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| Draconis, Planet of Terror; Living planet orbitting pulsar | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 2 2013, 05:19 PM (1,859 Views) | |
| Deathbite42 | Nov 2 2013, 05:19 PM Post #1 |
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What if planets were alive? And how do they end up around pulsars? This series goes with the game Evolution Revolution, attached, but it is more of an Alternative Evo/Future, while this is Habitable Zone. They are connected in a very strange way, which will be sen later. Here goes: The planet is known as Draconis. He orbits a pulsar, known as Flash. His moons are known as Phaeton and Lucifer. Being a pulsar, Flash is super dense; it is two solar masses, but only the size of Manhattan Island. It is 100,000 Kelvin. Draconis is one Earth mass, no mistake, as he built our planet in His image. His orbit is an extreme ellipse, and He is tidally locked to Flash. Phaeton is about the size of the moon, (again, not an accident) but is very close to the planet, about 50,000 km. Lucifer is a bit further, 100,000 km, and is 3 times the size of the moon. Both orbits are almost completely circular. But a pulsar is the remnant of the largest explosion since the Big Bang, so why is there a planet orbiting it? And why is there life? Join us next time, for these questions and more, on Draconis, Planet of Terror. Please make suggestions as to how I can improve. |
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| Holben | Nov 8 2013, 03:19 PM Post #31 |
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I'm not sure how this solves the problem, but I think it means I should explain again how exposure to the pulsar will affect the planet. I drew diagrams but I'm not much of an artist. They should convey the meaning, regardless. t=0 seconds. Draconis is just about to suddenly appear in orbit of a pulsar. It is currently sitting there with its seas, land, and atmosphere (the slightly transparent blue shell around the planet) intact. Current atmospheric mass: 5e18kg (it doesn't matter if it's thicker, as you'll see the thing determining how many seconds the atmosphere lasts is how fast the molecules can get out of the way, not the number of them) ![]() Draconis appears in orbit. ![]() t=1 seconds. Half the planet's surface area is exposed to the radiation from the pulsar. This is 2.5e18kg of nitrogen; to heat it up enough to plasmify it and completely strip this side of the planet takes 2.625e21 J. It so happens that the energy incident on this side of the planet in one second is 2.26e26 joules; theoretically enough to plasmify the air it hits 100 times over. But the air being blasted away cannot move fast enough and protects the air below for a few seconds; enough time for air molecules to fly off into space. You can see the air on the part of the planet closest to the pulsar is blazing white-hot, with the air even around the edges red-hot as it is stripped away. ![]() t=5 seconds. There is no air on the side of the planet facing the pulsar. The pressure differential is so enormous that 2.5 trillion tonnes of air moves out of the remaining half of the atmosphere to enter the newfound void- but is immediately stripped away, the molecules flying off at vast speeds into the void of space. The air moving from one side of the planet to the other does not feel like a wind or a breeze; it strikes with a force many times that of the blast wave of a nuclear bomb. But its efforts to equilibriate pressure are doomed; just as quickly as the air reaches the exposed side it is gone. ![]() t=2 hours. The pressure on the side opposite the pulsar is now too low for anything, even if it could endure the constant rush of air, to breathe. The air is thinning, and the light of plasmifying air, previously as bright as the sun, is dimming. ![]() t=11 days. There is no more glow on the point on the planet closest to the pulsar; there is only vacuum there, and the radiation is already at work ablating the surface which is far less luminous, but would still be visible from space were it not for the bright light of the last few trillion tonnes of air plasmifying. And then they are gone; not a single molecule of air remains on the planet Draconis. ![]() t=1 day/1 year. 1 of the units of time which is both Draconis' days and years is over; 365 solar days. There is no part of the planet's surface that has not been scorched and begun to ablate under the furious intensity of the radiation from the pulsar. The planet shows no sign that anything ever existed on its surface. ![]() Pulsars are maybe the most hostile environment in the universe (black holes are arbitrarily dangerous). They are not a good place for matter to be. Electrical power lines, human muscle tissue, MRI scanners, and any moving charge creates an electromagnetic field. If electromagnetic fields blocked EM radiation, all these things would be surrounded by an opaque black shell since their fields blocked all EM radiation. I'm curious; why did you think EM fields stopped radiation? For many years, yes; if you put it at the very bottom of the crust, at the limit for any sensible materials, it could last over a millennium. Seeing as supercomputers work better the colder it is I have no idea why you would put it there, though. Can you draw a diagram of one of the nanobots, so I can understand? What mechanism do they use to do this? Then how do they interact with the population? But quantum entanglement doesn't transmit energy, and radio transmission of electricity will fry the nanobots. How do these mechanically work and get sufficient power? How do you keep them attached to the nanobot? So they go inside your ear canal and emit subliminal sound waves? |
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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. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| TAXESbutNano | Nov 8 2013, 04:19 PM Post #32 |
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I'm going back to basics.
