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DraQ

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Protip for bros seeking life-bearing planets - look for nearby faint stars, preferably using zoomed in map (because they tend to be faint enough to not be visible with naked eye even from nearby systems).
Stars that burn bright and hot need to be massive, and massive stars, like massive people :)patriot::kwanzania::kingcomrade:) live short (unlike massive people they tend to leave attractive corpses).

Life, OTOH seems to take its sweet time to arise. Anything hotter than your F class white star is not going to last long enough for life to form, and your best bet isn't stars like Sol, but dim little shits like red and brown dwarves that will happily keep smoldering when our sun will long since have puffed up, baked the Earth, and left dead, compact core in the middle of planetary nebula. Dim stars like that are also much more numerous.
Theoretically it should be possible to find life around low-mass red giants, or even around some white dwarfs (following some highly unusual, but not impossible circumstances) but I've never seen that.
 

Surf Solar

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Theoretically it should be possible to find life around low-mass red giants, or even around some white dwarfs (following some highly unusual, but not impossible circumstances) but I've never seen that.

The planet with multicellular life I posted above is orbiting a white dwarf. It's the third of its kind that I found :)
 

Makabb

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So, I installed this thing and tried it. Aaaaand then I uninstalled it 5 minutes later. Then I thought, I should see it again. So I installed it again. Then I uninstalled it 5 minutes later. It looks amazing, it is a great technical achievement, but it has nothing in it which captures my imagination. Looking at pretty pictures without anything substantial to do is boring.

Too bad ED is no where near close on the technical level of space engine.
 

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It's not really a game, I don't know what you were expecting.
I wasn't expecting anything. I know what it is, and I appreciate what it is doing. But for me it is just a wallpaper. But that fucking newfag couldn't keep his mouth shut.
 

Perkel

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I wasn't expecting anything. I know what it is, and I appreciate what it is doing. But for me it is just a wallpaper. But that fucking newfag couldn't keep his mouth shut.

Frankly it works if you take it as Flying space simulator. You can have a ship and steer it.
 

Makabb

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So i wanted to replicate hubble space telescope and you can.

Ultra deep field, straight from game no editing, i wanted to see how far you can see, and you can see pretty far, near the end i almost expected an interdimensional being to jump out.



 

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Nice, though I was hoping for a world in relatvely tight orbit around a WD - assuming second period of planet formation or migration of ones located further out AND surplus water to boil off as the WD cools down to the point where its no longer an owen full of deadly radiation you could get a planet suitable for life around WD and conditions could stay stable long enough for the life to develop and thrive there, not very probable, but possible enough to occur once in a long while (also collisions would be a bitch at this sort of orbital velocities) - this one is orbiting a binary.

Still a nice place though the surface would kill a human remarkably fast - almost 100 degrees, 36 bars a bit high gravity. Would probably need some sort of floating city/base in the atmosphere to settle planetside.
 

Surf Solar

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Nice analysis - I'll try to make a point to find a planet that is perfectly suitable for humans to settle :salute:
 

JarlFrank

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Also try to find out the distance to earth to see how fast a spaceship would need to fly to reach the place within a human lifespan.
 

Whisky

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Thank you DraQ - that little trick did indeed work.

I found a black hole, and... nope. Never want to approach that terrifying thing again. D: Though - I wonder how the one in the middle of the milky way looks. Any idea how to navigate through that clusterfuck?

Zoom out to Galaxy view of the Milky Way. Click on it. Ctrl + G.

Make sure to sit on your bedpan first.

Didn't one update add rogue black holes? Never seen one though.
 

DraQ

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Zoom out to Galaxy view of the Milky Way. Click on it. Ctrl + G.

Make sure to sit on your bedpan first.

Didn't one update add rogue black holes? Never seen one though.
I once seen an interesting thing in previous version, it was a star system looking like very small open cluster.

It started when I found a pretty cool planet - earth-like, somewhat hot and massive (like Surf Solar's one) but with thin atmosphere (how it held onto its water is anyone's guess, previous version often derped in that regard with liquid water, high temperatures and not enough atmospheric pressure for it to be possible). Anyway, the planet was pretty cool because its thin atmosphere gave it a lot of impact craters (from stuff that would get stopped by proper atmosphere, not extinction scale bonkage) and impact craters make for awesome lakes and sea bays.
Anyway, from this planet I noticed something freaky, a swarm of bright blue dots in the sky - bright enough to be clearly visible in full daylight, so too close for comfort (the atmosphere was thick enough to produce normal looking blue sky and the sun was proper G class, I think, not some barely glowing ember of a star).

It was a system, it consisted of around 13 stars, all massive and blue, in randomly inclined ball of orbits around central mass. The central mass was a BH, massive one, maybe not galactic BH massive but way beyond a stellar BH.
The system was in the middle of a globular cluster.
 

Perkel

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So it is a game then gentelments ? Who will find earth like planet with temperatures and possibly as close to earth
 

Berekän

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Would love to see this with educational purposes. I know my love of space would've bloomed sooner if I had had access to such a beautiful program in high school.
 

Whisky

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So it is a game then gentelments ? Who will find earth like planet with temperatures and possibly as close to earth

In the previous version, Alpha Centauri had a perfect Earthlike planet with life, possibly as a reference to SMAC (Which ironically was not perfectly Earthlike.).
 

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