Earthlike planets: do they exist?

[Huita]

I've been exploring for a week now, or so. I've come across a numerous water worlds, water worlds that are candidates for terraforming, metal rich worlds that are candidates for terraforming, and things like that.

I've yet to see any earthlike planet.

Well, do they exist?

I gave a word to myself that i won't return back to colonized space until i find such a planet, and if there are none out there, i'm in trouble.

 

[vicwolf]

Yes they exist and there's a reason why they are worth so much. Directly out toward the outer rim I came across 2 total but I wasn't exactly being thorough.

 

[Blue_Skunk]

Yes. Keep looking.

 

[anikaiful]

Yep, they exist - just not common at all (those are the most lucrative finds, too).

 

[Huita]

OK, thanks for the good news, it means i might return eventually.

Now, what stars should i look out for? Water worlds are usually around G and F, is the same true for earthlikes? Also, do they look somewhat different on system map or i just should scan everything blue and with atmosphere?

 

[Huita]

OK, thanks for the good news, it means i might return eventually.

Now, what stars should i look out for? Water worlds are usually around G and F, is the same true for earthlikes? Also, do they look somewhat different on system map or i just should scan everything blue and with atmosphere?

Bump. Any info on that?

 

[Kolato]

I belive there is one in the SOL system.
Might want to head there.

 

[Egan]

In the beta when we first got exploration they were more common than now but stil rare. Now they are VERY rare - probably as they should be. We also got the Water World (different from the Water Giant) which seems to appear where you might once have found an earth like.

In the 300 systems I've surveyed since I started exploring seriously I've seem some very cool stuff: black holes, neutron stars, all manner of terraformable worlds and weird stars. A few water worlds but never an earth like.

 

[Huita]

Yep, they exist after all. Found one just now.

 

[Assimilator1]

, did you get naming rights?

 

[Huita]

, did you get naming rights?

Hopefully. Didn't see that option for now, so i just left a few toxic waste containers in the orbit in the shape of my name. Nothing can go wrong, right?

 

[Varrag]

Now, what stars should i look out for? Water worlds are usually around G and F, is the same true for earthlikes? Also, do they look somewhat different on system map or i just should scan everything blue and with atmosphere?

Doubt that there is a strict rule here, although I imagine that the chances for such planet to appear around very young stars (O, T Tauri...) are extremely slim.

 

[Kayweg]

They certainly do.

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[Varrag]

^^ found few of these, really looking like another Earth, but they were all described as water worlds. Apparently, temperatures, pressure and/or atmosphere composition were too different to come into the Earth-like category.

 

[Kayweg]

^^ found few of these, really looking like another Earth, but they were all described as water worlds. Apparently, temperatures, pressure and/or atmosphere composition were too different to come into the Earth-like category.

Alright, fair 'nuff.

Let's try this then.

Spoiler

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[Helvellyn]

Went on a bit of an explore (only a couple of hundred LY from the edge of inhabited space) and eventually encountered one on the way back home one jump from an inhabited system.

 

[Jackie Silver]

Just ran into one at HIP 82008. They are quite unusual.

On the system map they can sort-of (more a guideline than a rule) be distinguished from the common-or-garden Water World by their brighter, but less glaring colours. Water Worlds tend to a high contrast between the land and sea whereas ELW are more muted and, well, Earth-like.

 

[OnePercent]

Yes, I found 20 so far, they are extremely rare.

Basically you're trying to find the exact atmospheric chemical composition, you want to get the 70 % nitrogen and 30% oxygen and others but not too much Carbon dioxide or else it will be impossible to breath at the surface.

You are also looking for livable surface pressures, 1 bar is the sweet spot.

and temperature, 270 kelvin. give or take.

 

[LEV]

Yeah... there's like....Earth.

 

[Pete]

I found one today, next to two planets marked as candidates for Terraforming...that was a nice system.

I found an interesting system just before I left inhabited space too - there was one planet marked as "undergoing terraforming" which is the only one I've seen like that.

-- Pete.