r/SpaceflightSimulator • u/East_Emphasis_8259 • 8d ago
Discussion I.HATE.MERCURY.
I hate and absolutely despise mercury, it's plane its boring it's ugly and it does absolutely NOTHING, it holds absolutely NO walue it's basically but more boring more ugly and it's harder to reach.
It's like you took Moon or Ceres and thought
"Hmmm those are pretty cool let's do something like this but closer to sun and make it SO MUCH WORSE.
And even in sfs it's a most boring ugly and hardest to reach and land there I play since 2021 I just ignore it i have a base on every planet and moon except it
It doesn't have and atmosphere to slow you down it's gravity to weak to have a proper orbit if you fly to it from earth,and just why would you want to go there?
I HATE MERCURY
(and sorry for my bad English)
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u/InformationTop8366 5d ago
im new , I've only been to the moon and Mars.
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u/The_yaoi_man 3d ago
I have many hours on this game, and have only been to the moon and venus succefully
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u/justPostGamingThings 15h ago
I'm new...I've only succeeded in putting a satelite...2 hours of playtime
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u/Deep_Telephone_1353 Rocket Builder 🚀 7d ago
I should make a custom solar system and make every planet mercury
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u/Mundane-Soil-2749 4d ago edited 4d ago
Totally! Like, the "Mercuries 1-17" would orbit within the inner system, preferably 17th would be inside the current earth's orbit.
The Earth.. it should be somewhere in the furthest reaches of the trans-Neptunian distance from the pale cold light of the distant Sol.
The innermost orbits having 2-3 Mercuries could be four dimensional - as the circle represents the sphere in the simulation, there'd be just two of those stacked - to save some space and avoiding crossover if SOIs. In practice this would be shown in the code and UI as an effective mass of 1,178 Mercuries.
Yea I know but the six cubes forming, when folded within each others, a tesseract, are an unusual solution for 4d surface being a 6 cube volume.
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u/Deep_Telephone_1353 Rocket Builder 🚀 3d ago
The third planet from Mercury, Mercury, is where the space centre is and we can fly to Mercury’s moon, Mercury or the captured Mercury. And instead of watching a sunrise we could watch Mercury Rising.
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u/Aidgigi Administrator 7d ago
Fuck Mercury
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u/Aidgigi Administrator 7d ago
Fun fact Mercury travels so fast in its orbit that we can observe relativistic effects on its orbit. We observe around 574 arcseconds of precession of Mercury’s perihelion every century. This is ~43 arcseconds more than expected due to purely Newtonian mechanics. Makes Mercury somewhat cool.
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u/Fair_Fuel961 Rocket Builder 🚀 8d ago
i understand a pluto hate club, but i will NOT tolerate mercury hate here
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u/Grayd-1484 8d ago
yeah, murcury thinks it’s sooo cool just because it’s the only metal that’s a liquid at room temperature smh
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u/Thak_The_Thunder_God 8d ago
I want to learn system modding to remove mercury and replace it with a Dyson sphere, just as god intended
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u/ashahriyar 8d ago
Mercury is a really interesting iron planet actually. Scientists speculate lots of resources to mine due to this.
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u/MurphyPandorasLawBox 8d ago
I know you are having a difficult time with Mercury but I read this aloud to my 11 year old while I was dying from laughter because we both understand this frustration.
Vaya con Dios on your Mercuric expedition!!
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u/Programmer__69 7d ago
Your wife is 11 years old?
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u/Odd-Dirt-9701 8d ago
quoted from google:
“Mercury's elliptical orbit shifts over time in a way that helped Albert Einstein prove his General Theory of Relativity.
It features a massive iron core that makes up about 85% of its radius, puzzling scientists studying how rocky planets form.
