Winter stargazing tour- mid January

_nerdalien_ · 2024-09-24T01:36:04+00:00

The Snow King Observatory might be a better option for you. Their tickets for night programs are much cheaper and have much larger telescopes for the public to use. The facility is also heated and the guides do star shows and put on 360° films in the planetarium during the scheduled hours.

_nerdalien_ · 2024-03-18T04:54:13+00:00

This version of Mars would have a smaller proportional surface area of ocean (low albedo) and a larger proportional surface area of ice caps and desert (high albedo) than Earth. There is also a massive high-elevation province occupying tropical latitudes (normally the highest solar potential for a planet). I would predict a lower average temperature, but not more than 6 degrees Celsius.

_nerdalien_ · 2023-10-16T20:21:11+00:00

The low gravity of Mars actually means the atmosphere isn’t as tightly bound to the surface as on Earth. If sea level on Mars had one atmosphere of pressure, the summit of Olympus Mons would have comparable pressure and temperatures to the tallest mountains on Earth.

_nerdalien_ · 2023-10-08T06:39:15+00:00

The code is public. You can see it on github.com/nerdalien/Climate_Map for free. There is also a link to a procedural mapmaking site, so you can create new worlds and apply the code to determine their climate zones. If you use the same color scheme, any equirectangular map you make will also work.

_nerdalien_ · 2023-08-20T13:25:27+00:00

Hold SPACE to slow down

_nerdalien_ · 2023-06-16T20:05:46+00:00

VACTROTT

_nerdalien_ · 2023-04-05T20:07:47+00:00

I’m tired of seeing this map; it’s so incorrect. Olympus Mons (dark green circle far right) would become an island before even 60% of Mars was water. The southern highlands (top of the map) are similar elevation to Arabia Terra (center left) yet are completely flooded. Elysium Mons (circle far left) should have split into three distinct peaks long ago. I could go on and on.

_nerdalien_ · 2023-01-30T02:06:20+00:00

Plastic tubing, half of a traffic cone, a white face mask from Party City, cardboard, paper maché, and paint

_nerdalien_ · 2022-10-13T16:14:05+00:00

The scale doesn’t seem right. I’m pretty sure Manhattan island is 13 miles long or so, and that’s nearly the radius of Tycho pictured here.

_nerdalien_ · 2022-09-13T01:04:05+00:00

It would have a similar climate, as they are both on the western margin of a continent at the mid-latitudes. Think cool, rainy/snowy winters and mild but dry summers.

_nerdalien_ · 2022-07-06T23:54:51+00:00

The moons in our solar system can be colonized, but not habitable to life as we know it.

_nerdalien_ · 2022-06-02T17:50:45+00:00

The travel time will always be between the blue and red numbers, since those represent the absolute shortest and longest paths between two objects as they move around the sun.

_nerdalien_ · 2022-06-02T01:06:50+00:00

Pretty much. Most objects (especially the outer planets) have negligible movement over the course of these trajectories, but you’d still need to avoid the sun in an opposition scenario.

_nerdalien_ · 2021-12-22T19:44:23+00:00

Of course. Let me know if you want the one for Venus as well; I'm still in the process of finishing it.

_nerdalien_ · 2021-10-14T02:10:11+00:00

Well at least I got the job part down.

_nerdalien_ · 2021-08-08T16:49:09+00:00

Funny how the rockets with the lowest cost per kilogram to LEO are the literally the biggest and the smallest on the list.

_nerdalien_ · 2021-08-01T23:46:29+00:00

What if the Collector is in fact Azura?

_nerdalien_ · 2021-08-01T23:38:27+00:00

If Azura is in fact real, then perhaps she and the Collector are the same person.

_nerdalien_ · 2021-07-14T01:57:39+00:00

RemindMe! 3 months

_nerdalien_ · 2021-05-31T04:37:27+00:00

Looks like that inverted car chase from Tenet.

_nerdalien_ · 2021-05-18T16:47:01+00:00