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Commander McLane wrote:

... English interpunction rules mystify me

Unfortunately, they mystify many native English speakers as well!

Wipe them out...all of them!

<primes the tractor beam>

That's no moon...this is Shipbuilder's 'giant boob nipple gun' with Navy Frigates guarding it...top secret stuff this...

El Viejo wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

... English interpunction rules mystify me

Unfortunately, they mystify many native English speakers as well!

Cheers .-) Changed it for v2.4 - muchas gracias.

El Viejo wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

... English interpunction rules mystify me

Unfortunately, they mystify many native English speakers as well!

This new word, "interpunction", mystifies me.

Commander McLane wrote:

Should be "An expected ..."

Although I'd probably prefer "anticipated" in a construction like this: "A supernova event that had been anticipated for a long time finally struck and eliminated ..." or something like that (no guarantee for interpunction; English interpunction rules mystify me).

You could try

"A long-anticipated nova event finally struck and eliminated the {{system}} system."

Technically I think it's a nova, not a supernova: the star itself isn't blown apart (or is it?).

Disembodied wrote:

"A long-anticipated nova event finally struck and eliminated the {{system}} system."

That's roughly how I would word it!

Disembodied wrote:

"A long-anticipated nova event finally struck and eliminated the {{system}} system."

Technically I think it's a nova, not a supernova: the star itself isn't blown apart (or is it?).

A nova is still an extremely violent event if you happen to be in the system at the time. The star does blow itself apart, because it too violently starts fusion "burning" either Helium (for lower-mass stars below about 0.5 solar mass) or elements beyond Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen (for ~0.8 to ~5 solar-mass stars), but lacks the mass to hold itself together and explodes off anywhere from 20-80% of its initial mass in the process. Little of that mass is destroyed as energy, it's just ejected. This forms a "pretty" planetary nebula, which is easily visible from 100+ LY away (100+ years after the event) using a decent telescope. The outward rush of material is like a brick wall moving at 0.1-20% the speed of light. A fast ship should be able to outpace that wall, but would still get hit by the intense heating effects of the star's initial flash.

A supernova on the other hand is triggered by a core-collapse of a massive star's core which had been mostly converted to iron, which does not release energy by fusion into higher elements. As the core compresses, the heat energy radiated from that into the non-iron layers (which are collapsing, compressing, and heating as well) is enough to trigger intense fusion of over a half a solar mass...in probably under a minute. If a real supernova occurred within 1,000 LY of Earth, at the very least pretty much all unshielded electronics and most power grids would get fried by the electron pulse alone. Instant "dark" age. Most of the intense radiation would fortunately be blocked by the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere, so it would probably kill few people by radiation directly. "Sunburns" or blindness might be likely though, since quite a bit of UV light isn't blocked by the atmosphere.

The question is not so much what really happens in RealLife(TM).

In Oolite the event (whatever it is) is known as a Nova. I also think (meaning that it's a long time since I tried to visit a Nova system; and I don't actually recall) that if you visited a Nova system you would still see the sun, and it would be much bigger than before. This seems to match the nature of a nova, not a super nova.

Commander McLane wrote:

... and I don't actually recall) that if you visited a Nova system you would still see the sun, and it would be much bigger than before.

Yep - this is from the witchpoint of my nova system (I have  Sensible Sun OXP installed, so I presume it's way off).

Greetings, Commanders!

having just discovered Oolite, I'm having way too much fun

A few shots while trying out some great OXPs:

Discovering how to repaint my Cobby:


My first escort:


In formation:


To boldly go...


Some wonderful OXPs out there, my hat off to developers! Thank you!

Jure

Great screen shots Jure. and may I extend my welcome as well. Glad you have went for the eye candy. They really improve your experience of the game.

yuk, who'd buy an anaconda and then paint it purple Lovely flame decals on your cobra Jure!

Griff wrote:

yuk, who'd buy an anaconda and then paint it purple

Nothing wrong with purple!