Very Interesting story! From what I have seen of Human life on Earth, I seriously hope that humans never escape from our Prison planet. Never should humans be allowed; To seek out new life, new civilizations and destroy them.
While I’m a huge fan of the Woo … the thesis contemplated seems to be a bit out there. Not that it isn’t plausible but methinks the explanation sought is probably simpler. Pax.
Without needing to include another species of beings, we are familiar with hominid clans and factions that war with one another and which develop increasingly advanced weapons. Some while ago Larry Niven proposed that you could accelerate a mass to some meaningful percentage of the speed of light. Let's say a mass the size of Psyche, 3 times 10 to the 19th power kilogrammes. When it is moving at 20% of the speed of light, or more, slam it into the fifth planet. How do you defend against such an attack? It's like current hyperkinetic kill vehicles. They don't need much mass, nor any explosives, they just move really fast.
Now remember a passage from the Bible: "And there was a war in heaven."
Rufus: "Suppose survivors of Planet V had to manipulate the Solar System to restabilize it, and so parked Mercury, Venus, the Moon, and Mars in their current locations, and perhaps moved Neptune and Pluto around, as well."
I just re-read your article. The sentence quoted above confuses me (which is easily enough done). Why would the Solar System need to be restabilized after Planet V blew up?
Why is Neptune's orbit so strange?
And how does Pluto's orbit even matter?
How big was Planet V?
What I'd really like to know is why the Earth's huge moon exists? Earth is too small to have such a large moon and in just the right orbit and size to block out the sun, except for the corona, in an eclipse. The odds of that happening are one in a billion.
Without the lunar tides on Earth, would human life even exist?
To move the planets around would take a lot of energy. Where did the pond scum get the energy?
Planet V would be pretty darned cold in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. I don't think it could support life as we know it.
If your theory is true. The pond scum are pretty dumb. They blew up their own planet and mated with humans. That's a dangerous mess.
But then the pond scum blew up their own planet so their nature doesn't change either.
Very Interesting story! From what I have seen of Human life on Earth, I seriously hope that humans never escape from our Prison planet. Never should humans be allowed; To seek out new life, new civilizations and destroy them.
While I’m a huge fan of the Woo … the thesis contemplated seems to be a bit out there. Not that it isn’t plausible but methinks the explanation sought is probably simpler. Pax.
Without needing to include another species of beings, we are familiar with hominid clans and factions that war with one another and which develop increasingly advanced weapons. Some while ago Larry Niven proposed that you could accelerate a mass to some meaningful percentage of the speed of light. Let's say a mass the size of Psyche, 3 times 10 to the 19th power kilogrammes. When it is moving at 20% of the speed of light, or more, slam it into the fifth planet. How do you defend against such an attack? It's like current hyperkinetic kill vehicles. They don't need much mass, nor any explosives, they just move really fast.
Now remember a passage from the Bible: "And there was a war in heaven."
"How deep is your Woo?"
This was not a good pick-up line for me with the chicks at the bar.
Rufus: "Suppose survivors of Planet V had to manipulate the Solar System to restabilize it, and so parked Mercury, Venus, the Moon, and Mars in their current locations, and perhaps moved Neptune and Pluto around, as well."
I just re-read your article. The sentence quoted above confuses me (which is easily enough done). Why would the Solar System need to be restabilized after Planet V blew up?
Why is Neptune's orbit so strange?
And how does Pluto's orbit even matter?
How big was Planet V?
What I'd really like to know is why the Earth's huge moon exists? Earth is too small to have such a large moon and in just the right orbit and size to block out the sun, except for the corona, in an eclipse. The odds of that happening are one in a billion.
Without the lunar tides on Earth, would human life even exist?
I don't believe in coincidences or happenstance.