Mario Kart MB - How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?

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How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
03/15/20 at 21:43:32

So a while back I did a paper on a technical topic of my choosing. I calculated the distance to the sun on Luigi Circuit and its effect on the climate of the course.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xyR9BFnOSZAgDV79J5piyudnGBRT12IF/view?usp=shari
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I turned this in for an actual grade (and did a full presentation for an audience) and got an A lmao

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Mango Man Ninja Offline Living fast, well... trying to. DUCK SQUAD fell 1878 times for marty Your Local Mango Tree Gender:	Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit? Reply #1 - 03/16/20 at 03:22:23 What a read! Fantastic job! Magnificent!
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ZedR King Offline EPK worships 3575 kartgods Germany Gender:	Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit? Reply #3 - 03/16/20 at 05:12:19 Meanwhile I am eating Doritos nice job
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Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Reply #5 - 03/16/20 at 07:52:22

That's an A+ from me. I may be wrong, but I didn't see a vertical component of distance computed, but I don't think it would have changed your end numbers too much as the sun doesn't look that high in the sky. Still would've been amusing to compute the temperatures at different times of the day (sun directly overhead etc.) Tongue

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KingAlex Ex Member	Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit? Reply #6 - 03/16/20 at 12:04:52 ^yep, still cool regardless. Nice job. It'd probably be possible to get a vertical measurement with moon jump somehow (or some TAS tool, no idea what these guys use these days).
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Reply #7 - 03/16/20 at 16:42:13

Shock wrote on 03/16/20 at 07:52:22:

That's an A+ from me. I may be wrong, but I didn't see a vertical component of distance computed, but I don't think it would have changed your end numbers too much as the sun doesn't look that high in the sky. Still would've been amusing to compute the temperatures at different times of the day (sun directly overhead etc.) Tongue

Thanks!

And yeah I considered it negligible. It looks to be about 15° or so which would give an error of less than five percent, but it's difficult to get an accurate measurement on that. And it would be neat to calculate the hottest and coldest temps, since the equations I used only estimate the average temps of a particular location. I'm not quite sure how to go about that, but I would guess that it would change by roughly the same percentage of an average day on Earth.

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Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Reply #8 - 03/16/20 at 19:16:24

Winbag4 wrote on 03/16/20 at 16:42:13:

Shock wrote on 03/16/20 at 07:52:22:

That's an A+ from me. I may be wrong, but I didn't see a vertical component of distance computed, but I don't think it would have changed your end numbers too much as the sun doesn't look that high in the sky. Still would've been amusing to compute the temperatures at different times of the day (sun directly overhead etc.) Tongue

Thanks!

And yeah I considered it negligible. It looks to be about 15° or so which would give an error of less than five percent, but it's difficult to get an accurate measurement on that. And it would be neat to calculate the hottest and coldest temps, since the equations I used only estimate the average temps of a particular location. I'm not quite sure how to go about that, but I would guess that it would change by roughly the same percentage of an average day on Earth.

Not sure if it would be useful in any capacity but remember that the credits uses Luigi Circuit at sunset with I think similar camera angles to the track intro before a VS race

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Bossy n00b Offline Bossy is epic, and forever horny 1867 days karting Canada Gender:	Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit? Reply #9 - 04/11/20 at 11:00:35 I'm not saying its not good work, but like....why would you waste your time on this lol
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Mango Man Ninja Offline Living fast, well... trying to. DUCK SQUAD fell 1878 times for marty Your Local Mango Tree Gender:	Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit? Reply #10 - 04/12/20 at 03:23:46 Bossy wrote on 04/11/20 at 11:00:35: I'm not saying its not good work, but like....why would you waste your time on this lol Because he got to do a technical paper of his choosing
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Bossy n00b Offline Bossy is epic, and forever horny hit 1867 moles Canada Gender:	Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit? Reply #11 - 04/15/20 at 14:23:16 Mango Man wrote on 04/12/20 at 03:23:46: Bossy wrote on 04/11/20 at 11:00:35: I'm not saying its not good work, but like....why would you waste your time on this lol Because he got to do a technical paper of his choosing Still like...the sun on LC? why lol
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Re: How far away is the sun on Luigi Circuit?
Reply #12 - 04/18/20 at 07:07:57

Bossy wrote on 04/15/20 at 14:23:16:

Mango Man wrote on 04/12/20 at 03:23:46:

Bossy wrote on 04/11/20 at 11:00:35:

I'm not saying its not good work, but like....why would you waste your time on this lol

Because he got to do a technical paper of his choosing

Still like...the sun on LC? why lol

Mango Man wrote on 04/12/20 at 03:23:46:

Bossy wrote on 04/11/20 at 11:00:35:

I'm not saying its not good work, but like....why would you waste your time on this lol

Because he got to do a technical paper of his choosing

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