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<Sigma88> 0/
<Sigma88> I just realized I lost all interest in modding
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<Thomas> <Sigma88> [23:27:51] they are a PR company, I don't think that'll be a problem
<Thomas> For a PR company, squad is rather bad at PR :P
<egg> ^
<egg> Sigma88: ?
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<GregroxMun> o/
<GregroxMun> So I had an idea for a system.
<GregroxMun> You take an ice giant planet.
<GregroxMun> Move it in towards the habitable zone.
<GregroxMun> Put a superkerbin in a low orbit.
<GregroxMun> Sigma-Binary it
<GregroxMun> Sigma88, does SB support PostOrbitSpawn?
<GregroxMun> so the homeworld can be binary-ified.
<Sigma88> GregroxMun: yes
<Sigma88> egg|nomz|egg: ?
<GregroxMun> I assume it does so automatically?
<Sigma88> no you have to manually edit the orbits with kittopia
* Sigma88 is being sarcastic
<GregroxMun> hehe
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<Saracasm88> :)
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<egg|nomz|egg> Sigma88: <Sigma88> I just realized I lost all interest in modding
<Sigma88> yup
<Sigma88> pretty much
<egg|nomz|egg> modding is fun, it's just programming
<egg|nomz|egg> playing is boring though :-p
<Sigma88> I haven't played ksp in 2-3 year
<Sigma88> s
<GregroxMun> Liar
<GregroxMun> we did a multiplayer thing a few months ago
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<GregroxMun> When I was testing multiplayer with different homeworlds.
<Sigma88> yeah well
<Sigma88> if you count that playing
<GregroxMun> I do
<GregroxMun> A binary system with two Earth masses and one Neptune mass would have around the ballpark of the mass ratio of Charon compared to Pluto.
<Sigma88> really?
<GregroxMun> Charon/Pluto = 0.124
<GregroxMun> Earth/Neptune = 0.058
<GregroxMun> 2earth/Neptune = 0.116
<Sigma88> interesting
<GregroxMun> With a density of 4.4 g/cm^3 and mass = 2.5 Earths, GeeASL = 1.169, Radius = 1.463. The planet would be 38% the size of Neptune.
<UmbralRaptor> 4.4 is rather less than Earth. Going for a large ice layer or extended hydrogen envelope?
<GregroxMun> No
<GregroxMun> Mars is 3.8 or something.
<GregroxMun> 3.94
<GregroxMun> moon is 3.344
<GregroxMun> Rock is 3-ish
<GregroxMun> Iron is 7-ish
<GregroxMun> turns out the iron cores of Mercury, Venus, and Earth really matter
<UmbralRaptor> Ah
<UmbralRaptor> Rock but little iron?
<GregroxMun> Yes.
<GregroxMun> Well, middle iron
<GregroxMun> I'd say Mars or Moon counts as little iron.
<GregroxMun> At some point I should try to give a migrated gas giant a system which acts like a captured moon system instead of an inexplicable Jovian/Saturnian system where the moons form in orbit.
<GregroxMun> How, for example, did Laythe and Mun and Kerbin form in the Alternis Jool system? Shouldn't Jool have formed outside the frost line, where there would be much more low-density volatiles?
<GregroxMun> My explanation is that Laythe and Mun and Kerbin are the result of Jool migrating downward, capturing two terrestrial planets of differing compositions and then having them collide and break apart into a ring system that would behave like an accretion disk.
<GregroxMun> The ring system would then coalesce into moons as they would if they were ice moons made from an accretion disk.
<GregroxMun> This sort of system may turn out to be required for a gas giant with multiple habitable moons, because the odds of capturing two or more terrestrial (Mars or larger) planets in stable orbits around a reasonably massed gas giant is pretty low.