Is Factorio Space Age 100% Astrophysically Accurate?
417I felt like drastically overthinking the astrophysical implications of what is presented in Factorio: Space Age and it was interesting I think.
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Also I'm waiting for the true nitpickers in the comments to say "It's a star system not a solar system" because actually the in-game text refers to it as the solar system so checkmate I win! You are nitpicking and biased I win bye bye. Me though I'm not nitpicking and biased when I say my nitpicks, mine are somehow objective in a way that other nitpicks are not. Okay but actually it's fun to imagine a solar system where Volcanus is a super-Io volcanically active stripped gas giant core, and Gleba is a giant super-Earth, and Aquilo is there too. Fulgora. Nauvis.
Content:
0:00 - Intro
0:27 - Nauvis
1:21 - Vulcanus
2:13 - Gleba
3:07 - Fulgora
4:10 - Aquilo
5:22 - Space flight
7:29 - Outro
Sources:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10314
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/battered-blasted-a-giant-planet-core-laid-bare/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010RvGeo..48.1001K/abstract
Image attribution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil#/media/File:Fossils_from_Gotland_beaches.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TOI-849_b.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Jupiter#/media/File:Artist’s_impression_of_an_ultra-hot_Jupiter_transiting_its_star.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/Naturewasmetal/comments/1d5p37q/the_carboniferous_period_the_time_where/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt#/media/File:InnerSolarSystem-en.png