Damn you extinctions

  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    4 years ago

    can’t be massive or too small

    That's largely determined by the planet itself though, if it's smaller or spinning faster, it's easier to get into space.

    • Not_irony [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Fair. A whale sized creature living on a planet with 1/100th gravity could work. The square/cube law starts doing weird things tho at that scale. Like, could you build a pressurized space ship that big, or would the walls have to but meters think?

      • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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        4 years ago

        The thickness of the walls is determined by pressure it's trying to contain, a city sized ship and human-sized space suit are trying to contain the same pressure.