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7/11/2012 2:35:50 PM,
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118 months ago by
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Suppose that a pocket of gas gets trapped in an asteroid, which is entirely possible. It could be oxygen, hydrogen, radon, or anything. Depending on what gas, different results would happen when you get to it. Your ship would detect it with some sort of sensor, and maybe you HUD would color it. Some rarer gases could be collected with a tool for it, capturing the gas as it floats past you out into space from the asteroid.
Examples of effects would be...
If you find radon, or another radioactive gas, your HUD colors it green, and it does radiation damage to you.
If you find oxygen, your HUD colors it white, and if a missile or bullet or other weapon capable of ignition, it flames slowly outward until it gets to the end, and the oxygen is consumed.
If you find hydrogen, your HUD colors it blue, and if an ignition weapon is shot into it, it explodes.
You could have many other effects for other gases within asteroids, some benign, others explosive.
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Not a bad idea would be interesting indeed ans some might be able to be set off by accident drilling causes sparks and boom spark hit gas.
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118 months ago by
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The devs said they were working on a way to extract oxygen from some type of source but they weren't sure if it would make it into the first version or not.
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118 months ago by
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Hmm its an interesting concept. Its a bit unrealistic but I am thinking along the lines of having a volumetric cloud inside the asteroid presenting the gasses.
Writing this one down.
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118 months ago by
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If you ran up to an oxygen cloud could you just "fill 'er up"?... could be done with some code and a mining tool (or a special mining tool if you want to get all technical) :P
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Well, theres pockets of gas in the earth right? natural gas, caves with no opening with air in them, etc...
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117 months ago by
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Isn't a Nebula somewhat of a Gas Deposit? Maybe it's got a little dirt in it, but I bet you could filter it out somehow... Nebulas would be awesome to mine/find.
QUOTE: Not a bad idea would be interesting indeed ans some might be able to be set off by accident drilling causes sparks and boom spark hit gas.
Perhaps not go boom, wouldn't you need oxygen alongside the gas to have it be explosive? I guess that could depend on the gas, some gasses are just inert.
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if not go boom, maye something highly radioactive or something extremly magnetic? something that could short circuit your electrics in your ship(turn off the ship) or just damage the ship?
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a nebula is a solar system made entirley of dust and ice.
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117 months ago by
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Nebulas, after many years, will turn to rock and gas solar systems like ours.
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Heheheh... Now I remember why I am here. LOL
Long story... Ahem
Anyways, I was watching a thing on the science channel about some asteroids have jets coming out of them. They collect meteor dust from them. So it would be possible to collect certain gaseous materials from them too. (I would think).
The show is called "Fireballs From Space: Fireballs From Space" on the science channel, but I can't find a video for it.
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i leftthat part out for a reason.
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Explosive decompression would make all the more sense in space.
Taking the helium asteroids in the game for example, for it to be solid it has to virtually be at 0K and under immense pressure, space is cold but not pressured. That aside helium asteroids would be highly unstable due to heliums characteristics, it actually moves toward heat to evaporate and is highly heat conductive. So it would make sense if theres a rise in temperature you would get massive plumes of helium forming blasting your ship with it. This could happen if you mine an area too long, use afterburner, a solar flare hits the surface, anything that increases the temperature.
So really helium asteroids are impossible but if they were possible they would probably be very unstable, a bit of a nightmare to mine but probably worth it.
If you were using combustion engines or something that emits a certain type of gas or even energy (radiation could cause explosions or reactions of some kind) then you could get gas pockets exploding, once again its really unlikely cause of the lack of any common reactants. There probably are conditions where it would happen, it would just happen alot less than in real life than in the game.
But meh we want explosions not science!
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