New Scenario Available - Voyager

Puke · #1 August 6th, 2001, 09:52 AM

cool. but your link is slightly broken, need to end it after the .html and before the Star

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geoschmo · #2 August 7th, 2001, 01:42 AM

Puke, Thanks. I didn't notice that, but it's fixed now.

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Originally posted by Quikngruvn:
Very nice, Geo. But I do have to comment on the Sol system....

Shouldn't Venus be medium and Mars small (and CO2)? I'll assume also you made Saturn tiny just to get a ringed picture. And what happened to Luna? (Or is that a remnant from Space 1999?)

Yes, I'm being nitpicky-- I can't help it! Otherwise, very nicely done!

Now, if I could just find somebody to give me more minerals....

Quikngruvn

Mars was made a hydrogen planet purely because that picture looked the most like Mars to me. Saturn the same thing. Venus, your probably right. I couldn't remember how big it was compared to the Earth. Luna, uh...Luna? Oops?

Geo

Urendi Maleldil · #3 August 6th, 2001, 03:32 PM

Shouldn't Jupiter have like 24 moons? Just being nitpicky.

geoschmo · #4 August 6th, 2001, 04:43 PM

Sure, and Saturn should have a lot more. Mars should have 2, and so on.

Mainly in that area I was going less for realism and more for making it fit the SEIV universe.

I have always assumed that never seeing more than two moons around a planet could be justified simply by assuming only certain moons would be large enough to support a colony. Below a certain size and a planetoid is more of an asteroid then a moon.

You could simulate it by putting asteroid fields in the same sector as the gas giants I guess. Then you would have your colonizable planet and one or two colonizable moons, and a constellation of smaller bodies only suitable for robo-mining.

Geo

henk brouwer · #5 August 6th, 2001, 05:36 PM

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Originally posted by Urendi Maleldil:
Shouldn't Jupiter have like 24 moons? Just being nitpicky.

actually it should have 28 according to NASA: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/features...r/jupiter.html

Quikngruvn · #6 August 7th, 2001, 08:03 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
I have always assumed that never seeing more than two moons around a planet could be justified simply by assuming only certain moons would be large enough to support a colony. Below a certain size and a planetoid is more of an asteroid then a moon.
Geo

I gotta agree with you there, Geo. For example, from the same site Henk posted, here are the data for Mars satellites. Phobos is 27 km x 22 km x 18 km, and Deimos is only 15 km x 12 km x 11 km. I don't see any race fitting 100 million beings on a rock that small!

Quikngruvn

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Puke · #7 August 7th, 2001, 09:53 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Quikngruvn:
I don't see any race fitting 100 million beings on a rock that small!

yeah, they have to dehydrate them down to little three-inch styrofoam polyhedrals like in that classic StarTrek episode just to get 1.2 billion people in a 6000KT large transport.

or maybe they use the method from the other episode where they get turned into piles of rock-salt inside their uniforms (think that was dehyrdration too) and then they can store them in one big vat and use the special centrifuge thing that batman used to put seperate out all of dust from the guys from the united nations council when its time to unload them.

And if you think thats a trick, just imagine how they get those 1.2 billion people on the transport in a single month! and they have to dehydrate them too! man, transports should just use their mass-dehydrator rays to cull populations, then they could stack them up in neat piles, and troops would not have to do as much work. 1.2 billion in a month, just imagine what some of the more monstrous figures from our history (and our present) could do with that.

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