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The Shee and their planet, Albia
Topic Started: Dec 25 2009, 08:42 PM (1,837 Views)
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Jul 9 2009, 09:38 PM
They sound like a very interesting species can you give any other info on them? They also sound like aztec equivilents with the whole wheel part.


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The water boils not because of temperature but because of pressure. The liquid expands because there is nothing around it, and it expands so rapidly that it becomes a gas. Hence, boiling.

And a planet spinning fast enough to flatten out into a disc would probably benefit from a higher gravity. A low-G planet spinning that fast might just fly apart.
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Can I try to expaln?

The planet of Albia is shaped like a beachball with someone sitting on it. The equador is wider then the land anywhere else, the only place where anought matter is underneath to hold on to an earth-type atmosfear and with it, water and life. The rest of the planet is a thin aired wasland kind of like mars. Complex life only lives on the equador. Albia gained it's strange shape by a huge astroid hitting it and flatning it out when it was forming.
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Oh now I get it. So it's kind of like a donut shape, except it still has a (small) center? Kind of like something punched straight through it when it was still a molten sphere and for whatever reason it did not return to a spherical shape in time? Wait, is that what you've been saying?
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Oh now I get it. So it's kind of like a donut shape, except it still has a (small) center? Kind of like something punched straight through it when it was still a molten sphere and for whatever reason it did not return to a spherical shape in time? Wait, is that what you've been saying?
Yes, only due to the shape the only place with anougth gravaty to hold on to an earthlike atsmshpere is the equador.
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So what is it that keeps the planet in that "squished" shape? The only thing I can think of that can accomplish that is centrifugal force from a swift planetary rotation, and that's ignoring the meteor-caused toroidism. And if it is just a recent development, what's keeping the temperatures low enough to support life? They'd basically be living on magma.
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So what is it that keeps the planet in that "squished" shape? The only thing I can think of that can accomplish that is centrifugal force from a swift planetary rotation, and that's ignoring the meteor-caused toroidism. And if it is just a recent development, what's keeping the temperatures low enough to support life? They'd basically be living on magma.
It cooled off into rock and isen't "squished" anyway very much. It's just "squished" anought that there is only breathable air on the equador and the air is at mounton like thickness. A human raised on earth, at sea level would be able to breath but just barely. Albian life is adapted for this. The "seas" are water-filled cracks in the rock on the equador. Other crasks and seas lie elsewhere about the planet but due to the thin air keeping the temp low are frozen and apart from microbes, lifeless.
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So now that the shape of the planet is worked out let's move on to the life...
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Hold on. I still don't see why the natural gravitational forces of a planet large enough to hold an atmosphere don't bring the planet itself into a more spherical shape.
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Technically it should, but if the Shee survive on a very thin atmosphere it would be slightly easier. Also, you said this was a low-grav world, so many lighter, and in fact most, gases would have escaped.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Technically it should, but if the Shee survive on a very thin atmosphere it would be slightly easier. Also, you said this was a low-grav world, so many lighter, and in fact most, gases would have escaped.
The air of albia is like that of an earthly mounton in the places with life. Also, as stated Albia is low-G.
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So now that the shape of the planet is worked out let's move on to the life...
Can we do this now?
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It's your thread, so you can do whatever you want. I can tell you're eager to move on with your project, so I'll keep my questions to myself from here on out.
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If what you want is to make the life it's ok you don't need to think in the astrophysics and geophysics of the planet so you can make an ordinary planet..

If you want a disk like world it means that you need to see which are the main consequences.

At the moment what you think that the planet would look like is wrong.
The planet would have its lower gravity zone on the equator (following your thinking it would have less air pressure on equator not in poles)...
The gravity difference wouldn't be enough to make significant air pressure difference on the atmosphere or in the ocean's depth.

And why? Planets don't behave like a solid, you're thinking that a spinning ball, if it has water on the surface, the water would move to the equator, but planets behave like a fluid, but not like a water drop on space, due to the surface tension that keeps the water molecules all together, what keeps the planet is the gravity. Is the gravity-centrifugal force equilibrium that will make the planet shape, which makes its surface characteristics more similar than what you think.
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If what you want is to make the life it's ok you don't need to think in the astrophysics and geophysics of the planet so you can make an ordinary planet..

If you want a disk like world it means that you need to see which are the main consequences.

At the moment what you think that the planet would look like is wrong.
The planet would have its lower gravity zone on the equator (following your thinking it would have less air pressure on equator not in poles)...
The gravity difference wouldn't be enough to make significant air pressure difference on the atmosphere or in the ocean's depth.

And why? Planets don't behave like a solid, you're thinking that a spinning ball, if it has water on the surface, the water would move to the equator, but planets behave like a fluid, but not like a water drop on space, due to the surface tension that keeps the water molecules all together, what keeps the planet is the gravity. Is the gravity-centrifugal force equilibrium that will make the planet shape, which makes its surface characteristics more similar than what you think.
O.K. let's get rid of the disk and use a normel planet. But it's low-G.

The life of Albia started with ann explosion of strange forms almost all of which died out quickly. The ones that lived and started to rule the seas were somewhat like crabs in their looks and known as crobsters. They had six limbs, a large tail covered in boney armor wich could be folded over the main body to protect it and two eyes on small truets on the frount of the body. Many lived in crab or lobsterlike niches on the seabed but some evolved the four back legs into large bone-riged paddles. The two forelimbs where covered in a flap of skin and swung forward forming a sort of lower jaw. The tail formed a paddle for stearing and the creature, known as a Borland had evolved. It was to be the baises for most life that would live on Albia.
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