In real life? It would be very short lived. In KSP, it can be said that it's a recent event as the game wouldn't be going on long enough for the rings to fall apart.
Okay, because nobody can seem to get it 100% right... In this update: Lava Planet Eve -Tiny captured asteroid moon Kerbin -Mun -Minmus Desert Planet -Large moon Gas Planet 1 -Ocean moon -Ice moon -Rocky moon -Bop, small rocky moon In future updates: Asteroid belt Gas Planet 2 -Rings -Ringed moon Gas Planet 3 -? Tiny Ice Planet -Tiny Ice Moon Gas Planet 4 -?
Yeah, they're images that have not been received yet. There actually are people who think that it's the result of NASA censoring things, unfortunately...
KSP is not a combat simulation. It will never be a combat simulator in any way. It will NEVER have ANY form of combat or weaponry. Please don't ask for it. Or multiplayer.
Charr is in fact tidally locked. Half of the planet is molten lava, the other half is barren volcanic wasteland. "The Lump" aka Gilly, is 26 km in diameter.
I have recently created the current smallest object in the solar system, a potato-like moon with only 0.005g at the surface. Here's me performing a sick jump with one of Tosh's rovers: In total, from hitting the small bump, to landing, it took about 6 minutes.
This thread is for discussing the next update, NOT whether Kurt "deserves" a light-hearted reference in the game... You should be glad he even let us join his stream in the first place, instead of just brushing us off and inviting some more well-known developers.
The atmosphere won't be breatheable, and there isn't going to be any life. The only thing stopping it from being covered in ice (like the second moon) is tidal heating caused by its close orbit to the gas giant and the orbital resonance with the two moons outward from it.
The gas planet's green color is going to be toned down a bit, as well as re-painted with more detail. The blue moon is going to be redone to include continents, instead of tiny islands.
It's not tied to speed. It seems to be tied to going very fast AND curving very sharply (eg, at perihelion around the sun, or, in my case, a low orbit around a gas giant) Still, the Kraken was shot and killed for 0.17, so it's a moot point anyway.