Re: A newcomer here

Michelle Bottorff wrote: 
Zeborah <zeborah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Do you recall the fellow
who wanted a system with the star orbiting the (nominally
Earth-like) planet?  Some fairly serious discussions ensued...


Well, that'd give you a tide, which is good.  No seasons -- how
important are they, anyway?  And of course it'd have to be a very
*small* sun....


If we were talking science fiction, I rather thought we couldn't get a
sun small enough that it had less mass than an "earthlike" planet. 

If anyone has a notion of how to get one, though, I'd love to hear about
it.  I could *do* stuff with that.

Either god-like power, god in the lower case creating a pocket universe with a planet at its center.

Or possibly an exercise in high end terraforming by a conjectural highly developed technological human race. Maybe an orbiting controlled fusion reaction circling a earth sized planet with a long slow orbit, somewhere out in the oort cloud? Now, many millenia later, there has been a war/epidemic/philosophical revolution and the locals no longer have a space program, but the 'sun' is guttering.

Bill

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Bill Swears

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Ben Franklin, 1755 "Historical Review of Pennsylvania"

To think that was once a right wing comment. In the land of Homeland Security it seems.. Suspiciously left-wing.
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