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• Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s no way in hell we have the resolution to see continents in another star system.

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These are always illustrations based on whatever data we could gather. We almost never “see” the planets themselves.

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Considering we only know it’s there because it slightly dims the light from its star as it crosses during its orbit, you would be correct. At that distance, we would never see light bouncing off the actual planet. Even the star is basically a single pixel. We can estimate its size and orbit based on how quickly it crosses in front of the star and how much the light dims, and using those two numbers we can estimate its distance from Kepler 452.

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    • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought they could also see atmospheric composition as it passes in front of the star, no? Having that info and the data you’ve just mentioned they postulate if it’s habitable or not. Obviously not seeing any detail at all about land mass shapes, but perhaps composition? I’m not a spaceologist, so I’m only musing.

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    • wraekscadu@vargar.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      We can build a telescope to see this by the way. The lens being the gravitational warping of spacetime by the sun. We go waaaay past the orbit of Pluto (I forgot the exact distance) and send probes there. We can have quite nice pictures of planets up to pretty nice distances.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    lol. All those flyby probes we’ve sent to other planets in the system and we could’ve just pointed our interstellar telescope instead and looked for puddles.

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• MoonMelon@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  * slaps sphere *

  “You can fit so much Perlin noise on this baby.”

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• SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So thats where rimworld got the shitty planet generation from. Seriously, I want big contiguous oceans. Not like I can use the vast majority of the planet anyway.

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  • Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    How dare you shit talk Pangea like that

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Here, go nuts:

  calandiel.itch.io/gleba

  Best freely available, scientifically based planet generator I’ve been able to find.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  1800 light years away.

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just a few generation nbd

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s where they land in Raised By Wolves, right?

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  • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That show had so much potential as true high sci-fi and it was completely wasted

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    • DirtMcGirt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That show was legit incredible, and cancelling it was a massive fuckup.

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• kablez@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Since it’s just perlin noise anyway… They should use gag landmasses for fun. See if anyone recognises Middle Earth or the Seven Kingdoms.

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• inari@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Kinda looks like Eurasia but with more holes

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• redbrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Will housing be cheaper there? Will taxes be lower? Will Trump be there? What about groceries?

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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  mogged

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• runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  is this the planet from the Bigger Luke theory?

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestky it could be because of the amount of mooms they have. The exact tidal force on earth will have had a hand in shaping what the coastline became.

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• copandballtorture@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dibs

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