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Starless planets may be habitable after all

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Mon, 2011-02-21 17:18
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TheWanderingJewels TheWanderingJewels's picture
Starless planets may be habitable after all
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928005.200-starless-planets-may-... interesting article and inspiration for a gatecrashing adventure
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Mon, 2011-02-21 20:55
The Green Slime The Green Slime's picture
Re: Starless planets may be habitable after all
I wonder how difficult it would be to locate such a planet, even if you were on it? Certainly it would be practically impossible to spot it from Earth due to the lack of any nearby star, and even if you could triangulate known stars from the planet's surface, how the hell to you track the chaotic wanderings of a deep space world cut loose of its sun? More intriguing yet: why was the cursed planet ejected from it's system in the first place?! /Lovecraftian italics
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Mon, 2011-02-21 22:03
root root's picture
Re: Starless planets may be habitable after all
root@Starless planets are full of psychic octopi who want your brain meats [hr]
The Green Slime wrote:
why was the cursed planet ejected from it's system in the first place?! /Lovecraftian italics
For an eldritch and unknowable reason, of course.
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Mon, 2011-02-21 22:21
The Green Slime The Green Slime's picture
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Or random fluctuations in stellar gravitational fields. But honestly who cares about that? Eldritch and unknowable FTW. I've long predicted a sharp decline in cosmology and archaeology research as both fields slowly fill up with mythos freaks who've grown up unwittingly supporting the meme that Some Things Man Should Not Know. I suspect if I spotted this new planet through a telescope my eyeball would psychosomatically explode and I'd run off, naked and blood-smeared, shrieking praises and abundance to our new fungal overlords.
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Tue, 2011-02-22 01:39
Lord High Munchkin Lord High Munchkin's picture
Re: Starless planets may be habitable after all
Or, you would start maniacally drawing non-Euclidean geometric diagrams in your own blood and bodily fluids on all available surfaces.
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Tue, 2011-02-22 11:36
nezumi.hebereke nezumi.hebereke's picture
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You can also survive if you get energy from the gravitational pull of a large parent, like we see with Europa and Jupiter. I used this on a little gatecrashing adventure for one of my groups recently.
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Wed, 2011-02-23 15:51
The Doctor The Doctor's picture
Re: Starless planets may be habitable after all
The Green Slime wrote:
More intriguing yet: why was the cursed planet ejected from it's system in the first place?! /Lovecraftian italics
I believe the words "Hold my beer, I want to try something," apply here. An alien race native to an exoplanet learns to harness more and more of the energy of their local star and begins experimenting with new and exotic branches of science... and then a mistake is made before anything else has a chance to happen to the planet. Oops.
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