Posted on 06/19/2022 3:32:55 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Can you create a planetary system that lasts for 1000 years? Super Planet Crash, the featured game, allows you to try. To create up to ten planets, just click anywhere near the central star. Planet types can be selected on the left in order of increasing mass: Earth, Super-Earth, Ice giant, Giant planet, Brown dwarf, or Dwarf star. Each planet is gravitationally attracted not only to the central Sun-like star, but to other planets. Points are awarded, with bonus factors applied for increasingly crowded and habitable systems. The game ends after 1000 years or when a planet is gravitationally expelled. Many exoplanetary systems are being discovered in recent years, and Super Planet Crash demonstrates why some remain stable. As you might suspect after playing Super Planet Crash a few times, there is reason to believe that our own Solar System has lost planets during its formation.
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Today's image is a planetary video game
Today's image is a planetary video bame
Video GAME...not bame
My solar system lasted 9.6 years. I don’t think that’s a record. :(
I’d want a holographic model projected into a ring inside the living room. Now that would be cool.
That sounds like a lot of fun actually. When my boys were pre-teens, we were into ‘SIM City.’
We would set up our towns and have them running like, well, like President Trump was still President, LOL! Then, we’d set it overnight to have every disaster imaginable happen; tornadoes, floods, fires, Godzilla attack, Biden as President, etc. ;)
In the morning we would wake to smoldering ash...and then, ‘We The People’ would rebuild. :)
I think you live longer when you don’t add planets bigger than Uranus 🤣
That might be very stable but who wants to live in a crappy solar system like that? lol
3.3 million points over 1042 years.
It took several tries. Plus, I had to notice the “faster” button.
You don’t get a lot of points that way. I had 10 planets and no points.
It helps when the starting planet is in the inner system
I’m killing it. First planet was close to the star. I added a brown dwarf at the end and let er rip.
Huzzah!
6,253,810 over 1042.3 years!
Okay, I’m done!
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For tonight.
It can get addictive when you try to induce planets to orbit in retrograde
I discovered that game some years ago, when it was only one screen.
What I discovered was that if I would make all my planets earth-size and place them at equal distances from one another, opposite each other, I could beat it, but if I sped it up, it would crash.
If I was feeling punchy, I would put a brown dwarf or a dwarf star right next to the sun.
It’s a fun experimenting with different scenarios and seeing how long I can push the envelope.🙂
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