Updated: 5/14: A new planet behind one of our better known planets?

Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time, 4X space strategy game which models a "living galaxy" with incredible options for replayability and customizability. Experience the full depth and detail of large turn-based strategy games, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game. Now greatly enhanced with the new Universe release, which includes all four previous releases as well as the new Universe expansion!

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Updated: 5/14: A new planet behind one of our better known planets?

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New stuff at end of this forum 5/14... WAY COOL
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Oh, the irony of the Universe; Everything destructive is so beautiful.
Nothing is impossible, not if you can imagine it!
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very nicely put tjhkkr. Where did you find this? By the way, I'm curious, but my eyes are too bad and my Hebrew is rusty: What is the motto in your picture (trying to transcribe: Cha'il Ha-somethingorother?)?
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Oh, the irony of the Universe; Everything destructive is so beautiful.

Very nicely put! Except maybe for the e-coli bacterium...
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It was in the News... and sometimes the guys like looking at this...

As to the IDF symbol; I sent an e-mail to Erik asking to remove it; I have tried but been unable to.
Someone took offense to it, and I am not at all interested in stirring the pot on this forum.
We have too good a group of folks on this forum for that.
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Cool! We actually had an aurora here in the UK because of this. I missed it though!
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ORIGINAL: Igard

Cool! We actually had an aurora here in the UK because of this. I missed it though!

Dang Igard....you must learn to fine-tune the sensors when your cloaking device is
activated (I assume to protect your Cargo Bay contents from Data). [:D]
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Man, a missed aurora is no joking matter. I still remember the fascination about them reading Jules Verne novels as a kid.
I feel for you Igard, I would feel even more over an ale...if you have some left

EDIT: Oh, and TJ....you have the soul of a poet [&o]
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ORIGINAL: Data

I feel for you Igard, I would feel even more over an ale...if you have some left

Such a shame to be so bold! [:-] LOL!
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Well, luck favors the....bald [:D]
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ORIGINAL: Igard
Cool! We actually had an aurora here in the UK because of this. I missed it though!

Well, it is suppose to be a on ongoing thing...
I am curious thought IGard... do you see it as a lit horizon, or do you see some of the bands like we see in the pictures?
This aurora so cool.
Here in Missouri, I have yet to see it at all... not like the 1938 aurora where you could see it WAY south...
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The images on the news showed a very large wispy lines of aurora, right there in the sky, not the horizon at all. Looked really beautiful.

I think it was only seen 1 night last week, and was expected to be seen the following, but there was cloud cover over most of the country.

Gutted that I missed it. Another thing I still need to tick off my astronomy wishlist!
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Well, the next solar maximum cycle is well under way, so with a bit of luck there will be another aurora visible from Scotland soon.

Keep an eye on http://spaceweather.com/ . The eruptions on the sun need a day or two to reach the earth, and if conditions are right the next big one could be visible from Scotland - but to maximize your chances you should find a find a lake, shore or mountaintop so you have a clear view to the northern Horizon.

Unless you live in Northern Norway - then you just have to look straight up ;)

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I'm keeping my eye on Aurorawatch UK. Wish I had a decent camera to take pics like that!
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Thank you for sharing; that is a great picture.
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Behold yet another marvel in the darkness...
It is amazing what you can see without the light polution from a modern city...
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http://now.msn.com/now/0220-nasa-sun-video.aspx

Well it is truly not a space hurricane, but it is an incredible video...
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RE: Updated 2/21/2012: Space Hurricane

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And more importantly for Elliot

http://now.msn.com/now/0221-death-star-cost.aspx
Math nerds calculate Death Star cost at $852 quadrillion


I wonder if Elliot's economic model takes this into account... [;)][:D]
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RE: Updated 2/21/2012: Space Hurricane

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Tj, thanks for that vid of the solar tornado, quite breathtaking and strangely unnerving.

As for the death star, well I'm just surprised we could even put a figure on that. It also says it would take us 800,000 years to build it? hmmmm.....

Worth it![:D]
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I will settle just for a shuttlecraft.....in a dozen lifetimes.
I know, wishful thinking [:)]
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Mars whirlwind... 3/24

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