Why I don't overly worry about system generation
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I may be wrong, but for something falling into the black hole, apart from tidal forces (spaghettification), doesn't theory say there is no way to tell where the event horizon is? Since, as I understand it, your velocity and acceleration affect the spacetime view according to relativity. So the horizon is, in one sense, at a specific point (or actually surface), but it's not like there are signposts to tell you that you are crossing into the weird space.
Timerover51
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I do not overly worry about it, as if I do not like it, I simply change it to something that I do like. If working in SectorMaker, it is simply a matter of a few clicks, and voila, a brand new main planet for the system.
https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-...axy-s-supermassive-black-hole-than-we-thought
Now we have to redo all the maps!
Now we have to redo all the maps!
Proneutron
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https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-...axy-s-supermassive-black-hole-than-we-thought
Now we have to redo all the maps!
After 50 years of watching this field I have learned to take all "facts" with a 20 lbs. block of salt. NOT a criticism of the scientists but our level tech makes it difficult. Based on past techniques of distance measurement we knew we were considerably off even at the local galactic level.
I often find that the scientists have some sense of the limits of science, where many others have almost no idea--whether they think science can do almost anything, or science can do very little.
ShawnDriscoll
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Scientists become a problem when their junk science becomes their religion, and a way to extort money from citizens.
While not part of a system, interesting unknowns that could also be adventure seeds (as I have sent my players to discover/explore a few anomalies via patrons over the years):
https://theconversation.com/wtf-newly-discovered-ghostly-circles-in-the-sky-cant-be-explained-by-current-theories-and-astronomers-are-excited-142812
Ghost circles! In space!
https://theconversation.com/wtf-newly-discovered-ghostly-circles-in-the-sky-cant-be-explained-by-current-theories-and-astronomers-are-excited-142812
Ghost circles! In space!
Straybow
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No, not really. It's less than 10% difference, who cares? It shifts the whole map.https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-...axy-s-supermassive-black-hole-than-we-thought
Now we have to redo all the maps!
Proneutron
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and "hot Neptunes" https://phys.org/news/2020-10-atmosphere-hot-neptune-years-shouldnt.html
"For the first time, we measured the light coming from this planet that shouldn't exist," said Ian Crossfield, assistant professor of physics & astronomy at KU and lead author of the paper. "This planet is so intensely irradiated by its star that its temperature is over 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit and its atmosphere could have evaporated entirely. Yet, our Spitzer observations show us its atmosphere via the infrared light the planet emits."
"For the first time, we measured the light coming from this planet that shouldn't exist," said Ian Crossfield, assistant professor of physics & astronomy at KU and lead author of the paper. "This planet is so intensely irradiated by its star that its temperature is over 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit and its atmosphere could have evaporated entirely. Yet, our Spitzer observations show us its atmosphere via the infrared light the planet emits."
hot Jupiter
and next up, a hot Jupiter! I've a feeling in a hundred years there will be so many odd things we thought impossible we may as well have a complete random system generator for Traveller
https://www.engadget.com/cloudless-hot-jupiter-exoplanet-144728972.html?guccounter=1
and next up, a hot Jupiter! I've a feeling in a hundred years there will be so many odd things we thought impossible we may as well have a complete random system generator for Traveller
https://www.engadget.com/cloudless-hot-jupiter-exoplanet-144728972.html?guccounter=1
Proneutron
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THIS
echoes of Grandfather
https://www.space.com/six-alien-planets-orbit-strange-harmony-toi-178
"The planets around a star called TOI-178 know how to keep a beat — so smoothly, in fact, that scientists were able to discover new alien worlds by deciphering the system's music."
https://www.space.com/six-alien-planets-orbit-strange-harmony-toi-178
"The planets around a star called TOI-178 know how to keep a beat — so smoothly, in fact, that scientists were able to discover new alien worlds by deciphering the system's music."
Wired article about our solar system and that it, so far, appears totally different than others. But we're still in the stone age really for viewing other systems. So things will keep on changing
another article as to why I'll just make up my systems as needed for the story
Forbes article
from the article:
4,100. That’s how many kilometers Quaoar’s rings are from the dwarf planet’s core. That puts its rings at a distance of roughly 7.4 of the dwarf planet’s radii from its core—twice as far as the maximum distance, called a “Roche limit,” astronomers previously thought possible for a ring system to survive. Saturn’s rings, by contrast, are within three of the gas giant’s radii.
Forbes article
from the article:
4,100. That’s how many kilometers Quaoar’s rings are from the dwarf planet’s core. That puts its rings at a distance of roughly 7.4 of the dwarf planet’s radii from its core—twice as far as the maximum distance, called a “Roche limit,” astronomers previously thought possible for a ring system to survive. Saturn’s rings, by contrast, are within three of the gas giant’s radii.
Enoki
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I've always been about finding new reasons for systems being the way they are in the game and how to use that to generate scenarios. I love systems with really outlying values like insanely high law levels or absurd governments and the like.
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