Personally, I don't need them. I've got stuff modded, so I can't use them as is.
Adjusting the black hole's ability is not exactly a full day's work, either
I'm sure that there are many who would be interested though.
My objections so far:
1) Oggy ben Doggy's statement (post #2) is only correct if the ships are not orbiting, and since they orbit normal stars (ie. don't fall in) then the captain should just be orbiting the hole.
2) Dracus (a second-hand quote, since the original post was blanked out)
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If you don't have a planet (IE earth crushed) then the sats would be pulled in, because then there would be no orbit. orbits are based on speed ver grav. That is why we have to push our sats back up, because in time, grav overpowers them. All the planets are slowly being pulled toward the sun. It will take billions of years but in time the earth will crash into our sun. Take a science math course or read a steven [Hawking] book. It is all explained there.
Which is full of errors. You claimed that the satellites would fall in, yet you also say that the moon would not.
- Both are in orbit, both would stay in orbit
- also, the planets are
not falling into the sun. In fact, the Moon is drifting away from the earth because of tidal forces.
eg: the moon pulls a bulge of water towards it (that's the tides) but the spinning earth pushes the bulge ahead of the moon. The gravitational tug from the bulge pulls the moon ahead a little bit faster, and the moon slowly accelerates, expanding its orbit, while the rotation of the earth slows (due to friction with the bulge).
The exact same thing happens with the Sun & Mercury.
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Append:
Steve A: If wou make the black hole system 0.1 AU across, then the accretion disk would be huge, rather than just 1 square of damage.
Also, it dosen't explain why the ship captain fails to go into orbit like he does for stars.
[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 30 March 2001).]