Why I don't overly worry about system generation
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It kind of opens things up for a GM to make that one (or one more) unusual world. Because if there is at least on in RL, there just has to be one in Traveller!
I did not know about the stellar snow line - maybe add some gravity skiing 
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/snow-discovered-around-newborn-planets/15393/
from the article: "For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of snow formation surrounding a developing star, indicating the point at which planets begin to develop an icy coating. Observations of these types allow astronomers to understand more about how gases, dust, and ices interact within the planet-forming environments of other stars"
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/snow-discovered-around-newborn-planets/15393/
from the article: "For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of snow formation surrounding a developing star, indicating the point at which planets begin to develop an icy coating. Observations of these types allow astronomers to understand more about how gases, dust, and ices interact within the planet-forming environments of other stars"
not sure if this has been posted, but a sunset similator from NASA for other worlds (youtube vid):
I did not know about the stellar snow line - maybe add some gravity skiing
Image Credit: Vintage Space Travel (Etsy vendor)
And more "retro" space tourism; this from JPL:
(Check out the rest of the gallery there. Good stuff.)
(Check out the rest of the gallery there. Good stuff.)
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Oh boy, that Ski Pluto really takes me back. WAY back.
It was just a moment in time, at a game convention, my friends and I were just riffing on stuff. At the time, the Harmonic Convergence was the Big Deal.
And, somehow, there was some TV ad with some surfers "dudes" talking about how they can't go someplace cuz "it's got no waves". From that, we got "Pluto's got no waves".
Out of all of this, we landed on "Surf Pluto". By happenstance, there was a vendor that would put custom images on cups.
And from that, I have a "Surf Pluto" cup with an astronaut hopping out of his lunar lander, wearing a space helmet and shorts, and carrying a surfboard. One of my friends was graphically talented. I still have that cup somewhere, it must be pushing 40 years old. Always tickled me.
Good times.
It was just a moment in time, at a game convention, my friends and I were just riffing on stuff. At the time, the Harmonic Convergence was the Big Deal.
And, somehow, there was some TV ad with some surfers "dudes" talking about how they can't go someplace cuz "it's got no waves". From that, we got "Pluto's got no waves".
Out of all of this, we landed on "Surf Pluto". By happenstance, there was a vendor that would put custom images on cups.
And from that, I have a "Surf Pluto" cup with an astronaut hopping out of his lunar lander, wearing a space helmet and shorts, and carrying a surfboard. One of my friends was graphically talented. I still have that cup somewhere, it must be pushing 40 years old. Always tickled me.
Good times.
kilemall
SOC-14 5K
Should be able to do a 1km ski jump, but initial speed will be challenging.
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