New Scenario Available - Voyager

Quikngruvn · #1 August 6th, 2001, 06:15 AM

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

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Puke · #2 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 · #3 August 7th, 2001, 01:42 AM

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

quote:
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 · #4 August 6th, 2001, 03:32 PM

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

geoschmo · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 August 7th, 2001, 08:03 PM

quote:
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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