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Rustnsawdust

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They can hide but they can't run...

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The elusive tubeworms are elusive no longer. Even as I was closing in on the POI I was thinking, "Argh, bark mounds again". In my defence, it was dark! It was only when I deployed the SRV that my heart gave a little leap of joy :love:. On a little potato of a moon - sometimes it pays to scan everything.
 

Rustnsawdust

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Took a couple of hours for supper, and when I returned to my little tuber patch the sun was up. I don't know if this is an oddity or standard but the mats reward from this one POI has been tremendous and feels far more generous than other bio sites I've been to. Left a lot of manganese lying around because I'm maxed out on that. Also scooped multiple units of ruthenium, chromium and sundry other stuffs.

And this potato moon has a twin:


And, happily, it also has bio sites, and the mineral spread is different, with tellurium, molybdenum and tungsten. So I'll be hopping over there next... feels almost like I could fly there in the SRV.
 

WeComeInPeace

WeComeInPeace
Para Handy said:
Amount of game galaxy discovered = 0.036% in April this year.
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The more I think about this, the more astonishing it is. If the analogy with stars in the galaxy roughly equaling the number of sand grains on earth, mapping 0.036% equals mapping 1/3000 of them.

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Btw. The Visible Universe contains a number of galaxies roughly the same as the number of stars in the Milky Way (+/-). Each of those galaxies holds roughly the same amount of stars as the Milky Way. And outside the visible Universe there is probably just more of the same, further than any eye can reach, or any brain can imagine, and at the end of that there is more of the same.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
WeComeInPeace said:
The more I think about this, the more astonishing it is. If the analogy with stars in the galaxy roughly equaling the number of sand grains on earth, mapping 0.036% equals mapping 1/3000 of them.

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Btw. The Visible Universe contains a number of galaxies roughly the same as the number of stars in the Milky Way (+/-). Each of those galaxies holds roughly the same amount of stars as the Milky Way. And outside the visible Universe there is probably just more of the same, further than any eye can reach, or any brain can imagine, and at the end of that there is more of the same.
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Very philosophical... (y)

While we're at it:

N = R * fp * ne * fl * fi * fc * L

And:

www.universetoday.com

The End of Everything

www.universetoday.com www.universetoday.com

The latter makes one feel a little... young.
 
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WeComeInPeace

WeComeInPeace
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Very pholosophical... (y)

While we're at it:

N = R * fp * ne * fl * fi * fc * L

And:

www.universetoday.com

The End of Everything

www.universetoday.com www.universetoday.com

The latter makes one feel a little... young.
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The Fermi Paradox wonders why we don't see aliens, based on the Drake Equation.

-One possibility is that they live way longer than humans. If you were an insect with a lifespan of a few days, the chance of meeting a human is less than if you were an elephant with a lifespan of 60-70 years. Also, if aliens dropped by, say 100.000 years ago, we would have no evidence of that now.

-Another explanation could be the Great Filter hypothesis, stating that any civilisation reaches a point were energy/resource consumption, due to population growth and technological advance, leads to irreparable climate change and ecological collapse on the planet, and thereby extinction of it's population, before they are able to develop interstellar travel.

-A third explanation is that the Universe is so enormous that the chance of some alien explorer finding Earth is minute.

I'm afraid that my work has shown me that #2 is very plausible, but I'm not quite as pessimistic as this guy (yet):

www.theguardian.com

Sustainability expert Michael Mobbs: I’m leaving the city to prep for the apocalypse

The man who wrote the book on living off-grid in the city plans to retreat to a rural bolthole, saying eco-friendly progress has not kept pace with the speed of climate collapse
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

On the other hand I find the current optimism somewhat naive or delusional, maybe even a deliberate denial of reality. I have always had one principle towards science, being that whatever you discover you share it, no matter how ugly it looks. I'm not so sure anymore. Maybe it's better to keep the illusion while it lasts.
 

