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Comment by warent | Hacker News Reader

Pretty fun! I like trying to make as many flips as possible:

  Basically a fender bender, but you landed
  Score: 45.4 point landing
  Speed: 3.5mph
  Angle: 9.5°
  Time: 62 seconds
  Flips: 18
  Max speed: 86.8mph
  Max height: 1276ft
  Engine used: 32 times
  Boosters used: 55 times

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  Just shy of a good landing
  Score: 78.3 point landing
  Speed: 5.5mph
  Angle: 0.3°
  Time: 577 seconds
  Flips: 206
  Max speed: 302.4mph
  Max height: 12012ft
  Engine used: 69 times
  Boosters used: 89 times

Flipping is really fun. If you do really many you'll get the color particles in straight lines coming down:

  Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth
  Score: 143.9 point crash
  Speed: 1259.8mph
  Angle: 35.0°
  Time: 629 seconds
  Flips: 1709
  Max speed: 1259.8mph
  Max height: 44983ft
  Engine used: 1 times
  Boosters used: 58 times

I went up to 20,000+ feet, flipped 1000+ times, but then didn't land it. I couldn't get it to stop flipping before it crashed.

My best is 22 flips. I did them on screen.

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