[FACTS] Space!

[Petersen]

Are you sure it is 2001C because that sound a lot like you would be travelling in space .......... as you said ....... on some sort of odyssey.

Absolutely positive. One of the first things I did when I played this game was try to get within jump range of a star that was about .4 LY too far for my jump drive, which entailed driving for like 90 minutes away from a system. I got to 2001C and never faster.

 

[yyy]

About fun fact #3- It's been theorized that a White Hole is the ejection of matter and energy swallowed by black holes. If true, that could be another means of getting out of a black hole. Either way, spaghettification will still kill you. And about escaping a BH with supercruise- seems totally possible I think. But I wonder if black holes have a speed limit for escape. Does everything at and below the speed of light get sucked in, but anything faster can escape? Or will BHs be able to trap anything at any speed?

Another fun fact- One day, billions of years from now (2 billion?), the Andromeda Galaxy will merge with the Milky Way Galaxy. Due to the vast amount of space between the stars, this process isn't supposed to be as catastrophic as it sounds.

Answer to your question about escaping a black hole if we could travel faster than light. This would be down to the mass of the black hole and how close you are to it. The event horizon is a boundary beyond which not even light can escape. So if faster than light travel is possible, the event horizon would have a smaller radius. Remember a black hole does not start at the event horizon. A black hole by definition is always a point mass and therefore of infinite density.

 

[DirkLarien]

Fun Fact #3
The "point of no return" of a black hole is called the "event horizon". Anything that passes that point will get sucked in, no matter what happens. Well, maybe you could escape with some fast supercruise. Right?

This one is not FACT but THEORY!

 

[Top Cat]

This one is not FACT but THEORY!

Im pretty sure its a fact. The point of no return for a black hole IS called the event horizon. The existence of it might be theory (although in scientific terms, a theory is about as close to a fact as science ever gets), but whats its called is not.

 

[Flyto]

Fun Fact #1
Have you ever wondered how long it would take you to travel to another star just by supercruise? Well, that may take some time, since a single lightyear is 31,556,926 Ls, so let's say you are traveling at 1500c(That's the equivalent of 1500Ls/s), it would take you aproximately 5.8 hours! That's a lot!

Except that there are stars very much closer together than a light year.
Even assuming you meant separate systems, towards the core they are fractions of a Ly apart.

 

[Thasarion]

Didn't someone already get to the centre of the milky way ?

Hundreds of people have, possibly thousands. My father just got back from his two week trip to sgt A*. There was also some guy who went there just to ruin everyones day by interdicting and destroying players who get there, but he has been taken care of.

Also, it wouldn't be possible to Supercruise into black hole's event horizon since the Frame Shift Drive drops you out of SC if you approach a mass too closely. (big thanks to the guy who pointed this out for me!) So my statement about escaping an Event Horizon in Supercruise was, well... stupid on my part

But I do wonder if someone could escape the Event Horizon IF FTL travel was possible by other means (other than via the FSD).

...Unless you come across one of the super small black holes you can get within 10 meters of them. Then you can fly away in normal flight. (there are images on the web of people doing this)

 

[Khazid]

Fun space fact #4
In space no-one can hear you scream.

Which makes you wonder how the heck is other ships zipping past you even audible?? The tension it creates is cool and all but the realism of it.. not so much...

 

[OrLoK]

Which makes you wonder how the heck is other ships zipping past you even audible?? The tension it creates is cool and all but the realism of it.. not so much...

Hello there

apparently its synthesised noise generated by your ship to assist with spacial awareness, its not the actual sound of the other craft.

At least Ive read that elsewhere in these forums. Im unsure if it's cannon.

Space Fact 9: Space is very large indeed.
Space fact 10: You *dont* have to wear a purple wig or silver spandex uniforms in space, but it helps.

Rgds

LoK

 

[Bobbydylan]

Which makes you wonder how the heck is other ships zipping past you even audible?? The tension it creates is cool and all but the realism of it.. not so much...

You're not hearing the ships. Just like there isn't actually a large orange circle around the enemy ship. It's a tool that yout ship adds to keep the pilot informed.

 

[TruffleSnout]

Fun Fact:
Nebula gas clouds are often so tenuous that - even at 1 million degrees C - one would still freeze to death if you were unfortunate enough to find yourself floating unprotected in one.

 

[Bjarki2330]

Bump! More facts are here!

 

[Flavio]

Fun fact # 8 - In 1846 they thought that there were 12 planets in the solar system but we now know there are .... (insert your favoured number here)

 

[salad]

In solo mode no one can see you docking (Stolen from another forum user signature)

 

[Krait_79]

If I'm playing with a friend and he stays in the station whilst i jump to another system and back. When i return our clocks should be different due to time dilation! How could you overlook this Frontier!!

 

[jpaulwilson1982]

Hundreds of people have, possibly thousands. My father just got back from his two week trip to sgt A*. There was also some guy who went there just to ruin everyones day by interdicting and destroying players who get there, but he has been taken care of.



...Unless you come across one of the super small black holes you can get within 10 meters of them. Then you can fly away in normal flight. (there are images on the web of people doing this)

Wow, didn't know such small black holes existed in ED. Now I gotta find one

Fun fact # 8 - In 1846 they thought that there were 12 planets in the solar system but we now know there are .... (insert your favoured number here)

I've actually read that there may well be more planets beyond Pluto (which is now a dwarf planet of course). So, it's entirely possible there could be 12 planets or more in our solar system. Plus there are quite a few dwarf planets out there that we know about, and I'm sure there's a few we haven't discovered yet. It seems like the solar system keeps getting bigger.

Another fun fact: Venus can become so bright that it's the only other celestial body other than the sun and moon that can cast visible shadows on Earth.