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Thinking through the high gravity of certain planets in Dragonball's Universe.
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<blockquote data-quote="Kotoroshinoto" data-source="post: 2469" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>also found this article in my searches: <a href="https://www.universetoday.com/13757/how-big-do-planets-get/" target="_blank">https://www.universetoday.com/13757/how-big-do-planets-get/</a></p><p></p><p>"The largest “terrestrial” planet is generally considered the one before you get too thick of an atmosphere, which happens at about 5-10 Earth masses (something like 2 Earth radii). Those planets are more Earth-like than Neptune-like. "</p><p></p><p>plugging the numbers into the expression for acceleration due to gravity that tops out at around 2.5G, so to get more we'd need to fudge something about the core, much Like my OP mentioned. I'm wondering what sorts of exotic bullshit we could invoke. Dark matter sounds interesting, though that at the moment is still a bit of a placeholder quantity. We don't know if it really exists, and if it does, anything else about its nature other than the gravity we can't otherwise explain.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks for the high praise. My area of expertise is actually biomedical science, with a focus on genomics. It just happens that they make you do a lot of basic sciences in general when you are a science major, and especially when your undergrad is a biochem / biotech dual major. This stuff at least isn't approaching the relativistic math or differential equations involved in thermodynamics and equilibrium calculations for chemical reactions etc (its been nearly 10 years since the last time I did one of those problems). Its mostly plug and play, and dividing up the layers into volumes for approximate calculation.</p><p></p><p>Just don't get me started on how dumb it is to have hybrids between species that don't share recent common ancestry. Its not as if DragonBall is the only offender in this regard (ugh DC, why does supes have a kid with a human... it hurts physically to see that, even though I'm trying to suspend disbelief its like a kick in the head to see that)</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]217[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>though... taking a second look at that planet, it does look AWFULLY like the sort of clouds you'd see on a gas giant. Maybe Toriyama knows something we don't XD.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kotoroshinoto, post: 2469, member: 177"] also found this article in my searches: [URL]https://www.universetoday.com/13757/how-big-do-planets-get/[/URL] "The largest “terrestrial” planet is generally considered the one before you get too thick of an atmosphere, which happens at about 5-10 Earth masses (something like 2 Earth radii). Those planets are more Earth-like than Neptune-like. " plugging the numbers into the expression for acceleration due to gravity that tops out at around 2.5G, so to get more we'd need to fudge something about the core, much Like my OP mentioned. I'm wondering what sorts of exotic bullshit we could invoke. Dark matter sounds interesting, though that at the moment is still a bit of a placeholder quantity. We don't know if it really exists, and if it does, anything else about its nature other than the gravity we can't otherwise explain. Thanks for the high praise. My area of expertise is actually biomedical science, with a focus on genomics. It just happens that they make you do a lot of basic sciences in general when you are a science major, and especially when your undergrad is a biochem / biotech dual major. This stuff at least isn't approaching the relativistic math or differential equations involved in thermodynamics and equilibrium calculations for chemical reactions etc (its been nearly 10 years since the last time I did one of those problems). Its mostly plug and play, and dividing up the layers into volumes for approximate calculation. Just don't get me started on how dumb it is to have hybrids between species that don't share recent common ancestry. Its not as if DragonBall is the only offender in this regard (ugh DC, why does supes have a kid with a human... it hurts physically to see that, even though I'm trying to suspend disbelief its like a kick in the head to see that) [ATTACH type="full"]217[/ATTACH] though... taking a second look at that planet, it does look AWFULLY like the sort of clouds you'd see on a gas giant. Maybe Toriyama knows something we don't XD. [/QUOTE]
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