Neither is the moon. (Destiny)

by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 08:37 (3473 days ago) @ Cody Miller
edited by dogcow, Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 09:05

Generally I'm pretty happy with how "right" Bungie got details. I've often thought of compiling a list of things they got right & wrong with regards to physical correctness. I'll have to add this to my list of things they missed, so far it's pretty small:

Things they got wrong:
1- Gravity isn't different on the different planets, it should be!
2- The stars don't move through the sky with the sun while on the moon, they should!
3- The day-night cycle is too fast on the moon when compared with the Earth's (it should really move at approximately 1/28th the speed that it does on the Earth). I wonder if they got it right on mars & venus, I doubt it.
4- The sun doesn't take up a larger/smaller proportion of the sky on the different planets (I have not actually measured this).

Now you could argue away a lot of these with Traveller Space Magic™, but I'd like to think that the traveller isn't THAT magic.