. Also if you go above 15 km/s you can cause desync on the eve servers, unless they fixed that Roll
Fredfredbug4
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-03-06 01:31:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Fredfredbug4
EVE ships don't need to go that fast because we have warp drives. Any distance that you would need to cover to justify going that fast can instantly be covered with a quick warp.

Plus there comes a point where a ship can be "too fast". Eventually the ship would be moving so fast that they just overshoot their target and waste time and put themselves at risk when they need to lower their speed drastically to turn around.

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Brock Nelson
#12 - 2012-03-06 01:39:24 UTC
/emote looks through his standard forum response

Ah...found it

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Son I'm Disappointed
#13 - 2012-03-06 01:41:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Son I'm Disappointed
Son...in a game where you can warp through planets, physics don't count for ****

Also the Saturn V is bigger than the Rifter, just so you know
MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#14 - 2012-03-06 01:43:04 UTC
This is a vid game
Its not reality
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No excuse for reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a pod boy
I extrude apathy
Because its easy isk don't you know?
Play balance, let it go
Any speed the ship goes doesn't really matter to me
to me

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Didn't mean to pop and fry
I'd better not get podded again tomorrow
Implants gone, carry on, now doesn't even matter

Too late, my armors gone
Getting bumped I can't align
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Goodbye everybody
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I sometimes wish I'd never been cloned at all...

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Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#15 - 2012-03-06 01:49:51 UTC
Eve uses gravity drives which is why we probably can afford the oddest looking ships but FTL as well.

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Xiozor
Deaths Consortium
Pandemic Horde
#16 - 2012-03-06 02:12:14 UTC
EVE is a Sci-fi submarine game.
Alexa Coates
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2012-03-06 03:11:27 UTC
Because you touch yourself at night, OP

That's a Templar, an Amarr fighter used by carriers.
Patient 2428190
DEGRREE'Fo'FREE Internet Business School
#18 - 2012-03-06 03:14:54 UTC
Because EVE ships fly in water.
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#19 - 2012-03-06 03:28:36 UTC
Just realized, on a solar level, sitting in my chair right now I go faster than any ship in EVE (not warping). Since nothing orbits the stars in game.
Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#20 - 2012-03-06 03:33:07 UTC
Mr Epeen wrote:
The Saturn V flies through the vacuum of space.

On the other side of the EVE gate space is made of some weird liquid. Hard to get a good head of steam going when you have that to deal with.

EDIT: Sorry Corina, should have read more carefully your point number two before saying the same bloody thing.

Mr Epeen Cool

if we look at the amount of nebulas in sapce in New Eden, could we not surmise that Eden sapce is filled with hyper-energetic particles that facilitate the ability for warp-drives to function by causing physics-distorting effects on the environment? and that these same particles are responsible for all the weird minerals developed in asteroids, and why we can visibly see Scan Rez booster's wave-frequencies?
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