YamiPoyo Um. No. The Moon takes 28 days to orbit, it goes through a rotation in 28 days, that's why months are approx. 30 days. The Earth rotates in 24 hours, which is why you see the moon rise roughly daily.
You are quite mistaken. The moon orbits the Earth fully every day (give or take). It also takes roughly the exact same time to rotate, which is why we only ever see one side of it from Earth. The 28 day cycle is of the sun-moon positioning. We take 28 days (roughly) to go from one full moon to the next, but we see the moon above us every night.
Lior Abel, the moon does not orbit the earth once a day. If it did then it's orbital speed would match the earth's rotation and it would never move across the sky, and consequently we would not have tides. Tides rise and fall in 12 hour cycles as any given point on the earth's surface rotates past the moon's position in the sky, which is why a location on the coast will receive a high tide every 12 hours. It takes a little over 27 days for the moon to orbit the earth, and that is why you see it repeatedly night after night. It moves much slower than the earth rotates, so we rotate past it rather than it orbiting past us. The 28 day cycle (the phases of the moon) is directly related to how long the moon takes to circle the earth, but you are correct that it also has to do with sun-moon positioning. Also, it takes the same amount of time for the moon to make a full rotation on its axis as it does to orbit our planet, which is why the same side of the moon always faces the earth.
When/ If the introduce atmospheric planetary landings I am heading straight to this location. I gotta see what this satellite looks like from the perspective of the planet. Woosh!
2424Goldie I doubt you’ll ever get atmospheric landings. It would require generating a shitload of plant and animal life and I don’t think their engine is set up for that
A random reply to a comment you wrote 3 years ago . . . I recently heard that "slow down" is a notification, not a warning. It shows up when you're being slowed down by gravitational interference.
Problem is: for moon to be able rotate around so fast, Mass of Earth must be 200+ masses of Sun and orbital speed of Moon will be around 10 000km/s. This will rip moon apart in days. Try it in Universe Sandbox
The planet neither leaves orbit or breaks apart, could at its core just be a giant asteroid made of a new dense metal. Though that only explains why it won't break apart.
Maybe the moon is just a thin shell around a 99% vacuum core made of honeycombed ultralight carbon nanotubes. Still wouldn't explain what force makes it orbit so fast, but at least it would produce negligible tides on the planet if it were ultra-lightweight.
Watching videos like this from E.D. and S.C. I imagine that if this was sent back to the mid 1950s (recorded onto film) the majority of people seeing it would freak out, especially by the music. ;-)
That moment when you approach a _celestial body_ and realize it's actually approaching _you_ . The sudden rush of vertigo I got when my mind put the scale of that into perspective.
Got me thinking that it probably won't be very long until a game like Elite Dangerous has huge, realistic planets with multiple, (probably procedurally generated) biomes, where you could sit atop a mountain and watch the sunrise slowly sweep across the plains or ocean and watch the shadows play across the canyons below, while native creatures fly around you I would play that game.
delamovies I tried it, I went THROUGH the planet and then on the OTHER side the game registered me "on" the planet and the orientation HUD that pops up when you enter an orbit (the thing that looks like the HUD fighter jets have) opened up, I was still way above the surface and I had to actually charge orbital cruise to get to the surface in a reasonable amount of time. was super trippy, scary af to watch the planetoid zoom towards me
THE AMERICAN PATRIOT The Moon certainly doesn't exert ALL of the influence on Earth's tides, the Sun has some influence. However the Moon is the main cause for tides.
I don't like it. The HUD Color on the ground view Radar while landing the ship doesnt Change to blue... well.. in fact it changes, but it doesnt help this way... should change to green or so... but this is not possible the way, everyone changes the hud colours.
orbital speed is a function of the mass of the big planet divided by the distance between the satellite and the big planet's center of mass. if the moon is close to the planet, it would have to orbit very fast in order to remain in orbit and not crash into the planet. This is why Pluto's orbit is so slow, it hasn't even completed a full orbit since its discovery, since it's so far from the sun.
+Jett Quasar -- No, just close to the planet: the ISS orbits the earth in about 15 minutes. If you could curve the path of a photon around the Earth's surface it would circumnavigate the surface in a great circle route more than 10 times every second. The Earth's Moon is only 1 and a half light seconds away, and it it much farther out than this anomaly, several Earth diameters away.
