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Newcomer / Intro Real stars?
- Thread starter Cradle2Grave
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It'd be cool if they included real-world astronomical events in the game. Supernovas. Massive storms on (visible) gas giant planets. Halley's Comet. Eclipses (well, you can always "create" those by flying to the relevant spot). Massive solar eruptions. Meteorite strikes.
I know the game is set in the distant future, so mapping real-time astronomical event data from today isn't valid; but it'd still be very cool to see to fly around real events like that and see them up close. I'll bring the popcorn.
One thing that struck me as odd though, I've seen some binary star systems (and even binary planets, if that's the correct phrase) that look freakishly close together, I assume that can't be an accurate modelling. They'd surely be torn apart by each others' gravitational forces.
I know the game is set in the distant future, so mapping real-time astronomical event data from today isn't valid; but it'd still be very cool to see to fly around real events like that and see them up close. I'll bring the popcorn.
One thing that struck me as odd though, I've seen some binary star systems (and even binary planets, if that's the correct phrase) that look freakishly close together, I assume that can't be an accurate modelling. They'd surely be torn apart by each others' gravitational forces.
I vaguely remember one of the devs saying that comets are actually in the game, but not visible/visitable yet. Gotta hunt for the source when I'm back at my PC. There's still a lot of beauty to come, I guess. (Not that I am not constantly in awe already.)
@Werppa. Sorry, obscure reference.
@Werppa. Sorry, obscure reference.
I vaguely remember one of the devs saying that comets are actually in the game, but not visible/visitable yet. Gotta hunt for the source when I'm back at my PC. There's still a lot of beauty to come, I guess. (Not that I am not constantly in awe already.)
@Werppa. Sorry, obscure reference.
I can forgive you if you give me an acceptable explanation why there are older stars in the game than our universe
There's a LONG thread about this very thing, albeit I cannot find it now. Anyways, no it happens frequently in nature. I thought FD still had to add an animation of the larger star "consuming" the smaller one, similar to a Type 1A supernova. But it does happen a lot - I think it's called it's Roche limit? Someone on this forum knows for sure.
@Werppa: I'm a translator, not an astrophysicist. But since you asked, possibilities:
1.) This paper is right and the universe had no beginning in the current sense.
2.) The rest of the universe moved a lot and suffered from massive time dilation, while the older stars stayed where they were.
3.) They fell through a wormhole.
4.) God/gods/powers that be have to live somewhere, don't they?
5.) They are not from our universe.
6.) They are made of tachyons and age backwards.
7.) They are past the galactic date line.
Regarding comets: Apparently, they really are already there (don't know if that counts for real ones as well), but invisible: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=113624&highlight=comets
Regarding close binaries: W Ursae Majoris is a real life example (contact binary, stable for quite a while).
But since you asked, possibilities:1.) This paper is right and the universe had no beginning in the current sense.
2.) The rest of the universe moved a lot and suffered from massive time dilation, while the older stars stayed where they were.
3.) They fell through a wormhole.
4.) God/gods/powers that be have to live somewhere, don't they?
5.) They are not from our universe.
6.) They are made of tachyons and age backwards.
7.) They are past the galactic date line.
Regarding comets: Apparently, they really are already there (don't know if that counts for real ones as well), but invisible: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=113624&highlight=comets
Regarding close binaries: W Ursae Majoris is a real life example (contact binary, stable for quite a while).
Orange. No, really, it looks like orange clouds when you're in it or very close by. With Barnard's loop twisting up out of it. I was quite taken by it, and got a fair number of tourist snapshots.
I just wish they would tweak the graphic used for Andromeda. It seems like it's way smaller than it's supposed to be.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=116266
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=116266
@Werppa: I'm a translator, not an astrophysicist.
1.) This paper is right and the universe had no beginning in the current sense.
2.) The rest of the universe moved a lot and suffered from massive time dilation, while the older stars stayed where they were.
3.) They fell through a wormhole.
4.) God/gods/powers that be have to live somewhere, don't they?
5.) They are not from our universe.
6.) They are made of tachyons and age backwards.
7.) They are past the galactic date line.
Regarding comets: Apparently, they really are already there (don't know if that counts for real ones as well), but invisible: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=113624&highlight=comets
Regarding close binaries: W Ursae Majoris is a real life example (contact binary, stable for quite a while).
Well thanks for that
It looks better than it appears through my telescope! I can barely see the arms.
It does look a little disappointing in-game tbh. Has anyone noticed if M33 is visible in-game?
It is to scale... but I found it a little disappointing, because it looks exactly the same as a red dwarf, only scaled up. Since you jump in much further away it doesn't feel all that different, except in the time that it takes to fly around it, and the huge range of depths that you can scoop at (i.e. "not scooping" to "cooking" is a much longer distance).
The fact that there's a planet further into the star than the scooping zone is kinda cool, though I do wonder whether it's plausible that it's stayed there[1].
Rigel was more fun, though I'm not quite sure why. Probably because you don't jump in at the big one there, so you get to see it approach and note the distance.
Betelgeuse's fame has a plus point though: It's the only place where I've run into another player while exploring.
[1] Any astrophysics types care to comment? How long might it take for drag in the corona to pull that planet out of orbit? Is that less than the time that Betelgeuse has been its current size?
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