Wasn't Pluto's moon Charon supposed to be a relay? Did it movemasterbazza said:its a mass relay
Damn space teenagers dragging around our systems mass relay! Damn them and their fast ships and loud music! xD
Wasn't Pluto's moon Charon supposed to be a relay? Did it movemasterbazza said:its a mass relay
Eh, even though it is much hated, it is also Canon: ST: Voyager got exposed to a corona-explosion, and damn-near did not survive.red the fister said:mercury doesn't have any moonsFrost27 said:That is pretty close to my first impression. Maybe one of Mercury's moons got in the way and the flash is the solar flare blowing a cloud of burning irradiated dust off of it.Ham_authority95 said:If it was an Alien craft, they got pretty fucking fried.
It was probably space debris(like asteroids) being irradiated by the solar flare.
well, that's what he was talking about? ffs, simplest answer is usually the correct one and here is it: That's a clump of Coronal Mass.SnakeoilSage said:That's just the HMS Bounty.
i was focusing on the darkness between that and Mercury. no wonder i thought the twat was hallucinating... OGM!!!! i just noticed!!! above the "a" in "whales" up at the top of the pic!! there's another one and it's even bigger!!!!!
don't forget that the star trek ships have a "magic" shield for protection from cosmic debris and another "magic" shield to handle the background cosmic radiation.Realitycrash said:If it WAS a ship, even by Star Trek design, wouldn't it be toast after getting hit with that much radiation from the solar-eruption? Being that close to the Sun and with no magnetic field to protect it..
...but then, a bunch of 6' tall, sentient bacteria once kidnapped Kirk and his bridge crew. using a transformable ship. it was in a book. it's cannon.
on a related note to some of posts i didn't get around to quoting, Extra Credits covered good and bad Sci-Fi this week.
Dude, Galactic Civilizations 2 is awesome!aegix drakan said:...that's no moon...that's a....ON GOSH NO! IT'S OBVIOUSLY A TERROR STAR!
It's coming to blow up our Sun! Run for the hiiiiills!!!
(I shall give a cookie to the man who gets the "terror star blowing up sun" reference!)
DINGDINGDINGDING! We have a winner!Volothos said:Dude, Galactic Civilizations 2 is awesome!aegix drakan said:...that's no moon...that's a....ON GOSH NO! IT'S OBVIOUSLY A TERROR STAR!
It's coming to blow up our Sun! Run for the hiiiiills!!!
(I shall give a cookie to the man who gets the "terror star blowing up sun" reference!)
I've had it since before steam Imagine what GalCiv3 will be like!aegix drakan said:DINGDINGDINGDING! We have a winner!Volothos said:Dude, Galactic Civilizations 2 is awesome!aegix drakan said:...that's no moon...that's a....ON GOSH NO! IT'S OBVIOUSLY A TERROR STAR!
It's coming to blow up our Sun! Run for the hiiiiills!!!
(I shall give a cookie to the man who gets the "terror star blowing up sun" reference!)
...Ok, now where did I put that cookie......
I just got the game the other day when it hit steam, and I have to say it is the BEST civ style game I've ever played. I freaking love it.
im just repeating what someone told me. i know absolutely nothing about this sort of stuff im just trying to contribute to the thread the best i could.RagTagBand said:Why on earth would you think that? A planets magnetosphere (look it up) is a naturally occurring phenomena, Our magnetosphere protects us from solar winds, ergo, A planets magnetosphere is it's natural defense from solar winds.Samurai Silhouette said:This would imply that planets procreate and evolve through natural selection.BleedingPride said:a planet's natural defense from solar winds
And, after all, how often does an opportunity arise where we get to send nukes into space for science?Deathleaper said:We should nuke it, just to be safe.
No, it's actually Mercury, from the day before. The software used to process this was designed to look at stars, so it tends to get a bit wonky when an object is moving at high speed, like say Mercury. As I understand it, the image from the previous day is used as a filter to control the brightness of the image, but, in this case, the planet continued it's orbit enough to show up as a shadow in the filter software the next day.Patrick_and_the_ricks said:Wouldn't that just be an Ice Comet?
I mean this is what he said in the the video: "What else doesn't show it self until it's hit by solar radiation?"
Well just about every solid object in the universe.
LIES! It can only be a Klingon Warbird.Starke said:No, it's actually Mercury, from the day before. The software used to process this was designed to look at stars, so it tends to get a bit wonky when an object is moving at high speed, like say Mercury. As I understand it, the image from the previous day is used as a filter to control the brightness of the image, but, in this case, the planet continued it's orbit enough to show up as a shadow in the filter software the next day.Patrick_and_the_ricks said:Wouldn't that just be an Ice Comet?
I mean this is what he said in the the video: "What else doesn't show it self until it's hit by solar radiation?"
Well just about every solid object in the universe.
Can't be a Klingon Warbird, the Klingons don't have Warbirds. The Romulans have Warbirds, the Klingons have Birds of Prey, Battle Cruisers, and other hilarity, but not Warbirds. *Wanders off with an apathetic expression.*Patrick_and_the_ricks said:LIES! It can only be a Klingon Warbird.Starke said:No, it's actually Mercury, from the day before. The software used to process this was designed to look at stars, so it tends to get a bit wonky when an object is moving at high speed, like say Mercury. As I understand it, the image from the previous day is used as a filter to control the brightness of the image, but, in this case, the planet continued it's orbit enough to show up as a shadow in the filter software the next day.Patrick_and_the_ricks said:Wouldn't that just be an Ice Comet?
I mean this is what he said in the the video: "What else doesn't show it self until it's hit by solar radiation?"
Well just about every solid object in the universe.
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I have a question: What does science have to do with it?Redlin5 said:And, after all, how often does an opportunity arise where we get to send nukes into space for science?Deathleaper said:We should nuke it, just to be safe.
Not often. Let's do this.
What does science have to do with it? Well clearly we're testing out the chemical reaction of... whatever is there with the nuclear warhead.Deathleaper said:I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I have a question: What does science have to do with it?Redlin5 said:And, after all, how often does an opportunity arise where we get to send nukes into space for science?Deathleaper said:We should nuke it, just to be safe.
Not often. Let's do this.
I just want it gone. It is a blight on our solar system that needs to be purged. Mostly because its different.