Not all cool ideas can be put into an evolution simulator… especially if they’re not realistic at all.
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I love really goofy out there ideas, while I actually don’t care about living planets, I do hope space whales sneak in somehow, I just love those kind of things.
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I think those were already ruled out as “satire suggestions” or something like that…
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Honestly it just sounds like an easter egg that can be used to give the easter egg toggle some use.
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I am not sure that’s a good reason to make an easter egg…
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So like having a random “Ego the Living-Planet” or Space Whales easter egg somewhere in the Galaxy?
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I think those would have much more reason for being added than, say, something culturally irrelevant (here).
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It can be a planet that exists only when the date in your computer is april first. When you approach it with your spaceship, there is no ground, it is just entities. There are cows standing on top of each other, and when you get too close, when they load, the game crashes. And you can describe your cpu power to others using a brand new unit, cow planet altitude last seen.
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I feel like this would just be confusing to the players rather than anything. Especially as benchmark tests in the game are already a thing.
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I wanted to come back to this since this thread has had some activity. Even if a lifeform evolving to take over an entire planet and spread into space is unrealistic, wouldnt an end scenario of a “Grey Goo” apocalypse basically be this? If so and we had encounters with AI machines of other empires in the space stage, this could be something you could encounter. For those who dont know, a Grey Goo scenario is when a self replicating machine goes rouge and starts consuming resources unintended by the original creators, and can easily wipe out the biosphere of a planet if the materials they reproduce with are organic (or even non organic if their mining operations were extensive enough).
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Would grey goo be capable of escaping it’s planet?
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Maybe the gray goo can start eating distant galaxies?
Also, what if there is a rare chance to encounter a planet on the back of giant elephants that are on the back of a giant turtle (does it count as a living planet)?
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If the replicating machine was originally programmed to have rocket capabilities, or just evolved over time (self replicating entities are capable of evolution) then yeah possibly. I’m pretty sure a classic sci fi example of this is the Berserker series
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Why do you want these types of easter eggs? This thread wasnt a ludicrous idea for the hell of it, it was specifically cause the topic has been touched by sci fi a lot over the years. Something like this has nothing to do with the original thread.
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Could Gray Goo eventually start consuming and take over things like stars, given enough time? Or would it be restricted to only planets?
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“given enough time” = “yeah i suppose” for any given question which is not physically impossible.
So, assuming you mean starlifting and not swallowing (too hot, you cant eat it :/) yeah totally. If you could dyson swarming as “consuming” than think like project hail mary, even simple critters can trigger an exponential population increase when given the nigh unlimited solar energy of a star
edit: to be clear i do actually think life in space is perfectly plausable. it doesnt look like i made that too clear in 2024.
evolve on a planet or moon with enormous geysers like enceledus, or be very hardy near volcanos, and get blasted into space, or life on a super earth with a huge atmosphere, evolve to live near the top of it and get hit by solar wind. we know some mosses and extremophiles can survive in space, assuming it’s doable, especially on planets with ring formations to source water and shelter from, a small ecosystem could build up. Size is extremely desirable to stabilize temperature and resist radiation. will anything get planet-sized? No, ofc, the pressure in the middle would be lethal. Would anything approach that? maybe, imagine a small moon which is utterly transformed by life. Probably not altering its own orbit or anything tho
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Shouldn’t the magnetosphere have deflected it?
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If you are far enough up into the atmosphere, you possibly could be outside the magnetosphere. I THINK that is what Deathwake meant, though I may have misread the meaning.
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Isn’t the magnetosphere typically far larger than than the atmosphere though?
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this would be much easier on a planet with a large atmosphere and a small magnetosphere, however even on earth, while solar wind itself doesnt really hit the atmosphere, it can cause disruptiipns in the megnetosphere that reach the atmosphere, including the charged particles that cause auroras. Assuming an extremophile evolved to interact with the magnetic field or charged particles of the ionosphere or whatever it could totally be effected by mild solar flares without being in the areas that would irradiate you. anything to knock it into space.
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