Off-Earth Colonies Discussion

>tfw when discussion thread without actual discussion.
>tfw there are a lot of "depressed astronaut" photos online for some odd reason

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>OP image
>hurr animals and plants will adapt to shit ecology (despite that for now they seem to be going extinct in droves instead)
>durr people will be left in the dust and won't even be able to live on other planets (despite being sentient and having technology, genetic engineering, and quite probably cyborg stuff at their disposal)
>P.S. science won't advance anymore because I, the prescient neckbeard, said so

But fuck logic when you can jerk off to your doomsday fantasies and huge phallic objects in spess, right?

>That brown exterior
Looks like a turd, not an option.

You don't need to be in space for no one to hear your soul scream.

You don't understand the science behind any of that do you? It isn't about doomsday scenarios. It is just hard facts. Shit happens. Die or deal with it. You can't stick you head in the sand, hope it goes away, and come out smelling like roses.

kek

It also doesn't have any support structure from the looks of it. Thus, when it spins up to 1g speed it will fly apart, if it even makes it that far. Roche Limit is kind of a dick to sci-fi. What is the term for a celestial object spinning so fast that it overcomes its own gravity and flies apart? It isn't Roche Limit, but that is kinda similar.

That's also its roche limit I think.

Here's an okay read about it, check the 2nd answer; the really long one:

worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/40189/how-fast-would-a-planet-have-to-be-spinning-for-the-centrifugal-centripetal-forc

It doesn't mention what such a phenomenon would be called though. I know Dyson came up with the "planetary spin motor", which spins a planet up faster. He even proposed that you can destroy a planet by spinning it fast enough to overcome its own gravity. I think that might be the first mention of it in history that I can remember.

>Dyson came up with the "planetary spin motor"

>How to Disassemble a Planet
spacearchaeology.org/?p=105

>tfw you will never spin into oblivion