News Trappist-1 Discovery's Impact on Elite Dangerous

[duffbeeeer]

Someone tell NASA to point their telescopes to places where the Stallar Forge is showing earth like worlds...Imagine players of Elite Dangerous being the first who unknowingly discover new possible new homes for humanity. *brain explodes*

 

[maboleth]

So exciting!! Never been better time to explore ED!

 

[Brett C]

Someone tell NASA to point their telescopes to places where the Stallar Forge is showing earth like worlds...Imagine players of Elite Dangerous being the first who unknowingly discover new possible new homes for humanity. *brain explodes*

That'd be quite the turn of fate...

 

[JesusRocks1988]

That's it! Frontier are time-travellers from the year 3303, and they're secretly feeding us real data about the galaxy in the form of a game, and pretending it's "procedurally generated".

Either that or it's Thargoids...

/tinfoil

 

[Brett C]

Impressive! I would have left it untweaked as a testament to the accuracy of the Stellar Forge.

A few years back, we stated that Elite's space world of the galaxy would attempt to mimic and replicate findings (planets, stars, etc) by space agencies - or something to the likes there of!

 

[ChicagoChad]

Wow, that was a fast addition. I'm amazed with the accuracy, flexibility and power of the stellar forge. David, you really have something here.

 

[who?]

#Nerdgasm

One of the things I love about this game is how it gives you a sense of scale. 40LY is 'far away' according to this story, but by God, Distant Worlds really changed my perspective on the galaxy.

 

[Titus Balls]

Very nice you've been able to use an existing system nearby!

 

[nexxo]

That is really incredible how accurate the prediction was. Well done Frontier!

That's it! Frontier are time-travellers from the year 3303, and they're secretly feeding us real data about the galaxy in the form of a game, and pretending it's "procedurally generated".

Either that or it's Thargoids...

/tinfoil

No, I keep telling you, The One Amiga magazine called it right: Braben is God.

 

[Ayrl Jakuard]

This is fantastic to hear!

 

[anikaiful]

So, the real-life galaxy finally started to mimic ED?

 

[CMDR Ahab]

Wow - that's amazing! The fact that the Stella Forge is so accurate that it had already predicted more or less where this system was. Great stuff! Thanks!

 

[nexxo]

So, the real-life galaxy finally started to mimic ED?

Yeah, it's about time it pulled its act together.

 

[who?]

Sooo.... I take it these new planets haven't been tagged yet...

Everyone stay here..... I just have to pop out for a minute.

Would be sooo cool if these planets showed up as "First Discovered by NASA"

 

[Eldrich Stark]

How about adding a station?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Awesome work guys

How about adding a station?

Run by the Trappist-1 Monks faction

 

[Dave G]

So I am assuming that this announcement has fully vindicated the ED Stellar Forge, and we shouldn't see any more posts around "planets are all the same" etc.... what you should be saying is "planets are all pretty realistic".... WELL DONE FRONTIER, an outstanding Stellar Forge, which may continue to predict systems that science is yet to find.

 

[Cosmo]

Yay cool!

 

[Cmdr-Wotherspoon]

I'm waiting for a moderator brave enough to close this thread and point it to https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/330990-Nasa-News-Discover-Beyond-Our-Solar-System ...

But I'm impressed by how quickly FD reacts to astronomical discoveries. There's clearly a lot of love within the company.

 

[Brian B]

Truly an amazing work of art... I wonder how many new faction requests are being submitted for the system. haha [haha]