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02-05-2019, 10:16 PM | #22 | |
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02-05-2019, 10:20 PM | #23 | |
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There's also a suggestion, on the Wikipedia page for pulsar planets, that one may be the carbon remnant of a companion star. Now that would be quite the sight for miners.
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02-05-2019, 10:23 PM | #24 |
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Re: [Space] Exotic star system features, and their storytelling role
What about scenarios where a Sol-like star is orbiting a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole? Even in the neutron star case, if the primary is only giving off "thousands" of times the normal solar wind, could the companion have a habitable planet? In any of these cases could you end up with differences that matter to the economics of the companion's planets, e.g. certain elements being more abundant in the system?
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02-05-2019, 10:28 PM | #27 |
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In the former case, the planets have survived a red giant, which is presumably possible at sufficient range (though at longer ranges, mass loss may mean the stars are no longer orbiting one another). In the latter cases, they've survived a supernova, which again might be possible depending on distance but would certainly eliminate life.
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02-05-2019, 10:31 PM | #28 | |
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Huh, side note, if a planet once had life but was sterilized by a supernova, couldn't the resulting planet be oddly human friendly, with no native life to try to eat you or your crops, but with a level of oxygen you wouldn't find on what Space calls an Ocean world? |
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02-05-2019, 10:31 PM | #29 |
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Mainly that it may be like a giant diamond the mass of Jupiter, though I suppose it should be possible for a smaller planet people could actually land on without superscience.
I just find the imagery properly sci fi.
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02-05-2019, 10:55 PM | #30 | |
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Note that killing all lifeforms with radiation doesn't get rid of the carbon and hydrogen in their tissues as just one example of the problem.
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