The ring rocks of saturn are mostly between 1 cm and 10 meters big, how would be need such a powerful weapons to destroy such little rocks?
First you school people on the science stuff and now you are confusing these things yourself.
There are, but those things arenât asteroids. I know it sounds like Iâm being pedantic here, but Iâm seriously not saying âblowing things up is unrealisticâ.
Ok, but what kind of game? Because the community surrounding Infinity has been fairly long standing, and there are segments of it that want to see the environment more tightly based in reality than others. Guess which segment I belong to?
Sorry, but I disagree that nobody here really cares about the distinction. I, for one, am a body here. And there are others. Iâm sorry we disagree on whatâs worth caring about.
Also, I havenât shit on anybodyâs opinion. I havenât said boo about anyone saying âX would be awesomeâ or âI really enjoy Yâ. I said âdestroying asteroids is immersion breaking once you know how big an asteroid isâ and âicy objects less than a metre across arenât asteroidsâ. The former is, at worst, a contrary opinion (and Iâm very sorry to Zen if s/he felt I was attempting to belittle them; it wasnât my intent); the latter is a statement of fact about a categorical error.
I canât comment on what I havenât seen. Sorry, but I donât usually watch posted videos, and I, at best, skim and scan posts that donât catch my attention. Believe it or not, I donât hang around here to play gotcha.
So you said, but that actually isnât obvious in anything that I read. Maybe it was because, I donât know, everyoneâs calling these things one thing when theyâre something completely different? If everyoneâs talking about Bob all night long, Iâm sure you can excuse someone when they poke their head up to say âwait, are you talking about Bruce?â Not get all âno one here cares about the difference between Bob and Bruceâ.
I did. Please, remind me what the âscienceâ in âscience fictionâ is referring to.
Youâre using that word âobviouslyâ again when it, very clearly, wasnât obvious.
I still donât see what the rings of Saturn have to do with anything. Most of the ring objects visible in the tech demo are larger than the Hellion, which makes them asteroids, which makes everything Iâve said valid.
Plus, Iâve already said you can blow up your soccer ball sized chunks of ice without any issue from me.
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Yes like I repeatetly said, people donât always use these terms correctly. We are not using the term correctly I thought this was already established knowledge. The comment you are responding to here also didnât feature any mentions of asteroids and instead called the particles ring rocks.
From Wikepedia:
Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a âliterature of ideas.â[1] It usually eschews the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically science fiction stories were intended to have at least a faint grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created, but this connection has become tenuous or non-existent in much of science fiction
The ring objects in the tech demo are very much smaller than asteroids since planetary rings donât consist of asteroids, they donât even consist of meteroids. Asteroids and meteroids are names for bodies that orbit the star, they have nothing to do with rings, only in the sense that rings partly consist of matter from asteroids or meteroids.
If you feel the need to be scientifically correct at least do that and donât write wildly inaccurate explainations of scientific terms.
I thought you are an expert, how can you not know that?
The devs showed a separate video of their first implementation of a procedually generated asteroid, again nobody was talking about that one.
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I like the idea of being able to play with and blast away small space rocks, and to blast small bits out of large and very massive asteroids. Play with, as in affect their orbits and trajectories. If it can be done, cool.
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Couldnât agree more. Moreover, I did not stipulate meteorites would be a minimum of 1km which of course would be very difficult to destroyâŚbut not out of the realm of impossibility, especially in a science fiction game. In truth I was thinking in terms of small asteroids no bigger than 20~30 meters and probably should have stated as much. That said, I think the âonly because you donât know anything about asteroidsâ was a bit caustic. Whatâs more, I did not come here to play Second Life in space. So my advise to Kiche would be to bring it down a notch.
Anyway, time to get back on topicâŚ
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Yes, Thanks!
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I wonder if theirâs some type of asteroid or whatever thatâs basically a hard outer crust with a gaseous interior. Because that would be hilarious naturally made gigantic grenades.
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That would be cool! Could make for an interesting mining mechanic as well. 
