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- fit4130, on 05/21/2008, -1/+36I don't know what is so "dangerous" about it, I just booked my vacation there using www.expedia.com. I got a damn good deal, too.
- Manrod, on 05/21/2008, -1/+27Wow, looks like the planet from the Riddick Series.
- TruckStuff, on 05/21/2008, -1/+20"Gliese 876d excites the imagination partly because it is one of the few extrasolar planets known to be close to the habitable zone of its parent star."
Yes, clearly looks habitable to me. - Aeroslin, on 05/21/2008, -0/+18Sometimes, these artist renditions are pretty good. Other times, they're really awesome. This one is pretty phrackin awesome.
The mounds of cool slag look like hunched beasts slowly crawling their way across the murderous environment. - Steinr, on 05/21/2008, -0/+13I was gonna say that, but decided not to admit that I actually watched a Vin Diesel Movie.
- jamessavik, on 05/21/2008, -0/+12Dangerous because you are that close to a star without an atmosphere. That is more than enough rads to fry you like bacon.
One of the overlooked hazards of space exploration is radiation and even a rather calm and sedate star like our sun has occassional murderous outbursts of enough different kinds of radiation to cook a buffet. - Pandalume, on 05/21/2008, -0/+11Inga submitted this image to my User Gallery back in December and I was floored. She's submitted quite a few works to my gallery and I knew she worked in Terragen. I didn't know that Terragen was capable of producing work like this however (or else I would be using it more myself).
I wrote her about it and asked how she accomplished the effects and she told me that what you see about is "95% Photoshop". She rendered this image in Terragen:
http://nielsen.sp01.ab-webspace.de/images/rof_tg.j ...
...and did the rest in Photoshop. Very impressive. One of the best space scenes I have ever witnessed (and I've seen quite a few). Congrats to Inga for being featured on APOD! - Nighthawke, on 05/21/2008, -0/+10Crematoria...
Welcome to Hell folks.
As Toombs put it; "If I owned this place and Hell, I'd rent this place out and live in Hell." - Steinr, on 05/21/2008, -0/+8Oops I guess I just did.
- macosta5811, on 05/21/2008, -0/+8Hell????
- Blakechi, on 05/21/2008, -0/+8Wallpaper for the next couple days.
- peestandingup, on 05/21/2008, -2/+9I wake up to that same scene in Florida every day.
- Duositex, on 05/21/2008, -0/+5This image is pretty but it doesn't make any sense. If there is enough energy emitted from that start to melt stone, you certainly wouldn't be able to see a damn there thing. It'd be the brightest thing you can possibly imagine.
- Abomonog, on 05/21/2008, -0/+5Did the hotel have a no smoking room?
- cannabrain, on 05/21/2008, -0/+4This made a ***** great wallpaper
- SilverSnayke, on 05/21/2008, -1/+5Welcome to Crematoria.
And they were good movies. Stuff blowing up = good. - darthvalium, on 05/21/2008, -0/+4it is a red dwarf. so, the habitable zone would be closer to the star as it is smaller and cooler than our sun.
- srodolff, on 05/21/2008, -1/+4Honey? Did you pack the sunscreen?
- lxevolution, on 05/21/2008, -0/+3Look behind that lava flow on the right. There's the top of Vin Diesel's head glistening in the sun.
I mean Gliese - magiclava, on 05/21/2008, -2/+5I know what you mean, but I *did* like the Riddick series...
- burstaneurysm, on 05/21/2008, -1/+4MY EYES!!!
- blacktriangle, on 05/21/2008, -0/+3Here is her homepage.
http://www.gatetonowhere.de/index.php?link=about&a ... - huntermaclean, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2Riddick was good, with there was more to the series besides the two movies... is there?
- Abomonog, on 05/21/2008, -1/+3SPF 1,000,000 anyone?
- maybeishould, on 05/21/2008, -2/+4The landscape reminds me of LV-426 from "Aliens". Except I don't see any Weyland-Yutani logos.
- jamessavik, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2That's not necessarily true. Some of natures most energetic radiation is completely invisible to the naked eye.
You can easily take a lethal dose of gamma or x-rays and never see it coming. - Damietta, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2The animated movie is CRAZY and totally weird but pretty cool. The actors in the full length movies did the voices so it's got good continuity. Really weird creatures. Like, way weirder than the pitch black ones. Four words: glowing tentacles of death.
- GlassAgate, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2Don't forget your sunscreen. You don't
want sun burn. - chrgrose, on 05/21/2008, -1/+3I think I see Riddick running around in that picture.
- huntermaclean, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Don't discount a silicon based life form.
- Notyavgkat, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1I wouldn't wanna live there
- 1blogatiser, on 05/21/2008, -1/+2Awesome image
- valentinb102, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1mmmm radioactive bacon.
http://www.speakeasy.org/~sjmaks/bacon/bacon2.jpg - reeder84, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1oohh pretttyy
- cannabrain, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1dugg cause i saw the word phrack, hahaha
- Crosshare, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1I'm glad somebody else watched Sunshine. "Icarus, please go to 3.5% filter"
- MaidMirawyn, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1Absolutely incredible! The artist did an excellent job; the image looks like it could be a real planet! Deadly beyond belief, but a real planet...
- Abomonog, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Yes, I think they got that wrong too. I thought it was the planet that hangs like a couple hundred miles from it's star. I doubt any planet so close to a habitable orbit would have temperatures high enough to melt rock, atmosphere or not.
- Doitdifferently, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1I hear the solar flare surfing is awesome there!
- Anomaly100, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1I agree. You can ask Dr. David Banner about the consequences of gamma rays...
- Anomaly100, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1I agree- Just ask the Hulk about the consequences of gamma rays...
- mythicflux, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Any not wearing it is going to have a pretty back fscking day.
- colonels1020, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1aPod
- strypersarmy, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1how did they get that camera shot? amazing!
- leubstop, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1dont think im going to visit im all out of spa 1trillion
- Visionz, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Skiddish toom's, real skiddish
- staffa, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1While the planet is closer to its star then Mercury is to ours you have to remember that the Gliese is a red dwarf, it puts out way less energy then our sun.
So while the star will appear huge in the sky, it isn't necessarily much warmer there then it is here.
Also, it is still about 4 million miles from its star, your sense of scale on these things is several orders of magnitude off.
To give you an idea of what the star would look like from 100 miles, take a beach ball and a pea. The star is the beach ball, the planet is a pea, now put the pea about a 1/10 of an inch from from the beach ball and pretend your a speck of dust on the pea looking up at the beach ball. That is about how big the star would appear at 100 miles. - Pegritz, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1I love this planet. It shows up in damnear every single sci-fi story I've written in the past two years.
- worldthoughts, on 05/21/2008, -1/+2Hot? Maybe if your into goth ugly girls...
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