Yeah, I think he said the comet data was in. So presumably the ones we know about are in and maybe there is some procedural data ready to generate them. But we still can't see them.
Moons missing .
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Yeah, I think he said the comet data was in. So presumably the ones we know about are in and maybe there is some procedural data ready to generate them. But we still can't see them.
OK, it's time to stop mocking now, and start reading astronomy books. Any natural satellite (i.e. not man-made, like a base) of a planet is per definition called a moon. Some moons in our own solar system are the size of a planet, as LameoveR points out. Planets are moons by the fact that they orbit other planets; their size or constitution has nothing to do with it.
Ah, you're trolling. Ignored.
I wonder if they are a planned later addition; modelling the comet itself is easy (basically a large icy rock just like the ones in an ice ring) but then there's the tail... still, must happen.
yep he did but said they don't look good enough looks like they forgot about them, I suspect they just used the graphic for the ships in SC
Seriously this feels like Darth Ender all over again. Insisting on his own misinformed views and unable to simply google something obvious, which takes 5 seconds.
Dude i just wondered where all the moons were and this thread gets the fanboy treatment instead of a discussion
about moons.look at the first few post in response ,glad i am not in the same room as those posters.
you watch this thread go nuts trying to make me out to be toxic or something.
about moons.look at the first few post in response ,glad i am not in the same room as those posters.
you watch this thread go nuts trying to make me out to be toxic or something.
As long as they get the tail pointing in the right direction this time! :-D
To be fair you did start "LOL"-ing at the responses. That can provoke a reaction. Do you see?? :-D
Noooooooo! Don't bring up the concept screenshots of 'Elite-that-could-have-been', I don't think I could bear the trauma again!
God this is so stupid.
Moons are planets orbiting other planets.
Planets are balls of stuff orbiting stars.
Stars are hot balls of gas stuff usually orbiting a central point in a galaxy.
A galaxy is a combination of stars and stuff collected together.
There you have some basic astronomy.
The comets even appeared on system scans when you handed in the discoveries for a short time before they made them invisible again on the list. This included other star systems, so yes they are calculated/generated already even if there is no graphical representation of them. I'm guessing the stellar (and planet) forge is doing a lot more in raw code than we can actually see graphically at the moment.
According to a very early newsletter (10) their planet generation tools even generates things like...
...which we obviously can't see (yet).
Agreed. Never go that route if you want a serious discussion. But, mistakes happen. Lesson learned!
Need any more explanation? This proves that you are engaging this discussion in a toxic way. Even if just by accident.
"Moons" (natural satellites) are just planets or asteroids. This answer is one google question away.
They are called planets for a good reason, yes. This exact reason is why they are NOT called moons. There is no such thing as moons.
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You say there are no moons. I post images of moons. Then you say that they are not called moons on the map. I point out that per astronomical definition they are. You then start mocking. People tell you to stop mocking and read up on the facts. You then go all huffy, calling us fanboys. How are we to engage in an adult discussion with you?
It's big enough, yes. If the barycenter was a bit further out, it would indeed be Earth's counterpart in a double/binary planet system. But the barycenter isn't, so it's not. It may be a long time out in the future though, as the Moon is very slowly receding from Earth - We're lucky to be living when we are, not a few million years in the future, because by then the increased distance to the Moon will make wonders such as total solar eclipses impossible.the moon is actually a planet now I think, It's in a binary orbit with the earth
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funny thing is you might be right on that one
http://www.universetoday.com/85749/is-the-moon-a-planet/
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