I enjoy that one of the problems we're dealing with in our survey simulator (which simulates the results of an astronomical survey of solar system objects) is "what if one of the simulated planetoids collides with the Earth? we should probably remove it from the simulation, right?"
Perhaps we should check the size of the planetoid to see whether the telescope (and human civilisation) still exists, and if not, end the simulation...
@astronomerritt I, as a user, would absolutely appreciate this easter egg!
@astronomerritt
Make a checkpoint, set up a new simulation to continue from the checkpoint, play a video showing how you narrowly escape the earth on a spaceship to heroically continue the simulation, kille the current process and start the new one.
It's a lot of effort, but such is the reality of seminal work!
@sundogplanets