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Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
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Re: Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
#12What better intergalactic colony ship than a whole star system accelerated to a significant fraction of c.
Had the same thought... it's the Westfalia camper of a Class 2.5 civilization.
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#13I wonder how we'd feel as a species if our star was one of these instead of being the Sun. We'd see this amazing group of stars and planets, going away from us knowing the more we wait for space travel to less likely our species would to reach any other star system.
The Milky Way is due to collide with Andromeda in about 4 billion years, and there is apparently a 12% chance that whatever's left of us (!) will be spun out in the process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...
Re: Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
#14I wonder how we'd feel as a species if our star was one of these instead of being the Sun. We'd see this amazing group of stars and planets, going away from us knowing the more we wait for space travel to less likely our species would to reach any other star system.
"of course the galaxies are devoid of life. The amount of supernovas is just too great."
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#15I wonder how we'd feel as a species if our star was one of these instead of being the Sun. We'd see this amazing group of stars and planets, going away from us knowing the more we wait for space travel to less likely our species would to reach any other star system.
I have this science fiction writing/game backstory idea I recently came up with. Feel free to use it, as I guess I won't get around to do anything with it any time soon. Copying straight from my "ideas" file: At some point in time (past or future, or magically also present), a star passed in very close vicinity to our sun. It had a habitable planet in its system, full of alien plant and animal life. For the brief mom…
Wow. Just the changed mindset (compared to the present, at least) would be amazing.
"Are there others out there? Yes. And they're like us. We should try to meet again some day."
It's almost like a modern day Atlantis myth, but true.
If you want a really interesting setting for a game/book, imagine a major regression on Earth (standard post-apocalypse trope), and the colonists finally find a way to visit again...
Re: Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
#16I wonder how we'd feel as a species if our star was one of these instead of being the Sun. We'd see this amazing group of stars and planets, going away from us knowing the more we wait for space travel to less likely our species would to reach any other star system.
I have this science fiction writing/game backstory idea I recently came up with. Feel free to use it, as I guess I won't get around to do anything with it any time soon. Copying straight from my "ideas" file: At some point in time (past or future, or magically also present), a star passed in very close vicinity to our sun. It had a habitable planet in its system, full of alien plant and animal life. For the brief mom…
Kinda a cool idea in a Stargate-y, Ancient Astronauts kinda way.
It could easily be the origin of a story of the first interstellar star-ship from Earth traveling across the cosmos, only to reach a planet already inhabited by a human civilisation. (This would presume that knowledge of the traveler world was lost at some point)
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#17Can these very fast stars bump into another solar system? Probably very unlikely, but is it possible?
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#18Can these very fast stars bump into another solar system? Probably very unlikely, but is it possible?
Possible yes, likely, no. An example, the collision of the Milky Way with Andromeda is likely to produce no collisions of solar systems.
Space is big.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have this science fiction writing/game backstory idea I recently came up with. Feel free to use it, as I guess I won't get around to do anything with it any time soon. Copying straight from my "ideas" file: At some point in time (past or future, or magically also present), a star passed in very close vicinity to our sun. It had a habitable planet in its system, full of alien plant and animal life. For the brief mom…
Wow. Just the changed mindset (compared to the present, at least) would be amazing. "Are there others out there? Yes. And they're like us. We should try to meet again some day." It's almost like a modern day Atlantis myth, but true. If you want a really interesting setting for a game/book, imagine a major regression on Earth (standard post-apocalypse trope), and the colonists finally find a way to visit again...
Wasn't this sort of the idea behind the Homeworld games? Ancient artifact discovered in Antartica, left by the original settlers of Earth, leads to a quest to travel "home".
Re: Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
#20Can these very fast stars bump into another solar system? Probably very unlikely, but is it possible?
Possible yes, likely, no. An example, the collision of the Milky Way with Andromeda is likely to produce no collisions of solar systems. Space is big.
But if there is a different universe where gravity is not factored by the inverse square of the distance...