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Temporary Engine Trails are unrealistic.
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Skill Training Online
Doomheim
#1 - 2013-08-11 04:46:53 UTC
In the real world the trails of aircraft last for hours or even days... the ones in the game last for seconds.

http://www.chronicle.su/wp-content/uploads/chemtrail-hell.jpg

This is generally what the skies look like near Cleveland, OH and those planes are the size of a Rifter.

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQk-ItIUjovUpmyYS0LT8d-xSO1zX2LCk2c3dP18Emekz8RtqFd

So why don't the engine trails last longer?

Thank You Obama!
masternerdguy
Doomheim
#2 - 2013-08-11 04:51:52 UTC
In the real world you'll be lucky to have 11km/s of dV by the time you're in space.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
masternerdguy
Doomheim
#3 - 2013-08-11 04:53:34 UTC
And you get even fewer points because you compared airplanes to spaceships.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
Skill Training Online
Doomheim
#4 - 2013-08-11 04:56:27 UTC
masternerdguy wrote:
In the real world you'll be lucky to have 11km/s of dV by the time you're in space.


I don't got dv man I use a condom.

Thank You Obama!
baltec1
Bat Country
The Initiative.
#5 - 2013-08-11 04:57:59 UTC
Space is a liquid, the trails get washed away in the currents.
Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-08-11 05:22:16 UTC
Skill Training Online wrote:
In the real world the trails of aircraft last for hours or even days... the ones in the game last for seconds.

http://www.chronicle.su/wp-content/uploads/chemtrail-hell.jpg

This is generally what the skies look like near Cleveland, OH and those planes are the size of a Rifter.

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQk-ItIUjovUpmyYS0LT8d-xSO1zX2LCk2c3dP18Emekz8RtqFd

So why don't the engine trails last longer?



EVE is real life, man.

Honestly, though, if you want to talk about realism, there is a pretty big difference between atmosphere and space.

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Mindi White
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2013-08-11 05:26:18 UTC
Stop trying to find a way to control the weather in space!

Down with the chemtrail!
mechtech
Ice Liberation Army
#8 - 2013-08-11 05:35:27 UTC
8/10

I like that you snuck chemtrails into this one... your skills are growing.
Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
SONS of BANE
#9 - 2013-08-11 06:15:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Seven Koskanaiken
Your trollmander has evolved into a trollmeleon.
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2013-08-11 06:42:16 UTC
mechtech wrote:
8/10

I like that you snuck chemtrails into this one... your skills are growing.

I'm a big fan of the image url ending in ANd9GcQk-ItIUjovUpmyYS0LT8d-xSO1zX2LCk2c3dP18Emekz8RtqFd

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Stegas Tyrano
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2013-08-11 06:55:53 UTC
The last thing we need is people drawing willies all over space.Straight

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Alexila Quant
Versatility Production Corporation' LLC
#12 - 2013-08-11 07:08:26 UTC
GREAT story bro.
Holgrak Blacksmith
Prophets of Motav
#13 - 2013-08-11 08:25:06 UTC
Space is a vacuum, the molecular excrement from our spaceship's engines would spread out incredibly quickly. The aircraft trails on earth can not do this because their molecules are constantly colliding with air particles.

And before any of you neck beards point out that eve is set in a fluid universe, I'm just pointing out that on this one issue, ccp did get it right.
Holgrak Blacksmith
Prophets of Motav
#14 - 2013-08-11 08:27:35 UTC
Stegas Tyrano wrote:
The last thing we need is people drawing willies all over space.Straight


Last time I went to America the floridians had developed a penchant for writing Christian messages in the sky with their planes. This is far more concerning than penis.
Hesod Adee
Perkone
Caldari State
#15 - 2013-08-11 08:42:56 UTC
Stegas Tyrano wrote:
The last thing we need is people drawing willies all over space.Straight

Yes. They should be kept contained to mars.
Indiana Clones
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2013-08-11 08:47:17 UTC
OP is severely aspergian.

Furthermore, linking to an image that names the file chemtrails......can we say tinfoil hat?

Yes, yes we can. OBAMA
Eraza
Fuzzyness Enterprizes
#17 - 2013-08-11 08:53:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Eraza
also, space ship engine trails are probably plasma - hot enough to emit light
untill it cools down, when it becomes a smoke cloud, and space, actually kind of dark.. :)
there is almost nothing to reflect light back from, so everything is just.. black..
Lugalbandak
Doomheim
#18 - 2013-08-11 09:37:41 UTC
Those gemtrails in real life are there to control our minds

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Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2013-08-11 09:46:08 UTC
Is Chribba here ?

No ?

Nevermind then ...
Archibald Thistlewaite III
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Miners
#20 - 2013-08-11 10:30:13 UTC
masternerdguy wrote:
And you get even fewer points because you compared airplanes to spaceships.


When everyone knows you need to compare submarines to spaceships.

User of 'Bumblefck's Luscious & Luminous Mustachio Wax'
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