You guys might find this fun.
http://www.bigideafun.com/penguins/arcade/doom_funnel/
It starts getting really difficult when there are lots of planets and the flags start moving.

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Way to go Big Idea productions!!

Yeah, that was fun trying to get around the gravity of the stars / planets!

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See you later. I'm off.

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I'm on level 15. It has two pairs of planets, one moving up and down, the other down and up (their in antiphase) like in minigolf. My orbiter is now running back and forth between the pairs, always slipping by as the planets are at their maximum distances. But it would go into the funnel. :x

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This is apparently an updated version of Spaced Penguin, which I've played before. It's pretty tricky, but you can get some interesting pathways going.

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Sometimes I can launch my orbiter into orbit but I always get the orbital path precessing. Does that happen with actual orbits?

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Awesome games! (both the penguin-game and the updated version)
Too bad there doesn't seem to be a way to save either, though

I am on level five of Spaced Penguin. It has two planets and four spinner things. I just pulled the thing back, hoping to hit one spinner, and my little penguin orbited around many times and got all four of the spinners AND got into the ship! -Colt

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Cool game. You should try getting all the flags on level 21

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That was a fun game...I played it once and managed to complete all the levels. Getting those flags...very difficult, I couldn't do it!

I'm hung up on level 25 as I put the tape in orbit and it hasn't come down yet. (90+ min) I figure eventualy the simulation will stop, right? The distance tracker is over a million now and I'm curious where it will stop.

Kizarvexis

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There are stable "orbits" :-? that never intersect the funnel. Click anywhere on the screen to restart the level. 8)

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It's getting more and more unstable. After the first 2 hours the screen was covered in little blue tracks, except for a 2 in circle in the middle. Coming up on 4 hours now, and the formerly blank middle now has a bunch of tracks running through it. I have about a 1inch squashed circle free of tracks, but now some of the tracks are crossing the little planet that is orbiting the funnel. The planet is getting perturbed as well. I'm sitting here at work, very quiet day so far, and checking up on it every few minutes.

Kizarvexis

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Anybody know more about Big Idea Productions? I know they have a religious bent, but do they, for example, take any stands against scientific ideas like other religious companies? I couldn't find anything to that effect on their mission statement or their history.

Not 15 seconds after writing the above post, the tape ball finally hit the funnel. Distance travelled, 4,723,473 in about 3 hours 50 minutes. I ended up with 118,507,607 for a final score. Only 2nd for the day though behind someone from Japan with 215 million. Less than 60 million short of making the top 15 all time scores of which the top score is 933 million. It's a fun a little game and I'm going to try it again.

It was interesting to watch during the last hour as the orbital decay got worse and worse.

Kizarvexis

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From what I have heard on interviews with the two big guys in the company, they wanted to put out good cartoons with a moral. Basically they are summed up with their logo which goes something like 'Saturday morning fun with a Sunday morning message'. Their intepretations of the Bible seem to be very general and follow what I would describe as a 'generic Christian beliefs'. They seem to be well grounded people in the interviews, but usually only talk about the cartoons they make and the moral message they are trying to get across, like 'tell the truth, don't gossip, share and the like. I could guess that they are not yec's but couldn't say for sure.

Kizarvexis

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Well, let's see, in one episode of Veggie Tales, The Gourds Must Be Crazy , Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber shrink Junior Asparagus down to their shrunken size and take him on their space craft to their mother ship The U.S.S. Applepies (which looks remarkably like the original U.S.S. Enterprise, only the saucer section looks like an apple pie. . .) to help them save their ship from an oncoming popcorn ball (meteor made out of popcorn).

That's the only kind of "jab" at science I've seen. But of course, it's kind-of obvious that it's all a big spoof! (Their version of "The Parable of the Good Samaritan" on the same video has got to be the most bizarre version of the parable I have ever seen!)

OK, seriously, Big Idea productions is about making quality Christian videos for children (although adults tend to have as much fun with the series as the children!). Their aim is to teach Bible stories and Christian values. (Believe it or not, the above mentioned episode is about "loving your neighbor" - Jr. Asparagus figures out the "crazy gourds" - the weirdos of the crew - have the solution to their problem - hint: they have big appetites. From this experience, a dream maybe?, he learns not to reject the new kid in town who is "weird" because he is from a different country.) They've tackled gossip, fibbing (otherwise known as lying to cover your wrong actions), selfishnes, greed, standing up for what you believe in, peer pressure, and things like that.

But, no, they don't "preach" anti-science.

(Unless you really believe a plant can get electricuted and come to life ! :P )

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