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Would you wanna live on a rogue planet?

>> No.5874232

No, I like my consistent day/night cycle thanks.

>> No.5874233
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5874233

Sure, anywhere is better than here.

>> No.5874235

>>5874233

>You are now aware that you already live on the nicest planet in the universe and you have no excuse for being unhappy.

>> No.5874247

>>5874232
We could create a fake sun for our rogue planet using satellites that either create the light or gather protons travelling through interstellar space.

>> No.5874248

>>5874247
*photons

>> No.5874252

A nice sized rogue planet with a large active core could potentially be nice to live on.

We would extract energy from the core and potentially through nuclear means.

Still there is something creepy about floating through space all alone.

Also can a rogue planet enter a solar system and join it?

>> No.5874258

bump

>> No.5874265

>>5874252
>Also can a rogue planet enter a solar system and join it?
Sure, but it's very unlikely. If you only have a star with no planets, the classical Kepler orbit would mean that you would get as far away at some point as you were to begin with, so you would need to have some complicated interaction with the other planets in order to end up in close orbit. Or aim directly for the star.

>> No.5874366

You have three choices for a rogue planet:

1. Rocky world. This would be frozen at the surface. Fuck that shit. You may as well just live on Mars and at least get a little sunlight and atmospheric pressure.

2. Cold Jovian. Fuck that. Why bother? Just live around Saturn or something.

3. Hot Jovian. You might get some heat emission from the planet. Maybe. Current Hot Jupiters and Hot Neptunes seem to be hot because of their proximity to parent stars. So you may as well just choose a red dwarf. I mean, fuck! Why freeze out there in the endless interstellar voids?

>> No.5874377

>>5874366
>Why freeze out there in the endless interstellar voids?

more privacy

>> No.5874379

Want to? Not really. Would I? Yes, if had no other choice.

>> No.5874382

>>5874366

Implying it's impossible for a rocky rogue planet to have have an atmosphere.

As long as it has radioactive decay, it could still have an atmosphere.

>> No.5874692

>>5874377

Death's fairly private, I'll give you that one.

>>5874382

Hey fag, the moon has a fucking atmosphere, except if collected together at STP the entire lunar atmosphere would fill an old Zeppelin dirigible. The atmosphere of a frozen rocky world would be negligible unless it's extremely volcanic. Otherwise, you're looking at a sub-Mars sort of atmosphere. I doubt you could get a glider to work in such a thin gas.

>> No.5874697

>>5874377
>fap all day, erry day, cause there is no day, and each day is erry day.

>> No.5875959

The concept is fascinating in its own way. You have to live underground, in heated caves. Drift far enough away from any stars and you could have oceans of liquid helium. Hmmm, superconducting oceans? Use to build some wicked computer systems?

>> No.5875998

>>5874366
Jupiter radiates more heat than it receives from the sun. It's mostly from gravitational contraction too, not decay heat.

Of course that means that it will eventually freeze out and become a solid heavy-gravity world.