I feel that now that we have atmospheric composition and terras with multicellular land and sea life are so much more rare, we either need atmospheric composition in the filters or more than 10000 stars detection in the filter.
Tips for finding Earth-Like planets: Look for F, G, or K Class stars. M class habitables will almost always be tidelocked. Oceanias can, of course, also be habitable, they just have tiny amounts of land.
I feel that now that we have atmospheric composition and terras with multicellular land and sea life are so much more rare, we either need atmospheric composition in the filters or more than 10000 stars detection in the filter.
So, Space Engine more closely matches the reality of the Rare Earth Theorem Theory? Cool!
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So, Space Engine more closely matches the reality of the Rare Earth Theorem Theory? Cool!
Also the Terra's with multicellular life I've been finding(terrestrial and marine) have atmospheres that are either toxic enough to shorten the human lifespan significantly or even near instantly lethal. It makes you want to take care of our home even more because perhaps truly Earth is the only place in the Universe we can live.
Using, in user.cfg, FOV 70.0 and DefaultFOV 70.0 ,when I am in front of a nebula and I save the place and/or exit SE, when I restart SE (or reload the place) the nebula disappears.
Temporary Workaround If I set down FOV to 50 or 45 this doesn't happen. ;)
EDIT ------ I forgot: it seems that the problem occurs by setting, in user.cfg, FOV and DefaultFOV >= 60. Between 60 and 65 it occurs sometimes. Above FOV 70 occurs always.
Also the Terra's with multicellular life I've been finding(terrestrial and marine) have atmospheres that are either toxic enough to shorten the human lifespan significantly or even near instantly lethal. It makes you want to take care of our home even more because perhaps truly Earth is the only place in the Universe we can live.
I was being silly. In reality I find the Rare Earth theory depressing and it makes me feel lonely when I look up, especially since, from my understanding of astronomy and space, our ever-expanding knowledge of space seems to increasingly bring us closer to proving it.
Doesn't stop me from enjoying Space Engine and my own world building projects.
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Edited by PlutonianEmpire - Wednesday, 17.02.2016, 09:29
Earth is the only place in the Universe we can live.
Yeah. It like having a key and trying to open all the doors you can see.
You might find some of them who seems perfectly fitting, but for a matter of millimeters, you can't open that door, even if its key seems pretty identical to the one you have.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Your card is quite old. You have a 'Intel ® HD Graphics 3000'. I have the same as a second card in my laptop, and I do not think Intel will for that publish new drivers.
For newer cards, for example for the 'Intel® HD Graphics 4400' there are current drivers that work with SpaceEngine.
I fixed many bugs with atmosphere composition: - bugs with -1K temperature, visual gliches and crushes - dubiously large amounts of rare substances such as Xe, Kr, Cl2 - some worlds can have have 1 million atm pressure and made of pure Xe - H2O on cold and frozen worlds
I also added larger randomization in initial composition for terrestrial planets (by order of magnitude), so twin planets will no longer have twin atmospheres. And added randomization in greenhouse limit temperature, so it may be not exactly 500°.
Strange looking, but correct effect now is possible. Look for example at RS 8414-3151-6-242766-485 A6. It is a "hot oceania" (360°C), becasue it have 500° greenhouse due to 777 atm pressure. Without such enormous greenhouse, it could be desert or ice would with -140°C temperature. In future versions, with correct rendering of dense water wapor atmosphere, such planet could be classified as a "mini neptune" (5 Earth masses).
Here is a little bug I've found. Using, in user.cfg, FOV 70.0 and DefaultFOV 70.0 ,when I am in front of a nebula and I save the place and/or exit SE, when I restart SE (or reload the place) the nebula disappears. Temporary Workaround If I set down FOV to 50 or 45 this doesn't happen. ;)
I tried this and have no problem. Can you share location where such bug happens?
perhaps truly Earth is the only place in the Universe we can live.
I try not to ever say "only place in the universe", because I feel that's impossible. It be might the only place in the universe where we can live within reach, especially if you stick to rigid confines of habitability (i.e., a little water on the surface tiny worlds around K4 stars). But I'm pretty sure that even if that great sphere of 92 billion light-years is all we have, there's something easily similar enough to live. It all comes down to FTL travel and/or cryopods.
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Yeah. It like having a key and trying to open all the doors you can see.
Does that mean terraforming is like using the key as if it were a screwdriver and taking off the door's hinges? And genetic engineering for said planets is like modifying your key?
Tips for finding Earth-Like planets: Look for F, G, or K Class stars. M class habitables will almost always be tidelocked. Oceanias can, of course, also be habitable, they just have tiny amounts of land.
Quote ZatSolo () ... Using, in user.cfg, FOV 70.0 and DefaultFOV 70.0 ,when I am in front of a nebula and I save the place and/or exit SE, when I restart SE (or reload the place) the nebula disappears. Temporary Workaround If I set down FOV to 50 or 45 this doesn't happen. ;)
I tried this and have no problem. Can you share location where such bug happens?
A sample location:
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Place "Ceres and Orion nebulas" { Ver 974 Body "Ceres" Parent "Sol" Date "2013.04.18 18:12:08.58" Pos (+00000000000000000000A5C19D06309A +0000000000000000000060249FEA89E3 -000000000000000000005861DD0FB26E) Rot (-0.6454526552032843 -0.05769588146974657 0.7599874384457512 -0.04981112884812582) Vel 2.5553146e-011 Mode 1 }
The "problem" occurs with every nebula if I use a FOV >=70.
Note: FOV and DefaultFOV are saved in user.cfg, so you start every time with FOV 70. I've attacched my "user.cfg".
Your card is quite old. You have a 'Intel ® HD Graphics 3000'. I have the same as a second card in my laptop, and I do not think Intel will for that publish new drivers.
For newer cards, for example for the 'Intel® HD Graphics 4400' there are current drivers that work with SpaceEngine.
That's sad, because my laptop is only 1 year old.
With the same card OpenGL 3.3 is working under Linux systems.
So it's not a hardware problem but Intel not optimizing their drivers on Windows. there is a discussion in intel official forum
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