What's your dream planet?

[The Minmus Derp]

2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

First of all, we would speak about a dream size.
Almost nobody really needs physically huge planets. They are just useless, unless they pay you for miles.

Humans operate with muh smaller locations. Up to 20-30 km or so.

[snip]

Could you politely put that in a spoiler plz?

[munlander1]

If you stood inside the „donut hole“ of a ringed planet, where would you go? Like would you „fall off“

Edited July 10, 2018 by munlander1

[The Minmus Derp]

no. you would just be pinned there by gravity. assuming all of it was equally dense, of course.

[magnemoe]

44 minutes ago, munlander1 said:

If you stood inside the „donut hole“ of a ringed planet, where would you go? Like would you „fall off“

Its an unstable L point like 1,2 or 3 for earth - moon.
You could bounce up an down as potential is less in center. 

[magnemoe]

My dream planet would not really be an planet but an smoke ring as in the Larry Niven story. 
https://steemit.com/space/@busser/the-smoke-ring-habitable-world-without-hard-surface
As an donut planet its theoretical possible but so unlikely that you probably assume it was an alien megastructure. 
You need to put an super Venus in very low orbit around an pretty inactive neutron star, the gas from the planet get pulled off because tidal forces but is still bound by the very steep gravity well of the neutron star. Add another star for light, add life with photosynthesis. 
You now have an huge volume with breathable air and 0g, you however has strong tides because of the gravity gradient. 

[Lisias]

It's not a planet, so it's off-topic.  But this thread made me remember an episode from The Twilight Zone, "The Star", where a Star that had gone supernova is being studied by scientist that discover a vault with the knowledge of a ancient civilization that could not prevent their doom, but could preserve what made them a civilization. The relation with an Earth event was a added tragic detail.

Such a system would be wonderful for exploration and tech hunting - but, again, it's not exactly on-topic.

But I'm happy by the remembrance - I loved Twilight Zone when kid (all of them, the old B&W and the then "modern" coloured new seasons), and this episode is probably the one that touched deeper in my heart .

[insert_name]

Mine would be a Super Earth with a very thick xenon atmosphere, it would have volcanoes that eject rocks into the upper atmosphere where they would pick up lighter gases before they cooled and settled in the lower atmosphere, where they float in the air, coalesce due to atmospheric currents, and merge to form floating islands.

[Deddly]

Moved to Lounge, and fixed spelling mistake in title and first post, just because I'm a nice guy.

[The Minmus Derp]

1 hour ago, Deddly said:

Moved to Lounge, and fixed spelling mistake in title and first post, just because I'm a nice guy.

That was deliberate for sillies you know. I’ll change it back.

[TheSaint]

The Smoke Ring

[ChrisSpace]

On 9 July 2018 at 2:51 PM, The Minmus Derp said:

Describe your dream plernert here!

with stuff like diameter, mass, etc.

I'm going to assume that anything physically possible is allowed. So, without further ado or much thinking involved:

Diameter: A bit larger than Earth

Surface Gravity: A bit less than Earth's

Terrain: Very similar to Earth's but with more land and less tiny islands (non-tiny ones are just bigger instead), also lots of massive underground cave systems

Temperature: Averaging 10-20 degrees in all but the hottest/coldest places

Inhabitants: Dinosaurs, Dragons, Titans, Kaiju... stuff like that.

Moons: A couple really dense (20g/cm^3 or a bit more) Minmus-sized moons orbiting just above the Roche limit, asteroid moons in geostationary orbit, small semi-habitable moon further out

On 9 July 2018 at 2:51 PM, The Minmus Derp said:

Describe your dream plernert here!

with stuff like diameter, mass, etc.

I'm going to assume that anything physically possible is allowed. So, without further ado or much thinking involved:

Diameter: A bit larger than Earth

Surface Gravity: A bit less than Earth's

Terrain: Very similar to Earth's but with more land and less tiny islands (non-tiny ones are just bigger instead), also lots of massive underground cave systems

Temperature: Averaging 10-20 degrees in all but the hottest/coldest places

Inhabitants: Dinosaurs, Dragons, Titans, Kaiju... stuff like that.

Moons: A couple really dense (20g/cm^3 or a bit more) Minmus-sized moons orbiting just above the Roche limit, asteroid moons in geostationary orbit, small semi-habitable moon further out

[Vanamonde]

The title of this thread has been edited for clarity. People need to know what you're talking about in order to discuss the matter, right? Please don't change it back. 

[YNM]

35 minutes ago, Vanamonde said:

People need to know what you're talking about in order to discuss the matter, right? Please don't change it back. 

Or it could be the "Pla-nerd" thread.

[Vanamonde]

Anyway.  

[The Minmus Derp]

OK. I won’t change it back.

[TheProtagonists]

My dream planet is one with an awesome looking scaled view so it looks absolutely stunning from far away.

But once you get close enough to see the actual terrain it's just that featureless Jool template planet @Gameslinx mentioned earlier.

In addition, a HazardousOcean curve would be set up so that your ship would heat up and explode at the exact distance you can see the actual terrain.

Oh, and there is only one biome with 0.1 science multiplier.

[The Minmus Derp]

1 minute ago, TheProtagonists said:

My dream planet is one with an awesome looking scaled view so it looks absolutely stunning from far away.

But once you get close enough to see the actual terrain it's just that featureless Jool template planet @Gameslinx mentioned earlier.

In addition, a HazardousOcean curve would be set up so that your ship would heat up and explode at the exact distance you can see the actual terrain.

Oh, and there is only one biome with 0.1 science multiplier.

Cool, but in real life, like you can actually stand on it, while not in KSP.

[Galileo]

The thread title is still misleading as there are no planets being made here... Perhaps this should be the “what’s your dream planet thread”?

[Gameslinx]

5 hours ago, TheProtagonists said:

Oh, and there is only one biome with 0.1 science multiplier.

No way. That's way too generous. 0.2 biomes with a 0 science multiplier sounds a lot more fitting.

[GurrenLagannCWP]

My dream planet is a habitable moon whose rings has the same colors as the planet, which is orbiting a red gas giant with red rings with a outer radius of around 2,000,000 km (around the size of Fomalhaut b's rings).

BUT the star the gas giant is orbiting has a massive ring by itself, , stretching 200,000,000 kilometers. Its color is white with massive gaps.

BUT the Star is very close to a black hole, whose accretion disk looks like Ou'ulm back in 2017 - a giant purple accretion disk.

[The Minmus Derp]

Wow, i like it!

[cubinator]

Probably this one:

Although I'd be happy to visit just the first one.

[The Minmus Derp]

Woooooo! Very kool!

[A Soviet Tank]

Ever since global warming (or just bad luck I guess) eradicated any chance of good snow where I live I've wanted to live on a nice chilly planet so I can always lob snowballs and wear my ushanka hat.

[ARS]

An artificial planet, an astroengineering megastructure, which is like a micro dyson sphere. On the outside, it's a barren world, a frozen planet, covered in miles thick ice blanketed in perpetual snowstorm. But, if you know where's the secret entrance on the ravine network, you can access the inner world. The inside of the planet is hollow, and this inner world is covered with lush tropical rainforest, a barren desert, a wide ocean, a variety of ecosystems warmed by the light of artificial fusion star in the center of this megastructure shell. A last place where life could exist, where the universe has gone dark a long time ago...

Edited July 16, 2018 by ARS