A few months ago when I took a peek at
Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy, I may
have let slip that I was a student of Astrophysics. Sitting in or on an
observatory in the middle of winter was all very well, but it did have a
habit of reducing one’s tackle to the size of a cashew nut given that
the observatory in question was in Scotland. Thankfully it wasn’t all
steering telescopes and going cross-eyed trying to discern one speck of
light from another. Part of my study of all things “space” involved the
formation of stars and consequentially, the formation of planets. I
could start harping on about accretion disks, gravitational fields and
potential wells, but I’m sure Steve doesn’t want to lose our readership.
Having said all that, it seems that Game Salute have an interest in
planetary formation because they’ve recently released Planetarium
following a Kickstarter campaign. Every time I hear that word, I
instantly think of the
South Park episode – not
because of Cartman’s cheesy poofs try-out, but because Dr. Adams can’t
pronounce the “T” in Planetarium. According to my better half, saying
that repeatedly for 6 weeks starts to wear thin. I fail to see the
problem myself.
