Back from vacation. I brought you a gas giant.
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Back from vacation. I brought you a gas giant.
Well, actually a docking station within a gas giant, if there's any use for it (finally finished it after about a year!) If these are gas miners or scientific platforms or whatever, yo, I don't know.
The design of this thing in my head was quite weird. It had a massive giro in the center of which there was a stabilized habitat, peripheral funnel-like wind catchers, at the end of which there was an eolic energy collector made up by a foward and a reverse propeller. Then I realized that the close-up shot looked better
Link to the somewhat more detailed 1024x1024 texture.
The design of this thing in my head was quite weird. It had a massive giro in the center of which there was a stabilized habitat, peripheral funnel-like wind catchers, at the end of which there was an eolic energy collector made up by a foward and a reverse propeller. Then I realized that the close-up shot looked better
Link to the somewhat more detailed 1024x1024 texture.
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Gosh! That looks amazing! Great work.
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Just to be aggravating...
The first thing I thought of when I saw that shot, was that it would work very well with the base animations a la Privateer Remake. Specifically, animate the lights, and the gas drifting past.
This would be a suitable landing pad for gas planets that are inhabited (if any).
Sidenote: gas planets that are not inhabited - then not be able to land on said planet? Hmm... <thought>
The first thing I thought of when I saw that shot, was that it would work very well with the base animations a la Privateer Remake. Specifically, animate the lights, and the gas drifting past.
This would be a suitable landing pad for gas planets that are inhabited (if any).
Sidenote: gas planets that are not inhabited - then not be able to land on said planet? Hmm... <thought>
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Hey dudes.
Nobody knows what's at the center of a gas giant (I sorta like Arthur C. Clarke's idea that maybe there's a huge diamond in there ... yummy) so I'm going out on a limb, but just one limb at a time: the gyro is an atmospheric floater, with funnels, sails and propellers (sold separately) to both catch the wind and use it to turn the gyro around. I was going to write a bunch of stuff about superfluidics and ribbed structures to handle friction and tension but nah
Nobody knows what's at the center of a gas giant (I sorta like Arthur C. Clarke's idea that maybe there's a huge diamond in there ... yummy) so I'm going out on a limb, but just one limb at a time: the gyro is an atmospheric floater, with funnels, sails and propellers (sold separately) to both catch the wind and use it to turn the gyro around. I was going to write a bunch of stuff about superfluidics and ribbed structures to handle friction and tension but nah
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Hey cool! I just read a book with one of these generators in...well, almost (it was situated in the ion stream between a gas giant and a moon)...but neatCubOfJudahsLion wrote:Hey dudes.
Nobody knows what's at the center of a gas giant (I sorta like Arthur C. Clarke's idea that maybe there's a huge diamond in there ... yummy) so I'm going out on a limb, but just one limb at a time: the gyro is an atmospheric floater, with funnels, sails and propellers (sold separately) to both catch the wind and use it to turn the gyro around. I was going to write a bunch of stuff about superfluidics and ribbed structures to handle friction and tension but nah
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How about... no.CoffeeBot wrote:How about uninhabited planets, period, gaseous or otherwise?Silverain wrote:Sidenote: gas planets that are not inhabited - then not be able to land on said planet? Hmm... <thought>
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