I'm very much looking forward to hopping into my Dolphin and taking a relaxing trip out there to see it!
News Trappist-1 Discovery's Impact on Elite Dangerous
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Keepin' it real - Love it! 
Does anyone know where I could find a more detailed explanation of how Stellar Forge works (or at least a similar kind of procedural generation)? I find it so dang interesting!
How about the system having something like the following appended onto it;
"In the early 21st Century a Game Publishing house (Frontier Developments), using an Astronomical Prediction system that they had produced and developed (named Stellar Forge), calculated a star system (consisting of a Brown Dwarf and seven planetary bodies) at position (wherever Core Sys Sector XU-P A5-0 actually is). A few years after this calculation the National Aeronautics and Space Administration organisation (NASA, for short), of the United States of America, found, orbiting an M8 star very close to that calculated position, seven planetary bodies. Trappist 1 is that system".
I, for one, would like to see something like "Discovered by N.A.S.A." in the 'Item' mini window, and then (in the details bit) something like my suggestion.
"In the early 21st Century a Game Publishing house (Frontier Developments), using an Astronomical Prediction system that they had produced and developed (named Stellar Forge), calculated a star system (consisting of a Brown Dwarf and seven planetary bodies) at position (wherever Core Sys Sector XU-P A5-0 actually is). A few years after this calculation the National Aeronautics and Space Administration organisation (NASA, for short), of the United States of America, found, orbiting an M8 star very close to that calculated position, seven planetary bodies. Trappist 1 is that system".
I, for one, would like to see something like "Discovered by N.A.S.A." in the 'Item' mini window, and then (in the details bit) something like my suggestion.
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So much this.
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Get writing a CG and it might just happen.
I'm at Core Sys Sector XU-P A5-0 right now. The planets will need to be moved a long way towards the star, as the closest is 1,200ls away right now. They are a tad small too, total of 0.0255 earth masses.
Let me get this straight... You're saying that Stellar Forge actually takes into account the known distribution of mass in the Milky Way, and generates star systems based on that distribution? ... :O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiWg7L0NJYU
It is charming to have decided to offer to our group : Green Planet the 6th green planet called “g” in Trappist-1.
We are truly happy and honored by this gift ! [yesnod] [heart] [wacky]
We are truly happy and honored by this gift ! [yesnod] [heart]
[wacky] [video=youtube_share;L8brWgvgYZg]https://youtu.be/L8brWgvgYZg?list=UU130nIo1w88E8tMUZvA-jeQ[/video]
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Just an update from a (professional) astronomer on David Braben's announcement, which I've just read. Small moons of the TRAPPIST-1 planets are beyond our detection current capabilities, but co-orbiting binary pairs of Earths and Super-Earths or larger would be detectable as long as their mutual orbital period was not some simple fraction of the orbital period around the star. Unfortunately we have not yet detected a binary exoplanet. But given the existence of large moons in our Solar system e.g. Pluto-Charon, Earth-Moon, it is eminently possible that Earth-sized binaries exist out there somewhere.
Also, I'm not a member of the TRAPPIST team, but simply know one or two of them.
Also, I'm not a member of the TRAPPIST team, but simply know one or two of them.
I love that ED's Stellar Forge "predicted" where TRAPPIST-1 would be, near enough.
Was that fluke or because of the nature of the source information, could it also predict other things?
Perhaps it's time for the ESA and NASA to employ full-time ED players in the hunt for new stellar bodies? I'd fill in that job application
Was that fluke or because of the nature of the source information, could it also predict other things?
Perhaps it's time for the ESA and NASA to employ full-time ED players in the hunt for new stellar bodies? I'd fill in that job application
How is the discovery of TRAPPIST-1's planets going to be handled when it goes into the main game? Obviously, being in the heart of the Bubble, the worlds would have been detail-scanned many centuries ago, so you can't have new player CMDRs tagging them.
Because of space velocity (stars move, and small stars often move fast: look at Teegarden's Star or Van Maanen's Star) in 1300 years' time it will be in a different place to now (or 40 years ago!) as we see it.
Given that the TRAPPIST-1 system in Elite is an existing procedurally-generated system (Core Sys Sector XU-P a5-0) that was renamed and had its bodies modified, I'd expect that the tag will belong to whomever already had their tags on the original system. However, if the modification will wipe the tag from the planets, then it'll be whoever sells the data for them first.
Personally, I'd rather the system were already inhabited, or if we were given an in-game explanation as to why it remained uninhabited. After all, this is an uninhabited Earth-like world that's only 42 ly from Sol.