oooh that’s fun. Like a weaponized quasar would need to be enormous, maybe not galaxy but yk, large.
Would’ve been interesting/funny if the brown dwarf won but eh, what’s one gonna do with the public opinion choose something else.
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certainly hoping red dwarf wins, instead of us having more confusing polls and figuring out what the hell people mean.
Doesn’t really help that quarks stars for example are super dense and would be the main point of the system compare to the dwarves due to how gravity and density works
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I don’t particularly care if the system orbits around the far star, or the far star around the main system. It makes little difference, to my knowledge.
really a separate post, but we avoid double posting like civilized people (this is an edit btw). I have closed the polls! our answers seem pretty good. We have a great F type star for our planet to orbit, and a distant red dwarf star, orbiting around the binary system, though farther out than our planet. We still need to know what the partner for our main star is. G type did well in the polls so I’ll have it be an option even if they are close in size.
- White dwarf (dim)
- Brown dwarf (dim)
- Red dwarf (less dim)
- K-type (pleasant and orange)
- G-type (averageish)
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Also, this won’t much effect the planet, aside from aethetics a bit, so lets have that vote
- Super-earth (high gravity, lots of water, includes sub-neptunes)
- Terrestrial (normaler: earth, venus, mars. Still lot of options)
- Moon of Gas Giant (poll to see how tidal heating works, could be significant energy source in winter)
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Possible Europa-like gas giant moon is on the table but discouraged bc that wastes the potential of the elliptical orbit and seems harder to get into space.
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Something is not quite right…
Underwater civs cannot get to space, unless you give them “powers”.
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unless they start on a river. i don’t want to hyllaynia to send me to the abyss so lets just say i’m writing a thesis and it solves 90% of the problems
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Jesus the planet [or gas giant] gonna get biden blasted when it dares to enter its hot summer if its G and F (if anyone has seen what occurs when a gas giant enters close to their star orbit, just to be quick the upper atmopshere get blasted away from radiation and solar winds which results in the creation of gas dwarfs or normal planets due to no atmosphere withstanding it.
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You mean freshwater-type underwater civs or amphibious civs?
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Yeah that’s definitely a worrying prospect, I was assuming barely peaking in and out of the habitable zone, and any long leaps out of the habitable zone would be to the cold side. The reason I emphasized hot summers with F type is because they have lots of ultraviolet radiation, so it would be pretty brutal being outside in the summer. Assuming anything without a strong magnetic field would be 100% doomed, yes.
Fixed the poll, apologies about that eek-
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By the way, the moon of the gas giant option should be a captured terrestial planet, since the moons created by gas giant are in most cases too light to support life long-term, if we are going to make this system atleast a bit realistic.
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Yeah, the gas giant would have to basically be a star for the appropriate mass Moons to work at all. Of course our solar systems example moon of disproportionate size, Triton, is a bit hecking weird for my taste. Retrograde orbits don’t sound safe to me, and tidal locking is likely without Galilean moons, though we could go for a second weird elliptical orbit instead to avoid tidal locking, or take the hit and have two very different sides to the planet.
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Gas giant magnetic field + habitable moon magnetic field?!
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Triton is thought to be a captured dwarf planet, the remnants of Neptune’s “true moons” are inside of Triton’s orbit.
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Yeah retrograde does not sound safe at all. I meant captured planet though yeah. Edit: eek the phrasing moon of disproportionate size implies our moon if you think about it, but I meant moons captured so they don’t have to follow normal rules.
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What if it orbits like this with another moon of similiar size (double habitable moons?)?
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that’s totally unhinged, kinda cool but seems quite unsafe and i worry wouldn’t work for any object large enough to have a magnetic field, so yeah they’d have to be moons. edit: getting the hang of the idea, sounding less ridiculous, still pretty wild
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So, correct me if i’m wrong
There will be two stars in a binary orbit, and a red dwarf orbiting the pericenter very far away
Then there is a gas giant so big that if i fart inside its atmosphere it will become a brown dwarf, and it’s orbital period is constantly entering and exiting the habitable zone in a way that its have an tolerable average temp
And our planet will orbit it with a weird af orbit that don’t even finish spining around the star??
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From what I can read is two Red dwarves with a single F star
F star and K star (I think) orbiting each other, and one distant K star
The gas giant won’t be particularly large, that’s what all the talk about huge moons and capturing planets was. For a moon to originate naturally the way we need it to, yes, the gas giant would be titanic, but there’s a better way, capturing some poor planet that’s already a good size. The famous example in our solar system is on Neptune, which isn’t large, and even an earth sized planet could be capturing by a Jupiter-sized gas giant.
Edit, also the orbit does finish horseshoeing is relative. It is, however, very silly. And no horseshoeing has been confirmed, it’s an idea on the table.
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