You might want to check out http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/09/22/earth_without_water_nope.html
This is the more real one :
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Deformed Planet
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You might want to check out http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/09/22/earth_without_water_nope.html
This is the more real one :
Edit: ninja'd, post no longer relevant.
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The earth is actually extremely smooth, and would have less surface variation than a billiard ball if shrunk to that size (even without water). It would is very slightly bulged around the equator, being about 0.3% wider than it is tall. Source: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/b...s-you-dont-know-about-the-earth/#.Vo_VDBUrKUk.
I already ninja'd myself ;-)
A lot of the moons I have prospected are tatty shaped, they didn't look like that pre-horizons, personally a small moon as a lot of these are should not be perfectly round, and I prefer the potato shape, makes driving on them a lot more fun as they have some really deep craters and ravines.
I believe metal rich. 39% metal if memory serves me right.
Thanks for that. I'm out in the black hunting for rare materials - seems like metal rich planets are hard to come by but good to know that that's where you can get some rare materials from.
Gravity would try to pull all bodies into a spherical shape. The picture you have is an exaggeration to better highlight the ground differences relative to another or it is even a map of the gravitational field (the picture looks familiar).
If you were to remove the oceans and the atmosphere and shrink the Earth down to the size of the snooker ball it would be smoother than a snooker ball is currently (to our fingers) as the height differentials compared to the size of the planet would be too small for our finger tips to detect.
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Exactly! The deepest ocean trench is about 7 miles from the surface but the Earth is almost 4,000 miles in radius. The deepest oceans and tallest mounts would be but a tiny tiny scratch/bump.
I really wish people would actually take the time to 'read' stuff instead of searching the internet for a headline that they don't properly understand!
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The difference between the polar diameter and equatorial diameter is about 50 miles so you wouldn't be able to see the equatorial bulge from space with the naked eye.
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.
Thanks, I'll head there and have a look tonight!
I'm going there! I love interesting bodies! ;-)
The planetoids tend to look like that, technically it's really interesting that their engine is able to render objects like that which are so visibly deformed.
Yeah, kind of like how taking a single piece of paper off of a dining room table magically turns it into a footstool.
No it wouldn't. Earth's crust is a near perfect sphere (polar diameter is only 50 or so miles less than the equatorial diameter).
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It is great that their engine isn't just taking spheres or various sizes and applying a features skin to it. Rather there are more variables to the procedural generation than that and that is excellent.
No it wouldn't. Earth's crust is a near perfect sphere (polar diameter is only 50 or so miles less than the equatorial diameter).
Incorrect.
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Heh. Maybe read this thread... or stop trolling?
What are you talking about? and whom are you referring to as trolling?