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Temporal displacement fields: Wrap you star system in one of those and remove from the normal universe with a time shift of a couple of seconds! Let those pesky K2 Dyson Sphere civilisation figure that out!
Tried that, it didn't work; that's how I ended up stuck in this insane reality where JavaScript ate the world, and my nickname is all I have to show for it.
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3 planets orbiting a common barycentre would be very cool. I think something like that was mentioned in the Peter F Hamilton "Night's Dawn" trilogy of sci-fi books.
Larry Niven's Known Space features a series of planets orbiting a common center like that; it's a grand engineer project, and a lifeboat of sorts.
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As detailed in the companion article [1], for every 54 orbits of planet 1, planets 2..6 orbit 36, 24, 16, 12, and 8 times respectively, giving successive ratios of 2/3, 2/3, 2/3, 3/4 and 3/4. After those 54 planet 1 orbits, all planets are in the same relative position. [1] https://www.space.com/six-sub-neptunes-found-100-light-years...
If a K1.5 wanted to do that just for shits and giggles, is there a viable way to slow down or speed up orbits of rocky planets? Like, wouldn't they be shooting a bunch of mass out of their system to even attempt this? If one could build a Dyson sphere, is that more difficult or less difficult than engineering a system like this? The sphere/swarm has some absurd amount of mass all in a very uniform orbit around the su…
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Flexbox will be seen by aliens as alien technology, our peak, our absolute pinnacle before collapse.
LOL, better then them finding the industry 10 years ago.
Just your regular resonant planetary system...Nothing to see here...Call me back when you find one where they orbit the star with periods that are a sequence of prime numbers.... "Resonance in the planetary system HD 110067" - https://www.dlr.de/en/latest/news/2023/04/six-planets-in-res...
Or one with three planet sharing the same orbit, perfectly spaced!
Spaced-out resonant triplets of bodies in the same plane are often dynamically stable - an imperfect ratio is damped by various orbital forces until it approximates a perfect ratio.
"alien" is just clickbait. I believe in aliens out there somewhere but nothing any human has ever seen.
I don't understand why "alien" is clickbait. If the system was artificially created, do you think it is more likely that humans are doing it?
Just your regular resonant planetary system...Nothing to see here...Call me back when you find one where they orbit the star with periods that are a sequence of prime numbers.... "Resonance in the planetary system HD 110067" - https://www.dlr.de/en/latest/news/2023/04/six-planets-in-res...
I’m not sure I want to meet the alien species that can arrange a star system into a prime sequence.
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Comment the title is base64 to avoid spoilers because ChatGPT does not recognize what book this is.
Good idea! Um9iZXJ0IEogU2F3eWVyIC0gU3RhcnBsZXgK
tldr: 1. Star system 100ly away. 2. Piqued interest of astronomical community, because "The six planets orbit their central star HD 110067 in a harmonic rhythm with planets aligning every few orbits" 3. No accurate data on masses of planets. 4. No radio signals or other "technosignatures" detected. So, super unclear what #2 means and why this is interesting at all / whether it's uncommon.
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LOL, better then them finding the industry 10 years ago.
I would love to see a movie where aliens show up to help us with the looming crisis that is about to destroy our civilization, and it's CSS.
"We have come to warn you. In your effort to create space for node_modules, you will consume the galaxy."