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How does Proland simulate other planets? How about gas giants? The surface of stars?

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Why not use non-fictional values for the orbit parameters? (they can be found in the discovery paper)

The idea of a web-based Celestia kind-of repulses me as well.

Barnard's Star has a large proper motion. It moves an amount similar to the diameter of the Moon every century or something like that. Celestia also does not include many stars beyond the Hipparcos catalogue, which may account for the discrepancy you're facing. No, Celestia does not model proper mot...

Wrong, are you paranoid ? Actually, he's absolutely right. Ever since you started here you've been a pain in the ass and a complete waste of forum space. Why do you think we don't have these problems with anyone else? You're surely intelligent enough to realise that it is your actions that are the ...

PlutonianEmpire , I don't think you are nearly as at fault as you seem to believe. I've always thought highly of you and your work and I continue to do so. I, too, am a Star Trek fan (despite lodgy et al's recent attempts to drive everyone away from it :lol: ), and there's no shame to be had in tha...

ngx, don't worry about lodgy, or his duplicate accounts ogyv (and others whose names escape me). He's just a troll. He's been driving down the quality of conversation on this forum ever since he arrived, and most people have left.

The point is, lodgy, that his work is, like most of yours, fiction. It does not need to be 100% accurate or 100% plausible.

Grow up.

let me invite my old friends to CM for some much more solid chatting and timely data collection about EXO planets "and all that". Thanks. I have begun frequently visiting the CM forum over the past couple weeks since this project clearly isn't going anywhere. Afraid I won't do much but lu...

go fuck off oh the rude ugly ! :oops: If you had been around for the past several months and seen the destruction to the legitimacy of this forum and the trolling by lodgy and his duplicate accounts (and to some extent the refusal of the staff to moderate the board for whatever reason) you would re...

I got the impression from the graphic that it was a subdwarf OB star, which might make it work.

I'm pretty sure this is programmatic. I believe Celestia only renders moon shadows for moons above a certain size.

Wow this looks nice.

lodgy wrote:or there's fog (for gas) right ?

Fog is technically not a gas. A gas would have the water molecules unbound and free to move. In a fog, the water condenses into tiny liquid droplets.

they said simply "water", no ice or no vapor, or something ... True, but you should know enough about water to know that there's no way it will be liquid in a vacuum. rain contains liquid, if not, we say that snows (for crystals) or there's fog (for gas) right ? NASA does not have a stell...

I read the link given on NASA. :) these are not assumptions but facts (studied since the 80s) ! even if it is difficult to conceive, kristoffer gave good information ! :) You're just as wrong as he is then. No where in the NASA statement does it say there's liquid water falling onto Saturn. It's a ...

You specifically said liquid water. This is quite a bit beyond what the NASA sites are saying and, unless you can find a reputable source to back it up, is nothing short of the sensationalism that causes people to read "alien life discovered" into discoveries of hot Jupiters.

Can you provide a link to a reputable source suggesting liquid water is raining onto Saturn?

kristoffer, and not the article wrote:Liquid water in Saturn's rings

kristoffer, and not the article wrote:and it were caused by a liquid water rainfall from Saturn's rings

Stop. Just stop. You should know better than that.