Changing to a More Accurate Planet Shape (April Fool's)

[HyperbolicHadron]

Recent groundbreaking efforts in astronomy have discovered that almost all planets outside of our solar system are actually toroidal in shape. In fact, it turns out that many of the planets inside of our solar system are also toroidal as well once reanalyzed with modern techniques. Scientists now believe that it is almost certain that any life will only be found on toroidal planets as well due to their unique properties in enabling functional ecosystems.

And so Thrive will adapt to this new view of the universe: we will have all planets in Thrive now be topologically superior toroidal planets by default! We will still allow for spherical planets to be enabled, but this will be a non-LAWK option.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

What happens when one launches a ship through the central hole of such planet?

[HyperbolicHadron]

You can actually have semi-stable orbits through the hole, like this one that just bob up and down:

Or crazier ones like this, which orbit around the center:

Or a figure 8 orbit around the torus:

This website has lots of great information:
https://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2014/02/torusearth.html

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

By the way WHAT research specifically lead to this revelation in the knowledge of the planets’ shape?

[HyperbolicHadron]

Scientists have long speculated on the Earth-Moon system being generated by an impact-merge-separation event between proto-Earth and another planetoid. Recent science has investigated more into how exactly that spectacular event played out, which has resulted in the theory that Earth was once a Synestia, a molten semi-toroidial ring of rock after the collision.
Our Earth-Moon system is of course a degenerate case of this, where the proto-torus degenerated into two individual spherical bodies after loosing angular momentum. Naturally, most other objects in the universe would retain their angular momentum and form into a solid torus.

Here is a short article on it:

How the Moon Formed Inside a Vaporized Earth Synestia

Earth Was Probably Once Part of a Hot Molten Donut

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So most other planets are far larger I presume?

[HyperbolicHadron]

They do not need to be, the ‘donut’ configuration simulated in this article has approximately 1 Earth mass, but it does have lower gravity than a hypothetical ‘spherical’ planet would, being at most about 60% of Earth. The ‘hoop’ configuration needs 6 Earth masses to get a gravity of 1g.

[handy (youssef)]

I still think this needs more time to be verified while the possibility exists a round or slowly oval earth looks more logic to me , and since this is just a new research lead by a new model , I prefer letting it mature first

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

No, it was confirmed by Einstein the 2nd. Why would anyone ever doubt what they are sure of?

[dan54]

I’m sorry, but this thread is simply incorrect. It has been known for centuries and proven countless times that planets are not toroidal in shape, but are flat discs. /j

(edit because i’m paranoid - this was an april fools joke lol)

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

There’s also been a recent movement for planets actually all being “dinosaur-shaped”…

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

FOOLS!!! All planets are CLEARLY chocolate chips!

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Nah, no planets actually exist. They are all simply “big asteroids” and not ““planets””.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

I mean, several centuries ago, the “Big Asteroids” were considered Planets, along with the major Moons of the then observable Gas Giants.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Then it’s only logical that all celestial bodies are just asteroids! Even Earth! /j

[handy (youssef)]

I think this is no more about the logical shape of planets but more on the subjective nature of human perception and concepts but any way ig gravity as we know it holds on , an oval or round earth is what nature could probably create

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Well apparently no, since as the hadron said all other planets are toruses.

[Deathwake (i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)]

that makes so little sense, if planets are always under such pressure they become round then how do planets form at all? what makes a protoplanetary disk different from a “temporarily” non round planet? those seperated into planets and moons and rings and teapots, why can’t planets do similar things? they obviously can, most exoplanets are split between “bagel” type planets and “donut” type planets

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Is it “bagel” or “Baeg’ehl”?