Harvesting Gas From Planets or Nebulas

Robert Farrugia shared this feedback ago

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Space Engineers certainly allows players to mine solid elements but what about gases? The idea that players can produce hydrogen and oxygen from ice was great but what about harvesting gas from Gas Giants or a Nebula? What about being able to harvest Hydrogen from space itself... much as the ships in Star Trek can ?

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Deon Beauchamp ●

Yes, please!

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Semtex ●

Gases from planets - maybe, though on the edge of the possible. It simply takes more hydrogen to move through the atmosphere and carry the accumulated cargo into space than it gains.

Gases from "nebulae" - physical nonsense. The density of gas in nebulae is a few orders of magnitude lower than in old CRT screens. The gas in nebulae is thinner than the Earth's atmosphere at ISS orbit level...

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Deon Beauchamp ●

If you would like to add physical nonsense then include redshift as an indicator of distance and black-holes as singularities.

The edge of the possible is only held back by the imagination.

We speculate about realities far away until we get there and are able to test.

In the case of comets we have learnt something new.

I will speculate that amongst the vastness of the cosmic web that dense gas pockets exist in space.

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Tael ●

Harvesting gas from a planet's atmosphere... If keen wants to add a planet with an atmosphere containing gasses other than O2, then as long as you couldn't just use it strait as fuel I'd see no problem with setting a vent to depressurize and filling a tank. Just don't forget to keep your helmet closed and your O2 topped up.

Nebula on the other hand would be a bit silly. By the time gas-density gets high enough to realistically harvest you've gone from having a nebula to having a planet/star.

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Semtex ●

@Tael - nebula of a "star in the making"... interesting idea (although more for a mod/plugin).

A dark world without light (the star doesn't shine yet and the surrounding stars are obscured by the nebula), young wild planets with numerous volcanoes and stormy weather, frequent asteroid and comet impacts, space between planets filled with thin gas and dust...

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captainbladej52 ●

I'm not opposed to new gases being added either, but we would need to first answer what kind of gases folks would want to see and what purpose the gases would serve. Far as the nebula bit, those stellar nursery nebula are HUGE and even if you get a proto-star forming, there's still plenty of gas left over in the greater cloud itself. Keep in mind the celestial bodies/objects in game are condensed compared to the real world size of objects. If the nebula were as condensed irl as they would likely be in game, then yeah I would agree you're going to be looking at some proto-stars or at least have the potential for a rogue planet. They wouldn't be a perfect representation of irl nebulas but they could get pretty close.

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Tael ●

@Semtex A proto-planetary nebula would be a great SE map, they'd just need a different skybox/sun-model and some volcanic/gaseous planets to populate it with.

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Broomer ●

I propose a new block that would function like an "Atmospheric Condenser" similar to other games, when active in an atmosphere with useful gases (H2O, O2?) it can fill a (very) small inner tank and other purpose built tanks

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captainbladej52 ●

I've wanted to see nebula as a thing for awhile and perhaps even gas giants so this is a yes from me. Far as the gas mining stuff goes, there would first need to be other gases for us to mine/gather in order for this to not be a knockoff ice mine. So my big question would be, what other gases would you want to gather, and what would be the purpose of said gases?

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