Welcome CMDR's,
Time to start the week of with a look at the way science affects us in game. From the ability to travel faster than the speed of light to the sheer number of humans that inhabit the bubble the game, like all good science fiction, requires us to suspend our believes based on what science tells us today but what is it that really makes you scratch the old grey matter and wonder how the heck is that possible.
One of my more irritating game sessions came when decided to try and move one of those navigation beacon things... Needless to say the universe seems to revolve around them as they are immovable - however given there are quite a few of them this cannot be the case. What magical hand-wavium is it that keeps them in place? Try it for yourselves, take a big fat ship out to a navigation beacon and try to move it - It won't budge despite not having any visible means of resisting the force exerted by a ships engines. How? What is keeping it in place? The universe cannot be revolving around them as there are so many... What happens to them as time goes by and the star moves through the galaxy? How can an immovable object move with it... The questions just keep going on and on until my brain hurts and I have to have drink or several to calm down.
I could of just written an entire thread on the topic but then again who wants to read my ramblings eh, I know I get bored just proof reading them - might explain why so many mistakes.... Where was I... Oh yes - You lot get the chance now to explain what it is in Elite that really stands out.
Have fun with this, no bashing the devs or Frontier - the game is what it is and follows all the rules of SciFi by making us dream of what might one day be possible and of course remember, what was once the stuff of science fiction is tomorrows possibility!
Time to start the week of with a look at the way science affects us in game. From the ability to travel faster than the speed of light to the sheer number of humans that inhabit the bubble the game, like all good science fiction, requires us to suspend our believes based on what science tells us today but what is it that really makes you scratch the old grey matter and wonder how the heck is that possible.
One of my more irritating game sessions came when decided to try and move one of those navigation beacon things... Needless to say the universe seems to revolve around them as they are immovable - however given there are quite a few of them this cannot be the case. What magical hand-wavium is it that keeps them in place? Try it for yourselves, take a big fat ship out to a navigation beacon and try to move it - It won't budge despite not having any visible means of resisting the force exerted by a ships engines. How? What is keeping it in place? The universe cannot be revolving around them as there are so many... What happens to them as time goes by and the star moves through the galaxy? How can an immovable object move with it... The questions just keep going on and on until my brain hurts and I have to have drink or several to calm down.
I could of just written an entire thread on the topic but then again who wants to read my ramblings eh, I know I get bored just proof reading them - might explain why so many mistakes.... Where was I... Oh yes - You lot get the chance now to explain what it is in Elite that really stands out.
Have fun with this, no bashing the devs or Frontier - the game is what it is and follows all the rules of SciFi by making us dream of what might one day be possible and of course remember, what was once the stuff of science fiction is tomorrows possibility!