Strawberry Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 I want a planet that looks similar to kerbal from afar, but is drastically different in many ways. Like for example, a planet with patches of blue and green, but the green is from a chlorine atmosphere and the blue is due to colors from the wine colored seas mixing with the color from the atmosphere. It should be named Gerbill or something like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 9 minutes ago, Strawberry said: I want a planet that looks similar to kerbal from afar, but is drastically different in many ways. Like for example, a planet with patches of blue and green, but the green is from a chlorine atmosphere and the blue is due to colors from the wine colored seas mixing with the color from the atmosphere. It should be named Gerbill or something like that Do you mean Kerbin? Would that make the other Gerbinn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intelliCom Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Ah yes, the planet Kerbal. Not "Kerbin", Kerbal. That already sounds like a bootlegged Kerbin of its own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 If it's about the bootlegging, it's Herbin, as herbs are required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargamel Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 Fine, we'll do this once. Kerbal is the creature. Kerbin is the planet. Kerbol is the star. Now, back to OP's question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adsii1970 Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 21 hours ago, Strawberry said: I want a planet that looks similar to kerbal from afar, but is drastically different in many ways. Well, in that case - If you mean drastically different in extremes: Kerbin has an ocean of water (H20) at Earth-like temperatures. This planet could be extreme - oceans of liquid helium (the temperature of the planet would have to be below -268.93 °C. It has a clear appearance, just like water. It would literally reflect the color of the atmosphere pretty easily. Kerbin has an Earth-like atmosphere. But to be this cold to have a surface temperature of -272. °C, there are only a few gas combinations that can remain a gas and have a clear to light blue hue. But the problem is that to reach the cold temperatures required to have an ocean of liquid helium, the planet would have to be a considerable distance from its host star and the atmosphere would have to be extremely thin. The less atmospheric volume, the less heat retention the atmosphere offers. The two main gases that would have to make up the majority of the "bootleg Kerbin"'s atmosphere are: Helium would have to be the dominant gas of the atmosphere. Neon (it has a boiling point of -246.08°C) It is a noble gas. Kerbin has land masses of a structure similar to Earth; complete with their makeup, types, etc. This planet would either have to be a Pangaea or an ocean world. Just a few thoughts from a mind recovering from a four-day severe migraine. 20 minutes ago, Gargamel said: Fine, we'll do this once. Said the "Unhoppy Frood." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strawberry Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 2 hours ago, Gargamel said: Fine, we'll do this once. I wrote this thread at like midnight lol, was not in my peak of intelligence. Making it an outer planet seems fun. Imagine someone picking up there telescope that there is a planet with green land and blue seas far away, so they skim over the detail about it having a very long orbital period, send their whole mothership there expecting an easy colonization. Then they get there, out of delta v, realize theyre left with basically no energy and very far from all the other planets in the solar system in a pretty inhospitable planet, and have to scrap together a colony to keep there kerbals alive, and either hold out till another colony ship from abroad arrives, get enough to refuel your interstellar ship then scram, or try and build a new (likely more conventional) ship and go elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 (edited) Maybe have it paired with a small black hole instead of a star to make it a truly bizarro Kerbin Edited October 31, 2022 by darthgently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strawberry Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 (edited) Okay after some research and thinking about it, as far as I can tell, there's really only one way to get a blue and green planet without life that just is very improbable instead of extremely insanely improbable. First you'll need a highly chaotic and ideally metal rich solar system, this thing will go on a journey. Then you need a proto super earth to form, this super earth will need to have excess amounts of nickel, which means ideally it should be close to the start. Now, we need to crash a planet into it. If all plays out nicely, youll get a decently large exposed planetary core, with lots of nickel, also lots of other junk floating around, but we can just ignore that. Then, we need this core to book it outwards, the faster the better. As it migrates faster it needs to do two things, get hit a lot, and collect gas. We will want this planet to have lots of craters, ideally deep ones, and we want this planet to become something resembling a small mini neptune, the more gas it collects the better, as the things that arent gas will cover up the core, meaning we will want it to collect most of this gas from farther away from the sun. We're nearly there to our bootleg kerbin, it just needs to continue migrating outwards. Due to the mass of this planet being relatively low, the lighter gases will escape the planet, leaving you with lots of oxygen and nitrogen, with minimal of other gases. This oxygen will react with the nickel in the planet, forming lots of nickel oxide, this nickel oxide will be a nice green color. As the migration carries on, the planet wont pick up just gas, but fortunately for us, we have a lot of nice craters for the solid material to settle into. Now, it needs to continue its journey, and go far. Far out enough, the gas will cool, compress, and liquidify. Remember those craters? The oxygen will come down from the clouds in a nice blue color, filling in the craters. And there you have it, you have a planet with a green surface from nickel oxide, with blue oceans from liquid oxygen. Edited October 31, 2022 by Strawberry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerbart Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 Where does the oxygen come from? O2 has the annoying habit to bind itself pretty much to anything, with life being the only known thing to replenish it at a sufficient rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strawberry Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Kerbart said: Where does the oxygen come from? O2 has the annoying habit to bind itself pretty much to anything, with life being the only known thing to replenish it at a sufficient rate. The oxygen wouldnt have had time for it to all to bind with metals in an early solar system and just be free floating, though the planet would still need to collect a hefty surplus early on to where there isnt enough nickel to go around to bind to more oxygen. The fact that the surface of this planet is hard solid metal means that it probably wont bind past a few meters due to the air being unable to reach that far down, which means you dont need nearly as much O2 if you were to instead to have the whole entire planet bind with that oxygen. Edited October 31, 2022 by Strawberry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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