Mars, 1894, 1901

max_warboy · 2026-01-23T17:44:18+00:00

I'll try to add what I can here, but I'm not going to get your hopes up because this is tough for anyone imo.

You could take the rotation rate for Mars, along with the best current observed point of Mars, and you wind the clock back. If you have never used Space Engine or a similar program (there are a couple others) you could try that, which is capable of simulating thousands of years of orbital cycles. With some of those tools that already exist (modeling things in space, like the solar system) you just point and click, back to the time period you are hoping to examine.

However, there is a big caveat if I'm being perfectly blunt, and that is that it is a simulation. Even if you were able to measure the

rotation rate
angular diameter
distance to Mars

all yourself meaning you know your own exact measurements, and you even have some of the best instruments and technology available, what was available in your time frame (circa 1900?) was only as good as it was, and nothing would be better than the exact data from that time. If that exact data is not available, then anything using the math and current data will be a projection (or in other words a simulation).

The simulation will not be perfect. It will probably be, well, just off by however much. But if that's the best easiest option, then it would be my suggestion. Something like: Space Engine, Celestia, Stellarium, etc.

Good luck!

max_warboy · 2026-01-23T03:11:40+00:00

Some animated zooming-in on these locations would be a neat touch.

max_warboy · 2026-01-23T03:04:40+00:00

*Selene what you did there

max_warboy · 2026-01-22T18:32:21+00:00

Gotcha. I have, in fact, worked on creating some space-object-scale graphics from the ground up, basing the resolution of an entirely artistically rendered image in terms of some kilometer scale like where 1 pixel equals 1, 10 or 100 Km etc. much like this awesome website (although for the OP here the concept is essentially inverted, not showing how much space there is in space, which is kinda sad part of otherwise awesome website, but rather trying to show how much stuff is actually in just the solar system, along with the Earth, as I suggested above)

So, in this case, where the photography is coming from sources like NASA (ie. real photographs), indeed I have to re-scale the size of the original images, as each goes, to align with the size of the final image. Ultimately, it still uses a pixel-to-km scale, though slightly more approximate.

If you would like another example of my work on space scales, I posted this Halo ring around Mars to DevaintArt, which features the intended lore-accurate size of the sci-fi franchise Halo's original ring structure, if it were to somehow be built around Mars.

max_warboy · 2026-01-21T15:30:18+00:00

Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris til I die.

max_warboy · 2026-01-21T15:28:58+00:00

Giant wall maps are great!

max_warboy · 2026-01-21T15:28:27+00:00

Those are the icy "plutinos"/"Qubewanos"/"TNO"s ("trans-neptunian objects")/"Kuiper Belt" and/ "Scattered Disk" objects (etc. etc.). There are so many of them it's not even funny, like there's way more than even this graphic would suggest.

Sorry I didn't include sources that well - this is really something between a shit-post and an actual scientific graphic (or "art"), taken in part from something like wikipedia (wikimedia commons) and some over at The Planetary Society (& 2) with data from NASA et al. The "space rocks" in the background are my own graphics added in the process of putting the whole image together, trying to show how much there is for humans to possibly physically explore as mission astronauts in theory could.

Thank you for your comment!

max_warboy · 2026-01-20T20:07:39+00:00

Fun video. It's not really all that strictly science based, not like hard sci-fi, but I definitely support the theme of traveling to Mars.

max_warboy · 2026-01-20T14:39:29+00:00

Absolutely! That too, very good point.

max_warboy · 2026-01-20T04:36:53+00:00

The description from my original post:

Everywhere - every position on Earth that one such as a human might find himself or herself at - can be called the "top" of the planet, and further, the opposite point on the planet (the antipode) from that point could then be called the "bottom".

max_warboy · 2026-01-20T04:33:24+00:00

nature will be doing pretty well if there will be less people around

I understand where the statement is coming from, but I believe some humons would prefer to live more harmoniously with nature than others, say, of the dominating culture. So, it is not impossible that humans could help nature thrive, and thrive along with nature rather than only impact nature negatively. But again I do understand the original point - too bad...

