• Aisteru
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    566 months ago

    Imagine an alien civilization for which the idea of orbiting a star is impossible to fathom… So cool!

    • Bakkoda
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      146 months ago

      If they weren’t rogues you’d have already discovered them by now. Barbarians aren’t quiet and clerics are always talking.

    • GreyBeard
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      56 months ago

      I don’t know, but I’m a big fan of cowboy and mafia planets.

    • @PlutoniumAcid
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      26 months ago

      Barbarian planets are called meteors.

    • @Dkarma
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      76 months ago

      Pluto you don’t have to rush, you could leave a toothbrush…

      • ivanafterall ☑️
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        86 months ago

        Oh, I’m sorry…I thought I wasn’t really a planet!? But when you’re horny, everything suddenly changes.

  • @Pacattack57
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    216 months ago

    Haven’t seen any JWST content in a while. Thank you

  • SteefLem
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    56 months ago

    There still out for delivery :)

  • @noobface
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    36 months ago

    But how will they know what movies to watch or what’s the latest in fashion?

  • Echo Dot
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    26 months ago

    I know this is possibly the wrong forum to talk about it in but this is the form it was posted in so…

    There is some pretty good theories that suggest that the vast majority of planets are rogue planets. We just don’t really think about them because they’re hard to find. This fact is backed up by the fact that they’ve managed to just find six of them.

    A lot of this stems from the fact that stellar formation is massively chaotic and a lot of stuff gets ejected from the solar system as a result. Jupiter for example has collected an awful lot of moons, because of its intense gravity, but it will have also kicked an equal number of objects out of the solar system all together. Gas giants seem to be fairly common throughout the galaxy, so it’s fair to say It’s probably a ton of stuff out there that’s nowhere near a star.

    Surprisingly little sci-fi is set on rogue planets.

  • @Alpha71
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    -36 months ago

    as would the gravitational interactions that would yeet them out into the big, wide galaxy.

    Please stop using slang words in professional writings. It’s embarrassing.

    • TimeSquirrel
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      106 months ago

      It’s communication to the public, not an official paper. When talking to the public, you meet them on their level. You knew what it meant, so mission accomplished.

    • @stoly
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      36 months ago

      It’s in the vernacular now. You only notice it because you’re older than the term. For a Zoomer or younger Millennial, it won’t stand out so much.

      • M137
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        46 months ago

        I’m an older millennial who generally dislikes new words like that but this is the one that I fully accept. It’s just a good word, you don’t need any prior knowledge the understand it either, it just works.