| SvennoJ said: Sailing has come quite a way since last I was on the water. (Which was before gps became public domain, us old people used to work with simple weather vanes on top of the mast) |
Is that still classed as a sailboat? I mean from what I saw it has a fixed sail so it can only sail in certain directions (ie in the video it wouldn't be able to sail the opposite way along the beach unless the wind changed direction)
It's kinda like calling a land speed record vehicle a car.
As for the spaceflight issue, I guess you mean that real spaceflight wouldn't have a discernable down direction until in orbit? If so I think it's just an ease of control issue. I'm pretty good with spatial thought so generally don't have too much issue with the feeling of being upside-down but lots of people would find a game confusing without some kind of spatial plane to default to.
Oh wait, maybe you mean the way VG spacecraft seem to be able to do banked/arced turns with the method of thrust always pointing backward to the direction of travel (rather than the direction of accelleration)?... Manouvers that are theorhetically possible I think, but in space would require constant (and thus wasteful) firing of some kind of manouvering thrusters to pull off.
