Ammonia worlds themselves are quite rare so finding one with rings is quite something. Nice job!
Now... is it possible that an ELW could be ringed? That'd be a sight and somewhere to live for the coolness factor.
You'd have to call it Ringworld
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Now... is it possible that an ELW could be ringed? That'd be a sight and somewhere to live for the coolness factor.
You'd have to call it Ringworld
I've found two so far, I also have a single ELW around a Blue-White giant (the only planet was an ELW).Ammonia worlds themselves are quite rare so finding one with rings is quite something. Nice job!
Now... is it possible that an ELW could be ringed? That'd be a sight and somewhere to live for the coolness factor.
You'd have to call it Ringworld
Haven't seen these Cactus in a while, they look like river rock with mushrooms growing out the top.
I've seen at least a couple finding them from edsm.net galaxy map POIs.Ammonia worlds themselves are quite rare so finding one with rings is quite something. Nice job!
Now... is it possible that an ELW could be ringed? That'd be a sight and somewhere to live for the coolness factor.
You'd have to call it Ringworld
A commander Chiggy who makes a seemingly full time hobby out of ELW hunting (still playing Horizons 3.8 on PC) claims to have found 50 ringed ELWs to date out of the somewhere between 2500 to 3000 ELWs he has found over the years. Systems with double and triple ELWs are also a thing. His most recent exploits: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/hunting-with-chiggy.612324/
Wow. Quite something.
Next challenge then would be a lanndable gas giant. With atmosphere. And biologicals. There can't be any of those. Can there? Surely not...
It would require some solid, stable clouds for that to be possible, I think. Atmosphere shouldn't be a porblem, as they usually have that in abundance...
I came across one a few days ago and posted a screenshot at the time. Only trouble was, I was still over 25,000 LY from the bubble where I could have handed it in, having just left Sag A on my way back. And still on my way back now!
I have found a pair of ELWs orbiting each other in the last year.
Wouldn’t need to be landable you could find life supporting conditions a long way above any surface on a gas giant for examples in literature read Arthur C Clarke’s A Meeting With Medusa and the brief bit in the novel of 2001: A Space Odyssey where they release probes into Jupiter as they do the flyby to reach Saturn.
But they would have to let us get access to the atmosphere of gas giants for one thing and probably put extra engines on the top of an Anaconda to deal with its buoyancy issue.
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I hope we do get to see something like this in this particular galaxy, in the not too distant future - the transformed Europa in Clarke's 2061: Odyssey Three also has some interesting ideas about aquatic exobiology...
...meanwhile i'm near IC 1805 Sector DQ-Y E3, with a nice view of the planetary nebula - Heart and Soul nebulae in the distance:
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I have seen quite a few gas giants out there that have some form of life floating around, that's right.
Buoancy issues? Does it porpoise? Or does it float like a brick?
They would have very high gravity but also likely very high atmospheric pressure - so lifeforms like the Medusae (and the "rays" that prey on them) as Clarke imagined, might still live floating / gliding about in a gas giant's clouds... and yep Elite suggests something is there in the FSS scans that we'll hopefully get to see closer up some day...
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If it's floating, how would you scan it? Perhaps a new ship module...
IIRC an Anaconda weighs less than the same volume of water which means it would float, at some depth in a gas giant’s atmosphere the density will start to approach that of water.
Remember gravity is affected by distance from the centre of mass, you can see this in Elite by watching the g reading increase as you approach a planet to land on it. There will be an altitude where g is within our tolerances.
So depending where in the atmosphere they live the conditions might not be all that extreme.
Or the much requested skimmer variant of the SRV.
Yes, at higher atmospheric levels one might find floaters and gliders, while lower down would be more like swimming in very dense gas clouds… we already know of terrestrial biology that exists in very high pressure environments, deep in ocean trenches - there could be many layers of living organisms there.
That would be nice. A combination of Speederbike and Manta maybe… :]
Maybe the old fashioned way... From your ship with a Research Limpet.
Onwards on the road to Eafots, stopping to sniff the roses Fonticulua along the way...
The Vista clerk seems to be looking down on me today...
Perhaps she disapproves of my working methods? Anything to beat boredom, really... X marks the spot! :]
Then again, the usual stragglers at thewater fountain Nutrimat seemed a bit down... nobody's told them the party is actually at the bar, or are they discussing the menu already? ;p
The Vista clerk seems to be looking down on me today...
Perhaps she disapproves of my working methods? Anything to beat boredom, really... X marks the spot! :]
Then again, the usual stragglers at the
My SRV is acting freaky today, seems to have a mind of it's own.
These Osseus have been very difficult to find, I was just about ready to give up when I found this one.
These Osseus have been very difficult to find, I was just about ready to give up when I found this one.