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I see no reason to use other planets as resources when you've got straight-to-energy planets on your doorstep (and by that, I mean through the wormhole). If you want Draconis to destroy planets, it would be much more efficient to simply strip them of life (possibly by irradiating them with, I dunno, a pulsar :P). |
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| Russwallac | Nov 8 2013, 04:19 PM Post #33 |
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"Ta-da!"
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Also, subliminal messages have very little, if any, real effect. They *sometimes* give people an idea, but they're not any sort of mind control. |
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| Dragonthunders | Nov 8 2013, 04:31 PM Post #34 |
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I do not understand because they simply do not put the planet in a star, that if life could hold. also could change what subliminal messages by telepathy. |
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| Russwallac | Nov 8 2013, 04:40 PM Post #35 |
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"Ta-da!"
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'Cuz telepathy doesn't exist. |
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| Deathbite42 | Nov 8 2013, 07:39 PM Post #36 |
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I know they do, but I mean something extremely powerful. I create an opaque black shell too; it's a shadow. I was thinking of, like, a force field. Ali Red I already told you that everyone lives deep underground or underwater. Well, this drill is just a drill in miniature, except for the power source. And they are attached with graphene links. I said among other things, but I bet one kind does. BTW, Nano, that was why He was made by that pulsar.
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| Deathbite42 | Nov 8 2013, 07:40 PM Post #37 |
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I know they do, but I mean something extremely powerful. I create an opaque black shell too; it's a shadow. I was thinking of, like, a force field. Ali Red I already told you that everyone lives deep underground or underwater. Well, this drill is just a drill in miniature, except for the power source. And they are attached with graphene links. I said among other things, but I bet one kind does. BTW, Nano, that was why He was made by that pulsar.
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| colddigger | Nov 8 2013, 08:55 PM Post #38 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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That is the absence of light, it is neither opaque nor a shell. Also wouldn't the water be boiled away within minutes? Edited by colddigger, Nov 8 2013, 09:01 PM.
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| citrakayah | Nov 8 2013, 08:59 PM Post #39 |
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What do you mean, the planet was made by a pulsar? |
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| Space Gorilla | Nov 8 2013, 10:11 PM Post #40 |
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Am I the only one that's not buying the pulsar thing? Why does it have to be a pulsar? go with a blue subdwarf instead? |
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| colddigger | Nov 8 2013, 10:18 PM Post #41 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Nobody is buying the pulsar thing. |
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| Deathbite42 | Nov 9 2013, 12:32 AM Post #42 |
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That's why there is no water on that side. |
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| Deathbite42 | Nov 9 2013, 12:33 AM Post #43 |
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That's exactly what I mean. |
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| colddigger | Nov 9 2013, 12:41 AM Post #44 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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I don't think you understand the water cycle. Especially the water cycle of a planet with it's atmosphere torn off. It's a straight line upward. Explain why there is water. |
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| citrakayah | Nov 9 2013, 01:59 AM Post #45 |
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How as a planet made by a pulsar? |
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I'm an idiot, I meant ELECTROmagnetic field. And an EM field definitely stops EM radiation.





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