i love this program so damn much
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it's being made by ONE GUY, need i remind you
This is the only game to make me agoraphobic.
I know, it's not a game per se but you know what I mean.
Soon there's going to be like
"Space engine 1.0.2.1 - New procedurally evolving lifeforms and civilizations. Each individual with unique AI."
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Also, I know neutron stars are extremely dense, but do they actually bend light like that?
[QUOTE=booster;43751661]Soon there's going to be like
"Space engine 1.0.2.1 - New procedurally evolving lifeforms and civilizations. Each individual with unique AI."
[editline]1st February 2014[/editline]
Also, I know neutron stars are extremely dense, but do they actually bend light like that?[/QUOTE]
[url=http://en.spaceengine.org/forum/21-11-1]Well, it's on the todo list[/url] -sort of (though along with some other slightly far fetched stuff)
And also, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star#Properties]yeah[/url], neutron stars have gravitational lensing much like [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Black_hole_lensing_web.gif/225px-Black_hole_lensing_web.gif]black holes do[/url], due to their incredible density.
[QUOTE=booster;43751661]Soon there's going to be like
"Space engine 1.0.2.1 - New procedurally evolving lifeforms and civilizations. Each individual with unique AI."
[editline]1st February 2014[/editline]
Also, I know neutron stars are extremely dense, but do they actually bend light like that?[/QUOTE]
Yes, they do. In fact, they bend light so much you can see more than 50% of them looking at one.
[img]http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u51/Invader_Xan/Neutron-star-surface.png[/img]
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Ninja'd, dammit.
[editline]1st February 2014[/editline]
SpaceEngineer really needs to get just 1 or 2 other staff members who want to work on the program with him (Even just part-time as QA/bug hunters) and start some kind of crowdfunding project for SE, it's such an incredible program and he's very talented.
[QUOTE=Gen. Crumpets;43751171]i love this program so damn much
[editline]1st February 2014[/editline]
[B]it's being made by ONE GUY, need i remind you[/B][/QUOTE]
I know SpaceEngineer is making the majority of the stuff.
But you gotta give some cred to the rest
[QUOTE]Author and programmer
Vladimir Romanyuk "SpaceEngineer"
Textures
Alexis Tranchandon "Solaris"
Alexander Zhakevich "Asanay"
Alexander Kiryushenko "Dizel777"
Anton Kryzhan "Antony1987RU"
David Foltyn "Dwarden"
Max Gromov "brainstorm"
Sean Young "HarbingerDawn"
Tristan Audam "Voekoevaka"
Models
Alexis Tranchandon "Solaris"
Michal Nyklewicz "AstroNiki"
Nino Vuleta "Kviki"
Sean Young "HarbingerDawn"
Shapilov Vjacheslav "SHW"
Yevgeny Bychkov "Eugen"
Tristan Audam "Voekoevaka"
"anonymousgamer"
Localizations
Andrew Prelipcean "Tau" (Romanian)
Antti Liimatta "Antza2" (Finnish)
Daniel Garcia "Toty" (Spanish)
Filipe Eismeister "IceMasterPT" (Portuguese)
Jiri Mahel "peepr" (Czech)
Jorge Candeias "JCandeias" (Portuguese)
Karl Birgersson "Fireinthehole" (Swedish)
Mike Gruhne "Pandur" (German)
Nino Vuleta "Kviki" (Croatian)
Andrei Goldur "NEMESIS" (Turkish)
Rob Wijdeveld "Frostbreath" (Dutch)
Salvo D'Errico "Salvo" (Italian)
Sean Young "HarbingerDawn" (English, Spanish)
Rodrigo Santos "Rodrigo" (Brazilian Portuguese)
Tristan Audam "Voekoevaka" (French)
Vladimir Kononenko "Delta_Q" (Russian)
Vladimir Romanyuk "SpaceEngineer" (Russian, English)
"EventHorizon" (Polish)
"Gombicek" (Slovak)
Catalogs
David Foltyn "Dwarden"
Sean Young "HarbingerDawn"
Vladimir Romanyuk "SpaceEngineer"
Vladislav Greschuk "GV_FiQst"
Website
Alexis Tranchandon "Solaris"
Antti Liimatta "Antza2"
Dean Robbins "Robbie"
Sean Young "HarbingerDawn"
Vladimir Romanyuk "SpaceEngineer"
Vladislav Michailov "Digit1990"
Media
Alexis Tranchandon "Solaris"
Sean Young "HarbingerDawn"
Beta testing
Alexander Zhakevich "Asanay"
Alexis Tranchandon "Solaris"
Antti Liimatta "Antza2"
Anton Kryzhan "Antony1987RU"
Anton Yuferev "Aerospacefag"
Daniel Garcia "Toty"
Dean Robbins "Robbie"
Michal Nyklewicz "AstroNiki"
Nino Vuleta "Kviki"
Sean Young "HarbingerDawn"
Vladimir Kononenko "Delta_Q"
Vladislav Michailov "Digit1990"
Vladislav Shubarev "Crab"
"anonymousgamer"
"DoctorOfSpace"
"Duke"[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Zombii;43751838]
SpaceEngineer really needs to get just 1 or 2 other staff members who want to work on the program with him (Even just part-time as QA/bug hunters) and start some kind of crowdfunding project for SE, it's such an incredible program and he's very talented.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://en.spaceengine.org/index/funding_and_donations/0-26]They already have[/url] (though it's on their website rather then Indiegogo or Kickstarter)
Space Engine + Space Engineers = Game of my dreams
Maybe alter the scale so instead of being realistic it's a little more fun, but that'd be great
This is a program that really puts the vastness of space into perspective. Once you scroll to ludicrous speeds and zoom out of your galaxy, past other galaxies until they look like stars... you travel through an endless field of lights. You realize, each of those lights is a galaxy, full of billions of stars...
