[QUOTE=JoonazL;42493215]Imagine standing on pluto.[/QUOTE]
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/ESO-L._Cal%C3%A7ada_-_Pluto_%28by%29.jpg/800px-ESO-L._Cal%C3%A7ada_-_Pluto_%28by%29.jpg[/img]
[sp]Artist's impression[/sp]
I wonder what clouds actually look like from the surface of a planet when you have no solar neighbour. I'm guessing just dark blots on the starfield if it isn't completely overcast.
[QUOTE=kaine123;42490585][video=youtube;SaNt9-QkiHI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaNt9-QkiHI[/video][/QUOTE]
Wrong song bro.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ab8BOu4LE[/media]
As if Melancholia is just so going to happen. Just a wish, though.
[IMG]http://www.fxguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Melancholia2.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;42490764]Is it the closest object outside of the solar system? If so, build an outpost on it to act as a waypoint between systems.[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, it's actually not the closest.
The closest object would be Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf sun about 4.24 light years away. It may be part of a binary star system with Alpha Centauri.
If Voyager 1 was heading there right now, it would take 73,775 years to reach it.
It makes me think that no matter how lonely you feel, all of the human race is lonely. We may be the only thing out there on this single planet.
[QUOTE=007JamesBond007;42498225]It makes me think that no matter how lonely you feel, all of the human race is lonely. We may be the only thing out there on this single planet.[/QUOTE]
Dude, haven't you played XCOM enemy unknown ?
[t]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png[/t]
[QUOTE=Elfy;42498722][t]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png[/t][/QUOTE]
That comic always makes me tear up damnit.
[QUOTE=Ricool06;42490452]How did it form with no star? That is so cool.[/QUOTE]The reason stars is where we usually find planets is due to the fact that the stars "gather" the materials needed with their large mass. The planets are just a result of the gathering of said materials which due to gravity cling together and get formed.
This planet probably just formed in a gas cloud somewhere that had too little hydrogen to condense enough to become a star but enough to become a planet.
[QUOTE=MrJazzy;42493221]It's probably not orbiting around anything unimaginably big, it may have originally been in an orbit when it was far closer to a star or something, but must have then began orbiting with such a speed that it pulled loose and is now too far away from any large gravitational source to be able to swing back into orbit which makes it not in orbit but maybe on it's way another star, to orbit or whatever. Atleast that's as far as I understand it, I'm no astrophycisist.[/QUOTE]
That's not how orbits work. Usually you need a third body interacting with the planet, when some energy transfer mumbo-jumbo happens and your planet gets flung out.
[QUOTE=007JamesBond007;42498225]It makes me think that no matter how lonely you feel, all of the human race is lonely. We may be the only thing out there on this single planet.[/QUOTE]
The human race is not alone in the universe imo.
If there was a party of different species, I think we would be the one species sitting alone in the corner of the room arguing about petty facts with itself and throwing feeces at the wall.
[QUOTE=nayrb;42492582]Articles like these make me feel really sad because I feel as if we won't be a space-faring species by the time most of us are long gone.
We can always hope though.[/QUOTE]
i am dead set on living forever in order to become a part of a space-faring humanity, i don't care if i only live as a brain in a case
So what do we call one of these that has little planets orbiting it, is it a nomad planet with moons or is it a nomad system? (let it be this, sounds badass)
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