Solarys

Solarys Astronomy Planet questionnaire app

Errors on ‘Earth’. It asks the number of days in a year on Earth TWICE. The second time when you try to answer, it does not register. Therefore you cannot get the points or whatever it’s called to get the full circle. 2 It says Jupiter does not have seasons, which technically, is not correct. Jupiter is on a 3 degree axis tilt making seasons about 3 years long. Negligible perhaps, yet still enough to be considered “seasons” by astrophysicists, cosmologists, astronomers and myself, an amateur astronomer. Therefore, in order to get the answer correct, you have to answer with a lie. By the way, Venus is the planet without seasons. (3) Many of the numbers needed for the answers on different planets are rounded off, sometimes substantially, making the answers incorrect. After having this app for about 1/2 hour, I will uninstall it. Whoever designed this app is (1) Not that knowledgeable in astronomy. (2) Did not adequately research the solar system. (3)Or designed it for children, which then is also even worse, because we should teach children “correct facts”. Therefore, 2 thumbs down, junk the app. And please don’t let your kids see it due to their quick ability to absorb information. We don’t want them to remember falsehoods. (4) the app designer ought to do a lot more research, or go to school, so “he” or “she”, can re-design this app properly. Obviously, the app has potential because people have downloaded it, including myself. Too bad, many people rely on this app’s knowledge base and accept the app’s incorrect information. That’s the worst part about this app. (5) this app is a perfect example of the double and triple digit amount of “flawed” app’s and games available on Apple’s App Store & Google play stores. Therefore, the reason for at least “one star”, is that the app was free.

Some errors

There are some spelling and grammar errors. Also, it would be cool to see each planet in the context of the solar system, with the other planets you’ve unlocked. I hope the app goes onto explore the whole galaxy!