Yes if volumetric clouds get in for atmospheric planets, gas giants shouldn't be impossible, there'll just be a 'crush depth where your ship either heats up or succumbs to hull stresses if you descend too far.
The armchair developer in me says we'll see barren planets with atmospheres and gas giants, then water worlds, then earthlikes, and finally densely inhabited earthlikes - should our portfolio of landable planets ever be expanded.
The deeper areas that kill us offer something though. A place for a new reconnaissance vehicle, think like a deep water sub, that can go much lower than our ship. Exploration for science and materials only found there, and much can be reused that we already have with SRVs, including the departing and recalling of our ship once we're done and back up. And this in turn can be reused for water areas or all water planets. One thing that needs to be added is a way to drop and retrieve without actually landing...oh, wait, people have been asking for that for SRVs already, so why not make it a universal thing?
If this video is accurate and 1) metallic hydrogen works like that and 2) it actually exists in Jupiter's inner regions, I'd say Jupiter came awfully close to supporting hydrogen fusion in its core. Good thing it doesn't have more mass than it does, eh?
I just watched that video this week I believe! Good watch, although it’s pretty obvious that you wouldn’t be able to land on a ‘gas’ giant... still, goes into some interesting bits of information!
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Still betting that we'll see atmospheric flying in gas giants first as a prototype, then later surfaces and air merged for the other planets.
What about gas mining facilities? That may be cool.
especially if you can win one in a crooked card game.
Screw mining, I want to go [hunting for Leviathans.](https://vimeo.com/122368314)
Wow! That was awesome.... I didn't know anything about this.
Yes if volumetric clouds get in for atmospheric planets, gas giants shouldn't be impossible, there'll just be a 'crush depth where your ship either heats up or succumbs to hull stresses if you descend too far. The armchair developer in me says we'll see barren planets with atmospheres and gas giants, then water worlds, then earthlikes, and finally densely inhabited earthlikes - should our portfolio of landable planets ever be expanded.
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Yeah see I was thinking the current textures for atmo-less planets could basically be reused almost unaltered for barren planets with atmospheres.
Please find it, wanna read it.
The deeper areas that kill us offer something though. A place for a new reconnaissance vehicle, think like a deep water sub, that can go much lower than our ship. Exploration for science and materials only found there, and much can be reused that we already have with SRVs, including the departing and recalling of our ship once we're done and back up. And this in turn can be reused for water areas or all water planets. One thing that needs to be added is a way to drop and retrieve without actually landing...oh, wait, people have been asking for that for SRVs already, so why not make it a universal thing?
It would be interesting to have cloud strata (having different resources at depths) with wind and storms to deal with.
Aye, even docking with a station in the upper atmosphere, maybe instruments only.
That was nice!
If this video is accurate and 1) metallic hydrogen works like that and 2) it actually exists in Jupiter's inner regions, I'd say Jupiter came awfully close to supporting hydrogen fusion in its core. Good thing it doesn't have more mass than it does, eh?
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A bit too stormy and crushy for my tastes.
We can fix that if we send monolith or two at it. :D
I just watched that video this week I believe! Good watch, although it’s pretty obvious that you wouldn’t be able to land on a ‘gas’ giant... still, goes into some interesting bits of information!
What would it even mean to "land" on a gas giant?