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Re: TRAPPIST-1: What is it?
« Reply #25 on: February 24, 2017, 02:20:00 am »
On the short lived SyFy channel show "Defiance" were the 7 races collectively called Votans. They came from a binary star system with both stars having multiple habitable planets.

My planet orbits a Red Dwarf in about 3 days but the dwarf orbits a sunlike star at about the distance of our asteroid belt. I've made a home there, its where I go to deal with my insomnia. I've got some pretty detailed thoughts on the place from years of pondering in the dark.

Off-topic, but "Defiance" was a great series, imho.
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Re: TRAPPIST-1: What is it?
« Reply #26 on: February 24, 2017, 02:24:13 am »
Off-topic, but "Defiance" was a great series, imho.

Datak cutting his own arm off was a holy crap moment.

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Re: TRAPPIST-1: What is it?
« Reply #27 on: February 24, 2017, 02:39:03 am »
Datak cutting his own arm off was a holy crap moment.

Also a Crowning Moment of Awesome!  :laugh:
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Re: TRAPPIST-1: What is it?
« Reply #28 on: February 24, 2017, 02:47:49 am »
On the short lived SyFy channel show "Defiance" were the 7 races collectively called Votans. They came from a binary star system with both stars having multiple habitable planets.

My planet orbits a Red Dwarf in about 3 days but the dwarf orbits a sunlike star at about the distance of our asteroid belt. I've made a home there, its where I go to deal with my insomnia. I've got some pretty detailed thoughts on the place from years of pondering in the dark.

If there are "people" on these worlds we should call them  Monks. You know... Trappist Monks.

Maybe you write that story, "Solace of a Red Dwarf."

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Re: TRAPPIST-1: What is it?
« Reply #29 on: February 24, 2017, 04:51:12 am »
If there are "people" on these worlds we should call them  Monks. You know... Trappist Monks.

Maybe you write that story, "Solace of a Red Dwarf."

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Re: TRAPPIST-1: What is it?
« Reply #30 on: February 24, 2017, 09:52:06 am »
Can you imagine having a 9-day year and that every few "years" the length might change more or less by an hour? You would never have developed a normal clock or calendar for sure.
Yeah. You'd be 1217 years old there when you turned 30 here.

"Never trust anyone under 1217" just doesn't have the same ring to it...
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Re: TRAPPIST-1: What is it?
« Reply #31 on: February 24, 2017, 11:17:22 am »
Yeah. You'd be 1217 years old there when you turned 30 here.

"Never trust anyone under 1217" just doesn't have the same ring to it...

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Re: TRAPPIST-1: What is it?
« Reply #32 on: February 24, 2017, 11:54:34 am »
If there are "people" on these worlds we should call them  Monks. You know... Trappist Monks.

Maybe you write that story, "Solace of a Red Dwarf."

My planet already has Tibetan Monks. They abandoned their dispute with China in return for complete freedom on my planet. They inhabit a high mountain region where they have complete autonomy and maintain and oversee an enormous hydroelectric project and lease out mining rights to the rest of us.

Their monastery is perched atop a peak that overlooks the huge mountain lake and vast ocean beyond that. The red sun hangs perpetually above the horizon and every 36 hours the more distant yellow sun rises and begins its 36 hour trip to the opposite horizon