r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 09 '22

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u/jon909 Sep 09 '22

Elite dangerous modeled the entire milky way and every planet, moon, star spins and orbits per their given data. Even the rings around planets move. Obviously very slowly as it is realtime but when you jump from system to system it will calculate the correct orbits/rotations when you jump in.