holy crap, there's a big log that's been floating in Crater Lake since *1896* and it's history is *amazing*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Lake
Seriously though this game is prompting me to learn more astronomy. I had never heard of T-Tauri or Wolf-Rayet stars and it turns out they're pretty cool!
Betelgeuse has an average density of 7.9*10^-9 g/cm^3
That's comparable to the density of air at 100km above earth... so, space.
big fluffy star!
Elite Dangerous, Betelgeuse
Decided to swing by Betelgeuse on the way back from Barnard's Loop.
big hecking sun.
The planet I'm above is about as far away from the star as Jupiter is from our sun.
tbh this whole thing is due for replacement but I don't have the spare funds to do it properly right now :<
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Binaural audio recording of the Falcon Heavy launch and booster return.
I think I need new pants.
Elite Dangerous procedural tech
Did a bit of research on how ED generates systems. I would have thought that the stars and planets and stuff are just plunked down according to statistical distributions, but apparently it actually models stellar accretion and planetary formation on an individual basis. One consequence of this is way more binary planets than the devs expected!
*awesome*.
Elite Dangerous, black hole
Someday I should fly out to Maia, rent a Sidewinder, and see what it's like to dive in.
Elite Dangerous, black hole
Found one all by myself!
also got probably too close.
That's not an accretion disk, it's gravitational lensing on some background nebulae
spooky
Moving to @starkatt
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