Digital Nomad The ISS orbits Earth in 92 minutes, not 15. Also the Moon is not that far, it is closer to 1 ls than to 1 and a half. Check your facts, mate.
You guys know this was a glitch, right? Was a misplaced decimal point that the community told the devs not to fix cuz it was so cool! So, no, this isn't physically possible.
I did it last night. I thought the moon would hit me but it pulled me out of supercruise into the "atmosphere" and I was spinning with the moon around the planet without being on it.
It goes right through you as you are in the Planets instance instead of the the moons instance. Object collision is turned off for all non-instance objects
well that's amazing, I started ED a bit over a week ago, and the other day I saw this video, and thought "whoa I gotta find the time to visit this place someday". Today I just got given a mission to land on it. I didn't even know it was so close to my main base of operation
Feedback is always good. Disabled ratings suggests that at some point, the uploader received some ratings he didn't like and stuck his fingers in his ears.
Casper Hansen He goes through effort, no matter if that is walking through a desert or clicking a button, he cares. If he truly did not care he'd leave the default settings.
Or he could just disable both ratings and comments so people would stop bitching about stupid shit and just watch the clip instead...thats always a good idea.
The word "moon" is a generic term for any natural satellite, but Earth's moon is just called "the Moon". This kind of confusion is why I think we should call it a proper name like Luna.
saltok and everyone else: Etymology: Middle English planete "planet," from early French planet (same meaning), from Latin planeta (same meaning), from Greek plan t-, plan s "planet," literally, "wanderer" ... The ancient Greek name for such a heavenly body was plan s, which means "wanderer." The English word planet comes from the Greek plan s.
Very cinematic after you deployed on surface. The sound of the rover was perfect as the huge planet passed by, rover unphased... unaware. Edit: Just got the the part when the rover just starts going crazy. Still Oscar worthy.
Moments like these are what really tempt me to come back to ED. I miss my Cobra. I only wish it were more about exploration, aliens, and life in outer space...and less about loot grinding and shield cells.
There's a video which illustrates what the moon would look like if it was the same distance as the international space station, with this massive thing flying overhead, and a part of me wondered what it would be like (read: how terrifying it would be) in VR. But it looks like I can experience something very similar in Elite: Dangerous, and I have a VR headset. :D Also, I recognised Epsilon Indi as being relatively close, making it fairly easy to reach.
At the time of formation of the moon, it was about 4 Earth-radii distant-that is, it was orbiting about 15,000-20,000 miles away, as opposed to the current average distance of 238,000 miles. The moon also took only 5hrs to orbit the earth, just a bit slower than 28 seconds....
This reminds me of the Star Trek Voyager episod where they are stuck in the orbit of a planet(or something like that) and every second is like a year or so for the people in the planet.
When I started a few days ago I chased a station around orbit for like ten minutes pulling my hair out before I realized why I wasn't getting any closer.
I HATE THIS MOON! When they had the Christmas event, one of the money caches was here. Luckily I was in my ASP so it wasn't nearly bonkers getting into it's orbit, but one of my friends was in his Anaconda and had to loop around twice so he could meet the moon and keep from being knocked out due to the speed of its orbit.
Tidal forces would normally rip this poor moon to shreds But we have science fiction, and that lets us come up with scenarios like this that, while impossible, are very entertaining :) (also nice pfp, W Arknights from the hit mobile game Arknights, good taste)
I wouldn't imagine if there was some haze and atmosphere on this planet too, that would be even more impressive to see when the main planet passes by...
Man, the tides on that planet would be batshit crazy. The moon is so close they would be huge, and so fast that they would come in and out every minute or so.
I had to chase a space station down just like this situation once in Frontier: Elite or FE 2, forget which one now lol.... but, I could never catch it, it just seemed to orbit faster and faster as I got close to the planet, and I chased the space station and never caught it..... that was one hell of a ride for the Station Staff....
Its very weird that I have space phobia even though I never been to space. That slow(actually fast but look slow) approach to moon almost gave me a heart attack.
