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Zinjnok posted:And on a more life friendly side of things, a multi-cellular terrestrial moon orbiting a mutli-cellular marine planet. Both are around 297 kelvin and and within one tenth of Earth's atmospheric pressure.
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Zinjnok posted:Here is my submission for Hell. 2997 kelvin. I don't think that it'd be possible for that planet to exist if it's that close to the sun. The gravity of the sun would pull that planet inside.
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May 8, 2014 00:20
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IAmTheRad posted:I don't think that it'd be possible for that planet to exist if it's that close to the sun. The gravity of the sun would pull that planet inside.
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May 8, 2014 00:22
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I like that the answer to the statement is essentially 'yes, it would probably end up inside the sun, but that wouldn't necessarily be an issue.'
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May 8, 2014 00:38
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 You mean this planet, that is not within spitting distance of its host star? The planet is on the right, of course. In-game it's known as KOI-55b
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May 8, 2014 00:39
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IAmTheRad posted:
In the article it states that the star is coming down from being a red giant. So it probably was next to, and inside the star at one point.
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May 8, 2014 00:57
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l Car B's orbit intersects l Car A. I don't think that's supposed to happen. Also, the moons of HIP 40165 3 intersect. 
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May 8, 2014 05:39
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Dr. Stab posted:l Car B's orbit intersects l Car A. I don't think that's supposed to happen. Of course it can happen in real life. Going to be quite the spectacle.
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May 8, 2014 10:58
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Contact binary asteroids are a thing, so that moon isn't totally absurd as a captured object. Assuming it is one object. Contact binary stars are also a thing.
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May 8, 2014 14:06
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Holy crap, last night I was farting around Saturn and accidentally put the camera super close to the ring system, only to discover the rings contain rivers of animated dust particles zipping along in orbit. The detail in this "game" continues to blow me away.
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May 9, 2014 15:53
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Land yourself in the northern hemisphere of the innermost moon looking toward saturn, its a great view.
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May 9, 2014 16:13
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This got greenlit already? Awesome, it's a coolio game. Will the steam release be free still?
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May 9, 2014 16:20
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Probably not, he's reached $15,000 which will allow him to develop the program full-time. I'm pretty sure he wants to make money off of this and Steam will be the perfect outlet for it. I don't see him charging much for it though.
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May 10, 2014 01:25
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On the Greenlight page's FAQ they say that the planetarium mode will stay free, at least. And the game, whatever that's going to be, will be comparable to KSP or Minecraft in cost.
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May 10, 2014 01:38
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Frankly I wouldn't mind kicking him over a few cash. I've already gotten well over 10 dollars worth of entertainment from planetarium mode alone, and any game that helps people get interested in anything science or space related is worth at least that much in my book.
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May 10, 2014 04:46
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Is there any detail on what the game part might end up being?
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Sylink posted:Is there any detail on what the game part might end up being? quote:$80 000 - Single player space exploration game
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May 10, 2014 11:17
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Can you loving imagine that 250k goal? That would be insane.
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May 10, 2014 14:10
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This game needs exposure on Steam, and Greenlight make that possible. The $80,000 goal would make the program, well, a game. Building an outpost on a Hell planet so that no sane person would go there. The MMORPG goal would be AMAZING. As the developer if it does ever hit the $250k goal, I'd make it so that the actual named things in real life cannot be destroyed. No destroying Earth.
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May 10, 2014 15:59
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The guy should just license it as an actual engine at this point and let other people do the game stuff.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:Frankly I wouldn't mind kicking him over a few cash. I've already gotten well over 10 dollars worth of entertainment from planetarium mode alone, and any game that helps people get interested in anything science or space related is worth at least that much in my book. This program is kickass and makes awesome photos but man there is a lot of stuff that would either be ultra rare or doesn't really follow the actual scientific thinking in this game.
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May 10, 2014 16:32
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Uncle Jam posted:This program is kickass and makes awesome photos but man there is a lot of stuff that would either be ultra rare or doesn't really follow the actual scientific thinking in this game. Still. To me the most exciting thing about the programme is its educational potential. It's the only thing I've ever experienced that actually gives you some idea of the scale of the Universe and everything in it. I reckon getting kids to experience this would be brilliant.
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May 10, 2014 16:54
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He seems to want to turn it into a weird version of KSP but the game could lend itself to being something a bit more interesting than that. He's also been working on this for over half a decade or something crazy like that and hasn't really implemented anything that looks remotely like a game but has been talking about it for years. He should just stick to it being a cool simulator.
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He should turn it into an awesome engine/planetarium that can be used as an API for other games, as mentioned in his 150k goal, and then build his weird KSP game as a different program using that system as the base.