âWhy the hell are the asteroids out there exploding with the slightest touch?â
âOh, you see, we have discovered that through some strange geological process, these giant geodes are created, filled with crystals. Overtime, the crystals harden into ultra-sharp harder-than-steel shrapnel, while at the same time releasing large amounts of a liquid that becomes highly unstable when combined with the gas inside the geode. The giant geodes are launched into space by supervolcano eruptions that over millennia have formed a small asteroid belt. And⌠Why are you looking at me like that? You donât believe me? Itâs all totally plausible I tell you!â
âDonât listen to Crazy Joe. He has no idea whatâs going on here. Heâs just the station idiot. Iâm the one you should really come to for information. For you see, I know the truth. Those asteroids used to be normal⌠But every night, vile aliens come and fill them up with gas! They plan to steal our asteroids and sell them as balloons! Theyâre coming for them I tell you!â
âDonât listen to them! Theyâre all idiots! I know the true truth about the exploding space asteroids. You see, they were mining fuel down there, on the planet. And you know how they have those âdo not smoke signsâ near fuel? Well, someone decided to ignore them and smoke anyway. And then half the planet exploded, sending all the rocks with all the fuel up here. Thatâs how it really happened.â
âFine, fine, whatever. I donât care why there are exploding asteroids up here. The real reason I came into this bar is because I wanted to know⌠Why the hell did you build an asteroid base on an exploding asteroid on an exploding asteroid belt thatâs one chain reaction away from becoming dust? What kind of idiot would do that?â
ââŚâ
âOh, I get it. Youâre all idiots.â
âNot as idiotic as someone landing on an asteroid base they knew was about to explode to find the idiots living there.â
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And I didnât come here to play Asteroids?
Not naturally forming, no. Even if they could form somehow, they wouldnât be gravitationally stable, and would collapse in on themselves with even relatively slight interactions with other celestial objects.
Basically, the crust would want to sink to the centre.
Yeah, I kinda figured. But hilarious thought nonetheless.
Remember when the earth was flat? When the sun orbited the earth? When we were the only planet in this immense galaxy and life spreading among the stars impossible? But now Panspermia is a very real possibility. Despite Kichae, expertise on asteroids and his many years of qualified blogging, I think itâs always best to keep an open mindâŚthe universe is simply too vast to make presumptions. There may very well be asteroids out there containing gasâŚwe just havenât found them.
I guess you didnât notice the planets, space station and spaceships shooting one another in the Kickstarter. lol.
But hereâs a solution, since you âdidnât come here to play Asteroidsâ - donât go to asteroids. Or perhaps I-Novae can make you your own private asteroid belt where everything is static and massive and nothing ever happens; you can sit there for hours staring at themâŚgood times!
Remember when we disproved gravity?
No?
Look, believe what you want, but just remember: A) They didnât actually laugh at Einstein, B) they didnât actually laugh at Galileo, but C) they did laugh at Bozo. Not knowing everything isnât the same as knowing nothing, and choosing to believe that the gaps hide everything you could imagine doesnât mean they do.
Excuse me? Iâve never done any blogging. Iâve done a ton of legitimate academic study, though.
False dichotomize much? Not being able to blow up the giant space rocks isnât the same thing as having everything âstaticâ. A lot of things can happen in an asteroid field that doesnât involve blowing up the inanimate objects.
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Anyone who went to university has done legitimate academic study. And given you are entirely unaware that Galileo was imprisoned for his theories leads me to question whether you have even received basic education.
Can you all please calm down in this thread.
I sense a lot of hostility in here. We donât need to start writing in subtext.
Everyone has his own opinion. People can be wrong or right. Ideas arenât invalid because they arenât realistic or casual enough and misunderstandings happen because of different use of language.
I donât think anyone wanted to disrespect anyone else. Counter-attacking, be it directly or in subtext isnât needed.
Iâm okay when people express their opinions of other peoples actions be it a recent instance or trend, even if itâs off topic as there isnât really anywhere else room for that, but it has to be, and can be, a constructive discussion.
This thread started off pretty reasonably but is escalating into, what I think, people having the impression of being themselves, or their opinion, personally disqualified for not conforming. This isnât the case. Itâs just people with different world views.
Personally I do care for all opinions, even if I donât like them and even if they indicate wrong or are themselves wrong.
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You know I would like that very much and am trying to do just thatâŚbut when someone jumps on the forums and tries to make out like they are an expert with a âton of legitimate academic studyâ yet doesnât know Galileo was incarcerated for the rest of his life for his beliefs (bet he wished he was simply laughed at), then I think we need to nip this ignorance in the bud; that and believing that one type of gameplay is the only type of gameplay owing to a very dubious understanding of science.
Ok, let me be more specific. Iâve done legitimate academic study in astronomy, and I currently work as a professional astronomer.
You think Iâm unaware that Galileo was imprisoned? Cute.
Or maybe that never happened because âremember when the Earth was flat?â 
Well, being called moronic, closed minded, and having your education and career crapped upon and openly denied I think goes a little beyond âfor not conformingâ.
I mean, seriously, Iâm the condescending one?
Bullshit.
I didnât say one type of gameplay is the only type of gameplay, but I will be damned if Iâm not going to advocate for my preferred style of gameplay.
You keep firing shots.
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Given you are wholly unaware that Galileo was not merely laughed at but imprisoned leads me to conclude you are lying. Either that or you are unqualified in your field. Anyway, I am doneâŚnever argue with a fool because onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.