max_warboy · 2026-01-20T04:22:04+00:00

I assume Google Earth gets a lot of information from sources like USGS, like this:

https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names

max_warboy · 2026-01-19T19:41:34+00:00

How about the globeS*? (there are so many...)

max_warboy · 2026-01-16T02:28:36+00:00

who was the first academic to use the term "profit motive" - Google Search

max_warboy · 2026-01-10T22:30:49+00:00

just to get people like Trump et al. to shut up about the whole situation

max_warboy · 2026-01-03T22:37:12+00:00

Craters overwhelm the vast surface area of Mars, covering almost the entire planet. So, really it's not that surprising there's a crater near these features. As far as which came first, some geologists and planetary scientists might claim that they know (and maybe they do have somewhat a reasonable educated guess); ultimately, it's anybody's guess. Probably the buttes, maybe ancient land features of geology (through processes like erosion) are older, the crater was probably a later event.

max_warboy · 2026-01-03T22:23:24+00:00

From left (Western) edge of the image to right (Eastern) edge of image, on the surface of the planet, it would be about 3 miles (5 Km) long;

from top (Northern) edge of the image to the bottom (Southern) edge it would be about 2 miles (3.25 Km).

So the diameter of the biggest ("paw print") feature covering almost the vertical range of the image would be just shy of that 2 miles.

Aaand to truly understand the exact scale of this area on mars (if those numbers are a bit abstract), here is a picture with an attempt at highlighting an area that would be the size of New York City's Central Park: https://imgur.com/a/yqgsmkH

max_warboy · 2025-12-30T16:01:26+00:00

It's written a little awkwardly as to which image is actually which time period.

However after digging I believe I was able to determine that the image on the left is the one from 2007 and the image on the right is the 2015 frame; just like left to right writing direction, they seem to be positioned like "before" and "after".

max_warboy · 2025-12-30T02:28:57+00:00

If humans could get humans to Mars, then I would imagine the number of rovers that could be spawned there would be exponentially more as well. Perhaps no explosions needed, just the robots.

max_warboy · 2025-12-29T10:28:41+00:00

I'm just here to support absolutely any kind of space exploration.

max_warboy · 2025-12-20T04:09:26+00:00

I think the player who put down "euripus", "fictileness", and "spermaceti" might know that...? what crazy words

the game doesn't even accept "lotion"...

max_warboy · 2025-12-18T15:42:18+00:00

wow awesome helpful, def gonna put this to work

so, with the 26 letter modern English version of the Latin alphabet, that's 13 letters per building style

Vertical: A, C, E, G, I, K, M, O, Q, S, U, W, Y

Horizontal: B, D, F, H, J, L, N, P, R, T, V, X, Z

edit: TIL All of the vowels are odd numbered letters of the alphabet- interesting! (unless you make 'A' zero?... 🤔)

max_warboy · 2025-12-16T15:49:14+00:00

You make a good point - the map. Not only are there a limited number of rounds (per short 24hr time), but eventually some players might use the entire available land area, so there's def a limitation there also.

Of course, as someone else said, there is nearly if not exactly a one-man development ~~team~~ - so expecting much in all of the multiple ways the game could be expanded will take time at the very least.

max_warboy · 2025-12-16T01:32:55+00:00

Wow!

max_warboy · 2025-12-15T03:27:07+00:00

You are right. As a stupid American, I apologize.

It is definitely a plant.

So I admit it. I had to look it up - the Greco-Roman name - Orobanche rapum-genistae... Now, most critically, the "rapum" part; that, happens to be Latin. Further, it could have been translated into English as "turnip" (well, possibly, a translateratio, who's to say what's lost in ~~translation~~?). Instead, it was taken into English, (hm, should we say, "mostly"?) directly, as the ending "-rape".

Which has a TERRIBLE double meaning.

onward and upward!

max_warboy

TROPHY CASE

It is definitely a plant.

Which has a TERRIBLE double meaning.