canis majoris sized earth

Nasher · 8 Sep 2019 at 18:54

I think it would be more interesting if we had more than one habitable planet in the solar system. Would we have developed space technology a lot faster?

Droolinggimp · 8 Sep 2019 at 19:00

A hypothetical object travelling at the speed of light would take 6 hours to travel around the star's circumference, compared to 14.5 seconds for the Sun

Damn, thats big

Nasher · 8 Sep 2019 at 19:51

The speed of light isn't that quick when you scale things up to solar sizes

glenimp617 · 8 Sep 2019 at 20:11

Nasher said:
I think it would be more interesting if we had more than one habitable planet in the solar system. Would we have developed space technology a lot faster?

More than likely

The Americans only got to the moon when they did because they wanted to beat the Russians

hornetstinger · 8 Sep 2019 at 20:27

Be interesting how much we would have explored and documented by now.

AiiR · 8 Sep 2019 at 21:31

Parking spaces might be large enough for the missus to get into 1st time.

muon · 8 Sep 2019 at 23:14

Life spreads exponentially unless held back by something.

As long as it was all habitable and had the resources, there would be life all over.

It's an interesting idea that humans (or sentient life in general) in different parts of the planet might have evolved differently due to distance.

Nasher · 9 Sep 2019 at 08:15

hornetstinger said:
Be interesting how much we would have explored and documented by now.

Probably very little. It would take a few years just to orbit it.

wolfie138 · 9 Sep 2019 at 09:32

Nasher said:
Probably very little. It would take a few years just to orbit it.

we still haven't explored more than about 5% of our own oceans!

BananaDunka · 9 Sep 2019 at 10:32

TheOracle said:
I'm not sure even we could mess up a planet that big... then again

All the space for nuclear weapons testing..... The tectonic plate shifts on a body that size would create monumental natural disasters too and that's just the start of the potential problems.

sanaxe1 · 9 Sep 2019 at 11:22

If everything scaled the same ie more forests, animals etc. I think the population of Humans would be in the Trillions and we would be doing the same **** we do now just on a larger scale.

BananaDunka · 9 Sep 2019 at 11:26

Jokes aside, ^I think that things would be substantially different. We are an evolving species that adapts to the environment. The first explorers would likely have never returned home due to wandering off into the distance and getting lost out at sea, future revolutions in technology would have been geared toward travelling those great distances with more speed and power we have today, natural resources would be more available probably even greater exotic material due to material densities being greater.

We would effectively be a more advanced intelligent species because our environment would have forced us to adapt at a faster rate

wolfie138 · 9 Sep 2019 at 13:27

" We would effectively be a more advanced intelligent species because our environment would have forced us to adapt at a faster rate"

looking at air quality and plastic-choked oceans i'd have to say we're sure as **** off to a slow start on that one.

BananaDunka · 9 Sep 2019 at 13:34

On this Earth with its current resources and our evolution on this planet, sure...

Minusorange · 9 Sep 2019 at 13:58

hornetstinger said:
I was thinking how different this planet would be if the earth was the size of by canis majoris, say it was still 1g. And habitable

You could go the other way and imagine how the planet would be if we were the size of ants instead

Dugganator · 11 Sep 2019 at 16:13

SlyReaper said:
He has a speech impediment. You get used to it.

Ahh ok I just thought he had a strong Boston accent