Quite true.i say everyone says their ideas and I’ll close the vote in half an hours,whichever time that lands in your time zone.
Edit: could have been edit into my previous message, apologies for double posting.
Other has definitely won. So far the ideas I’ve seen…
- Rogue planet (will remove terrestrial as an option, that won’t work at all)
- Orbiting black hole (planet or artificial structure or sorts)
- Star orbiting a black hole (I just made it up, might be fun)
- Trinary (will have to vote on how exactly that works)
- Orbiting white hole (not sure how that works)
Anyone want anything else on the poll?
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Don’t think anything can really orbit a white hole. Not only are they highly theoretical physics, but they also have negative gravity, don’t they? Rather hard to orbit something without a gravitational pull.
They have a gravitational pull from what I’ve heard, just you can’t get any closer than some point. I don’t remember if you get obliterated or just shoved away, the later of which suggests you could just hover at the boundary.
(editing this in to avoid double posting )
So, given the very tied nature of the poll on weather or not more than one poll should happen at once, and that thriveuser1454’s poll seems to be leaning towards multiple, I will in fact, do whatever I please. I will try my best to keep things that depend on one another in separate, non-overlapping polls, as half of people definitely care about that, but if I don’t think they’re very connected I’ll stick them in the same post. If you do think they are connected, ask, and I may lock the dependent poll til the first one is done.
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There is a theory that says that if the hydrogen concentration in the atmosphere is high enough, water can remain liquid even on the surface. But this means that the mass of the planet is large enough to contain hydrogens in the atmosphere, so it is a “super earth” rogue planet. moon big enogh can also help with that.
I think it would be interesting to make a solar system around a neutron star or white dwarf
Or alternatively - make the solar system normal, but the planet’s orbit elliptical - a short and extremely hot summer and a long winter, depending on where the planet’s orbit is, can be particularly interesting.
Another thing a little more science fiction, but compatible with theories - I suggest the “quantum solar system” - where according to quantum laws - the planet according to seasons, moves to a completely different solar system regularly every so often (I would say seasons according to the type of sun). It can be very interesting.
Ideas for an arsenal of planet types in case there is none:
I can suggest the absurd but interesting idea “Shellworld” - a layered planet (natural or artificial)
Or if you’re going for a little more science fiction but with a possible theory, you can do the “Expanding Earth” theory
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It’s neither, when you try to move towards a white hole the distance between you and the white hole increases.
If you were to walk towards a white hole you would do so normally without percieving any force pushing you (because there is none); let’s say you so so for a long time, if you were to stop and measure the distance you traveled, you would discover that the distance traveled is as if you just took a few steps.
If someone were to watch you walk towards a white hole it would look like you are walking in place.
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That would be interesting hot short summers and long winters though question is how life would cling on past extremophiles
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a dehydrated tardigrade like state for the offspring to stay in until spring comes, lots of insulation to not freeze and being a carnivore/parasite for that carnivore, burrowing and having a kind of secretion that hardens under a specific temperature and makes a lot of CO2 to become a foam between getting applied to a surface and hardening(this could produce a clade of big ant-like creatures that only need to produce heat outside of the hive during winter, and thus the hunters/scavengers and the queen are the only ones who need to eat more than a few times during the winter, and they build up their food stores(possibly insulated to keep heat out with an air channel to the surface to keep it frozen so it lasts longer) to keep the whole colony fed), going the wood frog route, having the adults and their offspring act like tardigrades, possibly even the first option, but the children aren’t born or laid as eggs, and instead stay in the corpse of their parent until spring, when they eat the corpse as their first few meals
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If a planet is staying near a white hole, will it be slowly pushed away from the object whilst gaining mass or ONLY gain mass from being near the mass-spewer?
Yep, thats why super-earth and gas giant are still on the table.
I didn’t think of elliptical orbits either! That’s fun, and yes, plenty of lifeforms can survive very long droughts, and the ones too early on the tree of life (LUCA) could just hide by hydrothermal vents or something.
Also thanks for making white holes so confusing.
Full idea list at the moment:
- Rogue planet: super earth (includes sub-neptunes) or moon of gas giant
- Orbiting black hole: planet or artificial structure of sorts
- Orbiting black hole and star: planet and votes about layout
- Trinary: full planet vote, a lot of voting about how everything is layed out.
- Orbiting white hole: full planet vote, heavily deprecated bc these things are weird and don’t seem to exist.
- Orbit a weird star: Newtron star or white dwarf, these could also both be options for one of the stars in a trinary system.
- Very elliptical orbit for exaggerated seasons: full planet vote + star vote (and an option in the latter for a binary system)
- Quantum system (I don’t like this one it’s confusing and seems to lead to the same effect as the elliptical one.)
Edit: vote opens in 45 minutes if you had another idea get on it
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I guess you can still put it in the “what do you want the planet to orbit” poll.
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I will. I’m just telling you it’s confusing
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Mhm trinary or extreme seasons gas giant hmhm
Questions, would very eleptical orbit work with trinary?
Or combine that with the idea of orbiting a black hole and have a Birch World.
I’ll add Birch world bc those are fun.
Apologies for being 4 hours late, I was a bit busy. Here’s the poll on solar system type!
- Rogue planet: super earth (includes sub-neptunes) or moon of gas giant
- Orbiting black hole: planet or artificial structure of sorts
- Orbiting black hole and star: planet and votes about layout
- Trinary: full planet vote, a lot of voting about how everything is layed out.
- Orbiting white hole: full planet vote, heavily deprecated bc these things are weird and don’t seem to exist.
- Orbit a weird star: Newtron star or white dwarf, these could also both be options for one of the stars in a trinary system.
- Very elliptical orbit for exaggerated seasons: full planet vote + star vote (and an option in the latter for a binary system)
- Quantum system (I don’t like this one it’s confusing and seems to lead to the same effect as the elliptical one.)
- Birch World (skips planet vote)
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I sure hope everyone doesn’t just vote only for their own ideas…
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I could switch out the poll for an approval voting one, where you vote for every option you’d be good with. Do you think that would help? (for polls with a lot of options)
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I myself am a bit tied between trinary or the eleptical orbit
(elliptical orbit I’m gonna make sure can be an elliptical orbit around a star that isn’t alone in case people really want more than one sun)
Yeah, I don’t feel like redoing the vote or changing what seems to be a clear outcome, but in the future approval voting is definitely how I’ll be doing it. Seems much better not to make people have to choose all out when there’s like a half dozen pretty good options.
Edit: we have got a clear leader! and about as many votes as I’m expecting, but I dont have the time to make the next poll right now, so I might as well leave the vote open til I have it. The options will be for the star class, whether it has a neighbor star, and the type of the planet, in some sort of order. I haven’t a clue. After we know the star’s type/size, we can decide how extreme the eliptical orbit is, knowing about how far it’s be from the host star. Also an option for extreme summers as well ? swing right through the habitable zone lol. If you have a preferred order for the first three, tell me, otherwise i’ll come up with whatever. No weird stuff for the star the planet orbits (weird celestial bodies lost) but if having a second star wins I’ll open it up to weirder stars (and maybe a vote to add a third star, but I’ll make it require a lot of votes to go the right way, trinary didn’t win).
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Long live the elliptical orbit planet
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