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Should be: "I Simulated a Stable Planetary System with 416 Planets in the Habitable Zone" It's amazing to think how far a civilization would have to advance to
by tyrw 9y ago
Should be:
"I Simulated a Stable Planetary System with 416 Planets in the Habitable Zone"
It's amazing to think how far a civilization would have to advance to go from "simulated" to "built" for something like this.
- labster 9y agoIt's amazing to think about how far our civilization has advanced in 40 years, going from giant government projects to calculate the orbital path for a single Earth-Moon trip to having a single researcher casually calculate the gravitational interactions of 417 bodies to discover a stable configuration.
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- adrianN 9y agoCalculating the orbital path was not the hard part of the Earth-Moon trip.
- TuringTest 9y agoMaybe, but simulating it fast enough to make corrections on-the-fly was not trivial.
- stcredzero 9y agoAs huge as 416 Earths sounds, this is actually paltry for what's possible for a Kardashev 2 level civilization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmKejRSVd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmKejRSVd8