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  1. RocketOuthouse
    Wait, people are actually upset about this? I thought the "controversy" was entirely made-up by clickbait news articles?
  2. RocketOuthouse
    Icarus didn't fall into the sun, though.
  3. RocketOuthouse
    If this is actually an alternate version of the Kerbalverse (instead of our real universe), then you can relax on making your universe possible and just follow basic Kepler orbits while putting in whatever you like. It's already known that Vall and Bop get ejected from the Jool system in a matter of a few years in n-body simulations, so even the official one is quite impossible. Plus, the 1/10 scale makes interplanetary and even interstellar travel MUCH quicker and easier. But then again, most Kerbals don't seem to mind being strapped in a Mk1 Command Pod for centuries, either...
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    I'm just looking at this in a way that would allow a civilization to exist around Nibiru, rather than the probability of such a planetary system existing. A gas giant parent would work too, but that would present even more inhospitable conditions on top of a borderline red dwarf that will randomly shoot off extremely powerful flares. So a double planet, while extremely rare, at least eliminates most other problems while keeping the red dwarf.
  5. RocketOuthouse
    And that's what I mean. With both tidally locked to each other rather than the star, and with both orbiting around a barycenter, this gives both planets the chance to be evenly cooked, rotisserie style.
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    Sure, but not unthinkable either. Our own Earth-Moon are very close to being a double planet, and it's believed to be that way because of a collision. For his universe, the same could have happened to a much larger protoplanet that split closer down the middle. Even the collision itself would cause a spin that delays the tidal lock for a planet.
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    As a Coloradan, I have absolutely no idea why you guys think 17% oxygen is a problem. It's still very comfortable for humans, and just takes a short period of acclimation for people not used to it. Also, one way to prevent tidal locking to a red dwarf is to make the planet a double planet orbiting their own barycentre. However, I'm not sure if that would be stable or possible around that kind of star.
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