Old Pictures from Celestia (locked)

[Cham]

Two Worlds

Two worlds, in another galaxy.
Clouds turned Off to show the lands...

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Maps from Massimo. Models by myself...

[PlutonianEmpire]

Why are background starfields almost always overdone in Celestia screenshots? I've never quite understood that.

Anyways, this is Belle Hades just a few days before I was born IRL, all the way back in 1984. This screenshot is special, because the exact same scene is featured in a Celestia music video I finished earlier tonight, and the video is perhaps the best I have ever made, possibly out-doing all my previous vids.

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Sadly, I will never be able to upload the vid.

[PlutonianEmpire]

Already seen
Nothing new plutonian...

Quit complaining and actually contribute a screenshot of your own for a change.

Anyways, a while back, I posted that two suns from my house thing, a bit before that, I posted a bug report about replacing existing mie atmospheres with a new one. Turned out I was doing the SSC code wrong somehow, so now the "Delta Trianguli-fication" of our Solar System is finally done correctly.

Oh, and an airplane to boot.

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[PlutonianEmpire]

One thing I like about Pluto is that its radius in kilometers can be seen on clocks twice a day, every day.

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[Reiko]

One thing I like about Pluto is that its radius in kilometers can be seen on clocks twice a day, every day.

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Where does the terraformed Pluto get its heat?

[Reiko]

I agree. Less debate of these matters and more pix!!!!!!

-M-

Very interesting geography on the Quom planet.

[PlutonianEmpire]

One thing I like about Pluto is that its radius in kilometers can be seen on clocks twice a day, every day.

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Where does the terraformed Pluto get its heat?

I've always had in my mind that the heat would be from a global network subterranean heaters, powered by multiple nuclear power plants (fission power, I personally think fusion power may be an unrealistic pipe dream, but you never know. ), to make the soil suitable for plants and water, and for retaining a dense atmosphere, either a global Trek-style force field to hold it in place, and/or short-range artificial gravity generators. Short-range because we want to preserve the moons' orbits.

I know I've read one or two Star Trek novels featuring a global force field to hold in atmospheres for low-gravity worlds, and so I figured that would help make small worlds more aesthetically pleasing, than they would if they had a global greenhouse sphere, which not only would it make small worlds ugly, they would require a lot of resources to build and maintain, so force-fields need only a power supply, and they're invisible to the human(oid) eye, so it turns out beneficial and pretty-looking in the long run.

As for keeping the air warm, I have no clue, other than using artificial suns, since greenhouse gases can only do so much.

And I've always imagined that in Pluto's case, the climate would be Siberian at best, so I imagine a whole planet of fir trees and Christmas trees.

And lots of fluffy white snow.

[Hungry4info]

If you put Charon into an eccentric orbit, you can get some tidal heating.

[PlutonianEmpire]

If you put Charon into an eccentric orbit, you can get some tidal heating.

Oooh, hadn't thought of that; nice idea, thanks!

[John Van Vliet]

Where does the terraformed Pluto get its heat?

From being made by the Magratheans

[Goofy]

Just for someone who prefers colors, hehehehe!
Enjoy.

Goofy

[Goofy]

Great goofy
It's better...........go on, go on

OK, but... you asked for it!
Bye

Goofy

[PlutonianEmpire]

The super-earth homeworld of the omnipotent alien super-villains featured in a story I just finished, located around an extremely old red dwarf, in IC 3094, with Cham's starfield in the background.

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[Cham]

Life, on some Earth-like planet located in another galaxy :

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Textures made by Massimo (Fenerit).

[Cham]

:lol:
Where are the clouds

Duh ! The clouds layer has been turned OFF, so we could see something !

[PlutonianEmpire]

Ok, I uploaded a Celestia Mars screenshot to my Facebook, and for the strangest reasons, it tried to get me to tag a friend because it thought it saw a face on the whole sunlit side of the planet!

This is the screenie.

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Granted, the dust pattern immediately northwest of Deimos sort of looks like a face, but dear god, FB showed a face-recognition square on the vast majority of the sunlit side.

And before you guys accuse me of insinuating a conspiracy theory or pulling image-editing hocus pocus, I am most certainly not.

[Cham]

Some alien things in the Zeta Reticuli system :

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[Cham]

Weird things could be found, in the Andromeda galaxy :

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[Cham]

Weird geological process, caused by intense solar wind :

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while other worlds are frozen by a lack of radiation :

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[Cham]

Things that any ST spaceship will never explore :

A protostar in some remote galaxy of the local group :

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