Space travel via tether between asteroids

Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by cwkoss on Friday September 01, 2023 @05:08PM (#37356193)

The Worms video game series has a fun item: ropes.

These ropes are rigid but you can vary the length, so you can do a bunch of interesting pendulum behaviors to accelerate yourself.

If you had a long tether between two objects of different weights, and the whole system is rotating, I feel like you could get some interesting acceleration effects by rapidly shortening the tether (assuming its strong enough to not snap)

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by IshKebab on Friday September 01, 2023 @05:43PM (#37356482)

Also Liero and Soldat. Liero was awesome.

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by speps on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:15PM (#37356719)

Liero IS awesome: https://www.webliero.com/

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by capitainenemo on Friday September 01, 2023 @10:55PM (#37358207)

And Hedgewars

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by airstrike on Friday September 01, 2023 @11:27PM (#37358341)

I wish I could remember one of these games in which players were tiny cars with ridiculously ominous names like Monsieur Murder (i'm paraphrasing but that was the vibe)

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by WithinReason on Saturday September 02, 2023 @01:31AM (#37358784)

Micro Machines? Slicks n slide?

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by loa_in_ on Saturday September 02, 2023 @02:23AM (#37359003)

Re-Volt?

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by gamegoblin on Saturday September 02, 2023 @02:57AM (#37359127)

Only for Playstation consoles, but might have been one of the Twisted Metal games.

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by overfl0w on Saturday September 02, 2023 @05:43AM (#37359961)

RC Cars

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by pasaley on Saturday September 02, 2023 @06:28AM (#37360190)

Was one of the cars called inferno? Did you have to press alt to hit nitrous?

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by airstrike on Saturday September 02, 2023 @08:42AM (#37360995)

I played a localized version so I don't know the names in English sadly, but the alt sounds right

The graphics were super simple, flat colors

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by pasaley on Saturday September 02, 2023 @03:13PM (#37364562)

I too had a childhood game about tiny cars that I couldn’t remember.

My game turned out to be stunt gp.

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by airstrike on Saturday September 02, 2023 @05:18PM (#37365611)

That looks more like it! But not quite there yet. Thanks for sharing

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by hexfish on Saturday September 02, 2023 @06:11AM (#37360102)

Ah good old Soldat. Modded this into oblivion using notepad and mspaint.

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by empyrrhicist on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:20PM (#37356746)

Core memory unlocked - my brothers and I got COMPETITIVE playing Worms Armageddon on... I think Dreamcast?

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by ddol on Friday September 01, 2023 @11:59PM (#37358469)

likewise, Worms 2 on PC here (Windows 95)

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by MichaelZuo on Sunday September 03, 2023 @09:39AM (#37370345)

It was also very popular as an online MMO-lite on the PC, I remember playing it a lot during middle school.

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by majikandy on Friday September 01, 2023 @07:55PM (#37357381)

Yes I remember this, go from long to short with perfect timing and a perfect release moment and you fly off to a ridiculous distance, but the physics didn’t feel wrong about it. So it would make sense that there is something in this.

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Re:Space travel via tether between asteroids by totetsu on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:29PM (#37357543)

We need the author of the how far can you jump of a swing article from the other to weigh in here.

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