Lambast MercyWow! I hope that was an automatic response with a bug, coz if its a mod that's really bad.
Amata LireinLambast MercyWow! I hope that was an automatic response with a bug, coz if its a mod that's really bad.
So apparently a bot considered the two emotes used as spam
Reposted question without emotes... now I got a 30 minute timeout?!? WTF?!? And it was a moderator, not a bot.
Rebecca HailAmata LireinFriendly reminder: Space, contrary to popular believe, is not a vacuum. Lots of hydrogen and deuterium out there, and depending on where you are in space its density differs. So in the long run a projectile will slow down to a stop... it would take faaaar longer then the game suggests though
Gravitational drag might be a bigger factor in slowing down projectiles. Density in the interstellar medium varies but 30% - 70% of it have a density of 10^-4 to 10^−2. It's well possible that a reasonably sized projectile might not be stopped by friction until after the end of our universe.
Synthya WylderNo space is a perfect vacuum, as Amata & Becca pointed out, & a projectile would eventually be slowed down, & assuming that nothing solid or even as dense as an atmosphere would slow it down, it would take an incredibly long time; depending on the strength of the gravity well & the kinetic energy involved, it would surely fall into some kind of orbit... eventually.
Meanwhile, it still would be a danger to all craft in its path all the while.
Low-Earth orbital objects are slowly dragged back into the atmosphere, & the high-orbit ones take much longer to decay due to the relative lack of the wisps of the atmosphere closer to Earth. But eventually, mostly due to the lack of total vacuum, they too will eventually fall.
