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...
I kind of want to write this as an Easter egg. Add something to the log. "Object <id> collided with the Earth. Simulation ended due to presumed destruction of survey telescope and collapse of global civilisation."
@astronomerritt I, as a user, would absolutely appreciate this easter egg!
@sundogplanets Alas, I think ending the simulation is a bit drastic for an Easter egg - there's a chance it could seriously annoy some poor NEO person running a huge simulation to find it failed halfway through... 😅
@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
