The Science Thread

Roq said:
I suppose Rupert Sheldrake is interesting as an example of a scientist that has gone down the tubes (morphic resonance…), he's a brit unfortunately.
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Hmm...is it really enough to dislike a man, just because he is a brit?
 
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GothicGothicness said:
Wow, if there are some planets around in that system imagine a sunny day there :D

Now as a game developer, I can't help but thinking how to calculate the outdoor lighting if I were to make a sci-fi game in that system… that'd be expensive on the hardware!
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Planets would be orbiting one set of stars, not both and with the distance between the two sets (Neptune's orbit), the other one wouldn't be basically a dot in the sky.

Here is an image showing the size of our sun seen from the different planets and how much light it generate.
 
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A ‘Heart’ from Pluto as Flyby Begins


http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150708


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