------------------------------------------------------ Merged from the " Unknown Facts About Exoplanets" topic ------------------------------------------------------ 31571 Posts in megathreads quickly get buried This is something we must all suffer, and does not justify the creation of a ...

------------------------------------------------------ Merged from the " Unknown Facts About Exoplanets" topic ------------------------------------------------------ Why couldn't this be posted in in the Science & Astronomy Videos channel? Why does this post need a whole separate topi...

31562 and instead they can be more concerned about the Earth's spin slowing down, and before that the Sun's luminosity increasing, and before that probably the climate changing or other things that are actually happening over human timescales. Mhmm, I'll talk to them of such things, and fill them w...

Hey Wats, I wouldn't mind hearing your opinion on this, as crazy as some of it sounds:

^ This was actually something I was quite interested in knowing. I cannot tell you how many times I've heard people cry out that the Moon will spin off into the void someday.

RIP

31324 Would living on a planet with a brighter moon or more moons be of much harm to humans, or would it affect us in negative ways? Not really. Humans would need to adjust to the new brightness at night. Sleep disruption would be a factor, but this is easily remedied by being indoors. We forget th...

31186 Lets say you have a planet that is like Earth. But it's a moon orbiting around a larger gas or ice giant. How would this affect plant life on the near and far sides, how would they be different from one another? Or if you have a planet with multiple moons, would that affect plant life? Could ...

31171 Trees seem cool, maybe as an optional feature / add-on if someone wants to make that. I do hope that you are referring to big flora in general, and not Earth-trees as we know them. Convergent evolution notwithstanding, it would be unrealistic if SE had oak or pine trees on alien worlds. A mor...

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At the risk of sounding egotistical, I'll link my own dissertation on dinosaur speciation, diversity and mesozoic geoscience: http://forum.spaceengine.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=24574#p24574 Watsisname on testing the Lambda-CDM model: http://forum.spaceengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=47&start=1230 ...

tRetro-Visor wrote:

Qr Bbpost More Stations:

Great models retro, SE certainly needs more space stations made from the ship editor. 

FFT is absolutely right, misidentification can be largely attributed to a issue of perspective. Often the angle of view for an object relative to the observer can play all manner of tricks, giving the observer a deceptive perception of speed, momentum or arc of movement. I have had this effect tric...