Huge solar system discovered!
Keebland
06-12-2003, 05:46
This is Keebler,Emperor of Keebland,Ruler of Corsec.The RELENTLESS(1 of my super star destroyers)has discovered a solar system that has 26 planets,230 moons,and 2 suns.This entire system has been claimed by Keebland for Corsec.
Dontgonearthere
06-12-2003, 05:49
Binary systems are never very stable...most of those planets are likely to be hell holes in any case, due to tremendous gravity fluctuations.
BUt of course, this is most likely a situation where the massive gravity cancels itself out because of Hyper-somethingtystics in view of the law of itsminesoitsperfect, discovered by some random newb.
Not the your a newb, of course. 8)
Keebland
06-12-2003, 05:59
Actually you are correct.15 of those planets cannot sustain life.They will be used for mining.The other planets can sustain life but are not pretty.I am moving some planets with my tractor beam dragging ship,I am moving them to better solar systems to be terreformed.
Kanuckistan
06-12-2003, 06:01
Well, hellholes or ice cubes; the only stable orbits(ie places you can put something and not have it go flying off into deep space or a sun after a while) are either orbiting very close to one of the two suns, or orbiting both of them at a great distance.
With that many moons, most of the planets are probally gas giants, too.
Keebland
06-12-2003, 06:06
Yes,12 of the planets(unhabital) are gas gaints.There is a lot of minerals detected beneath the gas so it will be hard to mine but it will be done.
Kanuckistan
06-12-2003, 06:11
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Um, there is nothing solid to mine 'beneath the gas' of a gas giant; they're just big balls of gas(hence the name). When people reffer to 'mining' a gas giant, they're reffering to scooping hydrogen and other usefull gasses from it's atmosphere.
Keebland
06-12-2003, 07:10
Some gas giants have a core.Jupitor is soppused to have something solid beneath the gas.
Kanuckistan
06-12-2003, 07:30
Yes, hydrogen gas compress to the point it forms a solid metalic core. If you can mine that(and it's still just hydrogen, so nothing special; it'll turn back into a gas when you decompress it), your ships can probally fly through stars.
We have a solar system?COOL!I am going back to bed.
What the HELL is going on?
Theres people rping medieval-like, modern-like, future-like... and star destroyers? GRAH!
I'ma go mumble in my sleep.
Stick a long enough tube thorugh the atmosphere and suck out the valuble methane hydrogen and helium LIQUID and there u go, profitable mining.
YEAH!Somebody knows what their talking about.
Kanuckistan
06-12-2003, 08:25
Stick a long enough tube thorugh the atmosphere and suck out the valuble methane hydrogen and helium LIQUID and there u go, profitable mining.
Yes, a +600km long tube sticking down through thousand-kilometer-per-hour sheering crosswinds, earth-eized storms, epic lightning discharges, and enough crushing pressure to liquify hydrogen and helium at rather high temperatures.
Just skim the upper atmosphere; much more feasible, safer, and cheaper-per-unit-mined, and thus more profitible.
Kanuckistan, where exactly did you get your doctorate in exo-geology or astrophysics again?
Kanuckistan
06-12-2003, 08:33
EXN.ca, NASA's web site, and their associates.
I'm pulling this from memory, tho, so numbers'll be somewhat off.