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    June 14, 2021

    Elite Dangerous [DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here!

    [DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here!

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 08:50 AM PDT

    Greetings, Commanders! This is the Daily Q&A post for /r/EliteDangerous

    If you have any questions about any topic, whether it be for the moderators, tips and tricks for piloting or general gameplay/development questions please post here!

    Please check new comments and help answer to the best of your ability so we can see this community flourish!

    Remember to check previous daily Q&A threads and the New Q&A FAQ.

    Wiki • Career Chart • Lore (Brief) • Thargoids • Sagittarius Eye Magazine • The Elite Squadron

    Game Update Summaries: Core • Horizons • Beyond • 2019-2020

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    Two hobbies...

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 03:04 AM PDT

    Common Black Hole Misconceptions - Elite did Black Holes right

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 08:36 AM PDT

    Every five hours there's somebody here complaining that black holes should be super deadly and have accretion disks and spaghettify you and etc. Actually, Elite Dangerous' black holes are among the most realistic depictions I've seen in games.

    Black holes in real life almost never have accretion disks.

    Accretion disks generally form around stellar remnants (white dwarf, neutron star, black hole) when their binary partner swells into a giant and into their Roche limit (the closest you can orbit without falling apart). So, only binary+ systems with giants rather close to a stellar remnant should have accretion disks, like AR Scorpii. And not just black holes, but WDs and neutron stars as well.

    Notably, Sagittarius A*'s accretion disk is invisible to the human eye. It can be detected in lower frequencies but it's so diffuse that there's not a chance you'll see it. Not true; outdated info. You *can see it's accretion disk according to a NASA link from one of the commenters

    Edit: I should make it clear that accretion is not limited to just stellar remnants. Any star that has a Roche limit small enough with a binary partner with a Roche limit large enough will begin to be accreted by that binary partner. So basically, small+dense star will accrete large+diffuse star, if they begin to orbit too close. If they get EVEN CLOSER, they'll both enter each others' Roche limits, and begin accreting each other, though this process is better known as "two stars hitting each other and becoming one big star"

    Black holes in real life are among the safest stars.

    Black holes are nothing more than a few stellar masses condensed into a tiny point. That's it. If you replaced Sol with a 1 stellar mass black hole, nothing would happen. All the planets will have the same orbits, nothing, not even the nav beacon, would get "sucked in".

    All of a black hole's fancy History Channel spaghettification effects only occur extremely close to the event horizon - the pitch black sphere beyond which no light can escape. At this point, however, you'd have long been roasted and imploded alive in the core of an equivalent-mass true star. Typical black holes have a Schwarzschild radius (and exclusion zone not much bigger) of 5 to 8 kilometers. Sun-like stars have radii ranging around 700,000 km, and blue stars can get upwards of several million. You couldn't truly approach a star that close anyway, as the radiation would kill you by then.

    It's worth noting that Sagittarius A* has a Schwarzschild radius and in-game exclusion zone of about 40 light seconds; it's huge.

    Black holes themselves are not that massive.

    Black holes might have infinite density, but their mass is finite. I've seen people assume Maia B is impossible due to having "only" 2.6 solar masses. While it takes a star of several dozen times more mass than Sol to create a black hole, the vast majority of that mass is ejected in a supernova. The remaining stellar remnant can be anywhere from a one to ten times our Sun's mass, and it can become a black hole if it achieves the required density. For example, the black hole at the Unicorn (one of the closest black holes to Earth irl) is only about 3 solar masses.

    So many games are intent on making BHs some special awesome wormholey pseudoscience stuff. In reality, and in Elite as well, they're just humble, boring, and underwhelming stellar remnants. White dwarfs that get too dense for atoms to work properly collapse into neutron balls, aka neutron stars. Neutron stars that get too dense for neutrons to work properly collapse into single points aka black holes.

    now if only they'd fix event horizons so they'd actually look like black spheres instead of buttholes

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    Just for fun...

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 12:21 PM PDT

    I guess FDEV does not know how light works on a Star.....

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 03:04 AM PDT

    A thousand light seconds from a red supergiant

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 01:32 PM PDT

    "You crazy son of a bitch..."

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 11:25 AM PDT

    These mountains are catching the light just right.

    Posted: 13 Jun 2021 10:53 PM PDT

    CMDR Tarvus Indoril's barter guide for assets of questionable origins

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 11:37 AM PDT

    Even Thargoids know Orcas are the Apex Predators of the Galaxy

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 02:52 PM PDT

    Heaven’s Lathe, in HD 175875

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 10:40 AM PDT

    Oh look nice star ... now please go back and pilot your space ship

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT

    Five stars in a row (...almost)

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 02:13 PM PDT

    Homage to Interstellar

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 02:26 PM PDT

    Eclipse in a canyon - Hernir AB3

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 01:19 PM PDT

    Saw that Odyssey had mostly negative reviews. It does have some bugs but I'm having a blast so far.

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 12:49 AM PDT

    Found this plant... Found myself fascinated by it.... ����

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 01:05 PM PDT

    So, I'm paying credits to engage in odyssey gameplay...

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 08:50 AM PDT

    TL;DR: please stop the fines for abandoning odyssey missions.

    I'm really enjoying the game loop for odyssey... I mean, it's not perfect or particularly amazing, but I'm having fun... When it works.

    Got a mission to restore a settlement, powered it up but when I went to extinguish the fires the panels to interact with the oxigem thing didn't load. Tried to exit the game and load again but no success. Had to abandon mission and got fined 100k.

    And since I'm already here, why the game forces me to do combat? I just want to be a "technician that restores settlements" not a army engineer or anything like that. Every mission, a ship drops at least 10 enemies that I end up running over with the SRV so I can carry on. This happens even on missions treath level 0.

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    Taking the Leap! - Just bought my Fleet Carrier, "Spirit in the Sky" VOW-WQK - Currently orbiting HIP 50070 6. Come visit!

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 10:03 AM PDT

    "That clicking noise means he likes you!" (On-Foot-Thargoid concept)

    Posted: 13 Jun 2021 09:02 AM PDT

    "Thargoid City" As imagined by an art AI

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 12:02 PM PDT

    Optical Illusion ?

    Posted: 13 Jun 2021 10:25 AM PDT

    Finally after 2 days straight of grinding, I got my self a clipper!

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 09:44 AM PDT

    screen shots

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 03:18 PM PDT

    Got a first footfall on an icy world that actually resembles an icy world

    Posted: 13 Jun 2021 08:08 AM PDT

    Base Building Confirmed?

    Posted: 14 Jun 2021 02:25 AM PDT
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