Rarely have I felt this sensation of awe, despair and sheer loneliness as I did going from galaxy to galaxy.
Armed with such perspective, how can one POSSIBLY reconcile the notion that we're somehow the only life in the Universe? How special are we, on some random world of a random star of a random galaxy amongst an uncountable cloud of others?
What kind of madman can look at that, and conclude that anything about life'es presence on Earth is "special"?
Mind you, I wouldn't trade my home, my family or my kind for anything. But I don't kid myself that there's something unique about our little ball of dirt. Because there isn't. We're just a face in the crowd.
this guy is a genius for him to do something as vast and big as this on his own
[QUOTE=J-Dude;43754527]This is a program that really puts the vastness of space into perspective. Once you scroll to ludicrous speeds and zoom out of your galaxy, past other galaxies until they look like stars... you travel through an endless field of lights. You realize, each of those lights is a galaxy, full of billions of stars...
Rarely have I felt this sensation of awe, despair and sheer loneliness as I did going from galaxy to galaxy.
Armed with such perspective, how can one POSSIBLY reconcile the notion that we're somehow the only life in the Universe? How special are we, on some random world of a random star of a random galaxy amongst an uncountable cloud of others?
What kind of madman can look at that, and conclude that anything about life'es presence on Earth is "special"?
Mind you, I wouldn't trade my home, my family or my kind for anything. But I don't kid myself that there's something unique about our little ball of dirt. Because there isn't. We're just a face in the crowd.[/QUOTE]
Then consider that 99.99% of the Universe is hostile to the development of life.
Then consider that not only the 0.01 percent of all planets that could potentially host life probably don't currently host life, but that if they do it's probably only the most basic lifeforms. Even if we assume that a fraction of a fraction of those planets probably host advanced intelligent life, not only is it likely that they are millions or billions of light-years away if not more, it's very likely that at any stage of development they got wiped-out by a cosmic event, be it an asteroid impact, a supernova or any other thousand terrible things that could happen to a planet, solar system or local star cluster.
The issue isn't that we don't believe that there's no life other than humans in the Universe, it's just that it's super unlikely any life form will exist long enough to meet a completely alien one.
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A.K.A. We're fucked even if we invent FTL travel.
That, however, is no reason to not search.
Life seeks life.
[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;43759003]Then consider that 99.99% of the Universe is hostile to the development of life.
Then consider that not only the 0.01 percent of all planets that could potentially host life probably don't currently host life, but that if they do it's probably only the most basic lifeforms. Even if we assume that a fraction of a fraction of those planets probably host advanced intelligent life, not only is it likely that they are millions or billions of light-years away if not more, it's very likely that at any stage of development they got wiped-out by a cosmic event, be it an asteroid impact, a supernova or any other thousand terrible things that could happen to a planet, solar system or local star cluster.
The issue isn't that we don't believe that there's no life other than humans in the Universe, it's just that it's super unlikely any life form will exist long enough to meet a completely alien one.
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A.K.A. We're fucked even if we invent FTL travel.[/QUOTE]
I don't know about that last bit. I agree with most of the rest. I was speaking more to the religious literalist crowd who think we're the center of everything, and that the rest of it is just window dressing for us to admire at night.
As to that last bit, though, I suppose it really depends on just how far one can go with technology. Strictly speaking, if a species could ever get good enough to colonize other solar systems, there would really be no stopping them. They would just expand and expand and expand, far beyond the reach of any but the most devastating galactic-scale event.
Even now, NASA has it sights on the potential for warp travel. And who knows what lies in store in the future?
I'm actually of a mind that we'll get so powerful we could even escape the cold-death of the Universe by jumping to others. We've achieved marvels in a few hundred years. What will be possible if given a thousand? Or a million? Or a billion?
Of course, who knows what form we'll take by then, if any. And it's quite likely we'd eventually bump into another such civilization older and stronger than us.
An amazing thing about technology is that the more it advances the faster it advances.
Until we hit the plateau of course.
Is it like a a volumetric corona or just a flat image like the old one?
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