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Shab posted:The guy should just license it as an actual engine at this point and let other people do the game stuff. The game idea doesn't even really fit with the way the enjoyment of planetarium mode is set up. Gee, I can jet across the universe in 2 seconds or maybe instead I'll take my slow-rear end spaceship to a neighboring planet in 5 minutes.
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JazzFlight posted:Yeah, any of those MMO stretch goal type things are gonna be impossible for this guy to churn out in his lifetime. It'd be like Star Citizen 2.0 with an even smaller dev team. I never understood those spaceship modes. I just want to click a random star or galaxy and look at the pretty pictures. He really should switch those 120K and 150K goals around.
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I wouldn't use this as a scientific basic for education, since there's things that are probably impossible in reality, but the game does show a GREAT scale of the universe. Even the TV show Cosmos (the new one at least) shows a couple of things wrong, such as the asteroid belt. People will perhaps see it and think that the asteroid belt is filled with rocks everywhere, and you can't send anything through it without hitting something. In reality, the asteroid belt is, well, empty. Space Engine shows you exactly how empty it is. Jupiter's moons are closer together than there are asteroids in the asteroid belt. The best thing about this is you could teach children about the vast scale of the entire universe, even with a few liberties the game takes for granted. The randomly generated systems and stars, and of course galaxies, could possibly exist in reality, but we have no way of finding that out for ourselves right now.
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IAmTheRad posted:I wouldn't use this as a scientific basic for education, since there's things that are probably impossible in reality, but the game does show a GREAT scale of the universe. Even the TV show Cosmos (the new one at least) shows a couple of things wrong, such as the asteroid belt. People will perhaps see it and think that the asteroid belt is filled with rocks everywhere, and you can't send anything through it without hitting something. In reality, the asteroid belt is, well, empty. Space Engine shows you exactly how empty it is. Jupiter's moons are closer together than there are asteroids in the asteroid belt. Douglas Adams posted:Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. Perspective really is the most useful part of SE. Being told that space is big is one thing, being able to zoom in on a speck of light near a galaxy only to find that it's a globular cluster containing thousands of stars, see first hand just how slow the speed of light is, even within a single solar system, and feel disoriented and a little queasy when I change which object I'm following close enough to another object to see it suddenly start moving, has done a lot more to help me grasp the incredible scale of it all than all the descriptions and raw numbers I've ever read have.
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 You can still see beautiful things like this in the game.
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So after playing around with this I've realized that even with a warp factor of 9 it would still take the starship enterprise a loving long time to travel from earth to the closest star. At least a day.
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theblackw0lf posted:So after playing around with this I've realized that even with a warp factor of 9 it would still take the starship enterprise a loving long time to travel from earth to the closest star. At least a day.
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If I remember correctly, someone calculated that if stars actually were flying by as fast as they do in the show, then the enterprise could cross the galaxy in an hour.
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I currently have 16 gigs of DDR3 1600MHz cl9 RAM, 2 GeForce GTX Lightning 680's (2GB each running in SLI mode) and a Core i7 3770K (3.5GHz). I did not know this program existed until just now. I also have today off of work. I know what i'm going to be doing today. Holy poo poo.
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May 18, 2014 11:54
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I guess it would look a bit like that, wouldn't it? Amazing.
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I love Space Engine to bits, but I worry that the single developer model is going to be prone to problems of overoptimistic plans and unyielding adherence to a single peculiar vision. What he's done so far is mind-boggling, but the game mode is where the rubber hits the road for commercial success, and will be a lot less forgiving in terms of customer response when people are paying out of pocket for an actual product. vvvv - Actually, yeah. Point taken. DayZ it is. Disconnecticus fucked around with this message at 20:03 on May 18, 2014 |
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Disconnecticus posted:I love Space Engine to bits, but I worry that the single developer model is going to be prone to problems of overoptimistic plans and unyielding adherence to a single peculiar vision. What he's done so far is mind-boggling, but the game mode is where the rubber hits the road for commercial success, and will be a lot less forgiving in terms of customer response when people are paying out of pocket for an actual product.  .
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I'd pay $20 easy for what Space Engine is right now and everything else is just icing.
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Tinkered with this all day; got some halfway decent screencaps thus far, I think. Nighttime side of a gas giant in a triple star system:  ____________________________________________ Sitting atop a mountain on a desert moon, looking at a star whose gravity causes hundreds of scorched asteroids to orbit it:  ____________________________________________ Watching a gas giant rotate while perched on an irregular asteroid ice moon:  ____________________________________________ Blue hypergiant sunrise on a desolate ice planet:  ____________________________________________ The Triangulum Galaxy off in the distance as seen from some random planetoid: 
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 Snowflake planet? Also, I saw some of you guys with very high rez pictures. What did I miss, can I somehow crank this beast up even more? e:  Now I know where all those space wallpapers come from. Michaellaneous fucked around with this message at 12:11 on May 19, 2014 |
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