The Lonely Planet (Explorers Journal and Guide)

Oveja-Negra

Oveja-Negra
While I am on travels, I got to thinking, as I am sure all explorers do during those (odd..?) moments. What got me thinking was about all the worlds and then all the types of life-forms on these worlds. There are worlds with water-based life, and ammonia based life.....but the one thing that there is no classification for is worlds with carbon based life form...a world(s) where they may not be advanced as us but in the process of growing up....

any way it was just a thought, it may just be the mutterings of a mad-man, as he is starting to go (or may have gone) mad, from all the exciting moments he has had in space....exploring...and the like..
 

Yaffle

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Yaffle
At a guess water-based and ammonia-based are both using carbon as the backbone of everything, the water or ammonia refers to the solvent of choice around the biologically active carbon chains.

You will note the word 'guess'.
 

Oveja-Negra

Oveja-Negra
even with a guess perspective, there would still be other forms of life, which have been theorised...so having only 2 type of life form seems a little blinkered..

but I do get your point, with our current understanding this is all we know.
 

Oveja-Negra

Oveja-Negra
I am now wandering through the big BLU, and this is the section of space that is marked with BLU at the beginning, it is a little sparse of planets, but the systems I have found are mostly unexplored with no first explored tags on them, so am having a little fun out here. Although everyone has said that there is a wall at about 1000 Ly out, mine was a little later than expected, and am grinding through. I am trying to stay focused although jump, honk, scan is all I am doing ... which does get monotonous...but hopefully I will be getting out of this part and onto something a little more exciting soon (I Hope).
 

Zenith

Zenith
If you look at the system map info of a terrestrial water worlds or terrestrial ammonia world, you'll see carbon mentioned.

With regards to varieties of life, we know that a chemistry based on amino acids, phospholipids and water is possible.
Ammonia is a polar solvent like water, and so shares many characteristics. It is liquid at a much lower temperature than water and life based on an ammonia-carbon chemistry is currently only a theory.

That said, if sentient life were to develop from an ammonia chemistry, they would be frigid to us. We would be like on fire to them. There would be no common parallel in environments.
 

Himilco

Himilco
Thus far, every form of life I've found, whether terrestrial or that in gas giants, has been either carbon-water based...or carbon-ammonia based.
 

Oveja-Negra

Oveja-Negra
the one thing that does keep me sane, is the responses I get from this forum.. this helps me progress further and keeps my hopes high, especially when it's so quiet out here!
and it is so nice not to get a cynical response, that others get within the other forums..
 

Oveja-Negra

Oveja-Negra
there is one thing that is really not in keeping with space dynamics....when the craft speeds up in space, the only way to slow down is to pull up, if you point the nose down, nothing happens, but as soon as you pull the nose up the craft will slow down....that doesn't seem right..any thoughts on this?
 

iain666

iain666
I can't say that I've noticed pitching in either direction having any effect on speed either in super cruise or normal space (FAON, not played with FAOFF enough to say anything definitive).
 
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