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I’m imagining at least one rogue planet out there (they said they could be billions) was happily orbiting a star for billions of years, life formed, even relati

I’m imagining at least one rogue planet out there (they said they could be billions) was happily orbiting a star for billions of years, life formed, even relatively intelligent life, and then another rogue planet fell in to the solar system and passed right by the first planet in such a way as to eject it from the solar system without hitting it, and all this life on the planet suddenly loses daylight as their planet flies off in to deep space. And now their ancient civilization is frozen in time, adrift in deep space.

rd07 5y ago
This could be a scenario for a doomsday movie. On another note, I wonder if our solar system has been visited by such rogue planet in the past.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
  Not exactly the same, but similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth
wumpus 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461
- TaylorAlexander 5y ago
  wow very cool thank you!
- deleted 5y ago
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- perl4ever 5y ago
  Since you mentioned that before me, I'm going to link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision It may not be very good as science fiction, but it's an interesting historical/social phenomenon.
- tablespoon 5y ago
  Also the "Silver Ghosts" [1] in Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence [2]. [1] https://xeelee.fandom.com/wiki/Silver_Ghosts https://xeelee.fandom.com/wiki/Silver_Ghosts [2] Best read in the form of summaries and compilations of world-building backstory.
apocalypstyx 5y ago
Twilight Zone season 3 episode 10 titled "The Midnight Sun"
xpl 5y ago
Kurzgesagt has a video on this ("What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZJlf5rHVs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZJlf5rHVs
john_moscow 5y ago
Not exactly that, but there's a cool strategy game [0] about managing a city hit by a gradually increasing wave of freezing cold. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostpunk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostpunk

rd07 5y ago

This could be a scenario for a doomsday movie. On another note, I wonder if our solar system has been visited by such rogue planet in the past.

LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
Not exactly the same, but similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth

wumpus 5y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461

TaylorAlexander 5y ago
wow very cool thank you!
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perl4ever 5y ago
Since you mentioned that before me, I'm going to link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision It may not be very good as science fiction, but it's an interesting historical/social phenomenon.
tablespoon 5y ago
Also the "Silver Ghosts" [1] in Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence [2]. [1] https://xeelee.fandom.com/wiki/Silver_Ghosts https://xeelee.fandom.com/wiki/Silver_Ghosts [2] Best read in the form of summaries and compilations of world-building backstory.

apocalypstyx 5y ago

Twilight Zone season 3 episode 10 titled "The Midnight Sun"

xpl 5y ago

Kurzgesagt has a video on this ("What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZJlf5rHVs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZJlf5rHVs

john_moscow 5y ago

Not exactly that, but there's a cool strategy game [0] about managing a city hit by a gradually increasing wave of freezing cold. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostpunk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostpunk