Oolite Bulletins

spara wrote:

... made a lot of planet falls and such...

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

Hmm... the Adder was designed for atmospheric entry, and planetary landing. As were the Sidewinder and Moray, now I think about it.

You are, of coure, right. I'll shut up again...

The Moray is submersible too I believe.

When your ship’s un-afloat like a sinkable boat, that’s a Moray.

Groan. That's so bad it stinks from here to beyond Riedquat!

If you're still heading in-system, when everyone else is bugging-out - you obviously don't comprehend the gravity of the situation!

Cody wrote:

If you're still heading in-system, when everyone else is bugging-out - you obviously don't comprehend the gravity of the situation!

Or everyone else is a pussy, and you're the only brave person who heeds to the desperate pleas of the station to rescue its inhabitants.

Commander McLane wrote:

Cody wrote:

If you're still heading in-system, when everyone else is bugging-out - you obviously don't comprehend the gravity of the situation!

Or everyone else is a pussy, and you're the only brave person who heeds to the desperate pleas of the station to rescue its inhabitants.

Who knows... maybe all those ships were loaded to the gunwales with refugees. Heroes, every one of them!

Isinor's big brother in [wiki]Worlds of G1 OXP[/wiki]. It only looks close, but is far far away.

CaptSolo wrote:

Isinor's big brother in [wiki]Worlds of G1 OXP[/wiki]. It only looks close, but is far far away.

This reminds me of Commander Ted explaining the concept of perspective to some new Jameson at Lave Academy

CaptSolo wrote:

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.

Wildeblood wrote:

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

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Worlds ... XP#Methods

Wildeblood wrote:

View the planet from above its "north pole" and you'll see the cloud bands form an obvious - and unnatural looking - pentagon.

Except that Jupiter actually does have a hexagon at the 'north pole'..



http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-la ... /2471.html

<sigh> Foot in mouth disease - 'tis a sad thing..

Wildeblood wrote:

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.

Eric Walch wrote:

Wildeblood wrote:

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.