Relatively this moon has a lower speed as almost every other moon you see orbiting around a earth like planet from a farther distance. Its just because this moon is on a very low orbit, the distance to make a full orbit around the earth like planet is a lot shorter than on a higher orbit and therefor it gets a lot more orbits around the earth like planet in a certain amount of time. That is why this moon looks faster than all the other moon, but in fact it would be relatively slower.
This moon is so fast and so close to the parent planet. It would almost certainly get ripped apart by booth tidal forces and centripetal forces... Nice 👍
7:11 graceful as f*%$
Riaan Korsten haha
until 2 seconds later *kaclang boom crash pow @#%*(^&@$! * lol
Lol
LMFAOOO
so much grace at 7:30 = mega nut
well....time for bed **sets an alarm for 12 seconds later**
Students be like
Just like real life...
POV: You are a physics major.
Fun fact, the moon orbiting that fast was actually an error in some code. But the devs decided to leave it after it became so popular.
I hereby sentence you to 100 years in prison!
*9.3 hours later*
Ok, you're a free man.
Enough for good sleep
More like this one: ua-cam.com/video/G5lPvpXK8x4/v-deo.html
Morty: hey, look, the moon's rising
Moon: *AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*
:D
X,D
no wey no
And there it goes hhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHhhhbhhhh
I've seen a fast moon rising ♪♫
Good ol' Mitterland Hollow .. Super fast orbit created by putting a decimal point in the wrong place and left in as the community love the place.
Was it a glitch? Neat
Ben Landers Really? Wow!
I didn't know that either, and I was just wondering too! Sounds like the Office Space mistake lol!
Three orbits a minute is kind of a big fucking deal, MICHAEL!
Ben Landers I've been there in my vulture before,
"Gotta be quicker than that" -Moon
Digital Dreams (SR2) lol your too slow!!! (Sonic)
SPEEEEEEEED IS KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!
Common Tars
Speed is life, son. Speed is life
@@nonname1239 your journey ends here pilot
I sure do feel bad for the people who don't take the time to sit down and play this game. I feel worse for those who have no idea it exists.
why? it's not real. And I don't think it's a game at all.
REDxFROG your joking right
it's a fake space simulation.
But it dose exist
yea..whatever.
That moon would be one hell of a defensive position. Global security all around.
Vaderghost20 *asteroid incoming* nvm sir, moon took care of it.
"That's no moo.. where did it go?"
"It's on the other side now, it's quite fast."
But how would they able to leave their planet? The gravitational pull must be so strong and the rocket might get crushed by the moon
ud have a 20 seconds window for any law breaking act u could possibly imagine to commit xD U guys ready? count down 3...2...1... GO
@@arathgomez615 Moon: Incoming already came in...
our moon takes 28 days to orbit...
This moon takes 28 seconds...
Our moon takes 24 hours to orbit the planet and 24 hours to rotate on its axis tidally locked.
YamiPoyo Um. No. The Moon takes 28 days to orbit, it goes through a rotation in 28 days, that's why months are approx. 30 days.
The Earth rotates in 24 hours, which is why you see the moon rise roughly daily.
my bad ive been passing alot of worlds that spin really fast round a star and mixed me up, im about 35k ly out
You are quite mistaken.
The moon orbits the Earth fully every day (give or take). It also takes roughly the exact same time to rotate, which is why we only ever see one side of it from Earth.
The 28 day cycle is of the sun-moon positioning. We take 28 days (roughly) to go from one full moon to the next, but we see the moon above us every night.
Lior Abel, the moon does not orbit the earth once a day. If it did then it's orbital speed would match the earth's rotation and it would never move across the sky, and consequently we would not have tides. Tides rise and fall in 12 hour cycles as any given point on the earth's surface rotates past the moon's position in the sky, which is why a location on the coast will receive a high tide every 12 hours. It takes a little over 27 days for the moon to orbit the earth, and that is why you see it repeatedly night after night. It moves much slower than the earth rotates, so we rotate past it rather than it orbiting past us. The 28 day cycle (the phases of the moon) is directly related to how long the moon takes to circle the earth, but you are correct that it also has to do with sun-moon positioning. Also, it takes the same amount of time for the moon to make a full rotation on its axis as it does to orbit our planet, which is why the same side of the moon always faces the earth.
When/ If the introduce atmospheric planetary landings I am heading straight to this location. I gotta see what this satellite looks like from the perspective of the planet. Woosh!
