space and world-building: an observation
Feb. 27th, 2016 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliIf your planet is in space implausible crowded with asteroids and other such stuff to make navigation a hazard and force crash-landing. . . .
Your planet ought to have continual -- and spectacular -- meteor showers.
(Make enough of the big ones iron, and you've had a big influence on your planet's possible technology.)
Your planet ought to have continual -- and spectacular -- meteor showers.
(Make enough of the big ones iron, and you've had a big influence on your planet's possible technology.)
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Date: 2016-02-28 03:57 pm (UTC)Unless it's the asteroid defense laser(s) that shot you down, Ringworld-fashion.
It might also be possible to orbit trillions of ball bearings (or whatever) on the plane of the ecliptic, making a visible belt around the planet that no asteroid (or space craft) could possibly get through unscathed. That might be tricky in practice, though.
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Date: 2016-02-28 07:00 pm (UTC)In that case, it would not be the asteroids forcing you to crash land.
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Date: 2016-02-28 07:16 pm (UTC)Yes, but the characters might not know that. Suddenly they go all Apollo 13 and who's to say wha' hoppen?
https://youtu.be/kAmsi05P9Uw?t=50s
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Date: 2016-02-28 08:48 pm (UTC)