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Spoiler for Mid-Childa and its moons:
This shows that there are only two moons in orbit around Mid-Childa, the orbit these two moons have explains why we sometimes see huge moons, sometimes small ones, and sometimes none at all. Also, while I'm not sure about the green moon, the blue moon seems to be a life-sustainable one. |
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2008-02-07, 19:51 | Link #643 |
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True true.
Of course, we ignore that gravitationally speaking, that orbital layout is impossible. The moons are near equal size, and judging by their atmosphere, equal mass to the center planet. In such a situation, for Midchilda to remain the center of mass in this trinary planetary system, it would have to have a significantly higher mass and gravity, making the 'earthlike' environment on it impossible... If the three objects share roughly equal amounts of mass, then there should be a mutual orbital point and the orbital paths quite complicated, because otherwise we'd get collissions that would pretty much shatter the worlds, and make life ALSO impossible. But that of course, is the realm of just not doing research into gravity. I wouldn't expect people to know that off hand, especially animators. I'm gonna' go grab a gravity simulator program and see what I come up with. |
2008-02-07, 20:00 | Link #645 | |
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If everything was scientifically correct in movies and animation, where would the fun be? I'm going for the 'it's blue because it has water' theory. We already know it has an atmosphere thanks to the clouds. |
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2008-02-07, 20:07 | Link #646 | |
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Some novel or rpg settings have two or three moons, and sometimes two suns. Nothing is told much about the local weather, tectonic and tide cycles. Authors seems to do that for the cool and exotic factor.
And the many moons influencing magic is a pretty common heroic fantasy trope. Quote:
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2008-02-07, 20:25 | Link #647 |
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I'm amused by how the cloud patterns on all three are identical . When you see things like that, you really have to think; is there any point in trying to get any information whatsoever from what you see on the screen?
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2008-02-07, 21:03 | Link #648 | |
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2008-02-07, 21:37 | Link #649 | |
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I like to make things complicated! Go hang your head in shame. |
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2008-02-07, 21:56 | Link #651 | |
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(Error keeps occuring after inserting moon 2 into the system and trying to go check the editing screen.) |
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2008-02-08, 02:20 | Link #653 |
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I suggest people to read a bit of Brian Aldiss' Helliconia trilogy for an example of binary system, or watch the movie Pitch Black to see a ternary system.
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2008-02-08, 07:18 | Link #654 | |
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Since the orbits in my attempt were flying all over the place, I guess it is possible that in all those almost random interations, ONE orbit will look like what is shown on the screen - can't say about the next, though. |
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2008-02-08, 11:58 | Link #655 |
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Just looked at the Ep12 DVD version, and I think I see at least 4 of those infernal things. I think I'm just going to throw things to the vagaries of orbital mechanics.
Maybe all those moons is why there seems to be so few people living on that darn planet. Kranagon is pretty much the only inhabitable spot - the rest keep getting covered by killer tides. |
2008-02-08, 12:05 | Link #656 |
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Huh. Wonder if you could use this to describe why there's so many "abandoned areas" to play with, too. Maybe all those moons weren't there originally? It'd also explain why the TSAB goes around hunting for possible dimensional threats, if their homeworld got run through the food processor in a magical accident...
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2008-02-08, 12:46 | Link #657 | |
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So that's six moons to contend with. At least. And this is assuming that the other moons seen in the episode around the other characters are the same ones from different angles. In bright daylight; gods know what it all looks like at night. Yuuno does mention in episode 21 that Midchilda has two moons which the Cradle can absorb energy from, and his orbital diagram thing shows only the two moons. So these moons are presumably significant magically at the least, but the others (if they exist) are not as important. Would it be too much of a canonical stretch to just say that it's a result of the raw magic of the moons causing all sorts of unintended optical illusions? |
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2008-02-08, 12:55 | Link #658 |
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I think 7Arcs just likes showing lots of planets/moons in the sky myself. Look at the worlds the Knights went onto in A's... Many of them you can see like 4 or 5 other planets off in the distance and some look really, really close.
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And hence they possibly have a net gravitational footprint of ZERO, however insane that sounds. However, they remain in orbit as they were placed there by the Alhazredians, or the Belka, as some kind of planetary defence system designed to protect their royalty.
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2008-02-09, 06:15 | Link #660 |
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Liquid mana filled moons? Woah, this could be a nice setup for a conflict involving a greedy foreign nation that is really desperate for resources and profits.
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