On 11/16/2011 2:54 PM, Anthony Jackson wrote:
I read an article about brown dwarfs recently discovered that are
roughly the same temperature as the human body. This started me thinking
about their relation to gas giants (I know there's a train of thought
that says they're somehow related) and whether you could effectively
hide a fleet within one, or, going one step further, actually put a
space station within one.
A brown dwarf is a failed star -- it's massive enough to burn
deuterium in its core, but not for hydrogen fusion. A low temperature
brown dwarf is going to be quite similar to a massive gas giant, but
it will be extremely dense -- similar in size to Jupiter with ten
times the mass, so a 'surface' gravity of 20-30 Gs. Assuming you can
deal with the much higher gravity, hiding in one would be similar to
hiding in a gas giant.
Ah...ok. This makes things a bit more complicated, but not completely
outside the realm of "possible."
Thanks!
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Kurt Feltenberger
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