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[Bla]

BOOOM!!!
"In space, no one can hear you scream."
And I know there's no boom in a vacuum, but... Here's a screenshot of a galaxy collission I tried to make look like a nuclear bomb blast.

[InfoBloe]

Haha thats awesome, is it possible to post the system that you made that did that, id like to try it myself 

[Bla]

Yes sir. Here it is.
First, there are three galaxies. Leave them alone and let them collide. When the two heavy galaxies have passed each other, pause the sim, place a black hole in the middle of the new galaxy (where they crossed each other) with the mass of the two galaxies and remove the galaxies (not the particles, just the bodies they're applied to). Let the sim continue, and at one point it will look like a nuke blast if you turn the image by 180 degrees.

[Naru523]

Now I can imagine hearing the explosion:

" pppppppPPPPPPEWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "
hehe.

[atomic7732]

KABOOM!!!!!

Yay! Explosions FTW!

[Dan Dixon]

That's very cool Bla.

I love all the the crazy stuff that can be done with gravity.

[Maccara]

That's cool!

As a general side note (not criticizing this, as this looks cool as-is): did you know, that a real nuclear explosion in space will look nothing like the ones we would see on earth due to absence of atmosphere (which is responsible for the shock wave, mushroom shape, visible blast and attenuates radiation/emp effects greatly).

[atomic7732]

I never actually thought of that... Hmm... Good point.

[Bla]

That's cool!

As a general side note (not criticizing this, as this looks cool as-is): did you know, that a real nuclear explosion in space will look nothing like the ones we would see on earth due to absence of atmosphere (which is responsible for the shock wave, mushroom shape, visible blast and attenuates radiation/emp effects greatly).

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Yes, I did know that.
I should've mentioned it, sorry.