Rob_the_Sparky

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WeComeInPeace said:
The Fermi Paradox wonders why we don't see aliens, based on the Drake Equation.

-One possibility is that they live way longer than humans. If you were an insect with a lifespan of a few days, the chance of meeting a human is less than if you were an elephant with a lifespan of 60-70 years. Also, if aliens dropped by, say 100.000 years ago, we would have no evidence of that now.

-Another explanation could be the Great Filter hypothesis, stating that any civilisation reaches a point were energy/resource consumption, due to population growth and technological advance, leads to irreparable climate change and ecological collapse on the planet, and thereby extinction of it's population, before they are able to develop interstellar travel.

-A third explanation is that the Universe is so enormous that the chance of some alien explorer finding Earth is minute.

I'm afraid that my work has shown me that #2 is very plausible, but I'm not quite as pessimistic as this guy (yet):

www.theguardian.com

Sustainability expert Michael Mobbs: I’m leaving the city to prep for the apocalypse

The man who wrote the book on living off-grid in the city plans to retreat to a rural bolthole, saying eco-friendly progress has not kept pace with the speed of climate collapse
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

On the other hand I find the current optimism somewhat naive or delusional, maybe even a deliberate denial of reality. I have always had one principle towards science, being that whatever you discover you share it, no matter how ugly it looks. I'm not so sure anymore. Maybe it's better to keep the illusion while it lasts.
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It probably has something to do with distance and the speed of light...if there is no way of exceeding the speed of light then travel times are going to be so enormous that intelligent life is unlikely to make from solar system to solar system.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Rob_the_Sparky said:
It probably has something to do with distance and the speed of light...if there is no way of exceeding the speed of light then travel times are going to be so enormous that intelligent life is unlikely to make from solar system to solar system.
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I don't know what you mean. I got over 200c on my way to Laplace Ring in Balante just the other day.
 
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aRJay

aRJay
Rob_the_Sparky said:
It probably has something to do with distance and the speed of light...if there is no way of exceeding the speed of light then travel times are going to be so enormous that intelligent life is unlikely to make from solar system to solar system.
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Yes but a long lifespan and time dilation due to travelling at near the speed of light mean it is feasible if difficult.
 

Codger

Codger
Bought a Mamba. Don't know why. It's a silly ship, all combat and no jump.

But it looks kinda mean in black. I guess I must've bought the black paint job at some point, even though I've never had the Mamba. Thinking ahead, that's me!

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I semi-engineered it and stuck some weapons on it that I already had laying around, then I took it to a RES site for a shakedown and test run. To see if I liked it enough to work on it some more.

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I like how it handles. I like how it looks. The cockpit is kind of cool. It makes good sounds.

I guess I will keep it. Maybe the jump range won't matter much. Or maybe it will.

I named it "Overcompensator." That just seems appropriate :)

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Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
Codger said:
Bought a Mamba. Don't know why. It's a silly ship, all combat and no jump.

But it looks kinda mean in black. I guess I must've bought the black paint job at some point, even though I've never had the Mamba. Thinking ahead, that's me!

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I semi-engineered it and stuck some weapons on it that I already had laying around, then I took it to a RES site for a shakedown and test run. To see if I liked it enough to work on it some more.

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I like how it handles. I like how it looks. The cockpit is kind of cool. It makes good sounds.

I guess I will keep it. Maybe the jump range won't matter much. Or maybe it will.

I named it "Overcompensator." That just seems appropriate :)

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Everything you said.
Yup. :D
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
ElbyFross said:
Hey, Frontier, would you update the galaxy map relative to the recent researches of Poland and US universities?
They found out that Milky Way isn't a flat galaxy and has a curved shape.
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I know you have just joined but we have covered this several times over the past few months (every time somone trips over a news article) - it isn't news, the paper itself isn't new either.

BTW - No, stellar forge will not be re-computed.
 
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