Mom said dont stare...
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I also like the view. Obviously, the canopy is filtering a LOT of radiation so that this can be seen by us.
Sidenote: if the canopy busts, we really should see it - briefly before being blinded and fried to death - as it is when we are close enough. (I /completely/ understand why this would make the game unplayable and am not actually advocating for it.)
Sidenote: if the canopy busts, we really should see it - briefly before being blinded and fried to death - as it is when we are close enough. (I /completely/ understand why this would make the game unplayable and am not actually advocating for it.)
Yaffle
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There's a section in one of Feynman's books where he describes being at the first nuclear test, and eschewed the thick tinted goggles he was meant to wear and stared through a car window, as he'd worked out at the range they stood it would be sufficient to stop anything harmful.
He makes the point he was possibly the sole person to have seen the detonation 'properly'.
He makes the point he was possibly the sole person to have seen the detonation 'properly'.
When I look at this beautiful picture, I understand the Incas and their idolatry
Yea, i burned an image of this in my old potato LCD tv, worth it!
The best thing I love about games whose designers put time and effort into it is the little things. I mean, who would have expected the sun to move like our sun, and have flares and what not! Just stunning.
The best thing I love about games whose designers put time and effort into it is the little things. I mean, who would have expected the sun to move like our sun, and have flares and what not! Just stunning.
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Yaffle
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I don't know if you chaps have seen this - http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=619347&postcount=1 but there's a youtube timelapse of the iBootis contact pair linked from there. Worth a few minutes of your time, certainly.
And this is why this game will blow anything out of the water! Just the detail they have put into this so far, the prettiness has sold me 10x over. I just cant wait until I can go land on a planet and spend 4 hours just looking at the terrain and atmosphere.
Also random tangent, I saw they have added the ability to see other players in frameshift now! me and my friend where both flying to a station and he passed me up as a bright blue light screamed by! freaking awesome.
Spectacular ... and saved on my hard disk. Thank
I hadn't actually, so thanks for posting up the link.
I think it's pretty safe to say that I'm one of the many potential players that are looking forward to Elite Dangerous from the perspective of being able to explore a reasonably accurate simulation of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Not only to explore, but in other ways that will also add to the experience.
I was looking at some information on the web today in relation to the Voyager 1 space craft, launched from Earth in 1977. It's going to run out of power roundabout the year 2030 from what I've been reading.
Elite Dangerous is set in the timeframe of the year 3200?...Anyhow, the thought did occur to me that if I wanted to, I could quite conceivably take roughly the same route and follow the path that Voyager took. In the year 3200 it will (if it survives) be very near or actually in the Ort Cloud (I may have got my sums wrong btw.), so in a virtual sense I could place/pilot my game ship to roughly the area that Voyager will be in the year 3200, a bit 'geekish' some might think
, but personally, I would find that a novel thing to do. Voyager 1 is not likely to be actually in the game, but hopefully you get my point. Not only that, I can leave 'Voyager' behind and head out to (dynamic) stars some of which are featured in this topic.
Then I think, that on top of this, there's also a trading, combat, space flight and whatever else floats your boat simulation. It's very easy, on occasion, to forget some of the fundamental possibilities presented by this game background universe. I've overlooked this fact myself recently
, it takes a topic like this to pause and think (for me at any rate) how much thought and effort has, and is still being done in developing this background environment.Now...If I can just grab some ice from the tail of Hayley's comet to finish off that perfect cocktail....
Jack
Excellent find Yaffle... I guess I missed this because I've been mostly hiding away in a quiet corner....
It might be your pilot helmet filtering the radiation, so a busted window would not actually matter.
That man (Though I have not heard of him) is a badass. That sun picture is now my pc's background.
Yaffle
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
Fantastic mind, and a really good science communicator. He was also instrumental in the Challenger(?) disaster inquest, giving a visceral demonstration of why the 'O' rings failed. His biographies are worth a read.
Fantastic mind, and a really good science communicator. He was also instrumental in the Challenger(?) disaster inquest, giving a visceral demonstration of why the 'O' rings failed. His biographies are worth a read.