Aye!
Hey, uh, Horizons is a thing now, maybe you can visit it now?
PastaSam Horizons doesn’t introduce atmospheric planetary landings. We can only land where there is no atmosphere
2424Goldie I doubt you’ll ever get atmospheric landings. It would require generating a shitload of plant and animal life and I don’t think their engine is set up for that
Theres a satellite you can land line that earth didnt remember the name
"Slow down" TELL IT TO THE PLANET, NOT ME!
A random reply to a comment you wrote 3 years ago . . . I recently heard that "slow down" is a notification, not a warning. It shows up when you're being slowed down by gravitational interference.
@@kaseymathew1893 ahhh amazing random but very welcome!
-_o
Yeah, even in supercruise, that thing must be a bitch an a half to catch lol
You could just go in the opposite direction to catch it. Or wait in place
It would be rather pathetic to get roadkilled in space... BY A MOON.
If i lived on that planet, i'd get the hell out of there. Quick.
I visited this in VR = stunning!
What kit do you use?
VR: ua-cam.com/video/4SvbKH-QZ3U/v-deo.html
@Cheri
It is
This is insane. Can you imagine what a view this would be if our moon orbited Earth in just seconds.
Before we died horribly? Yes it would be pretty awesome.
Imagine the tides on our planet, a paradise for surfers^^
Problem is: for moon to be able rotate around so fast, Mass of Earth must be 200+ masses of Sun and orbital speed of Moon will be around 10 000km/s. This will rip moon apart in days. Try it in Universe Sandbox
Life forms would still exist
Well, ignoring the fact the tidal force would give humanity a surprise buttsex, it would indeed be an awesome view.
People live on that world? The tidal forces must be insane.
The planet neither leaves orbit or breaks apart, could at its core just be a giant asteroid made of a new dense metal. Though that only explains why it won't break apart.
Joseph Meyer Fucking tsnamis all da time
Maybe the moon is just a thin shell around a 99% vacuum core made of honeycombed ultralight carbon nanotubes. Still wouldn't explain what force makes it orbit so fast, but at least it would produce negligible tides on the planet if it were ultra-lightweight.
tsunamis arent caused by the moon... they are caused by earthquakes..
They wouldn't be that strong the water would even have the time to start moving in a single direction because the moon changes its position so fasy
Watching videos like this from E.D. and S.C. I imagine that if this was sent back to the mid 1950s (recorded onto film) the majority of people seeing it would freak out, especially by the music. ;-)
That moment when you approach a _celestial body_ and realize it's actually approaching _you_ . The sudden rush of vertigo I got when my mind put the scale of that into perspective.
Got me thinking that it probably won't be very long until a game like Elite Dangerous has huge, realistic planets with multiple, (probably procedurally generated) biomes, where you could sit atop a mountain and watch the sunrise slowly sweep across the plains or ocean and watch the shadows play across the canyons below, while native creatures fly around you
I would play that game.
I think its gonna be called star citizen :)
XironbeastX I think you don’t belong in the comments section of an elite dangerous video :)
Beyond Good and Evil 2 will go in that direction.
If we can get no man’s sky and elite dangerous to bang, then raise the baby to be able to tell a story, I think we’d have something incredible
Kieran Bilvington shame no man's sky is total shit.
Wow, that would be disorienting as hell, great flying CMDR!
"3fast5u"
-Moon
Wouldn't the tidal forces break the moon apart?
Serious Oh yeah and completely crash into the planet. This game isn't meant to be a NASA sim though.
It is a glitch, FD was about to fix it but the community wanted it to stay.
That's what I was gonna say. This moon while looking cool is completely impossible as it would be ripped apart that close to a planet.
If they wanted it to stay, I would just make it look like its in the process of falling apart. Still round but with rings and chunks.
Absolutely, it would turn into gravel and rain down on that lovely ocean world and turn it into a hellscape.
I wonder if you could go into its orbit path with the SRV and hang there until it loops back around and catches you.
