Except 'our' ships are space ships and are not designed for atmospheric entry - that's what shuttles are for.
As for the rust, well, I suppose they could corrode from the inside out if the internal atmosphere is damp which it most likely would be, and externally, who knows what effect those DiHydrogen Oxide nebulae have
Commander Smivs, the friendliest Gourd this side of Riedquat.
Isinor's big brother in [wiki]Worlds of G1 OXP[/wiki]. It only looks close, but is far far away.
It looks suspiciously like Jupiter. In fact, it looks like a particular image of Jupiter that I have too, and have tried in Oolite. I downloaded it from somewhere. I gave up on using it in Oolite because of the obvious distortion - that kink in the cloud bands near the top of the disk is not real and shouldn't appear. View the planet from above its "north pole" and you'll see the cloud bands form an obvious - and unnatural looking - pentagon.
OTOH, if that is a carefully hand-crafted image you've spent many hours on, and not a downloaded image of Jupiter, please accept my profound apology.
It looks suspiciously like Jupiter. In fact, it looks like a particular image of Jupiter that I have too
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OTOH, if that is a carefully hand-crafted image you've spent many hours on, and not a downloaded image of Jupiter, please accept my profound apology.
Why should that matter in the slightest? Does it somehow lessen the validity of Captain Solo's OXP? Did he make any claim that all the artwork was 100% his own work?
Source images used from System Redux and Google Images
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
you'll see the cloud bands form an obvious - and unnatural looking - pentagon.
Pentagon formation near the poles is an Oolite flaw when using Lat-Long maps. But, once you converted them to cube-maps and use those, the distortion is gone.
Unless of cause the pentagon is already part of the original picture. On closer look, I see the last picture is a Hexagon. And reading the article, is also says so.
you'll see the cloud bands form an obvious - and unnatural looking - pentagon.
Pentagon formation near the poles is an Oolite flaw when using Lat-Long maps. But, once you converted them to cube-maps and use those, the distortion is gone.
Unless of cause the pentagon is already part of the original picture. On closer look, I see the last picture is a Hexagon. And reading the article, is also says so.
The IR image Diziet Sma posted, and the accompanying article, are not the slightest bit relevant. As he admitted himself, when he came back and edited his post, he's put his foot in his mouth there. The visible light image of Jupiter contains no pentagons, hexagons or othergons, except the distortion introduced by oolite. I was simply saying that I recognized the image, and it's one that makes the distortion particularly obvious.
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