Hey, anything can serve a purpose these days. Maybe when I head out on my next trip I'll catch up with you. Again, safe travels CMDR.
Pawing at the Planetary Bell
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Hey, anything can serve a purpose these days. Maybe when I head out on my next trip I'll catch up with you. Again, safe travels CMDR.
Hey, anything can serve a purpose these days. Maybe when I head out on my next trip I'll catch up with you. Again, safe travels CMDR.
Indeed. Admittedly, I have a second monitor available and a variety of GPUs laying around, I'm just lazy... And I don't know if any of the GPUs actually work, haha.
Fairly good evening. Made it to my mini-goal - A black-hole centric, single-system nebula. I'm not sure what you call these, so if someone want's to enlighten me... I'm sure there's a name for them other than Sauron's Eye!
Undiscovered to boot. Hopefully no one else picks it up before I make it back. I'd love my name on a Nebula.
Nothing much else of note. A handful of water worlds, a couple ammonia worlds and my first binary-orbit pair of earthlikes. Lots more to add to the spreadsheet.
Finally in the Perseus arm now I think. Back to heading toward the rim and the original proposed route. Getting some flack for my low-grade fuel scoop, lol. But I'm making it work.
4,700 systems and counting.
Undiscovered to boot. Hopefully no one else picks it up before I make it back. I'd love my name on a Nebula.
Nothing much else of note. A handful of water worlds, a couple ammonia worlds and my first binary-orbit pair of earthlikes. Lots more to add to the spreadsheet.
Finally in the Perseus arm now I think. Back to heading toward the rim and the original proposed route. Getting some flack for my low-grade fuel scoop, lol. But I'm making it work.
4,700 systems and counting.
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200 high-return entries now in the spreadsheet. Going over my past discoveries, I'm pretty sure I located the Thargoid homeworld. Pretty sure I posted pics of it already, but here are the stats:
Planet Type: Ammonia World
Mass: 152.4804
Radius(KM): 27,169
Temperature(K): 265
Surface Pressure: 24,392.58
Atmosphere: Ammonia & Oxygen
Atmosphere Specifics: Nitrogen(90.5), Argon(9.3), Helium(0.1)
Composition: Ice(55.9), Rock(25.1), Metal(12.2)
Orbital Period: 10,721.90
Rotational Period: 0.8
It has 2 pristine-reserve metallic rings as well as a metallic-ringed gas giant for a moon.
Planet Type: Ammonia World
Mass: 152.4804
Radius(KM): 27,169
Temperature(K): 265
Surface Pressure: 24,392.58
Atmosphere: Ammonia & Oxygen
Atmosphere Specifics: Nitrogen(90.5), Argon(9.3), Helium(0.1)
Composition: Ice(55.9), Rock(25.1), Metal(12.2)
Orbital Period: 10,721.90
Rotational Period: 0.8
It has 2 pristine-reserve metallic rings as well as a metallic-ringed gas giant for a moon.
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I'm pretty sure it wasn't flak...
I've seen those or similar pictures around, so who knows about you getting back in time for first discovery.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't flak...
I've seen those or similar pictures around, so who knows about you getting back in time for first discovery.
Aye, there were some other images posted this week of the same type of phenomenon. The other two I saw were different locations than mine. There's hope, but no big deal if I don't get it. I'll be keeping my eye out for more.
And flak is probably the wrong word choice. Just seem to notice people pointing out my scoop not being as optimal as it could be. I thought it was really good this whole time, lol.
Stream is up, btw.
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I *think* that that is a planetary nebula. First one I have seen in that colour! Most of them are blue, and I've come across one green one. Nice find!
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Aye, there were some other images posted this week of the same type of phenomenon. The other two I saw were different locations than mine. There's hope, but no big deal if I don't get it. I'll be keeping my eye out for more.
And flak is probably the wrong word choice. Just seem to notice people pointing out my scoop not being as optimal as it could be. I thought it was really good this whole time, lol.
Stream is up, btw.
I think it's because most people here are a good bunch and want to help. You don't know if people know about other scoops or different builds etc...so I guess it's people just wanting to help out.
The galaxy is big, massive etc....you'll get your name on plenty of systems by the time you are done.
My guess is supernova remnant. Good find!
Think it'll expand?
Found a rather gnarly TFC High Metal Content. 100% Sulphur Dioxide atmosphere... Haha. Will post a pic later.
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Pretty much this.
From experience, the distance planned on that trip will be extremely painful with that scoop. It would actually save time in the long run to head back to civilised space, buy a 6C or 6B (or even 5A) scoop, and perhaps ditch some weight, too. My 5A scoop is "ok", and now the minimum I'd ever use on an exploration trip.
Not flak, but advice from experience.
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I'm gonna stick with it. If nothing else, I can say I traveled the rim with a sup-par scoop, haha.
Not much to report today. Picked up a few stray neutrons, a Herbig Ae/Be orbiting a Class O. Otherwise, nothing to report.
Spending my dull time at work watching Solaris... They really knew how to put the fear of space in you with these kinds of movies. Makes you wonder if FDev will ever include such dynamics in the future. Find some strange planets, suffer some strange effects... Hehe.
Not much to report today. Picked up a few stray neutrons, a Herbig Ae/Be orbiting a Class O. Otherwise, nothing to report.
Spending my dull time at work watching Solaris... They really knew how to put the fear of space in you with these kinds of movies. Makes you wonder if FDev will ever include such dynamics in the future. Find some strange planets, suffer some strange effects... Hehe.
Did some off-line exploration today. I know it's got nothin' to do with ED but it got my mind goin' about what kind of life we'll discover when we eventually are allowed to land on planets and step out of our ships.
Also made a tiwtter, though that was an adventure on it's own. At some point in the last year someone created a twitter using my email. The sole purpose? To share erotic images, of course... I believe I've completely cleaned the account but if anyone should see any remnants of their filth, do forgive me...
Stream's up, as well, but I'll probably afk/pause periodically
Also made a tiwtter, though that was an adventure on it's own. At some point in the last year someone created a twitter using my email. The sole purpose? To share erotic images, of course... I believe I've completely cleaned the account but if anyone should see any remnants of their filth, do forgive me...
Stream's up, as well, but I'll probably afk/pause periodically
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Ha!
It did get me to thinking, though. I have so far found 2 water world's with visible land masses. Both were tiny islands, likely no larger than Japan. One of them was a terraforming candidate. I wondered, what kind of lives the indigenous species must live there, that there is but a single land mass for them to tread ground upon? So species spend their entire lives to travel there to die? To mate? to birth? How many ecosystems and centuries of tradition would be broken when man finally sets foot there?
Somewhere with so little landmass would probably have mostly aquatic lifeforms.
How much they converge on something that looks like what we're used to from Earth would be fascinating if we ever got to observe such things in reality. How close they are to us at a molecular level if they're superficially similar (or if they're not) would be the next thing to check.
How much they converge on something that looks like what we're used to from Earth would be fascinating if we ever got to observe such things in reality. How close they are to us at a molecular level if they're superficially similar (or if they're not) would be the next thing to check.
Long as I can walk on an alien ocean, I don't mind not settling down in the name of preserving alien ecology.
Nothing much tonight. Found a black hole that I nearly flew in to. Never been closer than 1.5mm to anything in my career...