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What is the end vision for planetary ship entry? I would love to see a requirement for a crew to analyze various aspects such as atmospheric pressure, composition, etc, that facilitates an active participation from the crew to determine the best mode of entry.asked by Syntax

TL;DRAtmospheric entry with weather and storms is planned but not fleshed out and not coming in the near future, with some planets more dangerous to enter, though not necessarily a full scientific analysis.

Well, we haven't actually fleshed this out. We do have plans for sort of atmospheric entry and atmospheric flight, we all kind of want to do... if you seen Prometheus, the sort of Prometheus entry down onto the planet or if you go back to Aliens they had a very cool... well, the effects aren't as nice as in Prometheus but going through the storm and you know the clouds and the turbulence. So, we definitely want that depending on the kind of planet, potentially a planet you could go down and find minerals and strip and gather resources that you could sell for a lot of money. It should perhaps be quite dangerous to get down there and maybe you have to figure out how to get down there without getting caught up in huge storms or the rest of the stuff.So, we want to make that part of the future, we've been discussing it and obviously John Pritchett our flight guru so we've already been going back and forth on some of that. Of course, we have quite a few other things to do but we are planning sort of clouds on planets and weather systems and all the rest of the stuff so we'll definitely ultimately have that and I think it will be a pretty cool experience. It won't be any time in the near future but it's definitely something we are planning and I don't know if you necessarily go to a full length scientific analysis but there will be certain kinds of planets that will be more dangerous to enter and will require some skill to enter but I think there will be rewards if you get down there. Maybe some of you won't be able to scan from a distance without getting through the cloud layer or something like that. So, there you go.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 77·
Published on this date.29 Feb 2016