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Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet

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Re: Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet

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wumpus wrote: post #10
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #7

I’m imagining at least one rogue planet out there (they said they could be billions) was happily orbiting a star for billions of years, life formed, even relatively intelligent life, and then another rogue planet fell in to the solar system and passed right by the first planet in such a way as to eject it from the solar system without hitting it, and all this life on the planet suddenly loses daylight as their planet…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461

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Re: Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet

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Post by xpl »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #7

I’m imagining at least one rogue planet out there (they said they could be billions) was happily orbiting a star for billions of years, life formed, even relatively intelligent life, and then another rogue planet fell in to the solar system and passed right by the first planet in such a way as to eject it from the solar system without hitting it, and all this life on the planet suddenly loses daylight as their planet…

Kurzgesagt has a video on this ("What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZJlf5rHVs

Re: Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet

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Post by ineedasername »

I wasn't aware that planets could have traditional RPG roles. Whatever class Earth chose, it really needs to roll a 20 right now.

More in topic, I really like the idea of random planets floating the void on their own. I'd be really curious about they have a unique composition. Although the lack of an external energy source probably means there wouldn't be much potential for activity.

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Post by john_moscow »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #7

I’m imagining at least one rogue planet out there (they said they could be billions) was happily orbiting a star for billions of years, life formed, even relatively intelligent life, and then another rogue planet fell in to the solar system and passed right by the first planet in such a way as to eject it from the solar system without hitting it, and all this life on the planet suddenly loses daylight as their planet…

Not exactly that, but there's a cool strategy game [0] about managing a city hit by a gradually increasing wave of freezing cold.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostpunk

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Post by perl4ever »

wumpus wrote: post #10
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #7

I’m imagining at least one rogue planet out there (they said they could be billions) was happily orbiting a star for billions of years, life formed, even relatively intelligent life, and then another rogue planet fell in to the solar system and passed right by the first planet in such a way as to eject it from the solar system without hitting it, and all this life on the planet suddenly loses daylight as their planet…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461

Since you mentioned that before me, I'm going to link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision

It may not be very good as science fiction, but it's an interesting historical/social phenomenon.

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Post by tablespoon »

wumpus wrote: post #10
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #7

I’m imagining at least one rogue planet out there (they said they could be billions) was happily orbiting a star for billions of years, life formed, even relatively intelligent life, and then another rogue planet fell in to the solar system and passed right by the first planet in such a way as to eject it from the solar system without hitting it, and all this life on the planet suddenly loses daylight as their planet…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461

Also the "Silver Ghosts" [1] in Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence [2].

[1] https://xeelee.fandom.com/wiki/Silver_Ghosts

[2] Best read in the form of summaries and compilations of world-building backstory.

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