Dockable gas giants?

[Lucend]

I do believe that on some gas giants, there is a ring of pressure that is Earth-like. Maybe not a perfect atmosphere, but maybe some alien organsisms shipped in and we could terraform an entire layer of something like Aso or Planet Dover.

Just thinking big here..

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[frozen]

we d have to ask the freeworlds devs how they modelled the sceneries. - if it can be modelled, then - we we can do it.

but they also made custom cockpits - something we haven t really figured out here yet.

isnt that basically a new system, with a starscape to imitate the insides of stations, etc?

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[Jinx]

that d be a bit more complicated then - but i don t know...

i just saw a picture of a ship landing on a surface like dantoine that looked much like taken from the game "knights of the old republic 2" - the ship was docking as if it was curacau or something.

i just know that they done it - or maybe it was just wishful thinking and a concept animation. - i don t know what kind of "systems" these scripted landing sequences are... if they are just predefined renders or actually automatic sequences in a "mini system"

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[Eppy]

I believe Yuri figured out how to make a custom base interior before he had to go off into the Real World again; you might ask him how it's done, though there's no way he'll do it for you, with the little time he has left for himself these days.

Also, a couple of Cloud Cities would be awesome.

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[William Frederick Cody]

Long time ago, scientists on earth started few missions named "Galileo", "Mariner" or "Cassini" to explore some gas giants:

In Case of Jupiter, the galileo spacecraft have send a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, i quote from wiki:

As the probe descended through 150 kilometers of the top layers of the atmosphere, it collected 58 minutes of data on the local weather. It only stopped transmitting when ambient pressure exceeded 23 atmospheres and temperature reached 153 C (307 F).

150 km deep into atmosphere isnt much related to the diameter. Earth atmosphere is ~100 km thick.

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[teschy]

Yeah well, it's not like you have air in there. There are violent, sulfuric windstorms that can tear apart pretty much everything. Gas Giants are off limits for colonization. Maybe mining, but only automatized, and in the outer layers of the atmosphere.

[ProwlerPC]

We were thinking along these lines for when the purchase of S-59 goes through for GMG|. We were gonna ask a modder to work on the system for us. One of the objects we wanted was a Hydrogen Gas Giant with a dockable collecter. Kind've a "reserve" stock for GMG. Questions came up of whether more Hydrogen would be able to be added to the gravity of this "bank" and to what limit. This cloud city concept sounds fantastic as a platform to and from this Gas Giant as well as doubling as the installation that monitors the density to gravity ratio so that the gas doesn't just spin off into space.
Ooops rambling on, back on track....Dockable gas giants is a good idea. :)

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[Unseelie]

Right, so, the physics of a gas giant:

Core, really dense. May or may not be actually warm. Pressure keeps gasses a liquid sphere. Out from that, there's a pressure gradient. There is an earth pressure area. Probably wider than the diameter of the earth, if you consider the size of the things..and above that would be livable space as well...

For that matter, why don't we have any stations on lifeless rocks, moons, etc? If we have domes in space...why not domes on surfaces?

Moreover, concerning Jupiter as a baseline.....Jupiter (317 earths) is hugely massive as compared to, say, Saturn(95). Or Uranus. (14)

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[Cellulanus]

We've already got gas giant like stations, they are like the Kruger base in Frankfurt, mining the planet for H-Fuel.

[Xing]

Right, so, the physics of a gas giant:

Core, really dense. May or may not be actually warm. Pressure keeps gasses a liquid sphere. Out from that, there's a pressure gradient. There is an earth pressure area. Probably wider than the diameter of the earth, if you consider the size of the things..and above that would be livable space as well...

For that matter, why don't we have any stations on lifeless rocks, moons, etc? If we have domes in space...why not domes on surfaces?

safer to excavate the moon and make it into a base I believe.

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