DaveKraft400 I wonder what happens if you drop from supercruise in its orbital path and when it comes around to hit you
Flaming Marshmallow good question
delamovies I tried it, I went THROUGH the planet and then on the OTHER side the game registered me "on" the planet and the orientation HUD that pops up when you enter an orbit (the thing that looks like the HUD fighter jets have) opened up, I was still way above the surface and I had to actually charge orbital cruise to get to the surface in a reasonable amount of time. was super trippy, scary af to watch the planetoid zoom towards me
i did the same thing except I ended up ON the surface of the planet. put out my landing gear and landed without having to move a muscle
Imagine the tides on that earth like 💀
DefineFox tides aren't caused by the moon
THE AMERICAN PATRIOT The Moon certainly doesn't exert ALL of the influence on Earth's tides, the Sun has some influence. However the Moon is the main cause for tides.
If you don't understand even basic concepts you shouldn't comment correcting others. You make great murican nation look stupid and arrogant!!!
notubeatall I promise you that as an American, it only gets worse.
notubeatall the moon and Earth was out there by God so I think I know what Iam talking about.
This is on my bucket list now
just went there, it's only 11ly away from Sol
When I get this game I want this to be the first thing I visit.
I don't even mind if I crash several times, as I'll definitely need the practice.
@@kujiko88 Have ya gone here yet?
i love this game. the amazing things people can find in space
Planet - Mitterand Hollow.
Anthem - State Anthem of the USSR, because in Soviet Space Program...MOON LANDS YOU!!!
Vey fast mun orbiting at incrdibel hihg speed
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Mun
Damn that english tho
very peaceful wit the planet and the audio.
then you're periodically interrupted by someone not f*cking driving the rover.
I need that hud color config in my life
X9DW same
I don't like it. The HUD Color on the ground view Radar while landing the ship doesnt Change to blue... well.. in fact it changes, but it doesnt help this way... should change to green or so... but this is not possible the way, everyone changes the hud colours.
One of EDFX configs
I’m more of an Aggressively orange/red kind of guy.
X9DW GraphicsConfigOverride.cfg I think...
I'm flying while watching this. My ship voice said "Frame shift drive charging" in unison with the video. Was pretty dope.
Sonic's moon
5:43 that looks so trippy
5:44 i thought jump around was about to start playing 😂😅
That moon must be made of aerogel.
what kind of thargoid space magic is this?
the fast orbital kind
orbital speed is a function of the mass of the big planet divided by the distance between the satellite and the big planet's center of mass. if the moon is close to the planet, it would have to orbit very fast in order to remain in orbit and not crash into the planet. This is why Pluto's orbit is so slow, it hasn't even completed a full orbit since its discovery, since it's so far from the sun.
Flaming Marshmallow its a glitch
Angryoctillery I'm just saying it's possible, the tides would be a bit extreme though
Flaming Marshmallow I hope when they do atmospheric flight they let the glitch affect the planet
That moon is well within the Roche limit, it should be a series of impact craters on the parent planet.
wow after i saw this vid i bought this game immediatly for ps4 XD thanks dude
:)
This game is amazing, I bought it the other day and I don't regret it.
chuck norris it was just an orbital glitch they didn't patch. Apparantly they put the wrong decimal in place when making it.
This is the game I have been waiting for since 198.....
Then go for it.
Haha people on that planet must have waterproof cities because those tides are gonna have then under water every few minutes lol
That moon has to be orbiting close to the speed of light to make a complete orbit of the planet in just a few minutes.
Jett Quasar You could go into supercruise and chase it and see what your speed is. Doubt its that close, but super fast? Yeah!
+Jett Quasar -- No, just close to the planet: the ISS orbits the earth in about 15 minutes. If you could curve the path of a photon around the Earth's surface it would circumnavigate the surface in a great circle route more than 10 times every second. The Earth's Moon is only 1 and a half light seconds away, and it it much farther out than this anomaly, several Earth diameters away.
Digital Nomad The ISS orbits Earth in 92 minutes, not 15. Also the Moon is not that far, it is closer to 1 ls than to 1 and a half. Check your facts, mate.
You guys know this was a glitch, right? Was a misplaced decimal point that the community told the devs not to fix cuz it was so cool!
So, no, this isn't physically possible.
But it's still cool to think about
Just Imagine standing on this planet:
"Hey son. Look the Moon is Rising. Setting. Rising. Setting. Rising. Setting. Rising...."
you see Hello Games? THIS, is what realistic planetary behaviour looks like....I mean yeah it's a bit on the fast side but still
Not really. In reality tidal forces would just rip the moon (and the planet its orbiting) apart
Nikolas Tesla i think he was joking
Ikr lol
Not only did it break your mind but it broke your Rover as well.
