Post by fried_oreos on Sept 11, 2022 18:48:43 GMT
Normally, when zooming out, there is a cap at 39k miles. However, by modifying flight simulator, I made the plane incredibly powerful and found out that it's possible to fly beyond this boundary. When the "eye alt" indicator reaches about 62k feet, the altitude switches units to au. After exiting flight simulator, the camera stays in the same spot. However, the moment I tried to pan or move in any way, it snapped back to 39k feet. Unfortunately it is not possible to fly to the sun; I flew out to 1 AU and nothing special happened. I tried turning the sun position option and then tried again. I still failed to reach the sun but discovered that there is a sun layer at around 125 au where the sun abruptly disappeared, and then I appeared to pass through some layer that temporarily blocked out the stars. I then increased engine power by 10 orders of magnitude from the already very powerful engine capable of accelerating to over a thousand times speed of light of the blink of an eye just to see what would happen. Amazingly, google earth did not break. While speed and altitude indicators on the flight simulator HUD broke when the 64-bit integer limit was hit, nothing else broke, and the eye alt indicator tracked me through billions of AU. At these speeds, it was possible to start the flight simulator facing the earth and instantly fly out to space on the other side. I increased engine power by 3 more orders of magnitude, allowing me to reach trillions of AU. This caused my frame rate to die and weird drawing glitches showed in the HUD. Eventually, Google Earth just crashed. The crash was so bad that the repair tool didn't even activate when I started it up again. I can't figure out how to add images to this post, so if someone could help me with that, it would be great.
