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nat longshot wrote:Lady Spank wrote:Lady Ayeipsia wrote:http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Deep_Space_Scanner_Probe_I
Again, deep space is not the same aa nul sec. If it was, these probes would be limited to nul/wormhole only much like interdictor probes.
Deep space is any area of space outside the bounds of a planet's gravitational influence. You have deep space pockets all over, including grav sites where one could mine.
Those grav sites are within 4au of a celestial and not in deep space. and in miles what is 4 ua? well here it is 92,955,807.273 mi is one au so 4 au is 371,823,229 miles or 4 times what the earth is from the sun. so yes that is deepspace. so you wrong and fail yet again.
This is one of those stupid arguments where people use an earth current term and try to apply it to sci fi. Its as bad as when they introduced the (exo)planetology skill.
The meaning of deep space has changed over time as humanity has travelled further. Initially it meant anywhere beyond Earth orbit. Then it meant anywhere beyond the asteroid belt. Then it meant anywhere beyond Pluto. Now it probably mostly means beyond our solar system. Obviously by this rational everywhere in eve is deep space. Also by this rational most of accessable eve would not be "deep space" to people actually living there. Note that there is no specific scientific definition of "deep space". It means "far away" and is dependant on context. Nasa for example uses the term varyingly depending what they are talking about. Talking about manned flight "deep space" means something very different to radio-telescope work.
Generally in sci-fi (the only thing we actually have to go by since man has not gone extra-solar) "deep space" refers to space outwith solar systems or even between galaxies. Due to the chosen method of ftl travel in eve (hyperspace between in system points) it is not actually possible to go extra solar (well it is but you would need to run a mwd for several years from the outermost planet in a big solar system), so clearly that is not how the term is used here. Instead you need to look at the backstory of eve itself, and specifically ORE. ORE got rich by its "deep space mining and exploration" in the Outer Ring region (0.0 space). Other eve background refers to space outwith the empires as "deep space" as well. So in the eve context it is not really out of the ordinary.
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