I flew over my house today

Beeblebrox9999

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I have had my Sol permit for some time, and today I just happened to be in the neighborhood, so I flew right over my house in Jutland, Denmark.
It truly looked beautiful.

When we get the possibility to do planetary landings, I hope to land in my garden - it is plenty big for my Vulture to fit there, as i just cleared the lawn.
Then I will enter my house and meet myself playing computer in an Inception kind of way. Or perhaps realise that I am hooked up to the Matrix?

Very interesting i think.
 

SteveLaw

SteveLaw
Beeblebrox9999 said:
I have had my Sol permit for some time, and today I just happened to be in the neighborhood, so I flew right over my house in Jutland, Denmark.
It truly looked beautiful.

When we get the possibility to do planetary landings, I hope to land in my garden - it is plenty big for my Vulture to fit there, as i just cleared the lawn.
Then I will enter my house and meet myself playing computer in an Inception kind of way. Or perhaps realise that I am hooked up to the Matrix?

Very interesting i think.
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I saved my Sol permit to visit on my Birthday and in the meantime helped my friend get hers. When we arrived at Earth the UK was in darkness but we positioned ourselves over Australia, which was in daylight, and took some photos. We sent them to our Australian friend who had just started playing a few days before and wasn't able to join us.

It was a great day.
 

Archvillain

Archvillain
You'll land at your house, meet yourself... But you won't quite look like you... Then you'll realise you've really met your great-great-great-great grandchild, and that you're dead. buried a thousand years ago. And then you'll be sad. :)
 
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CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI
Beeblebrox9999 said:
I have had my Sol permit for some time, and today I just happened to be in the neighborhood, so I flew right over my house in Jutland, Denmark.
It truly looked beautiful.

When we get the possibility to do planetary landings, I hope to land in my garden - it is plenty big for my Vulture to fit there, as i just cleared the lawn.
Then I will enter my house and meet myself playing computer in an Inception kind of way. Or perhaps realise that I am hooked up to the Matrix?



Very interesting i think.
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Me likes your garden. I think a sidewinder wouldn't fit beetween my building and the next one.
Next time you fly over your house, don't walk to window and look to the sky...
 

Valethar

Valethar
I'm going to land my Python in the parking lot at the local Wal*Mart and watch all the rednecks do interviews on the news about the 'UFO sighting'. :D
 

Anopheles

Anopheles
You bring up a good point. I expect either you will only be able to land at a small amount of different spaceports, a la space stations or you will be able to land anywhere on a planet and Earth will be off limits. I suspect number 1 will be the say the go.
 
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Riktar

Riktar
I just had the thought of Frontier working with Google Maps. I mean how cool would it be to get up close and personal with Earth and see the Google Map equivalent?

And then it dawned on me: What will the Earth look like in 1300 years?
 

Tarman

Tarman
Riktar said:
I just had the thought of Frontier working with Google Maps. I mean how cool would it be to get up close and personal with Earth and see the Google Map equivalent?

And then it dawned on me: What will the Earth look like in 1300 years?
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My house is gone. All the Great Lakes are gone! ;_____;
 

FinnegansWake

FinnegansWake
Pretty sure I'd have to strafe my hometown, while dropping canisters of biowaste... of course if things keep progressing the way they are now, in 1300 years, I doubt anyone would notice.
 

aRtFuL

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Archvillain said:
You'll land at your house, meet yourself... But you won't quite look like you... Then you'll realise you've really met your great-great-great-great grandchild, and that you're dead. buried a thousand years ago. And then you'll be sad. :)
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^

And you house probably would've long became the carpark of the new shopping mail that opened in 3300 ;)
 

Aussiedroid

Aussiedroid
Planetary landings will be interesting for Earth. Out of all the planets this one would have to be the most accurate and detailed, where others could simply be procedurally generated and still look awesome.

I would love to fly over my home town and see what it looks like over a millennia into the future, but if the detail isn't there it would be disappointing I reckon.

I wonder if Frontier might get around this by making Earth a no-fly zone or something. I'd imagine modelling a full planet in detail would be a mammoth effort even if using something like Google maps as a starting point. Hope its everything we want it to be, but guess we will have to wait and see.
 

insidah

insidah
It is the year 3301AD... I'd be impressed if you're still playing Elite Dangerous in 1286 years time...



Beeblebrox9999 said:
I have had my Sol permit for some time, and today I just happened to be in the neighborhood, so I flew right over my house in Jutland, Denmark.
It truly looked beautiful.

When we get the possibility to do planetary landings, I hope to land in my garden - it is plenty big for my Vulture to fit there, as i just cleared the lawn.
Then I will enter my house and meet myself playing computer in an Inception kind of way. Or perhaps realise that I am hooked up to the Matrix?

Very interesting i think.
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Twelvefield

Twelvefield
Climate change. I'm sure, for example, fair Denmark will only be visited by submarines in the 3300's. The Med, swamped. UK stuck in the muck, likely an archipelago. The Great Lakes an inland ocean. LA, thankfully, will sink under the waves, but Vegas will be shorefront. Oz underwater, or at least most of it. Hong Kong will migrate to Vancouver, and that will be a suburb of Cranbrook (look it up). Oh, and get used to a lot more hockey, since there will be quite a few places under ice in that future. The playoffs will be so protracted we'll have to use hyperspace bubbles to contain the end of the schedule.
 

SteveLaw

SteveLaw
Aussiedroid said:
Planetary landings will be interesting for Earth. Out of all the planets this one would have to be the most accurate and detailed, where others could simply be procedurally generated and still look awesome.

I would love to fly over my home town and see what it looks like over a millennia into the future, but if the detail isn't there it would be disappointing I reckon.

I wonder if Frontier might get around this by making Earth a no-fly zone or something. I'd imagine modelling a full planet in detail would be a mammoth effort even if using something like Google maps as a starting point. Hope its everything we want it to be, but guess we will have to wait and see.
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The game is set in 3300 after humanity has spread across thousands of systems, I wouldn't expect much to look the same back home.
 

Tarman

Tarman
SteveLaw said:
The game is set in 3300 after humanity has spread across thousands of systems, I wouldn't expect much to look the same back home.
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Earth is almost kind of a well-kept estate now is it not, a place to put a seasonal home on for the guys who run Mars? We may not be classy enough to touch our light-boned spacefeet on the mother soil.
 
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