The Sun.

wait is there going to be certain planets where the sun is so close it can hurt you?






cuz that would be nutz

 

Hmm... that would be cool!

 

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT!

 

that would rock and scare me, every game i have played that does that make me get my friend to play *Freelancer is the game im taking about*

 

That's pretty nice.. wow!

 

Hmmm... suns and video games don't go well together for me. I usually die from some spontaneous sunray or get too close to the surface (I'm pointing at YOU Starfox 64!)

 

Well...If it is a universe than wont there be some planets that are just fried, and you need a hazard suit to be on?
Or, Perhaps a sun could go supernova and wipe out some planets? (ULTIMATE GRIEF )

 

You would be burned, unless you go there at night.

 

You're gonna get burned at any time on the Sun. Night Time is only just having the Planet at your feet sitting between you & the Sun, obstructing the Sun Ray's LoS to the area you're at. The Sun is a huge ball of fire that doesn't quit as long as it has fuel 24, 7, 365.

 

There should totally be different suns for different planets. I'm thinking red giants, blue dwarfs for snowy worlds, a desert planet in a binary system (totally not a reference to tatooine), maybe even lifeless planets in a nebula system, or maybe even post-nova systems. I think that would add a lot of depth of gameplay as well as atmosphere, like missions to dead solar systems, where only space scum abide, and you need a special suit because there's no sun, and civilizations that run on a strict energy rationing system due to the lack of solar or natural fuel on the planet, or maybe civilizations in desperate need to find a new planet because their star is about to go nova o.o

 

Not fire. Fire is a chemical reaction.

Stars operate on nuclear reactions.

 

I always thought Stars were Nuclear-powered Fire... Isn't that supposed to be one of the things that makes them really hot & really cool at the same time?

 

When viewing this picture, a certain Manfred Mann song comes to mind...

 

They're not fire so much as they are plasma, which is the 4th state of matter and occurs when a material heats up enough that ions are stripped from their atoms. The heat comes from the energy released by nuclear fusion of deuterium and tritium into helium and a neutron.

 

I never knew this before, many thanks for the info! (Now... if I can remember it... )

 

[scienceguy] Well, the ions aren't really stripped from the atoms, the electrons are stripped from the atoms, turning the atoms into ions. [/scienceguy]

 

Well, while your point is valid that the star is composed largely of helium and hydrogen, and other elements up the fusion cycle ending in iron, and the technical definition of a flame is that it has to be caused by combustion, the sun fits the average Joe's definition of fire: a strange substance not solid, liquid, or gas that emits light and head, and can incinerate objects. In the center of a flame is plasma. And while by definition the sun and fire are different things, they still behave effectively the same way, burning through a fuel producing energy in the form of heat and light. In scientific terms, fire is not so much a physical thing than an event that happens during combustion, and the energy from the sun comes from fusion, not combustion, thus its not on fire. However, what most people are referring to when they say fire is that plasma. to be technical, a non-scientific definition would be a fuel that is being consumed to produce heat and light through a plasma (or for someone who doesn't know its plasma, that weird flame thing that's not solid, liquid, or gas). The problem we have is more of a problem of different definitions, with science defining it by its cause and the average man defining it by its attributes. To a regular person the sun is on fire, and to be frank it probably causes more confusion than clarity when you tell people its not on fire.

 

We are talking about a Futuristic game. Maybe there could be some kind of Cooling system ( destroying the star? ) or some type of Suit.

 

Well, we'd have to go pure fiction, as technically the sun would devour anything that gets too close with intense gravity, heat, and unbridled radiation from the constant nuclear blasts on the surface. It would be like laying on a landmine that never stops exploding while the sears building is being balanced on your back.

 

Oh, I forgot neutron stars.