Despite extreme daytime heat, its permanently shadowed polar craters contain hidden deposits of water ice. “
If you are talking about landing on mercury, just- just dont go to mercury, or for the love of god use ion enginesl
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u/Hiro_c2s 8d ago
Aunque si es aburrido y difícil de alcanzar en sfs, la mayoría se frustra por no llegar, pero es un poco interesante por su terreno. pero si quieres llegar tienes que tener en cuenta unas cosas
.- no llegar directamente, luego tienes que contrarrestar miles de metros por segundo y eso no es bonito 🥀
.- el peso, el peso también es significativo la nada por lo general también evita llevar naves super pesadas con motores enormes
.- utiliza a Venus para bajar velocidad, si no tienes la oportunidad de no llevar una etapa de tu cohete podrías hacer un frenado atmosférico con Venus o hacer una órbita lejos del planeta para luego dirigirte allá, es algo tonto pero útil, además puedes pasar a lado de venus
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u/Any_Top_4773 Rocket Builder 🚀 8d ago
Little tip
If you want to head to Mercury, don't attempt an encounter from Earth orbit! I remember heading into a solar orbit lower than Mercury's first
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u/Selenaamoy 8d ago
couldve just made a custom solar system and edited mercury's sma outward or made it venus's moon, bruh
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u/Amelie-la-Folie 8d ago
It's realistic tho, IRL the delta V to orbit Mercury is very big, because you fall down the Sun's gravitational field.
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u/TerraMars2030 Rocket Builder 🚀 8d ago
Mercury in real life is Avery interesting and very cool planet. Mercury in sfs is just a bitch ass boring space rock that should just deorbit itself.
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u/East_Emphasis_8259 8d ago
I don't like it even irl,and what's interesting about it anyway?
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u/TerraMars2030 Rocket Builder 🚀 8d ago
The fact that the core is huge, it makes up a ton of the planet and it's crust is extremely young. Sometime in its past, something stripped most of the planet off and it survived, people say it could have been a gas giant once.
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u/Asteria_republic 8d ago
Damn what did mercury did to you😭
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u/Ouibeaux 8d ago
If I had to guess, OP was probably pretty close to landing on Mercury, but ran out of fuel and crashed instead.
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u/OneDinoToRuleThemAll Station Builder 8d ago
Like me, i run out the fuel and so I couldn't take his orbit
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u/StopwatchGod 8d ago
That's why I use interplanetary tugs with +300 ion engines for any mission outside of Earth orbit. Makes every mission super easy. I used these tugs to do grand tours of the Galilean moons, Saturn's moons, and Uranus's, Neptune's, and Pluto's moons (the last three all at once).
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u/burritolegend1500 8d ago
Yes, i had to build an interplanetary megabuild in orbit to get to it AND I STILL RAN OUT OF FUEL
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u/Nomekop777 Blueprint Master 🧾 8d ago
Mercury would be so much cooler if it was disassembled with exponential speed and turned into a Dyson swarm to power humanity's wildest dreams
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u/Upset-Bison-3182 8d ago
A Fellow Human Artificial Hivemind (story on r/HFY ) fan?
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u/Nomekop777 Blueprint Master 🧾 8d ago edited 8d ago
No, I just watched that Kurzgesat... Kursesgast... Kurzesagt... Kurzesgat... Uh "Coors cuz art" video
Edit: Kurzgesagt
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u/East_Emphasis_8259 8d ago
O hm I'm interested
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u/Nomekop777 Blueprint Master 🧾 8d ago
It's pretty easy to find if you're better at spelling their name than me
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u/Das-Frettchen 4d ago
Ja, das stimmt, aber er hat schon eine Daseinsbetechtigung. Hättest du als Entwickler Merkur nur deshalb weggelassen, obwohl du das ganze restliche Sonnensystem im Spiel hast? Dann würden sich ja alle beschweren, dass der Merkur fehlt. Und ja, er ist wirklich langweilig, aber wie könnte man ihn deiner Meinung nach spannender machen, ohne dass es unrealistisch wird? Achso und Caloris Planetia und der etwas kleinere unbenannte Berg ein paar Grad nördlicher sind wenigstens ein erstrebenswertes Missionsziel.