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In my pursuit to make a more believable system, I am running into issues with long terms system stability. I have been reading up on Orbital Resonance and how that long term stability is due to the semi-chaotic nature of the orbital resonance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance Resonance...

I am sure somewhere out there in the universe there is a star that arguably can be classified as a M0IV however a low mass sub giant seems to be unlikely unless it is literally in its death throws as this is about the only time in which it would exist. Most of the stars end up as either regular gian...

chris wrote:I think that the 3D graphics community needs its own version of physicist John Baez's Crackpot Index:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

--Chris

Chris, I am up to 523 points on the system, this means I am pretty much screwed right

The technology been here for a while it is called NURBS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NURBS. The problem is that most developers avoid it like the plague because though they may understand it, find it to difficult to use (create with) or the results are not what they expect, being that from the artis...

Chris,

I really like idea of fading, however I was also wondering if its possible to add ticks to the line. Something to see that the body is moving in addition to the fade.

ticks depending on distance viewable could be in second, minute, hour, day, year, decade, etc...

Just an idea

I wonder if was is happening in the majority of cases is that a planet is right on the outer limit for the planet to be flung off into interstellar space, but it doesn't quite have enough angular moment to break the now neutron stars gravity and over time if it settles back into a relatively station...

Well I guess what I am getting at is for such an explosion, the actually ejecta should only be traveling at .10-.23c or that's what I have read, however the radiation is moving at the full speed of light. Providing that you survived the initial flash, which would bake you into a crispy critter, you ...

Ok let me try this again. You have a really really fast ship orbiting around a star, you detect that the star may go supernova, the closest object that my afford you some protection is a Jupiter sized planet. The people on the ship would rather die hiding behind a planet waiting for the big shock wa...

This sounds like the discussion I had before. http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10337 If you had a space ship that had FTL drive that was damaged but still had conventional thrusters and given that the ship was made of high strength carbon fiber composite. in orbit around ...

I seem to recall this being discussed once before but I can seem to find the thread. In the new versions of the old star wars movies, Tatooine is depicted as having two suns. For this topic, assume having two suns will mean two Sol-like stars orbiting 6.6 million miles from each other (0.071 AU). Wh...

Do you have a link to the program Systemic? I am finding that Gravity Simulator is a pain if you want to make a system because you literally have to recreate the entire system every time you want to make an adjustment to the system.

I was perusing the net and came upon this link that i though i might share Space Settlement Design Contest 2009 Results from another favorite haunt of mine Jeff Russell's STARSHIP DIMENSIONS Its an interesting read, I don't quite agree with the structure design, but its cool that someone else came u...

Short Answer at the moment it looks like the universe is going to end as big rip. If I am not mistaken, Quantum theory basically says the nothing can not exist, and that something will literally spawn out of the nothingness. Also the big rip does not necessitate the end of our universe, only the uni...

I wonder if the engineers are paying attention and thinking, "note to self, add windshield wiper to the next rover"

Growler, I think you are vastly overestimating the effects of the atmosphere. The vast majority of an ice impactor (20km in diameter) would not be vaporized upon entering the atmosphere. Anything with a diameter greater than a few tens of meters across would have a surface impact whether it is rock ...

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009 ... kyway.html
http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... 84,00.html

To quote from the article above "Take that, Andromeda!"

Its all depends but guesstimate I would stay maybe in the tens of thousands, and that is probably the high end. Even though the cable is coming down its not going to have a lot a sway as it wraps itself around the plant. I would be surprised if the crash zone was more then a kilometer wide.

There is nothing implausible about your configuration, just unlikely. Its possible to have two earth like planets or larger orbiting a common berry center, and orbiting a star or even a binary star system. Obviously the more planets that you have and the closer they are together the more likely it i...

Some of those deep sky shots look so picturesk, they almost look fake.

Like this
Just copy the entire planet and change the inclination for one of them