I MISSED THE MOONS DOWN IN AFRICA
Ryan Mitchell, every minute in Africa, a moon is lost :(
Best way I can describe landing on it. You can't catch it, you have to ambush it.
That's no moon...it's a space station
Ship was like "slow down", I was like bitch that planet is getting away.
*That's no moon. That's a Space Sta-*
Oops, wrong universe.
DeadlyRecon lol I got it
For a person who's played ED for almost a year, that is one hell of a trip
just... awesome
Now imagine the tide waves on that wattery planet.
Ok, I wonder when ED will have the athmosferic landing. :(
orrka97 i dont! :(
Im stuck on ps4! :(
Well not 9 moths later... that's for sure
They can implement water vehicles for water worlds and you can go in the water and mine the ground
_'Ima wait. I can't navigate without you.'_
Found that really sweet for some reason.
My question is, would it be possible for the planet to support life with the moon orbiting this fast?
Steve Any sort of life, microbial, primitive, sentient, etc. Whatever can live on the planet.
The tidal waves on that planet must be fierce....That would be the best surf ever!!!🌊🌊🌊
What would happen if you dropped into normal space on its course and waited for it to catch up?
Butter of Sorrow , i would check ,but im in army... if someone will try that please send a yt link :)
I did it last night. I thought the moon would hit me but it pulled me out of supercruise into the "atmosphere" and I was spinning with the moon around the planet without being on it.
No, what I meant was what would happen if you dropped out of supercruise BEFORE the moon would hit you.
It goes right through you as you are in the Planets instance instead of the the moons instance.
Object collision is turned off for all non-instance objects
Jesus christ that's trippy
well that's amazing, I started ED a bit over a week ago, and the other day I saw this video, and thought "whoa I gotta find the time to visit this place someday". Today I just got given a mission to land on it. I didn't even know it was so close to my main base of operation
Why disable ratings?
Feedback is always good. Disabled ratings suggests that at some point, the uploader received some ratings he didn't like and stuck his fingers in his ears.
If he didn't care, he'd leave it. Ratings are on by default, it takes _effort_ to go and disable ratings.
No, but why go to the extra effort? Disabled ratings on your videos makes you look bad. If I didn't care, I'd just leave it.
Casper Hansen He goes through effort, no matter if that is walking through a desert or clicking a button, he cares. If he truly did not care he'd leave the default settings.
Or he could just disable both ratings and comments so people would stop bitching about stupid shit and just watch the clip instead...thats always a good idea.
This is what it feels like watching the planets go by in The Outer Wilds. Sitting on Ash Twin feeling like the sun is about to touch your face
its only a moon , not a planet
i dont care,like...really.
ah ye, 'moon' is actually a name of earth sattelite,so,you're f*cked up a bit XD
The word "moon" is a generic term for any natural satellite, but Earth's moon is just called "the Moon". This kind of confusion is why I think we should call it a proper name like Luna.
For that matter, why is our residence named Dirt?
saltok and everyone else: Etymology: Middle English planete "planet," from early French planet (same meaning), from Latin planeta (same meaning), from Greek plan t-, plan s "planet," literally, "wanderer" ... The ancient Greek name for such a heavenly body was plan s, which means "wanderer." The English word planet comes from the Greek plan s.
5:26 definitely my fav part. gave me shivers down me spine..... so beautiful. 😮😆
WTF hahaha. That's amazing
Very cinematic after you deployed on surface. The sound of the rover was perfect as the huge planet passed by, rover unphased... unaware.
Edit: Just got the the part when the rover just starts going crazy. Still Oscar worthy.
Breaks my mind... What does that even mean?
blows my mind
Double rainbows
horny lux
It breaks their mind that a moon could orbit this fast than lightspeed.
Michael Hawthorne Actually not being able to grasp the term "breaks my mind" just broke your own mind, in a sense.
Moments like these are what really tempt me to come back to ED. I miss my Cobra. I only wish it were more about exploration, aliens, and life in outer space...and less about loot grinding and shield cells.
