Well, as far as I know, the planets rotate around their axis. And the dark areas become lighter.
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UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn
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Well, as far as I know, the planets rotate around their axis. And the dark areas become lighter.
Moons yeah but I guess planets not really.. Such as Mercury etc.. it doesn't see the sunlight on half of the planet..
If t to rotate on it's axis is equal to t for completing a revolution around a star, then the dark side stays eternally dark.
Dam'it I have found myself wearing a tin foil hat...
"Ishmael Palin" is an anagram for "Liminal phase"... = Liminal is an English adjective, "on the threshold," from Latin limen, plural limina, "threshold."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminal
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PS: Please dont throw anything or put rotten fish in my ships air scrubber if this is a dead flat nothin.
"Ishmael Palin" is an anagram for "Liminal phase"... = Liminal is an English adjective, "on the threshold," from Latin limen, plural limina, "threshold."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminal
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PS: Please dont throw anything or put rotten fish in my ships air scrubber if this is a dead flat nothin.
I'm not picking on you especially since you've been one hell of a springboard of ideas for me today. I'm going to refer back to us gaining the ability to "craft" things in the not so distant future. Already we have synthesis I think we may be able to make this stuff potentially at some point.
Fair point
As an aside, I am so excited flr the discovery of the green temple/artifact. I genuinly feel it isnthe next breakthrough that we need. I hope to be able to see one for myself soon.
You sir, would have some Rep if I had any left to give you. Instead you can have this virtual +1 and my remaining cookie rations for the week. My Dentist is probably going to murder me with her drill anyway, so its for the best
I made a list of all the stations affected by malfunctions. It's probably been done before but here it is anyway: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dRUZkNisegRWQrrbuOSd6o-0WWmowwCdqapmkE3EI5U/edit?usp=sharing
I plotted the system coordinates in 3d a few different ways, like initial malfunction date but it just appeared to some squiggles.
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I plotted the system coordinates in 3d a few different ways, like initial malfunction date but it just appeared to some squiggles.
This guy's name is an absolute goldmine on the internet anagram server. Some highlights:
Inseam Phalli
Hi Llama
Mile Shipand without doubt, the pièce de résistance:
Alien Slap Him
If you mean it doesn't see sunlight on half the planet at any given time, you're correct. That makes it just like earth or any other planet orbiting a star. There's a day side and a night side that moves across the face of the planet. Sunsets, sunrises, all that jazz. However, if you mean that one side of the the planet mercury never sees light, then I believe you are incorrect. If I recall mercury is in a 3/2 harmonic lock with the sun, so that a day lasts something like 2/3 of a Mercurian year. I may have some of my numbers flipped though. I'm a bit too lazy to look up the real number.
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That isn't to say that there aren't tidally locked planets whose rotation time is the same as its revolution time. I just don't think mercury is one of them. I've read about some exoplanets that are tidally locked.
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There are some very strange sounds at Czerny Station in Cairne System, I definetly never heard them before. Is someone close by? You'll hear it best if you are outisde of the station.
Rep'd for accurate memory, well done sir!
Here is a little relevant section of the Wiki entry for mercury
Mercury is gravitationally locked and rotates in a way that is unique in the Solar System. As seen relative to the fixed stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)#cite_note-rotation.2Frevolution-14"][SIZE=2][b][/SIZE][/URL][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)#cite_note-orbit-15"][SIZE=2][13][/SIZE][/URL] As seen from the Sun, in a frame of reference that rotates with the orbital motion, it appears to rotate only once every two Mercurian years. An observer on Mercury would therefore see only one day every two years.
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Here is a list of known tidally locked bodies within our solar system and one exrtra solar body, not sure if it appears in game.
List of known tidally locked bodies
Solar System
Locked to the Earth
Locked to Mars
Locked to Jupiter
Locked to Saturn
Locked to Uranus
Locked to Neptune
Locked to Pluto
Solar System
Locked to the Earth
Locked to Mars
Locked to Jupiter
Locked to Saturn
- Pan
- Atlas
- Prometheus
- Pandora
- Epimetheus
- Janus
- Mimas
- Enceladus
- Telesto
- Tethys
- Calypso
- Dione
- Rhea
- Titan
- Iapetus
Locked to Uranus
Locked to Neptune
Locked to Pluto
- Charon (Pluto is itself locked to Charon)
- Tau Boötis is known to be locked to the close-orbiting giant planet Tau Boötis b.
Aand if anyone wants to investigate this info further, it was pilfered from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking#Extrasolar
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Same here. The one piece of content I quite fancied was the Cutter, but it is locked behind a mission ranking grindwall, so spending my time doing that rather than Palins CG or UA hunting.
Have fun peeps, I wont be for a little while.
It's an Outpost. Almost all Outposts make very weird loud noises/roars/screams from the big microphones. If you play with no music, you'll ear them everytime, in or outside the station. Go close to them and enjoy, they are on top of some long poles
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Just curious here; where are you expecting to find the info?
In the local system news feed?
Well I was going to head out to the Crab Nebula (you know, Barnacles - crabs etc). But then I realised that I doubt FD would put meta-alloys common so far out where many could not access it.
I did a bit of a tour of the Taurus Dark region, but found nothing of note other than... tea....
I did a bit of a tour of the Taurus Dark region, but found nothing of note other than... tea....
It's an Outpost. Almost all Outposts make very weird loud noises/roars/screams from the big microphones. If you play with no music, you'll ear them everytime, in or outside the station. Go close to them and enjoy, they are on top of some long poles
Talk about a useless expenditure of construction funds! In space sound doesn't travel so why the heck would anyone install a sound system on an outpost in the vacuum is beyond me
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