By dyson sphere I don’t mean putting oneill cylinders or solar panels around the star, the species itself can already use solar power[1]. I mean “cover your star with members of your species”
An achievement that can’t be added would be something like this
Unlucky: Be the unluckist person to have ever played thrive
An achievement that won’t be added would be something like this
Natural rebar: Make a species that has metal bones or exoskeleton
56 minutes into the 25th thrive podcast, they said there will not be metalic tissues.
There isn’t “absolutely more trouble waiting for any animal that tries to adapt to the conditions of space” that I don’t deserve to know. Until you say what is it that I misinterpreted, the burden of proof is on you.
unless it found a radioactive chunk to feed upon ↩︎
the devs don’t want to put space whales because it complicates how stages work (space stage starting when you first go to space) so they ask questions that show why it is impossible, but every question has its obvious answer, meanwhile @willow fills the thread with troll questions (“didn’t i say in a goldilocks zone”) so that the devs can lock the thread like the underwater discussions, @Abominable asks the same questions again and again, I link my previous answers, @fralegend015 is convinced i speak nonesense
But he used comparison to the underwater thread to discredit me, but I am not the one saying hydrothermal vents again and again, @Deus doesn’t read my answer to pressure, repeats @Buckly 's words that it is hard even for modern spacecraft to escape earth (noone says space whales can exist in super earths) and @Abominable reads absolutely nothing I write, but I am the bad guy who is obviously wrong.
You know what, I’d prefer to stay on topic too, but I am unable to answer your (aswerable) claims like the comment section in reddit, and we bury all the important stuff.
Life in space could arise quite easily: Start at a life-bearing moon with some sort of extreme desert algae similar to D. radiodurans.Some disruption throws the moon at its planet, and tidal forces rip it up. The extremophilic desert algae survives on in the new ring system it finds itself in, using photosynthesis and carbon from minerals to grow and reproduce
Complex life isn’t going to happen this way, though, seeing as the rings will dissappear rather quickly. Depending on what the original species are like, the most advanced life you’d get in rings would be on the level of a simplified placozoon
Not necessarily. Any life in space would need some way to hold water inside itself, and any water expended in photosynthesis could be regained using aerobic respiration with the oxygen from photosynthesis. They could also obtain extra water from minerals in the ring, allowing for growth and reproduction
So I assume there are these microbes, they stick to ice or minerals with hydrogen and oxygen and they have liquid water in them. Is it possible?[1]
And they couldn’t become complex you say? Why wouldn’t complex life survive, but simple life would?[2]
how would they stay liquid, how would they move? ↩︎
you may say, only the simple life survived the moon being ripped up. Both large species and microbes can end up in rings with geysers (without moons exploding) but the solution I found to radiation and pressure only works in large creatures (temperature isn’t a problem) ↩︎
complex ones need more resources like food (i think)
And even if you photosythesise you still need resources for your cells to build up and for reproducing, and without reproducing your species will go extinct
The total carbon used by all living things on Earth is 5.5 x 10^11 kilograms. The mass of Saturn’s rings is 1.5 x 10^19 kilograms which is mostly ice, the surface of Ceres (in the asteroid belt) is 20% carbon, if a gas giant had rings as massive as Saturn and with the same composition as Ceres, it could have life with the carbon mass of 3*10^18 kilograms, or 5.4 million times that of Earth (not considering other elements).
keep in mind that organism has to somehow move from rock to rock once one gets depleted, and why would species develop precise propulsion (edit: to move in space) considering it comes from water pools of a moon?