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planetplanet is a personal blog at planetplanet.net about science. Since 2017, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Engineering a Solar System”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Engineering a Solar System5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-05-04
- The ultimate solar system2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-01
- Asimov’s Kalgash: a planet in permanent daytime (for real this time)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-23
What Hacker News says?
I'd like to see the math behind the orbital parameters here. The most I've seen is one million Earths in a single system[1], and so I'm curious how you could get a few orders of magnitude more. [1]: https://planetplanet.net/the-ultimate-solar-system/
Comment linking /the-ultimate-solar-system/
on “As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern”Submitted Engineering a Solar System as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis appears to possibly be a freebooted version of this link: https://planetplanet.net/2022/09/15/the-end-of-the-solar-sys...
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on “A step-by-step guide to our solar system’s demise”Submitted The Ultimate Engineered Solar System as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis articles concludes that we are average, but I don't really understand how - we're only average in age, but we differ in just about every other data point (no super earths, low-eccentricity orbits, no close-in planets): http://aasnova.org/2015/09/25/how-normal-is-our-solar-system... This article says we're definitely weirder, but points out that the detection technology matters, and we may not have the full pict…
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on “Chances of E.T. Living Subsurface Ocean of Enceladus Given Major Boost”Submitted The Ultimate Engineered Solar System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs I was exploring this topic, another good article popped up: https://planetplanet.net/2018/03/21/asimov-kalgash-take2/
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on “Nightfall: Can Kalgash Exist (2014)”Submitted The Ultimate Engineered Solar System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReminds me of this: https://planetplanet.net/2017/05/03/the-ultimate-engineered-...
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on “Astronomers find six planets orbiting in resonance”Submitted The Black Hole Ultimate Solar System – PLANETPLANET as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asimov’s Kalgash: a planet in permanent daytime (for real this time) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ultimate solar system as a story · 1 points
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