Deformed Planet
- Thread starter JeffBea
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That is clearly a bogey on the inside of your helmet...
Dammit, now I want fried potatoes. Curse you, you tall handsome community manager.Looks like you've quite the potato shaped and colored planet there, commander.
Mind if I ask where?
Mind if I ask where?
system name on the screen.
I've seen a couple of deformed planets such as this one:
which really does look like a potato
which really does look like a potato
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Funny looking planets - question:
Do we non Horizons players have any chance to find those or are those "potatos" only in Horizons?
Do we non Horizons players have any chance to find those or are those "potatos" only in Horizons?
Would like to know this as well; I've never seen any so far...
Travel to Zvaithogg 2 and have a look
. I think you should be able to see them, just not land on them as everyone is in the same galaxy regardless of whether or not you own Horizons.At first I was excited to see what this was about. Once I saw I just felt slightly deflated.
At first I was excited to see what this was about. Once I saw I just felt slightly deflated.
Bit like the planets then...
What type of planet was it - high metal or metal rich?
And this is what earth looks like without water and an atmospshere, I think most planets shouldn't look round.
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OK, have to ask where that came from. If the scale on the right is meters then there no way that thing is even close to scale. I know it can't be miles, so this looks to me like it is skewed for visual effect.
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Its actually earths gravitational field.
Have a look at this though. Its pretty interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H6vmLgJHOk
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This is actually not the truth at all, the differences in height between seabed and mountain tops are not large enough to cause this much variation, as far as I know that is a fake picture spread around.
The gravity of Earth is strong enough to cause it to form into a sphere, not a perfect sphere of course, but not this far off.
The reason why potato planets are so... potatoey is that they are not of sufficient mass to form into a sphere under their own gravity.
