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Minecraft. modding. A Minecraft mod is a mod that changes aspects of the sandbox game Minecraft. Minecraft mods can add additional content to the game, make tweaks to specific features, and optimize performance. Thousands of mods for the game have been created, with some mods even generating an income for their authors.
Alien Planet. Alien Planet is a 2005 docufiction TV special created for the Discovery Channel. Based on the 1990 book Expedition by the artist and writer Wayne Barlowe, Alien Planet explores the imagined extraterrestrial life of the fictional planet Darwin IV in the style of a nature documentary. Although closely following Barlowe's depiction ...
WW: August 2000. Genre (s) 4X, Turn-based strategy. Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a 4X video game, considered a spiritual sequel to the Civilization series. Set in a science fiction depiction of the 22nd century, the game begins as seven competing ideological factions land on the planet Chiron ("Planet") in ...
Mode (s) Single-player. Aven Colony is a city-building strategy video game developed by Mothership Entertainment and published by Team17. [2] The Beta was released on September 8, 2016 on Microsoft Windows. The main storyline revolves around the human colonisation of an alien planet, in which a new colony must be built in order to survive.
Relics of an ancient planet might be hiding under our feet, according to new research. Some scientists believe that a “protoplanet” named Theia collided with Earth some 4.5 billion years ago.
Nemesis – Hypothetical star orbiting the Sun, supposedly responsible for extinction events. Planet Nine – Hypothetical Solar System planet. Theia – Planet hypothesized to have impacted Earth and created the Moon. Tyche – Hypothetical gas giant in the Oort cloud. Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and pseudoscience.
The planet endured tough times during its star's death throes. "It may have been a lava planet when the star became a red giant, then eventually cooled down to its current freezing state," Zhang said.
Extrasolar planets in fiction. Artist's impression of a planet in a far-off system. Planets outside of the Solar System have appeared in fiction since at least the 1850s, long before the first real ones were discovered in the 1990s. Most of these fictional planets do not differ significantly from the Earth, and serve only as settings for the ...