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Pulsars


crap nabula neutron star
30 turns a second


result from accreting neutron star





BLACK HOLES


Escape Velocity
Velocity needed to escape the gravitational pull of a body
example, escape velocity at surface of Earth is 11 km/second
if Earth were squeezed to a cubic centimeter, escape velocity would reach 300,000 km/second (the speed of light) and it would disappear



the more matter

Matter falling into a black hole is stretched and squeezed

Light emitted from near the black hole is red shifted

Near a black hole the pull of gravity would be extreme
Closer than 3000 km to a 10-solar mass black hole (100 Schwarzschild radii) the tidal effect of gravity would tear the human body apart (10 g's)

Hawking Radiation

Stellar Transits
This approach will not work in searching for black holes



i hope this is more then enough

In singleplayer in a mission they had it about Pollux if i'm right...
if i'm right then FreeLancer is on the Winter Triangle:
- Betelgeuse of Orion
- Procyon of Canis Minor
- Sirius of Canis Major

in Procyon of Canis Minor is a little cluster named Gmini, there is a star called Pullox

Omicron and Tau r in Sirius
Sigma is in Betelgeuse
but omega i don't know

WOOT! amazing pictures, and i would agree that freelancer is within that sector, but i also think that the game developers couldn't think of any cooler and sophisticated names to name the systems in the game so they picked it up from the science textbook.

'Freelancer 1-1, I am scanning ur cargo bay for contraband'

Are you kiddin'? They just pulled the name out of thin air. If they bothered to look in a textbook they would know Sirius is a poor choice-- Only 8.6LY from Sol.

7. The balance of power. Liberty ships are so weak, the Corsairs from the far east portion of the map would have no issue taking over the whole system. How Liberty can defend itself with level 4 ships is beyond me.

That is exactly what i said to myself Dennis lol...I guess they dont wanna expand..

i was lokking now for neutron stars (pulsars)

A pulsar is a type of neutron star, the core remains of a giant star that was once at least ten times more massive than the sun. Such a star, upon depleting all of its nuclear fuel, explodes, ejecting most of its outer shell and leaving only a core, which collapses upon itself to form a hot ember about 10 miles in diameter. The ejected material forms a beautiful supernova remnant of colorful gas, visible for several millennia in visible light and at X-ray and radio wavelengths.

Locating the pulsar associated with a given supernova remnant is not so straightforward. When the star explodes, the shock might kick the resulting pulsar away from the site of the explosion. Other times, the pulsar's beams of light might not sweep past the direction of the Earth, so it is never seen. Or, as is suspected in recent 1987a supernova, the stellar core might collapse into a black hole.

Quasars
The brightest and sometimes farthest objects in our universe. The energy from quasars comes from lots of matter spilled into and around a galaxy's black hole. The matter is heated and that causes an enormous amount of radiation and light.

some Quasar




[imghttp://blueox.uoregon.edu/~courses/BrauImages/Chap25/FG25_023.jpg

Brown dwarfs:
Brown dwarfs are intriguing objects, intermediate between stars and planets. Often described as 'failed stars', they are more massive than Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, but they fall short of the minimum mass a true star needs --- 8% of our Sun's mass. Stars can shine constantly for billions of years because they generate nuclear energy from the fusion of hydrogen into helium. But brown dwarfs cannot sustain nuclear power production. After a modest initial flush, they cool off and become progressively fainter.

The T-type brown dwarfs found to date are the coolest such objects so far detected. Their surface temperatures range down from about 1000 K to 800 K (700 to 500 degrees C). Their spectra show strong absorption by methane and water.


brown star

Supernova Remnant M1 (NGC 1952) in Taurus Crab Nebula



The Crab Nebula is the most famous and conspicuous known supernova remnant, an cloud of gas created in the explosion of a star as supernova.

The supernova was noted on July 4, 1054 A.D. by Chinese astronomers, and was about four times brighter than Venus, or about mag -6. According to the records, it was visible in daylight for 23 days, and 653 days to the naked eye in the night sky. It was probably also recorded by Anasazi Indian artists (in present-day Arizona and New Mexico), as findings in Navaho Canyon and White Mesa (both AZ) as well as in the Chaco Canyon National Park (NM) indicate; there's a review of the research on the Chaco Canyon Anazasi art online. In addition, Ralph R. Robbins of the University of Texas has found Mimbres Indian art from New Mexico, possibly depicting the supernova.

link of this is [ur=http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m001.htmlhere

a nice pulsar

That pulsar is really cool. You'd think they were really complex anomolies; you know; great balls of gas, weighing billions of tons; spinning around, and genenrating pulses of energy that are more accurate than the most accurate atomic clock.

You'd never believe they looked just like the litte red "x" from MS Windows.

Hum. I won't say anything about black holes, as I'm no expert with that kind of things.

But those Robots and Monkeys *are* easter eggs. They have no function, it's just a place to go to. And it was pretty funny to me when I first saw the monkeys

They are pretty well modeled, but maybe the modelers just got bored, and made those..

There's a lot of proof that the game was rushed, and nearly everything in the Omicron systems is unfinished.

Most of the gas clouds don't have an image on the nav map, the systems are just emptier than other systems, I mean, Omicron Beta, everything is clustered, and in Omicron Alpha/Gamma there's damn lot of empty space, and in Omicron Theta, there isn't practically anything but a station, a planet, two wrecks and two jump holes. And a sun.

Also, the Jump Hole on Omicron theta to Omicron Alpha doesn't have a label, instead, it's just an Unknown Object.

The planets Gammu and Primus are copies from Planet Junyo, from the Shi***u system, I think. They just have their graphics changed.

The reason there's the rings on Gammu, is that in the original Toledo, the Anubis is a that point. You can take out the ship from the planet view, as it's an external object, but you can't take out the rings. Nothing special there either.

But, if you want to go into conspiracy theories, you should keep a track on the Monkeys and Robots names, find their human counterparts, and talk to them repeatedly. Maybe they'll give you a clue.

Also, you could check 50k up from Sector 1B of Alpha unknown, and see if there's a mysterious jump hole, and stuff.

And I think Arg's sig is actually an alien that's spying on us, and will shoot us when time comes.

gus, i'm also not realy good at that stuff (wormholes, pulsars (the red cross in the white "space" was a .gif example what change (they must be real pick here, not changing ))

here's a pulsar

First off, John what part of what you said about the robots giving you rumors was true... or was it all false...

Second, I think we should all sit around the glow lap (heh jedi outcast) and discuss this with Steven Hawking...

Third, I can't believe that people (including me) are debating these kind of things kind of things about a game.. it can stand to be unrealistic, i doubt that murder will be legal then either... as the criminals say... "This beats the straight and narrow, those authorities are just as corrupt as we are". Shouldn't we be discussing things like why we are here or some of that stuff, or is that an easy question to answer.

...just some thoughts...

I live in the tiny shadow of they thing they call your brain.

Freelancer is such a rushed game, look at the detailed nav map of new york and then look at comicron gamma.... get my point?

I think that the monkeys have a part in the original storyline before the game developers changed it, but they didn't want to waste all the har work on the monkeys so they kept it as a easter egg for us.

Don't u realise how unrealistic feelancer can be, because of the lack of planetary rotation and no gravitational pulls to swing ur ship off course?

John, that was a mouthful and hard to swallow, but very nice outlook on the world of freelancer

btw, VERY NEAT PICTURES!



'Freelancer 1-1, I am scanning ur cargo bay for contraband'