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Children must have something to play with, and if the children have the intellects and powers of godlings, then they play with the universe.Originally posted by Malenfant:
There's arguably little point in anything that the Ancients have done.
It's one reason I can't abide them, they're usually just assumed to have screwed around with the universe wholesale for completely random reasons (largely to explain nonsensical UWPs, actually). Once you start saying "the Ancients did it" then all pretense of a realistic universe goes out of the window.
The orbital period of such a planet would be about 1300 years, longer than the existance of the 3I. If there were planets around it in orbits scaled up from ours that would mean you would have to use the jump drive to go from one planet to the next. It would be like: Earth at 300 AU's, Venus at 210 AU's, Mars at 480 AU's. And since it takes one week to travel 37AU's at 6G acceleration, intrasystem travel would require a jump drive. (I don't think orbits really work like that though.) Even if there was a planet there in the HZ, unless you can predict with certainity when giants are going to supernova, you wont want to settle there.Originally posted by Malenfant:
just to further boggle, the habitable zone for a star like Antares is somewhere around 300 AU. That's about ten times as far from the centre of the star as the size of our entire solar system out to Neptune!
I think you'll be alright, Mickazoid."It could be tomorrow, but most likely it'll be 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 years from now," says Jeno Sokoloski.
Boy howdy, makes me glad I'm out in the oort cloud... (I'm about 20 miles from Peter.)Looking at the charts on this page & considering that our model if the sun is fifteen or twenty feet across, I can imagine a same scale model of the biggest giants crushing half the town.
Hmmm, where can I get one?