There's a video which illustrates what the moon would look like if it was the same distance as the international space station, with this massive thing flying overhead, and a part of me wondered what it would be like (read: how terrifying it would be) in VR. But it looks like I can experience something very similar in Elite: Dangerous, and I have a VR headset. :D Also, I recognised Epsilon Indi as being relatively close, making it fairly easy to reach.
At the time of formation of the moon, it was about 4 Earth-radii distant-that is, it was orbiting about 15,000-20,000 miles away, as opposed to the current average distance of 238,000 miles. The moon also took only 5hrs to orbit the earth, just a bit slower than 28 seconds....
This constantly leaves me in a state of awe.
I feel you, Bro!
It's "gameplay" like this why they visited earth and gave the apes computers to "play" with....
; )
5:50 "Don't get to close to the Edge of the World- You'll fall down!" That's what I seriously thought at that moment!
This has gotta be one of the greatest space sims out there to this day...wow.
Oh man, I have to go here now.... you may have just dragged me back into Elite Dangerous.
I bet the coastal towns on the planet below are a blast to visit.
This reminds me of the Star Trek Voyager episod where they are stuck in the orbit of a planet(or something like that) and every second is like a year or so for the people in the planet.
When I started a few days ago I chased a station around orbit for like ten minutes pulling my hair out before I realized why I wasn't getting any closer.
*> 1 year*
It’s only 1 jump away from sol. I think frontier wanted to make the orbit time 80k seconds but it became 80 seconds
I HATE THIS MOON! When they had the Christmas event, one of the money caches was here. Luckily I was in my ASP so it wasn't nearly bonkers getting into it's orbit, but one of my friends was in his Anaconda and had to loop around twice so he could meet the moon and keep from being knocked out due to the speed of its orbit.
Tidal forces would normally rip this poor moon to shreds
But we have science fiction, and that lets us come up with scenarios like this that, while impossible, are very entertaining :)
(also nice pfp, W Arknights from the hit mobile game Arknights, good taste)
I wouldn't imagine if there was some haze and atmosphere on this planet too, that would be even more impressive to see when the main planet passes by...
Man, the tides on that planet would be batshit crazy. The moon is so close they would be huge, and so fast that they would come in and out every minute or so.
It actually looks more like a traveller from Destiny or Meteor from FFVII than a planet)
The Stinky Cheese Moon...
A classic loved by children the galaxy over.
I had to chase a space station down just like this situation once in Frontier: Elite or FE 2, forget which one now lol.... but, I could never catch it, it just seemed to orbit faster and faster as I got close to the planet, and I chased the space station and never caught it..... that was one hell of a ride for the Station Staff....
Didnt know what the hell you were trying to show me, but i, glad i waited for the end of the vid. Got goosebumps.
idk either,i'm uploaded it for my friends at start -.x
Its very weird that I have space phobia even though I never been to space. That slow(actually fast but look slow) approach to moon almost gave me a heart attack.
Relatively this moon has a lower speed as almost every other moon you see orbiting around a earth like planet from a farther distance. Its just because this moon is on a very low orbit, the distance to make a full orbit around the earth like planet is a lot shorter than on a higher orbit and therefor it gets a lot more orbits around the earth like planet in a certain amount of time. That is why this moon looks faster than all the other moon, but in fact it would be relatively slower.
I needed atmospherics landing only so I can see the moon fast passing arpund the entire world!
7:10 i was astonished for the moon, but much more for the guy that's riding
A physically impossible place to survive - the gravitational forces would rip anything apart.
This is 1 of so many things that i love elite
I will visit this moon again as soon as odyssey will launching its my favorite place
imagine the seismic and tidal activity the moon would cause on that plant being this close
Random astronaut : *chilling*
Moon: hello there
You can see how it easy it was for our ancestors to believe that the sun revolved around the earth.
The tidal forces the moon would exert on the planet would make it uninhabitable. 0/8, breaks my immersion with unrealism.
This moon is so fast and so close to the parent planet. It would almost certainly get ripped apart by booth tidal forces and centripetal forces...
Nice 👍
This is a very interesting place to build a further ground base after it will be added to the game. Thanx
Most of the planets in elite dangerous really exist. At least the first... several hundred thousand.
I guess the planet would become a black hole to be able to hold a satellite so bit with such rotation speed.