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Old 02-21-2018, 04:34 PM   #15
malloyd
 
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Default Re: Weather in a Dysonish sphere

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Originally Posted by Dalillama View Post
I was envisioning zero G except where the rocks or globules are big enough to have gravity.


Many of them. The blazing gasballs might have some as well.
Probably not if they are actually blazing - if they were big enough to have much gravity, the oxygen would presumably probably sink down below the butane pretty quickly, any burning still happening is *way* below the cloud tops. Of course the whole system is probably much too recent for that, or the chemistry would have run to equilibrium long ago anyway.

Seriously I don't think this is a sustainable natural system - it's either being maintained by god-like power (in which case the "weather" is whatever said power wants it to be) or a very recent (like thousands of years tops) creation that hasn't quite had enough time to fall apart yet.
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