Nomenclature question, is it a planet?
Based on the information supplied it isn't visible on earth because it is behind the moon. Presumably it moves in tandem with the moon so does that indicate that it is another moon of earth? Could it qualify as a subsatellite of the moon and remain invisible to the earth? Could it fall into the category of a trojan moon or trojan planet?
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A planet made of custard would presumably have a frozen surface. I'm wondering how large would the custard planet have to be to have a molten core and therefore custardy volcanoes? Would it also have a diffuse custardy atmosphere due to outgassing? Would a custard planet have a magnetic field? Would that magnetic field be strong enough to deflect a spoon? Should I be working right now instead of overthinking custard?
I'm hungry.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 12 Dec 2023, 16:49,
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The non Newtonian fluid nature of the custard could make de-orbitting a tricky proposition. Land too softly and you'd sink, too heavily and you'd smash the lander.
We may be thinking about this too much.
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Tue 12 Dec 2023, 17:23,
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In a custard ocean I'd agree. However you could try landing on a frozen custard mountain. How slippery would a custard mountain be? Would you slide all the always down to a custard sea? Could you even make a custard mountain, or would it just slump like a glacier? How poisonous would a custard atmosphere be? Would the custard fall as rain or snow?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 12 Dec 2023, 18:44,
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No results found for "sublimating custard".
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 12 Dec 2023, 20:20,
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Well if NASA aren't researching this stuff, then what the fuck are they up to?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 12 Dec 2023, 23:16,
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That has me wondering.
Is proper custard non-Newtonian or just the powdered stuff?
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jonbob loves you, Wed 13 Dec 2023, 22:58,
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I'd be less worried about the landing than the take-off, a naked flame and all that custard dust could be an explosive combination
I believe this is frequently taught in schools, possibly to encourage thought about using custard as an energy source apart from in baked goods and puddings.
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How would the non-Newtonian fluid nature affect the planetary behaviour?
If the planet were of sufficient mass to undergo stellar ignition, would that help or hinder that process? How about eventual collapse once any Custardstar had burned all the sugar? Would it resist forming a custardy singularity and alternatively form a Yellow Dwarf?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 12 Dec 2023, 22:43,
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thanks - these are all very interesting theories however..
planet custard is a planet who now orbits with the moon, she hides behind it most of the time as she's scared as everything is so big - the truth is she originates from another solar system far far away, which is food based and tiny in comparsion to our own. Their sun is made from a combination of sugar and butter. but how did planet custard get here? i dont know but we believe she caught a lift from an alien in a fried egg spaceship
does that sound plausible?
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Wait, the custard is sentient? We're going to have so many problems getting these experiments past the ethics panel...
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 13 Dec 2023, 13:12,
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Never mind that,
we have sentient alien biomaterial (potentially containing alien pathogens) literally raining down on us. We need to inform the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, NASA's Planetary Protection department and the World Health Organisation, and we need to get Interpol to round up every cat and duck who have come into contact with this matter, quarantine them, vivisect them (just to be sure) and sterilise all infected geographical areas.
This could be a prelude to a global mass extinction event, or an alien invasion, or both.
(Obviously the feline lunar space program must be cancelled too.)
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 13 Dec 2023, 17:53,
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To be honest the feline lunar space program hasn't been going well.
Despite the years spent designing, building and testing a feline specific airlock that requires minimal effort or interaction there still seems to be some sort of issue.
Commander 'Tibb' Tibbles still insists on looking in through the main airlock while meowing over the intercom until a crew member suits up and goes through the longer process of operating and opening the main airlock.
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Nah
Just give them two manilla envelopes stuffed with unmarked notes instead of the usual single one.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 13 Dec 2023, 20:30,
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Moons can have moons but probably not for long due to orbital perturbation.
Artificial satellites around our moon need some form of propulsive station-keeping to hold them in place, but our moon also has notoriously lumpy gravity corresponding somewhat to its distorted spherical shape (the 'heavy' side always faces us, being tidally locked).
The ring around Planet Custard is evidence suggesting that it itself had a moon which has now passed beyond the Roche Limit and disintegrated. A moon having a moon is already pushing at the envelope of credibility, but a moon with a moon with a moon is clearly a step too far.
The orbit of 'planet' Custard would need to be tidally locked to the Moon's far side in order to remain hidden from Earth view. Unfortunately the orbital height required for a selenostationary orbit is well beyond the Hill sphere radius, and so is orbitally unstable.
The Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange point is the obvious ideal location, but as any fule 'no, Lagrange points L1, L2 and L3 are also unstable.
In order for Planet Custard to remain there for any meaningful period of time it must have its own propulsive system.
Obviously this is the cause of the custard rain, as the planet squirts custard out as an orbital manoeuvring/reaction control system, and that custard either falls to the moon, or is slung around and escapes the Earth-Moon system, or de-orbits on Earth.
Unless Planet Custard has some exotic method to create infinite custard from sunlight (or zero-point energy or something), it cannot last very long. Years, decades, centuries maybe.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 12 Dec 2023, 20:17,
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projectile custard, hmm not sure if this suggests some planet/comet hybrid
the custard made from sunlight sounds promising since as we all know both custard and the sun are yellow, surely no coincidence.
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hope
maybe she uses energy fro the milky way and passing egg spaceships
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Custard Rain
A forgotten classic from Prince's obscure album 'food'
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 13 Dec 2023, 11:19,
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Not be confused with the18th century medical expression 'it falleth like custard rayne'
referring to a discharge of pus observed in one of the advanced stages of several transmitted diseases suffered by women
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