/sci/ - Science & Math

oh, shit, forgot the link

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/known-universe-interactive

i fucking suck at this shit

fuck that got a moon on my second try

(also used a giant star)

Another solar system simulator? How is this one compared to the others?

Don't I have to bake an apple pie first?

I wish it had a tangent snap so I didn't have to guess where to shoot my planet

>put a planet into a stable orbit
>crank up the speed
>realize that the planet takes several thousand years to orbit the star
>close tab

I don't get this, how do I give my planets velocity? Or is the point just to watch them fall in to their parent star?

>>3499413
eh, entertaining enough for a free thing

you just pick a sun and some planets and they mostly crash into the sun or each other or drift the hell off, you pick a good primary angle and they'll drift along

and sometimes meteors try fucking with my gas giant but Ptolomy Quintus XI ain't having any of that shit son

awe fuck, my life giving planet crashed

>>3499437
think you move the little space ship thing in the direction you want, and move it longer to make the initial velocity faster

Finally got one life giving planet, fucker's still going.

That took too long. Fuck being god.

>inputting initial position/velocity coordinates by hand
>expecting anything stable
nope.avi

>>3499469
>That feel when your orbit decays into an long elliptical orbit that grazes the surface of the star until eventually just smashing straight into it.

Though if this simulation is anything close to accurate it's easy enough to attain life within 3000 years.

made a star

make a big ass planet, put it far out there

make a small ass planet, try to make it orbit big ass planet,

9000 years into it, little planet flies into big planet, big planet flies into sun at 12k

>>3499452
oh, yeah, ok.

fucked up orbits had my "life giving planet" being crushed by 2 gas giants... boy that must suck

I had two life sustaining planets
they crashed into eachother

>>3499459
only one?

psh, some god you are


just said fuck it and created a dozen rocky/liquid planets orbiting around the sun

half crashed or drifted the fuck off and a few came up with crazy ass orbits, one with life (don't see how since it comes crazy close to the sun then really far), and the other 2 are orbiting the sun with opposite direction and come really close but never touch, I'm waiting to see them collide hopefully after developing life

put like 5 planets on one side, have them all shoot at one planet

make one planet, massive fucking ellipse

>life has started
>life has ended
>life has started

and so on

mfw it takes 1000 years to orbit the star

>>3499555
I lol'd

Does it do anything besides "Planet has life"

Can it be, "Planet has intellegent life"

or "Life has attained space travel"

perhaps " Life has taken to the stars in a tyranical crusade to convert all non believers"?

those random fucking blue things hit my life sustaining planet head on and stopped its orbit and it flew into the sun

>put in like twenty planets
>all of them destroyed
>but one
>mfw it has a perfect orbit, and has life

Go little guy, go.

What I want is for them to tell me what 1 AU roughly is on this thing, or where the habitable zone is.

Does this take it into account? If so, how the fuck am I supposed to know that by eye?

>>3499573
Seems like a probable outcome.

>2 planets collide
>They're both destroyed.
What the fuck? It doesn't work like that.

>>3499606
why can't they just collide, become bigger or eject an extra little moon or something

>>3499589
the more perfect your orbit and how close it is to the sun means faster life

>>3499607
Exactly! They don't just disappear.

>>3499611
I just got it, actually. If these images are to scale, I'm ridiculously close to this star.

Does life only occur on rocky water planets? Because im trying it with a liquid planet now, and getting nothing.

>>3499606
I'm sure that if a lot guys from /sci/ mailed into NatGeo, and asked them to add new features to this Solar System-giggy they'd be more than happy to inprove on it.

>>3499622
I can't phathom pure liquid planets without any pressure solidifying the liquid

>>3499627
>/sci/ collaborating effieciently

when pigs fly

>>3499555
"My fellow inhabitants of Eta XV, global peace, fearless tenacity and tireless efforts have ensured a new Future for you and your families. We have done what no other civilized society has yet managed to do. From the ashes of countless fallen cities, we have built our Utopia, our urban sprawl, our dreams and livelihoods. Your strength has persevered in the face of your fallen forefathers. Now is your time. We may now lay the groundwork for the dawning of a new age. An age that may shine in the spirit of-DEAR GOD IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN-"

>Liquid plannet with little rocky buddy orbiting him.
>Asteroid shoots right between them
>HOLY FUCKING SHIT NOOOOO
>Gravity causes little rocky guy flies off into space
>OH GOD WHHYYYY!!!!
>Liquid planet gets close enough to it and re-captures rocky planet into orbit.

I'm emotionally fucking invested /sci/

bump

I tried to make multiple planets orbit eachother, and then I tried to make a ring of planets orbiting the sun at the same speed, worked for 1000 years, then they got so fucking close to eachother, two planets died, and that broke the balance and the other planets flew off into fucking no where

>>3499645
1995 is calling.

>>3499645
Uhhh, update.

Like, 15 seconds after I unpaused, my moon crashed into the planet and destroyed them both...

i see why god gave up on us long ago

>>3499672
just make your main planet a giant gas, those never seem to die except for running into the sun

> make biggest sun possible, give it a nice blue color
> swing a medium sized watery rocky planet around it
> develop life before the year 2116
> mfw

>>3499631
mfw

4 fucking planets in harmony with life

>>3499702
I tried this with gas planets, they balance eachother nicely, if one sneeks up on the other, they pull on eachother to stay in place

>>3499702
this guy here:

they are getting closer to the sun, they may balance the distance between them but not that with the sun

WHAT'S THIS
A FUN THREAD
ON /SCI/?

well fortunately it shouldn't last too long, at least

>make giant gas
>make smallest dwarf sun

giant kills sun

Just made two gas giants orbit each other and cause them both to slingshot each other into interstellar space. What the hell?

Got a crappy orbit, but I have life and still going after 4k years.

planet and moon with life :)

> i make a planet with life in a perfect orbit and with a moon
>mfw when i have created Earth and therefore myself

now i'm just making giant gas planets blow each other up for my amusement

I haven't laughed this much with any thread in 4chan for over a month. I love you guys.

>dat feel when all my planets keep plummeting into their star

I put a gas giant a long way out hoping it would protect my rocky liquid planet from wandering asteroids like Jupiter does for us. It ain't doin shit, captain.

>>3499676
update: have now proven to myself that there is no need for god, and if there is that fucker is lazy and given too much credit because statics hw took me longer than creating a planet with a moon and life, along with a giant gas with a moon with life

sleep now, for this god only worked a few hours and took the rest of the week off and got drunk

>mfw I can't get anything to work on this thing

>dat feel when asteroid obliterates my life sustaining planet w/ moon ?!

>mfw planet orbits for 30,000 years
>not a single asteroid
>not life
>not shit

The anger when trying to give earth a moon