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Dyson Tree Life Idea and Vacuum-capable life; Thoughts on Dyson tree life and organisms able to survive in space.
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StrandedAlien
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I have this idea for a species of sapients (or two species) that lives on dyson trees. Presumably their ancestors evolved elsewhere, but at some point, the original owners of the trees disappeared and they just evolved from there. What sort of environmental pressures would be at work? Also, what would an organism need in order to survive at least temporary trips into the vacuum of space?
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What do you think the subsatce would be?
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Presumably, though, the plants wouldn't absorb the asteroid completely. Assuming the plants use photosynthesis, then they would need some way of keeping themselves near a star. The obvious solution would be to infest an asteroid belt, linking the asteroids together with vines and roots, until the plants had formed one super-organism, which was practically guaranteed to remain near a source of light. They could end up forming a ring-world, similar to the artificial one in Halo, which space-faring races might even colonise.
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A liveing ringworld? How would it stay centered on it's star? A 'roid hits it and next thing you know it's off-center and ramming into the star with explosove results.
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an asteroid i imagine would go right through it, and the star is rather far away
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If you crash into a star, you wouldn't explode. You'd vaporise.
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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I like this idea of a living ringworld. Maybe a very thin atmosphere could exist outside the hollow trunk, maybe trapped a bit by branches (the same way air gets trapped under your hair, kinda). Inside the trunk is another atmosphere thicker than before. And it would be cool if the dyson ringtree 'catches' asteroids or meteors that come across its path. Of course, this dyson ringworld would be a good alien ecosystem, especially if there's a sort of natural or bioengineered airlocks that could pepper the trunk.
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trapped outside the branches? Can you please explain?
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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I still think 'roids hitting it would have about the same effect on a dyson ring as a weed-wacker the size of a gas gaint.
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I think gravity and temperature would be very different. ;)
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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