Timeline for In the shadow of a planet (science fiction)
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 22:37 | comment | added | LSerni | @St0necr0w , the original supernova has been left behind. The planetoid now orbits a different sun, and any sun will do. The interesting things ought to have happened to the planetoid when its original primary collapsed into either a black hole or a neutron star, but they wouldn't be connected to that - rather, to the process of which the neutron star remnant is but one consequence. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 21:15 | comment | added | Howard Miller | @Chloe Your argument applies to anything material. We won't be going to the stars for material goods. Spacetime makes certain things possible and all else impossible ... except maybe when spacetime is at the point of breaking down. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 18:35 | comment | added | St0necr0w | @Iserni In the scenario you describe, is the star/remnant a neutron star? Would an Electroweak star make sense? | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 17:38 | history | edited | LSerni | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 17:15 | comment | added | Chloe | @HowardMiller By the time we are able to mine Jupiter's core, we can just as easily manufacture diamonds from the nano-scale up, á la Diamond Age. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 15:09 | comment | added | Howard Miller | There are theories that Jupiter's core is one large diamond. If the overlying gases were stripped away, the core might be worth mining for 100 pound diamonds, or diamonds with extremely useful properties. Sort of like dilithium. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 11:17 | history | answered | LSerni | CC BY-SA 3.0 |