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Today we are going to visit HD 189733 b, a gas planet that is beautiful from the outside, but violently rains glass sideways. https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/hd-189733b-draft-3.jpg For this image I wanted to put a ship right in the middle of it, shining a light into what's going on. Chat GPT painted a good image of what it would feel like on the ship: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first sensation would be not rain, but impact. The sideways “glass rain” would hit the ship like a continuous sandblaster made of microscopic knives. Not big fantasy shards at first — more like countless silicate particles and droplets screaming sideways at hypersonic wind speeds. Your flashlight beam would become a cone of glittering death: millions of tiny bright streaks flashing through the light, all moving sideways so fast they look like blue-white static. Then the ship itself starts screaming. Metal railings, windows, antennas, exposed instruments, paint, seals — all of it would be stripped and abraded. Anything exposed would get frosted, then pitted, then carved away. If there were glass windows, they would be destroyed almost immediately unless made from absurd sci-fi material. Normal ship lights would become useless because the air is full of reflective silicate particles and dense blue haze. Your visibility might be only a few feet to maybe a few yards. If you are standing on the deck, you die almost instantly. Not because one dramatic spear of glass impales you, but because your suit, skin, visor, lungs, and body are being attacked by several things at once: The wind would hit like a moving wall. You would not “stand” there. You would be ripped sideways, slammed into the railing, or launched off the deck if you were not anchored. It would be a captured instant of pure chaos and hell before everything goes dark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-3Xi1WPkDI I'm excited for the new characters being introduced. Their in-game animations are so good