Design your own Oolite system!

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:58 pm

One sun, one planet - do you think these people used to play Elite?

http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virgi ... epler6.htm

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:39 am

Well that was a wasted 1/2 hour.

One could probably use those different orbits in fiction. Maybe you've crashed on a planet with an egg shaped orbit. Everything is lush and green, but suddenly all life dies or retracts into the ground as the toasting summer arrives. You'd better find one way or another to avoid being barbecued.

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:46 pm

If you start the planet in the middle of the sun and give it a little bit of motion it gets fired across the galaxy at relativistic speed.

I can't help it, i'm a natural tester, i'm good at breaking things

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:35 pm

That was fun.

The fastest I managed was 7376 km/s.

Post by **Disembodied** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:53 pm

Lucidor wrote:
Well that was a wasted 1/2 hour.

One could probably use those different orbits in fiction. Maybe you've crashed on a planet with an egg shaped orbit. Everything is lush and green, but suddenly all life dies or retracts into the ground as the toasting summer arrives. You'd better find one way or another to avoid being barbecued.

Brian Aldiss's Helliconia trilogy – Spring, Summer and Winter – is a fantastic exploration of the ecology of a planet in a loose binary system, where the world orbits around a dwarf star, which in turn runs in an elliptical orbit around a massive blue-white supergiant. The planet swings from deep frozen winter to intense more-than-tropical heat and back again over several thousand years.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:20 pm

Disembodied wrote:
Brian Aldiss's Helliconia trilogy – Spring, Summer and Winter – is a fantastic exploration of the ecology of a planet in a loose binary system, where the world orbits around a dwarf star, which in turn runs in an elliptical orbit around a massive blue-white supergiant. The planet swings from deep frozen winter to intense more-than-tropical heat and back again over several thousand years.

Yeah, one of my favourite trilogies!

See more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helliconia

0235 · Post by **0235** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:46 pm

yeah, i gaind orbit first try!